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MAKING HISTORY PUBLIC
2026: TEN YEARS OF BARRIO STORIES
I wrote a play! For the first time, I’m taking my storytelling from the page to the stage. My short play will be presented as part of Borderlands Theater’s Barrio Stories 10-Year Celebration on Novemeber 12th through the 15th, 2026. Yep, it’s been 10 years!
The play is a site-specific theater experience, performed in the very place where the conversation at the center of the play actually happened. I’m excited to see what happens when something I wrote is brought to life by actors in front of an audience.
More details coming soon.
2016
Barrio Stories
My book La Calle inspired an outdoor, site-specific theatrical event, Barrio Stories, produced by Borderlands Theater in 2016 in Tucson’s downtown area. More than 5,000 people attended the play, which was designed to recover the history of a barrio declared expendable by city leaders who purposely devised an urban renewal program to demolish it in the late 1960s. Lean more about the production.
PUBLIC CONVERSATIONS
On October 8, 2023,
I hosted Arizona Illustrated's
first show in Spanish
on PBS.
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