http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8xw4hsw Online items available Guide to the El Teatro Campesino Archives CEMA 5 Finding aid prepared by Finding aid prepared by Salvador Guerena and CEMA staff Major funding came from the Ford Foundation. The digitization of the video and audio archives was produced with support from the University of California Institute for Mexico and the United States. UC Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Collections University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, California, 93106-9010 Phone: (805) 893-3062 Email:
[email protected]; URL: http://www.library.ucsb.edu/special-collections 05/27/2007 Guide to the El Teatro Campesino CEMA 5 1 Archives CEMA 5 Title: El Teatro Campesino Archives Identifier/Call Number: CEMA 5 Contributing Institution: UC Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Collections Language of Material: English Physical Description: 284.5 linear feet(142 boxes, 124 videos, 46 slide albums, and 192 posters) Date (bulk): Bulk, 1964-1988 Date (inclusive): Bulk, 1964-1988 1964-2010 General Physical Description note: 142 boxes, 124 videos, 46 slide albums, and 192 posters Biographical/Historical note The Teatro Campesino Archives represents over twenty years of this theater company's activities through 1988. The organization continues to the present. It is the country’s most influential Latino theater group and one which has made major contributions to Chicano culture in the United States and to the development and expansion of the boundaries of theater everywhere. El Teatro Campesino began with short performances in the fields of California's central valley for audiences of farm workers in 1965.