Grantee Database
EL TEATRO CAMPESINO
Grant Year
2017-18
Grant Program
Arts Education - Artists in Schools
Award Amount
$7,795.00
Project Description
With support from the California Arts Council, El Teatro Campesino will serve over two hundred seventh graders across three San Benito County Schools with a 13-week artist residency program focusing lessons around the conquest of Mexico. Central to the lessons are learning about Aztec culture through puppetry, visual art and music. Funds will support ETC trained teaching artists, art supply costs, an experienced Project Coordinator and a performance of “La Conquista de Mexico: A Puppet Show”
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
