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RIVERSIDE, Calif., Jan. 29 -- The University of California at Riverside issued the following press release:
Latino artists and scholars who model the kind of civic morality advocated by poet and former UC Riverside Chancellor Tomas Rivera will lead the 26th annual conference honoring his legacy on Feb. 21.
The all-day conference at UCR - "Civic Morality: Community Engagement Through Creative and Scholarly Excellence" - begins at 10:30 a.m. in the Highlander Union Building and includes afternoon workshops with prominent Latino artists, musicians and scholars of the arts. An evening production of the Tony Award-winning musical "In the Heights" by the UCR Department of Theatre concludes the program. A post-performance audience talk-back will feature Brian Herrera, assistant professor of theater at Princeton University, and Tiffany Ana Lopez, conference director, professor of theater and Tomas Rivera Endowed Chair at UCR.
Daytime events are free and open to the public, but pre-registration is requested and strongly recommended for the workshops as the number participants for each is limited to 15. Parking permits may be purchased at the kiosk at the University Avenue entrance to the campus. The evening performance is free to UCR students who reserve tickets in advance. Tickets for the general public are $14, or $12 for non-UCR students.
Information about conference registration, parking and tickets for "In the Heights" is available at www.tomasriveraconoference.ucr.edu.
The conference theme is taken from an essay Rivera wrote about the role academics must play in building community: "A civic morality gives clarity of action plus power and strength that become constant. It is only through this type of correct action that one can hope to build a better community. Ni mas, ni menos."
"Because of Rivera's own evolution, growing up a child migrant farmworker and becoming chancellor of the University of California, Riverside, he understood in a very personal way how education has the power to transform individuals and that successful people are viewed as role models," conference director Lopez explained. "He felt academics had a 'civic morality' to be active and visible examples within the community. He also believed that the most important thing we can do to transform society is to cultivate excellence in the work we are called to do."
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