Tuesday, May 4 - Friday, June 11 - Art Exhibit/MCC Meeting Rooms

Tuesday, May 4, 5 pm - Opening Reception

This exhibition is a special compendium which encapsulates visual cultures, global ethnopoles, and urban public spaces of that time.

March 8 - May 28, 2010

This exhibit featured a selection of maps, atlases (and related materials) from Special Collections holdings from across a wide geographic and chronological range showing areas of the ancient, old and new worlds as well as other cartographic/geographic entities.

January 12, 2010

The California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives (CEMA) will be co-sponsoring a day-long Chicano Theater Conference and Diversity Lecture Series, featuring a keynote address by Luis Valdez, panel discussion with Diane Rodriguez, Jorge Huerta and graduate students, and a performance by the Chicano Secret Service. For more information and videos from the event, see the Imaginarte page.

December 7, 2009 - February 20, 2010

This winter’s exhibit centers on the movement for social justice and equity that was actually another stage in the continuum of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement that began in the 1940s. The displays are organized thematically and draw from a variety of sources from collections in CEMA.

Lecture, Broida Hall - November 17, 2009

Presentation, La Cuesta Continuation High School - November 23, 2009

The California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives (CEMA) will be co-sponsoring two presentations by Esteban Villa, CEMA Artist in Residence, on the Chicano movement and the Royal Chicano Air Force artist collective. There will be an on-campus lecture on November 17, 2009 at 7:00 pm in Broida Hall (Physics Dept.), followed by a presentation at La Cuesta Continuation High School on November 23, 2009 at 9:00 am.

August 31 - November 21, 2009

The exhibit in Special Collections displayed highlights from book and manuscript collections acquired during the past year.

The collections highlighted in the exhibit were:

Judith Hoffberg Collection (Printers Mss 62)

A second National Endowment for the Humanities grant has been awarded to the UCSB Library. This new grant will support the further development of the online encyclopedia of Victor Talking Machine Company recordings. Please visit the Encyclopedic Discography of Victor Recordings online. For more information, see the UCSB Public Affairs press release.

A Grant from UC MEXUS to the UCSB Library as part of the ImaginArte multidisciplinary initiative has helped to fund the conversion of 118 video tapes into 5 different formats. These videos are part of the El Teatro Campesino Archives [CEMA 5], at the University of California, Santa Barbara Library. They are an important record of El Teatro Campesino (ETC) and the Chicano and farm workers movement.

A Grant from UC MEXUS to the UCSB Library as part of the ImaginArte multidisciplinary initiative has helped to fund the conversion of 118 video tapes into 5 different formats. These videos are part of the El Teatro Campesino Archives [CEMA 5], at the University of California, Santa Barbara Library. They are an important record of El Teatro Campesino (ETC) and the Chicano and farm workers movement.

May 15 - August 15, 2009

The exhibit displayed materials that reflect the political and cultural state of the world after the end of World War II. Call numbers or manuscript numbers have been listed where applicable. Topics include:

The Beginning of the Atomic Age, including: