Our three core program areas are: Re-Indigenizing California, Arts & the Environment, and the Center for Berkeley Studies. Activities include: Producing the Annual California Native Ways Festival – a California Indian Arts & Culture Festival; Saving Our Stories: an ongoing project to restore and preserve California Indian Artists’ Archives, the development and publication of a book on the Historic West Berkeley Ohlone Shellmound and Village Site; inaugurating and producing the (now) annual Berkeley Bird Festival, with an emphasis on experiencing birds through the arts including song, painting and drawing, origami, narrative writing, poetry, spoken word and dance; the “Remapping California” project working with California Indian culture bearers across the state to create public education about and understanding of indigenous cultural stories and sites; creating public events focusing on the intersection of art and the environment featuring artists whose work is informed by and interacts with the natural world; and, finally, creating projects focused on the artistic and cultural legacy and creative future of Berkeley, California including collaborating to create a 60s Museum, Historical Society, and Cultural Center and the publication of The Berkeley Anthology — a collection of fiction and nonfiction writings and ephemera from Berkeley’s past and present. The Anthology will examine what makes Berkeley so remarkable, why the city has long nurtured world-class creativity and diversity in the arts and daring innovation in the way its residents lead their personal lives and conduct their civic affairs, and how this spirit can be preserved in our changing times and incorporate Berkeley’s long standing tradition of fighting for equity and justice, both through and for artists individual and collective expression and cultural arts events.