Name: (Un)Documents [El Paso,TX] | Destinos Festival 2025
Start: 2025-10-03T19:30:00-05:00
End: 2025-10-04T21:30:00-05:00
Location: National Museum of Mexican Art

(Un)Documents [El Paso,TX] | Destinos Festival 2025

A poetic solo performance by El Paso Native, Jesús I. Valles, on identity, undocumented status, sacrifice, and queerness.
About this Event

DESTINOS 2025 - 8th Chicago International Latino Theater Festival
(UN)DOCUMENTS [El Paso, TX] by Jesús I. Valles is a Co-Presentation between the Chicago Latino Theater Alliance (CLATA) and the National Museum of Mexican Art (NMMA).

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A Midwest Premiere.

Drama

Written and Performed by Jesús I. Valles.

Directed by Rudy Ramirez.

60 min.

15+

Performed in English.

Synopsis:

With a single phrase, you can give up your country. With a single signature, you can tear a family apart. With a single word, you can learn to transform.

In their first full-length solo show, (Un)Documents, award-winning actor and poet Jesús I. Valles journeys across both sides of a river with two names, moving between languages to find their place as a child, a lover, a teacher, and a sibling in a nation that demands sacrifice at the altar of citizenship. In doing so, they create a new kind of documentation written with anger, fierce love, and the knowledge that what makes us human can never be captured on a government questionnaire.

About DESTINOS 2025 – 8th CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL LATINO THEATER FESTIVAL

DESTINOS is an annual, citywide festival showcasing Chicago’s Latine theater artists and companies alongside Top Latine artists from the U.S. and Latin America. Every fall, Destinos presents a rich, diverse array of bilingual, Latine-themed shows, panels and student performances at marquee venues downtown, as well as storefront theaters and cultural institutions in predominantly Latine neighborhoods throughout the city.

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