With support from the California Arts Council, NAGA will continue our mission of presentation and preservation of the art of the guqin, spreading community appreciation of Chinese culture through the traditional guqin and building a bridge for cultural exchange. Funding from this Grant would be allocated to develop more public programs of guqin music such as concerts, workshops and yaji(a form of art gathering like French solon) free to the the communities.
NAGA was founded in 1997. In the last ten years NAGA has grown in membership and has increased the number of programs it offers to the public. NAGA activities include guqin presentations, workshops, concerts, lectures, cultural gatherings, conferences etc. NAGA invites guest presenters and performers to its events to expand its mission to bring China’s cultural heritage to local communities.

