Events

Michael Jaime-Becerra, author, will be reading from his newly released novel This Time Tomorrow at Riverside's Art Walk on March 4, 2010. 

“Michael Jaime-Becerra writes about a southern California that not enough people know, and This Time Tomorrow opens a window and lets readers step through into this place he loves and details so carefully and lyrically.  This is a place of hidden beauty and laughter and pain, and people who sing and lament, lovers who narrow their eyes and forge ahead, music that everyone should hear now.”—Susan Straight, author of A Million Nightingales

“Scrupulously detailed and tough-minded, This Time Tomorrow is an anti-romance about the lack of money and its effect on regular working people.  The world of Michael Jaime-Becerra's debut is one in which the possibility of overtime offers hope, and filling out a deposit slip is a victory.”—Stewart O’Nan, author of Songs for the Missing

"What? No streety cholos from the 'hood, no desperate, sad illegals broken by the other side, no charming, magical poverty? Michael Jaime-Becerra instead has ordinary Angelenos living ordinary American lives. Is that crazy or what? Jaime-Becerra is carrying on a tradition of literature that cuts deep into the American psyche, one that only happens to be Mexican-American."--Dagoberto Gilb, PEN/Hemingway Award-winning author of The Flowers.

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

The classic taile of royalty, corruption and murder, told in on hour. Professional actors, rich costumes and evocative sets make for a spectacle the whole family will enjoy.

Shakespeare on Tour is a prgoram of The San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, whose mission is to make the words and themes of Shakespeare accessible to everyone, regardless of age, ethnicity, financial status, or level of education. The tour will visit over 150 locations throughout California from October 2009 through March 2010. To assist busy teachter in presenting Hamlet, the tour also makes available a cirriculum packet of three weeks of lesson plans designed to meet state standards.

Location:
Riverside Public Library - Downtown
3581 Mission Inn Ave
Riverside, CA 92501

For information:
(951) 825-2420 or visit www.riversideca.gov/library

Free Admission

4:30 PM

The Mission Inn Foundation and UCR's Department of History, Public History Program and honored to host Dr. Julia Costello for this special lecture. Dr. Costello is the co-author of the new Getty publication The California Missions: History, Aret and Preservation, which intricately details all aspects of California's mission history - from their early histories and the first struggles for preservation, to the impressive art inspired by and held within the missions and the archaeological findings that have shaped, continued interpretations of California's mission past. Such notable scholars as California historian Kevin Starr have lauded this work as a "sumptuous book - a landmark in the revival of Mission studies."

Dr. Costelo earned her Ph.D. from UC Santa Barbara and is a principal in the cultural resource management firm Foothill Resources in Mokelumne Hills, CA. She is an internationally known expert in historical archaeology of the American West with particular expertise in the California Missions. We are honored to welcome Dr. Costello. Signed copies of The California Missions: History, Art and Preservation will be available for purchase at this presentation.

Lecture Hosted and Sponsored by: Misssion Inn Foundation and Museum. Co-Sponsored by UC Riverside Public History Program Department of History.

LOCATION
The Galleria
Mission Inn Hotel and Spa

1:00 AM

Both acclaimed poets will read, then take questions from the audience about writing, editing and in-print verus online media.

Ruth Nolan, MA is native of the Mojave Desert in the Apple Valley area and Associate Professor of English at the College of the Desert near Palm Springs, CA. She is also a poet, writer, and book editor/publisher. For two summer seasons, 1987-1988, she worked for the BLM as a helicopter hotshot and engine crew firefighter in the California Desert District and has extensively hiked, traveled, and embraced the essence of her desert homeland. She is editor of the new athology, No Place for Puritan: The Literature of the California Deserts, co-published by HeyDay Books and the Inlandia Institute.

Cati Porter is founder and editor-in-chief of Poemeleon: A Journal of Poetry and associate editor (poetry) for Babel Fruit. She is the author of two poetry collections, a chapbook of prose poems, small fruit songs (Pudding House Publications, 2008) and Seven Floors Up (Mayapple Press, 2008). Her poems have been anthologies in numerous publication. She has taught poetry to teens through Corona Public Library system and is a member of the Riverside Cultural Consortium and the Advisory Council for the Inlandia Institute. Cati Porter currently lives in Riverside, CA with her husband and two young sons.



Location
Riverside Community College
Riverside City Campus
Room: Administration 122

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM

Each month, the Inlandia Institue features the art of the talented student authors and filmmakers from the colleges and universities from our region.

6:00 PM

The symposium co-sponsored by the Inlandia Institute, the Riverside Historical Society and the Riverside County Department of Parks and Recreation will be held at the County Park Headquarters, the Jensen Alverado Ranch and the Martha McLean Park. 

The two day Anza Event will conclude on Saturday with an reenactment of Anza’s arrival at Anza Narrows -- Martha McLean Park. 5759 Jurupa Ave., Riverside CA 92506, 2 miles east of Van Buren Blvd on Jurupa Avenue.

FEE: $25.00, includes lunch and park entry fees. Number for reservations to be provided.

Experience the World in 10 Days!

The Riverside International Film Festival (RIFF) has announced that it is bringing 10 days of films to the University Village in 2010.

This 8^th annual event, which features more than 100 films from countries around the world, launches April 16 and continues through April 25, 2010. RIFF will not only show films, including submissions from Riverside’s own Sister Cities, but will also feature special educational panels on the film industry and film making.

The best of international and independent features, documentaries, and shorts will be shown at UltraStar Cinemas in the University Village at 1201 University Avenue, Riverside, CA, 92507. The entire University Village plaza is excited to participate in RIFF and plans are underway to highlight the “Experience the World in 10 Days” theme throughout the plaza.

The City of Riverside is eagerly anticipating the 2010 festival: “We couldn’t be happier that RIFF will be partnering with UltraStar Cinemas to showcase RIFF at University Village,” said Mayor Ron Loveridge.  “The connection between UC Riverside, University Village and RIFF will be a great way to further involve Riverside’s nearly 50,000 students in this fine film event.”  The City of Riverside is a Director’s Club sponsor of RIFF.

Further information, including an invitation to a special press reception in March, will be forthcoming.  Details are posted as they become available at www.riversidefilmfest.org.

Flash Flood is the 5th Annual Joshua Tree photo shoot retreat held by the UCR California Museum of Photography.  This year the Inlandia Institute will partner with CMP; adding the first Desert Creative Writing Workshop led by Ruth Nolan editor of No Place for a Puritan: the Literature of California’s Deserts. For more information and registration forms please visit www.inlandiainstitute.org or www.cmp.ucr.edu

BOOK LAUNCH EVENTS & EARTH DAY CELEBRATION: 

The award winning first edition was developed by the Riverside Corona Resources Conservation District.  The enhanced second edition has been co-published by Heyday Books in collaboration with Inlandia Institute.  It is an introduction to the many birdes with whom we share this unique region.  You can learn about the birds at the following Earth Week events, which include a bird slide show, book sale and signing.

LOCATION:
Highland Library & Environmental Learning Center
(San Bernardino County's Sam J. Racadio Library)
Community Room
7863 Central Avenue
Highland, CA 92346

TIME:  4:00 p.m.

SECOND EVENT FOR THE DAY:
Earth Night In The Garden
at Western Municipal Water District
450 E. Alessandro Blvd.
Riverside, CA

TIME:  6:30 p.m.

Join us for yet another event - Backyard Birds of the Inland Empire Book Lauch with the Habitat for Humanity.

LOCATION:
Habitat for Humanity Earth Day Event
White Park
@  Market Street at 9th Street
Riverside, CA

TIME: 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

MUSE is the art journal of the Riverside School for the Arts.  For the past three-years the Inlandia Institute has been celebrating the literary and visual art achievements of these remarkable emerging artists at an evening of reading and multimedia exhibition.

Each month, the Inlandia Institue features the art of the talented student authors and filmmakers from the colleges and universities from our region.

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM