Village Culture educates about the beauty of diversity and works to infuse pride back into every ethnic community by creating opportunities for elders to pass on their stories, language, music, costumes, dance, hand crafts, and foods.
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Please welcome our honorary 2009 performers selected for their fine efforts in passing on authentic arts to future generations.
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Katherine Goldsby is the Head Director of Village Culture and is a Mediterranean dance specialist most know for her Egyptian Saidi and Turkish Rom performances. She has been teaching, lecturing, and performing in the Western US for the past eighteen years. Katherine has worked in many ways for The Voice of Roma since the organization began over ten years ago and she was the Los Angeles producer of the 2008 International Roma Day celebration. Her last audition for the World Arts West yearly production of the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival at the Palace of Fine Arts represented the Rom of Istanbul with a Mineral Salt Harvesting dance.
As a former employee of The Voice of Roma, The Seva Foundation and Bill Graham Presents; Katherine has many years of experience creating benefit events.
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The purpose of National American Indian Heritage Month is to honor and recognize the continuing contributions Native Americans make to this country.
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