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Events in February 2022

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7:00 pm: First Thursdays Arts Walk: Celebrate Women’s History Month with Aunt Alice and Barbara Ann Burns

4:00 pm: Blacklandia Presents: Writing About Black Art with Richard Allen May III

7:00 pm: Blacklandia Presents: The Language of Healing, the Poetry of Hope

4:00 pm: Blacklandia Presents: Writing About Black Art with Richard Allen May III

1:30 pm: Blacklandia Presents: The Confession of Copeland Cane with Keenan Norris

4:00 pm: Blacklandia Presents: Writing About Black Art with Richard Allen May III

12:00 pm: Poet-TRY 11 with Stephanie Barbé Hammer

4:00 pm: Blacklandia Presents: Writing About Black Art with Richard Allen May III

7:00 pm: First Thursdays Arts Walk: Celebrate Women’s History Month with Aunt Alice and Barbara Ann Burns

4:00 pm: Blacklandia Presents: Writing About Black Art with Richard Allen May III

7:00 pm: First Thursdays Arts Walk: Celebrate Women’s History Month with Aunt Alice and Barbara Ann Burns

4:00 pm: Blacklandia Presents: Writing About Black Art with Richard Allen May III

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Feb 27, '22	Feb 28, '22	Mar 1, '22	Mar 2, '22	Mar 3, '22 7:00 pm: First Thursdays Arts Walk: Celebrate Women’s History Month with Aunt Alice and Barbara Ann Burns 7:00 pm: First Thursdays Arts Walk: Celebrate Women’s History Month with Aunt Alice and Barbara Ann Burns 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm March 3, 2022 Thursday, March 3, 2022 (7:00-8:00 PM) First Thursdays Arts Walk at Riverside Public Library Celebrate Women’s History Month with Aunt Alice and Barbara Ann Burns In person at Riverside Main Library, Community Room (Please wear a mask.) 3900 Mission Inn Avenue Riverside, CA 92507 Join Inlandia Institute and Riverside Public Library on Thursday, March 3, at 7:00 PM for First Thursdays Arts Walk as we celebrate Women’s History Month, Riverside style. Come and learn about local icon and businesswoman “Aunt Alice” Miller Richardson, hotel manager of the Mission Inn and sister of Frank Miller, and her contributions to history, culture, and society. Author Barbara Ann Burns, author of Suite Alice of Riverside, Tahoe, and Laguna: California Hotel Pioneer 1874-1938, will tell us about Aunt Alice’s remarkable gift for hospitality – and hotel management – on a grand scale. More	Mar 4, '22	Mar 5, '22 4:00 pm: Blacklandia Presents: Writing About Black Art with Richard Allen May III 4:00 pm: Blacklandia Presents: Writing About Black Art with Richard Allen May III 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm March 5, 2022 Saturdays, March 5, 12, and 19, 2022 (4:00-5:30 PM PST) Inlandia’s Blacklandia Event Series Presents Writing About Black Art with Richard Allen May – Winter-Spring 2022 March Focus: Writing About Black Art Through a Feminist Lens On Zoom. Registration is required. tinyurl.com/WritingAboutBlackArt2022 Workshops are free. All are welcome. This month, three “Writing About Black Art” workshops (March 5, 12, and 19) will explore writing about Black art from a feminist perspective. Through class lectures, Zoom discussion groups, and homework exercises, participants will learn about selected African American artists from different perspectives and produce a 350-word essay concentrating on one work of art. Time will also be devoted to peer reviews of essay drafts in Zoom discussion groups. These workshops are designed to develop marketable skills as a freelance writer writing about Black art and artists. More

3 7:00 pm: Blacklandia Presents: The Language of Healing, the Poetry of Hope 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm February 3, 2022 For First Thursdays Arts Walk Riverside Public Library and Inlandia Institute’s Blacklandia Events Series Present The Language of Healing, the Poetry of Hope With Romaine Washington, James Coats, Lydia Theon Ware i, and George Hammons Thursday, February 3, 2022, 7:00-8:00 PM PST On Zoom Free and open to the public, but registration is required. https://tinyurl.com/Healing-Hope Join Inlandia Institute’s Blacklandia Events Series in partnership with Riverside Public Library on Thursday, February 3, from 7:00-8:00 PM for a very special First Thursdays Arts Walk event, “The Language of Healing, the Poetry of Hope.” Moderated by local poet and educator Romaine Washington, a panel of writers – including James Coats, Lydia Theon Ware i, and George Hammons – will discuss their artistic journeys during this time of change, confusion, and deep challenge. Looking for inspiration? Seeking new ideas for the New Year? Then join us for an evening of fresh perspectives and connection as we consider where we are, as individuals and as a society – and what comes next. All are welcome. The conversation will be interlaced with readings by the authors. This online event is free and open to the public, but registration is required: https://tinyurl.com/Healing-Hope. More

5 4:00 pm: Blacklandia Presents: Writing About Black Art with Richard Allen May III 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm February 5, 2022 Saturdays, February 5, February 19, and February 26, 2022 (4:00-5:30 PM PST) Inlandia’s Blacklandia Event Series Presents Writing About Black Art with Richard Allen May III – Winter-Spring 2022 February’s Focus: Writing About Black Art Through a Biographical Lens On Zoom; registration required: tinyurl.com/WritingAboutBlackArt2022 Workshops are free. All are welcome. February’s three “Writing About Black Art” workshops (February 5, 19, and 26) will explore writing about Black art from a biographical perspective. Participants will examine how to unpack this art and make it accessible to readers by analyzing how the life of the artist informs the creative process. Through class lectures, Zoom discussion groups, and homework exercises, participants will learn about selected African American artists from different perspectives and produce a 350-word essay concentrating on one work of art. Time will also be devoted to peer reviews of essay drafts in Zoom discussion groups. These workshops are designed to develop marketable skills as a freelance writer writing about Black art and artists. More

6 1:30 pm: Blacklandia Presents: The Confession of Copeland Cane with Keenan Norris 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm February 6, 2022 Inlandia Institute’s Blacklandia Events Series Presents The Confession of Copeland Cane with Keenan Norris In conversation with Eric DeVaughnn Sunday, February 6, 2022, 1:30-2:30 PM PST On Zoom Free and open to the public, but registration is required. https://tinyurl.com/CopelandCane On Sunday, February 6, from 1:30-2:30 PM, Inlandia’s Blacklandia Events Series will present a conversation you won’t want to miss! Join author and educator Eric DeVaughnn and novelist, essayist, and short story writer Keenan Norris as they discuss Norris’s latest novel, The Confession of Copeland Cane. This online event is free, but registration is required: https://tinyurl.com/CopelandCane. All are welcome. Publisher’s Weekly named The Confession of Copeland Cane one of the best books of the summer: “Norris has created a voice that cannot be ignored.” BuzzFeed calls The Confession of Copeland Cane a “significant new voice in fiction. Norris has written what may be one of the defining novels of the era at the intersection between Black Lives Matter and COVID-19.” About the novel: Copeland Cane V, the child who fell outta Colored People Time and into America, is a fugitive … He is also just a regular teenager coming up in a terrifying world. A slightly eccentric, flip-phone loving kid with analog tendencies and a sideline hustling sneakers, the boundaries of Copeland’s life are demarcated from the jump by urban toxicity, an educational apparatus with confounding intentions, and a police state that has merged with media conglomerates. Recruited by the nearby private school even as he and his folks face eviction, Copeland is doing his damnedest to do right by himself, for himself. Yet the myriad forces at play entrap him, and while Copeland’s wry awareness of the absurd keeps life passable (as do his friends and their surprising array of survival skills), when he is caught in the aftermath of a protest rally against police violence, everything changes. Set in East Oakland, California in a very near future, The Confession of Copeland Cane introduces us to a prescient and contemporary voice, one whose take on coming of age in America is a profound reflection of our present moment. More

19 4:00 pm: Blacklandia Presents: Writing About Black Art with Richard Allen May III 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm February 19, 2022 Saturdays, February 5, February 19, and February 26, 2022 (4:00-5:30 PM PST) Inlandia’s Blacklandia Event Series Presents Writing About Black Art with Richard Allen May III – Winter-Spring 2022 February’s Focus: Writing About Black Art Through a Biographical Lens On Zoom; registration required: tinyurl.com/WritingAboutBlackArt2022 Workshops are free. All are welcome. February’s three “Writing About Black Art” workshops (February 5, 19, and 26) will explore writing about Black art from a biographical perspective. Participants will examine how to unpack this art and make it accessible to readers by analyzing how the life of the artist informs the creative process. Through class lectures, Zoom discussion groups, and homework exercises, participants will learn about selected African American artists from different perspectives and produce a 350-word essay concentrating on one work of art. Time will also be devoted to peer reviews of essay drafts in Zoom discussion groups. These workshops are designed to develop marketable skills as a freelance writer writing about Black art and artists. More

20 12:00 pm: Poet-TRY 11 with Stephanie Barbé Hammer 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm February 20, 2022 February 20 – March 27, 2022 (Six Weeks – Asynchronous) Poet-TRY 11 with Stephanie Barbé Hammer Boot Camp for Writers: Tell Me a Story Cost: $150 On Wet Ink, with optional office hours on Zoom; to register: https://tinyurl.com/Poet-try11 Poems have been used for millennia to tell a story: through myth, adventure, love story/scene, personal memory, letter of complaint, dramatic monologue, and everything in between. In Poet-TRY 11, participants will experiment with using poems – formal, informal, and prose – to hint at a narrative or maybe even unfold a tale in a series of poems. Memoirs in poems exist as they do novels. Let’s see what happens when narrative meets lyric! This workshop is asynchronous. Students are asked to keep up with the weekly assignments and post them during the week. Wet Ink is an online platform that creates an immersive learning experience around written work from participants, using Wet Ink classrooms and communities. For more on Wet Ink, please visit: https://wet.ink/. Stephanie Barbé Hammer is a five-time Pushcart Prize nominee with work in the Bellevue Literary Review, Pearl, Hayden's Ferry, Isthmus, the Gold Man Review, and the Chiron Review among others. She is the author of a magical realist novel (The Puppet Turners of Narrow Interior), a prose poem chapbook (Sex with Buildings), a full-length poetry collection (How Formal?), and a how-to-write-magical-realism craft book (Delicious Strangeness). Stephanie was born in Manhattan and lived until recently in Southern California. She now wanders the woods of rural Washington State looking for a taco truck, a dry cleaner, and someone to talk to. A YA-adjacent novel, Pretend Plumber, is forthcoming from Inlandia Books. Her poetry collection, City Slicker, is forthcoming from Bamboo Dart Press. She is managing editor of SHARK REEF literary magazine. More

26 4:00 pm: Blacklandia Presents: Writing About Black Art with Richard Allen May III 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm February 26, 2022 Saturdays, February 5, February 19, and February 26, 2022 (4:00-5:30 PM PST) Inlandia’s Blacklandia Event Series Presents Writing About Black Art with Richard Allen May III – Winter-Spring 2022 February’s Focus: Writing About Black Art Through a Biographical Lens On Zoom; registration required: tinyurl.com/WritingAboutBlackArt2022 Workshops are free. All are welcome. February’s three “Writing About Black Art” workshops (February 5, 19, and 26) will explore writing about Black art from a biographical perspective. Participants will examine how to unpack this art and make it accessible to readers by analyzing how the life of the artist informs the creative process. Through class lectures, Zoom discussion groups, and homework exercises, participants will learn about selected African American artists from different perspectives and produce a 350-word essay concentrating on one work of art. Time will also be devoted to peer reviews of essay drafts in Zoom discussion groups. These workshops are designed to develop marketable skills as a freelance writer writing about Black art and artists. More