Opie photography

Oral Histories - Chicano Studies Research Center Library

The CJM.

Welcome to the FAMILIAS website, a site for research.

"Familias was an artistic and curatorial breakthrough for art and community projects in the South Bronx. As part of local artistic-activist-curation legacies, Familias and inclusionary concepts like “inreach” help spark possibilities of growth by working with existing narratives and materials to create new limits, and valuable possibilities for other visions of utopias."

— Jane Gabriels, Ph.D.

Research Guides: Latin American and Caribbean Art: Oral Histories

from Curating Live Arts: Critical Perspectives, Essays, and Conversations on Theory and Practice

James and the Angels

Photo: Tom Brazil.

Patricia Davila

Merceditas Mañago

Kathy Westwater

James Adlesic

FAMILIAS --created by Pepatián’s artistic directors Merián Soto and Pepón Osorio-- is a remarkable production of epic scale.

It is a theatrical monument to the familial experience in the South Bronx. Dance, film, slide projection, music and oral histories are masterfully blended to create an exciting presentation