Senderos Dancer Wins Scholarships

Nadia Gomez Cruz was born in Oaxaca and has been dancing with Senderos Centeotl Danza y Baile since she was eight years old and has been part of our ¡Adelante Santa Cruz! educational support program since middle school. She completed Santa Cruz High this year and was selected to give the Spanish language student speech at graduation. She was awarded both the Adelante and Senderos college scholarships and a Community Foundation scholarship. Nadia will attend San Francisco State University next year and major in finance. Nadia’s story was featured in a recent article in the Santa Cruz Sentinel.

Photo: Nadia performing at the Latino Role Models Conference in March. (Shmuel Thaler, Santa Cruz Sentinel)

Historias de Cultura, Oaxaca in Santa Cruz: Comida, Medicine and Music

Santa Cruz filmmaker Megan Martinez Goltz made 3 films in partnership with Senderos.  While finding ways to recover during the COVID-19 post-pandemic era, indigenous elders share how accessing traditions from their homelands in Oaxaca are a vital tool for healing not only themselves but also their communities in Santa Cruz, California. This 3 part series explores elements of comida (food), medicina (medicine), and música (music), and how each of these items carry specific traditions helping to uplift throughout all aspects of life.  The films are currently being shown at film festivals.  Stay tuned for your opportunity to watch them.  In the meantime, please enjoy this trailer:

 

 

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