Piñata maker Lorena Robletto segment
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Lorena Robletto creates festive and creative piñatas with fair labor practices at her business, Amaz
Lorena Robletto creates festive and creative piñatas with fair labor practices at her business, Amazing Pinatas in this segment from the PLAY episode.
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Piñata maker Lorena Robletto segment
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Lorena Robletto creates festive and creative piñatas with fair labor practices at her business, Amazing Pinatas in this segment from the PLAY episode.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipbreaking the piñata, it's contagious, you just want to be part of it and it's not just with children but adults, we see that, we see that it brings that euphoric moment yeah gives you life actually gives you life at Amazing Pinatas, we are making unique piñatas they are a beautiful piece of art that's how we see it it can be a flower, an animal, geometric shape and we can use them for different occasions, for weddings graduations, birthdays, even for celebration of life it's fun working with paper but it's so overwhelming sometimes with so many types and colors yeah we have done so many things here, we work with the movie industry we do a lot of custom orders like huge star piñatas for commercials oh that looks nice the star piñatas are really difficult to make so you need a lot of practice and yeah patience more than anything so when you have experience like Francisco does, it's easy for him because he's been doing it for so many years the origin of the piñata probably was in China clay oxen with seeds in them were broken this tradition found its way into Italy via travelers and this is where the term piñata comes from in Italian pina means pine cone but it's also the name for ceramic jug and there was a practice of breaking these jugs filled with treasures inside beautiful from Italy it went to Spain it came came to the new world from there in Mexico the Spaniards brought the desire to indoctrinate the local population with Christianity the star piñata was seen to have these seven protrusions to represent the seven deadly sins the person would hit them and this was vanquishing evil this is what is called the piñata district a lot of the businesses in the area are owned by immigrant hardworking people I am from Nicaragua I had a happy childhood and then I came to this country to get some education I worked as a social worker and I saw immigrant women making piñatas, they were earning at that time $2.50 for each one, they we have to make about 300 month for the families to survive I have no idea that I was going to enter in the piñata business but I was thinking we need to pay the piñateros livable wages it will benefit them, benefit us, benefit our community we're making a new concept, a spinning piñata she has an amazing imagination she has all these ideas and it's beautiful to see most of her ideas become into reality you put the candies and you put confetti but the best part about this spinning piñata is that it's nonviolent it's nonaggressive because you don't break it you can use it over and over we're going to hang that here I try to be a good example to other immigrants because we all have opportunities in this land mine was with piñatas
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Mark Murphy shows us his miniature furniture
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Artist Calder Kamin on how she discovered Austin Creative Reuse (1m 18s)
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