Oceanside Spectrum Oct 2024 Valley Arts Festival Celebrating Luiseno Culture

KOCT TV Oceanside Spectrum host CJ Di Mento interviews Julia Fister (Studio ACE) and Mel Vernon (Captain, San Luis Rey Band of Mission Indians) about the upcoming 4th Annual Valley Arts Festival that features Luiseno culture, local art, murals, basketweaving, dancing, drumming, music frybread, and more! November 16, 2024 at the Heritage Park, 220 Peyri Dr. Oceanside. 11:00AM-4:00PM
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2024 theme Kiicha Nights, Coyote Dreams. The purpose of VAF is to present a celebration of Oceanside and its first peoples, today known as the San Luis Rey Band of Mission Indians, one of the seven tribes of the Luiseño nation. The Luiseño people are an indigenous people of California who inhabited the coastal area of Southern California; in the Luiseño language, the people call themselves Payómkawichum, meaning People of the West.