Events in May 2024
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- Conversations at the Culver: What is Anime, Anyway?
Conversations at the Culver: What is Anime, Anyway?
Conversations at the Culver: What is Anime, Anyway?
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May 5, 2024Sunday, May 5, 2024
Conversations at the Culver: What is Anime, Anyway?
with Sebraé Harris
1:30-3:00 PM; doors open at 1:00 PM
UCR ARTS
Barbara and Art Culver Center of the Arts
3824 Main Street, Riverside, CA 92501
Free and open to the public.
What is anime, anyway? And by the way, what is manga? And why are all those people wearing costumes? Join us for a conversation with animator and mangaka, Sebraé Harris, and discover the fascinating, nuanced, and colorful world of these Japanese comic artforms.
Sebraé Harris – AKA “StarLite Crystal” – is an African American artist, entrepreneur, and professional mangaka. He started drawing at the age of four, and began taking art seriously when he was eight. Sebraé is a graduate of Riverside City College with degrees in Fine & Applied Arts, Animation, and Business & Entrepreneurship. The Vermillion Speedateer is his first manga/comic series.
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- Talking Ekphrasis with Jane Edberg, John Brantingham, and Stephanie Barbé Hammer
Talking Ekphrasis with Jane Edberg, John Brantingham, and Stephanie Barbé Hammer
Talking Ekphrasis with Jane Edberg, John Brantingham, and Stephanie Barbé Hammer
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May 16, 2024Thursday, May 16, 2024
Talking Ekphrasis: Jane Edberg and John Brantingham in Conversation with Stephanie Barbé Hammer
7:00-8:00 PM PT on ZOOM
Free, but registration is required: https://tinyurl.com/EkphrasisZoom
Join Stephanie Barbé Hammer in conversation with artist Jane Edberg and poet John Brantingham as they discuss Jane and John’s poetry/etymprastic (art in response to poetry) book, My Dead, their upcoming Inlandia boot camp exploring ekphrasis (writing in response to art) from a design point-of-view, and their evolving understanding of what the forms can do. Register today!
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- All-Teen Issue Launch of Inlandia - A Literary Journey
All-Teen Issue Launch of Inlandia - A Literary Journey
All-Teen Issue Launch of Inlandia - A Literary Journey
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May 18, 2024Saturday, May 18, 2024
All-Teen Issue Launch
Inlandia: A Literary Journey
2:00-3:30 PM (PDT)
On Zoom. Free and open to all, but registration is required: https://tinyurl.com/TEENJourney2024
Join us for a celebration of art, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry created and selected by teens.