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What happens if your Sacramento nonprofit suddenly loses an already approved $65,000 federal National Endowment for the Arts grant that was to support critical youth programming?
If you’re the 53-year-old Latino Center of Art and Culture on Front Street, you take a step back, evaluate your next move and dance in the meantime.
“I think the biggest takeaway for us, is we persist, we resist,” said Jorge Quintana, the center’s digital curator as people filed into the space near Miller Regional Park on Aug. 1 for a dance fundraiser called ¡Cumbiatón Al Aire Libre! “This is a great reminder that art is a form of resistance, and whenever we lose, we gain.”
The youth programming was intended to support “youth, artists, programming and keeping our doors open to our community,” according to a Facebook post.