The TANA community art center, a program of the University of California, Davis, is sponsoring a free performance by El Teatro Campesino, presenting its play “Aventuras con Verduras,” Spanish for Adventures with Vegetables, Saturday, Aug. 27, in Woodland.

TANA (Taller Arte del Nuevo Amanecer, or art workshops of the new dawn) commissioned the bilingual play to promote healthy eating.

“It is our hope that the presentation will showcase the power that the arts can play in sparking positive social change through creating a public forum on healthy living through theater,” said Carlos Francisco Jackson, an assistant professor in UC Davis’ Department of Chicana/o Studies, which runs TANA.

The San Juan Bautista-based El Teatro Campesino, founded by farmworkers on the Delano grape strike picket lines in 1965, debuted Aventuras con Verduras in Salinas on May 21. The ensemble has since performed vignettes from the play for more than 400 students and families in Monterey County.

The performance at the Woodland Opera House, 340 Second St., is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. People interested in attending are asked to e-mail to ncastro@ucdavis.edu; RSVPs should include first and last name along with the total number of people attending.

Funding for the play comes from the U.S. Department of Agriculture through a grant from the state Department of Public Health’s Network for a Healthy California.

For more information:
-- TANA
http://chi.ucdavis.edu/content/taller-arte-del-nuevo-amanecer

-- El Teatro Campesino
http://www.elteatrocampesino.com