with me is abel guillén, the chair of the board there of the luna mexicana committee. elcome to the show. abel guillén: hey, thank you so much for having us today. i'm excited to be here and [speaking foreign language] damian: that's right. well, we have a theme going. that's why the altar--i have my [speaking foreign language] in the back, but we're talking about

with me is abel guillén, the chair of the board there of the luna mexicana committee. elcome to the show. abel guillén: hey, thank you so much for having us today. i'm excited to be here and [speaking foreign language] damian: that's right. well, we have a theme going. that's why the altar--i have my [speaking foreign language] in the back, but we're talking about [speaking foreign language] here, just a celebration. tell us what's happening with your organization at the paramount. abel: yeah, absolutely. so back in 2016 we had a lot of anti-latino rhetoric happening in the political discourse, and in the oakland ballet we came together to say, "hey, what can we do to really have some of the positives, something for our community," so the oakland ballet, our director, graham lustig, came to the board and said, "hey, let's partner to put on a production celebrating dia de los muertos." and so it was born in 2016 and we've been going ever since. and it really is a family affair where we open up the beautiful paramount theatre to celebrate our culture, celebrate our [speak