SAVE THE DATE FOR THE 47th PUERTO RICAN/HISPANIC DAY
PARADE IN BRENTWOOD
To Be Held on Sunday, June 23rd, 2013
And While You're At It, Save the Date For the Next Annual
Brentwood Cultural Street Festival
Sunday 9/22/13, From Noon to 6 p.m.
Regarding the latest of its community theatre productions ,Teatro Experimental Yerbabruja just completed a 4-year "run" of its original social theatre play
What Killed Marcelo Lucero?
"...succeeds where so many speeches and editorials fail. It points, at least, to where deeper understanding might lie and how people might get there together."
- NEW YORK TIMES
"...opens a window into the lives of immigrants living underground on Long Island."
- NEWSDAY
The next such original play, dealing with multi-cultural women's issues, is currently in development.
Our Mission -
To advance cultural understanding, within the diverse Long Island communities that we serve, by using the theatrical and other performing and visual arts as tools to promote constructive social change; and to provide opportunities for emerging and established artists.
To advance cultural understanding, within the diverse Long Island communities that we serve, by using the theatrical and other performing and visual arts as tools to promote constructive social change; and to provide opportunities for emerging and established artists.
The yerbabruja is a plant of the Puerto Rican countryside with healing powers and the magical ability to thrive under any conditions.
“Aun guardadas en los libros sus hojas suelen retoñar” …La yerba bruja es el mejor símbolo de la admirable y mágica capacidad de los puertorriqueños para sobrevivir todas las adversidades…
- YERBA BRUJA, Juan Antonio Corretjer, 1957
