FRONTERAS

2023 - 2024

Fronteras is a series of collaboratories produced by the Center on Global Justice at UC San Diego, in collaboration with the nonprofit Casa Familiar, as part of a five-year arts and culture program funded by the Mellon Foundation to activate and transform a community space into a point of convergence for various generations and cultural backgrounds, to explore environmental justice through music. Fronteras bring established international musicians and composers, together with performers from the Theatre and Dance Department at UC San Diego, dancers from Lux Boreal—a Tijuana-based dance company—and San Ysidro-based artists and community members to engage in interpretative conversations, process-based workshops and music-led dialogues, culminating in public performances under the musical direction of UC San Diego professors.