Teatro Campesino's Luis Valdez to visit Oregon Jan. 21

Eugene's Oak Hill School is pleased to welcome to Oregon Luis Valdez, director of Teatro Campesino, at an event beginning at 7 p.m. on Saturday Jan. 21 in the gym of Oak Hill School (86397 Eldon Schafer Rd., Eugene).

The Spanish and Theater Departments at Oak Hill School are pleased to invite you to a presentation by farmworker activist and award-winning director, Luis Valdez.   Mr. Valdez is best-known for writing and directing the Broadway play Zoot Suit and the movie La Bamba (as well as the recent play at Milagro, The Shrunken Head of Pancho Villa).  He is the founder of Teatro Campesino Theater Company.  Mr. Valdez also worked with César Chávez for the United Farmworkers' rights movement in California in the 1960s.  The event includes a talk by Luis Valdez himself after Oak Hill School theater students perform his play “Los Vendidos.” 

For more information call: 541- 744-0954.