The Community Light Opera and Theatre Association (CLOTA) was established in 1964 and incorporated under California state law as a non-profit institution headquartered in Ridgecrest, California.
Although amateur theatre groups had existed in the Indian Wells Valley for many years prior to 1964, CLOTA was the first community theatre organization committed to producing a select series of musicals and plays each year.
CLOTA is a non - profit organization, which operates solely on the basis of donations (both monetary and material), revenues from attendance at production, and fund raising activities.
Don Clota, as he was affectionately called, was a thorn in the side of successive governments, be they of the right, left or center.
Before I met Don Clota, all I knew of him was that he had succeeded in uniting all the Chilean trade unions in a single federation, which he directed for eight years.
Don Clota's greatest triumph, up to that time, was the 1955 national strike that paralyzed the country and established the CUT as a formidable force.
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