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
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 de Kino, Mexico to theatre through Nuestro Planeta: MEXICO, Bahía de Kino.
The play, devised with the local Bahía de Kino community members and written/directed by Producing 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 to provide a creative outlet for them 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 supporting the local environmental artists.
We returned from our second collaboration with The Prescott College Kino Bay Center, where Bocanegra directed a community-devised play with Los Jóvenes Delfines, an environmental group of young activists!
We look forward to this continued relationship with Los Jóvenes Delfines, The Kino Bay Center, and other environmental groups in Bahía de Kino.
The play, devised with the local Bahía de Kino community members and written/directed by Producing 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 to provide a creative outlet for them 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 supporting the local environmental artists.
We returned from our second collaboration with The Prescott College Kino Bay Center, where Bocanegra directed a community-devised play with Los Jóvenes Delfines, an environmental group of young activists!
We look forward to this continued relationship with Los Jóvenes Delfines, The Kino Bay Center, and other environmental groups in Bahía de Kino.
Photos by Ulises Rancaño (top left, top right, bottom left, and bottom middle) and Andrés Felipe Jiménez (top middle and top right).
STAY TUNED!
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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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