MCL 2007 Events Calendar

MAYME A. CLAYTON LIBRARY & CULTURAL CENTER

MCL is in Institution Building Mode

The Mayme A. Clayton Library & Cultural Center has acquired a new home for the Mayme A. Clayton Collection of African American History & Culture.  The Clayton Collection has languished for years without an appropriate home.  Now, with the cooperation of the County of Los Angeles and the City of Culver City, California the Clayton Collection will be housed in a former Los Angeles County Superior Court located at 4130 Overland Avenue, Culver Ctiy, CA 90230.

New home of the Mayme A. Clayton Library & Cultural Center

Our main focus will now shift to the relocation, care and organization of the collection so it can be made available to the public as quickly as possible.  As a result, we will limit our program activities (research services, film festivals, exhibits, etc.) for a short time. 

Save-the-Date

FOR THE HISTORIC

BLACK & LATINO

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Spring 2007

Norris Cinema Theater

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

 

            

Women of color, Carmen Miranda and Lena Horne became major box office stars in the 1940s

 

Join us for the historic BLACK & LATINO FILM FESTIVAL.  The film festival marks the first collaboration between the Mayme Clayton Museum & Cultural Center and the Department of Libraries of the University of Southern California.  The festival will feature classic Black & Latino films from the 1940s, 50s and 60s.  These cinematic gems illuminate the heart of two people defined distinctly by history, tradition and language but united in the struggle for creative expression in America.  The Black & Latino Film Festival is presented in the spirit of community unity as a tribute to two peoples whose shared history dates back to the founding of the City of Los Angeles (El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora de la Reina de los Angeles del Río de Porciúncula) in 1781.

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Presented by

                                                NIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

For information and reservations, please call (213) 740-2070

Click this link for parking information:  http://www.usc.edu/about/visit/upc/event_venues/norris.html

         

Sponsored by the Gas Company, a Sempra Energy Utility,

The Screen Actors Guild and the University of Southern California

 

Salve la Fecha

PARA EL HISTORICO

NEGRO Y LATINO

PRIMAVERA 2007

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El Teatro de Cine de Norris

UNIVERSIDAD DE CALIFORNIA MERIDIONAL (USC)

 

            

Las mujeres del color, Carmen Miranda y Lena Horne llegaron a ser las estrellas mayores de taquillas en la década de los 40

 

Unanos para el histórico NEGRO & LATINA la FIESTA CINEMATOGRAFICA. La fiesta cinematográfica marca la primera colaboración entre el Museo de Mayme Clayton & el Centro Cultural y la Universidad de California Meridional (USC). La fiesta representará clásico Negro & las películas latinas de la década de los 40, 50s y 60s. Estrenaremos también nuevas, las películas negras y latinas. Estas gemas cinemáticas iluminan el corazón de dos personas definidas claramente por historia, la tradición y el idioma pero unidos en la lucha para la expresión creadora en América. NEGRO & LATINA la FIESTA CINEMATOGRAFICA se presenta en el espíritu de la unidad de la comunidad como un tributo a dos personas cuyo compartieron la historia antedata al fundador de la Ciudad de Los Angeles (el pueblo de El de Nuestra Senora de la Reina de del de Los Angeles Río de Porciúncula) en 1781.

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Presentado Por

                                               ersidad de California Meridional

Para la información y reservaciones, llama por favor (213) 740-2070

Haga clic esta conexión para estacionar informaciónhttp://www.usc.edu/about/visit/upc/event_venues/norris.html

         

Patrocinado por la Compañía de Gas, una Utilidad de Energía de Sempra,

El Gremio de Actores de Pantalla  y la Universidad de California Meridional

Harlem Renaissance

Exhibition at the Huntington Library

Plans for the Harlem Renaissance exhibition at the Huntington Library for 2009 are underway.  The Harlem Renaissance Period (1900-1940) is one of the strengths of the Mayme A. Clayton Collection.  The exhibition will feature rare books, personal letters of noted Renaissance figures, such as Langston Hughes; photographs, Oscar Micheaux films and other period films; posters and artifacts.  We will keep you posted about our progress.

         

      Left to right: Author - anthropologist, Zora Neale Hurston, Duke Ellington Orchestra at the Cotton Club, c. 1935,

      First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt presents award to opera diva, Marion Anderson and author-poet, Langston Hughes

 

Jazz on the Silver Screen Film Festival

The first Jazz on the Silver Screen Film Festival is now scheduled for March 2007.  The festival will feature classic performances by the greats of jazz such as Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Thelonius Monk, Sarah Vaughn, Billie Holiday, Nancy Wilson, Count Basie, Louie Armstrong and many more.  Several of the jazz film festival will be presented at the Lucy Florence Cultural Center in Los Angeles.  Please e-mail aclayton@wsbrec.org to be notified via e-mail or call (626) 794-4677 for dates and times.  The Lucy Florence Cultural Center is located at 3351 West 43rd Street, Los Angeles, CA 90008 (in the Leimert Park Art District)