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Events in March 2019

  • - 2ND ANNUAL FAMILY READING CON AT JOE BACA MIDDLE SCHOOL
    2ND ANNUAL FAMILY READING CON AT JOE BACA MIDDLE SCHOOL

    2ND ANNUAL FAMILY READING CON AT JOE BACA MIDDLE SCHOOL


    March 2, 2019

    Celebrate literacy and Dr. Seuss’s 115th Birthday at the 2nd Annual CJUSD Family Reading Con starting at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday March 2, 2019.
    This family-friendly, FREE event will feature lots of fun activities for all!
    Meet award-Winning authors and artists and get their autographs!
    Have fun listening to stories and watching performances of some of your favorite books!
    Write your own stories! Take home FREE books for your own library, or purchase books from our guest authors:
    • Diane Adams
    • Marsha L Ceniceros
    • Jose Chavez
    • Julianna Cruz
    • Henry Lien
    • James Luna
    • Wayne Sergeant
    • Isabelle Quintero
    Play with puppets:
    • Puppetpalooza with Pam Atkinson
    • Puppets a la Carte with Nicole Cloeren
    Teens: Share your poetry in our Teen Poetry Slam!
    Take a selfie with a superhero!
    Enjoy fun crafts and literacy themed events:
    • Storytelling with Karen Rae Kraut
    • Hands-on writing activities with UCR Gluck Fellows Joseph Satran, Michael Robinson, and Joseph Cardenas
    Plus: Come dressed as your favorite book character in your own HOMEMADE costume to enter our costume contest for a chance to win prizes! (Rules: Must be school-appropriate. No store-bought costumes please.)
    We also will have food trucks where you can purchase tasty items. You won’t want to miss it!
    In partnership with the Colton Joint Unified School District. Free and open to the public.
  • - CONVERSATIONS AT THE CULVER, CONVERSATIONS AT THE CULVER FEATURING NORMAN ELLSTRAND AND ROGER RANSOM, FIRST SUNDAYS AT RAM WITH KAREN RAE KRAUT
    CONVERSATIONS AT THE CULVER

    CONVERSATIONS AT THE CULVER


    March 3, 2019

    Black Indian (memoir; Black History Month) with Shonda Buchanan. More to be announced.

    CONVERSATIONS AT THE CULVER FEATURING NORMAN ELLSTRAND AND ROGER RANSOM

    CONVERSATIONS AT THE CULVER FEATURING NORMAN ELLSTRAND AND ROGER RANSOM


    March 3, 2019

    On Sunday, March 3, at 1:30 p.m., join us for Conversations at the Culver featuring authors Norman Ellstrand and Roger Ransom. This event will be held at Culver Center, located at 3834 Main St, Riverside, CA 92501.
    Join Roger and Norm as they discuss their latest books and the processes they have used in coming up with these books. One a physical scientist, one a social scientist, they both have a keen interest in one another's work, and enjoy helping people understand complex subjects.
    Books will be available for purchase. Light refreshments will be served. This event is free and open to the public.
    About the Books:
    Gambling on War: Confidence, Fear, and the Tragedy of the First World War
    The First World War left a legacy of chaos that is still with us a century later. Why did European leaders resort to war and why did they not end it sooner? Roger L. Ransom sheds new light on this enduring puzzle by employing insights from prospect theory and notions of risk and uncertainty. He reveals how the interplay of confidence, fear, and a propensity to gamble encouraged aggressive behavior by leaders who pursued risky military strategies in hopes of winning the war.
    Sex on the Kitchen Table
    Sex and food are intimately intertwined, and this relationship is nowhere more evident than among the plants that sustain us. From lascivious legumes to horny hot peppers, most of humanity’s calories and other nutrition come from seeds and fruits—the products of sex—or from flowers, the organs that make plant sex possible. Sex has also played an arm’s-length role in delivering plant food to our stomachs, as human handmade evolution (plant breeding, or artificial selection) has turned wild species into domesticated staples.
    Norman C. Ellstand is Distinguished Professor of Genetics at the University of California, Riverside, where he holds the Jane S. Johnson Endowed Chair in Food and Agriculture. He is also the author of Dangerous Liaisons?: When Cultivated Plants Mate with Their Wild Relatives.
    Roger L. Ransom is Distinguished Professor of History and Economics, Emeritus at the University of California, Riverside. He is best know for his work with Richard Sutch on the American Civil War and has authored several other publications.
    FIRST SUNDAYS AT RAM WITH KAREN RAE KRAUT

    FIRST SUNDAYS AT RAM WITH KAREN RAE KRAUT


    March 3, 2019

    On Sunday, March 3, from 2-2:30 p.m., join us for a delightful performance by Karen Rae Kraut. This event will be held at Riverside Art Museum downtown, located at 3425 Mission Inn Avenue.
    On the 32nd anniversary of the creation of Women’s History Month, Karen Rae Kraut shares folk tales centering on brave women who match wits with powerful adversaries. We’ll also learn why it’s so difficult to keep a secret! Audience members will have the opportunity to provide musical accompaniment on a dizzying array of rhythm instruments.
    "What distinguishes a truly 'creative' teller is her ability to create something so deliciously new and unique with words and art so traditionally and classically celebrated. I was mesmerized; and your playful ways of getting us involved as only you can do added such wonderful balance to such a mysterious and profound tale." —Jim Cogan, Tellabration
    "I was struck by the transformative power of this kind of program. Especially pronounced was the change on the look of the faces of the adults who, for a while, stepped into another world and lightened and filled their spirits."
    —Karen Delshad, Fairview Branch Library, Santa Monica
     Check out other exciting First Sundays activities at the RAM. April 7th, Karen Rae Kraut’s story, “When the Monkeys Came Back,” will highlight the value of nature, setting the tone for Earth day later in the month. And on May 5, she will celebrate the spring season with the Native American story, “Grandmother Spider Brings the Light.”
    Karen Rae Kraut is an award-winning family performing artist, storyteller, variety entertainer, comedienne, singer, teaching artist and workshop presenter. Her shows include adaptations of world folktales, music, songs, movement, and her own special brand of audience participation. She has performed for school, library, and community audiences since 1990 from California to East Tennessee.
  • - ART WALK FOR BOOK LOVERS FEATURING NIKIA CHANEY
    ART WALK FOR BOOK LOVERS FEATURING NIKIA CHANEY

    ART WALK FOR BOOK LOVERS FEATURING NIKIA CHANEY


    March 7, 2019

    On Thursday, March 7, at 7:00 p.m., join us for a reading from us mouth by Nikia Chaney. This event will be held at Riverside Public Library downtown, upstairs. The library is located at 3581 Mission Inn Avenue.
    us mouth attempts to speak to the fracturing of intimate relationships, the importance of voice, song, and empathy as an instrument of connection and healing. The poems are filled with wordplay and rhythm to create an intensity of presence of various speakers who cry out in the pain and joy of being alive.
    “The narrative seam that snakes through a list; the way a syllable serves as stitch to line; the hollow of silence a caesura opens in a sentence’s certainties to give language a ledge over which to lean and look: ‘dimensional blades / in / quiet,’ Nikia’s poems split and suture. ‘Where she is testing a moment’ we find the breaks in which we conduct our blooming, in the noise and whip she pulls us toward shade, and source, and spill.” —Lyrae Van Clief- Stefanon, author of Open Interval and Black Swan
    Nikia Chaney is founding editor of shufpoetry, an online journal for experimental poetry, and also Jamii Publishing, a publishing imprint dedicated to fostering community among poets and writers. Highly active in the community, Nikia has won fellowships and grants from Cave Canem, the Millay Colony for the Arts, Squaw Valley, and the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund. Nikia’s projects included writing workshops that reached out to victims of the San Bernardino terrorist attack and the North Park Elementary School shooting.
    Reading will be followed by light refreshments and book sales and signing. This event is free and open to the public.
  • - IE EXPERIMENTS: SHORT FILMS FROM INLAND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
    IE EXPERIMENTS: SHORT FILMS FROM INLAND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

    IE EXPERIMENTS: SHORT FILMS FROM INLAND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA


    March 9, 2019

    On March 9, 2019 experience IE Experiments: Short Films from Inland Southern California, which explores the ways in which filmmakers and artists have discovered and experienced Inland Southern California.
    IE Experiments is anchored by Stan Brakhage's 1976 experimental short Desert, a film centered on Riverside, CA subverting the filmmaker's expectation of finding a desert landscape but discovering a suburban landscape.
    The program explores subsequent filmic encounters artists have had with the region and the various expectations that were met or upended. The program will include works by Kate Alexandrite, Nathan Bockelman, Anna Wittenberg, Paul Kelley, Terry Chatkupt, Dicky Bahto, and Olivia Leiter. Several of the filmmakers will be present for a Q&A!
    Desert screened on 16mm, all other works screened digitally.
    This event is free and open to the public. The Gallery Tour starts at 2:00 p.m. followed by the screening at 3:00 p.m.
    Programming in conjunction with the exhibition In the Sunshine of Neglect, a joint exhibition held concurrently at the California Museum of Photography at UCR ARTS & Riverside Art Museum. Catalogue published by Inlandia Institute.
    This project was made possible with support from California Humanities, a non-profit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Visit www.calhum.org.
    The Culver Center is located at 3834 Main St, Riverside, CA 92501.
  • - THESE HANDS: A WRITING WORKSHOP FOR VETERANS WITH CARLOS CORTES
    THESE HANDS: A WRITING WORKSHOP FOR VETERANS WITH CARLOS CORTES

    THESE HANDS: A WRITING WORKSHOP FOR VETERANS WITH CARLOS CORTES


    March 11, 2019

    Veterans will have the opportunity to explore aspects of their military service in this workshop. Please bring an object (photo, dog tag, military service medal, etc.) that may fit into the palm of your hands. A photo of your hands and the object will accompany the story you have written.

    This event will be held at the SSgt. Salvador J. Lara Casa Blanca Library, located at 2985 Madison St, Riverside, CA 92504.

  • - HALT THE ASSAULT YOUTH POETRY AND ART CONTEST
    HALT THE ASSAULT YOUTH POETRY AND ART CONTEST

    HALT THE ASSAULT YOUTH POETRY AND ART CONTEST

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    March 12, 2019 April 4, 2019

    Sexual assault often happens behind closed doors and is surrounded by stigma, but silence does little to combat this or any trauma. The voices of both those who've experienced sexual assault and those who stand against it are valuable tools for awareness. Please submit 1-3 poems or 1-3 cover artworks that promote social change surrounding the theme of combating sexual assault and/or the idea of resilience.

    Visit WomenWonderWriters.com for more information and to submit.

  • - HALT THE ASSAULT YOUTH POETRY AND ART CONTEST
    HALT THE ASSAULT YOUTH POETRY AND ART CONTEST

    HALT THE ASSAULT YOUTH POETRY AND ART CONTEST

    N/A
    March 12, 2019 April 4, 2019

    Sexual assault often happens behind closed doors and is surrounded by stigma, but silence does little to combat this or any trauma. The voices of both those who've experienced sexual assault and those who stand against it are valuable tools for awareness. Please submit 1-3 poems or 1-3 cover artworks that promote social change surrounding the theme of combating sexual assault and/or the idea of resilience.

    Visit WomenWonderWriters.com for more information and to submit.

  • - HALT THE ASSAULT YOUTH POETRY AND ART CONTEST
    HALT THE ASSAULT YOUTH POETRY AND ART CONTEST

    HALT THE ASSAULT YOUTH POETRY AND ART CONTEST

    N/A
    March 12, 2019 April 4, 2019

    Sexual assault often happens behind closed doors and is surrounded by stigma, but silence does little to combat this or any trauma. The voices of both those who've experienced sexual assault and those who stand against it are valuable tools for awareness. Please submit 1-3 poems or 1-3 cover artworks that promote social change surrounding the theme of combating sexual assault and/or the idea of resilience.

    Visit WomenWonderWriters.com for more information and to submit.

  • - HALT THE ASSAULT YOUTH POETRY AND ART CONTEST
    HALT THE ASSAULT YOUTH POETRY AND ART CONTEST

    HALT THE ASSAULT YOUTH POETRY AND ART CONTEST

    N/A
    March 12, 2019 April 4, 2019

    Sexual assault often happens behind closed doors and is surrounded by stigma, but silence does little to combat this or any trauma. The voices of both those who've experienced sexual assault and those who stand against it are valuable tools for awareness. Please submit 1-3 poems or 1-3 cover artworks that promote social change surrounding the theme of combating sexual assault and/or the idea of resilience.

    Visit WomenWonderWriters.com for more information and to submit.

  • - HALT THE ASSAULT YOUTH POETRY AND ART CONTEST
    HALT THE ASSAULT YOUTH POETRY AND ART CONTEST

    HALT THE ASSAULT YOUTH POETRY AND ART CONTEST

    N/A
    March 12, 2019 April 4, 2019

    Sexual assault often happens behind closed doors and is surrounded by stigma, but silence does little to combat this or any trauma. The voices of both those who've experienced sexual assault and those who stand against it are valuable tools for awareness. Please submit 1-3 poems or 1-3 cover artworks that promote social change surrounding the theme of combating sexual assault and/or the idea of resilience.

    Visit WomenWonderWriters.com for more information and to submit.

  • - HALT THE ASSAULT YOUTH POETRY AND ART CONTEST
    HALT THE ASSAULT YOUTH POETRY AND ART CONTEST

    HALT THE ASSAULT YOUTH POETRY AND ART CONTEST

    N/A
    March 12, 2019 April 4, 2019

    Sexual assault often happens behind closed doors and is surrounded by stigma, but silence does little to combat this or any trauma. The voices of both those who've experienced sexual assault and those who stand against it are valuable tools for awareness. Please submit 1-3 poems or 1-3 cover artworks that promote social change surrounding the theme of combating sexual assault and/or the idea of resilience.

    Visit WomenWonderWriters.com for more information and to submit.

  • - HALT THE ASSAULT YOUTH POETRY AND ART CONTEST
    HALT THE ASSAULT YOUTH POETRY AND ART CONTEST

    HALT THE ASSAULT YOUTH POETRY AND ART CONTEST

    N/A
    March 12, 2019 April 4, 2019

    Sexual assault often happens behind closed doors and is surrounded by stigma, but silence does little to combat this or any trauma. The voices of both those who've experienced sexual assault and those who stand against it are valuable tools for awareness. Please submit 1-3 poems or 1-3 cover artworks that promote social change surrounding the theme of combating sexual assault and/or the idea of resilience.

    Visit WomenWonderWriters.com for more information and to submit.

  • - HALT THE ASSAULT YOUTH POETRY AND ART CONTEST
    HALT THE ASSAULT YOUTH POETRY AND ART CONTEST

    HALT THE ASSAULT YOUTH POETRY AND ART CONTEST

    N/A
    March 12, 2019 April 4, 2019

    Sexual assault often happens behind closed doors and is surrounded by stigma, but silence does little to combat this or any trauma. The voices of both those who've experienced sexual assault and those who stand against it are valuable tools for awareness. Please submit 1-3 poems or 1-3 cover artworks that promote social change surrounding the theme of combating sexual assault and/or the idea of resilience.

    Visit WomenWonderWriters.com for more information and to submit.

  • - HALT THE ASSAULT YOUTH POETRY AND ART CONTEST
    HALT THE ASSAULT YOUTH POETRY AND ART CONTEST

    HALT THE ASSAULT YOUTH POETRY AND ART CONTEST

    N/A
    March 12, 2019 April 4, 2019

    Sexual assault often happens behind closed doors and is surrounded by stigma, but silence does little to combat this or any trauma. The voices of both those who've experienced sexual assault and those who stand against it are valuable tools for awareness. Please submit 1-3 poems or 1-3 cover artworks that promote social change surrounding the theme of combating sexual assault and/or the idea of resilience.

    Visit WomenWonderWriters.com for more information and to submit.

  • - HALT THE ASSAULT YOUTH POETRY AND ART CONTEST
    HALT THE ASSAULT YOUTH POETRY AND ART CONTEST

    HALT THE ASSAULT YOUTH POETRY AND ART CONTEST

    N/A
    March 12, 2019 April 4, 2019

    Sexual assault often happens behind closed doors and is surrounded by stigma, but silence does little to combat this or any trauma. The voices of both those who've experienced sexual assault and those who stand against it are valuable tools for awareness. Please submit 1-3 poems or 1-3 cover artworks that promote social change surrounding the theme of combating sexual assault and/or the idea of resilience.

    Visit WomenWonderWriters.com for more information and to submit.

  • - HALT THE ASSAULT YOUTH POETRY AND ART CONTEST
    HALT THE ASSAULT YOUTH POETRY AND ART CONTEST

    HALT THE ASSAULT YOUTH POETRY AND ART CONTEST

    N/A
    March 12, 2019 April 4, 2019

    Sexual assault often happens behind closed doors and is surrounded by stigma, but silence does little to combat this or any trauma. The voices of both those who've experienced sexual assault and those who stand against it are valuable tools for awareness. Please submit 1-3 poems or 1-3 cover artworks that promote social change surrounding the theme of combating sexual assault and/or the idea of resilience.

    Visit WomenWonderWriters.com for more information and to submit.

  • - HALT THE ASSAULT YOUTH POETRY AND ART CONTEST
    HALT THE ASSAULT YOUTH POETRY AND ART CONTEST

    HALT THE ASSAULT YOUTH POETRY AND ART CONTEST

    N/A
    March 12, 2019 April 4, 2019

    Sexual assault often happens behind closed doors and is surrounded by stigma, but silence does little to combat this or any trauma. The voices of both those who've experienced sexual assault and those who stand against it are valuable tools for awareness. Please submit 1-3 poems or 1-3 cover artworks that promote social change surrounding the theme of combating sexual assault and/or the idea of resilience.

    Visit WomenWonderWriters.com for more information and to submit.

  • - HALT THE ASSAULT YOUTH POETRY AND ART CONTEST
    HALT THE ASSAULT YOUTH POETRY AND ART CONTEST

    HALT THE ASSAULT YOUTH POETRY AND ART CONTEST

    N/A
    March 12, 2019 April 4, 2019

    Sexual assault often happens behind closed doors and is surrounded by stigma, but silence does little to combat this or any trauma. The voices of both those who've experienced sexual assault and those who stand against it are valuable tools for awareness. Please submit 1-3 poems or 1-3 cover artworks that promote social change surrounding the theme of combating sexual assault and/or the idea of resilience.

    Visit WomenWonderWriters.com for more information and to submit.

  • - HALT THE ASSAULT YOUTH POETRY AND ART CONTEST
    HALT THE ASSAULT YOUTH POETRY AND ART CONTEST

    HALT THE ASSAULT YOUTH POETRY AND ART CONTEST

    N/A
    March 12, 2019 April 4, 2019

    Sexual assault often happens behind closed doors and is surrounded by stigma, but silence does little to combat this or any trauma. The voices of both those who've experienced sexual assault and those who stand against it are valuable tools for awareness. Please submit 1-3 poems or 1-3 cover artworks that promote social change surrounding the theme of combating sexual assault and/or the idea of resilience.

    Visit WomenWonderWriters.com for more information and to submit.

  • - HALT THE ASSAULT YOUTH POETRY AND ART CONTEST
    HALT THE ASSAULT YOUTH POETRY AND ART CONTEST

    HALT THE ASSAULT YOUTH POETRY AND ART CONTEST

    N/A
    March 12, 2019 April 4, 2019

    Sexual assault often happens behind closed doors and is surrounded by stigma, but silence does little to combat this or any trauma. The voices of both those who've experienced sexual assault and those who stand against it are valuable tools for awareness. Please submit 1-3 poems or 1-3 cover artworks that promote social change surrounding the theme of combating sexual assault and/or the idea of resilience.

    Visit WomenWonderWriters.com for more information and to submit.

  • - HALT THE ASSAULT YOUTH POETRY AND ART CONTEST
    HALT THE ASSAULT YOUTH POETRY AND ART CONTEST

    HALT THE ASSAULT YOUTH POETRY AND ART CONTEST

    N/A
    March 12, 2019 April 4, 2019

    Sexual assault often happens behind closed doors and is surrounded by stigma, but silence does little to combat this or any trauma. The voices of both those who've experienced sexual assault and those who stand against it are valuable tools for awareness. Please submit 1-3 poems or 1-3 cover artworks that promote social change surrounding the theme of combating sexual assault and/or the idea of resilience.

    Visit WomenWonderWriters.com for more information and to submit.

  • - HALT THE ASSAULT YOUTH POETRY AND ART CONTEST
    HALT THE ASSAULT YOUTH POETRY AND ART CONTEST

    HALT THE ASSAULT YOUTH POETRY AND ART CONTEST

    N/A
    March 12, 2019 April 4, 2019

    Sexual assault often happens behind closed doors and is surrounded by stigma, but silence does little to combat this or any trauma. The voices of both those who've experienced sexual assault and those who stand against it are valuable tools for awareness. Please submit 1-3 poems or 1-3 cover artworks that promote social change surrounding the theme of combating sexual assault and/or the idea of resilience.

    Visit WomenWonderWriters.com for more information and to submit.

  • - HALT THE ASSAULT YOUTH POETRY AND ART CONTEST
    HALT THE ASSAULT YOUTH POETRY AND ART CONTEST

    HALT THE ASSAULT YOUTH POETRY AND ART CONTEST

    N/A
    March 12, 2019 April 4, 2019

    Sexual assault often happens behind closed doors and is surrounded by stigma, but silence does little to combat this or any trauma. The voices of both those who've experienced sexual assault and those who stand against it are valuable tools for awareness. Please submit 1-3 poems or 1-3 cover artworks that promote social change surrounding the theme of combating sexual assault and/or the idea of resilience.

    Visit WomenWonderWriters.com for more information and to submit.

  • - HALT THE ASSAULT YOUTH POETRY AND ART CONTEST
    HALT THE ASSAULT YOUTH POETRY AND ART CONTEST

    HALT THE ASSAULT YOUTH POETRY AND ART CONTEST

    N/A
    March 12, 2019 April 4, 2019

    Sexual assault often happens behind closed doors and is surrounded by stigma, but silence does little to combat this or any trauma. The voices of both those who've experienced sexual assault and those who stand against it are valuable tools for awareness. Please submit 1-3 poems or 1-3 cover artworks that promote social change surrounding the theme of combating sexual assault and/or the idea of resilience.

    Visit WomenWonderWriters.com for more information and to submit.

  • - HALT THE ASSAULT YOUTH POETRY AND ART CONTEST
    HALT THE ASSAULT YOUTH POETRY AND ART CONTEST

    HALT THE ASSAULT YOUTH POETRY AND ART CONTEST

    N/A
    March 12, 2019 April 4, 2019

    Sexual assault often happens behind closed doors and is surrounded by stigma, but silence does little to combat this or any trauma. The voices of both those who've experienced sexual assault and those who stand against it are valuable tools for awareness. Please submit 1-3 poems or 1-3 cover artworks that promote social change surrounding the theme of combating sexual assault and/or the idea of resilience.

    Visit WomenWonderWriters.com for more information and to submit.