Baktun12 is an East Salinas theater and media arts organization committed to the cultivation of oral histories and community actions that empower working families throughout the Salinas Valley and beyond.
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April 10, 2020Amidst the COVID-19 outbreak, Baktun12 comes together to bring you the voices of our partners and community, in the form of spoken word and audio theatre.
Part of the Episode-1 team during a recap zoom meeting.
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Teatro / Theatre
An East Salinas take on the Charles Dickens Classic that follows a young homie pipelined into a life of violence and criminalization.
Written by Luis xago Juarez and directed by Kinan Valdez, this staged reading was presented at MACLA in San Jose, in partnership with Louise J. Miranda Ramirez and the Esselen Nation of Monterey County telling a story inspired by Louise and the tribe’s struggle to uphold their culture and identity after two hundred and thirty years of colonization.
A theatrical depiction of a farm worker who leaves his hometown of Los Altos, Michoacán, Mexico for the Salinas Valley to labor under a program that was only supposed to last till the end of WWII but continued till long after.
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