Official Chicano Park Day Website

40th CHICANO PARK DAY CELEBRATION

The 40th Annual Chicano Park Day will be held on Saturday, April 24, 2010, 10:00 am to 5:00 pm, in historic Chicano Park, located in the Barrio Logan community, south of downtown San Diego. This family event is free and open to the public. The theme for this year's celebration is "40 Años de la Tierra Mia: Aquí Estamos y No Nos Vamos"

Established by Chicano activists on April 22, 1970, Chicano Park has received international recognition as a major public art site for its commanding mural paintings of the past and present struggle of Mexican and Chicano history.

Visitors to Chicano Park Day will experience traditional music and dance, including one of the most beautiful performances of Aztec Indigenous dance, coordinated by Toltecas en Aztlán. Other dance groups as well as musical acts and speakers are featured on two stages.

In addition, there will be a display of classic low rider cars presented by Amigos Car Club and children’s art workshop led by muralist Victor Ochoa. Food, arts and crafts vendors will be selling their specialties throughout Chicano Park, as well as informational booths.

This family celebration is free and open to the public.

Chicano Park is located off Interstate 5 --Cesar Chavez Parkway exit-- under the San Diego-Coronado Bay Bridge.

Click Here For Car Show Information and Application (Amigos Car Club)

Click Here To See A Slideshow from the 2006 Chicano Park Day

For further information, call (619) 563-4661 or Email: cpscchicanopark@sbcglobal.net

Click Here to download the 2009 Chicano Park Day poster

Purchase an Ad in the 2010 Chicano Park Day Program Today!

CHICANO PARK STEERING COMMITTEE
P.O. BOX 12524
SAN DIEGO, CA 92112
(619)563-4661
FAX: (619)283-4754
EMAIL: cpscchicanopark@sbcglobal.net

Amigos:

The Chicano Park Steering Committee is celebrating the 40th Chicano Park Day Anniversary Celebration on Saturday, April 24, 2010. The celebration will be from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm, and it is free of cost to the entire community. There will be entertainment all day, ballet folklórico dancers, Aztec danzantes, speakers, various bands and other music groups, a beautiful low rider car show, children activities, delicious food booths, arts and crafts, and many cultural and T-shirt booths, as well as many informational booths.

We would like to invite you to participate by purchasing an ad in our program. Attached is the sheet with the Ad prices and sizes. The deadline is March 26th, 2010. Please submit copy ready Ad or disk, along with check or money order made payable to Chicano Park Steering Committee. Mail to Chicano Park Steering Committee, P.O. Box 12524, San Diego, CA 92112.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at the above phone number or e-mail address.

Thank you,

Tommie Camarillo
Chairperson

Click Here to download the Ad Rate Sheet

Secure Your Vendor Spot for the 40th Annual Chicano Park Day:

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.

Protesters led by the Brown Berets, community activists, artists, M.E.Ch.A. and others took over the site and faced police and bulldozers for days while negotiations took place that resulted in the land being given over for a community park. In the following days and months similar actions by the same groups led to the forming of a Chicano Free Clinic, now known as the Logan Heights Family Health Center, and the Centro Cultural de la Raza in Balboa Park.

The struggle for Chicano Park came to symbolize the Chicano Mexicano people's struggle for self-determination and self-empowerment. The murals in the park painted by Chicano artists such as Victor Ochoa, Mario Torero, Yolanda Lopez, José Montoya, Sal Barajas, Juanishi Orozco, Berenice Badillo, Carmen Linares and many others portray the social, political and cultural issues that form the struggle for the liberation of Chicano Mexicanos.

Every year the community of Barrio Logan, the greater community of San Diego and people throughout the Southwest and across the US come tgether to celebrate the takeover of Chicano Park.

Click the links below to download these beautiful posters
designed by Chicano Park artist Sal Barajas

40th Annual Chicano Park Day Celebration

Saturday, April 24, 2010 - 10am-5pm

Organized by the Chicano Park Steering Committee