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AS A COURTESY TO THE PERFORMERS, NO CAMERAS OR RECORDING<br />
EQUIPMENT WILL BE ALLOWED IN THE THEATER<br />
City Celebration, Inc., nationally known as the producing organization<br />
of the acclaimed San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival, has commenced doing<br />
business as WORLD ARTS WEST, A Celebration of Traditional Dance &<br />
Music effective this month. The unanimous decision by the Board of Directors<br />
and staff to undergo the name change and mission statement was done so in<br />
order to more accurately reflect the current and future programming of the 17<br />
year old not-for-profit organization.<br />
The organization's new mission statement reads: World Arts West<br />
presents and promotes world dance and music that reflects America's<br />
Through performance opportunities, educational activities and cultural<br />
exchange, we seek to inspire innovation and keep alive traditions of the world<br />
around us. 11<br />
World Arts West's (WA W) <strong>1995</strong> producing activities include the<br />
nationally renowned San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival, scheduled for nine<br />
performances June 2--18, at the historic Palace of Fine Arts. Thematic<br />
programming for this year's Festival include: "A Celebration of the Pacific<br />
islands;" "Strong Men/ Strong Women/;" "Passages: Dances From the J.ife<br />
Cycle;" and "Global Celebration: A 50th Anniversary Salute to the United<br />
Nations." The 17th annual Ethnic Dance Festival is an official participant in<br />
the United Nations 50th Anniversary San Francisco Celebration.<br />
Other World Arts West activities include a new arts education<br />
program for Bay Area children grades K --6 entitled People Like Me, to be<br />
presented at the Ft. Mason Center Cowell Theater March 28--31. In the fall,<br />
World Arts West will inaugurate the Encounter Series, an adult program of<br />
three different internationally acclaimed dance and music companies (Uganda,<br />
Brazil and Indonesia) scheduled for the Cowell Theater. During the year,<br />
World Arts West will present educational lectures on trends in world dance and<br />
music: outreach performances into select Bay Area communities: costume<br />
exhibits: and guest artist residencies at local colleges.<br />
Please note: World Arts West receives funding for its activities from<br />
a variety of sources including the Grants for the Arts/San Francisco Hotel Tax<br />
Fund, the California Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts.<br />
However, federal and state support of the arts & humanities is currently under<br />
threat of being eliminated by members of the new U.S. Congress. Please<br />
consider makinJU! generous donation to World Arts West by using the enclosed<br />
envelope, and help us to maintain quality arts prograri1ming for you and your<br />
families.<br />
FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, <strong>1995</strong><br />
2:25-2:30 pm Meghamala Nugehally South Indian<br />
2:35-2:40 Aleida E. L. Crocker Indonesian<br />
2:45-2:50 Radica Giri South Indian<br />
2:55-3:00 Aleksei Prokoshin Russian<br />
3:05-3:10 Upasana-Gayatri Srikanth South Indian<br />
3:15-3:25 The Emir and Ba'alabekya Lebanese<br />
3:30-3:40 Las Soldaderas Mejicanas Mexican<br />
3:45-3:55 Ballet Russe Russian<br />
4:00-4:10 Maharlika Dance Group Filipino<br />
4:15-4:20 Nunamta Yup'ik Eskimo/Chuna Mcintyre Central Yup'ik Eskimo<br />
4:25-4:35 Sangeet Group of California East Indian<br />
4:35-4:55 break<br />
5:00-5:05 Helen Susman South Korean<br />
5:10-5:20 Jenny Ray and Nadine Greiner American/Country<br />
Western<br />
5:25-5:35 Georgian Dance Project Georgian<br />
5:40-5:45 Shadia Mohtady Egyptian<br />
5:50-5:55 Neyehma Egyptian<br />
6:00-6:10 Raices de Mexico Mexican/Sinaloa<br />
6:15-6:25 Spirit of Aisha Moroccan/Guedra<br />
6:30-6:35 Michelle Thompson Moldovan<br />
6:40-6:45 Nirmala Madhav South Indian<br />
6:50-6:55 Artemis Egyptian<br />
7:00-7:10 Lasya Academy of Dance South Indian<br />
7:15-7:25 Asdiqa Turkish<br />
7:25-8:30 dinner break<br />
8:30-8:40 New Sonoma Cambodian Dance Group Cambodian<br />
8:45-8:55 Grupo Folklorico of San Jose MexicanNeracruz<br />
9:00-9:05 Carolena Nericcio Mid-East inspired<br />
Belly Dance<br />
9:10-9:15 Sandhya Ram Indian (Kuchipudi)<br />
9:20-9:30 Shahpour's Persian Dance Academy Persian<br />
9:35-9:40 Mahea al- Ahwa Uchiyama Nubian/<br />
Nubian inspired<br />
9:45-9:50 Shakti Dance Company South Indian<br />
9:55-10:00 Kompiang Metri Balinese<br />
10:05-10:10 Priti Radhakrishnan East Indian<br />
10:15-10:20 Sri Susilowati Indonesian/<br />
Sundanese<br />
10:25-10:35 Rancho Folclorico "A Portuguesa" Portugese
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