To provide both an enriching theatre experience for students and faculty and new opportunities for women artists, the Department of Theatre Arts and Speech at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey at Newark held a competition for new plays by New Jersey women playwrights. The winning play, Leni Hamilton's "The Fortress," a story of…

The Christmas season in Mexico starts on December 16 with "las posadas," a series of religious processions in which families or neighbors reenact Joseph's search for shelter for Mary en route to Bethlehem. Those representing pilgrims travel from home to home until they are finally accepted by those representing innkeepers at a home with…

Discussed the Council for Cultural Co-operation, a guide to the new educational and cultural adventure taking place in Europe. (Author/RK)

Article evaluated the types of research consistent with the idea of promoting the aesthetic welfare via a cultural service field. (Author/RK)

This paper looks at community services in the junior college, particularly cultural affairs. The nature of the community must be defined before an effective program can be organized. The college can then determine the area of services to be offered. Cultural programs are considered to be those offering lectures, films, exhibits, theater, and so…

Approximately 150 newsletters, newspapers, and other periodicals are cited in this bibliography of current sources of information about or directed toward North American Indians. One-sentence descriptions of content, ordering information, and frequency of publication are provided. The majority of the periodicals cited emphasize current events of…

This article provided an account of the organization of cultural activities in the city of Bologna, Italy. It stressed the activities' significance in terms of the city's cultural policy by attempting to show obstacles encountered and efforts made to overcome them. (Author/RK)

The purpose of these remarks on financial procedure and cultural policies has been to plead for a more stringent approach in the dialogue between those whose role it is to give and create and those who are not content to be inactive beneficiaries. (Author)

Throughout America all tribes have united to restore the "Indianism" that was lost at the time of the captivity. "Pow-wow" is the Indian effort to enforce this unity. Pow-wow can be held at any time of the year, although holidays are a good time to have dances. This essay provides much detail on the costumes and customs of the…

El Midwest Canto Al Pueblo was a successful effort to bring artists, poets, musicians, and cultural workers together in a setting conducive to a free and easy interchange of ideas and directions in order to reaffirm, share, and celebrate the identity of La Raza with el pueblo. The activities during the 10-day festival included poetry readings,…

Discusses the development and history of Glen Echo Park in Maryland--a permanent cultural center on the banks of the Potomac River. (Author/RK)

This theme issue, centered around the Kalevala (a collection of primarily lyrical folk poems), includes articles giving the history of the Kalevala and its place in Finnish culture, comparing the Kalevala and the lyric poems of Homer, the Kalevala's influence on modern Finnish culture, the Kalevala in contemporary theatre, and celebrations…

Describes the rationale and focus of World Language Communities, a core course in the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. The course emphasizes the social, political, and economic implications of language diversity and the dynamics of natural language and linguistic communities. (SED)

Conducted a comparative analysis to investigate the relationship between voluntary group participation and geographical sites of respective ethnic centers of the Croatian and Czech communities of St. Louis. Utilizing an ecological framework, the findings suggested organizational activity is strongly dependent on the environmental adequacy of the…