Cultural Revival Mission: Tenacity, the Arts, and Rebirth
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Cultural Revival Mission: Tenacity, the Arts, and Rebirth
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In this Voice of Growth episode, Manny Teran sits down with filmmaker, critic, and preservation leader Herb Stratford — the force behind the $14M restoration of Tucson's Fox Theatre and the upcoming rebirth of the 1915 Teatro Carmen in Barrio Viejo. Herb explains why old theaters are more than pretty buildings: they're where communities learned how to feel together. He talks about sneaking into the Fox as a young photographer, quitting his job to save it, and refusing to quit even when everyone told him it was taking too long. We dig into how you reopen a theater without erasing the neighborhood it sits in, what "experience" means in an age of 75-inch home screens and AI, and why the future of culture is still in-person, on stage, with other humans.