Por Amor/For Love
An Operachi in One Act
at The Chandler Hispanic Heritage Festival
(One night only – Sept.19)
(select flyer above for larger view)
Saturday, September 19 – 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Downtown Chandler – AJ Chandler Park (West of Arizona Avenue) [ Map ]
Featuring a FREE performance of Por Amor by James E. Garcia
Also featuring Mariachi Music, Opendance and Flamenco del Sol Dancers.
For more information, contact info@xicoinc.com
480-833-5875 / 480-782-2214 / www.xicoinc.com
This is a free performance.
Please note that seating is limited.
The Hispanic Heritage Committee at Arizona State University presents
A Boy Named Cesar
Cesar Chavez
A one-act play written by James E. Garcia and Julie Amparano
Directed by Terry Earp
September 15, 2009
Reception at 6:00pm In La Sala
Performance at 7:00pm Second Stage West
Arizona State University, 4701 W. Thunderbird Road , Phoenix , AZ [ Map ]
About the show: The nation is mired in the Great Depression and 10-year-old Cesar Chavez
and his family have learned they’re being evicted from their Yuma farm. In the days before
they depart, Cesar goes to fetch water from the backyard well when the ghost of his grandfather
reveal the promise of his future as one of the nation’s great civil rights leaders.
Reception and Performance are free to students, faculty and the community. The performance will last approximately one hour.
Donation to the Non-perishable Food Drive requested.
Illustration by Yuyi Morales
“The Tears of Lives”
A new play by James E. Garcia
directed by Luis Avila
This show has been held over for an additional weekend — August 21-23
Don’t miss it!
A world premiere production
This show is appropriate for general audiences.
When: Aug. 14-16, 2009 (Evening performances Fri., Sat. &
Sun. at 7:30. Matinees on Sat. and Sun. at 2:30 p.m.)
Held over an additional weekend:
Aug. 21-23, 2009 (Friday and Saturday evening at 7:30 p.m. &
Saturday and Sunday matinees at 2:30 p.m.)
Where: Playhouse on the Park, 1850 N. Central Ave. [ See Map ]
(In the Viad Bldg. at Palm and Central Ave.) Free parking.
Information at 602-460-1374 or by emailing info@centromacehualli.org.
This show is produced by New Carpa Theater Co. (newcarpa.org) as a special fund-raiser for the Macehualli Capital Campaign organized by the Tonatierra Community Development Institute to preserve and develop the Macehualli Community Campus Facility in Phoenix
Tickets $20 general admission and $10 for students. (You also may donate as much as you wish.)
To buy tickets for these performances or to contribute to the Macehualli Capital Campaign, visit centromacehualli.org.
THE PLAY: Regino Ortega, an undocumented immigrant, has been living in the United States for 21 years when he’s arrested by ICE agents and Maricopa County Sheriff’s Deputies. His three young children are left behind and forced to fend for themselves. “The Tears of Lives” is a drama torn from today’s headlines that recounts the tragedy of families ripped apart as a consequence of the nation’s latest, wide-scale crackdown on immigrants.
Photos from the show!
(Select photo above to see gallery)
The Tears of Lives in the Press
Drama About Immigration Raids and their Human Consequences in Arizona Is No Fiction for Many /
Real Drama Real People…Theatre Captures Real Life in Arizona
By Valeria Fernández
Immigrant rights playwrights put on show in Phoenix
by Griselda Nevarez
The Fears of Tears of Lives
by Ru Hernandez
Theater helps raise funds for Macehualli Day Labor Center
by Valeria Fernández
The Tears of Lives – Tragedy and Call to Action
by Manuel de Jesús Hernández G.
Joe Arpaio, Paul Chagolla and the Veil of Fear in The Tears of Lives
By Stephen Lemons
World Premier of Play “Tears of Lives” this Friday to Help Save Phoenix Day Labor Center
by Malia Politzer
Joe Arpaio’s War on the Immigrant Kids of Royal Paper Employees, and The Tears of Lives
By Stephen Lemons
The Tao of Sheriff Joe – Mister Arpaio finally inspires something awesome
By Robrt L. Pela
Directed by Barbara Acker
The story of the 1951 championship Mighty Vandals high school basketball team. Three years before the U.S. Supreme Court ended racial segregation in the public schools, a team of predominantly Mexican American teens living in Miami, Arizona goes undefeated and clinches the state championship. The Southeastern Arizona mining town of Miami is the kind of place that people usually leave if they expect to make it big. Not in 1951.
The Mighty Valdals in the Press
Miner Miracle
By Steve Jansen
A staged reading of A Mother’s Will will be held at The Pandora Festival –
May 15, 16, 17, 2009 at the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts.
A Mother’s Will be performed at 7pm on Sunday, May 17.
Pandora Festival
What: Staged readings of full-length and 10-minute plays by Arizona women playwrights. Seven lab readings also are scheduled.
When: Friday, Saturday, Sunday. See Web site for plays and showtimes. Lab readings will be 10 a.m. to noon Saturday and Sunday.
Where: Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, 7380 E. Second St.
Admission: $12 per play. No charge for lab readings.
Information: www.azwtc.org, www.scottsdaleperformingarts.org or 480-994-2787.
Cast and crew — photos be will online a few days after the performance.
