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El Teatro Campesino (Spanish for "The Farmworker's Theater") is a Chicano theatre company in California.Performing in both English and Spanish, El Teatro Campesino was founded in 1965 as the cultural arm of the United Farm Workers and the Chicano Movement with the "full support of César Chávez."
Thanks in large part to Valdez and El Teatro Campesino, the 1970s saw an explosion of Chicano theater. Theater groups sprang up with surprising speed on college campuses and in communities throughout the United States. What began as a farm workers' theater in the migrant camps of Delano flooded into a national Chicano theater movement. [4]
Preceding the Delano grape strike was another grape strike organized by Filipino farm workers that occurred in Coachella Valley, California on May 3, 1965. [14] [15] Because the majority of strikers were over 50 years old and did not have families of their own due to anti-miscegenation laws (first overthrown in 1949), they were willing to risk what little they had to fight for higher wages.
It changed Los Angeles' historical memory and the American theater forever 'Zoot Suit' is by far the most influential play by a Chicano writer, and the only one to reach Broadway. It changed Los ...
John Cullum (born March 2, 1930) [2] is an American actor and singer. [3] He has appeared in many stage musicals and dramas, including Shenandoah (1975) and On the Twentieth Century (1978), winning the Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical for each.
The original Delano Village Hall is a historic government building in Delano, Minnesota, United States, now in development as the Delano Heritage Center.From its construction in 1888 through most of the 20th century the building housed municipal offices, the police and fire departments, and a public library, while the upper-floor meeting hall was a key venue for public and private events.
Mark Ralph Delano Cornell (born 30 May 1966) is a British businessman, who was formerly CEO of Moët Hennessy USA, [1] and is the current CEO of Ambassador Theatre Group. [ 2 ] References
The theater was a rallying point for César Chávez on 24 March 1966 when he made his march from Delano to Sacramento. [1] The Azteca closed in the late 1980s and was partially reopening in 1999 with an art gallery and events. In 2014, the theater was restored. [3]