Playwright Paloma Sierra Set For Hero s Environmental Justice Film/Theater Initiative NUESTRO PLANETA
Nuestro Planeta will focus on specific countries in Latin America, beginning with Colombia and Puerto Rico.by Alexa Criscitiello
Puerto Rican writer, translator, educator and curator Paloma Sierra has been commissioned to pen the second segment of Hero Theatre and Hero Multimedia s Nuestro Planeta, a ten-year multimedia new works initiative that focuses on educating Latinx film and theater audiences about environmental justice within the Americas.
A series of films and plays that center on the relationship between Latinx communities and the earth, Nuestro Planeta will focus on specific countries in Latin America, beginning with Colombia and Puerto Rico.
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