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  • - CONVERSATIONS AT THE CULVER: BICYCLES AND BOX TRUCKS
    CONVERSATIONS AT THE CULVER: BICYCLES AND BOX TRUCKS

    CONVERSATIONS AT THE CULVER: BICYCLES AND BOX TRUCKS


    October 6, 2019

    Join us for Bicycles and Box Trucks: How Place and Space Affect Race in the Inland Empire with Genevieve Carpio and Juan De Lara.

    What can two scholars on race and place tell us about how local regulations have impacted racial identity, and how that, in turn, has impacted development of the region?

    Genevieve Carpio is Assistant Professor of Chicana/o Studies at UCLA, where she works on questions related to spatial theory and histories of relational racial formation. She holds a PhD in American Studies and Ethnicity and a Masters in Urban Planning. She has published in American Quarterly, Journal of American History, and Journal of Urban Affairs, among other venues. Carpio is author of Collisions at the Crossroads: How Place and Mobility Make Race (University of California Press, 2019).

    Juan De Lara is a geographer and an Associate Professor in American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. His book, Inland Shift: Race, Space, and Capital in Inland Southern California is now available from UC Press. The book uses logistics and commodity chains to unpack the black box of globalization. Professor De Lara's research interests include social movements, urban political economy, Latinx geographies, logistics, immigration, and the racial politics of big data analytics.

    “I wanted to learn what the Inland Empire could teach us about race, space, and power that East LA could not.” —De Lara, Inland Shift

    In her book Collisions at the Crossroads, Carpio discusses “National Mythologies” and “An Anglo Fantasy Past,” which, “elevated white settlers as pioneers, erased Indigenous and Mexican dispossession, and located Chinese residents as perpetual foreigners.”

    This event is free and open to the public. Sponsored by UCR Center for Ideas and Society.

  • - CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP SAN BERNARDINO WITH ROMAINE WASHINGTON, CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP IN REDLANDS WITH JAMES DUCAT, SPECIAL CONVERSATIONS AT THE CULVER WITH SUSAN STRAIGHT
    CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP SAN BERNARDINO WITH ROMAINE WASHINGTON

    CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP SAN BERNARDINO WITH ROMAINE WASHINGTON


    October 8, 2019

    Registration required. 

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    The San Bernardino workshop meets every other Tuesday at the Rowe Branch Library, located at 108 E Marshall Blvd, San Bernardino, CA 92404. They can be reached at (909) 883-3411.

    CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP IN REDLANDS WITH JAMES DUCAT

    CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP IN REDLANDS WITH JAMES DUCAT


    October 8, 2019

    Registration required. 

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    NEW this season! The Creative Writing Workshop in Redlands with James Ducat, open to all ages.

    The Redlands workshop meets every other Tuesday starting at 6:30pm at the Gregory Hall 270 at the University of Redlands. The university is located at 1200 E Colton Ave, Redlands, CA 92373. They can be reached at (909) 793-2121. 

    *Please note this workshop's room has been moved from Appleton Hall 101 to Gregory Hall 270.

    SPECIAL CONVERSATIONS AT THE CULVER WITH SUSAN STRAIGHT

    SPECIAL CONVERSATIONS AT THE CULVER WITH SUSAN STRAIGHT


    October 8, 2019

    Join local literary luminary Susan Straight in conversation with Inlandia's Cati Porter on her moving new memoir, In the Country of Women. While this event is free, RSVP is required through Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-conversation-with-susan-straight-in-the-country-of-women-tickets-72742497769

    What is it like to dwell "in the country of women"?

    NPR calls Susan Straight's new memoir "a chronicle honoring the strength and resilience of six generations of women."

    The L.A. Times says, "[h]er vibrant pages are filled with people of churned-together blood culled from scattered immigrants and native peoples, indomitable women and their babies. Yet they never succumb."

    Newsday calls it, "a book about survival, motherhood, and love, and it’s as big and messy and beautiful as all of these things."

    The New York Times goes further to declare it ".. an ode to the entire multiracial, transnational tribe she claims as her own."

    From the publisher:

    In the Country of Women is a valuable social history and a personal narrative that reads like a love song to America and indomitable women.

    In inland Southern California, near the desert and the Mexican border, Susan Straight, a self-proclaimed book nerd, and Dwayne Sims, an African American basketball player, started dating in high school. After college, they married and drove to Amherst, Massachusetts, where Straight met her teacher and mentor, James Baldwin, who encouraged her to write.

    Once back in Riverside, at driveway barbecues and fish fries with the large, close-knit Sims family, Straight—and eventually her three daughters—heard for decades the stories of Dwayne’s female ancestors. Some women escaped violence in post-slavery Tennessee, some escaped murder in Jim Crow Mississippi, and some fled abusive men.

    Straight’s mother-in-law, Alberta Sims, is the descendant at the heart of this memoir. Susan’s family, too, reflects the hardship and resilience of women pushing onward—from Switzerland, Canada, and the Colorado Rockies to California.

    Susan Straight writes, "To understand my daughters and their sisterhood, you have to know the women, and sisters, who came before."

    Susan Straight has published eight novels, including Highwire Moon, Between Heaven and Here, and A Million Nightingales. She has been a Finalist for the National Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the National Magazine Award. She is the recipient of the Kirsch Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Edgar Award for Best Mystery Story, the O. Henry Prize, The Lannan Prize for Fiction, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Her stories and essays have been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, Granta, McSweeney’s, Black Clock, Harper’s, and other journals. Her work has been translated into Spanish, German, French, Arabic, Turkish, Japanese, Romanian, Swedish, and Russian. She is Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing at the University of California, Riverside. She was born in Riverside, where she lives with her family.This event is presented in partnership with UCR Arts and UCR Center for Ideas and Society. It is free and open to the public. Refreshments and book signing to follow. Book sales are on a first come, first served basis and limited to the first fifty paid RSVPs.

  • - CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP IN REDLANDS WITH MAE WAGNER, CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP IN ONTARIO WITH TIM HATCH
    CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP IN REDLANDS WITH MAE WAGNER

    CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP IN REDLANDS WITH MAE WAGNER


    October 9, 2019

    Registration required. 

    Check back for Winter dates and availability.

    Our Redlands workshop is ongoing for participants 50+. They meet every Wednesday from 10:00am to 12:00pm.

    The Joslyn Senior Center is located at 21 Grant St, Redlands, CA 92373. They can be reached at (909) 798-7550.

    CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP IN ONTARIO WITH TIM HATCH

    CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP IN ONTARIO WITH TIM HATCH


    October 9, 2019

    Registration required. 

    Check back for Winter dates and availability.

    The Ontario workshop meets every other Wednesday at the Ovitt Library, located at 215 E C St, Ontario, CA 91764. They can be reached at (909) 395-2004.

  • - CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP IN COLTON WITH JESSICA CARRILLO- BILINGUAL
    CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP IN COLTON WITH JESSICA CARRILLO- BILINGUAL

    CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP IN COLTON WITH JESSICA CARRILLO- BILINGUAL


    October 10, 2019

    Registration required. 

    Check back for Winter dates and availability.

    The Colton workshop meets every other Thursday at the Advance to Literacy Center, located at 656 N 9th Street, Colton. They can be reached at (909) 370-5083.

  • - THE 2019 HIGH DESERT BOOK FESTIVAL
    THE 2019 HIGH DESERT BOOK FESTIVAL

    THE 2019 HIGH DESERT BOOK FESTIVAL


    October 12, 2019

    Don't miss the 2019 High Desert Book Festival happening on Saturday, October 12th, starting at 9am! Meet authors, hear poetry readings and more. For more information visit the Official Event Page or go to highdesertbookfest.org.
    ***This is a sponsored partner event