Borderlands Theater, Volunteers Needed for Shadow Build

 

From: Borderlands Theater <marc@borderlandstheater.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2022 5:01 AM
Subject: April Updates

 

Be Part of the Magic!

 

 

 

 

 

Volunteers Needed for Shadow Build

 

Be part of the magic!

 

Barrio Stories Nogales is a little less than two months away and Borderlands needs volunteers to help cut out the backgrounds for our shadow plays about Nogales history. We'll be cutting out backgrounds from poster board for the different scenes in the story. It's easy but detailed work. We'll provide all the tools along with yummy snacks and head bobbing music to work to. 

 

Build sessions take place twice a week for the next two weeks:

 

Wednesdays from 3pm – 5pm  4/27, 5/4

& Saturdays from 10am – 1pm 4/30 & 5/7

 

To sign up send an email to marc@borderlandstheater.org. We'll register volunteers for April 27th and 30th first. Directions and parking instructions will be sent when you register.

 

Want to know more about shadow theatre? Check out this video about Borderlands shadow work in the past.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Opportunity to honor Mexican American Heritage in Tucson!

 

Call for letters of support for the RENAMING of the Tucson Music Hall in honor of singer Linda Ronstadt, and the TCC Plaza to recognize writer, activist, and historic preservationist, Alva B. Torres. Please send letters of support to the address below by May 2, 2022:

 

Director, Tucson Parks and Recreation

900 S. Randolph Way

Tucson, AZ 85716

 

 

 

From our friends at The Mexican American Heritage and History Museum:

 

The Mexican American Heritage and History Museum supports naming these locations in honor of two Tucsonense women simply because place-making and place-keeping enable past, present, and future generations of Mexican Americans to do great things in their communities.

 

The renaming will affirm that there has been and will continue to be Mexican American women in Tucson's downtown. Ronstadt's ancestors have been in Tucson since the 1880s, and Torres is responsible for bringing the greater community's attention on saving sites sacred to generations of Mexican American families as well as becoming one of the first Mexican American women in the country to have a syndicated column in a major newspaper.



Lastly, we believe that if these two women are not publicly honored as the namesakes of the Music Hall and TCC Plaza, these sites will be named after someone else. In a downtown where most named spaces are after men and Mexican Americans are under-represented, this is a good step in ensuring visitors and locals alike know that these Tucsonense women, too, reached amazing feats. While we may not be able to resurrect La Calle, we can make sure its descendants are remembered.

 

 

 

 

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