San Francisco Mime Troupe

created this hole in me; and I think from then on I’ve been trying to fill it through my work.” Valdez’s experience in a farm worker family provided much encouragement and drive when he founded El Teatro Campesino. In 1965, Valdez left the San Francisco Mime Troupe to join Cesar Chavez in organizing farmworkers in Delano, Calif. Valdez

created this hole in me; and I think from then on I've been trying to fill it through my work." Valdez's experience in a farm worker family provided much encouragement and drive when he founded El Teatro Campesino. In 1965, Valdez left the San Francisco Mime Troupe to join Cesar Chavez in organizing farmworkers in Delano, Calif. Valdez organized the workers into El Teatro Campesino (The Farmworkers Theater) in an effort to popularize and raise funds for the grape boycott and farmworker strike. In

technologies upturn. Bill Graham, a Holocaust survivor turned impresario, paved the way for modern music event promoters at the forefront of the promotion scene in the 1960s. First starting in theatre, he voices the difficulties he had promoting the Mime Troupe from the start: “Driving the truck down to the Palo Alto and putting up the posters and selling the tickets. Taking the show down and reloading the truck. I’d get home at like 2A.M..” Here, a tough start proved to be the framework

truck flat beds. In addition, the performances were held in the middle of fields in Delano, California. San Juan Bautista, California is the home of the theater as of 1971. One of the people to help get the theater going is Luis Valdez. Valdez comes from a family of migrant farmworker. He is a Mexican American that attended San Jose State University and briefly worked with San Francisco Mime Troupe. Early production focused on different traditions, Mexican folk humor, and religious dramas. El Teatro

Howard Gardner would describe the idea of the performer as an agent of change to be an example of a role that somebody with a lot of interpersonal intelligence– that is, having an understanding of other people’s feelings– should have. 2) The San Francisco Mime Troupe’s “Revenger Rat” was a play that was developed as a result of how the tobacco industry heavily promoted smoking towards teenagers to replace the older groups that either decided to quit or died as a

Bernard Bragg Bernard Bragg is an American actor, producer and director; This is just to name a few of his many talents. He was born on September 27, 1928, in Brooklyn New York. Bragg was born deaf to deaf parent who tough him sign language as a form. From an early age Bragg show interest in theater, since his father Wolf Bragg was an actor and also, he managed plays. From his early years Bragg demonstrated talent as early as High School where he perform and helped with preparations of the play.

California, Valdez began working in the fields at six years of age. Although his education was frequently interrupted by his family 's constant travel, Valdez finished high school and subsequently attended San Jose State College. After graduating in 1964 Valdez joined the San Francisco Mime Troupe, from which he gained an appreciation of agitprop theater, which makes use of political agitation and propaganda to protest social injustice. Valdez returned to Delano in 1965 to assist César Chávez and the

Wisconsin protestors, Frank Emspak and Roy Robinson. The founding of this group showed that the anti-war movement as stronger and more organized as it had been before. There were other ways that people express their feeling about the war. The San Francisco Mime Troupe expressed their opinions in a creative way as they performed a play with characters that resembled the countries in the Vietnam War (Holden 118-120). Other protesters carried Viet Cong flags, that were red and blue, to demonstrations and

mbiEBSCOhost Page 1 of 14 Record: 1 Title: Authors: Source: Document Type: Subject Terms: THE PRICE OF THE TICKET. Seabrook, John New Yorker; 8/10/2009, Vol. 85 Issue 24, p34-43, 8p, 1 Color Photograph Article *TICKETS *PERFORMING arts -- Ticket prices *CONCERTS Company/Entity: People: Abstract: LIVE Nation Worldwide Inc. TICKETMASTER Entertainment Inc. SPRINGSTEEN, Bruce The article discusses concert ticket sales in the U.S. The efforts of Live Nation and Ticketmaster Entertainment to sell concert