Season 38 Collaboration and Creativity
Fall Schedule
Barrio Stars Youth Camp
We’re hosting more segments of Barrio Stars Youth Camp, where every kid can be a star. Students of all backgrounds are welcomed to partake in playful drama activities, explore diverse characters, and venture into imaginative worlds. They’ll develop basic acting, movement, and experience the benefits that theater brings to social development guided by experienced teaching artists. The program concludes with a performance for friends and family to share in the joy. We have a new original script by Jonathan Heras. Stay tuned for workshop dates.
The Moon Readings
We’re in collaboration once again with The Reading Series, an all-ages poetry open mic that aims to provide a safe space for people of all identities to share. Reading in the title references astrology, tarot, and other means of divinity; inviting spirit and ancestors to empower those who step to the mic. THE MOON READINGS, named after the respective Full Moon of each month, will be the series’ sixth season. This newest season begins October 2024!
The Moon Readings are made possible through a Budget de la Gente grant from Ward 1’s Participatory Budgeting program.
2nd Saturdays:
The Hunter Moon Reading- October 12, 2024
The Beaver Moon Reading- November 9, 2024
The Cold Moon Reading- December 14, 2024
The Wolf Moon Reading- January 11, 2024
The Snow Moon Reading- February 8, 2024
The Worm Moon Reading- March 8, 2024
The Pink Moon Reading- April 12, 2024
The Flower Moon Reading- May 10, 2024
The Strawberry Moon Reading- June 14, 2024
In Partnership:
Mi Casa
In this innovative new partnership, Borderlands Theater will work with the City of Tucson’s Community Safety, Health and Wellness program deploying the tools of theater – storytelling, ensemble building, and collaboration – to assist in leadership training and building social cohesion among residents from vulnerable housing sites identified in the Mayor and Council’s 2020 Community Safety Pilot Program. Borderlands artists will spend the fall meeting with residents to understand the social and cultural landscape and public events will be co-created with residents and presented in the Spring of 2025.
Mi Casa is made possible by the generous support of the Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona’s General Operating Grant.
Scoundrel & Scamp Theatre presents Alebrijes or Ridiculous Beautiful Beasts
by Georgenia Escobar. Originally commissioned by Milagro, in Portland, Oregon. Excited to partner with Scoundrel & Scamp on this magical play! Borderlands Theater Artistic Director, Marc David Pinate directs. Runs Oct 17 – Nov 3, 2024 at the Scoundrel & Scamp theater
When a young couple discovers the largest Día de los Muertos altar they’ve ever seen, magic begins to permeate their world. A little creature (an alebrije) sweeps into the room and takes the bride’s imagination, merging past and present in this playful homage to Pedro Linares, the creator of the alebrije. Set in present-day San Luis Potosí, in Xochimilco in 1936, and in an afterlife that looks rather like a psychedelic Oaxacan jungle, young Pedro realizes his artistic potential and creates a cultural legacy. Alebrijes celebrates the beauty and absurdity of life, art, and love, and invites us to consider death not as a severing, but an evolution.
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