Events in April 2019
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March 31, 2019(1 event)
N/A: HALT THE ASSAULT YOUTH POETRY AND ART CONTESTN/A: HALT THE ASSAULT YOUTH POETRY AND ART CONTEST N/A Sexual assault often happens behind closed doors and is surrounded by stigma, but silence does little to combat this or any trauma. The voices of both those who've experienced sexual assault and those who stand against it are valuable tools for awareness. Please submit 1-3 poems or 1-3 cover artworks that promote social change surrounding the theme of combating sexual assault and/or the idea of resilience. Visit WomenWonderWriters.com for more information and to submit. |
April 1, 2019(1 event)
N/A: HALT THE ASSAULT YOUTH POETRY AND ART CONTESTN/A: HALT THE ASSAULT YOUTH POETRY AND ART CONTEST N/A Sexual assault often happens behind closed doors and is surrounded by stigma, but silence does little to combat this or any trauma. The voices of both those who've experienced sexual assault and those who stand against it are valuable tools for awareness. Please submit 1-3 poems or 1-3 cover artworks that promote social change surrounding the theme of combating sexual assault and/or the idea of resilience. Visit WomenWonderWriters.com for more information and to submit. |
April 2, 2019(1 event)
N/A: HALT THE ASSAULT YOUTH POETRY AND ART CONTESTN/A: HALT THE ASSAULT YOUTH POETRY AND ART CONTEST N/A Sexual assault often happens behind closed doors and is surrounded by stigma, but silence does little to combat this or any trauma. The voices of both those who've experienced sexual assault and those who stand against it are valuable tools for awareness. Please submit 1-3 poems or 1-3 cover artworks that promote social change surrounding the theme of combating sexual assault and/or the idea of resilience. Visit WomenWonderWriters.com for more information and to submit. |
April 3, 2019(1 event)
N/A: HALT THE ASSAULT YOUTH POETRY AND ART CONTESTN/A: HALT THE ASSAULT YOUTH POETRY AND ART CONTEST N/A Sexual assault often happens behind closed doors and is surrounded by stigma, but silence does little to combat this or any trauma. The voices of both those who've experienced sexual assault and those who stand against it are valuable tools for awareness. Please submit 1-3 poems or 1-3 cover artworks that promote social change surrounding the theme of combating sexual assault and/or the idea of resilience. Visit WomenWonderWriters.com for more information and to submit. |
April 4, 2019(2 events)
N/A: HALT THE ASSAULT YOUTH POETRY AND ART CONTESTN/A: HALT THE ASSAULT YOUTH POETRY AND ART CONTEST N/A Sexual assault often happens behind closed doors and is surrounded by stigma, but silence does little to combat this or any trauma. The voices of both those who've experienced sexual assault and those who stand against it are valuable tools for awareness. Please submit 1-3 poems or 1-3 cover artworks that promote social change surrounding the theme of combating sexual assault and/or the idea of resilience. Visit WomenWonderWriters.com for more information and to submit. 7:30 pm: HALT THE ASSUALT FEATURING MEN ON THE MIC: A SPOKEN WORD EVENT7:30 pm: HALT THE ASSUALT FEATURING MEN ON THE MIC: A SPOKEN WORD EVENT – Sexual assault often happens behind closed doors and is surrounded by stigma, but silence does little to combat this or any trauma. The voices of both those who've experienced sexual assault and those who stand against it are valuable tools for awareness. Join us for an evening of open mic readings and art on April 4, 2019 starting at 7:30 p.m. This event will be held at the Riverside Public Library located at 3581 Mission Inn Ave, Riverside, CA 92501. Visit WomenWonderWriters.com for more information. |
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April 11, 2019(1 event)
3:00 pm: UCR 6TH ANNUAL CREATIVE WRITING READING SERIES: REAL LIFE AND POWERFUL FICITONS3:00 pm: UCR 6TH ANNUAL CREATIVE WRITING READING SERIES: REAL LIFE AND POWERFUL FICITONS – 6th Annual Creative Writing Reading Series Real Life and Powerful Fictions: Bestselling authors Vanessa Hua and Rahna Reiko Rizzuto talk about their new books, River of Stars and Shadow Child, and how women’s stories shaped these imaginative literary thrillers. Q&A to follow, moderated by Susan Straight April 11, 2019 Vanessa Hua is a UCR alumna and graduate from the Creative Writing and Writing for the Performing Arts MFA Program. She is a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle and the author of a novel, A River of Stars, and a short story collection, Deceit and Other Possibilities. For two decades, she has been writing, in journalism and fiction, about Asia and the diaspora. She has received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, the San Francisco Foundation’s James D. Phelan Award, and a Steinbeck Fellowship in Creative Writing, as well as honors from the Society of Professional Journalists and the Asian American Journalists Association. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, and elsewhere. A Bay Area native, she works and teaches at the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto. Rahna Reiko Rizzuto’s three books include Shadow Child, a mystery/family/saga/historical novel set in Hawaii, New York and Japan; her memoir, Hiroshima in the Morning, which moves from the original “Ground Zero” to its echo, the 9/11 terrorist attacks; and her first novel, Why She Left Us, about the Japanese American incarceration camps. Awards and recognitions include an American Book Award, Grub Street National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Finalist, Asian American Literary Award Finalist, Dayton Literary Peace Prize Nominee, among others. She is also a recipient of the U.S./Japan Creative Artist Fellowship, funded by the National Endowment for the Arts. She was Associate Editor of The NuyorAsian Anthology: Asian American Writings About New York City. She has been interviewed widely on motherhood including on The Today Show, 20/20, and The View. Reiko’s articles on motherhood, Hiroshima, the Japanese incarceration camps and radiation poisoning have been published globally, including in the L.A. Times, Guardian UK, CNN Opinion, and Salon, and through the Progressive Media Project and The Huffington Post, and have been anthologized in Mothers Who Think, Because I Said So, and Topography of War, among others. She was a judge for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction in 2015. Reiko is on the faculty of the Goddard College MFA in Creative Writing, is a Hedgebrook alumna, and has taught master classes and at Vortext for Hedgebrook. She is “hapa” (mixed Japanese/Caucasian) and was raised in Hawaii. Free and open to the campus. ***This event is a local event by our partners |
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April 25, 2019(1 event)
10:00 am: 2019 VALLEY COLLEGE MEDIA EXPO AND INTERNATIONAL STUDENT FILM FESTIVAL10:00 am: 2019 VALLEY COLLEGE MEDIA EXPO AND INTERNATIONAL STUDENT FILM FESTIVAL – Meet and greet with businesses, artists, and 4-year colleges about further opportunities for students interested in careers in film, tv, multi-media, graphics, gaming, design, and so much more. Don't forget to catch local author and special guest Larry Burns on April 25th at 10:00 a.m.!
San Bernardino Valley College will be holding this event at the Business Building Room 100 on 701 S. Mt Vernon Ave, San Bernardino, CA 92410. Visit the ValleyCollege.edu for more details.
***This event is hosted by San Bernardino Valley College
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April 26, 2019
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April 28, 2019(1 event)
11:00 am: THE MULTICULTURAL BOOK AND FAMILY FESTIVAL11:00 am: THE MULTICULTURAL BOOK AND FAMILY FESTIVAL – Join us at the Multicultural Book and Family Festival on Sunday, April 28th, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Santos Manuel Student Union. Stop by the Inlandia table and say hi!
Festivities include author presentations, book readings, dance performances, learning activities for kids, a children’s theater show, plus arts and crafts exhibitors, food vendors, prizes and more.
Over 5,000 books will be given away to children and young adults!
KVCR’s Lillian Vasquez, host of the popular radio program “Lifestyles with Lillian Vasquez,” which explores arts and culture in the Inland region, will serve as the festival’s co-MC, along with Alfredo Cruz, Marketing Coordinator for Coyote Radio and Advertising.
***This event is hosted by the John M. Pfau Library, in partnership with the Black Faculty, Staff, and Student Association and the San Bernardino County Superintendent of Schools
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May 2, 2019(1 event)
7:00 pm: LITERATURE ON THE LAWN: ALL- TEEN ISSUE OF INLANDIA: A LITERARY JOURNEY7:00 pm: LITERATURE ON THE LAWN: ALL- TEEN ISSUE OF INLANDIA: A LITERARY JOURNEY – Are you ready? Southern California youth are fired up to lead us to a world of enchantment with their all-teen issue of Inlandia: A Literary Journey. Discover the teen behind the screen of this captivating online literary journal! Join us May 2 at 7 pm, for a fantastic celebration and reading at the Riverside Public Library, located at 3581 Mission Inn Avenue in downtown Riverside.
Featured readers include Avery Garcia, Lauren Kawecki, Maihan Phan, Samantha Schmiedel, and more!
Kudos to our teen guest editors: Kelly Apen, Chandler Calvallo, Kiyani Carter, Zainab Khan, Stephanie Martinez-Beltran, Uma Menon, Marvin Ogbunezu, Zoe Price, and Mike Sims.
Poetry, fiction, plays, films, and more! Check out the full issue on May 1!
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