2018 FandangObon 2018: arts culture ecofest | Encuentro + FestivalNEW

The 6th annual FandangObon (FO) Project is a two-day family festival at Japanese American Cultural & Community Center - JACCC, the historic cultural crossroads of Boyle Heights and Bronzeville. Hundreds of folks of all ages and cultures will celebrate connections to each other and mother earth.

Environmental Encuentro Workshops

Dates
October 6 - Registration TBA
Workshops

October 7 - FandangObon Festival & Market
FREE! Music + Dancing + Eating!

Time
11:00 am - 5:00 pm

Great Leap’s FO convenes into one circle the participatory music and dance traditions of Fandango of Vera Cruz, Mexico rooted in African, Mexican and indigenous music; Japanese Buddhist Obon circle dances in remembrance of ancestors; and West African dance and drums of Nigeria and New Guinea.

Quetzal Flores and Martha Gonzalez of QUETZAL, Grammy-award winning band along with other artists activists, have helped spread the Fandango throughout the U.S.. Great Leap’s Nobuko Miyamoto has composed contemporary Obon pieces danced by over 10,000 people yearly at Obon Festivals in So Cal. Nigerian Talking Drum Ensemble and Le Ballet Dembaya take West African dance into schools and communities throughout LA.

Community Partners include
- Japanese American Cultural & Community Center (JACCC)
- Artivist Entertainment
- Sustainable Little Tokyo
- LA Commons
- Little Tokyo Service Center (LTSC)

Partially funded by
- California Arts Council
- Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs
- Surdna Foundation
- Artivist Entertainment
- JACCC
- LTSC +Lab