Here’s how this week’s arts and culture column begins:
To the world, Coachella Valley is the site of the massive, internationally touted music and arts festival held each year in the desert outside Palm Springs.
But Coachella is an actual town. And along with the neighboring unincorporated community of Mecca, it’s home to tens of thousands of seasonal farm workers, cleaners, tree trimmers, garbage collectors, and hotel staff: the unseen army of people, most from Mexico and Central America, many undocumented, who provide the infrastructure that allows those who live in and visit the valley to eat, holiday, and earn.
Invisible Valley, a 2021 documentary directed by Aaron Maurer, profiles the Galilee Center, a Mecca-based nonprofit whose mission is to help provide the workers with food, shelter, clothing, and housewares.
READ THE WHOLE PIECE HERE.
“Heaven is the great equalizer.” Excellent documentary.
Someone from here recommended it–grateful. And these remarkable women and their work deserve to be better known! Thanks, Melanie.