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<DIV> <STRONG>You're invited to the second annual new england latino conference,</STRONG> organized by Voz Latina magazine. If you want to know more about the <STRONG>Voz Latina project </STRONG>and<STRONG> </STRONG>meet those involved in it, come! </DIV>
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<DIV> 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, <STRONG>send me an email confirming or letting me know you can't come ASAP.</STRONG> Those arranging the conference are providing housing and most know ASAP how many of us are coming. </DIV>
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<DIV>P.S. If most of us only want to go only for Saturday, thats fine too! </DIV>
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<P align=left><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color=#003366 size=3><STRONG>On Saturday, February 21, Rubén Martínez will be speaking at the Second Annual New England Latino Student Leadership Conference. </STRONG></FONT></P>
<P align=left><STRONG><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color=#003366 size=3><STRONG>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.</STRONG></FONT></STRONG></P>
<P align=left><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color=#003366><STRONG>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.</STRONG></FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color=#003366 size=3><STRONG>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.</STRONG></FONT></P>
<P align=left><STRONG><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color=#003366 size=3>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.</FONT></STRONG><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color=#003366 size=3><BR></FONT></P></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Verdana color=#990033 size=4>Tentative Schedule:<BR><BR></FONT></STRONG><STRONG><FONT face=Verdana color=#003366>Friday, February 20, 2004<BR><BR>3:30-5:00 Registration<BR>4:00-6:00 Light refreshments and informal networking<BR>6:00-7:15 Dinner<BR>7:15-8:00 Speaker</FONT></STRONG><STRONG><FONT face=Verdana color=#003366>, Music<BR>8:00-12:00 Dance<BR></FONT></STRONG><FONT size=3><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><BR><STRONG><FONT color=#003366>Saturday, February 21, 2004<BR><BR>8:00-9:00 Registration<BR>8:00-9:15 Continental Breakfast<BR>9:30-9:45 Welcome<BR>9:45-10:15 Speaker</FONT></STRONG></FONT><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><BR><STRONG><FONT color=#003366>10:15-10:30 Break<BR>10:30-11:45 Educational Session #1<BR>12:00-1:30 Lunch--entertainment<BR>1:45-3:00 Educational Session #2<BR>3:15-4:30 Educational Session #3<BR>4:45-5:15 Closing, door prizes, and evaluations</FONT></STRONG></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT lang=0 face=Arial size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10">Nadia Rivera-Nieves<BR>413 695 6623<BR>nrivera@smith.edu<BR><BR>Voz Latina magazine<BR>P.O. Box 565<BR>Northampton MA 01061<BR>vozlatinamag@aol.com</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>