Lobby Mini Museum Opening

Sunday January 21st 2-4pm

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Sept 30th...

Summer Youth Arts Workshops are back

Summer Youth Arts Workshops are back to register fill out this form: Ages 6-12: M-F 10-4 June 12-23 Ages 13-18 M-F June...

Aerial classes back in person!!

Alessandra is offering private and semi private classes in the afternoons and evenings. Masks must be worn and social distancing practiced. Classes for adults will be starting soon. After school classes will start after labor day. Please contact: Alessandra 575 770...

2021 letter

Greetings from the Peñasco Theatre!   2020 was a year of great challenges, powerful social uprisings, collective grief and prospects of new ways of being. Artists are at the forefront of change, innovation and healing. Creative expression provides outlets for...

Classes

The Penasco Theatre collective operates a community youth arts after–school program providing unique opportunities for self-discovery, physical development, personal and collective empowerment, youth visibility and inter-generational connection through the arts of circus and puppetry.

Currently teaching artists are working through the Embudo Valley Library and Penasco Community Schools to provide programs.

Summer Youth Workshops

Since its inception in 2001 the Peñasco Theatre Collective Youth Arts Summer Workshop has offered an accessible and professional summer youth arts workshop to a diverse and inclusive group of area youth. Through creative exploration, physical and skills development, and group negotiation, students and Artist/Educators collaborate in a two-week circus arts workshop culminating in a public performance and community potluck.http://www.penascotheatercollective.org/summer-youth-art…rkshops-are-back/

Live Shows and Events

Peñasco Theater is the home of world-class performance, community open stages with new and emerging local artists, traveling shows and more. Check out our schedule online to see what is coming up next.

The Peñasco Theatre is available for traveling artists shows and community events. Interested in booking the theatre for your event? click here for more information

Artist Residency and Retreats

ARTIST IN RESIDENCY PROGRAM
“Art as Resistance”
Penasco Theatre is seeking performances based artists who’s work incorporates, dialogues with or is in some way inspired by the struggle for transformation and justice.

GROUP AND INDIVIDUAL RETREATS
Peñasco Theater offers short and long term retreats for Individuals and Groups. Come stay in a historic theater house and explore the beautiful landscapes of Northern New Mexico

Welcome to the Peñasco Theatre

On Highway 75, nestled beneath billowing clouds and a stark blue sky, is the area’s only solar powered hand-built adobe theatre.  Built in 1940 by Amado Roybal, the Peñasco Theatre stands as a testament to the resiliency of a community gathering place, and the importance of keeping performance traditions alive. 

The edifice radiates with 75 years of collective expression.  You can almost hear the laughter, the shuffle of dancing feet to Northern New Mexican melodies, the melodramas of Mexican Cinema, and the multitude of voices sharing centuries old ways of knowing echoing off the walls.

The Peñasco Theatre Collective (PTC), a group of performers and visual artists continue the tradition of utilizing arts and culture to bring people together in a mutually respectful culturally diverse environment.  From ongoing youth performance afterschool classes based in circus arts to a self-directed artist-in-residency, the theatre offers a wide array of creative experiences for the artistically adventurous. 

Every summer, for the past 18 years, the PTC hosts a youth inter-disciplinary arts workshop filled to capacity with enthusiastic young performers ranging in ages from 5 to 17 years.  PTC artist/educators hit the road with their creative prowess bringing multi-disciplinary arts instruction to school students all over Northern New Mexico.  PTC partners with various community organizations including Art For The Heart, Peñasco Schools, Wise Fool New Mexico, Española Valley Schools and Moving Arts Española.    

For the past 18 years artists and performers working through the Peñasco Theatre have dedicated their time, creative energies and unique visions to community building, collective empowerment and social transformation through the arts.

The Peñasco Theatre Collective is committed to lateralized, non-hierarchical leadership centering Xicanx, Indigenous, and queer people of color.  We are committed to creating alternative systems of organizing and ways that actively fight against the capitalist white supremacist system that is at war with the planet and the people attempting to thrive in harmony with it.  We strive to be a true collective that supports and sustains the artists/activists that are part of it, and to be a resource and a refuge for the broader community.

We are humbled by and in awe of all the many powerful movements standing together to shift the narrative – despite the sacrifice, the backlash, and the  uncertainty.  Art has played a vital roll in every social movement on the planet.  Artists are the architects of that collective vision.  And youth artists in particular possess the courage to question, challenge and innovative.

There are so many needy and worthy causes to support.  Any amount given to any one of them contributes to making the world a better, more livable, more equitable place.  Your donation to the Peñasco Theatre Collective/MAS Comunidad helps bring vital artistic, cultural and transformative creative experiences to marginalized frontier communities and beyond.

Greetings from the Peñasco Theatre!

 

2020 was a year of great challenges, powerful social uprisings, collective grief and prospects of new ways of being. Artists are at the forefront of change, innovation and healing. Creative expression provides outlets for processing difficult emotions, connecting to ourselves and each other and imagining and manifesting the world we want.

 

Having a space we can come together in is as critical as the process in which we gather. The Peñasco Theatre is a historic venue established in 1940, located on the traditional homelands of the Picuris people, has been a community gathering place for generations.

 

The Peñasco Theatre Collective is a group of artists that has spent the last 20 years hosting workshops for youth and adults, live performances for local audiences and an artist residency program that has brought hundreds of nationally and internationally recognized cutting edge creative visionaries to our rural community.

 

This vital community space requires regular and project-based physical infrastructure maintenance. This was the year to work on both the “top” and the “bottom”. New roofs were installed on some of the old leaking flat roofs, and a wastewater overhaul has begun. Through the local non-profit MAS Comunidad, the theatre was awarded a USDA grant to upgrade the septic system and renovate the restrooms to be ADA compliant.

 

The USDA funding requires a match of $11,000, about 10% of the project total budget. A donation towards the match will get the theatre one-step closer to leveraging this large funding opportunity to improve the theatre property.

 

Your donation will assist us in providing an accessible community space that directly impacts the young people and artists who attend our classes, workshops, residencies, and performances. It will bolster the economic viability of the Sugar Nymphs Bistro which employs Peñasco residents including young people, purchases locally grown products and provides locals and visitors with delicious homemade food!.

 

Please donate online at

 https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=BXFB8X7L32938

 or mail a check to P.O. Box 313 Penasco NM 87553, made out to Peñasco Theater LLC.

 

We look forward to the day when we can be together again at the theatre in person.

 

 In gratitude,

 

Alessandra Ogren

Co-Director

Peñasco Theatre Collective,

a program of MAS Comunidad- a 501c3 based in Peñasco, NM since 1986 (??)

A HUGE thank you to Avanyu Contracting for doing this work, and Allen Environmental for the plan and to MAS communidad for managing the grant.

 

Some photos of the project so far:

 

Trenching the septic lines and installing the grease trap.

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