California State Parks Launches New Exhibit at Santa Cruz Mission State Historic Park on Sunday, Nov. 2
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Newsroom@parks.ca.gov
SANTA CRUZ —California State Parks invites the public to its new exhibit at Santa Cruz Mission State Historic Park titled People Who Lived Here, a new multimedia tour that explores history through personal accounts of individuals in the Santa Cruz Mission. Just in time for Native American Heritage Month in November, this exhibit and the narrative recordings have been co-created with contemporary Native American community members.
WHAT: People Who Lived Here Exhibit
WHEN: Sunday, Nov. 2
Launch event at 1:30 p.m.
Presentation at 2 p.m.
Exhibit tours to follow, last tour at 4 p.m.
Tours available virtually after launch event
WHERE: Santa Cruz Mission State Historic Park
144 School Street, Santa Cruz
WHO: California State Parks Staff and Native American Tribal Members
RSVP: Please RSVP to attend the event at this link.
The event is free but spaces are limited.
This exhibit offers the opportunity to encounter history through narratives of historical individuals who lived in the Santa Cruz Mission Adobe. The People Who Lived Here is comprised of audio recordings and artistic renderings by contemporary California Native Americans who share multiple perspectives, difficult details, and tender insights describing the life events of Isidro Sauset, Lorenzo Asisara, Maria Buena, Petra Nicanor and Clementina Montero, all of whom witnessed mission life and its impacts in this space.
This exhibit was co-created with Native American community members whose ancestors experienced the California Mission system and was based on research by Dr. Martin Rizzo-Martinez. After three years of working together, State Parks is proud to share this opportunity to witness the history of the Santa Cruz Mission through the voices of contemporary California Native Americans.
The People Who Lived Here exhibit is part of the ongoing work of State Parks, through the Reexamining Our Past Initiative, to identify inadequate interpretive programs or exhibits that fall short in fully contextualizing California’s history in parks. The format of an audio tour allows for visitors to choose to opt-in to the experience, as this exhibit does describe hard histories from the Santa Cruz Mission.
The multimedia tour is available as a walking tour or can be accessed remotely via the Virtual Adventurer App starting Nov. 2.
Santa Cruz Mission Adobe. Photo from California State Parks.
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