Joan Logghe, Nasario Garcia & More Set for Teatro Paraguas' Under One Umbrella Festival

Teatro Paraguas, northern New Mexico's premier multi-lingual theatre, celebrates its ten-year anniversary with the UNDER ONE UMBRELLA FESTIVAL, inviting the diverse populations, artists and community groups of Santa Fe to develop and share their creative expressions.

Santa Fe Poet Laureate 2010-12 Joan Logghe, Playwright Robert Benjamin and celebrated folk historian Nasario Garcia will participate in the second day of the festival, sharing their work and insights into the creative process.

The festival weekend opens on Friday, November 22 at 7 pm with an evening of Recuerdos Vivos New Mexico, Living Memories, featuring a Share Your Recuerdos open mic and a preview and fundraiser of When the Stars Trembled in Río Puerco. This oral history play is based on the work of celebrated folk historian Nasario Garcia, and adapted and directed by Shebana Coelho. The play makes vivid recuerdos of life in four now ghosts towns south of Cuba, New Mexico. The preview will feature select scenes from the play, a Community Dialogue with Nasario García and the cast, and an invitation to join the crowd-funding campaign to support a full production next spring at Teatro Paraguas. www.recuerdosvivosnewmexico.com

The UNDER ONE UMBRELLA FESTIVAL continues on Saturday, November 23 from 1-6pm with a Community Arts Sharing showcase featuring creative expressions from the community including and Cafecitos with noted artists including:

• Joan Logghe, Santa Fe Poet Laureate, 2010-12
• Nasarío Garcia, celebrated New Mexico folk historian and author
• Caridad Svich, (via Skype) 2012 Obie Award Winner for Lifetime Achievement, playwright, In the Time of Butterflies (TP production 2013)
• Joey Chavez, Theatre Department Chair, New Mexico School for the Arts and playwright, Manhattan Glass (TP production, 2011)
• Robert Benjamin, playwright, Parted Waters, Salt & Pepper (TP productions, 2010 and 2013)

See detailed schedule below. All community and arts groups are welcome to bring a creative expression - a poem, a song, a letter - to read on the main stage. To reserve a slot to perform, email underoneumbrellafestival@gmail.com.

The UNDER ONE UMBRELLA FESTIVAL will conclude on Sunday, 24 November with a reading of Cascarones (at 5 pm) by Irma Mayorga, directed by Daniel Banks. Texas teenager Mary-Margaret Caceres works for the transit authority giving people bus route directions and attempts to understand the mapping of her community and city. As she navigates the daily challenges her working class family faces, in a dreamlike state she encounters John Wesley Powell, Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, and the other men whose actions in the past influence her present.

For more information about the festival and Teatro Paraguas, visit www.teatroparaguas.org

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