The California Arts Council announced a grant award of $33,250 to the Taiko Community Alliance as part of its Statewide and Regional Networks program. The Statewide and Regional Networks program is rooted in the California Arts Council’s commitment to providing practical services to working
TCA is delighted to be a recipient of a New Generation Nikkei Fund (NGNF) grant and to have the Taiko Voices project recognized as an important contribution to the Japanese American community. For more information about NGNF visit them at ngnf.org.
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Acting Chairman Mary Anne Carter has approved more than $27 million in grants as part of the Arts Endowment’s first major funding announcement for fiscal year 2019. Included in this announcement is an Art Works grant of $30,000 to TCA to support the North American Taiko Conference, August 9-11, 2019...
TCA is pleased to announce that Heidi Varian has accepted the position of Project Coordinator for Taiko Voices, the 50th Anniversary Song Commission efforts that earned a highly competitive Creative Work Fund grant in October of last year. Heidi will be working closely with the Taiko Voices collaborating team, Franco Imperial of San Jose Taiko, Kate Meigneux of Kinnara,
The Creative Work Fund invites artists and nonprofit organizations to create new art works through collaborations. It celebrates the role of artists as problem solvers and the making of art as a profound contribution to intellectual inquiry and to the strengthening of communities. Artists are encouraged to collaborate with nonprofit organizations of all kinds. The Creative
This is a report submitted by Elise Fujimoto, event coordinator. Jun Daiko was a recipient of a 2018 TCA Mini-Grant to support a Bay Area Buddhist Temple Taiko Gathering. On Saturday April 14th, 2018, 100 taiko players, instructors, volunteers, and supporters convened at Mountain View Buddhist Temple in Mountain View, California for the first Bay Area...
State funds nurture collaborative service organizations and networks that advance California arts and artists The California Arts Council announced its plans to award $24,000 to the Taiko Community Alliance (TCA) as part of its Statewide and Regional Networks program. The Statewide and Regional Networks program supports arts service organizations that provide specialized,
Over the Winter holidays, TCA received some very exciting mail. Congresswoman Anna Eshoo from the 18th District of California took the time to congratulate TCA receiving a $10,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). TCA has been awarded a $10,000 Art Works grant from the NEA to support costs for this summer’s...
Thanks to your generosity, TCA has matched our California Arts Council Grant for 2016! Our membership campaign has officially raised over $22,000 to date. Earlier this year, TCA was one of 28 organizations in California to be awarded $21,050 as part of the Statewide and Regional Networks (SRN) Program from the California Arts Council. The SRN program...
The California Arts Council, a state agency, announced it plans to award $21,050 to the Taiko Community Alliance (TCA) as part of its Statewide and Regional Networks program. TCA is one of only twenty-eight grantees statewide for this program. The Statewide and Regional Networks (SRN) program is rooted in the California Arts Council’s vision...