Los Moreno

A Staged Reading Of A New Play By Mercedes Floresislas

Culver Center of the Arts

LOS MORENO: A Staged Reading of a New Play by Mercedes Floresislas

Performed by the Latina/o Play Project 

With Musical Guests Quetzal Flores and Martha Gonzalez

Introduction by Rickerby Hinds, Playwright and UCR Professor 

LOS MORENO explores the lives of Latino deaf youth navigating family and community. The work recently received a national Kennedy Center Award. This special event includes an interactive music experience by "artivists" Martha Gonzalez and Quetzal Flores and a special introduction to this bold new play in development by Rickerby Hinds. Below is a link to an interview with the playwright:

http://50playwrights.org/2016/02/29/mercedes-floresislas/

This event is part of a program in tribute to the life and work of Tomas Rivera, foundational Chicano author and first Mexican American Chancellor in the US appointed at the University of California, Riverside (1979-1984) who believed in the power of the creative arts and higher education to foster personal and social transformation.

Support has been provided by UCR College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (CHASS) and the City of Riverside