Teatro Nagual
MISSION:
Creating innovative, educational, live, mobile theater, and art experiences throughout the Sacramento Region focusing on, but not limited to, the Latinx community.
HISTORY/INFORMATION:
Teatro Nagual (TeNa) was founded in 2006 and incorporated in 2009 with the mission to create innovative, artistic, educational programming that embodies the core values of Cesar Chavez and fosters service to others. Te Na produced many stage productions including the new musical “Let the Eagle Fly”, “Soldaderas”, “Anna in the Tropics”, “In the Time of the Butterflies” and “Cesar and Ruben”. In 2016, Teatro Nagual shifted its mission to creating innovative, educational, live, mobile theater, and art experiences throughout the Sacramento Region focusing on, but not limited to, the Latinx community.
These bi-lingual, non-partisan, pop-ups, bring life to the issues of economic well-being, health disparities, environmental justice, immigration challenges, voter participation, and stories relevant to the community; sometimes encouraging people to laugh while finding common ground, promoting civic engagement, and empowering citizens and performers to seek change to better their lives and the lives of their families. Some of these included mobile comedic sketches with focus on the new Voters Choice Act, and Environmental Justice. Also, a spoken word piece presented to Mayor Steinberg about Measure U. Teatro Nagual also staged readings about domestic violence and immigration challenges.