Healing Through Our Traditions: Art & Community Altar for the Eaton Fire at Akwaaba Food Forest was a free special program from the Alliance for California Traditional Arts, in partnership with Hands in the Soil. Together, they created a community altar for collective healing from the Eaton wildfires. Pasadena sound artist/healing practitioner Yancy Comins, Altadena ceramicist Alma Cielo, and East L.A. altaristas Ofelia Esparza and Rosanna Esparza Ahrens will lead us in a creative and supportive process rooted in tradition. After making offerings with clay and paper, they created together our community altar. This program is part of ACTA's Traditional Arts Roundtable Series (TARS).
Akwaaba is a community food forest demonstration site facilitated by the founders of Rhythms of the Village, a beloved music center and shop in Altadena that lost their space in the Eaton fire.
