CPSC BOARD MEMBERS: Chair Por Vida: Tommie Camarillo Chair: Lucas Cruz Vice-Chair: Tonantzin 'Cina' Sanchez Secretary: Jessica Petrikowski Treasurer: Isabel Sanchez Sgt-at-Arms: Joe Le Blanc TOURS: Please email Dr. Alberto Pulido, apulido@sandiego.edu
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CPSC monthly meetings, open to all (but only members vote), are held on the 4th Sunday of the month, 3pm. The next meeting will be held on Sunday, October 22, 2023 at 3pm at the Chicano Park Museum and Cultural Center (CPMCC). Free Public Wi-Fi Available in Chicano Park, Select Network 'SDAccess4All' 54th Chicano Park Day, Saturday, April 20, 2024 The 54th Chicano Park Day commemoration will be held on Saturday, April 20, 2024. This family event is always free and open to the public. The theme will be 'Bringing Back the True Spirit and Energy of the Chicano Park Takeover'. We are now accepting sketches based on this theme. Please submit sketches to cpscchicanopark70@gmail.com. Deadline is October 22, 2023 (Oct. CPSC meeting) Every year the community of Logan Heights, the greater community of San Diego and gente throughout the Southwest and across the U.S., gather to commemorate the takeover of Chicano Park on the Saturday closest to April 22nd. Chicano Park has been listed on the Historical Landmarks Registry, (San Diego Historical Resources Board) since 1980, California Register of Historical Resources since 1997, officially listed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 23, 2013, and designated a National Historic Landmark on December 23, 2016. *NO ALCOHOL AND NO PETS are allowed at the event. Thank you for your cooperation.* View the full 2023 53rd Chicano Park Day Program MEChA Mural Unveiling, September 3rd, 5 pm Thank you to all that joined in the celebration of the unveiling of the MEChA mural along with lead artist José Olague and numerous volunteers. We are excited that José was able to finish the mural with a team of artists who helped to restore and complete his vision begun twenty years ago. Information on the unveiling and the mural for those unable to attend.
3rd Annual Chicano Park Vive! June-Aug 2023 The Chicano Park Steering Committee, the Turning Wheel Project, Via International, and the Chicano Park Museum & Cultural Center hosted a third summer of community events, including the 3rd annual Chicano Park Scholarship (K-12). Events included Youth Camp programming on June 24th (Arte, Movements, & Chican@ Identidad) and July 8th (The Science and Politics of Lowriding) and community events on July 22nd (Sin Mujeres No Hay Revolución) and August 5th (Celebrating the Spirit of Life Itself, Chicano Park Vive! Scholarship Award Ceremony). Thanks to Valerie Ruiz, 2022 Chicano Park Scholarship recipient, for use of her artwork. Congratulations to all the Chicano Park Vive! Scholarship awardees & honorable mentions: Dora Camila Elizalde, Serenity Rodriguez, Yaretzi Ramirez, Alexis Elizabeth Honorato De La Torre, Fatima Guadalupe Ruiz, Regan Vitela-Baker, Evelyn Rose Serrano, Zoey Grande, Victor Martinez, Aubrey Amara Ros, Erick Santiago Torres, Ingrid Hernandez, Adelina Ramirez, Rylina Mangahas, Marcelino-Julio Moroyoqui Sanchez, KalisaDenise Manita Simmons, Quetzalli Luna Castillo Yanez, Kataleya Jean Simmons, Wendy Guadalupe Gonzalez Valentin, Marixela Alicia Sanchez, Paloma Silvar, Adriana Sofia Torres, TreDesiderio Simmons, Janique Salas, Jarvis Navarete, Makaila Jazielle Esquivel-Fajardo, JeremiahRay Luciano Moroyoqui Simmons, Juliette Petrikowski, CobeyJoaquin Moroyoqui T.K. Simmons, Fernando Carmelo Simmons, & KeyonaMae’ Tonantzin Simmons
The 2023 Mural Restoration Project has now begun! We will be restoring over 15 murals in collaboration with the original artists to ensure they can continue to educate our gente for generations to come. The first two murals to be restored are Jose Olague's MEChA mural and Chicanas/Escuelas mural by the Mujeres Muralistas have been prepped and scaffolding is in place. Murals slated for the project in addition to MEChA and Chicanas/Escuelas include Mural in Chicana Park, Liberación, No Retrofit, Omenaje, Che, Mexican History, Jose Gomez, Roger Lucero Mi Raza Primero, San Diego Lowrider Council Mural, Colossus, Decades of Chicano Movement, Corazón de Aztlán, Sueño Serpentino, Ball Player, Cosmic Clowns,The Rage of La Raza, Why Us?, OG Mural, Renacimiento Birth of La Raza, Bridge People, La Virgen, Laura Rodriguez, Tree of Life. Thank you to the artists, CPSC, and community who continue to help maintain our sacred place. Mural restoration graphic by @striveeze. Follow CPSC Instagram (@chicanopark_official) for mural restoration updates.
Grand Opening of the Chicano Park Museum and Cultural Center (CPMCC) Saturday, October 8, 2022 was the grand opening of the long-awaited Chicano Park Museum & Cultural Center! The event included the inaugural exhibition 'PILLARS: Stories of Resilience and Self-Determination," a collective historical narrative of Chicano Park and Logan Heights, Turning Wheel bus, a muralists symposium, performances in the community room, danza, mariachi, teatro & musica on the Kiosco. The Museum is open Friday to Sunday, 11am to 5pm. More information available on the CMPCC website and Instagram @chicanopark_museum The Spirit of Chicano Park / El Espíritu del Parque Chicano A new bilingual children's book by Beatrice Zamora with illustrations by Maira Meza. Available in hardback and paperback from Tolteca Press. Proceeds go to the Chicano Park Steering Committee and the Chicano Park Museum and Cultural Center. Interview with author Bea Zamora
California funding for Chicano Park Mural Restoration and Chicano Park Museum & Cultural Center Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez, Chicano Park muralists and representatives of the Chicano Park Steering Committee announced Friday, July 16, 2021 that $7.5 million will go toward the museum at Chicano Park (CPMCC) and $2.5 million will fund Chicano Park mural restorations. Photo: Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez, muralist Berenice Badillo (her mural is backdrop), and CPSC members Diane, Josie, Tommie, Annie, Rocky, and Isabel. Thank you to tour guide coordinator, Dr. Alberto Pulido, and all our volunteer tour guides and all the students, teachers, community members, and numerous other visitors from far and wide who take part in learning about Chicano Park's history and monumental murals.
U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell announced the designation of 24 new National Historic Landmarks on January 11, 2017 (December 23, 2016 officially approved). Chicano Park is among those sites. "On April 22, 1970, community residents occupied Chicano Park in San Diego, California, in an ultimately successful effort to prevent the construction of a California Highway Patrol substation on land where the City of San Diego had promised the neighborhood a community park. Representative of the Chicano Civil Rights Movement, Chicano Park has become a cultural and recreational gathering place for the Chicano community and is the location of the Chicano Park Monumental Murals, an exceptional assemblage of master mural artwork painted on the freeway bridge supports." Read complete press release here. Chicano Park has been listed on the California Register of Historical Resources since 1997 and was officially listed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 23, 2013. Tommie Camarillo Day at San Diego City Council, Sept. 20, 2016 Councilman David Alvarez on behalf of the San Diego City Council proclaimed September 20, 2016 to be Tomasa 'Tommie' Camarillo Day ..."WHEREAS, Tommie Camarillo has been a faithful steward and protector, dedicated to her love for a park that serves as a cultural anchor and symbolizes the importance of struggle, sacrifice, and equality; and..." (part of the proclamation)
Congratulations to Chunky Sanchez
2013 NEA National Heritage Fellow!
http://arts.gov/honors/heritage/fellows/fellow.php?id=2013_09&type=bio The community also celebrated the dedication of the Ramon "Chunky" Sanchez auditorium and mural unveiling (artwork by Sal Barajas & Francisco Contreras) at King Chavez Neighborhood of Schools, 415 - 31st St, San Diego 92102 on Wednesday, June 12, 2013. "San Diego Musician Ramon "Chunky" Sanchez honored locally, nationally Katie Euphrat,KBPS, June 12, 2013: http://www.kpbs.org/news/2013/jun/12/san-diego-musician-ramon-chunky-sanchez-honored-lo/
NEA National Heritage Fellowships Concert was held on September 27 at Lisner Auditorium, George Washington University and the awards ceremony on September 25! For those of us not in Washington DC this week, the NEA streamed the concert live on its website: www.arts.gov
Chiicano Park Museum and Cultural Center website
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