Events
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.