38th Annual Chicano Park Day Celebration
Saturday, April 19, 2008 -
10am-5pm
Organized by the
Chicano Park Steering Committee
Happy 38th Chicano Park Day!
Download the 2008 Chicano Park Day Program!
Click on the link below to download the beautiful 2008
Chicano Park Day Program. Full schedule of performers and speakers as
well as great articles by Chunky Sanchez and others!
MCs Chunky Sanchez and Consuelo
Manriquez
Keynote Speaker Jose Montoya
Download
2008 Chicano Park Day Program
"Our Lives, Culture and History Are Seen Through
Our Murals" will be the theme of this year’s 38th annual
Chicano Park Day, which will be held on Saturday, April 19, 2007, 10:00
am to 5:00 pm, in historic Chicano Park. Chicano Park is located in the
Barrio Logan community of San Diego, south of downtown San Diego. This
family celebration is free and open to the public.
Established by Chicano activists on April 22, 1970,
Chicano Park has received national and international acclaim as a major
outdoor public art site known for its powerful mural paintings
depicting the past and present struggle of Mexican and Chicano history.
This year’s Chicano Park Day will feature events for the
whole family, including traditional music and dance, and an
extraordinary performance of indigenous Aztec danza.
Contemporary music, ballet folklorico and danza Azteca
will be performed by several local and regional groups. Also featured
will be poetry readings and guest speakers In addition, there will be a
classic low rider car display, food, arts and craft vendors, and
children’s arts and craft workshops led by noted Chicano
artist/muralist Victor Ochoa.
This family celebration is free and open to the public.
Established by Chicano activists on April 22, 1970, Chicano Park has
received international acclaim as a major outdoor public art site for
its commanding mural paintings of the past and present struggle of
Mexican and Chicano history.
Chicano Park is located off Interstate 5 --Cesar Chavez
Parkway exit-- under the San Diego-Coronado Bay Bridge.
Click
Here To See A Slideshow from the 2006 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.
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.
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Click Here To Download
2007 Chicano Park Day poster
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Click Here To
Download
2006 Chicano Park Day poster
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Chicano Park Info:
Map of Chicano Park
featuring
each mural, names of artists, and dates.
What is the Chicano Park
Steering Committee?
The Battle of Chicano Park: A
Brief History of the Takeover
Press on Chicano Park
Link
to unofficial Chicano Park website
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