Grantee Database

MARIACHI WOMENS FOUNDATION

Grant Year

2025-26

Grant Program

General Operating Support

Award Amount

$22,200.00

Project Description

With support from the California Arts Council, the Mariachi Women’s Foundation (MWF) will strengthen its general operations, support a diverse and vibrant arts workforce, and sustain its infrastructure through grant funding for staffing. This support will allow the MWF to continue delivering culturally relevant arts programming to East Los Angeles—a historically and systemically underserved community ranked in the lowest quartile of the Healthy Places Index. The MWF remains committed to its mission by offering mariachi performances, youth mariachi instruction, and community engagement programs that highlight the vital and growing role of women in preserving and advancing the mariachi tradition.

Organization Summary

Core Programs and Services include:

1. MARIACHI MUSIC PERFORMANCE
a. The Annual International Mariachi Women’s Festival – held in Los Angeles, mariachi women’s group from California, the U.S. and abroad (Mexico, Canada, and Europe) participate.
b. The Mariachi Women Warriors Tour – Mariachi women’s groups travel and are presented in venues outside of Southern California. The tour provides mariachi women with performance opportunities, highlights their important role as cultural bearers, and exposes new communities to mariachi women’s performances.

2. MARIACHI MUSIC EDUCATION
a. The Mariachi Women’s Music Institute – Provides teaching opportunities for mariachi women. Additionally, mariachi music workshops are provided with a special focus on teaching the two instruments women are most discouraged to learn, trumpet and guitarron (bass).
b. Mariachi Pathways for Youth – Provides youth training opportunities through i) The Mariachi Youth Showcase – a stage for local and visiting youth mariachi groups ii) Mariachi Instruction & Performance Demonstrations in collaboration with school districts and community organizations iii) Mariachi Femenil for Girls – training for youth all female mariachi groups and iv) The Mariachi College and Career Conference – provides guidance on linking mariachi experience and skills to both music and non-music college degrees (i.e. STEM, Medical, Humanities) and professional careers.

3. COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
Community presentations (i.e. talks, exhibits and films) dialogues, performance demonstrations and cross-cultural exchanges that highlight the performances, history, culture, and lived experiences of mariachi women and girls.

Organization

Mariachi Women’s Foundation

Address

5280 E. Beverly Blvd. Unit C

LOS ANGELES

90022

County

Los Angeles

Region

South – Los Angeles & Orange

Phone

(858) 847-5419

Congressional District

40th Congressional District of California

State Assembly District

State Assembly District 51

State Senate District

State Senate District 24

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