Please save the date and join us at the reception in celebration of the exhibition, No Human Being is Illegal: Posters on the Myths & Realities of the Immigrant Experience on Wednesday, September 14, 1230-2pm at the Wignall Museum. This is the first time we’ve been able to hold our exhibition reception during college hour, so we hope you can stop by, view the exhibition and enjoy light refreshments and music from dj trickmilla!  This event is free and open to all, so feel free to bring a colleague, students, etc. Stay for 5 minutes or as long as you’d like!

The exhibition features more than 70 current and historic posters exploring immigration and the political poster. Organized by the LA-non-profit Center for the Study of Political Graphics, the exhibition connects to various disciplines of study including Sociology, History, Political Science, Art, Art History, Graphic Design, AJ, Anthropology, Correctional Science, Philosophy, Economics, Geography, Statistics, Spanish, ESL, and many other areas.

Thanks to Spanish Professor Tamari Jenkins who assisted with the translation of the essay by CSPG Director Carol Wells. Much of the educational materials content is presented in English and Spanish, and we’re proud to have a number of Spanish speaking volunteer docents who will be available to assist any Spanish speaking visitors. Professors Limón and Rachel Hanna will join me in conducting a bilingual tour of the exhibition  later in the semester and we hope we get native speakers as well as students learning Spanish to join us. There are a number of other exciting programs that we’re offering in concert with this exhibition. Please see a full list below or online.

This exhibition and related programs are generously supported in part by the President’s Equity Council, Associated Students of Chaffey College, the President’s Host Account. Institutional support for the Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art is provided by Chaffey College and the School of Visual & Performing Arts. We are grateful for all of the support to do our work.

If you would like a hard copy poster to advertise the exhibition and public programs, please let us know. We can drop a poster off to you. Our exhibition takeaway and Ask Art Toolkit (aimed at Faculty) can be found online at www.chaffey.edu/wignall.

This is your invitation to the film showing “Chicano Park” with guest Speaker David Diaz, author of the book Barrio Urbanism this Friday October 16th at 6pm. at Bellas Artes Gallery (244 S. Garey Ave, Pomona, 91766).

 The Latin@ Roundtable and M.E.Ch.A de Mt. Sac are hosting this community gathering/potluck through Unity in the Community. 

 The focus is to create dialogue through films where we can learn from each other and educate each other on issues connected to the community.

The film depicts the history of Barrio Logan in San Diego, how the community organized for its survival, how the community took over the land situated beneath the San Diego-Coronado Bridge, and turned it into a place for murals, familia unity, organizing, cultural sustainability, and what is now Chicano Park.

 Melissa Ayala
Latino/a Roundtable, MECHA de Mt. SAC, and Unity in the Community

You are invited (by Unity in the Community: MECHA, Latino and Latina Roundtable, and Cesar Chavez Pilgrimage Committee) to the second of many future film gatherings and platicas on issues pertinent to our communities. This film, Fear and Learning at Hoover Elementary will be shown this Friday, August 14th at 6 PM at Bellas Artes Gallery (244 S Garey Ave. in Pomona. 

Background to film “Fear and Learning at Hoover Elementary”:
Located in Pico Union, a neighborhood sometimes called the “Ellis Island” of Los Angeles, Hoover Street Elementary is the largest elementary school in the city. Some 2,700 students speaking 32 languages attend the school, and an estimated 90 percent of them are economic and political refugees from Mexico, Guatemala, and El Salvador living below the poverty line. “Most kids don’t know if they are legal or undocumented,” says Simón, who was six when her family immigrated from Mexico, and remembers being called a “wetback” by her schoolmates. “They all just feel unwanted and scared.”
–pbs.org

You are free to invite anyone. This meeting will be a potluck so make sure you bring something delicious to share!

Here is a short clip:
https://vimeo.com/52100781

FARMINGVILLE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CONTACT: CARLOS G. PERRETT (cperrett@students.pitzer.edu, (979) 721-1977

ENCUENTROS to bring provocative, complex, and emotionally charged documentary

“FARMINGVILLE” to Benson Auditorium at Pitzer College

The screening will be hosted by ENCUENTROS April 24, 2015 in the Benson Auditorium at Pitzer College and is scheduled to commence at 1:00pm.

Following the screening, students and day laborers (jornaleros) from the Pomona Economic Opportunity Center (PEOC) will facilitate a discussion regarding the film and reactions to the film.

The screening if FREE and open to the public.

About the film: Farmingville (USA, 2003, 1:18 English/Spanish w/English subtitles) a film by Carlos Sandoval and Catherine Tambini – The chilling hate-based attempted murders of two Mexican day laborers in the small town of Farmingville, Long Island catapult the population, and the immigration issue, into the national headlines, unmasking a frontline of the new border wars – suburbia. This bilingual, verité documentary allows many players in the story – long term residents, day laborers, elected officials, advocates on all sides of the issue – to speak for themselves, offering a rare and intimate glimpse behind today’s headlines. For more information about the film visit www.farmingvillethemovie.com.

The New York Times

“a thought-provoking documentary about how the area’s influx of illegal Mexican day laborers

brought racial tensions to the surface, made placid neighbors into militants, and spurred

arson, attempted murder and other hate crimes.”

Jami Bernard Daily News

“Farmingville is a primer for anyone – whether lawmaker or citizen – who cares to better

understand the usually unseen cost of America’s appetite for cheap labor.”

About ENCUENTROS: Founded in 2007, ENCUENTROS are weekly events organized in partnership with Day Laborers from the Pomona Economic Opportunity Center, the Rancho Day Laborer Corner, and Pitzer College students to address the alarmingly present-day inequalities, struggles, and barriers that day laborers face on a daily basis.