But Arcos Cisneros was also there to represent her own tradition, bestowed upon her by her family and community.
In her right hand, she had a golden staff. On her head, she wore a sparkling crown. She is this year’s Queen of Carnaval Putleco, a title that pays homage to a celebration that has existed for almost two centuries in Putla, a town in the western mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico.
“It’s been my dream to be queen since I was a little girl,” she says. “I love to see the reactions of people who have never seen something like Carnaval Putleco before.”
Someone from Putla is called “putleco” or “putleca,” and in the past two decades, more and more putleco families have migrated to Bay Area cities. Despite Oaxaca and California being thousands of miles apart, putlecos have found each other in the Bay and pooled resources to continue the traditions of Carnaval Putleco — or the Carnaval of Putla — in their new home.
As the truck carrying Arcos Cisneros moves through the streets of Healdsburg, dozens of dancers follow closely behind. Each dancer is wearing a tiliche — an incredibly colorful and elaborate full-body suit made out of hundreds of ribbons that move in all directions as the dancer deftly skips and jumps to the rhythm of the music. When one person dances with a tiliche on, you start noticing more details: a mask made of animal fur and an oversized hat made of palm straw.
But seeing many tiliches together at once becomes an experience. Color seamlessly combines with rhythm. The space around them fills with energy as dynamic and graceful as their movements.
And at every block, they’re greeted by loud cheers.
“They’re definitely the highlight of the parade,” says Kate Howell, who lives in Sonoma County and has come to the Twilight Festival her whole life. Her young daughter, Maizey, jumped up as soon as she saw the tiliches and danced along with them. Carnaval Putleco adds something that Healdsburg needs now, Howell says, “the music, the color, the enthusiasm, the costumes, the joy of it all.”
Dozens of blocks of nonstop dancing later, Carnaval Putleco finally made it to the end of the parade. They gathered at the house of one of the member families in Healdsburg. As the dancers streamed into the backyard to relax, they removed their masks.
Everyone is soaked in sweat. Each tiliche weighs at least 20 pounds, and the more elaborate ones can weigh up to 40 pounds. It’s a serious workout under the hot Sonoma sun.
Thankfully, a giant pot of delicious pozole is ready — perfect to replenish body and soul.
“Today wasn’t just any parade,” says Grismel Alonso Soto, who came all the way from Cloverdale with her 3-year-old son, Francisco, to dance. “All of this has such a deeper meaning.”
She shares that her grandmother, who taught her so much about Putla’s traditions, couldn’t make it to the celebrations because her health had been worsening. “I danced for her today,” she says. “When you dance, you connect with all those things you don’t want to forget.”
Tiliches: An art, a tradition, a vision
Carnaval Putleco started 17 years ago when a group of families from Putla and the communities surrounding it formed Comité Pochtlán, a collective with the goal of promoting putleco culture in the Bay Area.
One of the members of Comité Pochtlán, Martha Cortés Rojas, who lives in Healdsburg, remembers how she and her husband, Amando Herrera Villa, went to that city’s Twilight Parade in 2007. As they both watched different floats pass by, Herrera Villa turned to her and told her they should join the following year wearing the tiliches they missed seeing so much in Putla.
“I agreed,” she says in Spanish, “but I told him we would need to find a way to make our own tiliches.”
They started calling friends and family members they knew were now living in California. While many were in Sonoma County, others had settled in Daly City, Sunnyvale, San José and as far as Los Angeles.
Folks quickly got on board. Despite time and distance, Carnaval is something deeply entrenched in the memories of so many putlecos. In Putla, like other Carnaval celebrations held across Latin America, Carnaval happens right before the start of Lent, when Catholics must focus on prayer and self-control for 40 days.
But before Lent, one big party usually takes place — Carnaval, the biggest celebration in Oaxaca after the Guelaguetza. For three straight days, the streets of Putla fill up with parties, where you’ll see three different types of dances: la danza de los machos, la comparsa de copalas and la danza de los viejos. The last one, danza de los viejos, is where you see the tiliches appear.
The name, danza de los viejos, translates to “the dance of the old men,” and traditionally, the tiliches were meant to represent older men and women. The suits would be made up completely of old fabric and ribbons, but in contemporary celebrations, most tiliches are now made up of newer material and represent various characters, including animals, demons and mythical characters.
But when Cortés Rojas went about creating a tiliche back in 2007, she stuck close to tradition and designed her suit to look like an old man. It was the first tiliche she had ever made in her life, after all. As a young girl in Putla, she would watch the Carnaval each year but never got involved in the production. Now, as an adult living in Sonoma, she had to figure out the process by herself, using completely different materials. But that challenge proved to be an opportunity for her creativity to take over.
“I’m making tiliches in my own way now,” she says. In her backyard, she’s set up several of the tiliches she’s made over the years. She points at a tiliche made completely out of white chiffon ribbons. “This one varies from the traditional style,” she says, “back in Putla, each piece of cloth in the suit has to be of a completely different color from different pieces of clothing.”
But a tiliche made of only white ribbons will stand out wherever she says, adding, “White represents purity, and when someone dances with this, it almost looks like they are floating.”
With every tiliche she makes, her vision as an artist becomes bolder, and her skill as an artisan has only grown stronger.
Instead of pieces of cloth, she covered one tiliche with thousands of braided palm leaves. She didn’t braid the palm leaves herself — she bought them from Mexico readymade — but she sowed each of them one by one on the suit. The final result is a tiliche as vibrant as a traditional one but that responds to the dancer’s movement in a completely distinct way: The braids spring against each other as the dancer moves, giving a lighter and more ecstatic sensation.
“All of this represents a lot of time and money we have invested,” she says, adding that it takes her about a year to make one tiliche, “but this makes us happy. … my mind is always full of ideas for new tiliches, new ways to make each one more elaborate, more beautiful, more original.”
With only a few days left before Carnaval San Francisco, she’s rushing to finish the tiliche her husband will wear in that parade. This suit could be her most ambitious design yet: a tiliche covered entirely in colorful beads and ayoyotes.
Ayoyotes are the shells of a nut that come from an ayoyote tree. Many dancers throughout Mexico and Central America use ayoyotes to make rattles that they can wear or carry during their performances (Aztec dancers, for example, cover their ankles with them so they make that familiar rattle as they move). Cortés Rojas has to crack open each ayoyote nut, carefully remove the toxic seeds, and drill a hole where she can run the string that will attach it to the suit.
“Each suit takes up a couple drops of blood, too,” she jokes but points to her fingertips, where she has poked herself countless times, drilling through ayoyotes. It’s taken almost two years to finish this tiliche. But the wait is absolutely worth it, she says. Nothing like this has ever been attempted before — not even in Oaxaca.
“The greatest reward is that someone sees one of my suits and is left in awe by its beauty and the effort that it requires. Everything is handmade,” she says. “When someone sees a tiliche, they know us putlecos are here.”
‘¡Que viva Putla!’
Perhaps those who have the deepest love for the traditions of Carnaval Putleco are young putlecos who grew up here in California, far away from Putla.
Iván Olivera, 33, came to the U.S. when he was 1, brought to Sonoma by his parents. He’s never had the chance to visit Putla, but he grew up hearing family always talk about its traditions. When he turned 17, he joined Carnaval Putleco and donned a tiliche. He hasn’t stopped since.
“It’s something from our roots; we love doing it,” he says. His tiliche is perhaps one of the biggest — and heaviest — ones. He’s joined a crossfit class and regularly runs to stay in tiliche-ready shape throughout the year. After dancing for a couple of hours, it can get extremely hot inside the suit, but he says he doesn’t mind the heat.
“It’s the crowd — the rhythm of the music, that gets me going,” he says. Dancing with a tiliche, surrounded by other putlecos, with traditional Oaxacan music playing, it gives him a feeling of home and family that he can’t get anywhere else.
As he’s gotten older, he’s invited friends who grew up with him in Sonoma to dance with him. His brother, Misael, also dances with the group. The two brothers got to catch up and perform together on April 20 at the Healdsburg Community Center when Carnaval Putleco crowned Arcos Cisneros as the new queen.
Arcos Cisneros also grew up in the Bay, but she’s been lucky enough to visit Putla many times. “Growing up, this felt like a big party until I realized the cultural significance of it all,” she says.
“Over there, it’s a different ambiente — everyone knows each other and the traditions,” she says. “Over here, it feels like we’re sharing something new with people.”
On Sunday, she will lead Carnaval Putleco through the streets of San Francisco’s Mission District as tens of thousands of people from all over California cheer them on. But this time around, she won’t be on top of the group’s float — instead, she’ll be dancing right along with all the other tiliches.
After all, she takes her role as queen seriously. At the end of her coronation ceremony, she told her fellow putlecos, “Es un orgullo para mi representar la comunidad putleca en estas tierras californianas.” — “It is a great pride for me to represent the putleco community here in California.”
“¡Que viva Oaxaca! ¡Que viva Putla y sus comunidades! ¡Y que viva el Carnaval!” — “Long live Oaxaca! Long live Putla and its surrounding communities! And long live Carnaval!”
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Nearby areas are currently under evacuation warnings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire said it has seven crews currently working the fire, with 12 engines and three helicopters. 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Representatives for Senate President Pro Tem \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/mike-mcguire-93\">Mike McGuire\u003c/a> and Assembly Speaker \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/robert-rivas-165041\">Robert Rivas\u003c/a>, who are in charge of negotiating with the governor, would not make them available to the media on Thursday after their members approved a spending plan that almost certainly will not be the actual budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a shared set of priorities,” Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/jesse-gabriel-160858\">Jesse Gabriel\u003c/a>, an Encino Democrat who leads the Assembly budget committee, told reporters following the vote. “It’s more about what are the most effective solutions, what are the programs and services that we think are the best way to go forward versus others.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His counterpart on the Senate budget committee — Sen. \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/scott-wiener-100936\">Scott Wiener\u003c/a>, a San Francisco Democrat — did not respond to an interview request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2024/05/california-budget-deficit-newsom-may-proposal/\">presented a plan last month\u003c/a> to address what his administration estimates is a remaining funding shortfall of $56 billion over the next two years, including dipping into reserve accounts, deferring school funding, eliminating government jobs and cutting or delaying money for infrastructure, health and climate programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990469\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990469\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/041124-Rivas-Budget-AP-CM-01-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/041124-Rivas-Budget-AP-CM-01-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/041124-Rivas-Budget-AP-CM-01-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/041124-Rivas-Budget-AP-CM-01-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/041124-Rivas-Budget-AP-CM-01-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/041124-Rivas-Budget-AP-CM-01-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas talks to reporters at the Capitol in Sacramento on April 11, 2024, after the Assembly approved a measure to reduce the state budget deficit. \u003ccite>(Rich Pedroncelli/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Democratic leaders in the Legislature, where the party holds supermajorities in both houses, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/capitol/2024/05/california-budget-deficit-legislature-democrats/\">released a counterproposal a few weeks later\u003c/a>. Among the major discrepancies is a push for more substantial \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2024/05/californa-prison-closures-deficit/\">reductions to prison funding\u003c/a> to reverse some of Newsom’s proposed cuts to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2024/05/california-financial-aid-2/\">college scholarships for middle-income students\u003c/a>, public health programs, subsidized child care slots and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2024/05/may-revise-2024-homeless-housing/\">housing development\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor and the Legislature must also decide whether to repurpose billions of dollars that were \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2024/05/medi-cal-health-care-budget/\">earmarked to increase payments\u003c/a> for health care providers who treat lower-income patients, as Newsom has suggested, and whether to further delay \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2024/05/minimum-wage-health-care-deadline/\">minimum wage increases for health care workers\u003c/a>, which could potentially save the state billions of dollars but faces strong opposition from unions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gabriel defended the process as “exceptionally transparent,” pointing to dozens of legislative budget hearings in which he said “there’s been a very public vetting of these issues” and “opportunities for Californians to weigh in.” He said he did not think any of the final solutions would come as a surprise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11985798,news_11986893,news_11989857\"]“I think Californians have a good understanding of what the major issues are that are at stake in this process,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite ongoing negotiations over undisclosed provisions, Democratic lawmakers voted on Thursday to adopt their version of the spending plan because they must pass a balanced budget by midnight on Saturday in order to get paid. 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Gavin Newsom about how to close California’s projected multibillion-dollar deficit, the Legislature passed a placeholder state budget on Thursday, just ahead of a mandatory deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With only a few weeks left until the start of the new fiscal year on July 1, both sides refuse to publicly discuss what specific issues are holding up a deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s office and his Department of Finance declined to answer questions about the remaining differences with the Legislature that still need to be worked out. Representatives for Senate President Pro Tem \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/mike-mcguire-93\">Mike McGuire\u003c/a> and Assembly Speaker \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/robert-rivas-165041\">Robert Rivas\u003c/a>, who are in charge of negotiating with the governor, would not make them available to the media on Thursday after their members approved a spending plan that almost certainly will not be the actual budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a shared set of priorities,” Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/jesse-gabriel-160858\">Jesse Gabriel\u003c/a>, an Encino Democrat who leads the Assembly budget committee, told reporters following the vote. “It’s more about what are the most effective solutions, what are the programs and services that we think are the best way to go forward versus others.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His counterpart on the Senate budget committee — Sen. \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/scott-wiener-100936\">Scott Wiener\u003c/a>, a San Francisco Democrat — did not respond to an interview request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2024/05/california-budget-deficit-newsom-may-proposal/\">presented a plan last month\u003c/a> to address what his administration estimates is a remaining funding shortfall of $56 billion over the next two years, including dipping into reserve accounts, deferring school funding, eliminating government jobs and cutting or delaying money for infrastructure, health and climate programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990469\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990469\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/041124-Rivas-Budget-AP-CM-01-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/041124-Rivas-Budget-AP-CM-01-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/041124-Rivas-Budget-AP-CM-01-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/041124-Rivas-Budget-AP-CM-01-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/041124-Rivas-Budget-AP-CM-01-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/041124-Rivas-Budget-AP-CM-01-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas talks to reporters at the Capitol in Sacramento on April 11, 2024, after the Assembly approved a measure to reduce the state budget deficit. \u003ccite>(Rich Pedroncelli/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Democratic leaders in the Legislature, where the party holds supermajorities in both houses, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/capitol/2024/05/california-budget-deficit-legislature-democrats/\">released a counterproposal a few weeks later\u003c/a>. Among the major discrepancies is a push for more substantial \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2024/05/californa-prison-closures-deficit/\">reductions to prison funding\u003c/a> to reverse some of Newsom’s proposed cuts to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2024/05/california-financial-aid-2/\">college scholarships for middle-income students\u003c/a>, public health programs, subsidized child care slots and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2024/05/may-revise-2024-homeless-housing/\">housing development\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor and the Legislature must also decide whether to repurpose billions of dollars that were \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2024/05/medi-cal-health-care-budget/\">earmarked to increase payments\u003c/a> for health care providers who treat lower-income patients, as Newsom has suggested, and whether to further delay \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2024/05/minimum-wage-health-care-deadline/\">minimum wage increases for health care workers\u003c/a>, which could potentially save the state billions of dollars but faces strong opposition from unions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gabriel defended the process as “exceptionally transparent,” pointing to dozens of legislative budget hearings in which he said “there’s been a very public vetting of these issues” and “opportunities for Californians to weigh in.” He said he did not think any of the final solutions would come as a surprise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Stories ","postid":"news_11985798,news_11986893,news_11989857"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“I think Californians have a good understanding of what the major issues are that are at stake in this process,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite ongoing negotiations over undisclosed provisions, Democratic lawmakers voted on Thursday to adopt their version of the spending plan because they must pass a balanced budget by midnight on Saturday in order to get paid. The bill passed by a vote of 29–8 in the Senate and 59–14 in the Assembly, along largely partisan lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans criticized the proposal as out of touch with Californians’ needs. They raised objections to provisions pausing some tax deductions for businesses to raise additional revenue and reversing previous commitments on expanded health care spending. Several members called out the inclusion of billions of dollars for the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2023/03/california-high-speed-rail/\">state’s troubled high-speed rail project\u003c/a> and to expand \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2023/12/undocumented-health-insurance-new-california-laws-2024/\">health care access for undocumented immigrants\u003c/a> while other programs are cut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a shameful budget,” Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/kate-sanchez-165419\">Kate Sanchez\u003c/a>, a Rancho Santa Margarita Republican, said during floor debate. “This budget is heartless, it’s divisive and it’s completely detached from the reality and the struggles that Californians are actually facing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11990465/gavin-newsom-and-top-democrats-are-deciding-californias-budget-behind-closed-doors","authors":["byline_news_11990465"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_402","news_20251","news_16"],"affiliates":["news_18481"],"featImg":"news_11990470","label":"news_18481"},"news_11990543":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11990543","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"11990543","found":true},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"california-program-providing-home-visits-to-low-income-moms-faces-budget-cuts","title":"Home Visits for Lower-Income Moms Among California Programs Facing Budget Cuts","publishDate":1718452856,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Home Visits for Lower-Income Moms Among California Programs Facing Budget Cuts | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom and legislative leaders are negotiating the state’s final budget by July 1 after failing to agree on several sticking points, including \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-legislature-budget-gov-gavin-newsom-d0ecb7821c2fb5a02ab46cb1bad6bd8c\">how much social spending the state will cut\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To plug a multibillion dollar deficit, Newsom proposed in May to halt a multi-year plan to add 200,000 subsidized child care spaces by 2028 and cut 40% in funding for a program that prioritizes emergency child care for foster children and another 45% for another program that provides home visits to CalWORKS-eligible moms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates say that would set back five years of work building a program that has been shown to improve the health and well-being of parents and children born into poverty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At a time when there needs to be more investment in the future, taking these kinds of programs away is really just shooting ourselves in the foot,” said Charna Widby, deputy director of Riverside County’s First Five commission, who has been helping to expand the program there.[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CalWORKS home visiting program matches recipients with a nurse, social worker or trained professional for regular visits around the birth and first two years of a child’s life. Advocates say these voluntary home visits can be a lifeline to families during a vulnerable, and sometimes isolating, life stage. \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/calworks-home-visiting-program/evaluation\">An independent evaluation\u003c/a> of the program found that when the participants were referred to housing or mental health services, the majority accessed them. What’s more, participating children received developmental screening at a higher rate than children on Medi-Cal.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" tag=\"early-childhood-education\"]Widby said it has taken a few years to train the workforce and build the system to provide home visits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But it’s started to pick up steam in building capacity, especially in the last two years, so to destabilize that now kind of eliminates a large investment that the state and counties have been making,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the cuts proposed by Newsom go through, Widby says Riverside County can only serve about 200 families — out of more than 20,000 who could be eligible. Legislative leaders want to preserve spending levels for the program in the \u003ca href=\"https://abgt.assembly.ca.gov/system/files/2024-05/summary-of-joint-legislative-budget-plan.pdf\">preliminary budget they passed Thursday\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In far Northern California, 13 out of 35 currently enrolled families in Humboldt County could lose access to the home visiting program, said Kathryn O’Malley, supervising public health nurse at the county’s Department of Health & Human Services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Rural communities have less infrastructure to serve families, and most importantly those families with the greatest social and economic needs,” she said. “We have less access to transportation, low-income housing, subsidized child care and specialty medical care. Providing home visiting services helps close some of the gaps and assists with accessing services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Advocates say the budget cuts would set back a program that has been shown to improve the health and well-being of parents and children born into poverty.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1718488272,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":10,"wordCount":480},"headData":{"title":"Home Visits for Lower-Income Moms Among California Programs Facing Budget Cuts | KQED","description":"Advocates say the budget cuts would set back a program that has been shown to improve the health and well-being of parents and children born into poverty.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Home Visits for Lower-Income Moms Among California Programs Facing Budget Cuts","datePublished":"2024-06-15T05:00:56-07:00","dateModified":"2024-06-15T14:51:12-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"True","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"sticky":false,"nprStoryId":"kqed-11990543","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11990543/california-program-providing-home-visits-to-low-income-moms-faces-budget-cuts","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom and legislative leaders are negotiating the state’s final budget by July 1 after failing to agree on several sticking points, including \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-legislature-budget-gov-gavin-newsom-d0ecb7821c2fb5a02ab46cb1bad6bd8c\">how much social spending the state will cut\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To plug a multibillion dollar deficit, Newsom proposed in May to halt a multi-year plan to add 200,000 subsidized child care spaces by 2028 and cut 40% in funding for a program that prioritizes emergency child care for foster children and another 45% for another program that provides home visits to CalWORKS-eligible moms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates say that would set back five years of work building a program that has been shown to improve the health and well-being of parents and children born into poverty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At a time when there needs to be more investment in the future, taking these kinds of programs away is really just shooting ourselves in the foot,” said Charna Widby, deputy director of Riverside County’s First Five commission, who has been helping to expand the program there.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CalWORKS home visiting program matches recipients with a nurse, social worker or trained professional for regular visits around the birth and first two years of a child’s life. Advocates say these voluntary home visits can be a lifeline to families during a vulnerable, and sometimes isolating, life stage. \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/calworks-home-visiting-program/evaluation\">An independent evaluation\u003c/a> of the program found that when the participants were referred to housing or mental health services, the majority accessed them. What’s more, participating children received developmental screening at a higher rate than children on Medi-Cal.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Stories ","tag":"early-childhood-education"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Widby said it has taken a few years to train the workforce and build the system to provide home visits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But it’s started to pick up steam in building capacity, especially in the last two years, so to destabilize that now kind of eliminates a large investment that the state and counties have been making,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the cuts proposed by Newsom go through, Widby says Riverside County can only serve about 200 families — out of more than 20,000 who could be eligible. Legislative leaders want to preserve spending levels for the program in the \u003ca href=\"https://abgt.assembly.ca.gov/system/files/2024-05/summary-of-joint-legislative-budget-plan.pdf\">preliminary budget they passed Thursday\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In far Northern California, 13 out of 35 currently enrolled families in Humboldt County could lose access to the home visiting program, said Kathryn O’Malley, supervising public health nurse at the county’s Department of Health & Human Services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Rural communities have less infrastructure to serve families, and most importantly those families with the greatest social and economic needs,” she said. “We have less access to transportation, low-income housing, subsidized child care and specialty medical care. Providing home visiting services helps close some of the gaps and assists with accessing services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11990543/california-program-providing-home-visits-to-low-income-moms-faces-budget-cuts","authors":["11829"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_22570","news_32102","news_27626","news_689","news_28373"],"featImg":"news_11990555","label":"news"},"news_11990587":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11990587","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"11990587","found":true},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"californias-democratic-leaders-clash-with-businesses-over-curbing-retail-theft-heres-what-to-know","title":"California's Democratic Leaders Clash With Businesses Over Curbing Retail Theft. Here's What to Know","publishDate":1718488015,"format":"standard","headTitle":"California’s Democratic Leaders Clash With Businesses Over Curbing Retail Theft. Here’s What to Know | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>With retail theft increasing, California Democratic leadership is clashing with a coalition of law enforcement and business groups in a fierce political fight over how to crack down on the problem. State lawmakers are trying to preserve progressive policies and stay away from putting more people behind bars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two most likely paths under consideration this year are \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-crime-ballot-initiative-signatures-theft-fentanyl-e4863b0eb0b8808ea8f5746c60780ba7\">a ballot initiative\u003c/a> to create harsher penalties for repeat offenders, and \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-retail-theft-legislation-5f045e9d346b570a69d395e949207f1f\">a legislative package\u003c/a> aimed at making it easier to go after professional crime rings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leaders behind the two efforts have accused one another of misleading voters and being unwilling to work toward a compromise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"mb-0 pb-2 ap-font-bold\">How did we get here?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Both sides agree on the need to crack down, especially on \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/business-health-government-and-politics-california-coronavirus-pandemic-d0c6dc49ef4cd6d05f649a860bd72888\">large-scale thefts\u003c/a> in which groups of people brazenly rush into stores and take goods in plain sight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the center of the escalating political fight is Proposition 47, a progressive ballot measure passed by voters in 2014 that reduced certain theft and drug possession offenses \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-160551360299\">from felonies to misdemeanors\u003c/a> — in part to mitigate overcrowding in jails and prisons. That includes nonviolent property crimes such as thefts under $950.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It has made it \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/business-california-theft-8dec92007049f1fa41f9e280882bcef6\">harder to arrest and punish\u003c/a> people who shoplift, law enforcement said. Researchers told lawmakers there’s no evidence linking the proposition to \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/the-impact-of-proposition-47-on-crime-and-recidivism/\">increased violent crime rates\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"mb-0 pb-2 ap-font-bold\">How are the two solutions different?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A coalition of district attorneys and businesses, mostly funded by big box retailers, is pushing for an initiative to bring harsh penalties for shoplifting and drug offenses. It would make theft of any amount a felony if the person already has two theft convictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Possession of fentanyl would also become a felony, and those with multiple drug charges would be ordered to get treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ballot measure would still need to be certified by the Secretary of State before it could be placed on the ballot later this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s Democratic leadership, backed by Gov. Gavin Newsom, wants to keep the tough-on-crime measure \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-retail-theft-legislation-smash-grab-4472b135a8c811cffac2d35571a99cae\">off the November ballot\u003c/a>. They worry the ballot measure’s proposal would disproportionately criminalize low-income people and those with substance use issues rather than target ringleaders who \u003ca href=\"https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2024/02/16/san-diego-county-woman-charged-as-ringleader-of-retail-scheme-involving-millions-in-stolen-beauty-products/\">hire large groups of people to steal\u003c/a> goods for them to resell online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, lawmakers are fast-tracking a legislative package of 14 bills that would \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-retail-theft-ecommerce-0b0a9724e054ef32f2000663082b957a\">go after organized online reseller schemes\u003c/a> and auto thieves, and provide funding for drug addiction counselors. These proposals could become laws as early as this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"mb-0 pb-2 ap-font-bold\">Do the efforts conflict?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If voters approve the tough-on-crime ballot initiative, Democratic leaders plan to void most measures in their own legislative package, citing potential conflicts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers were short on details about how the two paths conflict earlier this week. Later, they said they fear if both efforts succeed, law enforcement would be able to stack penalties and send more people to jails, leading to mass incarceration and overcrowded jails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About a third of the measures in the package pose possible legal conflicts with the proposals in the ballot initiative, according to lawmakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ballot initiative campaign accused lawmakers of holding the proposals hostage to break up the coalition. Local district attorneys who backed the ballot campaign said both efforts could work together, with the ballot measure overriding the legislative package in case of legal conflicts.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"mb-0 pb-2 ap-font-bold\">What happens next?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Backers of the ballot initiative said they’re still open to working with Democratic leadership but will only consider any solutions that involve rolling back Proposition 47.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11982393,news_11982070,news_11979533\"]“We still stand ready to sit down with anybody in leadership to talk about the measure, but I don’t want to compromise,” Greg Totten, a retired district attorney and a leader of the ballot initiative campaign, said during a news conference this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom and Democratic leaders have until June 27 to negotiate to get the initiative off the ballot. Meanwhile, lawmakers have plans to deliver the legislative package to Newsom’s desk by next week for signing, despite \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/AlvaradoGilSD4/status/1800954802798723105\">growing concerns\u003c/a> from moderate Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you look at the package that we put together, it’s very comprehensive and it addresses a number of details in the existing framework of the law,” Assemblymember Rick Zbur, author of a retail theft bill, told reporters. “It was never intended to be something that was stacked on to a ballot measure that removed the underpinnings of the basic law that we were trying to reform.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Democratic legislators seeking progressive measures are going up against a coalition of law enforcement and business groups who are pushing for tough-on-crime measures — with both sides accusing each other of misleading voters.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1718488015,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":21,"wordCount":773},"headData":{"title":"California's Democratic Leaders Clash With Businesses Over Curbing Retail Theft. 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State lawmakers are trying to preserve progressive policies and stay away from putting more people behind bars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two most likely paths under consideration this year are \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-crime-ballot-initiative-signatures-theft-fentanyl-e4863b0eb0b8808ea8f5746c60780ba7\">a ballot initiative\u003c/a> to create harsher penalties for repeat offenders, and \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-retail-theft-legislation-5f045e9d346b570a69d395e949207f1f\">a legislative package\u003c/a> aimed at making it easier to go after professional crime rings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leaders behind the two efforts have accused one another of misleading voters and being unwilling to work toward a compromise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"mb-0 pb-2 ap-font-bold\">How did we get here?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Both sides agree on the need to crack down, especially on \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/business-health-government-and-politics-california-coronavirus-pandemic-d0c6dc49ef4cd6d05f649a860bd72888\">large-scale thefts\u003c/a> in which groups of people brazenly rush into stores and take goods in plain sight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the center of the escalating political fight is Proposition 47, a progressive ballot measure passed by voters in 2014 that reduced certain theft and drug possession offenses \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-160551360299\">from felonies to misdemeanors\u003c/a> — in part to mitigate overcrowding in jails and prisons. That includes nonviolent property crimes such as thefts under $950.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It has made it \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/business-california-theft-8dec92007049f1fa41f9e280882bcef6\">harder to arrest and punish\u003c/a> people who shoplift, law enforcement said. Researchers told lawmakers there’s no evidence linking the proposition to \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/the-impact-of-proposition-47-on-crime-and-recidivism/\">increased violent crime rates\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"mb-0 pb-2 ap-font-bold\">How are the two solutions different?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A coalition of district attorneys and businesses, mostly funded by big box retailers, is pushing for an initiative to bring harsh penalties for shoplifting and drug offenses. It would make theft of any amount a felony if the person already has two theft convictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Possession of fentanyl would also become a felony, and those with multiple drug charges would be ordered to get treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ballot measure would still need to be certified by the Secretary of State before it could be placed on the ballot later this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s Democratic leadership, backed by Gov. Gavin Newsom, wants to keep the tough-on-crime measure \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-retail-theft-legislation-smash-grab-4472b135a8c811cffac2d35571a99cae\">off the November ballot\u003c/a>. They worry the ballot measure’s proposal would disproportionately criminalize low-income people and those with substance use issues rather than target ringleaders who \u003ca href=\"https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2024/02/16/san-diego-county-woman-charged-as-ringleader-of-retail-scheme-involving-millions-in-stolen-beauty-products/\">hire large groups of people to steal\u003c/a> goods for them to resell online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, lawmakers are fast-tracking a legislative package of 14 bills that would \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-retail-theft-ecommerce-0b0a9724e054ef32f2000663082b957a\">go after organized online reseller schemes\u003c/a> and auto thieves, and provide funding for drug addiction counselors. These proposals could become laws as early as this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"mb-0 pb-2 ap-font-bold\">Do the efforts conflict?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If voters approve the tough-on-crime ballot initiative, Democratic leaders plan to void most measures in their own legislative package, citing potential conflicts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers were short on details about how the two paths conflict earlier this week. Later, they said they fear if both efforts succeed, law enforcement would be able to stack penalties and send more people to jails, leading to mass incarceration and overcrowded jails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About a third of the measures in the package pose possible legal conflicts with the proposals in the ballot initiative, according to lawmakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ballot initiative campaign accused lawmakers of holding the proposals hostage to break up the coalition. Local district attorneys who backed the ballot campaign said both efforts could work together, with the ballot measure overriding the legislative package in case of legal conflicts.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"mb-0 pb-2 ap-font-bold\">What happens next?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Backers of the ballot initiative said they’re still open to working with Democratic leadership but will only consider any solutions that involve rolling back Proposition 47.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Stories ","postid":"news_11982393,news_11982070,news_11979533"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“We still stand ready to sit down with anybody in leadership to talk about the measure, but I don’t want to compromise,” Greg Totten, a retired district attorney and a leader of the ballot initiative campaign, said during a news conference this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom and Democratic leaders have until June 27 to negotiate to get the initiative off the ballot. Meanwhile, lawmakers have plans to deliver the legislative package to Newsom’s desk by next week for signing, despite \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/AlvaradoGilSD4/status/1800954802798723105\">growing concerns\u003c/a> from moderate Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you look at the package that we put together, it’s very comprehensive and it addresses a number of details in the existing framework of the law,” Assemblymember Rick Zbur, author of a retail theft bill, told reporters. “It was never intended to be something that was stacked on to a ballot measure that removed the underpinnings of the basic law that we were trying to reform.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11990587/californias-democratic-leaders-clash-with-businesses-over-curbing-retail-theft-heres-what-to-know","authors":["byline_news_11990587"],"categories":["news_31795","news_34167","news_8"],"tags":["news_18502","news_34195"],"featImg":"news_11990592","label":"news"},"news_11990508":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11990508","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"11990508","found":true},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"vta-breaks-ground-on-12-7-billion-bart-extension-through-south-bay","title":"VTA Breaks Ground on $12.7 Billion BART Extension Through South Bay","publishDate":1718404258,"format":"standard","headTitle":"VTA Breaks Ground on $12.7 Billion BART Extension Through South Bay | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, the old saying goes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And on Friday, the first scoop of dirt was taken out of the ground in what has been a decadeslong journey of planning and fundraising to run six new miles of BART track through the South Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority, known as VTA, held a groundbreaking on Friday to celebrate the beginning of heavy construction work on its BART Silicon Valley Phase II project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The project is a critical step in fulfilling the longstanding vision of ringing the Bay with high-quality, green-transit passenger rail,” Carolyn Gonot, VTA’s general manager, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990511\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990511\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-VTAGROUNDBREAKING-JG-09_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-VTAGROUNDBREAKING-JG-09_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-VTAGROUNDBREAKING-JG-09_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-VTAGROUNDBREAKING-JG-09_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-VTAGROUNDBREAKING-JG-09_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-VTAGROUNDBREAKING-JG-09_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">VTA General Manager Carolyn Gonot speaks during the agency’s BART Silicon Valley Phase II project groundbreaking event on Friday. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The $12.7 billion undertaking will extend BART from its current end of the line at Berryessa Station in North San José and will run west to create four new stations: 28th Street/Little Portugal near East San José, Downtown San José, Diridon and Santa Clara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This project is more than a transit expansion. It’s a catalyst for sustainable urban development and promoting affordable housing and equitable access to education, to health care, to jobs, to opportunities and strengthening neighborhoods for generations to come,” Gonot said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>South Bay officials at the groundbreaking emphasized how big transportation projects require collective efforts and steadfast commitment to a vision over many years to complete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José Mayor Matt Mahan said people are still benefiting from services like Caltrain today due to forward-looking investments made in the past. He noted he used the rail line to commute to run his former business in San Francisco while living in San José and a bus line in his youth to traverse Highway 17.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Transit changed my life. It allowed me to get where I needed to go again and again, and it was a gift from past generations,” Mahan said. “We need to give that same gift to the next generation, and the one after that, and the one after that. Because transit connectivity creates opportunity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990510\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990510\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-VTAGROUNDBREAKING-JG-11_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-VTAGROUNDBREAKING-JG-11_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-VTAGROUNDBREAKING-JG-11_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-VTAGROUNDBREAKING-JG-11_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-VTAGROUNDBREAKING-JG-11_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-VTAGROUNDBREAKING-JG-11_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San José Mayor Matt Mahan said transit projects take collective effort and vision to complete during a groundbreaking event for VTA’s BART Silicon Valley Phase II project in Santa Clara on Friday. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The project has faced significant timeline delays and massive cost increases long before any of the golden-colored shovels wielded by politicians and project leaders hit the ground on Friday in the hot sun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An original VTA estimate in 2014 put the project cost at $4.7 billion, hoping to open the new stations to riders by 2026, which is more than two-and-a-half times cheaper than the current estimate and about 11 years sooner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between 2020 and 2021, the cost increased to $6.9 billion, then to $9.1 billion, in part due to evaluations from federal officials overseeing the project. VTA later revised its own estimate to $12.2 billion in October 2023, and another federal estimate earlier this year pegged the current cost and timeline, which VTA has not refuted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11989983,news_11988365,news_11986396\"]But local and regional leaders have largely held firm in calling for the project to push ahead, despite the hurdles and fumbles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can’t imagine what our valley will look like in 50 or 100 years, but we can be confident that connecting rail around the Bay and helping millions of people access the heart of Silicon Valley, where most of the region’s growth is expected to happen in the coming decades, is going to create opportunity for so many,” Mahan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to a new BART station, the site of the groundbreaking in Santa Clara near the border of San José is where a huge hole will be dug to eventually allow a $76 million tunnel boring machine being assembled in Germany to be dropped into the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once in place, it will begin eating away at millions of cubic yards of dirt to make way for the largely underground extension. The muck removed from the tunneling effort and digging for other station construction is set to be used to help benefit tidal marsh restoration efforts in the bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County Supervisor Cindy Chavez said that breaking ground on projects such as the BART extension and the recent start of construction of an elevated light rail extension through a heavily trafficked part of East San José shows a commitment to advancement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990512\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990512\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-VTAGROUNDBREAKING-JG-06_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-VTAGROUNDBREAKING-JG-06_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-VTAGROUNDBREAKING-JG-06_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-VTAGROUNDBREAKING-JG-06_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-VTAGROUNDBREAKING-JG-06_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-VTAGROUNDBREAKING-JG-06_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santa Clara County Supervisor and VTA Board Chair Cindy Chavez thanks VTA General Manager Carolyn Gonot (right) for her efforts to guide the agency’s BART Silicon Valley Phase II project on Friday. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We deserve world-class transportation in one of the most important economic hubs in the world,” Chavez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is a recognition of not just the importance of this community, but a recognition that we in this region are not stopping, we’re going to keep growing,” she said. “We’re not slowing down. We’re going to continue to be the center of innovation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Transit leaders and regional officials celebrated the groundbreaking of the new 6-mile BART extension through Silicon Valley on Friday, and emphasized the need to remain committed to major projects to benefit the region in the long run. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1718408614,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":21,"wordCount":897},"headData":{"title":"VTA Breaks Ground on $12.7 Billion BART Extension Through South Bay | KQED","description":"Transit leaders and regional officials celebrated the groundbreaking of the new 6-mile BART extension through Silicon Valley on Friday, and emphasized the need to remain committed to major projects to benefit the region in the long run. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"VTA Breaks Ground on $12.7 Billion BART Extension Through South Bay","datePublished":"2024-06-14T15:30:58-07:00","dateModified":"2024-06-14T16:43:34-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"True","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"sticky":false,"nprStoryId":"kqed-11990508","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11990508/vta-breaks-ground-on-12-7-billion-bart-extension-through-south-bay","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, the old saying goes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And on Friday, the first scoop of dirt was taken out of the ground in what has been a decadeslong journey of planning and fundraising to run six new miles of BART track through the South Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority, known as VTA, held a groundbreaking on Friday to celebrate the beginning of heavy construction work on its BART Silicon Valley Phase II project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The project is a critical step in fulfilling the longstanding vision of ringing the Bay with high-quality, green-transit passenger rail,” Carolyn Gonot, VTA’s general manager, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990511\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990511\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-VTAGROUNDBREAKING-JG-09_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-VTAGROUNDBREAKING-JG-09_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-VTAGROUNDBREAKING-JG-09_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-VTAGROUNDBREAKING-JG-09_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-VTAGROUNDBREAKING-JG-09_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-VTAGROUNDBREAKING-JG-09_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">VTA General Manager Carolyn Gonot speaks during the agency’s BART Silicon Valley Phase II project groundbreaking event on Friday. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The $12.7 billion undertaking will extend BART from its current end of the line at Berryessa Station in North San José and will run west to create four new stations: 28th Street/Little Portugal near East San José, Downtown San José, Diridon and Santa Clara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This project is more than a transit expansion. It’s a catalyst for sustainable urban development and promoting affordable housing and equitable access to education, to health care, to jobs, to opportunities and strengthening neighborhoods for generations to come,” Gonot said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>South Bay officials at the groundbreaking emphasized how big transportation projects require collective efforts and steadfast commitment to a vision over many years to complete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José Mayor Matt Mahan said people are still benefiting from services like Caltrain today due to forward-looking investments made in the past. He noted he used the rail line to commute to run his former business in San Francisco while living in San José and a bus line in his youth to traverse Highway 17.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Transit changed my life. It allowed me to get where I needed to go again and again, and it was a gift from past generations,” Mahan said. “We need to give that same gift to the next generation, and the one after that, and the one after that. Because transit connectivity creates opportunity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990510\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990510\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-VTAGROUNDBREAKING-JG-11_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-VTAGROUNDBREAKING-JG-11_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-VTAGROUNDBREAKING-JG-11_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-VTAGROUNDBREAKING-JG-11_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-VTAGROUNDBREAKING-JG-11_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-VTAGROUNDBREAKING-JG-11_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San José Mayor Matt Mahan said transit projects take collective effort and vision to complete during a groundbreaking event for VTA’s BART Silicon Valley Phase II project in Santa Clara on Friday. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The project has faced significant timeline delays and massive cost increases long before any of the golden-colored shovels wielded by politicians and project leaders hit the ground on Friday in the hot sun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An original VTA estimate in 2014 put the project cost at $4.7 billion, hoping to open the new stations to riders by 2026, which is more than two-and-a-half times cheaper than the current estimate and about 11 years sooner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between 2020 and 2021, the cost increased to $6.9 billion, then to $9.1 billion, in part due to evaluations from federal officials overseeing the project. VTA later revised its own estimate to $12.2 billion in October 2023, and another federal estimate earlier this year pegged the current cost and timeline, which VTA has not refuted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Stories ","postid":"news_11989983,news_11988365,news_11986396"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But local and regional leaders have largely held firm in calling for the project to push ahead, despite the hurdles and fumbles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can’t imagine what our valley will look like in 50 or 100 years, but we can be confident that connecting rail around the Bay and helping millions of people access the heart of Silicon Valley, where most of the region’s growth is expected to happen in the coming decades, is going to create opportunity for so many,” Mahan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to a new BART station, the site of the groundbreaking in Santa Clara near the border of San José is where a huge hole will be dug to eventually allow a $76 million tunnel boring machine being assembled in Germany to be dropped into the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once in place, it will begin eating away at millions of cubic yards of dirt to make way for the largely underground extension. The muck removed from the tunneling effort and digging for other station construction is set to be used to help benefit tidal marsh restoration efforts in the bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County Supervisor Cindy Chavez said that breaking ground on projects such as the BART extension and the recent start of construction of an elevated light rail extension through a heavily trafficked part of East San José shows a commitment to advancement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990512\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990512\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-VTAGROUNDBREAKING-JG-06_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-VTAGROUNDBREAKING-JG-06_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-VTAGROUNDBREAKING-JG-06_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-VTAGROUNDBREAKING-JG-06_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-VTAGROUNDBREAKING-JG-06_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-VTAGROUNDBREAKING-JG-06_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santa Clara County Supervisor and VTA Board Chair Cindy Chavez thanks VTA General Manager Carolyn Gonot (right) for her efforts to guide the agency’s BART Silicon Valley Phase II project on Friday. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We deserve world-class transportation in one of the most important economic hubs in the world,” Chavez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is a recognition of not just the importance of this community, but a recognition that we in this region are not stopping, we’re going to keep growing,” she said. “We’re not slowing down. We’re going to continue to be the center of innovation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11990508/vta-breaks-ground-on-12-7-billion-bart-extension-through-south-bay","authors":["11906"],"categories":["news_8","news_34166","news_1397"],"tags":["news_269","news_31197","news_18541","news_1749","news_353","news_20675"],"featImg":"news_11990515","label":"news"},"news_11990430":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11990430","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"11990430","found":true},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"why-these-queer-pro-palestinian-advocates-are-calling-for-a-boycott-of-sf-pride","title":"Why These Queer Pro-Palestinian Advocates Are Calling for a Boycott of SF Pride","publishDate":1718398823,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Why These Queer Pro-Palestinian Advocates Are Calling for a Boycott of SF Pride | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Amid the ongoing siege in Gaza, several pro-Palestinian queer activists and artists are \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7U1blVS6tX/?igsh=MWQ1ZGUxMzBkMA%3D%3D\">calling for a boycott of official San Francisco Pride events\u003c/a> by both performers and attendees. The SF Pride Parade, scheduled for Sunday, June 30, is one of the largest LGBTQ+ parades in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7U1blVS6tX/?igsh=MWQ1ZGUxMzBkMA%3D%3D\">May 23 Instagram post\u003c/a>, African Palestinian drag artist Mama Ganuush called for the boycott on several grounds: corporate sponsors with ties to Israel, the potential for a pro-Israel presence at the parade, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11917710/sfpd-officers-to-march-in-pride-amid-complicated-feelings-uniform-compromise\">long-controversial attendance of police at the Pride Parade\u003c/a>, and the appointment of actor Billy Porter — who has made several public statements in support of Israel — as the 2024 Pride Parade’s grand marshal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SF Pride Executive Director Suzanne Ford and President Nguyen Pham responded publicly to the calls for a boycott in \u003ca href=\"http://sfpride.org\">a June 4 statement\u003c/a>, rebuffing what they called “comments and misinformation about our current policies and practices.” San Francisco’s annual Pride celebration, they wrote, “has evolved for more than a half-century, transforming from a protest honoring a riot to a vibrant celebration of the worth and humanity of all queer individuals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gazetteer.co/calls-to-boycott-sf-pride-pop-up-from-drag-queens-and-activists-in-protest-of-police-presence-and-israel-ties\">several drag artists\u003c/a> and local groups such as \u003ca href=\"https://quitpalestine.org/\">Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism\u003c/a> (QUIT) and the Bay Area American Indian Two-Spirits (BAAITS) have publicly stated their intent to boycott. \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C7zb0uhPq3g/?hl=en\">BAAITS, in its social post,\u003c/a> characterized its actions as “standing in solidarity with indigenous struggles impacting our kin worldwide.” One performer, The Dragon King, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C7xQk3tSO3z/?igsh=MWQ1ZGUxMzBkMA%3D%3D&img_index=1\">wrote on Instagram\u003c/a> that they were withdrawing from SF Pride appearances “because Pride is a riot. Because I will not be bought.”[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>After months of protest, a call to boycott\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The proposed SF Pride boycott is the latest of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/gaza\">many pro-Palestinian actions, protests and rallies around the Bay Area\u003c/a> over the last eight months. Israeli forces have killed over \u003ca href=\"https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/6/10/several-killed-in-israeli-attacks-as-gaza-hospitals-appeal-for-help\">37,000 Palestinians\u003c/a> after Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel, in which militants killed some 1,200 people and took 240 hostages, according to Gazan and Israeli authorities respectively. Israel’s attacks have now displaced about \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-news-04-30-2024-f5e14fd176d69f9c4e23b48f3ab5af6a#:~:text=The%20war%20in%20Gaza%20has,to%20the%20brink%20of%20famine.\">80% of Gaza’s 2.3 million residents\u003c/a>, resulting in \u003ca href=\"https://www.rescue.org/article/collapse-gazas-health-system\">little to no medical care\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/02/children-die-malnutrition-rafah-famine-gaza-israeli-troops-aid-strip\">severe malnutrition\u003c/a> for tens of thousands of Gazans.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" tag=\"gaza\"]Recently, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11969701/this-is-resistance-how-queer-palestinian-artists-and-activists-in-the-bay-area-are-making-themselves-heard\">queer communities in the Bay Area and across the country\u003c/a> have ramped up their mobilization for Palestinians. Some of these activists argue that \u003ca href=\"https://www.queerartistsforpalestine.org/\">the LGBTQ+ struggle is often co-opted by those with anti-Arab sentiment\u003c/a> to justify the oppression of Palestinians and ignore queer Palestinians. The proposed SF Pride boycott mirrors \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13953032/ybca-pro-palestinian-artist-protest-censorship-allegations-boycott\">several protest actions in the local art scene\u003c/a>, in which \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13955613/pro-palestinian-jewish-artists-withdraw-from-contemporary-jewish-museum-exhibit\">Jewish artists have played a leading role\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mama Ganuush, the boycott’s originator, has lost family members in Gaza and is currently raising funds to help \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11976509/california-palestinian-americans-seek-safety-for-loved-ones-in-gaza\">their surviving relatives\u003c/a> leave for Egypt and the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pride is something that the LGBTQ+ community earned,” Ganuush told KQED, noting the importance of having a month of recognition. But, they added, “Zionist and pro-Israel lobbyists and sponsors … are using SF Pride as a way to normalize genocides.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Taking a closer look at corporate sponsors\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In Ganuush’s initial social media post, the call for a boycott led with criticism of some of \u003ca href=\"https://sfpride.org/sponsors\">SF Pride’s corporate sponsors,\u003c/a> like Amazon and Gilead, and what Ganuush called their “significant business operations in Israel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, \u003ca href=\"https://sfpride.org/sponsors\">Amazon\u003c/a> signed \u003ca href=\"https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/23/what-is-project-nimbus-and-why-are-google-workers-protesting-israel-deal\">a billion-dollar contract\u003c/a> alongside Google Cloud to provide technology (including artificial intelligence) to the Israeli government and military. Current and former employees at both companies staged protests this year against \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986743/the-tech-employees-who-want-to-sever-silicon-valleys-deep-ties-with-israel\">Silicon Valley’s deep ties to Israel\u003c/a>.[aside postID=news_11969701 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/Queer-Palestinian-Artists_2-1020x659.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, queer communities have grappled with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/2018/6/25/17476850/pride-month-lgbtq-corporate-explained\">increased corporatization of Pride\u003c/a> as companies sponsor events and employees march in the parade. \u003ca href=\"https://bdsmovement.net/\">Boycotting companies with ties to Israel\u003c/a> has long been a tactic among pro-Palestinian activists, with many citing U.S. schools and universities’ \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984845/pro-palestinian-protests-on-california-college-campuses-what-are-students-demanding\">divestment from companies with ties to South Africa\u003c/a> during apartheid as an inspiration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SF Pride did not respond to KQED’s request for an interview or comment. However, the nonprofit’s \u003ca href=\"https://sfpride.org/press-releases/statement-from-san-francisco-pride\">June 4 statement\u003c/a> asserts that “SF Pride’s sponsors, corporate and otherwise, have no influence over the content of our programming or the stance of the organization … Receiving corporate funding and paying it forward to our community reflects our mission to center queer people and is not tied to any programming decisions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Palestinian artist Yaffa A.S., Ganuush’s drag daughter and executive director of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.themasgd.org/pride-toolkit\">Muslim Alliance for Sexual And Gender Diversity (MASGD)\u003c/a>, said this statement rings hollow for her. Since October, members of Yaffa A.S.’s extended family members in Gaza have been killed by Israeli forces. (She has curated a memorial at SOMArts \u003ca href=\"https://somarts.org/exhibition/insolidarity/\">to Palestinians killed in Gaza\u003c/a>, some of whom are queer and trans.) As part of her work with MASGD, she has created a \u003ca href=\"https://www.themasgd.org/pride-toolkit\">Pride Toolkit\u003c/a> to challenge official parade organizers across the country on their stances on the war.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Yaffa A.S., Pride’s funding cannot be separated from its sources. “Our lives do not matter when you are receiving money from the same people who will kill me,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990416\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990416\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-YaffaASEdits-04.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1371\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-YaffaASEdits-04.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-YaffaASEdits-04-800x571.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-YaffaASEdits-04-1020x728.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-YaffaASEdits-04-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-YaffaASEdits-04-1536x1097.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Palestinian poet Yaffa A.S. was one of the lead curators of the memorial ‘In Solidarity: Queer and Trans Artists for a Free Palestine,’ which opened on June 7 at SOMArts in San Francisco. The memorial includes the names of Gazans killed by Israeli forces since Oct. 7, some of whom are trans Palestinians. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Yaffa A.S.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The parade in the spotlight\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13834307/new-yorks-drag-ball-scene-strikes-a-pose-in-fx-drama\">\u003cem>Pose\u003c/em>\u003c/a> actor Billy Porter, grand marshal of the SF Pride parade, has made several\u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/mar/15/those-friends-people-make-100m-a-year-im-getting-six-cent-cheques-its-not-ok-billy-porter-on-race-recognition-and-the-middle-east\"> public statements supporting Israel\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Porter was among the celebrities who signed a support letter for \u003ca href=\"https://jewishchronicle.timesofisrael.com/over-200-celebrities-sign-letter-denouncing-cultural-boycott-of-israel/\">Israel shortly after the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks; he also \u003c/a>opposed \u003ca href=\"https://www.jta.org/2021/10/27/israel/mila-kunis-neil-patrick-harris-helen-mirren-and-over-200-other-celebrities-sign-letter-denouncing-cultural-boycott-of-israel\">a cultural boycott of a Tel Aviv film festival in 2021.\u003c/a> (Porter is slated to portray iconic American writer James Baldwin in an upcoming movie, who was himself \u003ca href=\"https://www.thenation.com/article/society/open-letter-born-again/\">deeply critical of Israel and invested in Palestinian rights\u003c/a>.)[aside postID=news_11976415 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231213-Pinkwashing-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg']Another point of contention for pro-Palestinian activists like Ganuush is the presence of what they term an “Israeli float” — \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/mamaganuush/reel/C76adimxwPN/\">specifically referring\u003c/a> to the participation of the Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) in the SF Pride parade. “The participation of the Israeli float in Pride is distressing for many, especially Palestinians,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7U1blVS6tX/?igsh=MWQ1ZGUxMzBkMA%3D%3D\">Ganuush wrote on Instagram\u003c/a>. “It is seen as a symbol of oppression and a trigger for psychological trauma among those affected by the ongoing conflict.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their June 4 statement, SF Pride’s Executive Director Ford and President Pham replied, “There is no Israeli float in the SF Pride Parade.” The organization, they wrote, “values the contributions of Jewish queer individuals in advocating for peace and acknowledge their enduring efforts” and was “careful not to conflate Jewish groups and Jewish people living in America with the state of Israel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On X, formerly known as Twitter, JCRC Bay Area said it was “\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/SFJCRC/status/1798483717239050373\">disheartened” by the SF Pride statement\u003c/a>, calling on the organization to “clarify that everyone, including LGBTQ+ Israelis, are welcome at Pride.” \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/SFJCRC/status/1798847995330601399\">JCRC Bay Area later responded with approval\u003c/a> to SF Pride’s subsequent online update titled “\u003ca href=\"https://sfpride.org/press-releases/all-are-welcome-at-pride\">All are Welcome at Pride\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>JCRC Bay Area CEO Tyler Gregory told KQED that the float is a joint effort by several Jewish organizations in the Bay Area and that it will be “a family-friendly Jewish communal float for queer Jews and allies.”[aside label=\"more stories about SF Pride\" tag=\"san-francisco-pride\"]“People are welcome to come as their full selves, but the focus is LGBTQ Jews here in the Bay Area,” Gregory said. “And if that includes Israelis, absolutely, they should come — but this is by no means an Israeli float and anyone that tries to attack our delegation is engaging in antisemitism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yaffa A.S. said she found the SF Pride statement to be “incredibly malicious,” arguing that \u003ca href=\"https://jcrc.org/blog/bay-area-united-with-israel-resources/\">JCRC has been openly pro-Israel in previous public statements\u003c/a>. She pointed to actions and statements that Jewish Voice for Peace — a pro-Palestinian, anti-Zionist Jewish advocacy group — has issued against JCRC in the last eight months, which include criticizing JCRC Bay Area for “\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C3eHX4BLkgI/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA%3D%3D&img_index=2\">running a cancellation campaign\u003c/a>” against pro-Palestinian advocates. SF Pride’s statement, she said, “basically try to put out there that ‘the trans Palestinian [referring to Mama Ganuush] does not know what they’re talking about.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their June 4 statement, Ford and Pham said that SF Pride “welcomed and continue[s] to welcome pro-Palestinian groups to the SF Pride Parade,” suggesting that interested groups could join the parade’s Resistance Contingent with the SF Pride Board or request a fee waiver to have their own float. SF Pride did not respond to KQED’s questions about whether such contingents had indeed requested to appear in the parade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know if some, we’ll say, ‘well-intentioned allies’ will try to do a Palestine float on their own,” Yaffa A.S. said. “But I think, from our end, we’ve told people not to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Policing at Pride\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The issue of police being present at Pride — including as participants in official events — has been a decadeslong point of contention, especially for queer people of color who police officers have targeted. Ganuush’s boycott proposal invoked the origins of Pride in the 1969 Stonewall Uprising, which started when patrons \u003ca href=\"https://guides.loc.gov/lgbtq-studies/stonewall-era\">pushed back against a police raid at a gay bar\u003c/a>. A police presence at Pride is an active contradiction, Ganuush wrote, to the “foundational anti-police-brutality ethos of Pride.”[aside label=\"More Coverage\" tag=\"pro-palestinian-protest\"]According to \u003ca href=\"https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/press/lgbq-people-six-times-more-likely-than-general-public-to-be-stopped-by-police/\">a 2021 study by UCLA\u003c/a>, queer people are six times more likely than the general public to be stopped by the police, with “heightened risk” for transgender women of color. At a 2020 SF Pride march, police officers raised their batons at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11826511/police-raise-batons-at-sf-pride-marchers-oakland-passes-torch-in-solidarity\">a group of SF Pride marchers and Black Lives Matter protesters\u003c/a>. In 2022, marching queer police officers were asked by SF Pride organizers \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11917710/sfpd-officers-to-march-in-pride-amid-complicated-feelings-uniform-compromise\">not to wear their uniforms\u003c/a>. Recently, police officers have also been criticized for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984845/pro-palestinian-protests-on-california-college-campuses-what-are-students-demanding\">their intense crackdowns on pro-Palestinian student protesters\u003c/a> on college campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For its part, SF Pride said it has never called for an increased police presence. “The City of San Francisco required increased police presence in the wake of the Pulse Nightclub shooting in 2016 and again after the Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting in 2019,” the \u003ca href=\"https://sfpride.org/press-releases/statement-from-san-francisco-pride\">June 4 statement\u003c/a> reads. “SF Pride and San Francisco’s other large events do not dictate law enforcement responses and security strategies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>JCRC CEO Gregory said his organization was worried about their float being targeted and was working with SF Pride to discuss security. Gregory pointed to \u003ca href=\"https://phillypride365.org/\">Philly Pride\u003c/a>, where pro-Palestinian protesters blocked the parade — an action which he called “\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/tyegregory/status/1797412053386457119?s=46&t=7BBzFwo6eYLzJIVfAlumEQ\">homophobic and transphobic\u003c/a>” on X. (As reported by queer online news site Them, these \u003ca href=\"https://www.them.us/story/lgbtq-activists-are-disrupting-pride-events-for-palestine\">pro-Palestinian protesters were themselves part of the LGBTQ+ community\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gregory said that JCRC “wants to be deferential to SF Pride, and also to queer communities of color as to how security can work.” He added that “we have Jews of color that are going to march with us that have the same concerns as queer people of color.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Do I turn down this gig?’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Even before this year’s calls for a pro-Palestinian boycott of SF Pride, some artists planned to avoid official SF Pride events — and turn down paid performance opportunities — due to the organization’s stance on the war.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a really hard ethical thing for drag performers and queer entertainers. … Do I pay my rent this month, or do I turn down this gig?” said Mama Celeste, the executive director of Oaklash, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13957872/oaklash-drag-festival-oakland-lgtbq-events-2024\">a drag festival based in Oakland\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>King LOTUS BOY, an Oakland drag king who serves on the Oaklash board, wrote in an Instagram story that he has dropped several gigs “due to them having ties to [Israel].” As a result, he said he lost $1,000 in gigs for June — events that he told KQED by email were associated with biotech company Gilead, which has \u003ca href=\"https://www.gileadisrael.co.il/en/about/gilead-in-israel\">financial ties to Israel\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I haven’t attended the SF Pride Parade or any official SF Pride events in over seven years for many reasons — increasingly militarized police presence, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11969701/this-is-resistance-how-queer-palestinian-artists-and-activists-in-the-bay-area-are-making-themselves-heard\">pinkwashing\u003c/a>, harmful corporate sponsorships — to name a few,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oaklash is one of the facilitators of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/thebadfund/%20\">BAD (Bay Area Drag) Fund\u003c/a>, a mutual aid fund created to support artists who choose to opt out of gigs that may clash with their support of Palestinians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Celeste, who is Jewish, said the BAD Fund “gives people the ability to say no … because that’s not a luxury that many of us are afforded.” The fund, Celeste points out, is a way to lessen artists’ dependency on the wealthy, especially amid the economic disparity that has pushed many queer and trans artists out of the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Celeste said they and their colleagues were not out to shame performers who \u003cem>do\u003c/em> take these gigs. Instead, they wanted people to think about “ where our money comes from and where our money is going to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990414\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990414\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240126-GazaImmigration-03-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240126-GazaImmigration-03-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240126-GazaImmigration-03-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240126-GazaImmigration-03-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240126-GazaImmigration-03-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240126-GazaImmigration-03-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mama Ganuush poses for a portrait in their home in San Francisco on Jan. 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mama Ganuush is hosting events, including a \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/bay2gazamutualaid/p/C7-Dfmzym6C/\">Cabaret Palestina\u003c/a> to assist the BAD Fund, featuring drag artists like King LOTUS BOY and Papi Churro — joining a list of \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C79_Q8eyeUF/?igsh=MWQ1ZGUxMzBkMA%3D%3D&img_index=2\">alternative Pride events this month\u003c/a> that show solidarity with Palestinian activism. For example, during the SF Pride Parade, there will be a pro-Palestinian queer and trans march hosted by Jewish Voices for Peace, Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism (QUIT) and the\u003ca href=\"http://brassliberation.org/\"> Brass Liberation Orchestra\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In SF Pride’s statement, Ford and Pham wrote that “while we encourage resistance against oppressive systems and governments that fail to recognize our humanity as queer people, we cannot achieve liberation by fighting other queer and trans people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, it’s a sentiment Celeste pushes back on. “[SF Pride] should be listening rather than resisting these voices who are telling them that they’re doing something wrong,” they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re not listening to the smallest voice in your community,” Celeste said, “you’re not working for the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Activists and artists point to corporate sponsors with ties to Israel, the potential for pro-Israel presence at SF Pride Parade, law enforcement attendance and the appointment of actor Billy Porter as the grand marshal as reasons for the boycott.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1718404265,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":37,"wordCount":2553},"headData":{"title":"Why These Queer Pro-Palestinian Advocates Are Calling for a Boycott of SF Pride | KQED","description":"Activists and artists point to corporate sponsors with ties to Israel, the potential for pro-Israel presence at SF Pride Parade, law enforcement attendance and the appointment of actor Billy Porter as the grand marshal as reasons for the boycott.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Why These Queer Pro-Palestinian Advocates Are Calling for a Boycott of SF Pride","datePublished":"2024-06-14T14:00:23-07:00","dateModified":"2024-06-14T15:31:05-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"True","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"sticky":false,"nprStoryId":"kqed-11990430","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11990430/why-these-queer-pro-palestinian-advocates-are-calling-for-a-boycott-of-sf-pride","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Amid the ongoing siege in Gaza, several pro-Palestinian queer activists and artists are \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7U1blVS6tX/?igsh=MWQ1ZGUxMzBkMA%3D%3D\">calling for a boycott of official San Francisco Pride events\u003c/a> by both performers and attendees. The SF Pride Parade, scheduled for Sunday, June 30, is one of the largest LGBTQ+ parades in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7U1blVS6tX/?igsh=MWQ1ZGUxMzBkMA%3D%3D\">May 23 Instagram post\u003c/a>, African Palestinian drag artist Mama Ganuush called for the boycott on several grounds: corporate sponsors with ties to Israel, the potential for a pro-Israel presence at the parade, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11917710/sfpd-officers-to-march-in-pride-amid-complicated-feelings-uniform-compromise\">long-controversial attendance of police at the Pride Parade\u003c/a>, and the appointment of actor Billy Porter — who has made several public statements in support of Israel — as the 2024 Pride Parade’s grand marshal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SF Pride Executive Director Suzanne Ford and President Nguyen Pham responded publicly to the calls for a boycott in \u003ca href=\"http://sfpride.org\">a June 4 statement\u003c/a>, rebuffing what they called “comments and misinformation about our current policies and practices.” San Francisco’s annual Pride celebration, they wrote, “has evolved for more than a half-century, transforming from a protest honoring a riot to a vibrant celebration of the worth and humanity of all queer individuals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gazetteer.co/calls-to-boycott-sf-pride-pop-up-from-drag-queens-and-activists-in-protest-of-police-presence-and-israel-ties\">several drag artists\u003c/a> and local groups such as \u003ca href=\"https://quitpalestine.org/\">Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism\u003c/a> (QUIT) and the Bay Area American Indian Two-Spirits (BAAITS) have publicly stated their intent to boycott. \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C7zb0uhPq3g/?hl=en\">BAAITS, in its social post,\u003c/a> characterized its actions as “standing in solidarity with indigenous struggles impacting our kin worldwide.” One performer, The Dragon King, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C7xQk3tSO3z/?igsh=MWQ1ZGUxMzBkMA%3D%3D&img_index=1\">wrote on Instagram\u003c/a> that they were withdrawing from SF Pride appearances “because Pride is a riot. Because I will not be bought.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>After months of protest, a call to boycott\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The proposed SF Pride boycott is the latest of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/gaza\">many pro-Palestinian actions, protests and rallies around the Bay Area\u003c/a> over the last eight months. Israeli forces have killed over \u003ca href=\"https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/6/10/several-killed-in-israeli-attacks-as-gaza-hospitals-appeal-for-help\">37,000 Palestinians\u003c/a> after Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel, in which militants killed some 1,200 people and took 240 hostages, according to Gazan and Israeli authorities respectively. Israel’s attacks have now displaced about \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-news-04-30-2024-f5e14fd176d69f9c4e23b48f3ab5af6a#:~:text=The%20war%20in%20Gaza%20has,to%20the%20brink%20of%20famine.\">80% of Gaza’s 2.3 million residents\u003c/a>, resulting in \u003ca href=\"https://www.rescue.org/article/collapse-gazas-health-system\">little to no medical care\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/02/children-die-malnutrition-rafah-famine-gaza-israeli-troops-aid-strip\">severe malnutrition\u003c/a> for tens of thousands of Gazans.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Stories ","tag":"gaza"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Recently, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11969701/this-is-resistance-how-queer-palestinian-artists-and-activists-in-the-bay-area-are-making-themselves-heard\">queer communities in the Bay Area and across the country\u003c/a> have ramped up their mobilization for Palestinians. Some of these activists argue that \u003ca href=\"https://www.queerartistsforpalestine.org/\">the LGBTQ+ struggle is often co-opted by those with anti-Arab sentiment\u003c/a> to justify the oppression of Palestinians and ignore queer Palestinians. The proposed SF Pride boycott mirrors \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13953032/ybca-pro-palestinian-artist-protest-censorship-allegations-boycott\">several protest actions in the local art scene\u003c/a>, in which \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13955613/pro-palestinian-jewish-artists-withdraw-from-contemporary-jewish-museum-exhibit\">Jewish artists have played a leading role\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mama Ganuush, the boycott’s originator, has lost family members in Gaza and is currently raising funds to help \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11976509/california-palestinian-americans-seek-safety-for-loved-ones-in-gaza\">their surviving relatives\u003c/a> leave for Egypt and the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pride is something that the LGBTQ+ community earned,” Ganuush told KQED, noting the importance of having a month of recognition. But, they added, “Zionist and pro-Israel lobbyists and sponsors … are using SF Pride as a way to normalize genocides.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Taking a closer look at corporate sponsors\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In Ganuush’s initial social media post, the call for a boycott led with criticism of some of \u003ca href=\"https://sfpride.org/sponsors\">SF Pride’s corporate sponsors,\u003c/a> like Amazon and Gilead, and what Ganuush called their “significant business operations in Israel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, \u003ca href=\"https://sfpride.org/sponsors\">Amazon\u003c/a> signed \u003ca href=\"https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/23/what-is-project-nimbus-and-why-are-google-workers-protesting-israel-deal\">a billion-dollar contract\u003c/a> alongside Google Cloud to provide technology (including artificial intelligence) to the Israeli government and military. Current and former employees at both companies staged protests this year against \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986743/the-tech-employees-who-want-to-sever-silicon-valleys-deep-ties-with-israel\">Silicon Valley’s deep ties to Israel\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11969701","hero":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/Queer-Palestinian-Artists_2-1020x659.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, queer communities have grappled with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/2018/6/25/17476850/pride-month-lgbtq-corporate-explained\">increased corporatization of Pride\u003c/a> as companies sponsor events and employees march in the parade. \u003ca href=\"https://bdsmovement.net/\">Boycotting companies with ties to Israel\u003c/a> has long been a tactic among pro-Palestinian activists, with many citing U.S. schools and universities’ \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984845/pro-palestinian-protests-on-california-college-campuses-what-are-students-demanding\">divestment from companies with ties to South Africa\u003c/a> during apartheid as an inspiration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SF Pride did not respond to KQED’s request for an interview or comment. However, the nonprofit’s \u003ca href=\"https://sfpride.org/press-releases/statement-from-san-francisco-pride\">June 4 statement\u003c/a> asserts that “SF Pride’s sponsors, corporate and otherwise, have no influence over the content of our programming or the stance of the organization … Receiving corporate funding and paying it forward to our community reflects our mission to center queer people and is not tied to any programming decisions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Palestinian artist Yaffa A.S., Ganuush’s drag daughter and executive director of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.themasgd.org/pride-toolkit\">Muslim Alliance for Sexual And Gender Diversity (MASGD)\u003c/a>, said this statement rings hollow for her. Since October, members of Yaffa A.S.’s extended family members in Gaza have been killed by Israeli forces. (She has curated a memorial at SOMArts \u003ca href=\"https://somarts.org/exhibition/insolidarity/\">to Palestinians killed in Gaza\u003c/a>, some of whom are queer and trans.) As part of her work with MASGD, she has created a \u003ca href=\"https://www.themasgd.org/pride-toolkit\">Pride Toolkit\u003c/a> to challenge official parade organizers across the country on their stances on the war.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Yaffa A.S., Pride’s funding cannot be separated from its sources. “Our lives do not matter when you are receiving money from the same people who will kill me,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990416\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990416\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-YaffaASEdits-04.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1371\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-YaffaASEdits-04.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-YaffaASEdits-04-800x571.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-YaffaASEdits-04-1020x728.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-YaffaASEdits-04-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-YaffaASEdits-04-1536x1097.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Palestinian poet Yaffa A.S. was one of the lead curators of the memorial ‘In Solidarity: Queer and Trans Artists for a Free Palestine,’ which opened on June 7 at SOMArts in San Francisco. The memorial includes the names of Gazans killed by Israeli forces since Oct. 7, some of whom are trans Palestinians. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Yaffa A.S.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The parade in the spotlight\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13834307/new-yorks-drag-ball-scene-strikes-a-pose-in-fx-drama\">\u003cem>Pose\u003c/em>\u003c/a> actor Billy Porter, grand marshal of the SF Pride parade, has made several\u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/mar/15/those-friends-people-make-100m-a-year-im-getting-six-cent-cheques-its-not-ok-billy-porter-on-race-recognition-and-the-middle-east\"> public statements supporting Israel\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Porter was among the celebrities who signed a support letter for \u003ca href=\"https://jewishchronicle.timesofisrael.com/over-200-celebrities-sign-letter-denouncing-cultural-boycott-of-israel/\">Israel shortly after the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks; he also \u003c/a>opposed \u003ca href=\"https://www.jta.org/2021/10/27/israel/mila-kunis-neil-patrick-harris-helen-mirren-and-over-200-other-celebrities-sign-letter-denouncing-cultural-boycott-of-israel\">a cultural boycott of a Tel Aviv film festival in 2021.\u003c/a> (Porter is slated to portray iconic American writer James Baldwin in an upcoming movie, who was himself \u003ca href=\"https://www.thenation.com/article/society/open-letter-born-again/\">deeply critical of Israel and invested in Palestinian rights\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11976415","hero":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231213-Pinkwashing-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Another point of contention for pro-Palestinian activists like Ganuush is the presence of what they term an “Israeli float” — \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/mamaganuush/reel/C76adimxwPN/\">specifically referring\u003c/a> to the participation of the Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) in the SF Pride parade. “The participation of the Israeli float in Pride is distressing for many, especially Palestinians,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7U1blVS6tX/?igsh=MWQ1ZGUxMzBkMA%3D%3D\">Ganuush wrote on Instagram\u003c/a>. “It is seen as a symbol of oppression and a trigger for psychological trauma among those affected by the ongoing conflict.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their June 4 statement, SF Pride’s Executive Director Ford and President Pham replied, “There is no Israeli float in the SF Pride Parade.” The organization, they wrote, “values the contributions of Jewish queer individuals in advocating for peace and acknowledge their enduring efforts” and was “careful not to conflate Jewish groups and Jewish people living in America with the state of Israel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On X, formerly known as Twitter, JCRC Bay Area said it was “\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/SFJCRC/status/1798483717239050373\">disheartened” by the SF Pride statement\u003c/a>, calling on the organization to “clarify that everyone, including LGBTQ+ Israelis, are welcome at Pride.” \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/SFJCRC/status/1798847995330601399\">JCRC Bay Area later responded with approval\u003c/a> to SF Pride’s subsequent online update titled “\u003ca href=\"https://sfpride.org/press-releases/all-are-welcome-at-pride\">All are Welcome at Pride\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>JCRC Bay Area CEO Tyler Gregory told KQED that the float is a joint effort by several Jewish organizations in the Bay Area and that it will be “a family-friendly Jewish communal float for queer Jews and allies.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"more stories about SF Pride ","tag":"san-francisco-pride"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“People are welcome to come as their full selves, but the focus is LGBTQ Jews here in the Bay Area,” Gregory said. “And if that includes Israelis, absolutely, they should come — but this is by no means an Israeli float and anyone that tries to attack our delegation is engaging in antisemitism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yaffa A.S. said she found the SF Pride statement to be “incredibly malicious,” arguing that \u003ca href=\"https://jcrc.org/blog/bay-area-united-with-israel-resources/\">JCRC has been openly pro-Israel in previous public statements\u003c/a>. She pointed to actions and statements that Jewish Voice for Peace — a pro-Palestinian, anti-Zionist Jewish advocacy group — has issued against JCRC in the last eight months, which include criticizing JCRC Bay Area for “\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C3eHX4BLkgI/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA%3D%3D&img_index=2\">running a cancellation campaign\u003c/a>” against pro-Palestinian advocates. SF Pride’s statement, she said, “basically try to put out there that ‘the trans Palestinian [referring to Mama Ganuush] does not know what they’re talking about.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their June 4 statement, Ford and Pham said that SF Pride “welcomed and continue[s] to welcome pro-Palestinian groups to the SF Pride Parade,” suggesting that interested groups could join the parade’s Resistance Contingent with the SF Pride Board or request a fee waiver to have their own float. SF Pride did not respond to KQED’s questions about whether such contingents had indeed requested to appear in the parade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know if some, we’ll say, ‘well-intentioned allies’ will try to do a Palestine float on their own,” Yaffa A.S. said. “But I think, from our end, we’ve told people not to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Policing at Pride\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The issue of police being present at Pride — including as participants in official events — has been a decadeslong point of contention, especially for queer people of color who police officers have targeted. Ganuush’s boycott proposal invoked the origins of Pride in the 1969 Stonewall Uprising, which started when patrons \u003ca href=\"https://guides.loc.gov/lgbtq-studies/stonewall-era\">pushed back against a police raid at a gay bar\u003c/a>. A police presence at Pride is an active contradiction, Ganuush wrote, to the “foundational anti-police-brutality ethos of Pride.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"More Coverage ","tag":"pro-palestinian-protest"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/press/lgbq-people-six-times-more-likely-than-general-public-to-be-stopped-by-police/\">a 2021 study by UCLA\u003c/a>, queer people are six times more likely than the general public to be stopped by the police, with “heightened risk” for transgender women of color. At a 2020 SF Pride march, police officers raised their batons at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11826511/police-raise-batons-at-sf-pride-marchers-oakland-passes-torch-in-solidarity\">a group of SF Pride marchers and Black Lives Matter protesters\u003c/a>. In 2022, marching queer police officers were asked by SF Pride organizers \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11917710/sfpd-officers-to-march-in-pride-amid-complicated-feelings-uniform-compromise\">not to wear their uniforms\u003c/a>. Recently, police officers have also been criticized for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984845/pro-palestinian-protests-on-california-college-campuses-what-are-students-demanding\">their intense crackdowns on pro-Palestinian student protesters\u003c/a> on college campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For its part, SF Pride said it has never called for an increased police presence. “The City of San Francisco required increased police presence in the wake of the Pulse Nightclub shooting in 2016 and again after the Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting in 2019,” the \u003ca href=\"https://sfpride.org/press-releases/statement-from-san-francisco-pride\">June 4 statement\u003c/a> reads. “SF Pride and San Francisco’s other large events do not dictate law enforcement responses and security strategies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>JCRC CEO Gregory said his organization was worried about their float being targeted and was working with SF Pride to discuss security. Gregory pointed to \u003ca href=\"https://phillypride365.org/\">Philly Pride\u003c/a>, where pro-Palestinian protesters blocked the parade — an action which he called “\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/tyegregory/status/1797412053386457119?s=46&t=7BBzFwo6eYLzJIVfAlumEQ\">homophobic and transphobic\u003c/a>” on X. (As reported by queer online news site Them, these \u003ca href=\"https://www.them.us/story/lgbtq-activists-are-disrupting-pride-events-for-palestine\">pro-Palestinian protesters were themselves part of the LGBTQ+ community\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gregory said that JCRC “wants to be deferential to SF Pride, and also to queer communities of color as to how security can work.” He added that “we have Jews of color that are going to march with us that have the same concerns as queer people of color.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Do I turn down this gig?’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Even before this year’s calls for a pro-Palestinian boycott of SF Pride, some artists planned to avoid official SF Pride events — and turn down paid performance opportunities — due to the organization’s stance on the war.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a really hard ethical thing for drag performers and queer entertainers. … Do I pay my rent this month, or do I turn down this gig?” said Mama Celeste, the executive director of Oaklash, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13957872/oaklash-drag-festival-oakland-lgtbq-events-2024\">a drag festival based in Oakland\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>King LOTUS BOY, an Oakland drag king who serves on the Oaklash board, wrote in an Instagram story that he has dropped several gigs “due to them having ties to [Israel].” As a result, he said he lost $1,000 in gigs for June — events that he told KQED by email were associated with biotech company Gilead, which has \u003ca href=\"https://www.gileadisrael.co.il/en/about/gilead-in-israel\">financial ties to Israel\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I haven’t attended the SF Pride Parade or any official SF Pride events in over seven years for many reasons — increasingly militarized police presence, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11969701/this-is-resistance-how-queer-palestinian-artists-and-activists-in-the-bay-area-are-making-themselves-heard\">pinkwashing\u003c/a>, harmful corporate sponsorships — to name a few,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oaklash is one of the facilitators of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/thebadfund/%20\">BAD (Bay Area Drag) Fund\u003c/a>, a mutual aid fund created to support artists who choose to opt out of gigs that may clash with their support of Palestinians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Celeste, who is Jewish, said the BAD Fund “gives people the ability to say no … because that’s not a luxury that many of us are afforded.” The fund, Celeste points out, is a way to lessen artists’ dependency on the wealthy, especially amid the economic disparity that has pushed many queer and trans artists out of the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Celeste said they and their colleagues were not out to shame performers who \u003cem>do\u003c/em> take these gigs. Instead, they wanted people to think about “ where our money comes from and where our money is going to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990414\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990414\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240126-GazaImmigration-03-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240126-GazaImmigration-03-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240126-GazaImmigration-03-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240126-GazaImmigration-03-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240126-GazaImmigration-03-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240126-GazaImmigration-03-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mama Ganuush poses for a portrait in their home in San Francisco on Jan. 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mama Ganuush is hosting events, including a \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/bay2gazamutualaid/p/C7-Dfmzym6C/\">Cabaret Palestina\u003c/a> to assist the BAD Fund, featuring drag artists like King LOTUS BOY and Papi Churro — joining a list of \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C79_Q8eyeUF/?igsh=MWQ1ZGUxMzBkMA%3D%3D&img_index=2\">alternative Pride events this month\u003c/a> that show solidarity with Palestinian activism. For example, during the SF Pride Parade, there will be a pro-Palestinian queer and trans march hosted by Jewish Voices for Peace, Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism (QUIT) and the\u003ca href=\"http://brassliberation.org/\"> Brass Liberation Orchestra\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In SF Pride’s statement, Ford and Pham wrote that “while we encourage resistance against oppressive systems and governments that fail to recognize our humanity as queer people, we cannot achieve liberation by fighting other queer and trans people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, it’s a sentiment Celeste pushes back on. “[SF Pride] should be listening rather than resisting these voices who are telling them that they’re doing something wrong,” they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re not listening to the smallest voice in your community,” Celeste said, “you’re not working for the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11990430/why-these-queer-pro-palestinian-advocates-are-calling-for-a-boycott-of-sf-pride","authors":["11867"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_27626","news_6631","news_33641","news_33673","news_33333","news_20310","news_20003","news_33338","news_33647","news_1579","news_1345"],"featImg":"news_11990418","label":"news"},"news_11989311":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11989311","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"11989311","found":true},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"santa-cruz-startup-3d-prints-surfboards-from-recycled-hospital-trays","title":"Santa Cruz Startup 3D Prints Surfboards From Recycled Hospital Trays","publishDate":1718029841,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Santa Cruz Startup 3D Prints Surfboards From Recycled Hospital Trays | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":26731,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Ever since Hawaiian princes first brought surfing to Santa Cruz in 1885, the city has been on the cutting edge of a lot of surfing technology. It’s where surfers first began using wetsuits in the 1950s and a decade later, where builders first used CNC machines to automatically shape surfboards. Now, a new local company is contributing to that history of innovation while also making the sport more environmentally friendly: It’s using a 3D printer to craft surfboards out of recycled hospital trays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a Santa Cruz garage, a huge homemade metal machine lays a clear plastic filament down, row by row. This 3D printer uses a digital file to create a three-dimensional object. Over the next couple of days, the rows will form a surfboard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was the first board that kind of sparked the drive for everything else,” said Patricio Guerrero, pulling a finished board out of a rack next to the printer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The surfboard is hollow and translucent, with a diamond-shaped lattice pattern running through it. It almost looks like frosted glass, but it’s not much heavier than a normal surfboard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Beginnings\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Guerrero started printing surfboards in his garage in the fall of 2022 and tested the first one at Steamer Lane, one of the most famous surf spots in Santa Cruz. People have been surfing there since the 1930s, and Steamer Lane has seen plenty of homemade boards. But this was the first made from a 3D printer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was super nervous,” Guerrero recalled. “Man, maybe I’ll just jump in the water, and the whole thing will just break right under me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the board worked, and Guerrero ended up surfing for two hours. From there, he started printing more surfboards. He began using recycled materials and founded a startup, which he called \u003ca href=\"https://swellcyclesurfboards.com/\">Swellcycle\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11989359\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2381px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11989359\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DCS_8998.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2381\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DCS_8998.jpg 2381w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DCS_8998-800x645.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DCS_8998-1020x823.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DCS_8998-160x129.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DCS_8998-1536x1239.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DCS_8998-2048x1651.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DCS_8998-1920x1548.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2381px) 100vw, 2381px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Patricio Guerrero holds an early version of a Swellcycle 3D printed board in his garage in October 2023. \u003ccite>(Erin Malsbury/KAZU)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>A wasteful industry\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Surfboards are an estimated $13 billion global industry. It’s hard to say exactly how many boards are made each year. They’re made by big manufacturers but also by hobbyists in their garages. The best estimate is somewhere in the tens of millions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The majority of those millions of boards are not environmentally friendly. Most surfboards start as a plastic foam block — called a blank — with a thin piece of wood running down the middle. They’re then sanded down to a desired shape and covered in fiberglass and plastic resin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The foam cores in most surfboards can’t easily be recycled, and they don’t biodegrade. Old or broken surfboards usually end up in landfills, where they crumble into smaller and smaller pieces that can pollute water and soil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But 3D-printed boards don’t need foam. They’re mostly hollow, and they can be made from recycled plastic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can basically melt it down and create a filament that then you feed into your printer,” Guerrero said. For Swellcycle, he started ordering filament made from recycled hospital trays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon, Guerrero recruited a business partner to design the boards and started sending them to local surfboard shapers for the final fiberglassing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Cruz surfboard shaper Vince Broglio was the first to work with one of Guerrero’s boards. Throughout his nearly 40-year career, he has mostly worked with typical foam boards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’ll have two different types of blanks, ones of polyurethane and ones EPS, expandable foam,” he said. “Hand-shaping a blank that will take me about two hours.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Broglio’s shaping room is a two-room shack with an ocean view. The walls are lined with photos of waves, and shelves are packed with materials like fiberglass, carbon fiber and plastic resins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one room, Broglio uses a planar to shape a foam blank, which he then sands by hand. The other room is for putting fiberglass and resin coatings on boards. It smells strongly of plastic resin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11989436\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1710px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11989436\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DCS_1741-scaled-e1717785056555.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1710\" height=\"1237\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DCS_1741-scaled-e1717785056555.jpg 1710w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DCS_1741-scaled-e1717785056555-800x579.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DCS_1741-scaled-e1717785056555-1020x738.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DCS_1741-scaled-e1717785056555-160x116.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DCS_1741-scaled-e1717785056555-1536x1111.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1710px) 100vw, 1710px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A nearly finished foam surfboard is ready for fiberglassing and the final resin coating in Vince Broglio’s shaping room in October 2023. \u003ccite>(Erin Malsbury/KAZU)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When you’re laminating a board or ‘glassing,’ you’re putting the fiberglass and resin on the board and putting out a finished product,” Broglio said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said glassing one of the 3D-printed boards wasn’t very different than working with a normal surfboard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It looked really cool when it was done, you know, see-through board and all that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Broglio said it could be hard for surf culture to accept new things, but that 3D printing is just another tool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know there’s going to be guys [who say], ‘Oh my God, the soul of it’s gone,’ but, you know, you got to have somebody that knows surfing that’s been shaping and all that to design the board in the first place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Introducing something new\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Swellcycle prototyped more boards and kept working with local shapers. Eventually, big wave surfer Tyler Fox tried one out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The sustainability element — that these boards are using recycled plastics and they can also get recycled at the end of their life cycle — was something that really excited me,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fox said the boards also catch people’s eye in the water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Midday, where the sun’s shining right through it on a green wave, it just glows. It’s like you’re on a glowing hovercraft, and it’s pretty neat to see how excited people get,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11989437\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1706px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11989437\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DSC04397-scaled-e1717785275208.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1706\" height=\"1292\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DSC04397-scaled-e1717785275208.jpg 1706w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DSC04397-scaled-e1717785275208-800x606.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DSC04397-scaled-e1717785275208-1020x772.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DSC04397-scaled-e1717785275208-160x121.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DSC04397-scaled-e1717785275208-1536x1163.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1706px) 100vw, 1706px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Swellcycle team experiments with a variety of board shapes and plans to eventually sell several different models in October 2023. \u003ccite>(Erin Malsbury/KAZU)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On a sunny morning on the cliff above the surf spot Steamer Lane, people gathered around the printed surfboards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Dude, it’s trippy how it’s kind of see-through,” said one surfer who stopped to ask the Swellcycle team questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It feels great,” said surfer Antonio Ramirez, who had just finished trying one out in the water. “I love it. It was smooth, fast and loose.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 3D-printed boards have also earned the approval of local legend Bob Pearson, who founded Pearson-Arrow surfboards in the 1960s. He now ships boards to pro surfers around the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the massive Pearson Arrow Factory in Santa Cruz, he points out boards destined for Japan and Hawaii. There are potato chip-thin 6-foot-long shortboards and thick, sharply-pointed 10-foot boards for big waves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We make six boards a day,” Pearson said. “We’ve been doing that for years. We’ve made well over 100,000 boards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the current process has room for improvement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do them out of polyurethane and EPS — expanded polystyrene, and there’s a lot of waste. That waste goes to landfill. That’s not a good thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the Swellcycle team first approached him, Pearson was skeptical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people bring things in that are really funky,” he said. “They showed it to me, and I was impressed. Very impressed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11772146,news_11139627,arts_13937866\"]Pearson compares the 3D printing technology to when he started using a CNC machine — which automatically sands a board to match a shape designed on a computer. He remembers how people criticized him for not doing everything by hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was one of the first guys to have these in the world, and I got all kinds of crap for having a CNC machine because people didn’t know what the hell it was,” Pearson said. “[They said] it takes a soul out of it, and everyone was badmouthing it. And it’s amazing how many people who were badmouthing it now are utilizing them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few of the Swellcycle boards have been finished at this factory, and Pearson thinks there’s a place in the market for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was stoked, stoked from day one,” he said. “Great idea. 3D printing a surfboard. Unreal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Swellcycle team recently moved out of Guerrero’s garage into a solar-powered warehouse in Santa Cruz. And they just unveiled a 10-foot longboard, opening up their market to newer surfers and people who prefer bigger boards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, they’re looking for surfers to try out the boards and provide long-term feedback. It’ll be the first real test of whether the surfing community is ready for something new.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A new company in Santa Cruz wants to make California's state sport more environmentally friendly by making surfboards out of recycled hospital trays. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1718053652,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":44,"wordCount":1494},"headData":{"title":"Santa Cruz Startup 3D Prints Surfboards From Recycled Hospital Trays | KQED","description":"A new company in Santa Cruz wants to make California's state sport more environmentally friendly by making surfboards out of recycled hospital trays. 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It’s where surfers first began using wetsuits in the 1950s and a decade later, where builders first used CNC machines to automatically shape surfboards. Now, a new local company is contributing to that history of innovation while also making the sport more environmentally friendly: It’s using a 3D printer to craft surfboards out of recycled hospital trays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a Santa Cruz garage, a huge homemade metal machine lays a clear plastic filament down, row by row. This 3D printer uses a digital file to create a three-dimensional object. Over the next couple of days, the rows will form a surfboard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was the first board that kind of sparked the drive for everything else,” said Patricio Guerrero, pulling a finished board out of a rack next to the printer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The surfboard is hollow and translucent, with a diamond-shaped lattice pattern running through it. It almost looks like frosted glass, but it’s not much heavier than a normal surfboard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Beginnings\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Guerrero started printing surfboards in his garage in the fall of 2022 and tested the first one at Steamer Lane, one of the most famous surf spots in Santa Cruz. People have been surfing there since the 1930s, and Steamer Lane has seen plenty of homemade boards. But this was the first made from a 3D printer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was super nervous,” Guerrero recalled. “Man, maybe I’ll just jump in the water, and the whole thing will just break right under me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the board worked, and Guerrero ended up surfing for two hours. From there, he started printing more surfboards. He began using recycled materials and founded a startup, which he called \u003ca href=\"https://swellcyclesurfboards.com/\">Swellcycle\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11989359\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2381px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11989359\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DCS_8998.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2381\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DCS_8998.jpg 2381w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DCS_8998-800x645.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DCS_8998-1020x823.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DCS_8998-160x129.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DCS_8998-1536x1239.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DCS_8998-2048x1651.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DCS_8998-1920x1548.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2381px) 100vw, 2381px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Patricio Guerrero holds an early version of a Swellcycle 3D printed board in his garage in October 2023. \u003ccite>(Erin Malsbury/KAZU)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>A wasteful industry\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Surfboards are an estimated $13 billion global industry. It’s hard to say exactly how many boards are made each year. They’re made by big manufacturers but also by hobbyists in their garages. The best estimate is somewhere in the tens of millions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The majority of those millions of boards are not environmentally friendly. Most surfboards start as a plastic foam block — called a blank — with a thin piece of wood running down the middle. They’re then sanded down to a desired shape and covered in fiberglass and plastic resin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The foam cores in most surfboards can’t easily be recycled, and they don’t biodegrade. Old or broken surfboards usually end up in landfills, where they crumble into smaller and smaller pieces that can pollute water and soil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But 3D-printed boards don’t need foam. They’re mostly hollow, and they can be made from recycled plastic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can basically melt it down and create a filament that then you feed into your printer,” Guerrero said. For Swellcycle, he started ordering filament made from recycled hospital trays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon, Guerrero recruited a business partner to design the boards and started sending them to local surfboard shapers for the final fiberglassing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Cruz surfboard shaper Vince Broglio was the first to work with one of Guerrero’s boards. Throughout his nearly 40-year career, he has mostly worked with typical foam boards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’ll have two different types of blanks, ones of polyurethane and ones EPS, expandable foam,” he said. “Hand-shaping a blank that will take me about two hours.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Broglio’s shaping room is a two-room shack with an ocean view. The walls are lined with photos of waves, and shelves are packed with materials like fiberglass, carbon fiber and plastic resins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one room, Broglio uses a planar to shape a foam blank, which he then sands by hand. The other room is for putting fiberglass and resin coatings on boards. It smells strongly of plastic resin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11989436\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1710px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11989436\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DCS_1741-scaled-e1717785056555.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1710\" height=\"1237\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DCS_1741-scaled-e1717785056555.jpg 1710w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DCS_1741-scaled-e1717785056555-800x579.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DCS_1741-scaled-e1717785056555-1020x738.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DCS_1741-scaled-e1717785056555-160x116.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DCS_1741-scaled-e1717785056555-1536x1111.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1710px) 100vw, 1710px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A nearly finished foam surfboard is ready for fiberglassing and the final resin coating in Vince Broglio’s shaping room in October 2023. \u003ccite>(Erin Malsbury/KAZU)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When you’re laminating a board or ‘glassing,’ you’re putting the fiberglass and resin on the board and putting out a finished product,” Broglio said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said glassing one of the 3D-printed boards wasn’t very different than working with a normal surfboard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It looked really cool when it was done, you know, see-through board and all that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Broglio said it could be hard for surf culture to accept new things, but that 3D printing is just another tool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know there’s going to be guys [who say], ‘Oh my God, the soul of it’s gone,’ but, you know, you got to have somebody that knows surfing that’s been shaping and all that to design the board in the first place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Introducing something new\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Swellcycle prototyped more boards and kept working with local shapers. Eventually, big wave surfer Tyler Fox tried one out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The sustainability element — that these boards are using recycled plastics and they can also get recycled at the end of their life cycle — was something that really excited me,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fox said the boards also catch people’s eye in the water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Midday, where the sun’s shining right through it on a green wave, it just glows. It’s like you’re on a glowing hovercraft, and it’s pretty neat to see how excited people get,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11989437\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1706px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11989437\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DSC04397-scaled-e1717785275208.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1706\" height=\"1292\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DSC04397-scaled-e1717785275208.jpg 1706w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DSC04397-scaled-e1717785275208-800x606.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DSC04397-scaled-e1717785275208-1020x772.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DSC04397-scaled-e1717785275208-160x121.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/DSC04397-scaled-e1717785275208-1536x1163.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1706px) 100vw, 1706px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Swellcycle team experiments with a variety of board shapes and plans to eventually sell several different models in October 2023. \u003ccite>(Erin Malsbury/KAZU)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On a sunny morning on the cliff above the surf spot Steamer Lane, people gathered around the printed surfboards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Dude, it’s trippy how it’s kind of see-through,” said one surfer who stopped to ask the Swellcycle team questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It feels great,” said surfer Antonio Ramirez, who had just finished trying one out in the water. “I love it. It was smooth, fast and loose.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 3D-printed boards have also earned the approval of local legend Bob Pearson, who founded Pearson-Arrow surfboards in the 1960s. He now ships boards to pro surfers around the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the massive Pearson Arrow Factory in Santa Cruz, he points out boards destined for Japan and Hawaii. There are potato chip-thin 6-foot-long shortboards and thick, sharply-pointed 10-foot boards for big waves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We make six boards a day,” Pearson said. “We’ve been doing that for years. We’ve made well over 100,000 boards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the current process has room for improvement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do them out of polyurethane and EPS — expanded polystyrene, and there’s a lot of waste. That waste goes to landfill. That’s not a good thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the Swellcycle team first approached him, Pearson was skeptical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people bring things in that are really funky,” he said. “They showed it to me, and I was impressed. Very impressed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Stories ","postid":"news_11772146,news_11139627,arts_13937866"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Pearson compares the 3D printing technology to when he started using a CNC machine — which automatically sands a board to match a shape designed on a computer. He remembers how people criticized him for not doing everything by hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was one of the first guys to have these in the world, and I got all kinds of crap for having a CNC machine because people didn’t know what the hell it was,” Pearson said. “[They said] it takes a soul out of it, and everyone was badmouthing it. And it’s amazing how many people who were badmouthing it now are utilizing them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few of the Swellcycle boards have been finished at this factory, and Pearson thinks there’s a place in the market for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was stoked, stoked from day one,” he said. “Great idea. 3D printing a surfboard. Unreal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Swellcycle team recently moved out of Guerrero’s garage into a solar-powered warehouse in Santa Cruz. And they just unveiled a 10-foot longboard, opening up their market to newer surfers and people who prefer bigger boards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, they’re looking for surfers to try out the boards and provide long-term feedback. It’ll be the first real test of whether the surfing community is ready for something new.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11989311/santa-cruz-startup-3d-prints-surfboards-from-recycled-hospital-trays","authors":["byline_news_11989311"],"programs":["news_72","news_26731"],"categories":["news_31795","news_8","news_10","news_248"],"tags":["news_721","news_1071","news_20851","news_30162"],"featImg":"news_11989363","label":"news_26731"},"forum_2010101906058":{"type":"posts","id":"forum_2010101906058","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"forum","id":"2010101906058","found":true},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"neuroscientist-rahul-jandial-explains-why-we-dream","title":"Neuroscientist Rahul Jandial Explains Why We Dream","publishDate":1718405984,"format":"audio","headTitle":"Neuroscientist Rahul Jandial Explains Why We Dream | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"forum"},"content":"\u003cp>Despite spending one third of our lives asleep, we know very little about why we dream. But in a new book brain surgeon and neuroscientist Dr. Rahul Jandial begins to peel back the mystery. He says that dreams may help us practice responding to threats, allow us to test different interpersonal scenarios, or serve as a sort of “nocturnal therapist, helping us digest and metabolize anxiety-provoking emotions.” We talk to Jandial about the neurobiology of dreams and what they contribute to our waking lives. Jandial’s new book is, “This Is Why You Dream.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1718405984,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":3,"wordCount":102},"headData":{"title":"Neuroscientist Rahul Jandial Explains Why We Dream | KQED","description":"Despite spending one third of our lives asleep, we know very little about why we dream. 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They are a cofounder of Working Name Studios, “a collectively owned and organized arts institution with the mission of building institutional stability and equity for underrepresented creative practices, ideas, and people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week we bring you Thompson’s “A New Bootymix Redux,” which inspired their upcoming \u003ca href=\"https://www.moadsf.org/programs-residencies-awards/emerging-artists-2024-2025\">solo exhibition and group of compositions \u003c/a>titled \u003cem>The Meeting Place\u003c/em>: photographic landscapes embellished with oil paint, accompanied by eight musical compositions playing continuously as group participation is enhanced through sculptures that double as seating, creating an experience that intervenes with “entrenched ideas about the nature and interpretation of the art object, its authorship, and its viewership.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of “A New Bootymix Redux,” Thompson says, “I was thinking about the ways that the sounds of the breath that is going through the saxophone can interact with these analog synth electrical signals that are also doing something in ways that are similar but very different …”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can experience Thompson’s work from July 24 to September 1 at MoAB — Museum of the African Diaspora, located at 685 Mission St. and Third Street in San Francisco, on the ground floor of the St. Regis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11990594/zekarias-musele-thompson-a-new-bootymix-redux-v4","authors":["11812"],"categories":["news_29992","news_223","news_8"],"tags":["news_31662","news_31663"],"featImg":"news_11990606","label":"source_news_11990594"},"news_11990420":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11990420","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"11990420","found":true},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"prop-47-criminal-justice-reforms-qualifies-for-november-ballot","title":"Prop 47 Criminal Justice Reforms Qualifies For November Ballot","publishDate":1718411450,"format":"audio","headTitle":"Prop 47 Criminal Justice Reforms Qualifies For November Ballot | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>The state legislature passed its plan on Thursday to close a $45 billion budget shortfall, but negotiations continue with Governor Gavin Newsom on a final state spending plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plus, a controversial proposal to crack down on retail and drug crime by rolling back parts of California’s landmark criminal justice reform law is heading to the ballot … for now. 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Guy is joined by Lara Korte, state politics reporter and co-author of the California Playbook for POLITICO, and Lindsey Holden, legislative reporter for The Sacramento Bee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11990420/prop-47-criminal-justice-reforms-qualifies-for-november-ballot","authors":["227"],"programs":["news_33544"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_34186","news_402","news_33881","news_22235","news_17968","news_33814"],"featImg":"news_11975732","label":"source_news_11990420"},"news_11987673":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11987673","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"11987673","found":true},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"carnaval-putleco-brings-a-oaxacan-festival-of-colors-to-the-bay-area","title":"Carnaval Putleco Brings a Oaxacan Festival of Colors to the Bay Area","publishDate":1716584423,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Carnaval Putleco Brings a Oaxacan Festival of Colors to the Bay Area | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Iris Alejandra Arcos Cisneros, 18, was nervous. And excited, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The teen from Daly City was about to climb on top of a white pickup truck that would take her through the streets of Healdsburg. On Thursday, the small town in the heart of Sonoma County held its Twilight Parade, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/healdsburg-twilight-parade-ffa-fair/\">marking the start of summer festivities that have existed in Wine Country for 75 years\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Arcos Cisneros was also there to represent her own tradition, bestowed upon her by her family and community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her right hand, she had a golden staff. On her head, she wore a sparkling crown. She is this year’s Queen of Carnaval Putleco, a title that pays homage to a celebration that has existed for almost two centuries in Putla, a town in the western mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been my dream to be queen since I was a little girl,” she says. “I love to see the reactions of people who have never seen something like Carnaval Putleco before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987641\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987641\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240523-CarnavalPutleco-10-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240523-CarnavalPutleco-10-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240523-CarnavalPutleco-10-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240523-CarnavalPutleco-10-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240523-CarnavalPutleco-10-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240523-CarnavalPutleco-10-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240523-CarnavalPutleco-10-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Iris Alejandra Arcos Cisneros, 18, this year’s Carnaval Putleco queen, poses for a photo alongside the group. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987637\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987637\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240523-CarnavalPutleco-03-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240523-CarnavalPutleco-03-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240523-CarnavalPutleco-03-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240523-CarnavalPutleco-03-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240523-CarnavalPutleco-03-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240523-CarnavalPutleco-03-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240523-CarnavalPutleco-03-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arcos Cisneros debuts as Carnaval Putleco queen atop a float that Amanda Herrera drives during the Twilight Parade. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Someone from Putla is called “putleco” or “putleca,” and in the past two decades, more and more putleco families have migrated to Bay Area cities. Despite Oaxaca and California being thousands of miles apart, putlecos have found each other in the Bay and pooled resources to continue the traditions of Carnaval Putleco — or the Carnaval of Putla — in their new home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those traditions is to crown a queen each year who will lead Carnaval Putleco at different events throughout the region, like Healdsburg’s Twilight Festival and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987214/11987214-revision-v1#wheretoseecarnavalsfparade\">the upcoming Grand Parade of San Francisco Carnaval, scheduled for Sunday, May 26\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the truck carrying Arcos Cisneros moves through the streets of Healdsburg, dozens of dancers follow closely behind. Each dancer is wearing a tiliche — an incredibly colorful and elaborate full-body suit made out of hundreds of ribbons that move in all directions as the dancer deftly skips and jumps to the rhythm of the music. When one person dances with a tiliche on, you start noticing more details: a mask made of animal fur and an oversized hat made of palm straw.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But seeing many tiliches together at once becomes an experience. Color seamlessly combines with rhythm. The space around them fills with energy as dynamic and graceful as their movements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987640\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987640\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240523-CarnavalPutleco-07-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240523-CarnavalPutleco-07-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240523-CarnavalPutleco-07-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240523-CarnavalPutleco-07-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240523-CarnavalPutleco-07-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240523-CarnavalPutleco-07-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240523-CarnavalPutleco-07-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crowds line the streets as Carnaval Putleco dances in the Twilight Parade. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And at every block, they’re greeted by loud cheers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re definitely the highlight of the parade,” says Kate Howell, who lives in Sonoma County and has come to the Twilight Festival her whole life. Her young daughter, Maizey, jumped up as soon as she saw the tiliches and danced along with them. Carnaval Putleco adds something that Healdsburg needs now, Howell says, “the music, the color, the enthusiasm, the costumes, the joy of it all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dozens of blocks of nonstop dancing later, Carnaval Putleco finally made it to the end of the parade. They gathered at the house of one of the member families in Healdsburg. As the dancers streamed into the backyard to relax, they removed their masks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everyone is soaked in sweat. Each tiliche weighs at least 20 pounds, and the more elaborate ones can weigh up to 40 pounds. It’s a serious workout under the hot Sonoma sun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thankfully, a giant pot of delicious pozole is ready — perfect to replenish body and soul.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987636\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987636\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/CarnavalPutleco-Diptych2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/CarnavalPutleco-Diptych2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/CarnavalPutleco-Diptych2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/CarnavalPutleco-Diptych2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/CarnavalPutleco-Diptych2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/CarnavalPutleco-Diptych2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/CarnavalPutleco-Diptych2-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Grismel Alonso Soto holds ‘el torito’ or little bull as she dances in the Twilight Parade. Right: The group Carnaval Putleco dances through Healdsburg. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987638\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987638\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240523-CarnavalPutleco-05-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240523-CarnavalPutleco-05-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240523-CarnavalPutleco-05-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240523-CarnavalPutleco-05-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240523-CarnavalPutleco-05-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240523-CarnavalPutleco-05-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240523-CarnavalPutleco-05-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Iván Olivera wears a tiliche made with multicolor ribbons created by Martha Cortés Rojas as he dances with Carnaval Putleco. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Today wasn’t just any parade,” says Grismel Alonso Soto, who came all the way from Cloverdale with her 3-year-old son, Francisco, to dance. “All of this has such a deeper meaning.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She shares that her grandmother, who taught her so much about Putla’s traditions, couldn’t make it to the celebrations because her health had been worsening. “I danced for her today,” she says. “When you dance, you connect with all those things you don’t want to forget.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb data-stringify-type=\"bold\">Tiliches: An art, a tradition, a vision\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987642\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987642\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240515-CarnavalPutleco-05-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240515-CarnavalPutleco-05-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240515-CarnavalPutleco-05-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240515-CarnavalPutleco-05-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240515-CarnavalPutleco-05-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240515-CarnavalPutleco-05-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240515-CarnavalPutleco-05-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Martha Cortés Rojas works alongside her daughter Heather, 15, at their home in Healdsburg on May 15, 2024, to create garments for this year’s Carnaval Putleco parades in Healdsburg and San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Carnaval Putleco started 17 years ago when a group of families from Putla and the communities surrounding it formed Comité Pochtlán, a collective with the goal of promoting putleco culture in the Bay Area. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">One of the members of Comité Pochtlán, Martha Cortés Rojas, who lives in Healdsburg, remembers how she and her husband, Amando Herrera Villa, went to that city’s Twilight Parade in 2007. As they both watched different floats pass by, Herrera Villa turned to her and told her they should join the following year wearing the tiliches they missed seeing so much in Putla.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I agreed,” she says in Spanish, “but I told him we would need to find a way to make our own tiliches.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987643\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987643\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240515-CarnavalPutleco-Diptych.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240515-CarnavalPutleco-Diptych.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240515-CarnavalPutleco-Diptych-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240515-CarnavalPutleco-Diptych-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240515-CarnavalPutleco-Diptych-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240515-CarnavalPutleco-Diptych-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240515-CarnavalPutleco-Diptych-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Martha Cortés Rojas strings beads and ayoyote shells onto a wire to create a tiliche. Right: Rojas shows a stitch she created for a tiliche made of woven palm leaves. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They started calling friends and family members they knew were now living in California. While many were in Sonoma County, others had settled in Daly City, Sunnyvale, San José and as far as Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Folks quickly got on board. Despite time and distance, Carnaval is something deeply entrenched in the memories of so many putlecos. In Putla, like other Carnaval celebrations held across Latin America, Carnaval happens right before the start of Lent, when Catholics must focus on prayer and self-control for 40 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But before Lent, one big party usually takes place — Carnaval, \u003ca href=\"https://www.mexicodesconocido.com.mx/carnaval-putleco.html\">the biggest celebration in Oaxaca after the Guelaguetza\u003c/a>. For three straight days, the streets of Putla fill up with parties, where you’ll see three different types of dances: la danza de los machos, la comparsa de copalas and la danza de los viejos. The last one, danza de los viejos, is where you see the tiliches appear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The name, danza de los viejos, translates to “the dance of the old men,” and traditionally, the tiliches were meant to represent older men and women. The suits would be made up completely of old fabric and ribbons, but in contemporary celebrations, most tiliches are now made up of newer material and represent various characters, including animals, demons and mythical characters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987645\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987645\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240515-CarnavalPutleco-07-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240515-CarnavalPutleco-07-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240515-CarnavalPutleco-07-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240515-CarnavalPutleco-07-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240515-CarnavalPutleco-07-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240515-CarnavalPutleco-07-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240515-CarnavalPutleco-07-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Heather Herrera Cortés, 15, works with her mother, Martha, to paint a mask for this year’s Carnaval Putleco celebrations. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But when Cortés Rojas went about creating a tiliche back in 2007, she stuck close to tradition and designed her suit to look like an old man. It was the first tiliche she had ever made in her life, after all. As a young girl in Putla, she would watch the Carnaval each year but never got involved in the production. Now, as an adult living in Sonoma, she had to figure out the process by herself, using completely different materials. But that challenge proved to be an opportunity for her creativity to take over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m making tiliches in my own way now,” she says. In her backyard, she’s set up several of the tiliches she’s made over the years. She points at a tiliche made completely out of white chiffon ribbons. “This one varies from the traditional style,” she says, “back in Putla, each piece of cloth in the suit has to be of a completely different color from different pieces of clothing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a tiliche made of only white ribbons will stand out wherever she says, adding, “White represents purity, and when someone dances with this, it almost looks like they are floating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With every tiliche she makes, her vision as an artist becomes bolder, and her skill as an artisan has only grown stronger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of pieces of cloth, she covered one tiliche with thousands of braided palm leaves. She didn’t braid the palm leaves herself — she bought them from Mexico readymade — but she sowed each of them one by one on the suit. The final result is a tiliche as vibrant as a traditional one but that responds to the dancer’s movement in a completely distinct way: The braids spring against each other as the dancer moves, giving a lighter and more ecstatic sensation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of this represents a lot of time and money we have invested,” she says, adding that it takes her about a year to make one tiliche, “but this makes us happy. … my mind is always full of ideas for new tiliches, new ways to make each one more elaborate, more beautiful, more original.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With only a few days left before Carnaval San Francisco, she’s rushing to finish the tiliche her husband will wear in that parade. This suit could be her most ambitious design yet: a tiliche covered entirely in colorful beads and ayoyotes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987644\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987644\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240515-CarnavalPutleco-06-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240515-CarnavalPutleco-06-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240515-CarnavalPutleco-06-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240515-CarnavalPutleco-06-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240515-CarnavalPutleco-06-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240515-CarnavalPutleco-06-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240515-CarnavalPutleco-06-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Martha Cortés Rojas hollows out an ayoyote shell to adorn a tiliche. Rojas makes all of her Carnaval Putleco attire by hand. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ayoyotes are the shells of a nut that come from an ayoyote tree. Many dancers throughout Mexico and Central America use ayoyotes to make rattles that they can wear or carry during their performances (Aztec dancers, for example, cover their ankles with them so they make that familiar rattle as they move). Cortés Rojas has to crack open each ayoyote nut, carefully remove the toxic seeds, and drill a hole where she can run the string that will attach it to the suit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Each suit takes up a couple drops of blood, too,” she jokes but points to her fingertips, where she has poked herself countless times, drilling through ayoyotes. It’s taken almost two years to finish this tiliche. But the wait is absolutely worth it, she says. Nothing like this has ever been attempted before — not even in Oaxaca.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The greatest reward is that someone sees one of my suits and is left in awe by its beauty and the effort that it requires. Everything is handmade,” she says. “When someone sees a tiliche, they know us putlecos are here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘¡Que viva Putla!’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Perhaps those who have the deepest love for the traditions of Carnaval Putleco are young putlecos who grew up here in California, far away from Putla.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Iván Olivera, 33, came to the U.S. when he was 1, brought to Sonoma by his parents. He’s never had the chance to visit Putla, but he grew up hearing family always talk about its traditions. When he turned 17, he joined Carnaval Putleco and donned a tiliche. He hasn’t stopped since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987652\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987652\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240420-CarnavalPutleco-19-BL-Recovered.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240420-CarnavalPutleco-19-BL-Recovered.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240420-CarnavalPutleco-19-BL-Recovered-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240420-CarnavalPutleco-19-BL-Recovered-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240420-CarnavalPutleco-19-BL-Recovered-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240420-CarnavalPutleco-19-BL-Recovered-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240420-CarnavalPutleco-19-BL-Recovered-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Iván Olivera shows the stitches inside his tiliche, which Martha Cortés Rojas created. Right: Olivera puts on a tiliche over a backpack to create the traditional shape. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987653\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987653\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240420-CarnavalPutleco-26-BL-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240420-CarnavalPutleco-26-BL-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240420-CarnavalPutleco-26-BL-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240420-CarnavalPutleco-26-BL-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240420-CarnavalPutleco-26-BL-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240420-CarnavalPutleco-26-BL-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240420-CarnavalPutleco-26-BL-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Misael Olivera (left) and his brother Iván put on their tiliches at a coronation event for this year’s Carnaval Putleco queen hosted by Comité Pochtlán, a group promoting Oaxacan culture, at the Healdsburg Community Center. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s something from our roots; we love doing it,” he says. His tiliche is perhaps one of the biggest — and heaviest — ones. He’s joined a crossfit class and regularly runs to stay in tiliche-ready shape throughout the year. After dancing for a couple of hours, it can get extremely hot inside the suit, but he says he doesn’t mind the heat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the crowd — the rhythm of the music, that gets me going,” he says. Dancing with a tiliche, surrounded by other putlecos, with traditional Oaxacan music playing, it gives him a feeling of home and family that he can’t get anywhere else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As he’s gotten older, he’s invited friends who grew up with him in Sonoma to dance with him. His brother, Misael, also dances with the group. The two brothers got to catch up and perform together on April 20 at the Healdsburg Community Center when Carnaval Putleco crowned Arcos Cisneros as the new queen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987649\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1959px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987649\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/CarnavalPutleco-Diptych4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1959\" height=\"1306\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/CarnavalPutleco-Diptych4.jpg 1959w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/CarnavalPutleco-Diptych4-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/CarnavalPutleco-Diptych4-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/CarnavalPutleco-Diptych4-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/CarnavalPutleco-Diptych4-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/CarnavalPutleco-Diptych4-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1959px) 100vw, 1959px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Cecilia Carlos Montesinos, the 2023 queen, poses for a photo before she passes the crown to Iris Alejandra Arcos Cisneros. Right: Cecilia Carlos Montesinos (left) pins a crown on Arcos Cisneros, this year’s Carnaval Putleco queen, during a coronation ceremony. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Arcos Cisneros also grew up in the Bay, but she’s been lucky enough to visit Putla many times. “Growing up, this felt like a big party until I realized the cultural significance of it all,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Over there, it’s a different \u003cem>ambiente —\u003c/em> everyone knows each other and the traditions,” she says. “Over here, it feels like we’re sharing something new with people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sunday, she will lead Carnaval Putleco through the streets of San Francisco’s Mission District as tens of thousands of people from all over California cheer them on. But this time around, she won’t be on top of the group’s float — instead, she’ll be dancing right along with all the other tiliches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After all, she takes her role as queen seriously. At the end of her coronation ceremony, she told her fellow putlecos, “\u003cem>Es un orgullo para mi representar la comunidad putleca en estas tierras californianas.\u003c/em>” — “It is a great pride for me to represent the putleco community here in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“\u003cem>¡Que viva Oaxaca! ¡Que viva Putla y sus comunidades! ¡Y que viva el Carnaval!\u003c/em>” — “Long live Oaxaca! Long live Putla and its surrounding communities! And long live Carnaval!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987650\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987650\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240420-CarnavalPutleco-01-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240420-CarnavalPutleco-01-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240420-CarnavalPutleco-01-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240420-CarnavalPutleco-01-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240420-CarnavalPutleco-01-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240420-CarnavalPutleco-01-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240420-CarnavalPutleco-01-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Iris Alejandra Arcos Cisneros, 18, this year’s Carnaval Putleco queen, holds ‘el torito’ as she dances during her coronation ceremony at an event hosted by Comité Pochtlán, a group promoting Oaxacan culture at the Healdsburg Community Center. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Families from all over the Bay Area celebrated the tradition of the Putla Carnaval from their hometown of Putla Villa de Guerrero in Oaxaca, Mexico, with music, dance and elaborate costumes.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1717449583,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":45,"wordCount":2561},"headData":{"title":"Carnaval Putleco Brings a Oaxacan Festival of Colors to the Bay Area | KQED","description":"Families from all over the Bay Area celebrated the tradition of the Putla Carnaval from their hometown of Putla Villa de Guerrero in Oaxaca, Mexico, with music, dance and elaborate costumes.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Carnaval Putleco Brings a Oaxacan Festival of Colors to the Bay Area","datePublished":"2024-05-24T14:00:23-07:00","dateModified":"2024-06-03T14:19:43-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240523-CarnavalPutleco-01-BL-1020x680.jpg","isAccessibleForFree":"True","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"},"author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Beth LaBerge","jobTitle":"Photographer, News","url":"https://www.kqed.org/author/blaberge"}},"authorsData":[{"type":"authors","id":"11708","meta":{"index":"authors_1716337520","id":"11708","found":true},"name":"Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí","firstName":"Carlos","lastName":"Cabrera-Lomelí","slug":"ccabreralomeli","email":"ccabreralomeli@KQED.org","display_author_email":true,"staff_mastheads":["news"],"title":"Community Reporter","bio":"Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí is a community reporter with KQED's digital engagement team. 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And excited, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The teen from Daly City was about to climb on top of a white pickup truck that would take her through the streets of Healdsburg. On Thursday, the small town in the heart of Sonoma County held its Twilight Parade, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/healdsburg-twilight-parade-ffa-fair/\">marking the start of summer festivities that have existed in Wine Country for 75 years\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Arcos Cisneros was also there to represent her own tradition, bestowed upon her by her family and community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her right hand, she had a golden staff. On her head, she wore a sparkling crown. She is this year’s Queen of Carnaval Putleco, a title that pays homage to a celebration that has existed for almost two centuries in Putla, a town in the western mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been my dream to be queen since I was a little girl,” she says. “I love to see the reactions of people who have never seen something like Carnaval Putleco before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987641\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987641\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240523-CarnavalPutleco-10-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240523-CarnavalPutleco-10-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240523-CarnavalPutleco-10-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240523-CarnavalPutleco-10-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240523-CarnavalPutleco-10-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240523-CarnavalPutleco-10-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240523-CarnavalPutleco-10-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Iris Alejandra Arcos Cisneros, 18, this year’s Carnaval Putleco queen, poses for a photo alongside the group. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987637\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987637\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240523-CarnavalPutleco-03-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240523-CarnavalPutleco-03-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240523-CarnavalPutleco-03-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240523-CarnavalPutleco-03-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240523-CarnavalPutleco-03-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240523-CarnavalPutleco-03-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240523-CarnavalPutleco-03-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arcos Cisneros debuts as Carnaval Putleco queen atop a float that Amanda Herrera drives during the Twilight Parade. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Someone from Putla is called “putleco” or “putleca,” and in the past two decades, more and more putleco families have migrated to Bay Area cities. Despite Oaxaca and California being thousands of miles apart, putlecos have found each other in the Bay and pooled resources to continue the traditions of Carnaval Putleco — or the Carnaval of Putla — in their new home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those traditions is to crown a queen each year who will lead Carnaval Putleco at different events throughout the region, like Healdsburg’s Twilight Festival and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987214/11987214-revision-v1#wheretoseecarnavalsfparade\">the upcoming Grand Parade of San Francisco Carnaval, scheduled for Sunday, May 26\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the truck carrying Arcos Cisneros moves through the streets of Healdsburg, dozens of dancers follow closely behind. Each dancer is wearing a tiliche — an incredibly colorful and elaborate full-body suit made out of hundreds of ribbons that move in all directions as the dancer deftly skips and jumps to the rhythm of the music. When one person dances with a tiliche on, you start noticing more details: a mask made of animal fur and an oversized hat made of palm straw.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But seeing many tiliches together at once becomes an experience. Color seamlessly combines with rhythm. The space around them fills with energy as dynamic and graceful as their movements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987640\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987640\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240523-CarnavalPutleco-07-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240523-CarnavalPutleco-07-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240523-CarnavalPutleco-07-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240523-CarnavalPutleco-07-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240523-CarnavalPutleco-07-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240523-CarnavalPutleco-07-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240523-CarnavalPutleco-07-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crowds line the streets as Carnaval Putleco dances in the Twilight Parade. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And at every block, they’re greeted by loud cheers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re definitely the highlight of the parade,” says Kate Howell, who lives in Sonoma County and has come to the Twilight Festival her whole life. Her young daughter, Maizey, jumped up as soon as she saw the tiliches and danced along with them. Carnaval Putleco adds something that Healdsburg needs now, Howell says, “the music, the color, the enthusiasm, the costumes, the joy of it all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dozens of blocks of nonstop dancing later, Carnaval Putleco finally made it to the end of the parade. They gathered at the house of one of the member families in Healdsburg. As the dancers streamed into the backyard to relax, they removed their masks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everyone is soaked in sweat. Each tiliche weighs at least 20 pounds, and the more elaborate ones can weigh up to 40 pounds. It’s a serious workout under the hot Sonoma sun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thankfully, a giant pot of delicious pozole is ready — perfect to replenish body and soul.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987636\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987636\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/CarnavalPutleco-Diptych2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/CarnavalPutleco-Diptych2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/CarnavalPutleco-Diptych2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/CarnavalPutleco-Diptych2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/CarnavalPutleco-Diptych2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/CarnavalPutleco-Diptych2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/CarnavalPutleco-Diptych2-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Grismel Alonso Soto holds ‘el torito’ or little bull as she dances in the Twilight Parade. Right: The group Carnaval Putleco dances through Healdsburg. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987638\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987638\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240523-CarnavalPutleco-05-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240523-CarnavalPutleco-05-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240523-CarnavalPutleco-05-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240523-CarnavalPutleco-05-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240523-CarnavalPutleco-05-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240523-CarnavalPutleco-05-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240523-CarnavalPutleco-05-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Iván Olivera wears a tiliche made with multicolor ribbons created by Martha Cortés Rojas as he dances with Carnaval Putleco. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Today wasn’t just any parade,” says Grismel Alonso Soto, who came all the way from Cloverdale with her 3-year-old son, Francisco, to dance. “All of this has such a deeper meaning.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She shares that her grandmother, who taught her so much about Putla’s traditions, couldn’t make it to the celebrations because her health had been worsening. “I danced for her today,” she says. “When you dance, you connect with all those things you don’t want to forget.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb data-stringify-type=\"bold\">Tiliches: An art, a tradition, a vision\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987642\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987642\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240515-CarnavalPutleco-05-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240515-CarnavalPutleco-05-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240515-CarnavalPutleco-05-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240515-CarnavalPutleco-05-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240515-CarnavalPutleco-05-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240515-CarnavalPutleco-05-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240515-CarnavalPutleco-05-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Martha Cortés Rojas works alongside her daughter Heather, 15, at their home in Healdsburg on May 15, 2024, to create garments for this year’s Carnaval Putleco parades in Healdsburg and San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Carnaval Putleco started 17 years ago when a group of families from Putla and the communities surrounding it formed Comité Pochtlán, a collective with the goal of promoting putleco culture in the Bay Area. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">One of the members of Comité Pochtlán, Martha Cortés Rojas, who lives in Healdsburg, remembers how she and her husband, Amando Herrera Villa, went to that city’s Twilight Parade in 2007. As they both watched different floats pass by, Herrera Villa turned to her and told her they should join the following year wearing the tiliches they missed seeing so much in Putla.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I agreed,” she says in Spanish, “but I told him we would need to find a way to make our own tiliches.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987643\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987643\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240515-CarnavalPutleco-Diptych.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240515-CarnavalPutleco-Diptych.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240515-CarnavalPutleco-Diptych-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240515-CarnavalPutleco-Diptych-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240515-CarnavalPutleco-Diptych-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240515-CarnavalPutleco-Diptych-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240515-CarnavalPutleco-Diptych-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Martha Cortés Rojas strings beads and ayoyote shells onto a wire to create a tiliche. Right: Rojas shows a stitch she created for a tiliche made of woven palm leaves. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They started calling friends and family members they knew were now living in California. While many were in Sonoma County, others had settled in Daly City, Sunnyvale, San José and as far as Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Folks quickly got on board. Despite time and distance, Carnaval is something deeply entrenched in the memories of so many putlecos. In Putla, like other Carnaval celebrations held across Latin America, Carnaval happens right before the start of Lent, when Catholics must focus on prayer and self-control for 40 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But before Lent, one big party usually takes place — Carnaval, \u003ca href=\"https://www.mexicodesconocido.com.mx/carnaval-putleco.html\">the biggest celebration in Oaxaca after the Guelaguetza\u003c/a>. For three straight days, the streets of Putla fill up with parties, where you’ll see three different types of dances: la danza de los machos, la comparsa de copalas and la danza de los viejos. The last one, danza de los viejos, is where you see the tiliches appear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The name, danza de los viejos, translates to “the dance of the old men,” and traditionally, the tiliches were meant to represent older men and women. The suits would be made up completely of old fabric and ribbons, but in contemporary celebrations, most tiliches are now made up of newer material and represent various characters, including animals, demons and mythical characters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987645\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987645\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240515-CarnavalPutleco-07-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240515-CarnavalPutleco-07-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240515-CarnavalPutleco-07-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240515-CarnavalPutleco-07-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240515-CarnavalPutleco-07-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240515-CarnavalPutleco-07-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240515-CarnavalPutleco-07-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Heather Herrera Cortés, 15, works with her mother, Martha, to paint a mask for this year’s Carnaval Putleco celebrations. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But when Cortés Rojas went about creating a tiliche back in 2007, she stuck close to tradition and designed her suit to look like an old man. It was the first tiliche she had ever made in her life, after all. As a young girl in Putla, she would watch the Carnaval each year but never got involved in the production. Now, as an adult living in Sonoma, she had to figure out the process by herself, using completely different materials. But that challenge proved to be an opportunity for her creativity to take over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m making tiliches in my own way now,” she says. In her backyard, she’s set up several of the tiliches she’s made over the years. She points at a tiliche made completely out of white chiffon ribbons. “This one varies from the traditional style,” she says, “back in Putla, each piece of cloth in the suit has to be of a completely different color from different pieces of clothing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a tiliche made of only white ribbons will stand out wherever she says, adding, “White represents purity, and when someone dances with this, it almost looks like they are floating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With every tiliche she makes, her vision as an artist becomes bolder, and her skill as an artisan has only grown stronger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of pieces of cloth, she covered one tiliche with thousands of braided palm leaves. She didn’t braid the palm leaves herself — she bought them from Mexico readymade — but she sowed each of them one by one on the suit. The final result is a tiliche as vibrant as a traditional one but that responds to the dancer’s movement in a completely distinct way: The braids spring against each other as the dancer moves, giving a lighter and more ecstatic sensation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of this represents a lot of time and money we have invested,” she says, adding that it takes her about a year to make one tiliche, “but this makes us happy. … my mind is always full of ideas for new tiliches, new ways to make each one more elaborate, more beautiful, more original.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With only a few days left before Carnaval San Francisco, she’s rushing to finish the tiliche her husband will wear in that parade. This suit could be her most ambitious design yet: a tiliche covered entirely in colorful beads and ayoyotes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987644\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987644\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240515-CarnavalPutleco-06-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240515-CarnavalPutleco-06-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240515-CarnavalPutleco-06-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240515-CarnavalPutleco-06-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240515-CarnavalPutleco-06-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240515-CarnavalPutleco-06-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240515-CarnavalPutleco-06-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Martha Cortés Rojas hollows out an ayoyote shell to adorn a tiliche. Rojas makes all of her Carnaval Putleco attire by hand. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ayoyotes are the shells of a nut that come from an ayoyote tree. Many dancers throughout Mexico and Central America use ayoyotes to make rattles that they can wear or carry during their performances (Aztec dancers, for example, cover their ankles with them so they make that familiar rattle as they move). Cortés Rojas has to crack open each ayoyote nut, carefully remove the toxic seeds, and drill a hole where she can run the string that will attach it to the suit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Each suit takes up a couple drops of blood, too,” she jokes but points to her fingertips, where she has poked herself countless times, drilling through ayoyotes. It’s taken almost two years to finish this tiliche. But the wait is absolutely worth it, she says. Nothing like this has ever been attempted before — not even in Oaxaca.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The greatest reward is that someone sees one of my suits and is left in awe by its beauty and the effort that it requires. Everything is handmade,” she says. “When someone sees a tiliche, they know us putlecos are here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘¡Que viva Putla!’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Perhaps those who have the deepest love for the traditions of Carnaval Putleco are young putlecos who grew up here in California, far away from Putla.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Iván Olivera, 33, came to the U.S. when he was 1, brought to Sonoma by his parents. He’s never had the chance to visit Putla, but he grew up hearing family always talk about its traditions. When he turned 17, he joined Carnaval Putleco and donned a tiliche. He hasn’t stopped since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987652\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987652\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240420-CarnavalPutleco-19-BL-Recovered.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240420-CarnavalPutleco-19-BL-Recovered.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240420-CarnavalPutleco-19-BL-Recovered-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240420-CarnavalPutleco-19-BL-Recovered-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240420-CarnavalPutleco-19-BL-Recovered-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240420-CarnavalPutleco-19-BL-Recovered-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240420-CarnavalPutleco-19-BL-Recovered-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Iván Olivera shows the stitches inside his tiliche, which Martha Cortés Rojas created. Right: Olivera puts on a tiliche over a backpack to create the traditional shape. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987653\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987653\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240420-CarnavalPutleco-26-BL-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240420-CarnavalPutleco-26-BL-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240420-CarnavalPutleco-26-BL-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240420-CarnavalPutleco-26-BL-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240420-CarnavalPutleco-26-BL-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240420-CarnavalPutleco-26-BL-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240420-CarnavalPutleco-26-BL-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Misael Olivera (left) and his brother Iván put on their tiliches at a coronation event for this year’s Carnaval Putleco queen hosted by Comité Pochtlán, a group promoting Oaxacan culture, at the Healdsburg Community Center. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s something from our roots; we love doing it,” he says. His tiliche is perhaps one of the biggest — and heaviest — ones. He’s joined a crossfit class and regularly runs to stay in tiliche-ready shape throughout the year. After dancing for a couple of hours, it can get extremely hot inside the suit, but he says he doesn’t mind the heat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the crowd — the rhythm of the music, that gets me going,” he says. Dancing with a tiliche, surrounded by other putlecos, with traditional Oaxacan music playing, it gives him a feeling of home and family that he can’t get anywhere else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As he’s gotten older, he’s invited friends who grew up with him in Sonoma to dance with him. His brother, Misael, also dances with the group. The two brothers got to catch up and perform together on April 20 at the Healdsburg Community Center when Carnaval Putleco crowned Arcos Cisneros as the new queen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987649\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1959px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987649\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/CarnavalPutleco-Diptych4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1959\" height=\"1306\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/CarnavalPutleco-Diptych4.jpg 1959w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/CarnavalPutleco-Diptych4-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/CarnavalPutleco-Diptych4-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/CarnavalPutleco-Diptych4-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/CarnavalPutleco-Diptych4-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/CarnavalPutleco-Diptych4-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1959px) 100vw, 1959px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Cecilia Carlos Montesinos, the 2023 queen, poses for a photo before she passes the crown to Iris Alejandra Arcos Cisneros. Right: Cecilia Carlos Montesinos (left) pins a crown on Arcos Cisneros, this year’s Carnaval Putleco queen, during a coronation ceremony. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Arcos Cisneros also grew up in the Bay, but she’s been lucky enough to visit Putla many times. “Growing up, this felt like a big party until I realized the cultural significance of it all,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Over there, it’s a different \u003cem>ambiente —\u003c/em> everyone knows each other and the traditions,” she says. “Over here, it feels like we’re sharing something new with people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sunday, she will lead Carnaval Putleco through the streets of San Francisco’s Mission District as tens of thousands of people from all over California cheer them on. But this time around, she won’t be on top of the group’s float — instead, she’ll be dancing right along with all the other tiliches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After all, she takes her role as queen seriously. At the end of her coronation ceremony, she told her fellow putlecos, “\u003cem>Es un orgullo para mi representar la comunidad putleca en estas tierras californianas.\u003c/em>” — “It is a great pride for me to represent the putleco community here in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“\u003cem>¡Que viva Oaxaca! ¡Que viva Putla y sus comunidades! ¡Y que viva el Carnaval!\u003c/em>” — “Long live Oaxaca! Long live Putla and its surrounding communities! And long live Carnaval!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987650\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987650\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240420-CarnavalPutleco-01-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240420-CarnavalPutleco-01-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240420-CarnavalPutleco-01-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240420-CarnavalPutleco-01-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240420-CarnavalPutleco-01-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240420-CarnavalPutleco-01-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/240420-CarnavalPutleco-01-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Iris Alejandra Arcos Cisneros, 18, this year’s Carnaval Putleco queen, holds ‘el torito’ as she dances during her coronation ceremony at an event hosted by Comité Pochtlán, a group promoting Oaxacan culture at the Healdsburg Community Center. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11987673/carnaval-putleco-brings-a-oaxacan-festival-of-colors-to-the-bay-area","authors":["11708","11667"],"categories":["news_223","news_8"],"tags":["news_1500","news_27626","news_4338","news_25409","news_23121","news_23478","news_2672","news_4981"],"featImg":"news_11987635","label":"news","isLoading":false,"hasAllInfo":true}},"programsReducer":{"possible":{"id":"possible","title":"Possible","info":"Possible is hosted by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman and writer Aria Finger. 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