Events in May 2023
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May 4, 2023(2 events)
5:30 pm: Ballet Folklorico at Riverside Main Library!5:30 pm: Ballet Folklorico at Riverside Main Library! – Our Arts Walk event "Music and Memoir" starts at 7:00, but come early if you can! Our second annual Cinco de Mayo performance by Ballet Folklorico Cultural dancers begins at 5:30 PM in RPL’s outdoor arcade. After the performance, join us inside for an open mic experience from 6:30-7:00 where you can read poetry, flash fiction, or an excerpt from your work in progress. And while you’re there, explore the month’s topic of books available for checkout in the Community Room. Don’t have a library card? Apply for one at the event!
6:30 pm: Music and Memoir: A Conversation About Writing, Post-Punk, and US Latinidad6:30 pm: Music and Memoir: A Conversation About Writing, Post-Punk, and US Latinidad – Thursday, May 4, 2023 First Thursdays Arts Walk “Music and Memoir: A Conversation About Writing, Post-Punk, and US Latinidad” With Richard T. Rodríguez and Juanita E. Mantz Free and open to the public. No registration required.
Riverside Main Library Community Room & Arcade 3900 Mission Inn Blvd Riverside, CA 92501 5:30 PM Ballet Folklorico Cultural – Arcade 6:30 PM Open Mic – Community Room 7:00 PM “Music and Memoir” – Community Room Join Inlandia and Riverside Public Library at First Thursdays Arts Walk for a one-of-a-kind conversation between music loving authors Richard T. Rodríguez and Juanita Mantz. The pair will discuss their mutual devotion to punk and how it intersects with US Latinidad, and share their journeys from first inspiration to the completion of a book. How do the dots connect between British post-punk and Latinx audiences? How does punk music become the soundtrack of memoir? Join us in the RPL Community Room at 7:00 PM on May 4 to find out! But come early if you can! Our second annual Cinco de Mayo performance by Ballet Folklorico Cultural dancers begins at 5:30 PM in RPL’s outdoor arcade. After the performance, join us inside for an open mic experience from 6:30-7:00 where you can read poetry, flash fiction, or an excerpt from your work in progress. And while you’re there, explore the month’s topic of books available for checkout in the Community Room. Don’t have a library card? Apply for one at the event! |
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May 7, 2023(1 event)
2:00 pm: “Puppets in the Pantry” with Nicole Cloeren and Puppets a la Carte2:00 pm: “Puppets in the Pantry” with Nicole Cloeren and Puppets a la Carte – Sunday, May 7, 2023 First Sundays at RAM “Puppets in the Pantry” with Nicole Cloeren and Puppets a la Carte Shows at 2:00 and 2:30 PM Riverside Art Museum 3425 Mission Inn Blvd Riverside, CA 92501 2:00-3:00 PM Free and open to the public. No registration required. On Sunday, May 7, Inlandia Institute and Riverside Art Museum present Puppets a la Carte with Nicole Cloeren. Parents, kids, and aspiring puppeteers are invited to join us for this “First Sundays at RAM” event as Nicole takes you on a journey through her extraordinary kitchen. “Puppets in the Pantry” uses object puppetry to tell stories only a puppeteer can cook up. Take a seat at the table and bring your own ideas as together we feed the imagination! Puppet shows are scheduled for 2:00 and 2:30 PM in the atrium. Nicole B. Cloeren is the founder and creative director of Puppets a la Carte where she uses puppets to feed the imagination. Emphasizing play and techniques of improvisation, she creates a space of surprise and wonder in which we all learn from one another through puppetry arts. Nicole is a Teaching Artist with the McCallum Theatre. She likes to pretend her PhD stands for doctor of puppet handling. When not talking with her hands – or to her hands – Nicole enjoys eating jicama, playing dice, camping, and spending time with her family. |
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June 1, 2023(1 event)
6:30 pm: First Thursdays Arts Walk “Paths to Publishing: Agents and Other Routes”6:30 pm: First Thursdays Arts Walk “Paths to Publishing: Agents and Other Routes” – Thursday, June 1, 2023 First Thursdays Arts Walk “Paths to Publishing: Agents and Other Routes” with Jo Scott-Coe, James Luna, and Becca Spence Dobias 6:30-8:00 PM; doors open at six. Free and open to the public. No registration required.
Riverside Main Library Community Room & Arcade 3900 Mission Inn Blvd Riverside, CA 92501 6:30-7:00 – Open mic readings – Community Room 7:00-8:00 – Author roundtable – Community Room Join Inlandia and Riverside Public Library on June 1 for a First Thursdays Arts Walk event for writers, "Paths to Publishing: Agents and Other Routes.” The program will include a roundtable discussion with local authors Jo Scott-Coe, James Luna, and Becca Spence Dobias. Learn about their various paths to publication, including a step-by-step guide to submitting your work to a literary agent – and other means to a publishing end. The conversation will begin at 7:00, but come early if you can! A writers’ open mic is planned from 6:30-7:00. For the open mic, you are welcome to read poetry, flash fiction, or an excerpt from a work in progress. And while you’re there, explore the month’s topic of books available for checkout in the Community Room. Don’t have a library card? Apply for one at the event! Jo Scott-Coe’s essays and stories have been published widely, for literary as well as academic audiences. Her third book, Unheard Witness: The Life and Death of Kathy Leissner Whitman, is forthcoming in Fall 2023 from the University of Texas Press. James Luna is the author of three books, all published by Arte Publico Press/Pinata Books: The Runaway Piggy/El Cochinito Fugitivo, A Mummy in Her Backpack/Una momia en su mochila and The Place Where You Live/El lugar donde vives. His fourth book published by Arte Público, Growing Up on the Playground, was released in 2018. Piggy was awarded the 2012 Tejas Star Award as chosen by the students of the Rio Grande Valley of Texas. Becca Spence Dobias is a 2022 KissPitch mentee, working under the guidance of Jen Deluca, author of the Well Met series. She is the author of On Home (Inkshares, 2021) and has a book under contract with WVU Press about the North Central WV punk scene of the late 1990s and early 2000s. Her work also appears in Inlandia: A Literary Journey, two Writing Bloc anthologies, https://lgbtqreads.com/, and https://diymfa.com/ among other places. She reviews books for Southern Literary Review and co-hosts Writing Bloc’s Indie Writer Podcast. She grew up in West Virginia and now lives in Southern California with her husband and two children. |
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