Events in June 2024
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- How to do Justice to Diversity in Fiction — Journey to Merveilleux City
How to do Justice to Diversity in Fiction — Journey to Merveilleux City
How to do Justice to Diversity in Fiction — Journey to Merveilleux City
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June 2, 2024Sunday, June 2, 2024
Conversations at the Culver with Stephanie Barbé Hammer and Romaine Washington
How to do Justice to Diversity in Fiction — Journey to Merveilleux City
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.
How do we, as writers, tell the stories of characters whose lived experience is different from our own? How do we create a world in our work that’s true to the multicultural spaces we inhabit – without risking the misappropriation of those cultures?
Please join Romaine Washington and Stephanie Barbé Hammer in conversation about Stephanie’s new novella, Journey to Merveilleux City, finalist for the Foreword Indie book award, Mystery category.
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- Loud and Clear -- The Voices of Gay and Trans Literature
Loud and Clear -- The Voices of Gay and Trans Literature
Loud and Clear -- The Voices of Gay and Trans Literature
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June 6, 2024Thursday, June 6, 2024
First Thursdays Arts Walk – Loud and Clear: The Voices of Gay and Trans Literature
Riverside Main Library Community Room
3900 Mission Inn Avenue
Riverside, CA 92501
7:00-8:00 PM; doors open at 6:30 PM
Free and open to the public.
Join Inlandia for a celebration of Pride Month as LGBTQIA+ community members share literary passages by LGBTQIA+ authors that have influenced, encouraged, shaped, and inspired them.
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- Inlandia at the Maloof Artist Series Presents Ellen Estilai and Exit Prohibited
Inlandia at the Maloof Artist Series Presents Ellen Estilai and Exit Prohibited
Inlandia at the Maloof Artist Series Presents Ellen Estilai and Exit Prohibited
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June 8, 2024Saturday, June 8, 2024
Inlandia at the Maloof Artist Series Presents Ellen Estilai and Exit Prohibited
12:00-2:00 PM
Sam and Alfreda Maloof Foundation for Arts and Crafts
5131 Carnelian St
Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91701
Free and open to all ages.
Inlandia Institute, in partnership with the Sam and Alfreda Maloof Foundation for Arts and Crafts, invites you to a very special afternoon with Ellen Estilai, author of Exit Prohibited: A Memoir of Iran, published by Inlandia Books. A book talk is scheduled for Saturday, June 8, at 12:00 PM, at the Maloof Home, Gardens, and Gallery in Rancho Cucamonga, and will include a discussion of the author’s extraordinary experiences living in—and leaving—Iran, accompanied by selected readings and book signing by the author.
Books will be available for sale in the Maloof Store, and may be purchased online at https://inlandia-institute.square.site/ and through Amazon.
Exit Prohibited explores a side of Iran and Iranians seldom portrayed in popular media. It follows Ellen Estilai and her family after the 1979 Iranian Revolution as they attempt to leave Tehran, their home of nine years. At the airport, Ali, her Iranian husband, is inexplicably prevented from leaving. As he confronts hostile colleagues and the Islamic Republic’s opaque bureaucracy, Estilai examines their lives, trying to understand what might have brought them to this point. It is a story of an Iran that is at once welcoming and hostile, progressive and traditional, enamored of and distrustful of the West—an Iran as complex as Estilai’s relationship to it.
Ellen Estilai has spent much of her career collaborating with artists, writers, and agencies to strengthen communities through the arts. She has served as the executive director of the Riverside Arts Council and the Arts Council for San Bernardino County, and has taught English language, literature, and writing in universities in Iran and California. Because Ellen and her husband have been immigrants in each other’s countries, her writing frequently explores the joys and tribulations of the immigrant experience.
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- Art Appreciation for Ekphrastic Poets and Writers with Jane Edberg and John Brantingham
Art Appreciation for Ekphrastic Poets and Writers with Jane Edberg and John Brantingham
Art Appreciation for Ekphrastic Poets and Writers with Jane Edberg and John Brantingham
June 9, 2024
Sunday, June 9, 2024
Art Appreciation for Ekphrastic Poets and Writers with Jane Edberg and John Brantingham
8-Week Asynchronous Writing Boot Camp
$150; to register: https://tinyurl.com/EkphrasticBootCamp
In this 8-week asynchronous boot camp, participants will learn the artistic techniques – along with the design elements and principles – that artists use, and how understanding an artist's approach can enhance a poet's conversation of a work. An exploration of two- and three-dimensional art pieces will provide visual examples ranging from unusual contemporary work to old classics to ancient art. This class is open to all levels of experience, from the beginner to the professional writer. Prompts and an open forum will create opportunities for feedback from instructors and fellow writers.
Jane Edberg holds a Master of Fine Arts from the University of California, Davis with an emphasis in photography, painting, and performance art. She taught photography and art for thirty years, retiring after twenty years at Gavilan College. Her art has been published and exhibited internationally. Jane is the author of the art illuminated memoir, The Fine Art of Grieving, published by Linen Press Books, 2024. Her writing is featured in the books, Death, and its Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Beautiful Lessons: Field Notes from The Death Dialogues Project; Sasse Museum of Art: Terry Givens Ekphrasis Collection; My Dead, Kelsey Books, 2024, in the flash anthology, BAM 42 Stories (to be released October 2024); and in journals, including Cholla Needles, and Gyroscope Review.
John Brantingham was Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks’ first poet laureate. His work has been featured in hundreds of magazines, Writers Almanac and The Best Small Fictions 2016 and 2022. He has nineteen books of poetry and fiction including Life: Orange to Pear (Bamboo Dart Press). He is the founder and general editor of The Journal of Radical Wonder. He lives in Jamestown, NY.