Grantee Database
EL TEATRO CAMPESINO
Grant Year
2025-26
Grant Program
Arts and Youth
Award Amount
$17,750.00
Project Description
With support from the California Arts Council, El Teatro Campesino will provide its fourth year of “Teatro de Nosotros” (“Theater of Us”) – a free bilingual Youth Theater program for Watsonville youth. Unfolding in two parts over the summer, Part 1 is a unique developmental week to inform an original script and Part Two is a three week rehearsal and production process to bring that new script to life with an all youth cast. CAC funds will support artist fees for teaching, script development, production design, directing, and physical production costs in order to support the creative development of these youth.
Organization Summary
Founded by Luis Valdez in 1965 as the cultural arm of the UFW movement, El Teatro Campesino (ETC) functions as a multi-generational theatre company. For fifty-nine years now, ETC has been at the forefront of using theatre as an artistic generator of social change and continues to empower artists and communities from its home in San Juan Bautista. The spheres of ETC’s work can be summarized into three core areas: professional arts, arts education and community arts. Within these areas, ETC runs an annual theatre season, a developmental lab to create new work, regional/statewide tours, cultural festivals for Latino holidays, community based art making and arts education programming within schools.
Organization
El Teatro Campesino
Address
PO BOX 1240
705 Fourth St
SAN JUAN BAUTISTA
95045-1240
County
San Benito
Region
Central Coast
Phone
(831) 623-2444
Congressional District
California's 20th congressional district
State Assembly District
District 30
State Senate District
District 12
