The celebration this year, 53 years after Chicano activists first occupied the space to create the park, holds special significance on the Aztec calendar, where 'there’s a new beginning year 53,' one park leader explained.
For the first time since 2019, thousands of San Diegans will converge in Barrio Logan to celebrate Chicano Park Day in person next weekend.
But in April 1970, when crews began to build a parking lot for a California Highway Patrol substation where the community had been pleading for a park, hundreds of people took over the site. The 53rd annual Chicano Park Day is scheduled 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, April 22. It is open to the public and will feature a car show, variety of vendors and food trucks, family-friendly activities, guest speakers and nearly two dozen performances by Chicano musicians and traditional dancers.
This year’s Chicano Park Day theme is “Kindling the New Fire,” as a way to celebrate that new beginning. This is also the first year the adjacent Chicano Park Museum and Cultural Center, which sits at the north end of the park, will be open for the Chicano Park Day celebration.
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