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For the 40th anniversary of the Ethnic Dance Festival, 21 companies, all based in the Bay Area, will be presenting music and dance from Alaska, Bolivia, Cambodia, China, Cuba, India, Korea, Liberia, Mexico, Peru, the Philippines, Spain, Tahiti, the continental U.S., and Zimbabwe. Eight of those troupes are offering world premieres of work created especially for this milestone season. Julie Mushet, executive director of the event run by the nonprofit World Arts West, is thrilled that opening weekend will highlight Chuna McIntyre and the Nunamta Yup’ik Eskimo Singers and Dancers troupe he founded and directs. The artist, choreographer and performer, a native of Eek, Alaska, has long worked to preserve the art and culture of the Yup’ik people.

Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, “Carrie Mae Weems: Three Decades of Photography and Video,” through Jan, 5, “Flesh and Metal: Body and Machine in ballet shoe 24 silicone mold / 15mm Early 20th-Century Art,” more than 70 artworks that explore a central dynamic of art making in Europe and the Americas between the 1910s and the early 1950s, through March 16, 11 a.m.-5 p.m, Wednesdays-Sundays; Thursdays till 8 p.m, Stanford campus, off Palm Drive at Museum Way, 650-723-4177 or museum.stanford.edu, Hoover Library and Archives, Art and History: Treasures from the Hoover Library and Archives, Through Dec, 20, Herbert Hoover Memorial Exhibit Pavilion, Stanford, Free, www.hoover.org/library-and-archives/exhibits/142926..

“Our thoughts and prayers are with those families that have experienced loss attributable to the wildfires in the Northern San Francisco Bay Area,” Barichello added. The canceled powwow and Indian market had been scheduled for 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. in Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center Park on Oct. 14 to mark the silver anniversary of Indigenous Peoples Day. The festivities were supposed to include a dance exhibition by Native California and Aztec dancers, as well as a contest dancing, intertribal dancing, a giveaway, and honor songs. There also was supposed to be Native American foods, arts and crafts, celebrations of American Indian culture, and a “Prettiest Shawl” contest.

Foothill College, “Raúl Cañibano: Storyteller.” Through March 11, The ballet shoe 24 silicone mold / 15mm first solo exhibition in the Western United States by the Cuban photographer, Krause Center for Innovation Gallery, Foothill College, 12345 El Monte Road, Los Altos Hills, Admission is free; parking is $3, http://raulcanibano.wordpress.com, Gallery House, “Meeting Point,” paintings and prints by Kyoko Fishcher, through Feb, 28, Reception 6-8 p.m, Feb, 13, Hours: 11 a.m.-4 p.m, Tuesdays and Wednesdays, 10 a.m.-4 p.m, Thursdays through Saturdays, 11 a.m.-3 p.m, Sundays, Gallery House, 320 S, California Ave., Palo Alto, 650-326-1668..

City Council members who commented about the loss of West Edge productions might look at their own website for rental costs. It costs more to rent the Community Center, with its capacity of 225 people ($1,180 minimum) than for a nonprofit to rent the ECHS theater that seats 600 (plus capacity for performers and staff, at $840 minimum. Things may happen slowly at the school district; the theater manager was finally on the job in January 2013, working with other satisfied nonprofit performing groups — the same year full-length student productions returned after a long absence. So Councilman Mark Friedman’s desire for a broader range of events is well on its way.