ECOCENTRODECIERTOSHABITANTES -
ARTISTIC CREATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

ECOCENTRO DE CIERTOS HABITANTES is a new project of the highly acclaimed Latin American Company TEATRO DE CIERTOS HABITANTES.  The Ecocentro offers artistic residences and retreat facilities for artistic creation, reflection, research, cultural exchange, artistic and environmental education, and the development of theatrical productions. The Ecocentro is a model cultural project of artistic inspiration, low-impact technologies, and the preservation of natural resources through the theatrical arts.

The ECOCENTRO DE CIERTOS HABITANTES is located in the municipality of Chalmita, in the Corredor Zempoala-Chalma, part of the Great Water Forest. It is a beautiful and very important forest that provides water to 35 million people, a third of Mexico’s population. Mexico has the world’s fifth most biological diversity; the country is gifted with natural resources, ecosystems and living cultures that contrast with one of the highest indices of deforestation, loss of biodiversity and cultures. Mexico’s cultural and biological diversity will only be preserved through creative conservation efforts such as ours.

The ECOCENTRO DE CIERTOS HABITANTES will be a retreat center that allows artists to bring their full concentration and creative processes to delve deeply and produce work of the highest quality. The Ecocentro will encourage expansion of consciousness where artists, guests and the local community can acknowledge, honor and experience the privilege of dwelling in primary forests, near a river and a natural spring, breathing pure air and communing with the natural world.

Established in 1997, TEATRO DE CIERTOS HABITANTES has received international acclaim for productions like Becket or the Honor of God, Monsters and Prodigies: The History of the Castrati, The Grey Automobile and Where Will I Be Tonight? Both the company and director Claudio Valdés Kuri have received accolades from audiences worldwide and numerous awards from critics’ associations.

OBJECTIVES

General Objective: Founding, designing, promoting, building and developing the Ecocentro de Ciertos Habitantes, where retreat spaces shall be offered for the creation of theatre plays, exchange and artistic education, along with the promotion of environmental culture.

Specific Objectives:

1. Promoting the Ecocentro de Ciertos Habitantes through development of presentation materials, permanent promotional campaign, permanent financing campaign, and creation of consultative council.

2. Designing and building the Ecocentro, drawing on eco-design concepts: natural architecture, permaculture design, renewable energies, sustainable use of local resources and environmentally low-impact eco-technologies.

3. Developing and protecting the environmental area surrounding the center, based on the bioregional philosophy, acknowledging natural borders, protection and restoration of natural areas, implementing education programs, designing promotional materials, creating sustainable productive projects and building an ecological community network.

4. Offering retreats for theatrical creation and other artistic disciplines for reflection, research, inspiration, exchange, and scenic productions development.

5. Support and promotion of education and cultural enterprises, and model an environmentally-based artistic center and projects, at a national and international level.

Supporting the Ecocentro and the environment.

We invite you to participate in this important project. With your valuable support and sponsorship you will help us build the Ecocentro in Mexico as an international inspiration for new artistic productions, multi-cultural arts, and ecological sustainability, creating an environmental and cultural legacy for generations to come.