Editing Calafia (section)

==Legacy==
[[File:Queen Califia's Magical Circle (5886259797).jpg|thumb|right|[[Queen Califia's Magical Circle]], a sculpture garden by artist [[Niki de Saint Phalle]], located in [[Escondido, California]]]]
Spanish novelist [[Vicente Blasco Ibáñez]] wrote a book entitled ''La reina Calafia'' (''Queen Calafia'') in 1924.

A 1926 portrayal of Queen Calafia and her Amazons is found in a mural in the Room of the Dons at the [[Mark Hopkins Hotel]] in [[San Francisco]]. It was created for the opening of the hotel in 1926 by [[Maynard Dixon]] and [[Frank Van Sloun]], and has been called "the first embodiment of Queen Califia" though criticized as showing her "haughty and aloof".<ref>{{cite journal |last=Colburn |first=Frona Eunice Wait |author-link=Frona Eunice Wait |year=1929 |title=California's Greatest Treasures |journal=Overland Monthly}}</ref>

In 1937, [[Lucile Lloyd]] unveiled her [[triptych]] mural "Origin and Development of the Name of the State of California", also known as "California Allegory", which was displayed at the State Building in [[Los Angeles]] until 1975 when the building was demolished for safety reasons. The paintings were archived, and in 1991 they were restored and mounted in the California Room of the [[California State Capitol]], room 4203, renamed the John L. Burton Hearing Room. The regal central figure shows Queen Calafia depicted as a Mayan warrior-priestess, holding a spear in her left hand and examining a gyroscope in her right.<ref>[http://www.adc-exhibits.museum.ucsb.edu/exhibits/show/lloyd-exhib-sum/lloyd-wpa AD&A Museum - UC Santa Barbara: PICTURING CALIFORNIA'S HISTORY]</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://capitolmuseum.ca.gov/VirtualTour.aspx?Content1=1282&Content2=1094&Content3=1098 |title=California, Flags, Beauty and History |work=Works Progress Administration (WPA) Murals |publisher=California State Capitol Museum |access-date=January 2, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110130112345/http://www.capitolmuseum.ca.gov/VirtualTour.aspx?Content1=1282&Content2=1094&Content3=1098 |archive-date=January 30, 2011  }}</ref>

In 1931, [[Diego Rivera]] finished his first U.S. mural, "The Allegory of California," for the [[Pacific Coast Stock Exchange]] building (now the City Club of San Francisco), which has a woman as its central figure, holding up the industries and abundance of California. Rivera called the central figure "California", and used the famous tennis player [[Helen Wills]] as his model. Most observers agreed in calling the central figure "California", describing it as a [[Earth goddess|mother earth]] archetype, possibly harking back to portrayals of the Roman goddess [[Pomona (mythology)|Pomona]], who stood for agricultural abundance.<ref>{{cite book |title=American Arcadia: California and the Classical Tradition |last=Holliday |first=Peter J. |date=2016 |pages=339–340 |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |isbn=9780190256531}}</ref> After some webpage postings in the 2000s, the figure has sometimes been labeled Calafia.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sfweekly.com/culture/tourism-for-locals-visiting-diego-riveras-first-u-s-mural-the-allegory-of-california/|title=Tourism for Locals: Visiting Diego Rivera's First U.S. Mural: "The Allegory of California"|date=29 August 2014|publisher=SFWeekly|access-date=September 2, 2019|archive-date=3 September 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190903012243/http://www.sfweekly.com/culture/tourism-for-locals-visiting-diego-riveras-first-u-s-mural-the-allegory-of-california/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>[https://www.sfweekly.com/archives/tourism-for-locals-visiting-diego-riveras-first-u-s-mural-the-allegory-of-california/article_5902a02d-0b51-54f8-8507-692b81d8e104.html SF Weekly - Tourism for Local's Visiting Diego Rivera's First US Mural: The Allegory of California]</ref><ref>[https://cityclubsf.com/about/history/ City Club San Francisco - History]</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-03-02/california-name-history-calafia-al-hurra|website=Los Angeles Times|title=Opinion: How did a Moroccan pirate queen become the ‘Spirit of California’?|first1=Valorie|last1=Castellanos Clark|date=2 March 2024}}</ref>
[[File:P2130126GoldenDreams wb.jpg|thumb|left|''[[Golden Dreams]]'' was an experience at [[Disney California Adventure]] showcasing the [[history of California]] and narrated by Queen Califia, as portrayed by [[Whoopi Goldberg]].]]
The publication of Our Roots Run Deep, the Black Experience in California, Vol. 1 was the lead story in the Sunday Examiner and Chronicle on Feb. 1, 1992 as reporter Greg Lewis pointed out the book's depiction of the Queen Calafia story as particularly noteworthy. An exhibition featuring Queen Calafia followed in 1995 at the Historic State Capital Museum in Sacramento with subsequent showings in the sixth Floor Gallery of the San Francisco Main Library and the Los Angeles Central Library. In 1998, the California Council on Humanities funded the seminar The Black Queen: Primary Sources in California History to promote additional primary source research in California African-American history.

The mural of Queen Calafia is featured at the top of the new African-American Freedom Trail brochure produced by ReUNION: Education-Arts-Heritage and San Francisco Travel in November 2013.

Within the [[Society for Creative Anachronism]], the San Diego, CA local chapter is the Barony of Calafia,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.calafia.org/ |title=The Barony of Calafia |access-date=February 17, 2017 |archive-date=February 18, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218065353/http://www.calafia.org/ |url-status=live }}</ref> established in 1972.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://history.westkingdom.org/WilhelmsHistory/Calafia.pdf |work=The History of the Barony of Calafia |title=The History of the West by Wilhelm von Schlüssel |publisher=history.westkingdom.org |access-date=February 17, 2017 |archive-date=February 18, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218071920/http://history.westkingdom.org/WilhelmsHistory/Calafia.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>

[[Los Angeles Times]] columnist [[Jack Smith (columnist)|Jack Smith]] owned a sailboat that he named "Calafia."  The sailboat would occasionally be written about in his columns.<ref>Jack Smith, [https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-09-01-vw-13017-story.html "Bonding Males Cast Adrift Without a Corkscrew, and it happened just 26 miles across the sea"], ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'', September 1, 1986.</ref>

In November 1975, the 11,000-capacity ''Plaza de Toros Calafia'' was completed, a bullfighting arena in the city of [[Mexicali]], the capital of the [[States of Mexico|Mexican state]] of [[Baja California]]. The arena is also known as ''la reina Calafia'' (Queen Calafia). 
[[File:Plazacalafia.jpg|thumb|right|Plaza Calafia arena, located in [[Mexicali]], [[Baja California]].]]
''[[Queen Califia's Magical Circle]]'', an outdoor sculpture garden in [[Escondido, California]], opened in 2003, designed by famed French-American designer and artist [[Niki de Saint Phalle]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.queencalifia.org/garden.html |title=Garden Overview |work=Queen Califia's Magic Circle Garden |publisher=QueenCalifia.org |access-date=January 2, 2011 |archive-date=August 19, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100819110705/http://www.queencalifia.org/garden.html  }}</ref> The central character of Queen Califia is presented wearing gold glass armor atop a stylized giant bird. The final work on the [[sculpture garden]] was overseen by de Saint Phalle's granddaughter and by her assistants and technical advisers.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.queencalifia.org/2002.html |title=2002 |work=Queen Califia's Magic Circle Garden |publisher=QueenCalifia.org |access-date=January 2, 2011 |archive-date=July 18, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718090443/http://www.queencalifia.org/2002.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 2004, the African American Historical and Cultural Society Museum in San Francisco assembled a Queen Califia exhibit, curated by John William Templeton, featuring works by artists such as TheArthur<!-- the artist spells his first name TheArthur --> Wright and James Gayles; artistic interpretations of Calafia. The show displayed a 1936 treatment of [[Lucile Lloyd]]'s "California Allegory" triptych, with Queen Califia as the central figure. Templeton said that "Califia is a part of California history, and she also reinforces the fact that when Cortes named this place California, he had 300 black people with him." Templeton pointed out that Columbus had a black navigator and that Africans were seen by Europeans as being culturally advanced in the 15th century.<ref name=Sabir2003>{{cite web |url=http://sigidiart.com/Docs/WandasPicksCalifia.htm |title=Wanda's Picks |last=Sabir |first=Wanda |publisher=San Francisco Bayview |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031101082701/http://www.sigidiart.com/Docs/WandasPicksCalifia.htm |archive-date=November 1, 2003 |access-date=September 18, 2013}}</ref> William E. Hoskins, director of the museum, said that very few people know the story of Queen Califia. He said, "One of the things we're trying to do is let people have the additional insight and appreciation for the contributions of African Americans to this wonderful country and more specifically to the state of California", adding that "the Queen Califia exhibit is particularly poignant."<ref name=Sabir2003/>
[[File:Calafia airlines.png|thumb|left|[[Calafia Airlines]] is a regional airline based in [[Cabo San Lucas International Airport|Cabo San Lucas]] serving the [[Baja California Peninsula]].]]
Califia makes an appearance in the 2015 video game ''[[Code Name: S.T.E.A.M.]]'', appearing as a member of [[Abraham Lincoln|Abraham Lincoln's]] strike force.
In 2018, Queen Calafia and the mythical island of California will be the inspiration for the [[Mexicali Biennial]], an arts program focusing on art from Mexico and California. Entitled ''Calafia: Manifesting the Terrestrial Paradise'', it will showcase performance, visual arts and mixed media events to interrogate the concept of myth in California's origin story.<ref>{{cite web|title=Calafia: Manifesting the Terrestrial Paradise|url=http://mexicalibiennial.org/|website=MexiCali Biennial|access-date=22 January 2018|archive-date=23 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180123083002/http://mexicalibiennial.org/|url-status=live}}</ref>

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''[[Golden Dreams]]'' was a 23-minute film and multimedia experience showing the history of California through several recreated scenes, narrated by [[Whoopi Goldberg]] as Califia, the Queen of California. A bust of Goldberg attired in queenly raiment was the target of a projected image showing Goldberg narrating the story—the sculpture appeared to come to life.<ref name=Yesterland>{{cite web |url=http://www.yesterland.com/golden.html |title=Golden Dreams: A Cinematic California Adventure Starring Whoopi Goldberg |last=Weiss |first=Werner |work=Yesterland |access-date=January 5, 2011 |archive-date=December 1, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101201152132/http://yesterland.com/golden.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The attraction, at [[Disney California Adventure Park]] at the [[Disneyland Resort]] in [[Anaheim, California]], opened with the park on February 8, 2001. It closed to the general public on September 7, 2008, and was open only to school groups until March 2009. It was demolished in July 2009 to make way for the construction of a [[dark ride]] called [[The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Undersea Adventure]].<ref name=Yesterland/>

In 2021, the town of [[Sausalito, California]] staged the "Queen Calafia Welcoming Event", in which the Sausalito Historical Society and 
local actors depicted the fictional return of Queen Calafia to present-day California, in celebration of the legendary queen and the [[etymology of California]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.kqed.org/news/11892023/our-origin-story-queen-calafia-returns-to-california-in-new-theatre-production |title=KQED - 'Our Origin Story': Queen Calafia Returns to California in New Theatre Production |access-date=2022-10-04 |archive-date=2022-10-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221004164559/https://www.kqed.org/news/11892023/our-origin-story-queen-calafia-returns-to-california-in-new-theatre-production |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.sausalitohistoricalsociety.com/2021-events/2021/10/3/queen-calafia |title=Sausalito Historical Society - Queen Calafia Welcoming Event |access-date=2022-10-04 |archive-date=2022-10-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221004164600/https://www.sausalitohistoricalsociety.com/2021-events/2021/10/3/queen-calafia |url-status=live }}</ref>