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The Alliance for California Traditional Arias Activating Cultural Assets in Santa Ana In 2013 ACTA piloted the Activating Cultural Assets project In Santa Ana as part of The California Endowment's Building Healthy Communities ten -year initiative in Santa Ana. Cultural assets are defined as the people, groups, places, and events that carry cultural significance by the residents of Santa Ana. These artistic, expressions are powerful tools for community organizing in health and related areas. ACTA worked with the local organization, El Centro Cultural de Mexico (ECM) to develop questionnaires In which local residents Identified "cultural treasures." Following this process, ACTA helped coordinate a community celebration at the Cultural de Mexico in which local residents, artists, and local organizers were able to celebrate the local cultural treasures featuring personal testimonies, traditional Mexican food, and art and cultural presentations identified by the survey results. Further information, mapping, and Indexing of Santa Ana's Cultural Treasures can be accessed online at: Project - Related Links: http ;1.1 ,ly_oBgogYL ACTA Apprenticeship Program in Santa Ana The Alliance for California Traditional Arts (ACTA) Apprenticeship Program encourages the continuity of the state's traditional arts and cultures by contracting master artists to offer intensive, one -on -one training to qualified apprentices. Over the years, ACTA have awarded several apprenticeships in the Santa Ana region. Recently, ACTA contracted Son Jarocho master, Luis Sarmiento and Puerto Rican Bomba master, Hector Luis Rivera Ortiz. Both artists are using the apprenticeship program not only to train apprentices In their respective cultural traditions, but they are using the opportunity to engage the broader community in Santa Ana around these cultural practices. ACTA Living Cultures Program in Santa Ana The Living Cultures Grants Program seeks to sustain and strengthen the folk and traditional arts in the state of California with grants to California -based nonprofits, as well as other organizations that work with fiscal sponsors. In the past years, ACTA has awarded numerous Santa Ana -based organizations these grants. Santa Ana -based Organizations ACTA has supported Cultural de Mexico, Relampago del Clete and Vietnamese American Arts and Letters. Additional ACTA contracts involving cultural research and planning 2011, Ann Markusen Economic Research for the James Irvine Foundation's commissioned project: California's Arts and Cultural Ecology providing an array of research, writing and editing services including Input on project design, case study examples, Identifying under Included California cultural organizations for the survey and case studies and providing input on report drafts. hltp : /Iwww.cultura taorg /ovp- contentluploads /ea_arts, ecology 201lsept20pdf 2007, consulting services for WolfBrown on the James Irvine Foundation's commissioned report Cultural Engagement in California's Inland Regions. Services included input on study design, key informant interviews, training and supervision of door -to -door survey teams, review and comment on report drafts InUpW ww gi rrts, org / article/ cuulturaI- en0Jemont- calfornias- inland - regions 25B -38 31