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An Evening with DOLORES HUERTA!
ORGANIZATION: The Mexican Museum
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In one week, join the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) in a conversation on activism, feminism, and the future of America with revolutionary and inspirational leader Dolores Huerta.
We are looking for volunteers to help us as ushers throughout the night!
Helping us inside the Herbst Theatre, you will have the opportunity to see Latinx studies professor Maria L. Quintana in a conversation with Dolores Huerta about her life and work as a revolutionary and inspirational leader dedicated to activism, feminism, and the future of America.
ABOUT DOLORES HUERTA
Dolores Huerta is a labor leader and community organizer who has dedicated over 50 years of her life working for civil rights and social justice. In 1962 she and Cesar Chavez founded the United Farm Workers union. She served as vice-president and played a critical role in many of the union’s accomplishments for four decades.
In 2002, she received the Puffin/Nation $100,000 prize for Creative Citizenship which she used to establish the Dolores Huerta Foundation (DHF). DHF connects groundbreaking community-based organizing to state and national movements to: register and educate voters, advocate for education reform, bring about infrastructure improvements in low-income communities, advocate for greater equality for the LGBTQ+ community, and create strong leadership development.
Dolores has received numerous awards including The Eleanor Roosevelt Humans Rights Award from President Clinton in l998. In 2012 President Obama bestowed Dolores with The Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the United States.
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About The Mexican Museum
Location:
649 Mission St Suite 419, Private Offices, Not Open to Public, San Francisco, CA 94105, US
Mission Statement
The soul and spirit of the arts and cultures of Mexico and the Americas are fundamentally linked. Through its programs, The Mexican Museum voices the complexity and richness of Latino art throughout the Americas, encouraging dialogue among the broadest public.
Description
The Mexican Museum, initially located in the heart of San Francisco's Mission District, was founded in 1975 by San Francisco resident and artist Peter RodrÃguez. The museum was the realization of Mr. RodrÃguez's vision that an institution be created in the United States to exhibit the aesthetic expression of the Mexican and Mexican-American people. Today, our vision has expanded to reflect the evolving scope of the Mexican, Chicano, and Latino experience.
In 1982 The Mexican Museum moved to Fort Mason Center in San Francisco's Marina District, where it has amassed a permanent collection of over 16,000 art objects. This spectacular collection is unique in the nation and includes Pre-Hispanic, Colonial, Popular, Modern and Contemporary Mexican and Latino, and Chicano Art.
The museum closed it's Fort Mason Center location in 2018 and is currently preparing for the completion of our permanent home which will be built in downtown San Francisco's Yerba Buena Arts District. The museum continues to offer offsite educational and public programming throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
Herbst Theatre401 Van Ness AvenueSan Francisco, CA 94102
DATE POSTED
November 14, 2019
SKILLS
- History
- Bilingual
GOOD FOR
- Teens
- People 55+
REQUIREMENTS
- Must be at least 16
- 5:30pm to 9:00pm