Events

Events in June 2023

  • - Conversations at the Culver with Riverside Author Dan Bernstein
    Conversations at the Culver with Riverside Author Dan Bernstein

    Conversations at the Culver with Riverside Author Dan Bernstein


    June 4, 2023

    Sunday, June 4, 2023

    Conversations at the Culver with Riverside Author Dan Bernstein

    1:30-3:00 PM

    Inlandia Institute and UCR Arts Present

    Barbara and Art Culver Center of the Arts

    3834 Main Street, Riverside

     

    On Sunday, June 4, Riverside Press-Enterprise columnist and author Dan Bernstein will join Inlandia and UCR ARTS for “Conversations at the Culver” to discuss his latest book, He Kept His Day Job: Fanfare for the Common Musician. The program will begin at 1:30 PM at the Barbara and Art Culver Center of the Arts, 3834 Main Street, in downtown Riverside.

    This event is free and open to the public. Books will be available for sale and signing.

    He Kept His Day Job, described by one reviewer as a “love letter” disguised as a memoir, takes readers on a musical joy ride through bumpy, challenging and exhilarating terrain: the hate-to-practice years, “frightfully flat” solo contests, high school bands, and orchestras, Stanford’s purported “marching band,” an adult community college jazz band, a perfect-chemistry brass quintet, an assisted-living center in Oregon and a Riverside hospital’s ICU and oncology units where Bernstein played for patients and harried staff. This is where the idea for this book was born. Though just one small story, this “Fanfare for the Common Musician” is meant to be contagious, inspiring young musicians to keep playing and adults, particularly those with day jobs, to take their instruments, tap shoes and paint brushes out of the attic and fall in love all over again.

     

    Dan Bernstein got his first blat out of a trombone when he was in fourth grade. Now in his seventies, the retired newspaper columnist who lives in Riverside, California, is still playing his ax – still for little or no money at all.

  • - Inlandia: A Literary Journey TEEN Issue Launch
    Inlandia: A Literary Journey TEEN Issue Launch

    Inlandia: A Literary Journey TEEN Issue Launch


    June 8, 2023

    Thursday, June 8, 2023

    Inlandia: A Literary Journey TEEN Issue Launch

    7:00-8:30 PM on Zoom

    To register: https://tinyurl.com/TEENJourney2023

    The Spring 2023 Teen Issue of Inlandia Institute’s online literary journal, Inlandia: A Literary Journey, launches Thursday, June 8th. Come join the Zoom party from 7:00 to 8:30 pm PT, where teens 13–19 will share their art, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry selected for inclusion in the issue by teen editors. Inlandia is proud to feature homegrown creatives from inland Southern California cities including Alta Loma, Corona, Fullerton, Moreno Valley, Rancho Cucamonga, Rialto, and Riverside. We are also pleased to have teen contributors from far and wide: Florida and South Carolina, Wisconsin and Kansas, as well as Canada and India.

    Erin Michaela Sweeney writes, speaks, and teaches about the healing potential of mindful creative self-expression. For twenty years, Sweeney was an editor on the east coast but returned to inland Southern California in 2011 to hang out at City of Hope for spa days (aka life-saving blood cancer treatments). Yes, there’s a memoir. She supports other creatives' adventures as managing editor of the Inlandia Institute’s online literary journal, loves her child unconditionally, and forever humbly serves Rexi the cat queen.

  • - LAST DAY! Call for Submissions Inlandia Hearts Librarians
    LAST DAY! Call for Submissions Inlandia Hearts Librarians

    LAST DAY! Call for Submissions Inlandia Hearts Librarians

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    June 30, 2023

    April 30-June 30, 2023

    Call for Submissions: Inlandia Hearts Librarians

    Special Library Issue

    Call for Submissions for Inlandia: A Literary Journey

    Submit to: https://tinyurl.com/InlandiaLibrarians

    Now accepting art, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry from librarians past and present on any topic and only about librarians/libraries from non-librarians for this themed issue.

    Submissions open Saturday, April 30, 2023, and close Friday, June 30, 2023, at midnight Pacific Time.

    Simultaneous submissions accepted. Previously curated submissions accepted. Translations accepted. See website for full guidelines.