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June 2, 2024(1 event)

1:30 pm: How to do Justice to Diversity in Fiction — Journey to Merveilleux City


June 2, 2024

Sunday, 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.

June 3, 2024
June 4, 2024
June 5, 2024
June 6, 2024(1 event)

7:00 pm: Loud and Clear -- The Voices of Gay and Trans Literature


June 6, 2024

Thursday, 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.

Celebrate Pride with Inlandia Institute and Riverside Public Library at Riverside Main Library on Thursday, June 6, as LGBTQIA+ community members share literary passages by LGBTQIA+ authors who have influenced, encouraged, shaped, and inspired them. The program begins at 7:00 PM in the Community Room.

There will also be an open mic that is open to all! Please bring a (3-4 minute) passage by an LGBTQIA+ author you’d like to share.

Free and open to all. Join us – and be inspired, too.

June 7, 2024
June 8, 2024