Theater abounds at Tucson Meet Yourself this year with opportunities to help build a 7 foot tall Alebrije with master artist Zarco Guerrero, build Judas masks and alebrijes to be featured in the upcoming Alebrijes: or Ridiculous Beautiful Beasts and learn more about the many opportunties available to you at six theaters across Tucson!

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Learn more about productions, classes, auditions and artistic opportunities from six Tucson Theater companies! Join Borderlands Theater, Invisible Theater, Live Theater Workshop, Saguaro City Music Theatre, The Scoundrel and Scamp Theatre and Winding Road Theater Ensemble. Talk to theater representatives and pick up materials about seasons and opportunties at all six theaters!

Help Build a 7 foot tall Alebrije!

Not our giant Alebrije! It doesn’t exist yet. You get to help build it!

Photo Credit: Museo de Arte Popular licensed under Wikimedia Commons

The centerpiece in the S&S lobby at the upcoming Alebrijes show will be a giant alebrije designed and built by Zarco Guerrero, assisted by visitors at Tucson Meet Yourself in the KidLore section! Check the TMY website for schedule information as it come available.

Zarco is a sculptor, maskmaker and performance artist from Mesa, Arizona. He adopted Cesar Chavez ideology of art as a social service. His art includes music, poetry and theater. He is the founder of Xicanindio Artes (now Xico, Inc.), the Cultural Coalition, Inc, and has been instrumental in the development of Latino Arts statewide. He has exhibited and received international acclaim and many prestigious awards. In 1985 PBS broadcast a one hour documentary about his art entitled “The Mask of El Zarco”. He received the Japan Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Arizona Governors Arts Award, the Artistic Excellence Award from American Hispanics in Higher Education and the Esperanza Teacher of the Year Award among many others. In 2015 he was recognized as a Master by the Southwest Folklife Alliance.

This activity is supported in part by Tucson Meet Yourself and the Southwest Center at the University of Arizona.

Build a mask or alebrije that may be featured in a show!

Not our Alebrijes! They don’t exist yet. You get to help build them!

Photo Credit: Alonzonoriegamx licensed under Wikimedia Commons

Onstage at the upcoming Alebrijes show will be a Judas masks and alebrijes assembled and painted by visitors at Tucson Meet Yourself in the KidLore section! Join us to create a fantastic creation and help us decorate Pedro Linare’s workshop in the play! Check the TMY website for schedule information as it come available.

Note: Creations in this exhibit will be able to be picked up after the closing of the show on November 3rd.

The activity will be volunteer guided, but the mask and alebrije preparation and design are led by master puppetmaker Lisa Sturz (Red Herring Puppets) and the director of the Alebrijes, Marc Pinate (Borderlands Theater).

This activity is supported in part by Tucson Meet Yourself, Borderlands Theater and The Scoundrel and Scamp Theater.