Tucson's Borderlands Theaters, which brings the stories of the city's barrios and their people to the stage, has received a national accolade.
Sofía Moraga Franco When Marc David Pinate and Milta Ortiz became the directors of Borderlands Theater, they weren’t looking to be awarded any national or international recognitions, they were looking to bring rich stories of Tucson's barrios to life, and to connect with the community in a way that hadn’t been done before.
“Locally-sourced, but of national import.” This here is at the core of what Borderlands Theater has become since Pinate and Ortiz took over in 2014. … “and they were right,” Ortiz added. “We tried to do it the way they had done it and it was killing us. It was challenging to produce four plays, and on top of that do the site-specific work we loved.”
The truly amazing thing about this project is that so far, not only have the works about Barrio Viejo and Barrio Anita brought art and theater to communities. They also have both been the catalyst for a re-activation of space and have led to tangible wins for Mexican American activism. “At the renaming event is the first time Otero said that they got the idea from the Borderlands project,” Pinate said. “From the $80,000 budget for the first Barrio Stories to a multimillion-dollar project by the city, that is huge.”
“I’ve always been a strong admirer of Borderlands Theater, and with Marc and Milta they brought new ideas about how to bring the theater and art into communities,” Romero said. “Creating these stories about our barrios, about the families and how they connect to Tucson and these lands.” This crucial beginning of a project is part of what makes the work that Borderlands produces so pure and reflective of the barrios it represents in its productions. It’s almost sacred.
“When the celebration took place, and Borderlands came together with the neighbors to present the show, they connected with Davis School, with the Oury Recreation Center and the neighborhood began to once again recognize the importance of family history, the importance of the history in Barrio Anita,” Romero said.
It is also keeping in mind a project further in the future that will take place in Camp Naco, a border fort which was manned by the Buffalo soldiers. Many of the border forts, including Camp Naco, were decommissioned in the 1940s. A lot of them have fallen to decay, but since Camp Naco is an adobe build, it is still standing.
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