Watsonville is in the Heart: Digital Archive Launch & Community Talk Story

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Watsonville is in the Heart: Digital Archive Launch & Community Talk Story

Date:: Saturday, April 9, 2022
Time:: 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Location:: Museum of Art and History
Categories:: Presentation Special Collections & Archives

On April 9, come celebrate the launch of the Watsonville is in the Heart Digital Archive. The new archive features oral history recordings, original documents, and family artifacts that capture the rich history of Filipino life and labor in California’s Pajaro Valley. Learn more about the UCSC Watsonville is in the Heart research initiative and its partnership with The Tobera Project, and share in conversation with Watsonville community members working to uplift stories of the manong generation, the first wave of Filipino workers to arrive in the United States at the start of the twentieth century.

The event will include a Talk Story panel, “Women of the Pajaro Valley,” to highlight three community members at the forefront of this memory-preservation work: Juanita Sulay Wilson, Eva Alminiana Monroe, and Antoinette DeOcampo Lechtenberg.

Learn more and register to attend.

Location: The Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, 705 Front St., Santa Cruz, CA

Free & Open to the Public

This event is sponsored by the University Library (which has archived the oral histories created as part of this initiative), California Humanities, The Humanities Institute, and the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History.

Land Acknowledgement

The land on which we gather is the unceded territory of the Awaswas-speaking Uypi Tribe. The Amah Mutsun Tribal Band, comprised of the descendants of indigenous people taken to missions Santa Cruz and San Juan Bautista during Spanish colonization of the Central Coast, is today working hard to restore traditional stewardship practices on these lands and heal from historical trauma.

The land acknowledgement used at UC Santa Cruz was developed in partnership with the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band Chairman and the Amah Mutsun Relearning Program at the UCSC Arboretum.