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A youth orchestra enthralled audience members with multi-cultural songs played on traditional Chinese instruments to honor the diverse cultures of workers who built and worked California’s railroads.
Poetry brought history to life and celebrated California’s diversity at the third annual Empire Mine State Historic Park Poetry in Parks event, with readings from students, local poets, and California’s Poet Laureate Lee Herrick.
Sacramento area art faculty and State Parks staff explored connections between public art and public history, and brainstormed ways to engage artists, students and communities in future collaborations.
Poetry lovers enjoyed live music, tribal performance, and poetry readings by local poets including Santa Barbara Poet Laureate Melinda Palacio and award-winning 4th grade poet Takunda Chikowero.
The Local Parks Grant Program is one of two distinct programs of the Arts in California Parks program, which was jointly announced last year by the three partners. Today’s launch makes the grant program available for the first time, with two additional cycles planned for 2025 and 2026, for a
