[free] El Teatro Campesino’s Family Day // San Juan Bautista
Join our family friendly event where proceeds from food sales, raffles, and suggested donations will directly support El Teatro Campesino’s programming!
When: Sunday, April 26, 2026 from 12pm-4pm.
ETC Playhouse, 705 Fourth Street in San Juan Bautista, CA.
Admission: FREE.
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About free event:
El Teatro Campesino’s annual Teatro Family Day Fundraiser is here!
Teatro Family Day attendees can expect to enjoy free indoor and outdoor entertainment that includes: musical and dance acts, special performance by Teatro Camp youth performers, carnival games (with prizes!), budget friendly food vendors and opportunities to learn more about El Teatro Campesino’s work.
Can’t join us at our April 26th event but still want to support?
We are gratefully accepting donations online before our event to help us meet our fundraising goal of $10k.
Our History:
Since its inception, El Teatro Campesino and its founder and artistic director, Luis Valdez, have set the standard for Latino theatrical production in the United States. Founded in 1965 on the Delano Grape Strike picket lines, the company created and performed “actos” or short skits on flatbed trucks and in union halls. Taking the “actos” on tour to dramatize the plight and cause of the farmworkers, El Teatro Campesino was honored in 1969 with an Obie Award for “demonstrating the politics of survival” and with the Los Angeles Drama Critics Award in 1969 and 1972.
In 1971, the company moved to San Juan Bautista, a rural town of 1,600 people located on the periphery of the major metropolitan centers of Northern California. In the summer of 1973, legendary British theater director Peter Brook and his Paris-based company, The International Centre of Theater Research, participated in an eight-week experimental workshop with the company in San Juan Bautista culminating in a joint venture performing throughout farmworker communities in the San Joaquin Valley.
