“Without love, there is no reason to know anyone, for love will, in the end, connect us to our neighbors, our children and our hearts.” — Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Teatro del Corazón | Heart Theatre is a women and Latino owned production company.  Our mission is to be a sanctuary for all hearts that have been beaten down by the state of the world. We promote love, one performance at a time.

We believe that getting Teatro del Corazón | Heart Theatre in front of as many people as possible can help inspire and mobilize people to make change, take action, love more, and hate less. And we want to help as many people as possible lead healthier lives.

We know that there is a 24/7 365 day a year persuasion campaign of hate being waged on humanity. Messages of division and discord abound, and there is a concerted attempt to sow further conflict through politics and manufactured oppression.

But another movement has been afoot for decades. Artists such as Dolly Parton, Walter Mercado, Bcorps companies, like Patagonia, and nonprofits such as Corazón Latino are putting love into their artistry, products, and programs.

Teatro del Corazón productions amplify messages of kindness and love through art in a concerted effort to soothe what ails us as humans. 

We support live events in many different spaces. As creatives ourselves, we crave the impact of performing live in front of an audience. But here’s the rub: Our spaces, both physical and virtual, produce live performances with only one caveat -- Each work, no matter what, must uplift and inspire humanity. Plays must induce laughter, music must bring joy, and other productions must allow each one of us to understand that we are more alike than different, and that hate can be neutralized. 

Heart Theatre is the first of its kind center for art, and is a digitally-native and in-person hybrid production performing arts company. We produce existing works that uplift humanity while at the same time commissioning new pieces from established and new artists.  

While we will have a physical space, and will center some of our work there, we will harness new technologies to bring the arts to everyone. This year will see us produce Theatre in the metaverse as a way to expand our audience to individuals in virtual world platforms (like Decentraland or Sandbox).

In essence, we are a borderless theatre performing around the world, live, online, and in the metaverse. 

What’s even more exciting is that we will create NFTs that will allow our community of artists to benefit from their work in a peer to peer fashion. We believe that artists should be prosperous. And by using tools such as non-fungible tokens, augmented reality, and virtual reality, we can not only bring that vision to life, but make the arts accessible to all. As NFTs provide an economy for these artists, our theatre, which will create those NFTs, will become integral to this new digital economy.

In the spring of 2022, we will begin to work with established and new artists ensuring that our roster is filled with a diverse collection of talented individuals. We will work to elevate voices that to date have been marginalized or unknown due to lack of resources.

Teatro del Corazón will produce a broad array of experiences. From live theatre and music to performances in the Metaverse, we aim to reach as much of humankind as possible in the next five years. We believe in the power of technology to bring us closer together. We will use AR, VR, and AI to augment our physical experiences. 

Our purchase of a block of love in the Metaverse will give us the platform and real estate to stage performances in the virtual world. And we are just getting started.

Impact

We are connecting audiences around the world fostering love without borders. We will provide access to the arts in places that are only now gaining access to the internet. We will support causes, for example, Earth Day, by creating the first of its kind event in the Metaverse. Our purchase of a block of love in Decentraland or Sandbox will allow us to plan events with artists from Armenia to Zanzibar. 

Artists will collaborate across time and space fundamentally shifting the idea and narrative of how music, art ,and even theatre are created. Imagine a concert with the musicians writing and rehearsing without ever physically meeting which then culminates in a live performance in a virtual world platform.  

Funding

Our funding comes from new and traditional models of philanthropy. Moving forward, we will create and sell non fungible tokens (NFTs), apply for grants, solicit donations from traditional philanthropies, and utilize crowdfunding models that will help fund operations, technology, and democratize access to donors and working capital to artists.

Production Schedule Preview:

• February 14, 2022 - Facebook Live press release and first performance

• March 2022 - Call for new plays based on our mission. 

• April 2022 - Earth Day in the Metaverse

• May-October 2022 - 3 staged performances of new work (music and theatre)

• December 2022- A massive party with DJ (*) uniting all of us with music. Live in Washington, D.C. and in the Metaverse