41st Annual Chicano Park Day Celebration
Saturday, April 23, 2011 -
10am-5pm
Organized by the
Chicano Park Steering Committee
Thanks to everyone for making this year's 40th anniversary celebration a huge success!
40th CHICANO PARK DAY CELEBRATION
The 40th Annual Chicano Park Day celebration was held Saturday,
April 24, 2010, in historic Chicano Park, located
in the Barrio Logan community, south of downtown San Diego, under the San Diego-Coronado bridge. This family
event is always free and open to the public.
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 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 were featured on two stages.
In addition, there were more than 350 classic low-rider
cars on display (presented by Amigos Car Club) and children’s art workshop led by
muralist Victor Ochoa with numerous volunteers. Food, arts and crafts vendors sold their specialties throughout Chicano Park.
Chicano Park is located off Interstate 5 --Cesar Chavez
Parkway exit-- under the San Diego-Coronado Bay Bridge.
Secure Your Vendor Spot for the 41st Annual Chicano Park Day:
Chicano Park Day Vendor Application for 2011 Now Available!
2011 VendorApplication and Map
Click Here To download the Chicano Park Brochure (updated 2010)
Click Here to download the 2010 Chicano Park Day poster
Click Here to download the 2009 Chicano Park Day poster
Click
Here To see a slideshow from the 2006 Chicano Park Day
Click
Here To see a video (Pt. 1) of the 2010 Chicano Park Day by Rico Bueno
Click
Here To see a video (Pt. 2) of the 2010 Chicano Park Day by Rico Bueno
Click
Here To see a video from the 2010 Chicano Park Day
For further information, call (619) 563-4661 or Email: cpscchicanopark@sbcglobal.net
Purchase an Ad in the 2011 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 41st Chicano Park Day Anniversary
Celebration on Saturday, April 23, 2011. 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 25th, 2011.
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
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.
Download the 2006 and
2007 Chicano Park Day Posters!
Click the links below to download these
beautiful posters
designed by Chicano Park artist Sal Barajas
