AGP Executive Report
Last update: 3 hours agoFestivals & Traditions: Hangtime Music Festival returns to Placerville, California, Oct. 16–18, with three days of live music, harvest festivities and family activities. In Venezuela, Barinas’ fair for Our Lady of the Pillar brings together poets and more than 400 joropo dance couples, while Nepal’s Dashain begins with the traditional planting of jamara at Kathmandu’s Hanuman Dhoka Palace. Living Heritage: Oregon’s Indigenous Peoples Day celebration drew hundreds to Clackamas Community College, where Native artists and leaders shared traditions and stories of cultural resilience. China’s new five-year heritage plan calls for wider use of digital tools, including AI and drones, to document and protect historic sites. Music & Memory: Trinidad and Tobago will hold a national farewell for calypsonian Mighty Sparrow on Oct. 16, with public tributes and a procession in Port of Spain. Arts & Community: Springfield’s Gillioz Theatre marked 100 years with a community celebration revisiting its early mix of silent films, live performers and vaudeville acts.
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