Hero Theatre's Nuestro Planeta

Photos taken by Andrés Felipe Jiménez.

NUESTRO PLANETA
(Our Planet)

Through industrialization, migration, and globalization, some of our most vulnerable communities now find themselves at the epicenter of global chaos, with little memory of their once harmonious connection to nature and no understanding of how to lessen their own human impact.

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.

A series of films and plays that center on the relationship between Latine communities and the Earth, Nuestro Planeta focuses on countries in Latin America, including Colombia, El Salvador, Mexico, Guatemala, Ecuador, Haiti, Costa Rica, Puerto Rico, and more. The project will also include California, where vulnerable communities are in dire need of sustainability education.

Part of Nuestro Planeta entails bringing writers back to their ancestral homelands to create plays rooted in sustainability based on factual information. It also includes giving back to the communities researched by offering free theatre performances, free acting and writing workshops, and paid opportunities to local artists.

Elisa Bocanegra, HERO Theatre's producing artistic director and HERO Multimedia founder, states, "Our first commission was for the country of Colombia as it is the second most biodiverse country on the planet. We don't see many positive Colombian stories onstage and in film. I'm so grateful to the Fulbright Commission and Instituto Humboldt for their support."

IN THE NEWS

Nuestro Planeta receives three features in American Theatre Magazine!

Read our latest article by our El Salvador commission playwright and composer, Brian Quijada: "Coffee Chronicles".

Read our second article, "Further Down The River", about the research done in Colombia and the Amazon rainforest for our Colombian commission, Luzmi, or the article that inspired it,
"When World's Fall Apart, There's Nuestro Planeta".

Special news! We officially opened a branch in South America, titled "Teatro Héroe", dedicated to environmental education through the arts. Check out our Nuestro Planeta: Colombia page to see the work Teatro HÉROE has been doing so far in the Páramos!

More news: HERO Theatre just got sponsored to do a play in the Amazon rainforest!
More details will come soon!