Teatro Nagual Inc

Creating brave artistic space for scientists, educators, and artists to come together and share knowledge.   The objective is to provide emotional healing by creating relevant quality theatre along with mobile theatrical experiences that embody our core values.

Teatro Nagual (TeNa) was founded in 2006 and incorporated in 2009 with the mission to create innovative, artistic, educational programming that embodies the core values of Cesar Chavez and foster service to others. Those core values include: Acceptance of all people, celebrating community, respect for life and the environment, non-violence, innovation, a preference to help the most needy, knowledge, sacrifice, service to others, determination. Reflecting these values, TeNa staged productions including the musical “Let the Eagle Fly,” “Soldaderas,” “Anna in the Tropics,” “In the Time of the Butterflies,” and “Cesar and Ruben.” In 2016, Teatro Nagual shifted its mission to creating innovative, educational, live, mobile theater, and art experiences throughout the Sacramento Region focusing on, but not limited to, the Latino community.  Our re-emergence and re-birth have expanded our core values to add to our repertoire of stories and discussions of how we can continue our journey towards an enlightened humanity. By presenting quality theatrical experiences and bi-lingual, non-partisan, pop-ups, TeNa brings life to the issues of economic well-being, health disparities, environmental justice, immigration challenges, voter participation, and stories relevant to the community; sometimes encouraging people to laugh while finding common ground, promoting civic engagement, and empowering citizens and performers to seek change to better their lives and the lives of their families. As written in the Four Agreements, educators, scientists, and artists should come together to share knowledge that generates action, and participation in the spectators.   Added to our pillars is the expansion of Latinx arts educators. TeNa has created bi-lingual theatrical education for Spanish speaking families with children in grades K to 6. As California expands arts into the schools through Prop 28, the lack of Latinx arts educators has become glaring. TeNa develops education, training, and mentorship for artists creating workforce opportunity for them as educators.