Salud: Healing through the Arts
Latino immigrant youth create theater pieces and radio shows to improve community health
Project Summary: Salud: Healing through the Arts, is producing programming that engages a predominantly Latino immigrant youth population. Partners are creating a series of theater productions and radio programming that is helping the community make better health decisions. The partnership will use arts programming that addresses and breaks down cultural health taboos that impede access to services and resources that foster healthier, more prosperous lives.
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As many of you know, I am in Arizona at the moment. I, along with 4 other community leaders, participated in a civil disobedience action.... read more
Nadia Sol Ireri Unzueta Carrasco is 22 years old, and since she began participating with SALUD she has received a bachelors degree in Gender and... read more
Rosalinda Guzman (picture right) is the youngest member of the SALUD team, and is returning for her third year. She is currently attending Noble Street... read more
Judith Landeros is a student at Northwestern University, with a double major in Social Policy and Latina/o Studies. Her parents are Mexican immigrants whom she... read more
Since Edy Dominguez began participating at Radio Arte, he has graduated from Northeastern Illinois University with a major in Communication, Media, and Theater with a... read more
Laura Cabral returns for her third year with SALUD.
Some of my clearest memories from SALUD consist of sitting in the room outside of Ms. Unzueta’s... read more
Caroline Luna is returning for her second year with SALUD. She is currently a Freshman at DePaul University in Chicago.
The program SALUD was an excellent... read more
Adriana Garcia has been an active member of the SALUD project since the beginning. In 2008 and 2009 she learned to listen and then take... read more
16-year-old Javier Arellano didn’t know what he was in for when he auditioned for SALUD 2008, now a returning youth participant find out why, for... read more
First Published in the Latinos Progresando Email Bulletin.
Immigration, gangs, family and school are some of the themes of Teatro Americano’s shows. Teatro Americano's latest... read more
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