Laguna La Cruz, a local wetland in Bahia Kino, Mexico.
Photos taken by Andrés Felipe Jiménez.
Photos taken by Andrés Felipe Jiménez.
WE'VE GONE GLOBAL
HERO Theatre and HERO Multimedia have launched Nuestro Planeta, a multimedia new works initiative. Nuestro Planeta is rooted in research around ecological concerns in Latine countries and the U.S. and how Latine American families are directly affected.
In October 2023, HERO Theatre and The Prescott College Kino Bay Center in Sonora, Mexico entered into a special collaboration, introducing the community of Bahía Kino, Mexico to theatre through Nuestro Planeta: MEXICO, Bahía de Kino.
The play, devised with the local Bahía de Kino community members and directed by Artistic Director Elisa Bocanegra, involves themes surrounding marine biology wildlife and ocean sustainability. One of its main focuses is on Estero Santa Cruz, an ecologically important wetland and Ramsar site, home to 220 species of birds, like pelicans and ospreys. Bocanegra worked alongside the community, taught acting techniques to them, and gave them a creative outlet to share their own environmental activism and the importance of their wetlands. HERO Theatre continues to research the beautiful flora and fauna of Mexico, and is grateful for the warmth community members have shown.
Due to our unique relationship with the Bahía de Kino community, HERO is invested in helping the community create an ongoing theatre initiative and to support the local environmental artists.
The play, devised with the local Bahía de Kino community members and directed by Artistic Director Elisa Bocanegra, involves themes surrounding marine biology wildlife and ocean sustainability. One of its main focuses is on Estero Santa Cruz, an ecologically important wetland and Ramsar site, home to 220 species of birds, like pelicans and ospreys. Bocanegra worked alongside the community, taught acting techniques to them, and gave them a creative outlet to share their own environmental activism and the importance of their wetlands. HERO Theatre continues to research the beautiful flora and fauna of Mexico, and is grateful for the warmth community members have shown.
Due to our unique relationship with the Bahía de Kino community, HERO is invested in helping the community create an ongoing theatre initiative and to support the local environmental artists.
Photos by Andrés Felipe Jiménez (top row and bottom right) and Ulises Rancaño (bottom left and bottom middle).
STAY TUNED!
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We just returned from our second collaboration with The Prescott College Kino Bay Center, where our Producing Artistic Director, Elisa Bocanegra, directed a community-devised play with Los Jóvenes Delfines! We look forward to this continued relationship that we’ll be having with the community, helping out Los Jóvenes Delfines ("The Young Dolphins"), an environmental group of young activists, along with The Kino Bay Center and other environmental groups!
This community and the research done with The Kino Bay Center is the basis for our Los Angeles Spring '25 co-production of The Young Dolphins, an environmental play for youth presented at Inner-City Arts' Rosenthal Theater. We are grateful for The Kino Bay Center’s passion towards Nuestro Planeta and are heading towards a third collaboration with them! |
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We are looking forward to our continued relationship with the Comcaac community, the Indigenous people of Sonora, Mexico. We will be creating a theatre project with them soon! Stay tuned!
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