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February 27, 2015 | Cannon Beach Gazette | cannonbeachgazette.com • 3A Retelling of Rivera’s childhood coming to Coaster Teatro Milagro, Tolovana Arts Colony present bilingual play events that involve the town’s Hispanic community and integrate Hispanic art and culture. Money left over from the Meyer Memorial Trust grant will help fund multicultural cooking class- es in April, May and June, she said. “We thought Teatro Mi- lagro was the perfect way to do it because it’s a bilingual theater, and that might bring out more of the Hispanic population,” she said, adding that, if El Niño Diego proves popular in Cannon Beach, the arts colony may arrange for a more adult-themed pro- duction in the future. By Erick Bengel Cannon Beach Gazette The childhood story of Mexican muralist Diego Rivera gets the fairy-tale treatment in El Niño Di- ego, a 40-minute bilingual play that Portland’s Teatro Milagro (Miracle Theater) will perform at the Coaster Theatre Playhouse at 7 p.m. March 7. “Diego Rivera is one of the most revered Mexican painters in the last couple of centuries,” said Lisa Kerr, program coordinator of the Tolovana Arts Colony. Peo- ple who aren’t familiar with Rivera may be familiar with his paintings, she said, “be- cause they’ve been made into posters 100 times over.” El Niño Diego (“The Boy Diego”) imagines what would have happened if Di- ego (played by Brian Burg- er) — who, in real life, was a child prodigy sent to live with a curandera (medicine wom- an) because of his poor health — had met the Aztec goddess Coatlicue in his youth. The goddess gives the boy a mag- ical paintbrush, which Diego thinks will make him a leg- endary artist. When a dastardly art school director (played by Ajai Terrazas Tripathi) and his dimwitted minion (played by Ana Silva) try to exploit Diego’s “magical” talents, Diego’s nurse, An- Value of art El Niño Diego is writ- ten in a way that’s called “code-switching,” where the dialogue alternates be- tween English and Span- ish. “The idea is that, if you were monolingual in either language, you would be able to follow the plot,” Wilson-Gunn said. “We’ve done several pub- lic performances, and the adults seem to enjoy the play as much as the kids do,” said Malán, who co-founded the Milagro Theatre Group with her husband, Jose Eduardo Gonzalez, in 1985. After the show, the four actors will have a Q-and-A “talk-back” with the audi- ence. Earlier that day, the arts colony is hosting a free acting and mural drawing workshop for kids featuring SILVIA MALAN-GONZALEZ PHOTO In El Niño Diego , Diego Rivera, kneeling, receives a magical paintbrush from the Aztec serpent goddess Coatli cue, conniving director Jose Manguino, left, tries to exploit Diego’s talents and Diego’s nurse, right, tries to convince Diego that he doesn’t need magic to be a great artist. tonia, helps Diego realize that he doesn’t need magic to make great art. “In our story, he discovers he doesn’t need outside mag- ic,” said Alida Wilson-Gunn, the associate artistic direc- tor of the Milagro’s touring program and director of the Coaster production. “He has the strength inside to create, and that it’s not the magical paintbrush at all. It’s his own ability that will propel him forward in his career.” Political themes Beneath the slapstick and family-friendly fanta- sy lies a serious political subtext, playwright Dañel Malán said. The evil school director, Jose Manguino (who, in reality, wasn’t evil), is try- ing to squeeze money from the school’s arts program for his private enrichment. The character represents the forces in favor of defunding the arts in public schools, Malán said. “It’s a kids’ show, so it doesn’t get too heavy with political commentary,” Trip- athi said. He added, however, that — in addition to incorpo- rating Rivera’s interest in pre-Columbian indigenous culture, mythology and folklore — the play ex- presses Rivera’s philoso- phy of social equality, that “art should be for all peo- ple, as opposed to the bad guy who thinks that art is something to commodify.” “It’s a very sweet story. It has villains and heroes and goddesses and magic,” Wil- son-Gunn said. “It’s a play written for youth to encour- age them to participate in the arts, to make (the arts) more accessible, especially for those who may not have much exposure to the arts.” Reaching out Teatro Milagro is coming to Cannon Beach courtesy of the Tolovana Arts Colony, which late last year received two grants — $3,300 from the Meyer Memorial Trust and $1,500 from the Clatsop County Cultural Coalition — to pay for the perfor- mance. Kerr, who secured the grants, wants to hold more the Milagro cast from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. at Tolovana Hall, 3779 S. Hemlock St. “Kids so seldom have a voice in the arts,” Wil- son-Gunn said. This is why it’s important, she said, to ask children after an artistic experience, “what they felt about it. What did they see? What did they remember? What did it mean to them?” Malán said she hopes her play conveys the value of art to the children in atten- dance. “People don’t really understand how important the arts are.” If you go WHAT: El Niño Di- ego (The boy Diego), performed by the Teatro Milagro (Miracle Theater) WHEN: 7 p.m. March 7 WHERE: Coaster Theatre COST: $20 per family (which could be any number of individuals), $5 per individual, or whatever a person can afford. Attendees pay at the door; tickets will not be available ahead of time. STORY: The child- hood story of Mexican muralist Diego Rivera, done in fairytale style; suitable for children Can’t make it to Fisher Poet Gathering? No problem! KMUN 91.9 fm Astoria & KTCB 89.5fm Tillamook 6 to 10 pm Friday, Feb 27 and Saturday Feb 28th will broadcast THE NATIONAL AWARD-WINNING LIVE Publisher Steve Forrester Editor Nancy McCarthy Reporter Erick Bengel Advertising Manager Betty Smith Production Manager John D. 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