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45th Chicano Park Day Celebration, April 25, 2015Organized by the Chicano Park Steering Committee, Stewards of Chicano Park
Next meeting of the Chicano Park Steering Committee is Sunday, July 27, 3 pm at the Kiosco. We are now accepting suggestion for the theme for the 45th Chicano Park Day celebration (April 25, 2015)
 Chicano Park Mural Restoration Project Receives Governor's 2013 Historic Preservation Award
http://ohp.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=27570
"The Chicano Park Mural Restoration Project preserved and enhanced 20 outdoor murals that are recognized at the national, state, and local levels as historical, cultural, and socio-political public art. Chicano Park is distinguished by these 40-year-old murals that depict colorful images of pre-Columbian gods, botanical elements, animal imagery, revolutionary struggles, and spiritual symbolism. The project represented a successful collaboration between state (Caltrans District 11), business (Ghirardelli Associates), and community (Chicano Park Steering Committee and mural artists) to preserve a site of great value to the community in which it exists." The award presentation ceremony will be held on November 21, 2013, from 1-4pm at the Leland Stanford Mansion State Historic Park in Sacramento. Thank you to Josie Talamantez and Angie Avila for accepting the award on behalf of the CPSC. We have also invited the RCAF artists to attend this ceremony.
Congratulations to Chunky Sanchez
2013 NEA National Heritage Fellow!
http://arts.gov/honors/heritage/fellows/fellow.php?id=2013_09&type=bio http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2013/jun/05/tp-chunky-sanchez-wins-nea-honor-treasure-honored/ Information on all 2013 NEA National Heritage Fellows: http://arts.gov/honors/heritage/fellows/NHFIntro.php?year=2013 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 Students Document Chicano Park History In 2012, Dr. Alberto Pulido's students at USD, in consultation with the Chicano Park Steering Committee, worked to update documentation of the murals at Chicano Park. The students worked diligently to re-create/update the Chicano Park mural map and have produced a gorgeous publication. A big thank you to the students! Now a revised Chicano Park Murals Documentation Project publication (2013) is available on blurb.com. This revised book includes images of all the restored murals, along with information on the original artists involved in the restoration. At the front of the book is an easy-to-read map of all the murals and their location in the park. You can preview the entire book at: http://www.blurb.com/my/book/detail/3934288 The hardcover book is $54.21 plus shipping costs. A softcover version of the book is available for $20 from Dr. Pulido (apulido@sandiego.edu) or stop by Back from Tomboctou, 3564 Adams Ave., San Diego, CA 92116 or at the monthly CPSC meeting and/or contact the CPSC at cpscchicanopark@sbcglobal.net ********************* A group of USD students, under the guidance of Professor Alberto Pulido, volunteered to be a part of the first Chicano Park-University of San Diego Documentation Project from January to May 2011. Through the collection of oral histories, students documented the history of Chicano Park, Chicano/a history, and five unique aspects of Chicano/a cultural expression that emerged as a result of the establishment of Chicano Park. The five cultural expressions captured by this year's project are: Chicano Art as seen in the public and political biography of Victor Ochoa; Chicano Music as seen through the life of Ramon 'Chunky' Sanchez; Community Organizing (Chicano Park Steering Committee) as seen through the life of Tommie Camarillo; Danzantes (indigenous dance) as seen in the life of Rosa Olga Navarro; and Chicano Car Culture (low riders) as lived and experienced by Rigo Reyes. Go to http://www.sandiego.edu/cas/es/students/chicano_park.php to view the presentations & posters.
Slideshow from the 2006 Chicano Park Day celebration
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Chicano Park was founded on April 22, 1970 when the community of Barrio Logan and Chicano movement activists joined forces to protest the construction of a Highway Patrol station on the present site of the park. The Highway Patrol office was at the time the final insult to a community that had already been degraded by the demolition of hundreds of homes to make way for Interstate 5, the Coronado Bridge, the placement of toxic industries and junkyards, lack of community facilities, proper schools, jobs, social or medical services.
