Winter 1999 • Volume 21 / Number 1 Why Community Heritage? by James Quay I Executive Director Beyond the Sesqui- If we ponder awhile, we may be n the last issue of Humanities centennial able to identify a story told by our Network, the Council an¬ and Gold Rush History individual life, and some of us may nounced a major request for An investigation of community be able to see that story as part of a proposals for projects that explore heritage is a logical next step to the family story — a story of choices "community heritage." In this current activity being generated by and precedents: the first to emi¬ column. I'd like to tell you why the California Sesquicentennial. grate to America or California, the Council considers "commu¬ Sesquicentennial Commission Chair perhaps, or the first to be able to nity heritage" a topic worth Kevin Starr has noted that more read or write, to attend college, to investing in. than 500 localities have planned own a home or a business. Some of The Council's interest in the activities to commemorate events us may see ourselves or our families connection between community from the period 1848-1850. It as participants in an American story, and the humanities dates from its seemed opportune to build upon part of a quest for increased free¬ founding in 1975, when "the this local interest and encourage dom, whether personal or political pursuit of community in Califor¬ communities to expand their explora¬ or economic. The story grows more nia" was selected to be the the¬ tions beyond the confines of the Gold matic focus of the new Council's Rush period to other sources of i" . . first grant program. Since then, of community heritage, including course, the Council has not only other kinds of "rushes" and waves Author William funded hundreds of programs of immigration that have shaped bearing on local and community and are shaping cities and regions Kittredge has written history, but in the last decade has in California since the Gold Rush. ‘what we need most itself conducted a series of confer¬ CCH also wanted to expand the ences and projects exploring exploration beyond history to include urgently, both in the community as a concept and folklore and literature and to encour¬ community history as a reality. age connections with the stories of West, and all over We're putting what we've those who came before us and the America, is afresh learned from such projects into a issues they struggled with. The great manual that will be available later success of the "Highway 99" anthol¬ dream of who we are this spring, but a central lesson is ogy and the project that surrounded that the Los Angeles riots of 1992 it demonstrated how gathering that will tell us how we Grants have convinced many Califor¬ together the literature of a region Awarded.page 2 should act... ’ nians of the need to overcome the could mobilize both regional pride The Council awards barriers that divide communities. and curiosity. $170,000 in major grants While the proliferation of global One great appeal of stories is that to 18 humanities projects. media continues to make distant they impose a kind of order on the 1 .//-J complex when we acknowledge resources increasingly available to flux of time and suggest a meaning or Humanities that the gains of some may mean anyone with a phone or cable line, purpose to what might otherwise be Calendar.page S losses for others, an important local communities are strength¬ a random sequence of events. Author recognition if the story is to be an ened most when people meet William Kittredge has written "what Ricardo O. Alvarado: inclusive one. Nevertheless, insist¬ face-to-face and talk about the we need most urgently, both in the Past Photographs, issues in the place where they West, and all over America, is a fresh ing on a role in the larger American Ever-Present live. All over California, we have dream of who we are that will tell us narrative both animates us as Visions.page 8 found people eager to learn more how we should act... We want the individuals and enriches the larger David Matsuda's essay about their heritage, the stories of story of our society to have a sensible story. on the Filipino-American the places they live. The humani¬ plot. We want it to go somewhere: we Other stories await our participa¬ photographer's complex ties can help. want it to mean something." tion as well, for we are characters in vision of diversity. the life of our neighborhoods and communities, at times active, at California Humanities times passive. Either way, the Network's invitation to define, tell, contribute www.THINKCALIFORNIA.net to, and shape these stories is always Launched.page 9 Sunset (Ilagazine: there, and the invitation to explore New Council Board community heritage is really a Members and Staff (1 Centuiy of Western Liuing1898 199B double invitation to both learn and Announced.page 10 participate. First, to learn about the people who have contributed to Proposal- Writing Sunset Magazine: One Hundred California Historical Society making our community what it is Workshops Years of Western Living 1898-1998 (CHS), the Hoover Institution today, and then to participate by Announced.page 10 chronicles the development of at Stanford University, and building consciously upon the the magazine that has the Stanford Uni¬ heritage that they have left us. both documented and versity libraries, is It is the Council's conviction that shaped life in the now being toured the act of recovering and articulat¬ West. The exhibit by the California ing a particular community's features original cover Council for the heritage will itself help strengthen illustrations by such s Humanities (CCH) that community. Stories that artists as Maynard | along with presen- capture our community's charac¬ Dixon and Maurice | tations and public ters are the stories that will show the Logan (see right), as | humanities pro- character of our communities. At the The California Council for well as artifacts and grams developed same time, the recovery and publica¬ the Humanities is a state- articles illustrating the | jointly by CCH and tion of the many stories will also based affiliate of the innovations and ideas the California Exhibi¬ enrich our common heritage as National Endowment for that Sunset has introduced to tion Resources Alliance (CERA). Californians and help delineate the the Humanities. The American life. For exhibit dates and character of the state. We hope many Humanities Network is The exhibit, which was locations, see the calendar communities, including yours, will published quarterly and originally produced by the pages inside. respond to this invitation. mailed to anyone who requests it from the San Francisco office. CALIFORNIA SESQUICENTENNIAL The California Missions: Buried History Sponsor: International Documentary Association, Los Angeles Project Director: Michael L. Rose Amount of Award: $ 10,000 in outright funds The California missions - collisions of the Old and New Worlds - have been a controversial subject since their destruction in the mid-1800s. This script development grant is for a one-hour television documentary that will bring recent scholarship to light from the fields of history, anthropology, and archaeology to add a new dimension to the discussion by exploring the Native American experience of the California missions. Several humanities scholars as well as living descendants of Mission Indians will tell why many of them are re-examining the historical record. The film, which received a CCH planning grant in August 1998, will incorporate oral histories, diaries of mission Indians, and reinterpretations of anthropologi¬ Children in the window of the 1870 Antonio Peralta House in Oakland, California, at the opening celebration of Peralta cal studies to examine how the mission era in Hacienda Historical Park. From "The Land Is Our Gold."(Photo by Lome Lentz) California has often been romanticized. The Land is Our Gold PUBLIC PROGRAMS Distant Gold: Inland Southern Sponsor: Comite Hispanoamericano Por Lengua California 1848-1882 y Cultura, Berkeley City of Angels Community Sponsor: Museum of History and Art, Ontario Project Director: Holly Alonso Conference & Festival: Project Director: Theresa Hanley Amount of Award: $ 10,000 in outright funds Celebrating and Educating Los Amount of Award: $ 10,000 in outright funds Luis Peralta first came to Northern California Angeles at the Edge of the 21 st In 1848, when gold was discovered in Northern with the de Anza expedition in 1775, at the age California, the southern region now known as of 16. In 1820, he received a 44,000-acre Spanish Century the Inland Empire was typically Californio, land grant, now thought to be the single most Sponsor: Los Angeles City College dominated by large ranchos and a few families. valuable ever made in the state; he divided it Project Director: Galust Mardirussian Within thirty years, however, the region was among his sons and, with their wives, families, Amount of Award: $ 10,000 in outright funds completely transformed into a market-based and the surrounding Native Peoples, they Los Angeles: Urban utopia of the American American economy and culture. This program established the first Spanish-speaking commu¬ Dream, or dysfunctional "Hell Town" grown to award will support research and development nities in the East Bay. By 1890, however, the gargantuan proportions? Given the over¬ of an exhibition exploring the legacy left by the Peraltas had lost everything: land, livelihood, whelming demographic changes the region has Gold Rush era to a place far from the gold and social position. This script development undergone, and the rich cultural diversity of its fields themselves. The central exhibit is sched¬ grant is for a 60-minute video documentary 15 million inhabitants, there is much debate uled to open April 21,1999, at the Museum of that will recall the story of four generations of a about the present and future of this History and Art, Ontario. The project also 19th century Spanish-speaking family in multicultural metropolis. This public program involves fourteen satellite displays throughout Northern California and their interactions first award will help broaden the discussion a network of regional historic sites, museums, with Native Americans and, later, with U.S. through a conference integrating academic and libraries, a related publication, and a series settlers. The film will explore the parallels and lectures and presentations by scholars, educa¬ of public programs that will include four contrasts behind the legal and cultural defeat of tors, artists, and community leaders with cross- "Rediscovering California at 150" Chautauqua the Mexican landowners and the indigenous cultural entertainment and cuisine. The week¬ performances in April and May of 1999. peoples, and the mechanisms at work as end festival and conference, which will take English-speaking settlers streamed into place from April 30 through May 1,1999, evolved California. from a innovative program established at Los 'I Wish I'd Never Heard of Angeles City College that allowed study of the California' — A Sesquicentennial socio-historical, geopolitical, aesthetic, and Series about Gold Rush Widows cultural aspects of Los Angeles through lectures, on the Home Frontier panel discussions, and first-hand experiential Sponsor: California State Parks, Sacramento learning opportunities. Project Director: Mary A. Helmich Amount of Award: $ 10,000 in outright funds Common Ground: The Heart of When news of gold at Coloma reached the Community States, thousands of men set out for California, Sponsor: Japanese American National Museum, and most of those who were married left their Los Angeles wives behind. These "Gold Rush widows" Project Director: Rick Noguchi were obliged to assume the unaccustomed role Amount of Award: $5,000 in outright funds of surrogate husband during long absences; Many Californians are aware of the facts gender lines were crossed as wives invaded surrounding the federally-ordered incarcera¬ courthouses, banks, and lumber mills to pay tion of 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry taxes, bring suits against debtors, petition for in concentration camps during WWII. Not so more time on mortgages and loans, and, in widely understood is why the "camp" experi¬ some cases, to send hard-earned butter-and- ence has become such a powerful event in the egg money West to broke and disillusioned Japanese-American community, even for those husbands. This program grant will fund who were not imprisoned, and particularly for research for a multi-site lecture tour, beginning many third- and fourth-generation children of in April 1999, in which historical societies and the internees. This program award will support libraries in outlying communities will join eight scholarly lectures and discussions that twelve California State Parks in celebrating will explore themes related to the "Common State Parks Month and California's Sesquicen¬ Ground" exhibition, on view from January 1999 tennial through presentations featuring site- through January 2001 in the Japanese American specific dialogues on Forty-niner wives. National Museum's new Pavilion in Los Angeles. The lectures and exhibition explore universal as well as culturally-specific themes of immigration A child of Japanese immigrants to America holds her experiences, home life, business, social organiza¬ country's flag, ca. 1918. (Collection ofShizuko Horiuchi, tions, education, and religion. Japanese American National Museum) w Forty Acre Dreams: Agriculture Cul de Sac: A Suburban War Story and Immigration in the Great Sponsor: Bay Area Video Coalition, Central Valley San Francisco Project Director: Garrett Scott Sponsor: Merced County Courthouse Museum, Amount of Award: $ 10,000 in outright funds Merced Clairemont, a massive subdivision just north of Project Director: Andrea Morris Metz downtown San Diego, once epitomized the Amount of Award: $ 10,000 in outright funds single-family, ranch style homes associated From Punjabi plum farmers in Sutter County, with prosperity and stability in the years to Hmong strawberry farmers in Fresno immediately following WWII. In 1995, four County, the Central Valley's social and agricul¬ years after a final round of factory closures in tural landscape forms one of the most complex San Diego's lucrative military-industrial rural tapestries in the world. Many of these complex devastated Clairemont's "California immigrants, who come from largely agrarian Dream," 35-year-old Sean Nelson stole a tank societies, find that the vast technical and capital from the National Guard armory and went on a resources demanded by agriculture in the hour-long "rampage" through the streets of his Valley often place the traditional dream of hometown until he was killed by police—an owning a small farm beyond reach. This public act which many community residents openly program grant will fund development of a consider "a cry for help." This media grant will traveling exhibit which, through original help fund final scripting and research of a 60- photography, recorded oral histories, and other minute documentary exploring the economic means, will examine the state of rural society in and cultural decline of a postwar suburban the Valley today, focusing on linkages between community. Using Nelson as a focal point, the present and past immigrant groups. The film investigates, through oral interviews with exhibition is scheduled to open in Merced in Birthday Party. Three Rocks, California. From "Forty friends, family, police, real estate agents, April 2000, and to travel the length of the Acre Dreams: Agriculture and Immigration in the Great historians, and city administrators, a commu¬ valley, with confirmed six-week venues in Central Valley." (Photo by Matthew Black) nity "sending a message" about Yuba City, Lodi, Modesto, Fresno, Tulare, and deindustrialization, obsolescence, downward Bakersfield. The Whole World's Watching: mobility, and despair. Images of California's Social Rediscovering Asian American Justice Movements of the 1960s Riverside Sponsor: Center for Asian Pacific America, UC and Early 1970s Riverside Sponsor: Berkeley Art Center Project Director: Deborah Wong Project Director: Robbin Henderson Amount of Award: $ 10,000 in outright funds Amount of Award: $ 10,000 in outright funds By the 1880s, concentrations of Chinese and Northern and Central California, particularly the Japanese immigrants lived in Riverside - the San Francisco Bay Area, were key arenas in the center of Southern California's citrus indus¬ political, social, and cultural upheavals of the try. By the 1920s, however, these groups had 1960s and early 1970s—the Free Speech Move¬ nearly vanished from the area due to anti- ment, the Black Panthers, the Women's Liberation Asian hostility, and these numbers were Movement, the Disabled Rights Movement, the further reduced after the Japanese American demonstrations against HU AC, anti-war protests, internment during 1942-45. This project the formations of the United Farm Worker's grant, building on a CCH planning grant Union, the Native American Movement, and the awarded in August 1998, will fund research counter culture explosion. This public program and creation of an interactive web site explor¬ award will help fund a team of humanities ing the history of Asian Americans in River¬ scholars, participants, and writers in developing side, including recent Korean and South and an exhibition of photojournalism from this event¬ Southeast Asian immigrants. The web site, ful period. Through wall texts, docent-led exhibit scheduled to launch in September 2000, will tours, ancillary public programs, films, a teachers' integrate oral history interviews gathered guide, and a free brochure, the public will have an from Asian Americans and Riverside commu¬ opportunity to meet some of the photo-journalists nity members. The transcribed interviews, and personalities who shaped and documented along with historical documents and archival the era, and to see how communities with com¬ photographs, will be deposited in the River¬ mon struggles came together to build the unique side Central Library, and three related public institutions of California. lectures will be offered beginning in Novem¬ Sea, California, are the subject of a new documentary ber 1999. titled f Salton City — Miracle in the Desert," directed by MEDIA Paul Alexander Juutilainen. "Watts is L.A.!" Cultural Bus Tours SCRIPTS Sponsor: Watts Labor Community Action Brown Zone —Twilight of Committee Crossing the Rainbow Bridge II: Paradise Project Director: Cheryl Branch The Pow-wow Bridge Sponsor: KPBS-TV, San Diego Amount of Award: $ 10,000 in outright funds Sponsor: East Bay Media Center, Berkeley Project Director: Paul Alexander Juutilainen Since the turn of the century, the Los Angeles Project Director: Kat High Amount of Award: $ 10,000 in outright funds community of Watts has served as a way Amount of Award: $ 10,000 in outright funds The Salton Sea is a 45-mile long accident that station for African Americans, European Ancient legend holds that Native Hawaiians was created in 1905 when the flooding Colo¬ Americans, Latinos, Japanese Americans, and visited Coastal California long before Europe¬ rado River overflowed irrigation canals and other ethnic groups. Watts, with housing ans: After their canoes were dashed on the poured, in a 28-foot waterfall, into the Salton stock pre-dating WWII, has seen many rocks, they wandered for years until settling in Sink in Imperial Valley. On its shores today, changes in its day, including Swedish immi¬ the Bo-ma-rhee (the Fall River Valley). There the Salton City, a recreational development pro¬ gration and Black secession, annexation from Hawaiians mingled with the A-juma-wi people moted in the 1950s as a "Miracle in the Desert," the City of Los Angeles, Klu Klux Klan until A-poni-ha (Cacoonman), who lived atop now lies unfinished, abandoned by its original influences, covenant laws, the 1965 riots, and Ako-yet (Mt. Shasta), created a Rainbow Bridge developer and increasingly flooded by rising the civil unrest of 1992. This public program to help some return to the Big Island. This sea levels. Huge bird and fish die-offs and the award, which follows a 1997 CCH planning intersection of two cultures, which has Sonny Bono Salton Sea Reclamation Bill have grant, will support research and development spanned from mythic time into the present- recently brought national media attention to of itineraries, maps, and tours for the "Watts day, recently resulted in two Pow-wows in the area. This script development award is for a is L.A.!" cultural tourism project. The tours, 1993 and 1994 of people of California Indian/ 57-minute documentary that will illuminate the which will be offered free to the public on Hawaiian ancestry. This script development history of failed and abandoned urban plan¬ May 15, 1999, in conjunction with other grant is for the second in a three-part series of ning initiatives while examining what effect "Watts is L.A.!" festivities, will allow partici¬ documentaries exploring the legendary and consumerism, land management policies, and pants to choose from several docent-guided historic connection between California Indians postwar ideas of unlimited technological bus and self-guided walking tours designed and Native Hawaiians. The film will include progress have had on a diverse California to explore the historical development of interviews and location footage taken at the desert community. Watts. second Pow-wow in 1994. West Marin Ranching Oral History Project Sponsor: Marin Agricultural Land Trust, Pt. Reyes Station Project Director: Elisabeth Ptak Amount of Award: $ 10,000 in outright funds Historically significant farm and ranch operations have thrived in West Marin County—the birthplace of the California dairy industry—since the mid-19th century when the Californios began working the land. A succession of immigrants from Ireland, Switzerland, Portugal, and Italy followed in their footsteps. Despite threats of suburban sprawl and commercial development. West Marin ranching has survived to this day, due in large part to the efforts of an unusual alliance of ranchers, environmentalists, planners, and other community members who first came together in the 1970s: the Marin Agricultural Land Trust. This media grant will help fund the final recordings, transcriptions, and studio production for a radio program examining the historical background of West Marin ranching while telling the story of how diverse groups came together to preserve the historic character, environmental integrity, traditional rural cultures, and economic stability of an area that was destined for high-density development. Beef rancher Merv McDonald reflects on stewardship of the land in the West Marin Ranching Oral History Project: "If Broadcast is slated for spring of 1999. you take care of the grass, the grass will take care of you." (Photo by Joan Rosen) We Live Among You: A Small Town, Big Store Takin' Space/Makin' Place Documentary about the Coast Sponsor: MXP Productions, San Rafael Sponsor: The Arroyo Arts Collective, Highland Miwok People, The Federated Project Director: Micha Peled Park Indians of Graton Rancheria Amount of Award: $ 10,000 in outright funds Project Director: Susan Mogul Sponsor: Families Learning Together, San The arrival of the discount mega-store in the Amount of Award: $ 10,000 in outright funds Francisco 1990s has accelerated the urbanization of small How do individuals in Los Angeles today Project Director: Wallace Murray towns and suburbs, where more than half of all define and portray themselves in relation to Amount of Award: $ 10,000 in outright funds Californians live. A new mega-store opens in specific places and to the city as a whole? The Archeological findings indicate that the Coast California each week. This script development experience of everyday life in a heterogeneous Miwok inhabited a network of villages that award is for a one-hour documentary focusing city populated by recent immigrants from spanned the general area of Marin County on a small California town struggling with the many cultures, races, and ethnic groups, has north to Bodega Bay for 3,000 years before the decision to let in a discount mega-store. By become increasingly more complex as arrival of Sir Francis Drake in 1579. Once following both sides of the divisive debate in segregation and tension among often- thought by some anthropologists to be extinct, which residents articulate their values and competing groups complicate personal and these original inhabitants of Marin and Sonoma visions for their community, the film will social perceptions of people and places. This counties are now striving for tribal recognition examine the cultural shift from the traditional script development award is for a public from Congress and the Bureau of Indian Main Street to a modern mall as the new "vil¬ television documentary examining how a Affairs. Their plight involves issues faced by lage square" and the interplay of personal and diverse group of people—the volunteers and over 80,000 unrecognized Native American community values, commerce, democracy, and staff of ARTScorpLA, a non-profit organization people in California today. This script develop¬ local government. dedicated to strengthening neighborhoods, ment award is for a video documentary which, developing life skills, and studying art and through a historical examination of political culture—are building and defining community and social events in California since statehood, in Los Angeles. By means of video diaries, Lalo Guerrero — A Life in Music will bring to light new information on the interviews, and local interactions, the film will Sponsor: International Documentary Association, articulate the interplay between private and Coast Miwok people as well as insight into the North Hollywood concerns and way of life of contemporary public space in an urban environment. Project Director: Sean Carrillo California Indians. Amount of Award: $5,000 in outright funds The work of California musician and composer Eduardo "Lalo" Guerrero has crossed over racial, ethnic, and linguistic barriers for more than six decades. Guerrero, who was presented by President Clinton with the Medal of Arts in 1996 and who has been declared a "National Folk Treasure" by the Smithsonian Institution, is a cultural icon in the Chicano community whose experience, struggles, and values his life and work epitomize. This script development grant is for a one-hour video documentary that will focus on Guerrero's life and career as a living history of the 20th Century as reflected by the Mexican American experience. Through inter¬ views, archival footage, music, and voice-overs, the film will link personal history to social history, explore the impact of racism and dis¬ crimination, and celebrate the confluence of the musical and cultural traditions that Guerrero has helped create. California musician Eduardo "Lalo" Guerrero — Paris, February 1998. (Photo by Sean Carrillo) The public humanities programs listed on these Thru "Picks, Plows and Potatoes: the two pages were either created or supported by Aug. 1, Santa Cruz Region During the the California Council for the Humanities. 1999 Gold Rush" is a multi-faceted Please note that dates and times should be exhibit that examines life around confirmed with the local sponsors. These the Monterey Bay 150 years ago listings are often provided to CCH well before and highlights the changes final arrangements are made. wrought in the region by the Please also check the monthly calendar discovery of gold in 1848. Museum listings on the Council's World Wide Web pages of Art & History, 705 Front Street, at http://www.calhiim.org/calendar.html. Santa Cruz. 408/429-1964. Thru "Parallel Journeys: Migration to Dec. 31, San Marcos, 1873-1998," an exhibit X H I I T S 7 999 of photographs and artifacts, connects the migration and settling experience of early residents with that of more recent immigrants to From "Gold Fever! Untold Stories of the San Marcos Valley. San Marcos the California Gold Rush" exhibit. "Spanish Flat," 1852. Attributed to Historical Society and Museum, J.B. Starkweather. Collection of the 270 W. San Marcos Blvd,San California State Library. Marcos. 760/744-9025. Feb. 12 - "From Hearth to Heaven: Apr. 4 - "Gold Fever! Untold Stories of the Mar. 25 Chinatown Living" is an exhibit Jun. 1 California Gold Rush," the Coun¬ highlighting the Chinese American cil-commissioned, multidimen¬ experience in Los Angeles, devel¬ sional traveling exhibit about the oped by the Museum of Chinese California Gold Rush, moves to the American History. Gallery of El History Museums of San Jose, Prom the Council's "Overland" Traveling Exhibit. Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical 1650 Center Road, San Jose. The tree where Joseph Donner pitched his tent and Monument. 213/680-2525. 408/918-1047. perished, Alder Creek, California. (Photo by Greg MacGregor) Feb. 15- "Sunset Magazine: One Hundred Apr. 8 - "Gold Fever! Untold Stories of the Mar. 19 Years of Western Living, 1898- Jun. 11 California Gold Rush," the Coun¬ 1998" is a CERA-sponsored exhibit cil-commissioned, multidimen¬ Thru "Overland: The California Emi- chronicling the development of one sional traveling exhibit about Mar. 7 grant Trail of 1841-1870" is a of the premiere lifestyle magazines the California Gold Rush, is also CERA-sponsored exhibit of con¬ in the country and its influence on at the San Diego Historical temporary images of the pioneer American lifestyle, from the popu¬ Society, Balboa Park, San Diego. trails juxtaposed with excerpts larization of the barbecue to the use 619/232-6203. from pioneer diaries and other of innovative technologies in home commentary. Sonoma County design. Lompoc Museum, 200 Apr. 27 -The "Distant Gold: Inland South- Museum, 425 Seventh Street, Santa South H St, Lompoc. 805/736-3888. Aug. 1 ern California, 1848-1882" exhibit Rosa. 707/679-1500. explores the impact and legacies of the California Gold Rush in a place Thru "Gold Fever! Untold Stories of the SEPTEMBER 1954 NSET far distant from the gold fields. Mar. 28 California Gold Rush" is the Museum of History and Art, Council-commissioned, multidi¬ Ontario. 225 South Euclid Ave., mensional traveling exhibit about Ontario. 909/983-3198. the California Gold Rush, adapted from the Oakland Museum's major "Gold Fever!" exhibit, with addi¬ tional displays about the Gold A X msfa. • ' Rush's impact on the Fresno area (sponsored by the Fresno County Historical Society). Fresno City Hall, 2600 Fresno Street. Jan. 27 Olga Loya portrays Juana Briones, 209/441-0862. one of early California's most prominent and successful women, Thru "Gold Fever! Untold Stories of the in a CCH "History Alive! Apr. 4 California Gold Rush," the Chautauqua in Pleasanton." Council-commissioned, multidi¬ Pleasanton Branch of the Alameda mensional traveling exhibit about County Library, 400 Old Bernal the California Gold Rush, is also at Avenue, Pleasanton. 925/462- the Chico Museum, 141 Salem 3535 for time and additional Cover of Sunset, September 1934, with In Street, Chico. 916/891-4336. information. Zion, Maynard Dixon (1875-1946). (Photo by Visual Arts Services) f e Feb. 20 Sandra Kamusikiri portrays Biddy Juana Briones as Mason, the former slave who played portrayed by Olga Loya in a CCH a prominent role in the early history "History Alive!" of Los Angeles. A CCH "History Chautauqua. Alive! Chautauqua" program. Yucca Valley Library, 57098 Twentynine Palms Hwy, Yucca Valley. 760/228-5455. Feb. David Fenimore portrays John 25-26 Sutter, owner of the site where the California Gold Rush began, in a CCH "History Alive! Chautauqua" program. Lassen County Historical Charlie Chin portrays Yee Fung Society, Susanville. 530/257-4584. Cheung in a CCH "History Mar. 10 "Do You Think I'll Lug Trunks?: Alive!" Chautauqua. African Americans in Gold Rush Susheel Bibbs portrays Mary Ellen Pleasant California" is a lecture by Shirley Feb. 3 Scholar/performer Charlie Chin in a CCH "History Ann Wilson Moore of CSU Sacra¬ portrays Gold-Rush era healer, Yee Alive!" Chautauqua. mento. Part of the "Gold Rush Fung Cheung in a "History Alive! Sesquicentennial Lectures," a 15- Chautauqua" program sponsored part series featuring outstanding by the Chinese Historical Society of historians. 7 p.m., University Southern California. 7 p.m. Multi¬ Ballroom, Student Union, Califor¬ purpose Room, Castelar Elemen¬ nia State University, Sacramento. tary School, 840 Yale St., Los 916/278-6589. Angeles. 323/222-0856. Mar. 12 "'Bracero Presentations'" is a Feb. 6 The "Golden Era: 1900 to 1929" theatrical presentation featuring seminar explores the development of the work of Lalo Guerrero, fol¬ literature, motion pictures and photog¬ lowed by a discussion. San Jose raphy in the greater San Diego area Stage, San Jose. 408/469-1569 for from the turn of the century until the Feb. 27 Scholar/performer Susheel Bibbs more information. Great Depression. 10 a.m. Winn Room, portrays Mary Ellen Pleasant, who Coronado Public Library, 460 Orange was born a slave and became known Mar. 13 "Flyer's in Search of a Dream," a Avenue, Coronado. 619/522-7393. Part as the "Mother of Civil Rights in CCH-sponsored documentary film of "The Literary History of San California," in a CCH "History about pioneering African Ameri¬ Diego" project. Alive! Chautauqua" program. In Los can aviators, will be screened, Angeles. Sponsored by the California followed by a discussion led by Feb. 10 "Clouded Legacy: The Gold Rush Alumni Association. 877/225-2586. historian Malik Simba. Noon. and California Indians" is a Lyles Theater, Fresno Metropoli¬ lecture by Albert L. Hurtado from Mar. 5 Scholar/performer Dan Lewis tan Museum, 1515 Van Ness. Arizona State. The program is part portrays Mariano Vallejo, the "First 559/441-1444. of the "Gold Rush Sesquicenten- Citizen of California," who held both nial Lectures," a series of 15 public military and civil authority over a lectures by outstanding historians vast area of Northern California focusing on the history and legacies during the Mexican period. A CCH of the California Gold Rush. 7 p.m.. "History Alive! Chautauqua" University Ballroom, Student program. 6 p.m. Sonoma County Union, California State University, Museum, 425 Seventh St., Santa Sacramento. 916/278-6589. Rosa. 707/579-1500. Feb. 17 Scholar/performer Rhonnie Wash¬ ington portrays William General Mariano Leidesdorff, a ship captain and Vallejo as portrayed entrepreneur of African and Danish by Daniel Lewis. descent who became an important General Vallejo is one An;«loj I'fYcwfftrA businessman in early San Fran¬ of thirteen Gold Rush- Oftoo.r 911 FG-'t V'*'. cisco. Eagle Theater, Sacramento. era personalities the In 1932, James Herman Banning, accompanied by Call the African American Portrait Council is bringing to mechanic Thomas C. Allen (pictured above), was the Collection (916/368-3041) for more life in its "History first black pilot to successfully complete a information. Alive!" Chautauqua transcontinental flight. program. Feb. 18 Scholar/performer Charlie Chin Mar. 13 "Modernist Era: 1930 to Present" portrays Gold Rush-era healer, Yee is a conference on San Diego Fung Cheung in a CCH "History writers, publishers, and literati of Alive! Chautauqua" program. recent times. Part of "The Literary 7 p.m. Moraga Library, 1500 St. History of San Diego" series. Mary's Road. 925/376-8294. Mar. 6 Olga Loya portrays Juana Briones, 1 p.m. The Athenaeum Music and one of early California's most promi¬ Arts Library, 1008 Wall Street, La Feb. 19 "Redress Then and Now," a free nent and successful women, in a Jolla. 619/454-5872. lecture/discussion, is part of a CCH "History Alive! Chautauqua" year-long lecture series examining program. San Mateo County Histori¬ Mar. 18 Jose Rivera portrays Jose Jesus, the themes related to the "Common cal Society, 1700 West Hillside Blvd., leader of the Siakumne Yokuts Ground: The Heart of Community" San Mateo. 650/574-6441. who became known as the "Chris¬ exhibit. 7 p.m. Central Hall, Japa¬ tian Horse Thief," in a CCH nese American National Museum "History Alive! Chautauqua" Pavilion, 369 First St., Los Angeles. program. Fresno Historical Soci¬ 213/625-0414. ety, Fresno. 209/441-0862. Mar. 20 Olga Loya portrays Juana Briones, Kate Magruder Apr. Kate Magruder portrays Gold Rush one of early California's most portrays Louise 22 -23 chronicler "Dame Shirley" and prominent and successful women in Clappe, who wrote Roberto Garzo portrays Pio Pico, the a CCH "History Alive! vivid descriptions of last Mexican governor of California, life in the gold camps Chautauqua" program. AAUW, in a series of CCH "History Alive! using the pen name Palo Alto. 650/329-9854. Chautauqua" programs related to "Dame Shirley." A the opening of the "Distant Gold" CCH "History Alive! Mar. 20 "A Discussion with Rafu Shimpo exhibit at the Museum of History Chautauqua." Columnists" is the third program in and Art, Ontario. Call the museum a year-long lecture/discussion for details: 909/983-3198. series examining themes related to the "Common Ground: The Heart Apr. 24 "1999 Poetry Day" is a day-long of Community" exhibit. 1 p.m. festival of poetry readings, workshops, Education Center, Japanese Ameri¬ and workshops celebrating National can National Museum Historic Poetry Month. The Quadrangle, Menlo Building, 369 First St., Los Angeles. Apr. 7 "The Last Fandango: Women, Park College, 1000 El Camino Real, 213/625-0414. Work, and the End of the Califor¬ Atherton. 650/323-6141. nia Gold Rush" is a lecture by Susan Johnson from the University Apr. 24 "Writing the Japanese American The boisterous, of Colorado. Part of the "Gold Rush Experience: Nikkei and Non- diverse, and Sesquicentennial Lectures," a 15- Nikkei" is the fourth program in a thought-provoking part series featuring outstanding year-long lecture/discussion series writings generated by the Gold Rush historians. 7 p.m., 1020 "O" Street, examining themes related to the are anthologized in California State Archives Audito¬ "Common Ground: The Heart of CCH's "Gold Rush: rium, Secretary of State/State Community" exhibit. 1 p.m.. Education A Literary Archives building, Sacramento. Center, Japanese American National Exploration." 916/278-6589. Museum Historic Building, 369 First St., Los Angeles. 213/625-0414. Apr. Sandra Kamusikiri portrays Biddy 12-13 Mason, the former slave who played Apr. 30- The "City of Angels Community a prominent role in the early history May 1 Conference and Festival" explores of Los Angeles. A CCH "History the cultural heritage of Los Angeles Alive! Chautauqua" program. and features such speakers as Mike Placentia Library, 411 E. Chapman, Davis, author of City of Quartz, and Placentia. 714/528-1906. James Allen, co-author of The Ethnic Mar. 23 Michael Kowalewski, editor of Quilt: Population Diversity in Southern CCH's Gold Rush Anthology, California. Los Angeles City College, presents a public lecture on the 855 N. Vermont Ave. 323/953-4037. California Gold Rush. 7 p.m. Community Room, Monterey May 5 "After the Days of the Cows, Fies¬ Public Library, 625 Pacific St. tas, and Honorable Caballeros: 831/646-3932. Forging the Californio Legacy" is a lecture by historian Douglas Monroy Mar. 24 Michael Kowalewski, editor of held in conjunction with the "Distant CCH's Gold Rush Anthology, Gold" exhibit in Ontario. At the presents a public lecture on the Chaffey Communities Cultural California Gold Rush. 7 p.m. Center, Upland. Call the Museum of Turlock Public Library, 550 History and Art, Ontario for details: Minoret. 209/667-9019. 909/983-3198. Mar. 24 "Never Far From Home: being May Jose Rivera portrays Indian tax revolt Chinese in the California Gold 20-21 leader Antonio Garra and Sandra Rush" is lecture by writer Sylvia Captain Healy (right) with his son Kamusikiri portrays biddy Mason, a Sun Minnick. Part of the Gold Fred, circa 1890. Courtesy of the former slave who played a promi¬ Rush Sesquicentennial Lectures, University of Alaska, Fairbanks. nent role in the early history of Los a 15-part series of lectures by Angeles, in a series of "History outstanding historians. 7 p.m., 828 "I" Street. Tsakopoulos Library Apr. 17 Premiere screening and reception Alive! Chautauqua" programs Galleria, Main Library, Sacra¬ for the CCH-supported documen¬ presented in conjunction with the mento. 916/278-6589. tary film "The Odyssey of Captain "Distant Gold" exhibit at the Healy," which highlights the life of Museum of History and Art, Mar. 25 Kate Magruder portrays "Dame Captain Michael A. Healy (1839- Ontario. Call the museum for Shirley," who wrote marvelous 1904) an ex-slave and one of the details: 909/983-3198. first-hand accounts of life in the best-known sailors on the Pacific California gold fields. A CCH Coast during the era. 7 p.m. Aboard "History Alive! Chautauqua" the square-rigger BALCLUTHA. program. Pleasanton Branch Hyde St. Pier, San Francisco. Alameda County Library. 400 510/451-9226. Old Bernal Ave, Pleasanton. 925/462-3535. Apr. 21 "After California: Later Gold Rushes of the Pacific Basin" is a Apr. 1 Kate Magruder portrays "Dame lecture by Jeremy Mouat from the Shirley," the author a vibrant University of Athabasca. Part of the first-hand accounts of life in the "Gold Rush Sesquicentennial California gold fields. A CCH Lectures," a 15-part series featuring "History Alive! Chautauqua" outstanding historians. 7 p.m., program. Sutter County Library, California State Archives Audito¬ 750 Forbes Ave., Yuba City. rium, Secretary of State/State Jose Rivera portrays Antonio 530/822-7137. Archives Building, 1020 "O" Street, Garra in a CCH "History Sacramento. 916/278-6589. Alive!" Chautauqua. Ricardo O. Alvarado: Past Photographs, Ever-present Visions Editor's Note: The Council recently supported "Through My Father's Eyes: Pioneers of the San Francisco Filipino American Community," an exhibit of photographs taken by Ricardo Alvarado in the 1950s and 1960s portraying the Filipino Ameri¬ can community of San Francisco. The exhibit, held at the San Francisco Main Library, included a symposium exploring related topics; the following essay, by Dr. David Matsuda, Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at the College of San Mateo, and consultant to the Alvarado Project, was the opening paper. To celebrate the photographs of Ricardo O. Alvarado is not merely to pay homage to a significant, "undiscovered" artist of color. It is rather to celebrate the work of a Filipino American who saw in the United States a diversity that others either did not see, or at least did not acknowledge. To fully appreciate Alvarado's life's work, we must try to under¬ stand him as someone who was simultaneously a product of his Musicians, California, ca. 1950. This portrait was taken of one of Alvarado's favorite subjects: mixed ethnic gatherings in California. time, and, more importantly, as (Photo by Ricardo Alvarado) someone who transcended the limitations of his time. Because the and established the networks that hoods. In this setting, Alvarado's into a kind of cultural lockstep — diversity that Ricardo Alvarado pushed and pulled the Manong photographs of San Francisco's has gone out of fashion. It has was born into in his native Philip¬ diaspora to all points between, and Western Addition both transcend been replaced by the metaphor of pines influenced his perspective on to the mainland United States. and are necessary correctives to the the "salad bowl," and the theory the diversity he found in the In sum, Ricardo Alvarado came unfounded beliefs that racial and that we remain "culturally plural" United States, Alvarado's work from a place of acknowledged ethnic groups of the time lived in and ethnically unique. challenges monolithic stereotypes diversity. His recognition of this enclaves and, with the possible While cultural pluralism is an while capturing the rich internal diversity, both at home and abroad, exception of the shop floor, did not important theory in its own right. differences among Filipino-Ameri¬ makes him "a product of his time." mix. cans, or Pinoy. The United States that he came to appears, in retrospect, to have had Between Assimilation A Norm of Diversity little knowledge or recognition of and Pluralism ...the diversity that The Philippine archipelago that the diversity in its culturally and Assimilation — the idea that we Ricardo Alvarado left in 1928 ethnically heterogeneous neighbor¬ are a "melting pot," that we merge Ricardo Alvarado consisted then, as it does now, of 7,100 islands. In addition to eight was born into in his major dialects, which include Cebuano, Tagalog, and Ilocano, native Philippines there are seventy other languages — some as distinct from one influenced his another as Khmer is from Swedish — spoken among some 220 self- perspective on the identifying groups. Cultural diversity was the norm diversity he found in the Philippines of Alvarado's day. This diversity spanned the in the United spectrum from tribes like the Igorat and Ilongot, nomadic hunter- States... gatherers who lived in isolated areas in small groups of 25; to the peoples of mixed Malay, Negrito, South Sea Island, Chinese, Spanish, its real significance is as a correc¬ Moorish, Japanese, Australian, and tive to an over-determined theory American origins, living together, of assimilation. It is now common to the tune of 2,136 per square knowledge that we will never mile, in the mestizo barrios of completely merge into one culture. 1920s Manila. However, we now extol exces¬ As the economy of these islands sively the virtues of pluralism. became increasingly centralized Neither assimilation nor pluralism under a few foreign corporations in isolation capture the subtleties, and elite nationals, members of the complexities, and dynamics of same matriarchal extended families cultural history or ethnic relations. worked as rural planters and For example, if you are of harvesters, and urban processors Filipino heritage, as was Alvarado, and shippers. As these family- but living in America, are you not based, rural-urban networks an American? Are you not a formalized, more people found product — victim, beneficiary, or their way to the cities, and eventu¬ what have you — of the best and ally to points of embarkation. worst that the United States has to It was there, in relatively metro¬ offer? Are you not, to some con¬ politan areas like Manila, Cebu, tested degree, culturally assimi¬ and Davao, that previously distinct lated? peoples became multi-lingual, Migrant Farm Children, California, ca. 1950. The earlier Filipino migrant farm formed commercial alliances, communities maintained strong connections with their urban counterparts; Alvarado took pooled resources, intermarried. this portrait on one of his visits to local farm areas. (Photo by Ricardo Alvarado) California Humanities Network's MOTHEREAD'S Third Annual Family Literacy www.THINKCALIFORNIA.net Launched Reception Larger than Ever Set your browser to www.THlNKCAUFORNlA.net to access the newest Community. Responsibility. Unconditional love. These are some of California culture resource. This February, the world will have new means the themes you can find in the best children's books. They are also of connecting with the latest news, best minds, model projects, funding among the ideas that the parents in MOTHEREAD are trained to look opportunities, and to communicate with organizations and individuals for, to relate to their own lives, and eventually to read about and involved with creating and conducting cultural programs about California. discuss with their families at home. The California Humanities Network's www.THINKCALIFORNIA.net will At MOTHEREAD's third annual literacy exhibit reception, jointly allow us to share best practices, communicate with one another, and hosted on November 9, 1998, with the Los Angeles County Office of disseminate crucial news and information affecting cultural programming Education's (LACOE) Head Start Regionalized Family Services, agen¬ in California. You will find a searchable directory called California Thinkers, cies working in partnership with CCH's MOTHEREAD/FATHEREAD created in partnership with the California Studies Association. California program came together to celebrate Family Literacy Month. That Thinkers will list scholars, writers, and culture bearers who have much to afternoon, "Stories from the Heart," exhibits created by parents and offer in the way of speaking and advising about California culture. You staff from ten different community-based agencies and L.A. County will also find a growing directory of model humanities projects to help organizations, showcased the individual and shared successes of a you get your creative juices flowing: Find out what worked elsewhere and program which grows larger every year. then talk directly with the person who created the project! If you think you MOTHEREAD/FATHEREAD helps train the staff of participating have a model project to contribute to this directory, apply on-line! Com¬ agencies to facilitate groups of adult learner parents in reading aloud municate with your colleagues by joining the CHN listserv, or contribute and discussing books, both among themselves and at home. Parents your thoughts on a discussion board. The site will also offer funding are guided in how to find themselves in the characters, pictures, and information, including CCH's new Community Discussion and Commu¬ stories of children's books, and are shown ways to bring home that nity Heritage grants. Get the guidelines here and apply for the Commu¬ message with dramatic reading skills and related interactive activities nity Discussion Grant on-line! with their children. CCH also provides participating agencies with We hope that www.THINKCALIFORNIA.net will serve you and your children's books. Upon completion of the program, parents receive a community well as you contemplate how best to strengthen public hu¬ certificate and book to start a library of their own. The program now manities discussions about California. involves 30 agencies and has 85 active facilitators. It is no surprise, then, that the MOTHEREAD reception has become, 1999 Chautauqua Grants Increased above all, a wonderful opportunity to share stories. Amidst presenta¬ Are you still seeking the perfect Sesquicentennial program? Look no tions by LACOE's parent mentor group Migrant Education, and "We further: The California Council for the Humanities has received additional Tell Stories," a touring literacy-advocacy performance group, funding for the History Alive! Chautauqua program. The new grant MOTHEREAD/FATHEREAD parents testified to the profound, uplift¬ amounts will be $700 for a mini-residency (1 large plus 2 smaller perfor¬ ing effect the literacy program has had on their and their families' mances) and $500 for a single public performance. This represents a grant lives. One participant, who has since gone on to become a increase of $200, which will help defray the costs for travel and publicity. MOTHEREAD facilitator, spoke movingly of the support she found The new Chautauqua grants will be available after February 15,1999, and upon first joining the parents group, and of how surprised and de¬ apply only to grants awarded after that date. If you would like a grant lighted her children were with the time they have spent reading application or would like other information on the History Alive! program, together. please call Joan Jasper, Chautauqua Scheduler, 888/543-4434. The ten literacy exhibits on display told similar stories in many ways. Friends of the Family, which was honored that day as Gold Fever! Keeps on Spreading MOTHEREAD Partner Agency of the Year for having conducted 32 different MOTHEREAD parent groups in 1998, created a "Wall of The traveling exhibition Gold Fever! Untold Stories of the California Gold Literacy": The wall, consisting of bricks of such barriers to literacy as Rush continues to be a big hit in communities throughout the State, further fear, racism, and hopelessness, is broken down by sunny photographs enriching the partnerships between CCH and the museum and commu¬ of the program's successes and many words of empowerment in cut¬ nity institutions who belong to the California Exhibition Resources Alli¬ out hearts. Other exhibits showcased the poetry of participants and ance (CERA). former head-start children, embroidery, book-making, and perfor¬ CCH has recently purchased two suitcase exhibits from the Oakland mance. The exhibits, which were all based on the books read in the Museum Education Department to travel with the Gold Fever! exhibit. program, remained on exhibit at LACOE for the remainder of Family Entitled "Gold Rush Tools, Treasures, and Thingamajigs," the outreach kit Literacy Month. includes replica artifacts, music, prints of artwork, and many more hands- For more information about CCH's MOTHEREAD/FATHEREAD on activities reflecting the daily life of Gold Rush participants. The muse¬ program in Los Angeles, please contact Debra Colman, Program ums hosting Gold Fever! can use these educational materials with school Coordinator, at 213/623-5993. groups and to enrich the experience of visitors. Please see the calendar on pages 5-7 to see when Gold Fever! will be in your area. Secondly, if you are of Filipino- group in a first-world country, and and integrating their own ways situational ethnicity, as individuals American heritage, are you not a culturally introverted people. into, contemporary American are accepted as insiders by mem¬ aware of difference? Is not your Instead, what we see are images traditions, and freely mixing in the bers of other ethnic groups. identity, despite your best efforts, of Pinoy from all walks of rural extant ethnic diversity of the day. In the photographic corpus of in fact identities, negotiated be¬ and urban life, participating in, We see in these photos evidence of Ricardo O. Alvarado there is an tween so-called mainstream and inclusive worldview, and not one tributary cultures? Are you not, to based on simplistic, politically some contested degree, enmeshed correct notions of authenticity. It is in cultural pluralism? in his photographs of the past that Assimilation and pluralism are we find ever-present visions of not polar opposites from which we diversity, the tension between must choose one or the other. assimilation and pluralism, and Rather, they are a mutually depen¬ internal differences within ethnic dent, binary pair, and it is the groups like the Pinoy. historical tension between the two, Alvarado recorded a diversity in and not the exclusion of one or the 1940s and 50s America that would other, that create internal differ¬ otherwise have gone undocu¬ ences within ethnic groups like the mented. Through his work, the Pinoy. history of urban and rural Filipino Because Alvarado's photo¬ Americans unfolds before us, graphic record shows an under¬ allowing us to revel in the interac¬ standing of the tension between tion and cooperation within assimilation and pluralism, he is heretofore unacknowledged able to transcend the monolithic culturally and ethnically diverse stereotypes of Filipinos as submis¬ American localities. sive mail-order brides, an unso¬ phisticated third-world ethnic San Francisco Farmer's Market, ca. 1950. Stall #46, with Bernal Heights in the background. (Photo by Ricardo Alvarado) n n e Council Retreat in Riverside on March 1 1-13, 1999 New Faces in the Council's Offices The California Council for the Humanities' retreat will be held on Sarah Ashcroft joined the Council staff in November March 11-13, 1999, at the Mission Inn in Riverside. For additional as office assistant, providing administrative support information, please contact Sarah Ashcroft in the Council's San Francisco to the Council Board and executive director. Before office at 415/391-1474. coming to the Council, Ms. Ashcroft was a research assistant in the Department of Modern Prints and New Council Board Members Announced Drawings at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. Sarah received her B.A. in art history and Scott L. Bottles is Senior Vice President and Principal, sociology from Georgetown University in May 1998. Real Estate Merchant Banking, Capital Markets Group, at Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. His 1987 book, Los Angeles and the Automobile, which examined the development of Southern California in response to the automobile, recently won the Donald H. Flueger Keren Ness has been hired to join the Council's Los Angeles office as Award from the Historical Society of Southern office assistant, beginning January 18,1999. Keren is currently a docent at California. Bottles has served on several humanities the Multimedia Learning Center of the Museum of Tolerance, and was a and cultural affairs boards and holds a Ph.D. in research assistant for the Global Action and Information Network. Keren American History and an M.B.A. in Finance and has a B.A. in history and environmental studies from UC Santa Cruz. Accounting from UCLA. Mark Pothier became CCH's new editor this past November. Before joining the Council staff, Mark was Edward Castillo, Professor of Native American staff writer in the Publications Office at San Francisco Studies at Sonoma State University, has served State University, where he wrote and edited informa¬ nationwide as a consultant for museums and many tional and development materials. Mark holds an humanities-related endeavors, including the NEH- M.F.A. in Creative Writing from San Francisco State funded Lost River: The Modoc Indian War of 1872-1873. University. His contributions to the Smithsonian's California volume in the Handbook of North American Indians are a standard in the field of California Indian-white relations. Castillo holds an M.A. in Anthropology from UC Berkeley. Judy Ramos recently joined CCH as MOTHEREAD assistant in the Los Angeles office. Judy comes to the Council after working for more than four years as a Pedro Castillo is a Professor of History and American teacher's assistant at Nueva Vista Magnet Elementary Studies at UC Santa Cruz, where he teaches courses School. She is currently working toward her B.A. on California, the West, and Mexican-American with a double major in child development and history, and serves as co-director of the Chicano sociology at Cal State Los Angeles. Latino Research Center. His most recent book. The American Nation, was published last year by Prentice Hall. Castillo, who has been involved in several NEH and CCH proposals as a humanities advisor and panel reviewer, holds a Ph.D. in History from UC Santa Barbara. Proposal-Writing Workshops Offered The Council's program staff has scheduled the following proposal¬ Rafaela Castro is a research librarian in the Humani¬ writing workshops for people interested in applying for the Council's ties/Social Science Department of the Shields Library grants in the public humanities. The next deadline for major grants is at UC Davis, where she is in charge of acquisitions for April 1,1999. all areas of UC Davis' ethnic studies programs. Castro has served as librarian and director of a bilingual All proposal-writing workshops are free, but advance registration is vocational training project of the U.S. Dept, of Educa¬ required. When calling the office nearest you, please also request and read tion and as assistant director of Adelante, Inc., an the current Guide to the Grant Program before attending the workshop. adult education training program for Hispanic immigrants and Chicano high-school dropouts. She In San Francisco: holds an M.L.S. in Library Science and an M.A. in Wednesday, February 10, 6:30-8:00 p.m., at Pro Arts, 461 Ninth St., Folklore from UC Berkeley. Oakland. Both public and media project grants will be discussed at this workshop, which is hosted jointly by Pro Arts and the City of Oakland: Parks, Recreation and Deborah Kaufman is a documentary film producer Cultural Services-Cultural Arts Division. and director, and partner in Snitow-Kaufman Produc¬ tions, specializing in work that deals with social and Thursday, February 11, 7-8:00 p.m.. Film Artzs Foundation cultural issues. Her last film. Blacks and Jews, won 346 9th St. (between Folsom and Harrison), San Francisco. numerous awards, was broadcast on PBS, and was Media projects will be the focus of this workshop, which is hosted jointly by showcased at Sundance and other film festivals. Prior to California Newsreel, Cine Accion, Film Arts Foundation, Frameline, Jewish Film working on film production, Kaufman was the found¬ Festival, and National Asian American Telecommunications Association. ing director of the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival For more information, contact Re-Cheng Tsang, program officer, at and has been active in a wide variety of multicultural, 415/391-1474. community, and arts organizations. Kaufman holds a J.D. from UC Hastings College of the Law. In Los Angeles: January 22 — Lompoc January 29 — L.A. Office Charlene Wear Simmons is Assistant Director for General Law and February 18 — Ventura Government at the California Research Bureau (CRB) in the California February 19 — San Luis Obispo State Library, where, in addition to providing public policy research to the February 26 — L.A. Office Governor and Legislature, she has initiated and manages the Internet information project CEDAR (California Economic Diversification and Both public and media project grants will be discussed at all workshops. Atten¬ Revitalization), and the California Family Impact Seminar (CAFIS), a dance will be limited to 20; for reservation and information on times and loca¬ foundation-supported family policy project. Simmons, who holds a Ph.D. tions, call 213/623-5993. in Political Science from UC Davis, has also worked in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, the California Assembly, and has served as In San Diego: Federal Liaison for the Employment Development Department. Thursday, February 18,10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.. Mission Trails Regional Park located at One Father Junipero Serra Trial, San Diego. Both public and media project grants will be discussed. For more information, call 619/235-2307. e n