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Voces: Framing Narratives

Join visual artists, historians, and community activists in a conversation that looks and listens to the images and voices of Puerto Rican communities in 1970s New York  through photography from the collection of El Museo del Barrio and oral archives from the Brooklyn Historical Society.

The stories people choose to tell about their lives and their communities shape how we understand the narrative of an individual, neighborhood, or city. How does the process of documentation shape the stories as they are captured and preserved in film, audio recordings, and other media; how does that documentary legacy shape our view of the past and our understanding of our neighborhoods today? Explore these questions and more with Roger Cabán (Photographer and founding member of En Foco); Aldo Lauria Santiago (Professor and Chair of the Department of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies Department, Rutgers University); moderated by Iris Morales (Director of El Barrio Firehouse Community Media Center).

This event is part of Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations, an oral history project and public programming series, which examines the history and experiences of mixed-heritage people and families, cultural hybridity, race, ethnicity, and identity.











When: Wed., Oct. 17, 2012 at 7:00 pm
Where: El Museo del Barrio
1230 Fifth Ave.
212-831-7272
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Join visual artists, historians, and community activists in a conversation that looks and listens to the images and voices of Puerto Rican communities in 1970s New York  through photography from the collection of El Museo del Barrio and oral archives from the Brooklyn Historical Society.

The stories people choose to tell about their lives and their communities shape how we understand the narrative of an individual, neighborhood, or city. How does the process of documentation shape the stories as they are captured and preserved in film, audio recordings, and other media; how does that documentary legacy shape our view of the past and our understanding of our neighborhoods today? Explore these questions and more with Roger Cabán (Photographer and founding member of En Foco); Aldo Lauria Santiago (Professor and Chair of the Department of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies Department, Rutgers University); moderated by Iris Morales (Director of El Barrio Firehouse Community Media Center).

This event is part of Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations, an oral history project and public programming series, which examines the history and experiences of mixed-heritage people and families, cultural hybridity, race, ethnicity, and identity.

Buy tickets/get more info now