7th Annual Tamales Festival
Presented by KSFM 102.5 Radio
Join KSFM 102.5 for the 7th Annual Tamales Festival and Sacramento’s biggest Mexican Independence Celebration! Festivities include over a dozen different restaurants featuring delicious varieties of tamales, live performances from Royalty, Mariachi Los Gallos, Maquilli Tonatiuh Aztec Dancers, Ballet Folklorica IMBA, Bang Data, and Sol Peligro. There will be a free kids’ area with a giant slide, bounce houses, obstacle courses, piñatas, and more, plus kids’ arts & crafts where kids can make their own piñata. Enjoy tamale making demonstrations and local artists displaying and selling their artwork.
Dates: September 17, 2011
Times: 11am-5pm
Where: Cesar Chavez Park
910 I Street, Sacramento, CA 95814
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The Austrian Cultural Forum New York and MUSA Vienna are proud to present Beauty Contest, an exhibition featuring works by 20 internationally acclaimed and emerging artists who reflect critically on contemporary global society’s obsession and fascination with physical appearance. Following its run at the Austrian Cultural Forum New York, the exhibition will then travel to Vienna in February 2012 where it will be shown in the galleries of MUSA Vienna.
Beauty Contest deals with one of the most trivial everyday experiences: the daily encounter with human beauty and its social construction. A perennial anthropologic subject dating back to the writings of ancient Greek philosophers the exhibition will present critical viewpoints of some of the most antiquated notions of universal beauty. Eviden ... 
WORKSHOP: HAIGA – Japanese Haiku Painting
This workshop is for beginning to intermediate brush painters, calligraphers, and poets. Traditional Japanese haiga is artwork which combines painting and poetry, a juxtaposition of images and words in a quick expressive style. Inspired by artworks in the Asian Art Museum, learn to experiment with ink and brushes, and write your own short verses (haiku) which you will incorporate in the painting. The workshop, led by artist Michael Hofmann and poet Patricia Machmiller, is a unique opportunity to learn how to add poetry to your work, or enhance your words with the brush.
Painter Michael Hofmann has given several painting workshops at the museum in recent years. He has exhibited his work in galleries and museums throughout Japan, and has illus ... 
The Asian American Resource Center invites you to the 7th annual fund-raising event – a celebration of Asian American culture, arts, and cuisine. The 2011 Rice Festival will be held at Stone Mountain Park on Saturday, October 8th, 2011, 11 am – 5 pm.
The Rice Festival is an annual charity event that brings in funds for the programs that AARC provides, such as Homeless Prevention, Transitional Housing and English Literacy/Civics Education. It is an event that promotes cultural awareness and the continued improvement of inter-group relations by sharing the diverse Asian culture with the metro-Atlanta community.The Rice Festival invites nonprofit organizations, community service organizations, local businesses, and corporate sponsors to contribute their products and services. This ... 
Living Arts of Tulsa is hosting the celebration of “Dia de los Muertos Arts Festival” in which it is believed by some Hispanic cultures that the spirits of those who have passed from this earth are remembered and believed to return to join the living who are holding vigil by their altar.
Food, Flowers, Artwork, Performances, Music, Fireworks, Dancing are all part of the ultimate contrast between the sadness of death and the joy of living. And so,Living Arts invites the public to come to 307 E Brady St. in Tulsa, Ok. and be part of the Day of the Dead 11. $5. festival entry covers and helps pay for performers.
When: November 1, 2011
Time: 5:00pm -10:00pm
Where: 307, E. Brady, Tulsa, Ok
Ticket: $5
For more detail click here.
The Cultural Survival Bazaars are a series of cultural festivals that give Indigenous artists, their representatives, and fair trade companies from around the world the chance to sell their work directly to the American public. They also expose over 35,000 Americans each year to Indigenous art, music, and culture, while giving visitors a chance to talk with Indigenous artists directly.
In the past seven years alone the bazaars have generated over $3 million for indigenous artisans, fair trade businesses, indigenous communities’ programs, and Cultural Survival’s work on behalf of indigenous peoples..
Every year, hundreds of artists and their representatives sell traditional crafts, artwork, clothing, jewelry, carpets, and accessories.
The bazaars also offer a wide assortment of cultural per ... 
Explore the life and times of India’s great kings by getting close to the objects they used and the art they commissioned, collected, and loved. Nearly 200 stunning artworks—including a gold throne, a silver carriage, Man Ray photographs, and a diamond belt—illuminate the dazzling world of Indian royalty from the 1700s to the 1940s, a period of dramatic change.
Journey from the throne room of an Indian court to the inner sanctum of the palace. Visit a variety of kingdoms to learn about India’s shifting political powers, its colonization by Great Britain, and the emergence of the independent nations of India and Pakistan in the modern era.
Along the way, discover fantastical art created especially for this exhibition by contemporary artist Sanjay Patel. Don’t miss more of his colorful works ... 
