Origami Crane Instructions
Enjoy this CATS YouTube video on folding an Origami Crane.
A Thousand Cranes—Celebrating 30 years of CATS
Nevada County Arts Council and Grass Valley-Nevada City Cultural District invites the community to attend the Opening Reception for A Thousand Cranes—Celebrating 30 years of Community Asian Theatre of the Sierra at the Eric Rood Center. This important retrospective is the official launch of Art in Public Spaces, a new collaboration between Nevada County Arts Council and the County of Nevada and kicks off celebrations for the Lunar New Year.
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Nevada City Chinese Lunar New Year Festival and Parade
Having been dark for the past three years due to the pandemic, the Nevada City Chinese Lunar New Year Festival and Parade returns and welcomes the Year of the Dragon, on Sunday, February 25, 2024, 12:00-4:30 p.m. Chinese New Year Festivals are rare in rural communities, and CATS, along with the Miners Foundry Cultural Center, is proud to present this tenth family-friendly celebration, honoring the early Chinese Gold Rush pioneers and railroad workers of the Sierra.
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Listen to the Future!
Nevada County’s Connection to Chinatown Rising
During the California Gold Rush in 1849 and in subsequent years, Nevada County, along with many foothill towns of the Sierra Nevada, had a very vibrant Chinese population. They arrived from southern China in the early 1850s, driven to seek a better life, escaping overwhelming poverty and a civil war (the Taiping Rebellion). While thousands of Chinese mined for gold in the Sierra rivers and streams, they were later recruited in 1863 as the major workforce in building the Central Pacific Railroad.
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Tickets Now Available for Chinatown Rising
Chinatown Rising is a documentary film about the Asian American Movement from the perspective of the young residents on the front lines of their historic neighborhood in transition. Through publicly challenging the conservative views of their elders, their demonstrations and protests of the 1960s-1970s rattled the once quiet streets during the community’s shift in power. Forty five years later, and in collaboration with his son, Josh Chuck, the film presents intimate interviews with these activists recalling their roles and experiences in response to the need for social change.
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