Special Events
Tertulia with Daniel Hernandez Sandoval | Wed, Apr 23, 6:30pm-8:30pm
Milagro Artist Fund Recipient Daniel Hernandez will be talking about his approach to art as well as his work-in-progress triptych titled “Fatherhood”
Admission: Free, limited seating
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Opening Night | Fri, May 2, 7:30pm
Followed by a post-show reception catered by El Salto
Post-Show Playwright Talkback | Fri, May 3, 7:30pm
This performance will be followed by a special talkback with the playwright, matthew paul olmos
Resource Fair and Panel Discussion with Community Leaders | Sun, May 4, starting at 1pm
Pre-show resource fair featuring Hacienda CDC, APANO, the Coalition of Communities of Color, and Verde starting at 1pm. Following the play, representatives from the tabling groups will lead a discussion panel on housing, city planning, and environmental justice.
Admission: Free, limited seating
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Tertulia and Windchime Workshop with Marilyn Cisneros Shawe | Wed, May 7, 6:30pm-8:30pm
Milagro Artist Fund Recipient Marilyn Cisneros Shawe will lead a workshop inspired by the hand-carved coconut fish wind-chimes from Mexico and talk about her art and the inspiration she draws from motherhood. All workshop materials will be provided! Suitable for everyone ages 6+.
Admission: Free, limited seating
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A coyote howling. A home in disarray. A young woman alone. Soledad Vargas is in the city, fighting for her family’s right to live on their land. When hope starts to dwindle, how far will she go, and what will she be forced to leave behind? A modern myth drawn from the real life struggles of displaced communities around the globe, a home what howls... is a lyrically-rendered quest of youth activism standing against forces of injustice.
Matthew Paul Olmos is a Mexican-American playwright who focuses his work on the creation of space for marginalized and underrepresented communities. While his work is always personal, it is aimed at reaching across socio’political boundaries, showing the ridiculous of how separate our lives, and illuminating a potential hope for future generations. Olmos holds an M.F.A. in Playwriting from The Actor’s Studio Drama School (now New School for Drama), a B.A. in Playwriting from UC Santa Barbara, and was given UCLA’s GOP Award for Graduate Playwriting. He was the co-founder and former Artistic Director of woken’glacier theatre company (two-time New York Innovative Theatre Award nominee), a member of NoPassport, a National Endowment for the Arts New Play Development reader, a New York Innovative Awards judge, selection committee member for Lark Play Development Center’s Playwrights’ Week and Playwrights of New York (PoNY) Fellowship. He is currently developing a play inspired by Samantha Power’s “The Education of An Idealist” for Geffen Playhouse’s Writers Room and Theatre For One’s Solo Collective. As well a new play inspired by the Mendez v. Westminster case about the building of Mexican schools as part of segregation. He recently developed a feature with Andrew Lauren Productions and is currently developing a screenplay inspired by his play THAT DRIVE THRU MONTEREY.