Events
January 26, 2011
3:00pm to 5:00pm
The CSRC will host a talk by Father Gregory Boyle, director and founder of Homeboy Industries and former pastor of Dolores Mission Church, on Wednesday, January 26, 3:00–5:00 p.m., in the CSRC Library
July 7, 2011
11:00am to 12:30pm
Representatives of the U
July 22, 2011
UCLA’s Community Engagement and Research Program (CERP), of which CSRC is a partner, held a workshop on July 22 at San Fernando’s Mission Community Hospital.
September 25, 2011
Icons of the Invisible: Oscar Castillo, the first of CSRC’s L.A. Xicano exhibitions, opens Sunday, September 25, at the Fowler Museum at UCLA. Since the late 1960s, Oscar Castillo has documented the Chicano community in Los Angeles, from major political events to cultural practices to the work of muralists and painters.
October 2, 2011
Join us this Sunday, October 2 at 1:00 p.m. at Avenue 50 Studio to hear a lecture by Marcos Sanchez-Tranquilino will mark the close of Los Vets, an exhibition of work by some of the many Los Angeles artists who had a hand in the formation and affirmation of the Chicano art movement. Sanchez-Tranquilino, the driving force behind the 1990 exhibition Chicano Art: Resistance and Affirmation (CARA), will discuss the community-based urban art practice of the artists participating in the show.
October 4, 2011
3:00pm to 5:00pm
A special screening of the award-winning documentary The Longoria Affair (2010) will be held on Tuesday, October 4, 3:00–5:00 p.m., in the CSRC Library (144 Haines Hall). A Q & A with the film’s producer and director, John J. Valadez, will follow.
October 5, 2011
Under the Bridge, a documentary about Mexican American identity, will be shown on Wednesday, October 5, 3:00 p.m., in the CSRC Library (144 Haines Hall). It tells the story of Chicano Park, which was created in 1970 in the heart of San Diego’s Mexican community.
October 9, 2011
11:00am to 4:00pm
Join us this Sunday, October 9 from 11:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m. at the Autry National Center to learn more about George Sanchez's 1993 book, Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900–1945. It is considered one of the seminal works on the formation of Latino ethnic identity and culture in pre-World War II Los Angeles.
October 14, 2011
Art Along the Hyphen: The Mexican American Generation opens October 14 at the Autry National Center. This exhibition explores a seminal but overlooked generation of artists who made their careers in Los Angeles between the early twentieth century and the rise of the Chicano art movement in the 1960s.
October 15, 2011
Mural Remix: Sandra de la Loza opens October 15 at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Mural Remix is part of the multi-part exhibition cycle L.A. Xicano, organized by the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, which presents the artistic contributions of Mexican-American and Chicano artists to American art and to Los Angeles’s artistic development.
October 15, 2011
6:30pm to 8:30pm
Join us for a preview and party to celebrate the opening of Mapping Another L.A.: The Chicano Art Movement and Icons of the Invisible: Oscar Castillo on Saturday, October 15, 6:30–8:30 p.m., at the Fowler Museum at UCLA. Music will be by Raul Pacheco and the Immaculate Conception. Members of the honorary committee are Cheech Marin (chair), Lupe Anguiano, Linda Griego, Elyse S. and Stanley J. Grinstein, and David Valdés.
October 16, 2011
Mapping Another L.A.: The Chicano Art Movement opens October 16 at the Fowler Museum at UCLA. Beginning with the establishment of the first Chicano art gallery in 1969 in East Los Angeles, Chicano artists launched a collective reimagining of the urban landscape through photography, graphic arts, murals, and large-scale architectural plans, as well as through painting, sculpture, installation, and drawing.
October 18, 2011
4:00pm to 6:00pm
An opening reception for Chican@s Collect: The Durón Family Collection will be held onTuesday, October 18, 4:00–6:00 p.m., at the CSRC Library (144 Haines Hall). The exhibition draws from the Durón’s extensive art collection and library. Currently on view at the CSRC Library, Chican@s Collect is one of the CSRC’s five L.A. Xicano exhibitions.
October 19, 2011 to October 21, 2011
7:30pm to 8:30pm
This Wednesday, October 19, through Friday, October 21 at 7:30 p.m. the Autry National Center will be hosting an in-gallery theater work by About Productions. It is set in late-1960s East L.A. and it presents the story of Evangeline, a devout daughter by day and a Hollywood go-go dancer by night.
October 22, 2011
9:00am to 5:00pm
The CSRC Library will participate in the sixth annual Los Angeles Archives Bazaar on Saturday, October 22, 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m., at the USC Doheny Memorial Library. This event is presented by L.A. as Subject, an association of research archives, libraries, and historical societies dedicated to preserving the history of Los Angeles as reflected in the archival record.
October 23, 2011
This Sunday, October 23 at 11:00 a.m. at the Autry National Center will be showing the murals and mosaics that Millard Sheets created for Home Savings banks in the 1950s through the 1970s present snapshots of California’s multiethnic history.
October 23, 2011
Join us Sunday, October 23, November 13, and December 11 at 2:00 p.m. at Autry National Center to learn more about this three-part series which explores the emerging musical identity of the Los Angeles community from 1945 to 1965, including its strong ties to Mexican American and Chicano culture.
October 24, 2011
4:00pm to 6:00pm
Please join the faculty and staff of UCLA’s Chicano Studies Research Center for its annual open house, Monday, October 24, 4:00–6:00, at the Fowler Museum at UCLA, where two exhibitions from the CSRC’s L.A. Xicano project are on display. The open house provides an excellent opportunity to get to know the CSRC and the many resources it provides for researchers and the community at large.
October 26, 2011
A reception to mark the opening of Mural Remix: Sandra de la Loza will be held on Wednesday, October 26, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The exhibition opens on Saturday, October 15.
October 27, 2011
6:00pm to 7:30pm
The UCLA Latino Alumni Association is celebrating its twentieth annual Fiesta de Inspiración scholarship and alumni awards dinner on Thursday, October 27, at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles. The theme of this year’s event, “Celebrating empowerment through education and justice,” reflects the organization’s goal, which is to provide financial support for Latino students who are pursuing higher education and to raise awareness about the higher education crisis in California.
October 29, 2011
L.A.’s Chicano literary movement is the focus of this event and it will be on Saturday, October 29 at 3:00 p.m. at Fowler Museum at UCLA. Authors Ron Arias, Vibiana Aparicio-Chamberlin, and Alejandro Murguía—who participated in the nation’s first Chicano literary festival, Festival de Flor y Canto, in 1973—will read from their short fiction, followed by performances from actors Matt Ferrucci, Marina Gonzalez Palmier, and Holger Moncada.
November 1, 2011
4:00pm to 6:00pm
UCLA faculty and staff are organizing a fundraiser for scholarships for UCLA’s undocumented immigrant students on Tuesday, November 1, 4:00–6:00 p.m., at the CSRC (193 Haines Hall). Chon A. Noriega, CSRC director, is serving as a member of the host committee. Although the California Dream Act has been signed into law, it does not take effect until January 2013.
November 2, 2011
5:00pm to 7:00pm
As part of a speaker series to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the Academic Advancement Program at UCLA, the CSRC and the César E. Chávez Department of Chicana/o Studies are co-sponsoring a presentation by David Hayes-Bautista. The event will be held on Wednesday, November 2, 5:00–7:00 p.m., on the Bunche Patio.
November 3, 2011
4:00pm to 6:00pm
The CSRC Library will feature Lalo Guerrero: The Original Chicano, a film produced by CSRC benefactor Dan Guerrero, on Thursday, November 3, 4:00–6:00 p.m. The film documents the life and career of Lalo Guerrero, Dan’s father, who was known as the Father of Chicano Music.
November 6, 2011
12:00pm to 5:00pm
Los Angeles is often called the City of Dreams, yet those dreams often point away from the Mexican-descent population at its core and toward a dream factory (Hollywood), consumer mecca (Rodeo Drive), or make-believe world (Disneyland).
November 9, 2011
David Botello, co-founder of the art collective Los Dos Streetscapers, will discuss the forgotten artists of the Chicano Art Movement, including Robert Arenivar, Charles “Cat” Felix, and Carlos Almaraz on Wednesday, November 9 at noon at the Fowler Museum at UCLA.
November 13, 2011
Artists Sandra de la Loza (Pocho Research Society), Louie Perez (Los Lobos), and Thomas Carrasco (Chicano Secret Service) will discuss Chicano art and countercultural production since the 1960s. The event will be held on Sunday, November 13 at 1:00 p.m. at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Bing Auditorium.
November 13, 2011
This three-part series explores the emerging musical identity of the Los Angeles community from 1945 to 1965, including its strong ties to Mexican American and Chicano culture. Each program features local musicians and dancers.
November 13, 2011
Chon A. Noriega, co-curator of Mapping Another L.A.: The Chicano Art Movement will lead a conversation with Richard Duardo, master printer; Evonne Gallardo, director of Self Help Graphics & Art; and other artists about the use of printmaking as a force in the struggle for social justice.
November 17, 2011
4:00pm to 6:00pm
Join us as we celebrate the publication of Maylei Blackwell’s book, ¡Chicana Power! Contested Histories of Feminism in the Chicano Movement on Thursday, November 17, 4:00–6:00 p.m., in the CSRC Library. Blackwell is an assistant professor of Chicana/o studies and women’s studies at UCLA.
November 19, 2011
10:00am to 5:00pm
On Saturday, November 19, 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. starting at the Fowler Museum at UCLA cruise through history and journey through East Los Angeles during this event that highlights the influential Chicano art collective Asco. The day starts with a tour of Mapping Another L.A.: The Chicano Art Movement by co-curator Pilar Tompkins Rivas.
November 19, 2011
On Saturday, November 19 at 2:00 p.m. the Autry National Center will screenThe Exiles which chronicles one night in the lives of a group of twenty-something Native Americans living in the Bunker Hill district of Los Angeles in the 1950s.
November 21, 2011
10:00am to 1:00pm
A symposium titled “Doss v. Bernal: Mexican Apartheid in Orange County, 1900–1943” will be held Monday, November 21, 10:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m., in the California Room at the UCLA Faculty Center. The purpose of this symposium is to draw public attention to the important but little known desegregation case Doss v. Bernal (1943).
December 2, 2011
3:00pm to 8:00pm
In conjunction with the ongoing L.A. Xicano exhibitions, CSRC will hold “Undocumented Event No. 1” on Friday, December 2, 3:00–8:00 p.m., at the Boyle Heights Farmers Market. Coproduced by the Mobile Mural Lab, an art space on wheels created by Los Angeles-based artists to foster dialogue and engage the community around matters of public art, this free public event will focus on muralism in Los Angeles.
December 7, 2011
Photojournalist and independent curator Luis C. Garza will discuss the work of muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros on Wednesday, December 7, 12:00 p.m., at UCLA’s Fowler Museum. Siqueiros’s lithograph Heroic Voice is featured in Mapping Another L.A.: The Chicano Art Movement, currently on view at the Fowler.
December 8, 2011
11:00am to 2:00pm
UCLA’s four Ethnic Studies programs—Chicano Studies Research Center, Bunche Center for African American Studies, American Indian Studies Center, and Asian American Studies Center—will hold their annual holiday potluck on Thursday, December 8, 11:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m., in 3230 Campbell Hall.