Civil Rights Activist Dolores Huerta
March 19, 2020 @ 6:30PM at the Museum of Ventura County!
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Dolores Huerta is a civil rights activist and community organizer. She has worked for labor rights and social justice for over 50 years. 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. Dolores Huerta has received numerous awards: among them The Eleanor Roosevelt Humans Rights Award from President Clinton in 1998. In 2012 President Obama bestowed Dolores with The Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the United States. Tickets are on-sale now!
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Huelga! Photographs from the Frontlines by Jorge Corralejo
Special Opening Reception on March 14, 2020 @ 2—4PM at the Museum of Ventura County!
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Jorge Corralejo, a longtime local activities and civic leader, will display his history of work at both the Museum of Ventura County and the Agriculture Museum in Santa Paula for this special two-location exhibit. Join us at the Museum of Ventura County on March 14, 2020 @ 2—4 PM for a special opening reception! Admission is free for Museum members, $5 for nonmembers. “Huelga! Photographs from the Frontlines” is a photography exhibit from the 1970’s labor strikes featured along with memorabilia from the collection of longtime local activist and civic leader, Jorge Corralejo. Visitors will learn about his time with United Farm Workers, working alongside Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta from the Boston A & P strikes to the streets of Oxnard.
Huelga! Photographs from the Frontlines by Jorge Corralejo will be on display from March 14, 2020—April 26, 2020 at the Museum of Ventura County and from March 20, 2020-August 2, 2020 the Agriculture Museum in Santa
Paula.
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Oxnard Film Society Screening of “Dolores”
March 9, 2020 @ 3:30 and 6:30PM at the Plaza Cinemas 14 in Oxnard
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In conjunction with the upcoming exhibit Huelga! Photographs from the Frontlines by Jorge Corralejo and the Civil Rights Activist Dolores Huerta speaking event, The Museum of Ventura County is excited to co-sponsor with the Oxnard Film Society for two special screenings of “Dolores” on Monday, March 9, 2020 @ 3:30 PM and 6:30 PM at the Plaza Cinemas 14 in Downtown Oxnard. Tickets can be purchased at the door.
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The Museum of Ventura County Receives a Grant to
Digitize Forty Volumes of the Ventura County Historical Society Quarterly Journal
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The Museum of Ventura County has received a grant through CRG, or the California Revealed Grant, to digitize forty volumes of the Ventura County Historical Society Quarterly Journal. The Museum’s Research Library and Archives will digitize 40-years of historical writing, spanning 1955 to 1995, to be made available through the California Revealed website and on the Museum’s Research Library and Archives webpage in the Spring of 2020.
“The Ventura County Historical Society Quarterly Journal is an immensely important local history resource. The Quarterly covers topics from the creation of the county to major disasters to important historical figures and everything in between,” says Research Library and Archives Director Deya Terrafranca. “The digitization of the first 40 volumes will result in a substantial increase in the public’s access to local history and cultural information.”
The digitization and online access to its collections is an integral part of the Museum’s reinvention. The Reinvention Campaign includes six pillars: Relevant Programs, Sustainable Funding, Transparent Governance, Robust Partnerships, Compelling Vision, and Accessible Collections. The Museum’s Library and Archives is working diligently to increase access to the collections by making its catalogs available online and digitizing historically rich collections like the Journal. California Revealed is a State Library-funded initiative to help California’s public libraries, in partnership with other local heritage groups, digitize, preserve, and serve online historically significant Californiana (e.g., books, documents, audiovisual recordings, and already digitized materials) to the public.
Image: Main Street and Figueroa in 1863. Museum of Ventura County Image PN261. The Journal of Ventura County “Roll Over The Ranchos”, 1955, 2019.
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Are you a member of the Museum of Ventura County? Explore, discover and celebrate at the Museum everyday for free!
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Become a member today and enjoy benefits that include free or discounted admission to events, lectures, and classes, advanced notice of all events and exhibits, invitation to annual Member events, and more!
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Ventura Music Festival 2020 Preview
Sunday, February 16, 2020 @ 3:30—5PM Join us at the Museum for this free event and learn about the 2020 Ventura Music Festival lineup of talented musicians!
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La Conchita: A Different Kind of Paradise Author Talk
February 22, 2020 @ 3—4PM Dr. Bonnie G. Kelm, Ph.D will be discussing her book “La Conchita: A Different Kind of Paradise”. Admission is free for museum members, $5 for nonmembers.
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FOTM: A Conversation with Kim Schoenstadt
Sunday, February 23, 2020 @ 3—4:30PM Focus on the Masters kicks off its 25th Season of their award winning Artist Spotlight interview series with Kim Schoenstadt at the Museum of Ventura County.
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Tortilla Flats Legacy Mural Dedication
Sunday, March 1, 2020 @ 11AM—1PM This exciting new public art project features the lives of Tortilla Flats residents displaced when the 101 Freeways was built through the west of Ventura.
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VC Master Gardeners: Grow Your Own Tomatoes (AG)
Thursday, February 20, 2020 @ 12—2PM Join in on the fun at the Agriculture Museum in Santa Paula with a new gardening topic each month presented by Ventura County’s top Master Gardeners. Advanced registration advised.
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VC Master Gardeners: Creating a Shade Garden (AG)
Thursday, March 19, 2020 @ 12—2PM Join in on the fun at the Agriculture Museum in Santa Paula with a new gardening topic each month presented by Ventura County’s top Master Gardeners. Advanced registration advised.
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Agriculture Career Exploration Day (AG)
March 13, 2020 @ 11AM—2PM This portion of Ag Career Exploration Day is open only to registered schools. Please contact the Museum’s education department to pre-register your class or with any questions by emailing education@venturamuseum.org
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Visit the Museum’s event calendar below and plan your next trip to the Museum of Ventura County! Learn about the art, history and culture of Ventura County through our various lectures, film screenings, special exhibit openings, Free First Sunday activities, and more!
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Friday-Sunday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.!
The Albinger Archaeological Museum is located next to Mission San Buenaventura and was once the home to 5 different cultures spanning 3,500 years of history. Learn about the Chumash Indians, Chinese immigrants and others who resided on the site by viewing displays, and archaeological digs uncovered in 1974.
Displays of stone bowls, shell beads, arrowheads, bone whistles, crucifixes, bottles, buttons and pottery inside the exhibit building are complimented outside by excavations of the foundations of the lost mission church, Native American barracks, a tomol (plank canoe reproduction), a well and the oldest standing structure in Ventura County – the mission water filtration building.
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California Cool: Mid-century Modernism on the Central Coast
CLOSES FEBRUARY 23, 2020! Step back in time to a cooler and more sophisticated era of design. This new exhibit explores the popular design movement in interior & graphic design, architecture, and urban development from 1945 to 1965.
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Patterns on the Land at the Ag
After a successful showing at City Hall, Patterns on the Land returns to exhibit at the Agriculture Museum with additional maps and uncovered history to share!
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Woven Earth
CLOSES FEBRUARY 23, 2020! Woven Earth displays a wide range of hand-woven baskets from the Museum’s extensive collection and focuses on California’s native communities and the traditions involved in making these baskets.
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Buenaventura Art Association 34th Annual Open Competition
Buenaventura Art Association is gathering the best recent works by talented amateur and professional artists from throughout Southern California and the nation to showcase in Ventura in early 2020.
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Virgencitas at the Ag
Virgencitas showcases a select group of artistic interpretations of Mary in a variety of mediums from artists in and around Ventura County. Those artists include Xavier Montes, Ray Cirerol, Syliva Raz, Gayel Childress, Heriberto Luna and more.
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Throwing Shade at the Ag
Throwing Shade provides a simple, focused examination of the coast live oak tree and its woodland community of plants and animals. Discover how the oak survives wildfire, drought (hot and dry periods), and how it reproduces.
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Huelga! Photographs from the Frontlines by Jorge Corralejo
Jorge Corralejo, a longtime local activities and civic leader, displays his history of work at both the Museum of Ventura County and the Agriculture Museum in Santa Paula for this special two-location exhibit beginning March 2020.
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Ojai Studio Artists: Mending the Divide
“Ojai Studio Artists: Mending the Divide” features work from the Ojai Studio Artists and is on display at the Museum of Ventura County from February 29, 2020 – April 11, 2020 in the Martin V. and Martha K. Smith Pavilion.
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Nordic Myths and Legends: George Stuart Historical Figures
On display at the Museum of Ventura County from March 6, 2020—June 15, 2020, Nordic Myths and Legends captures the harsh and brutal aspects of Nordic mythic traditional sagas.
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The Journal of
Ventura County
Roll Over The Ranchos
The Museum of Ventura County is pleased to announce that copies of the Journal of Ventura County’s newest edition, Volume 61 containing “Roll Over the Ranchos” and “The Wet Winter of 1884”, are now available for sale in the Museum’s store!
Originally published in 1955, these stories have been updated with additional photographs and both “A Roll Over the Ranchos” and “The Wet Winter of 1884” have been enhanced with updated footnotes, including biographical information and additional footnotes to help the reader place the geographic references and the people in that long ago time. The Journal is made possible by the generosity of Jim Holden, Linda Hadlen, Grace Brandt, and Mary Stewart.
The journal is available for purchase for $10 in the museum store and the e-book version is available for purchase exclusively through Amazon.
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Major funding for these programs is made possible by the City of
San Buenaventura, the County of Ventura and private and community donors.
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Museum of Ventura County • 100 East Main St. Ventura, CA 93001 • 805.653.0323
Agriculture Museum • 926 Railroad Ave. Santa Paula, CA 93060 • 805.525.3100
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