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For Immediate Release Paul S. Flores, Fathers and Families (Stockton, CA) PLACAS: The Most Dangerous Tattoo, the celebrated play by Paul S. Flores, will make its Stockton debut on Thur. February 4, at 12pm & 7:30pm, and Fri. February 5 at 7:30pm at Delta College’s Atherton Auditorium. The play stars Ric Salinas of the Culture Clash performance troupe. This play is FREE and open to the public with admission tickets available at Delta’s DCA Box Office, 209-954-5110. Directed by the Latino Theater Company’s Fidel Gomez, PLACAS (barrio slang for body tattoos) is a bilingual tale of fathers and sons, transformation and redemption that illuminates one man’s determination to reunite his family after surviving civil war in El Salvador, immigration, deportation, prison and street violence. PLACAS stars Ric Salinas, a founding member of the critically acclaimed performance group CULTURE CLASH, as Fausto “Placas” Carbajal, a Salvadoran immigrant who tries to reclaim his family while letting go of his gangbanger past. The play also stars Zilah Mendoza, Xavi Moreno, Sarita Ocón, Eric Aviles, Emiliano Torres and Edgar Barboza. PLACAS is written by acclaimed spoken word artist Paul S. Flores. Flores interviewed more than 100 gang members, parents and intervention workers in the Bay Area, Los Angeles and El Salvador to develop material for the script. Salinas’ role of Fausto is loosely based on the experiences of ex-gang member Alex Sanchez, founder of the Los Angeles based violence prevention non-profit Homies Unidos. SPECIAL ACTIVITIES SURROUNDING PLACAS IN STOCKTON Thursday, February 4, Delta College, Atherton Auditorium 5:30pm-7:00pm- "Community Peace Panel"Stocktonviolence prevention experts, youth empowerment workers and youth leaders discuss strategies for healing and achieving positive transformation. Friday, February 5 PLACAS 2016 California tour is sponsored by The California Endowment Center for Healthy Communities, The National Compadres Network, Homies Unidos, The Unity Council Latino Men and Boys Program, The California Endowment Sons and Brothers and The San Francisco International Arts Festival. Stockton activities are sponsored by Fathers and Families of San Joaquin, and Delta Community College. This project was made possible in part by the Doris Duke Performing Artist Awards program. About PLACAS Ric Salinas, who was born in El Salvador, said of the play, “Living in San Francisco in the 1980s, a time when the war sent many refugees to places like San Francisco's Mission District, I saw first-hand how this wave of immigrants impacted the neighborhoods and how the realities of trying to adapt to living in the U.S. impacted Salvadorans. I was almost killed trying to prevent gang violence in front of my home in the Mission, so it is something I have first-hand experience with. I agreed to play Fausto because I'm hoping that by telling his story, it will allow audiences, old and young, to experience and learn about the consequences when loved ones become caught up in gang activity.” “What a gang member has to go through to be human is huge,” PLACAS playwright Paul S. Flores explained in an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle. “There's a mangled sense of identity, of life outside the gang clashing with the code of the gang. How do you recover from that? How does a man like Fausto recover his humanity after a lifetime of war and violence?” PLACAS was first produced at the San Francisco International Arts Festival in 2012, and has since traveled to over a dozen cities including Los Angeles, Washington DC and New York. Co-commissioned by four nationally respected Latino arts organizations (MACLA, Su Teatro, Pregones Theatre Company and GALA Hispanic Theatre) through the National Performance Network, PLACAS was developed with the Central American Resource Center (CARECEN) as a pro-active community response to the issue of transnational gang violence, presenting positive elements of Central American culture in the context of a hostile, anti-immigrant political environment. PAUL S. FLORES FATHERS AND FAMILIES OF SAN JOAQUIN DELTA COMMUNITY COLLEGE, CULTURAL AWARENESS PROGRAMS PLACAS Production Team Includes:
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