Thursday, September 12, 2024

Borderlands Theater: Introducing our Fall line up 🎉

From: Borderlands Theater <milta@borderlandstheater.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 5, 2024 8:06 AM
Subject: Introducing our Fall line up 🎉

Introducing the first half of

Season 38!

We'e excited for our fall lineup of events and collaborations that celebrate creativity, community, and the power of storytelling.

Here's what you can look forward to:

Barrio Stars Youth Camp: We're hosting more segments of Barrio Stars Youth Camp, where every kid can be a star. Students of all backgrounds are welcomed to partake in playful drama activities, explore diverse characters, and venture into imaginative worlds. They'll develop basic acting, movement, and experience the benefits that theater brings to social development guided by experienced teaching artists. The program concludes with a performance for friends and family to share in the joy. We have a new original script by Jonathan Heras. Stay tuned for workshop dates.

The Moon Readings: We're in collaboration once again with The Reading Series, an all-ages poetry open mic that aims to provide a safe space for people of all identities to share. Reading in the title references astrology, tarot, and other means of divinity; inviting spirit and ancestors to empower those who step to the mic. THE MOON READINGS, named after the respective Full Moon of each month, will be the series' sixth season. This newest season begins October 2024!

The Moon Readings are made possible through a Budget de la Gente grant from Ward 1's Participatory Budgeting program.

In Partnership:

Alebrijes or Ridiculous Beautiful Beasts by Georgenia Escobar. Borderlands Theater partners with Scoundrel & Scamp Theater and Tucson Meet Yourself on this magical play! Borderlands Theater Artistic Director, Marc David Pinate directs.

Runs Oct 17 - Nov 3, 2024 at the Scoundrel & Scamp theater

When a young couple discovers the largest Día de los Muertos altar they've ever seen, magic begins to permeate their world. A little creature (an alebrije) sweeps into the room and takes the bride's imagination, merging past and present in this playful homage to Pedro Linares, the creator of the alebrije. Set in present-day San Luis Potosí, in Xochimilco in 1936, and in an afterlife that looks rather like a psychedelic Oaxacan jungle, young Pedro realizes his artistic potential and creates a cultural legacy. Alebrijes celebrates the beauty and absurdity of life, art, and love, and invites us to consider death not as a severing, but an evolution.

This performance will be on the mainstage of the S&S theatre.

Mi Casa: In this innovative new partnership, Borderlands Theater will work with the City of Tucson's Community Safety, Health and Wellness program deploying the tools of theater - storytelling, ensemble building, and collaboration - to assist in leadership training and building social cohesion among residents from vulnerable housing sites identified in the Mayor and Council's 2020 Community Safety Pilot Program. Borderlands artists will spend the fall meeting with residents to understand the social and cultural landscape and public events will be co-created with residents and presented in the Spring of 2025.

Mi Casa is made possible by the generous support of the Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona's General Operating Grant.

Become a Borderlands Legacy Member and Support Our Work!

We're excited to launch the Borderlands Legacy Members Campaign, a special initiative to secure support to keep our community programs thriving.

16 by the 16th!

We're challenging ourselves to subscribe 16 monthly donors by el 16 de Septiembe! When you become a monthly donor, you ensure a reliable source of funding for youth education programs and cultural productions that enhance our quality of life, connect us, and tell the stories of Tucson in the way only Borderlands Theater can.

Over the next few weeks, we'll be sharing posts of the lives you're helping to change, leading up to a fiery fun-filled Instagram live event on September 16th, where we'll host a Los Picantes: segment (think "Hot Ones" but with Cholula on it). Los Picantes will include a Q&A and exciting prize giveaways for our new legacy members.

Put some skin in the game and become a legacy donor now!

LEGACY DONOR

Calling all friends of Borderlands Theater and Scoundrel and Scamp!

Help us build masks and alebrijes at Tucson Meet Yourself (TMY)! We're looking for volunteers to help TMY festival goers create over 100 masks and alebrijes that will be used in the upcoming Alebrijes play. The process is simple and fun! No skills required except for a desire to help others create wondrous, beautiful pieces of folk art!

Volunteers receive a free ticket to see the masks and alebrijes they helped create onstage for Alebrijes, or Ridiculous Beautiful Beasts, showing at the Scoundrel and Scamp October 17-November 3rd.

Shifts at the Tucson Meet Yourself booth are available all three days of the festival October 4- 6.

SIGN UP

All volunteers must be available for the training on Saturday, September 28 from 5:30-6:30 pm. Led by Marc David Pinate and puppeteer Lisa Sturz, all volunteers will be trained how to help festival-goers create their masks and paint alebrijes.

Katharine or Zachary will follow up with you on training location and other details.

Questions can be sent to either volunteer coordinator: katharine@borderlandstheater.org or zachary@scoundrelandscamp.org