Grantee Database
EL TEATRO CAMPESINO
Grant Year
2018-19
Grant Program
Local Impact
Award Amount
$18,000.00
Project Description
With support from the California Arts Council, El Teatro Campesino will present its biennial Holiday pageant inside Mission San Juan Bautista “La Pastorela” (The Shepherd’s Tale). “La Pastorela” vibrates with stirring action, vivid color, and robust humor-all set to live music and dance. Funding will support aspects of the production as well as free theatre workshops in San Benito County to continue to recruit new performers of all ages and experiences to join this years’ production.
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
