Events

Events in October 2023

  • - Celebrating Cultura: An Afternoon of Chicana/o and LatinX Poetry & Spoken Art
    Celebrating Cultura: An Afternoon of Chicana/o and LatinX Poetry & Spoken Art

    Celebrating Cultura: An Afternoon of Chicana/o and LatinX Poetry & Spoken Art


    October 1, 2023

    First Sundays Conversations at the Culver:

    Celebrating Cultura: An Afternoon of Chicana/o and LatinX Poetry & Spoken Art

    Sunday, October 1, 2023

    1:30-3:00 PM

    Barbara and Art Culver Center of the Performing Arts

    3834 Main St

    Riverside, CA 92501

    Free and open to the public.

    In honor of Latino Heritage Month, the program will feature the diverse voices of poets who celebrate the culture of the Chicana/o and LatinX experience. Their narratives will both move you and entertain you.

  • - Inlandia at Riverside Art & Music Festival, So You Want To Be a Writer? with James Coats 
    Inlandia at Riverside Art & Music Festival

    Inlandia at Riverside Art & Music Festival


    October 7, 2023

    Inlandia will be at the Riverside Art & Music Festival on Saturday, October 7, at White Park. Stop by and say hello!

    Location:

    White Park

    3936 Market Street

    Riverside, CA

    12:00-7:00 PM

    For more information, please visit: https://riversideartscouncil.com/about-the-festival/.

    So You Want To Be a Writer? with James Coats 

    So You Want To Be a Writer? with James Coats 


    October 7, 2023

    Saturdays, September 9-November 11, 2023

    12:00-2:00 PM

    In person at Riverside Main Library

    3900 Mission Inn Avenue, Riverside, CA 93501

    Free and open to teens ages 13-19

     

    So You Want To Be a Writer? with James Coats 

    (Teens ages 13-19)

    Saturdays, 12 - 2 PM PT, 9/9/23-11/11/23, in person at the Riverside Main Library

    3900 Mission Inn Avenue Riverside, CA 92501

    Free and open to teens ages 13-19

     

    Registration required: https://tinyurl.com/Inlandia4Teens

     

    This fall, Inlandia brings college-level creative writing workshops to teen-aged creatives thanks to a unique partnership with the City of Riverside Library. Led by James Coats, working writers drawn from the area community will lead teens through a ten-week progressive series. The program will be held at the Riverside Main Library on Saturdays beginning September 9, from 12:00 – 2:00 PM.

     

    Workshop leader James Coats, himself an author, poet, and educator, will welcome a new guest writer each week, offering teens the opportunity to learn from professional working writers in a library environment. Topics will include: poetry, and the different modes of poetic expression; memoir and memory; fiction writing including micro fiction, flash, short stories, and long-form fiction; journalism and the newspaper industry; writing for magazines and periodicals; reading and performing your work for an audience; strategies for revising work toward publication; what it’s like to be an editor; and getting published. The final session will be a public reading and discussion.

     

    Free and open to all interested teens but registration is required.

     

    James Coats is an author, poet, and educator born in Los Angeles and raised in the Inland Empire. He received his BFA from Cal Poly Pomona and his MBA from Cal State San Bernardino. As a creative change agent, he believes the arts can inspire youth and influence positive change in the world. His first poetry collection, If I had Lived, was published in 2018. In 2021, he founded Lift Our Voices Education, which hosts the monthly “Be The Change: Social Justice Writing Workshop.” His newest poetry collection, Midnight & Mad Dreams, is published by World Stage Press. Follow him on Instagram @MrLovingWords.

  • - So You Want To Be a Writer? with James Coats 
    So You Want To Be a Writer? with James Coats 

    So You Want To Be a Writer? with James Coats 


    October 14, 2023

    Saturdays, September 9-November 11, 2023

    12:00-2:00 PM

    In person at Riverside Main Library

    3900 Mission Inn Avenue, Riverside, CA 93501

    Free and open to teens ages 13-19

     

    So You Want To Be a Writer? with James Coats 

    (Teens ages 13-19)

    Saturdays, 12 - 2 PM PT, 9/9/23-11/11/23, in person at the Riverside Main Library

    3900 Mission Inn Avenue Riverside, CA 92501

    Free and open to teens ages 13-19

     

    Registration required: https://tinyurl.com/Inlandia4Teens

     

    This fall, Inlandia brings college-level creative writing workshops to teen-aged creatives thanks to a unique partnership with the City of Riverside Library. Led by James Coats, working writers drawn from the area community will lead teens through a ten-week progressive series. The program will be held at the Riverside Main Library on Saturdays beginning September 9, from 12:00 – 2:00 PM.

     

    Workshop leader James Coats, himself an author, poet, and educator, will welcome a new guest writer each week, offering teens the opportunity to learn from professional working writers in a library environment. Topics will include: poetry, and the different modes of poetic expression; memoir and memory; fiction writing including micro fiction, flash, short stories, and long-form fiction; journalism and the newspaper industry; writing for magazines and periodicals; reading and performing your work for an audience; strategies for revising work toward publication; what it’s like to be an editor; and getting published. The final session will be a public reading and discussion.

     

    Free and open to all interested teens but registration is required.

     

    James Coats is an author, poet, and educator born in Los Angeles and raised in the Inland Empire. He received his BFA from Cal Poly Pomona and his MBA from Cal State San Bernardino. As a creative change agent, he believes the arts can inspire youth and influence positive change in the world. His first poetry collection, If I had Lived, was published in 2018. In 2021, he founded Lift Our Voices Education, which hosts the monthly “Be The Change: Social Justice Writing Workshop.” His newest poetry collection, Midnight & Mad Dreams, is published by World Stage Press. Follow him on Instagram @MrLovingWords.

  • - Launch of EXIT PROHIBITED by Ellen Estilai
    Launch of EXIT PROHIBITED by Ellen Estilai

    Launch of EXIT PROHIBITED by Ellen Estilai


    October 19, 2023

    Launch of Exit Prohibited by Ellen Estilai

    Thursday, October 19, 2023

    6:30-8:00 PM

    Civil Rights Institute of Southern California

    3933 Mission Inn Avenue

    Riverside, CA 92501

    Inlandia Institute – in partnership with the Civil Rights Institute of Southern California – is proud to announce the launch of Exit Prohibited: A Memoir of Iran by Ellen Estilai, newly published by Inlandia Books. The launch is planned for Thursday, October 19, at 6:30 PM at the Civil Rights Institute of Southern California, 3933 Mission Inn Avenue, Suite 103, in Riverside. Books will be available for sale and signing.

    This event is free and open to the public, and will be celebrated with music, refreshments, and conversation. Please join us!

  • - So You Want To Be a Writer? with James Coats 
    So You Want To Be a Writer? with James Coats 

    So You Want To Be a Writer? with James Coats 


    October 21, 2023

    Saturdays, September 9-November 11, 2023

    12:00-2:00 PM

    In person at Riverside Main Library

    3900 Mission Inn Avenue, Riverside, CA 93501

    Free and open to teens ages 13-19

     

    So You Want To Be a Writer? with James Coats 

    (Teens ages 13-19)

    Saturdays, 12 - 2 PM PT, 9/9/23-11/11/23, in person at the Riverside Main Library

    3900 Mission Inn Avenue Riverside, CA 92501

    Free and open to teens ages 13-19

     

    Registration required: https://tinyurl.com/Inlandia4Teens

     

    This fall, Inlandia brings college-level creative writing workshops to teen-aged creatives thanks to a unique partnership with the City of Riverside Library. Led by James Coats, working writers drawn from the area community will lead teens through a ten-week progressive series. The program will be held at the Riverside Main Library on Saturdays beginning September 9, from 12:00 – 2:00 PM.

     

    Workshop leader James Coats, himself an author, poet, and educator, will welcome a new guest writer each week, offering teens the opportunity to learn from professional working writers in a library environment. Topics will include: poetry, and the different modes of poetic expression; memoir and memory; fiction writing including micro fiction, flash, short stories, and long-form fiction; journalism and the newspaper industry; writing for magazines and periodicals; reading and performing your work for an audience; strategies for revising work toward publication; what it’s like to be an editor; and getting published. The final session will be a public reading and discussion.

     

    Free and open to all interested teens but registration is required.

     

    James Coats is an author, poet, and educator born in Los Angeles and raised in the Inland Empire. He received his BFA from Cal Poly Pomona and his MBA from Cal State San Bernardino. As a creative change agent, he believes the arts can inspire youth and influence positive change in the world. His first poetry collection, If I had Lived, was published in 2018. In 2021, he founded Lift Our Voices Education, which hosts the monthly “Be The Change: Social Justice Writing Workshop.” His newest poetry collection, Midnight & Mad Dreams, is published by World Stage Press. Follow him on Instagram @MrLovingWords.

  • - Launch of UNHEARD WITNESS: The Life and Death of Kathy Leissner Whitman by Jo Scott-Coe
    Launch of UNHEARD WITNESS: The Life and Death of Kathy Leissner Whitman by Jo Scott-Coe

    Launch of UNHEARD WITNESS: The Life and Death of Kathy Leissner Whitman by Jo Scott-Coe


    October 22, 2023

    Launch of UNHEARD WITNESS: The Life and Death of Kathy Leissner Whitman by Jo Scott-Coe

    Sunday, October 22, 2023

    1:30-3:00 PM

    Barbara and Art Culver Center of the Performing Arts

    3834 Main St

    Riverside, CA 92501

    Free and open to the public.

    Join Inlandia Institute and UCR ARTS on Sunday, October 22, for a Conversation at the Culver you won’t want to miss. In recognition of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, author Jo Scott-Coe will launch her new book, Unheard Witness: The Life and Death of Kathy Leissner Whitman, and join in a riveting conversation with domestic violence expert Clarissa Punla.

    Unheard Witness provides a portrait of Kathy Leissner Whitman’s life at a time when Americans are slowly grasping the link between domestic abuse and mass shootings.

     

  • - So You Want To Be a Writer? with James Coats 
    So You Want To Be a Writer? with James Coats 

    So You Want To Be a Writer? with James Coats 


    October 28, 2023

    Saturdays, September 9-November 11, 2023

    12:00-2:00 PM

    In person at Riverside Main Library

    3900 Mission Inn Avenue, Riverside, CA 93501

    Free and open to teens ages 13-19

     

    So You Want To Be a Writer? with James Coats 

    (Teens ages 13-19)

    Saturdays, 12 - 2 PM PT, 9/9/23-11/11/23, in person at the Riverside Main Library

    3900 Mission Inn Avenue Riverside, CA 92501

    Free and open to teens ages 13-19

     

    Registration required: https://tinyurl.com/Inlandia4Teens

     

    This fall, Inlandia brings college-level creative writing workshops to teen-aged creatives thanks to a unique partnership with the City of Riverside Library. Led by James Coats, working writers drawn from the area community will lead teens through a ten-week progressive series. The program will be held at the Riverside Main Library on Saturdays beginning September 9, from 12:00 – 2:00 PM.

     

    Workshop leader James Coats, himself an author, poet, and educator, will welcome a new guest writer each week, offering teens the opportunity to learn from professional working writers in a library environment. Topics will include: poetry, and the different modes of poetic expression; memoir and memory; fiction writing including micro fiction, flash, short stories, and long-form fiction; journalism and the newspaper industry; writing for magazines and periodicals; reading and performing your work for an audience; strategies for revising work toward publication; what it’s like to be an editor; and getting published. The final session will be a public reading and discussion.

     

    Free and open to all interested teens but registration is required.

     

    James Coats is an author, poet, and educator born in Los Angeles and raised in the Inland Empire. He received his BFA from Cal Poly Pomona and his MBA from Cal State San Bernardino. As a creative change agent, he believes the arts can inspire youth and influence positive change in the world. His first poetry collection, If I had Lived, was published in 2018. In 2021, he founded Lift Our Voices Education, which hosts the monthly “Be The Change: Social Justice Writing Workshop.” His newest poetry collection, Midnight & Mad Dreams, is published by World Stage Press. Follow him on Instagram @MrLovingWords.