LONG BEACH, CA \u2014 Long Beach City College on Thursday held a ribbon-cutting for the Jenni Rivera Performing Arts Center, a new $102 million facility named after the late Latin music icon, who’s an alumnus of the school.<\/p>\n
Rivera, known as “la Diva de la Banda,” was born and raised in Long Beach and was one of the first women in the Latin music industry to sing narcocorridos, a subgenre whose lyrics are generally folk tales about drug trafficking.<\/p>\n
She died in a December, 2012 plane crash near Monterrey, Mexico at the age of 43.<\/p>\n
Construction of the facility began in July, 2023 and opened for classes in the spring, 2026 semester.<\/p>\n
The state-of-the-art complex now serves as the home for City College’s performing arts, music, dance, and radio\/TV\/broadcasting programs.<\/p>\n
The 67,331-square-foot facility includes:<\/p>\n
A 263-seat auditoriumDance and rehersal studiosBroadcast studios, editing bays and practice roomsAdvanced audiovisual systemsAn outdoor performance stage <\/p>\n
“The Jenni Rivera Performing Arts Center represents possibility for every student who walks through its doors,” LBCC Superintendent-President Mike Munoz said. “Seeing Jenni Rivera’s name on this center reinforces what we want every student to understand: their goals are achievable, no matter where they start.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, CA \u2014 Long Beach City College on Thursday held a ribbon-cutting for the Jenni Rivera Performing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-239460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}