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GUADALUPE BOARDMEETING THIS THURSDAY

Lady Lupe,
Why Have You Abandoned Me?

Come speak out and support la cultura as we confront the
Guadalupe Board of Directors at the March Board Meeting,
this Thursday, March 23rd, 5:30 pm. At the Guadalupe Theatre.


The Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center is in crisis.

The Guadalupe Board of Directors has betrayed us by hiring R. Bret Ruiz, the current President.

We have learned that R. Bret Ruiz lied about his resume.

As president of the Guadalupe, his finances were so bad that he couldn’t even get a corporate American Express card under his own name.

Juan Aguilera, the Guadalupe Board Chairman, was warned about R. Bret Ruiz. Mauricio Navarro, Board Chairman of the Anita Martinez Ballet Folklorico in Dallas, where R. Bret Ruiz last worked, called Aguilera last summer, and told him that Ruiz “was the worst executive director we ever had.”

The Guadalupe belongs to us, not to the Board of Directors who aren’t listening to the community they are supposed to serve.

We will not wait until the Board of Directors along with R. Bret Ruiz, destroys the Guadalupe Cultural Center.

We will not wait stand by and see our beloved Lupe and all that we have worked for in our golden twenty-fifth anniversary crumble.

Please come to the Boardmeeting this Thursday and speak out! Sign the petition!

Email us at lastruestories@yahoo.com



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