Events in April 2024
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April 1, 2024(1 event)
Call for Poems - Invent-an-Insect!Call for Poems - Invent-an-Insect!April 1, 2024 Submission Window Open Now! Call for Poems: Invent-an-Insect This Earth Day, invent an insect! Write a poem about the new species you've "discovered". What is its habitat? Its habits? Describe it and give it an insectilicious name of your own invention. What would a hot dog bug look like? How about a bubble bee? Or a clockroach? What does it eat? Where does it live? Get creative with your answers! Illustrate or embellish your poem however you’d like. Open to all ages. DEADLINE: April 14, 2024 Guidelines:
Selected poets must be available to attend the Insect Fair in person on Earth Day, April 20, 2024, and present their poem on the Main Stage at 10 AM. To submit: https://tinyurl.com/InsectFairPoems |
April 2, 2024(1 event)
6-Week Boot Camp “Abracadabra! – Poet-TRY 13” with Stephanie Barbé Hammer6-Week Boot Camp “Abracadabra! – Poet-TRY 13” with Stephanie Barbé HammerApril 2, 2024 STARTS Tuesday, April 2, 2024 Asynchronous Boot Camp for Writers: “Abracadabra! – Poet-TRY 13” with Stephanie Barbé Hammer $150. On Padlet, with optional office hours on Zoom; to register: A generative 6-week asynchronous class for poets (and fiction writers too) featuring magic, wizardry, illusion and more. Join us for Lucky 13! Yes, we are reuniting for our thirteenth year of Poet-TRY. Writers will receive a prompt (or more) every week for four weeks, during which time they are invited to write about the prompt and then post their work to our online discussion board for support and a tiny bit of feedback. During weeks five and six, our class will conclude with two weeks of workshopping poems you choose for the process. Writers will receive more in-depth feedback during this time, and you will receive advice from your fellow writers on how to revise or grow your work further. Or maybe it’s just ready to send out! This workshop is asynchronous. Students are asked to keep up with the weekly assignments and post them during the week. Padlet is a virtual, customizable ‘bulletin board’ used by educators with options to populate with text, images, audio, videos, and links. All levels welcome! Prose writers are warmly invited – always – to this magical poetry party. Stephanie Barbé Hammer is a seven-time Pushcart Prize nominee in fiction, nonfiction and poetry and is the author of two poetry collections, two novels, a novelette, and a how to write magical realism craft book. Originally from Manhattan, Stephanie moved to Southern California in 1986. She has lived on the West Coast ever since. She taught at the University of California, Riverside campus for 30 years, then tried living on Whidbey Island, Washington State, but found that she missed California too much, and moved to Santa Barbara in the fall of 2023. A professor emerita of Comparative Literature, she teaches creative writing at Hugo House Seattle and Inlandia, Riverside. She served as managing editor at SHARK REEF literary magazine for several years and is culture editor at large and writer at the Journal of Radical Wonder. She sits on the advisory board of Writers Bloc Presents. |
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April 7, 2024(1 event)
2:00 pm: Puppets at RAM “Earth Day - Celebrate Life on Earth”2:00 pm: Puppets at RAM “Earth Day - Celebrate Life on Earth” – Sunday, April 7, 2024 2:00-3:00 PM First Sundays with Riverside Art Museum Nicole Cloeren and Puppets a la Carte “Earth Day: Celebrate Life on Earth” Riverside Art Museum 3425 Mission Inn Avenue Riverside, CA 92501 Free and open to the public. Join Inlandia and RAM at Riverside Art Museum on Sunday, April 7, for puppetry fun for the whole family! Nicole Cloeren and Puppets a la Carte will present “Earth Day: Celebrate Life on Earth.” |
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April 20, 2024(1 event)
10:00 am: Riverside Insect Fair10:00 am: Riverside Insect Fair – Saturday, April 20, 2024 10:00 AM Riverside Insect Fair Poetry Contest Reading on the Main Stage Riverside Main Library 3900 Mission Inn Avenue Riverside, CA 92501 Free and open to the public. |
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April 27, 2024(1 event)
11:00 am: 11th Annual Riverside Tamale Festival11:00 am: 11th Annual Riverside Tamale Festival – Saturday, April 27, 2024 11:00-5:00 PM Riverside Tamale Festival - Kids Zone With children’s authors José Chavez, Vilayvanh Bender, James Luna, Carmen Gutierrez, and Yesenia Rodriguez Visit the Tamale Festival and stop by the Inlandia Storytelling Booth to hear vibrant multicultural stories by authors from the region. Stories presented on the hour at 12 PM, 1 PM, 2 PM, 3 PM, and 4 PM. |
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April 30, 2024(1 event)
Submission Window CLOSES for 2024 Hillary Gravendyk Poetry PrizesSubmission Window CLOSES for 2024 Hillary Gravendyk Poetry PrizesApril 30, 2024 February 1-April 30, 2024 Call for Entries: 2024 Hillary Gravendyk Poetry Prizes $20 reading fee Submit at http://tinyurl.com/InlandiaSubmit The Hillary Gravendyk Prize is an open poetry book competition for all writers regardless of the number of previously published poetry collections. The manuscript page limit is 48-100 pages, and Inlandia Institute Press invites all styles and forms of poetry. Only electronic submissions will be accepted via Inlandia’s “Submittable” portal. Multiple submissions are accepted, with a $20 reading fee required for each manuscript. The winners will be announced Fall 2024 for publication in 2025. National and Regional awardees each win book publication and a cash prize of $1,000. Enter using Submittable: https://tinyurl.com/InlandiaSubmit Poetry book manuscripts will be accepted via Submittable from February 1 through April 30, 2024. One National and one Regional prizewinner will each be awarded $1,000 and a standard book contract. |
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May 2, 2024(1 event)
7:00 pm: The Power of the Letter - Civilian Exclusion Order No. 83 and the Incarceration of Riversiders7:00 pm: The Power of the Letter - Civilian Exclusion Order No. 83 and the Incarceration of Riversiders – First Thursdays Arts Walk – The Power of the Letter: Civilian Exclusion Order No. 83 and the Incarceration of Riversiders 7:00-8:00 PM; doors open at 6:30 PM Center for Social Justice & Civil Liberties 3855 Market Street Riverside, CA 92501 Free and open to the public. In honor of Asian American Pacific Islander Month, Inlandia Institute, the Museum of Riverside and the Harada House Foundation, the Center for Social Justice & Civil Liberties, the Civil Rights Institute of Inland Southern California, and Riverside Public Library will present a program about the concentration camps and incarceration of Japanese American citizens – including prominent Riversiders like the Harada family – on Thursday, May 2, at the Center for Social Justice and Civil Liberties. Please join us! The CSJCL will be reopening its Miné Okubo exhibit on April 26, so plan on taking a tour of Okubo’s artwork while you’re there! The Miné Okubo’s Eyes: A Life in Colors re-installation is a celebration of the artist’s remarkable body of work, which spans seven decades. The exhibition brings forth a dazzling array of paintings and drawings that have never been on public view. Okubo was a trailblazing artist who dedicated her life to creativity, beauty, and imagery that was “rooted in a concern for the humanities.” In addition to being an artist, Miné Okubo famously wrote a graphic autobiography depicting her time as a prisoner at one of the camps, Citizen 13660. Mine Okubo was born in Riverside in 1912 and graduated from Riverside City College in 1933. She received a degree in Fine Arts from UC Berkeley, where she later taught. In 1974, the Riverside Community College District selected Okubo as its Alumnus of the Year, and 30 years later Riverside City College named a street on campus in her honor. |
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