[RAICES] Fwd: Please forward-Latino conference

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    Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 17:04:45 EST
    From: Vozlatinamag at aol.com
Reply-To: Vozlatinamag at aol.com
 Subject: Please forward-Latino conference 
      To: ealvelo at smith.edu, rdespiritu at amherst.edu, mc02 at hampshire.edu, 
ecuesta at complit.umass.edu, GLADYSNATALIA at aol.com, jbcp at acad.umass.edu, 
rene at student.umass.edu, renegonzalez7 at hotmail.com, jobenite at mtholyoke.edu, 
mdosorio at mtholyoke.edu, nvigil at hampshire.edu, djolder1 at yahoo.com, 
rvigil at hampshire.edu


     You're invited to the second annual new england latino conference, 
organized by Voz Latina magazine. If you want to know more about the Voz Latina 
project and meet those involved in it, come!  
    The conference is Feb. 20-21 and will be held at Eastern CT University. 
Housing will arranged. $20 for resgistratio'ren (but we are getting a discount 
so it will probably be much less). If you are on this list, that is because 
you are considered vital to the Voz Latina project. If you want to come, send 
me 
an email confirming or letting me know you can't come ASAP. Those arranging 
the conference are providing housing and most know ASAP how many of us are 
coming. 

P.S. If most of us only want to go only for Saturday, thats fine too! 
On Saturday, February 21, Rubén Martínez will be speaking at the Second 
Annual New England Latino Student Leadership Conference. 
Rubén Martínez is an Emmy Award-winning journalist, poet and performer, is a 
Loeb Fellow at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. He has just 
been named Associate Professor of English in the Creative Writing Program at 
the 
University of Houston.
He is also an associate editor at Pacific News Service, and the author of the 
acclaimed Crossing Over: A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail. This “
non-fiction novel,” which traces the lives of an extended family of migrants 
over a 
period of several years and across thousands of miles, has been selected as a 
Notable Book by the American Library Association, alongside such authors as 
David Halberstam and David McCullough.
Martínez has lectured and performed at such venues as: Mark Taper Forum, Los 
Angeles County Museum of Art, John Anson Ford Theater, Getty Research 
Institute, House of Blues, Luna Park, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, 
Self Help 
Graphics, Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Whitney 
Museum, St. Mark’s Poetry Project, Museo del Barrio, Centro Cultural de la 
Raza, 
Mexican Museum, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, GALA Hispanic Theater, Living 
Stage Theater, National Civil Rights Museum, Mexico City’s X-Teresa 
Alternative Art, Guadalajara’s Roxy Theater, London’s Royal Festival Hall 
and Glasgow’s 
Royal Concert Hall.
Among numerous presentations in academic settings, he has lectured at the 
University of El Salvador, and delivered commencements addresses at the 
University of California at Berkeley, the University of California Los Angeles 
and 
California State University, Northridge.


Tentative Schedule:

Friday, February 20, 2004

3:30-5:00 Registration
4:00-6:00 Light refreshments and informal networking
6:00-7:15 Dinner
7:15-8:00 Speaker, Music
8:00-12:00 Dance

Saturday, February 21, 2004

8:00-9:00 Registration
8:00-9:15 Continental Breakfast
9:30-9:45 Welcome
9:45-10:15 Speaker
10:15-10:30 Break
10:30-11:45 Educational Session #1
12:00-1:30 Lunch--entertainment
1:45-3:00 Educational Session #2
3:15-4:30 Educational Session #3
4:45-5:15 Closing, door prizes, and evaluations


Nadia Rivera-Nieves
413 695 6623
nrivera at smith.edu

Voz Latina magazine
P.O. Box 565
Northampton MA 01061
vozlatinamag at aol.com

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