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If you’re an artist in the LA community interested in climate change resiliency in the cultural sector, we invite you to join us on June 3, 2026 from 9:00 - 10:00AM for a special community update webinar: https://t.co/dAOOdTs2Nm

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“Arts and culture are central to California’s identity and future.”

Sofia Klatzker, Cultural Affairs Manager for the City of Santa Monica @cityofsantamonica, shares why public investment, innovation, and support for creative workers are essential to California’s future.

Yet the Governor’s May Revise excluded critical arts funding, leaving the Legislature as the only path forward.

California is benefiting from an AI-driven surplus. Investing $50M in the California Arts Council and $40M in the Performing Arts Equitable Payroll Fund is a #smART investment in communities, creativity, and economic growth.

This is not a fiscal question — it’s a values question.

Now is the time to speak up.

Take action today: https://t.co/lRaTjgA3jP

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How Sacramento Creatives Are Redefining the Arts Economy https://t.co/JRLDnTOeIV

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📣ACTION ALERT: STATE AND LOCAL ADVOCACY!

Now is the ideal time to engage with your state legislators in their home districts. With the California Legislature in recess, lawmakers are turning their attention to the upcoming 2025–2026 legislative session, which begins in January, as well as early discussions on the 2026–2027 state budget and appropriations.

This is a crucial time to raise awareness about arts issues, shape legislative priorities, and build relationships with potential arts advocates. We made it easy for you to let your lawmakers know with five easy steps. Learn: https://t.co/DlcEVKnTJ7

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🎨 SUBMIT CA Arts & Culture Summit session proposals! 🌟 We are seeking proposals that align with our Summit theme, “Boundless Culture & Creativity: The Essence of Freedom."

Submissions are due by October 14th at 11 pm. Learn: https://t.co/FAr64mbYsy

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✨GAAP Cohort 2 Spotlight: Guillermo “Yiyo” Ornelas is a Bay Area–based performer, teaching artist, grant writer, and advocate for arts education and cultural equity. A queer, first-generation Mexican-American, Yiyo has dedicated their career to empowering youth, families, and artists through creative expression and structural support.

“I decided to apply for the GAAP Fellowship because its mission aligns deeply with my longstanding commitment to fostering cultural equity and inclusive arts spaces. I’ve always been dedicated to ensuring that marginalized voices are not only heard but centered.

This fellowship represents an opportunity to deepen that work, to grow alongside a network of like-minded peers, and to bring valuable resources and knowledge back to the communities I serve. In short, I applied because I believe in the power of this fellowship to amplify the impact of the work I’m passionate about.”

Let’s give “Yiyo” Ornelas a warm welcome.

Read their full bio here: https://t.co/Uy0GEgoaAD

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✨GAAP Cohort 2 Spotlight: Eric Avery (they/he) is a Black, queer, working-class interdisciplinary artist and cultural organizer based in West Oakland with over nineteen years of experience in theatre, interactive performance, and community-based projects.

“As an artist focused on reparations and collective healing, I’m constantly striving to position my creative practice to allow for impacts in the real world. GAAP caught my attention in 2024 when I initially applied to the program, and I’m so grateful to be in the second cohort of the program.

GAAP is uniquely powerful in its support of Bay Area artists to develop advocacy skills, cultivate intentional community connections, and build strategic pathways towards the world we aim to manifest. This opportunity comes at a time when I’m ready to take my creativity, organizing, and career to their next levels of accomplishment and GAAP is situated to help me lay a sustainable foundation towards these goals.”

Let’s give Eric Avery a warm welcome.
Read their full bio here: https://t.co/Uy0GEgoIqb

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Join us for “Bridging Creativity & Care: Exploring Poetry Therapy and Community Writing for Health and Healing” on Tuesday, October 7, 2025, from 12 PM - 1:30 PM PT!

This is the second webinar in the “Bridging Creativity & Care” series, and it will highlight the powerful role of creative writing in supporting health and well-being across different settings and populations. Through presentations and experiential activities, we’ll explore shared values, key distinctions, and opportunities for collaboration between sectors.

We are excited to announce our speakers for this webinar:
⭐Jennie Linthorst, Expressive Writing Teacher & Author; Founder, LifeSPEAKS Poetry Therapy; Creator, The Poetry Toolbox for Classrooms
⭐Brandon Allen, Founder, Youth Writer’s Camp; Program Director, Rescue a Generation; Speaker & Youth Advocate

This webinar is free with registration. Learn more and register here: https://t.co/5GVMVNPHu1

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⭐SAVE THE DATE 📅

Join us on Tuesday, April 21, 2026 at Capitol Park, Sacramento for Arts Advocacy Day, a vital moment to raise your voice and take action.

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Our ACCM 2025 Report is now available for download! Read this report and delve into "Health, Healing” & Hope" the powerful theme that shaped ACCM 2025, dive into highlights from our social media campaigns, and see our statewide impact through county and city proclamations and kickoff events.

Plus, get a full recap of the 2025 Arts & Culture Summit and Arts Advocacy Day, and discover the lasting mark we made on California’s cultural and civic landscape.

If you don’t see your county represented on our ACCM 2025 map of activations—including the Arts & Culture Summit, Arts Advocacy Day, launch events, proclamations, or ACCM celebrations you hosted—please contact [email protected] so we can update the map.

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CA for the Arts is excited to announce its flagship ACCM event: the 4th Annual CA Arts & Culture Summit. The Summit will take place on Monday, April 20, 2026, in Sacramento, at both the Memorial Auditorium and the SAFE Credit Union Convention Center.

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Our Arts & Health series continues and we are excited to announce our next webinar: “Bridging Creativity & Care: Exploring Poetry Therapy and Community Writing for Health and Healing”!

As part of the “Bridging Creativity & Care” Series, this webinar highlights the powerful role of creative writing in supporting health and well-being in various settings and populations. Through presentations and experiential activities, we’ll explore shared values, key distinctions, and opportunities for collaboration across sectors.

Join into the conversation on Tuesday, October 7, 2025, from 12 PM - 1:30 PM PT! Free with registration.

Learn more and register here: https://t.co/5GVMVNPHu1

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Bay Area Arts & Culture Workers! Join us for “The Future of California’s Creative Economy: Insights from the Creative Economy Workgroup,” an in-person forum at ArtHaus Workson on September 24, 2025, from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m.

Learn more: https://t.co/tLMmOrBl73

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I have signed Cultural Freedom Demands Collective Courage: A Nation-wide Statement of Values and Principles for the Field of Art and Culture.

In the face of increasing threats to artistic and intellectual freedom in the United States, the Statement reasserts the arts sector’s commitment to retain programmatic independence and resist pressures of institutional self-censorship, which is the only way to ensure that future generations inherit robust cultural institutions that stimulate the imagination, engender free thinking, and incubate new futures.

Upon its publication, the Statement has more than 275 individual signatories working across the art and culture sector, as well as over 150 cultural institutions.

Join me at https://t.co/FvaTyrwn0R.

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Calling all creatives! Check out this month’s roundup of funding opportunities in the arts & culture sector — grants, awards, and more to support your next big project. Explore: https://t.co/BwAfnrjvfM

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⭐ Ready to elevate your creative career? Discover our August roundup of exciting job opportunities in the arts and culture sector.⁠ Be sure to share with your network!
Explore: https://t.co/BwAfnrjvfM

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Our partners at the Greater Bay Area Coalition are offering a Fellowship opportunity for the 2025-26 year!

GBAC Fellowships are investments in individuals who want to deepen their knowledge of and commitment to cultural organizing and cultural policy work in the greater San Francisco Bay Area. Applicants must be in the Greater Bay Area Arts Coalition or be referred by someone in the group.

Fellowship Application: https://t.co/8Xavu4zBPQ

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We are deeply grateful to the CA for the Arts dream team for bringing their whole selves to our annual staff retreat. #AdvocacyIsRealWork