Events
Join us for an evening of creativity and philanthropy, featuring art, music, and "Couch Destruction," a special performance by artist Raphael Montañez Ortiz.
CSRC at LA Art Show! Presenting performances and installations by Raphael Montañez Ortiz, Ramiro Gomez, and Louis Hock. January 11 - 15 at the Los Angeles Convention Center.
Join us for "Piano Destruction Ritual," a special performance by Raphael Montañez Ortiz at the LA Convention Center as part of the 2017 LA Art Show.
Meet acclaimed artist and CSUN Professor Yreina Cervantez who will be joined by artists and educators, Sandy Rodriguez and Margaret Alarcon in an intergenerational conversation to discuss their art, activism, and educational work.
To honor the legacy of Dr. Tomas Ybarra-Frausto, the UCLA LGBTQ Studies Program, the Art History Department, and the Chicana/Chicano Studies Department present dialogues about the current state of queer Chicanidad in the arts.
The Museum of Latin American Art presents a discussion on the ways in which Latinos have shaped arts and culture in Los Angeles through civic engagement, policy, fine arts, theatre, the written word and philanthropy.
Rudy P. Guevarra Jr., assistant professor of Asian Pacific American Studies at Arizona State University, will discuss his latest book.
Since 2011, Thalia Gomez, a member of the Pascua Yaqui Nation of Arizona, has worked with the Indigenous Alliance Without Borders in Tucson and the Yowe-Kobano (Yaqui Pueblo Governors) on issues pertaining to the diversion of water from the Yaqui Pueblos in Sonora, Mexico.
Leo Cabranes-Grant, a professor of theater and dance and Spanish and Portuguese at UC Santa Barbara, will discuss research from his new book, From Scenarios to Networks: Performing the Intercultural in Colonial Mexico (Northwestern University Press, 2016).
Award-winning Mexican journalist Anabel Hernández will discuss her new book, La verdadera noche de Iguala: La historia que el gobierno quiso ocultar (Vintage Espanol, 2017).
Colorado State University's Department of Communication Studies presents this year's Gravlee Lecturer, CSRC Director Chon Noriega. THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
The UCLA School of Theatre, Film and Television presents a screening of the documentary film, "Latino: Changing Face of America" and a conversation with director Roxanne Frias.
About...Productions presents I:WITNESS, a student-written play that will premiere as a full production.
The CSRC and UCLA Latin American Institute will cosponsor a roundtable on U.S. Central Americans: Reconstructing Memories, Struggles, and Communities of Resistance (University of Arizona Press, 2017).
Cuban hip hop duo, Obsesión, is in residence at UCLA from Wednesday, April 12 through Thursday, April 13.
The Kellogg University Art Gallery will present a lecture by artist Salomón Huerta, who is featured in the group exhibition About Face, on view at the gallery through April 27.
Please join us for a special presentation by IAC visiting researcher and Ford fellow Vanessa Díaz, who will explore the racial politics of representation and division of labor among paparazzi.
Panel discussions, art, films, and media exhibits examine the 1992 L.A. Uprising.
In collaboration with the Getty and the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University, Frieze will hold a symposium in New York to address topics featured in the Getty Foundation’s Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA initiative, which comprises exhibitions and public programs that explore Latin American and Latino art in dialogue with Los Angeles.
The CSRC is pleased to co-sponsor this series of events “examining the treatment of Latino culture from Hollywood’s beginnings and beyond.
Join Grupo Folklorico de UCLA and Olga Najera Ramirez for this public screening of Danza Folklórica Escénica:El Sello Artístico de Rafael Zamarripa (Mexican Folkloric Dance: Rafael Zamarripa’s Artistic Trademark), which tells the story of this vibrant art form through the life and work of the internationally acclaimed artist and choreographer, Rafael Zamarripa.
The Inter-University Program for Latino Research, in co-sponsorship with the University of Texas at San Antonio’s Mexico Center, will host the sixth biennial Siglo XXI Conference.
David Bacon is a photojournalist, author, political activist, and union organizer. In his new book of photographs, In the Fields of the North/En los Campos del Norte (University of California Press, 2017), he documents the experiences of migrant farmworkers in California.
In anticipation of the CSRC-organized exhibition Home—So Different, So Appealing, LACMA will welcome press, artists, and curators to the exhibition prior to the public opening.
The CSRC in collaboration with the Institute of American Cultures will host a special event at UCLA celebrating Chicano art and culture in Los Angeles. The culmination of this event will be the presentation of the UCLA Medal to pioneering artist and CSRC archival collections donor Raphael Montañez Ortiz.
In anticipation of the exhibition Home—So Different, So Appealing, a CSRC-organized exhibition for Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, LACMA will host a series of dialogues discussing the ongoing place of home in contemporary art, public culture, and social relations.
Organized by the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center for the Getty-led arts initiative Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, the exhibition Home—So Different, So Appealing explores how contemporary U.S. Latino and Latin American artists address the concept of “home.”
Published in Los Angeles from 1967-1977, the influential bilingual newspaper La Raza provided a voice to the Chicano rights movement.
This inaugural event is open to UCLA undergraduate and graduate students pursuing degrees in ethnic and indigenous studies.
The exhibition will run October 2-December 15, 2017 with an opening reception Thursday, October 5, 4:00-6:30 p.m. This exhibition of Zinacantec Maya textiles from Chiapas, Mexico, focuses on how weaving designs have evolved as the region has transitioned from the subsistence agriculture practiced by the ancient Maya to the currency-based commerce of today.
The Welcome Home Resource Fair is the opening event for National Coming Out Week! at UCLA. More than forty LGBTQ student groups and community organizations will offer information about work, internship, and involvement opportunities on and off campus. All members of the UCLA family are welcome!
This in-depth discussion features Laura Aguilar: Show and Tell exhibition curator and art historian Sybil Venegas and contributing scholars Amelia Jones and CSRC director Chon Noriega in dialogue with artist Laura Aguilar.
Salomón Huerta, UC Regents' Lecturer for Fall 2017, will discuss the topic of art and identity in conversation with Rose G. Salseda, associate director of the U.S. Latinx Art Forum.
Join us for a celebration of CSRC projects, programs, and resources!
(Image: Cuban-American performance artiste Carmelita Tropicana. Photo by Alina Troyano)
The UCLA Digital Archiving Collective invites faculty, students, staff, and members of the general public for Session One of its 2017-18 UCLA Visiting Speaker Series, which will be held on Friday, October 13, 2017 from 1-4 PM in the Jan Popper Theater (Schoenberg Music Building).
Dr. Roberto D. Hernández, of San Diego State University, will discuss Chicano-Indigenous struggles.
The CSRC Library will participate in the twelfth annual Los Angeles Archives Bazaar on Saturday, October 21, 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Kelly Lytle Hernández’s City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965 explains how the City of Angels became the city that imprisons more people than any other city in the United States, which imprisons more people than any other country in the world.
An evening of creative acts and playful insurrections as artists, musicians, and performers join forces with Getty Artist Project (GAP) artist-in-residence Harry Gamboa Jr. CSRC director Chon Noriega will lead a discussion with Gamboa and artists and CSRC collection donors Guadalupe Rosales and Ramiro Gomez.
Join us in honoring the 2017-2018 IAC Visiting Scholars, Graduate & Predoctoral Fellows, and Research Grant Awardees!
At this event, hear from a variety of speakers on the topic of race and resistance. Follow the conversation on Twitter with the hashtag #OnRace.
Nonny De la Peña will explore how immersive journalism is a vehicle for change and how feminism shapes her work.
This documentary tells the story of Dolores Huerta, a leader alongside Cesar Chavez during the fight for racial and labor justice for farm workers and notable feminist of the twentieth century.
Join us for an intergenerational dialogue with R. Aída Hernández Castillo, Shannon Speed (Chickasaw), and Brenda Nicolas (Zapotec).
This free discussion presents insights from artists featured in the exhibition, as well as from the curators. An exhibition viewing and reception precede the conversation.
Organized by the Museum of Fine Arts Houston and the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center for the Getty-led arts initiative Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, the exhibition Home—So Different, So Appealing explores how contemporary U.S. Latino and Latin American artists address the concept of “home.” On view through January 21, 2018.
The Association for Latin American Art (ALAA) is sponsoring an impressive roster of curator-led tours of the PST: LA/LA exhibitions currently on view throughout LA, co-organized by CSRC associate director Villaseñor Black and Elisa Mandell, associate professor of visual arts at Cal State Fullerton.
Dr. Álvaro Ochoa Serrano will discuss a compilation of works stemming from el Congreso Internacional del Corrido in 2010 that he compiled.
Join us for a reading and zine workshop with authors and entrepreneurs, Chicana Catwoman and Alexandra Beehive.
Ángel Kú and Valiana Aguilar, two compañer@s from the Center for Encounters and Intercultural Dialogues and the Universidad de la Tierra, Oaxaca will share information about Indigenous autonomy and community self-determination across Mexico in Oaxaca, Chiapas, and Yucatán.
The UCLA Digital Archiving Collective invites faculty, students, staff, and members of the general public for Session Two of its 2017-18 UCLA Visiting Speaker Series, which will be held on Friday, December 8, 2017 from 1-4 PM in the Charles E. Young Research Library.
Face to Face, Mouth to Mouth presents a screening of the 1976 film, ¡Por Favor, No Me Entierren! (Please Don't Bury Me Alive!).