Name: CONVERSATIONS AT THE CULVER WITH JILL ALEXANDER ESSBAUM
Start: 2017-02-09T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2017-02-09T20:30:00-05:00

The week's events

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Feb 5, '17	Feb 6, '17 6:00 pm: INDIE PUBLISHING WORKSHOPS WITH MARJ CHARLIER IN PALM SPRINGS 6:00 pm: INDIE PUBLISHING WORKSHOPS WITH MARJ CHARLIER IN PALM SPRINGS 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm February 6, 2017 WORKSHOP COST: FREE WORKSHOP DATE: Begins Monday January 23, 2017 and runs every other Monday for ten weeks. Workshop meets five times. WORKSHOP LOCATION: Welwood Murray Memorial Library, Palm Springs * 100 S. Palm Canyon Dr * Palm Springs, CA 92262 WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION: Getting from Here to There: An Inlandia Indie Publishing Workshop with Marj Charlier The chances of being traditionally published these days are as slim as they've ever been. With e-book sales soaring and publishers consolidating, traditionally published books are now a small minority of the 4,000 new books published every day. For the vast majority of aspiring writers who want to see their works in print, independent publishing, self-publishing, and subsidy publishing have become better options. But fear keeps many new writers from approaching the steep learning curve of indie publishing and self-marketing, and many of them don't know where to start. The common lament: "I have a memoir/novel/collection of short stories, but I don't know where to go from here." This series of workshops will demystify the steps to indie publishing, helping fence sitters get off the rail and into print. The five "Getting from Here to There" workshops will cover: 1 - Choosing your indie path 2 - Preparing your manuscript 3 - Publishing and distributing 4 - Websites and Facebook marketing 5 - Additional marketing paths Marj Charlier has a bachelor's degree from Iowa State University (Phi Beta Kappa) and a masters degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison as well as an MBA. She worked at several small and mid-sized dailies before joining the Wall Street Journal as a staff reporter. After twenty years in journalism, she spent twenty years in finance departments, during which she wrote her first novel, Putt for Show, which she self-published in 2013. After retiring, she wrote the sequel, Drive for Dough, and three other novels about women facing major career and life changes. Her romance novel, One Way to Succeed, was published late in 2016. A second romance will be published in 2017. REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED: https://goo.gl/forms/JBtcwQRBbMtYd0L93 While this workshop is free, donations gratefully accepted. You may donate via PayPal or mail a check to the Inlandia Institute office. - To donate via PayPal visit www.paypal.com and choose "send money" to donations (at) inlandiainstitute (dot) org. - To mail or hand-deliver donations: Inlandia Institute * 4178 Chestnut Street * Riverside, California 92501 If you have any questions or concerns, please call Cati Porter at the Inlandia Institute at 951 790 2458 or email cati.porter@inlandiainstitute.org. Thank you, and enjoy the workshop! More	Feb 7, '17 3:30 pm: WINTER CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP WITH NIKIA CHANEY 3:30 pm: WINTER CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP WITH NIKIA CHANEY 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm February 7, 2017 Welcome to Inlandia Institute's Creative Writing Workshops Program. With venues in multiple cities, we hope you find one that works well with your location and schedule. Currently, we have workshops in: Riverside with Jo Scott-Coe, San Bernardino with Nikia Chaney, Corona with Andrea Fingerson, Ontario with Tim Hatch, and Redlands with Mae Wagner at the Joslyn Senior Center located at 21 Grant Street. Workshops are held seasonally: fall, winter, and spring, with a break in the summer. Each seasonal workshop lasts ten weeks and meets a total of ten hours during that period. Workshops are filled on a first come, first served basis, with caps on workshop registrations based on total number of available seats per location. All workshops are open to the public but registration is required. Once the workshop has begun, vacant seats can only be filled at the discretion of the workshop leader and Inlandia staff. To register, go here: https://goo.gl/forms/XCjwneXxXh1FVFD43 By registering for an Inlandia workshop you are entitled to submit work for inclusion in the annual Writing from Inlandia anthology. Inlandia's Creative Writing Workshops are free but a donation toward the workshops program is appreciated. Donations are accepted via PayPal or snail mail or directly to the Inlandia Institute office only. - To donate via PayPal visit www.paypal.com and choose "send money" to donations @inlandiainstitute.org. - To mail or hand-deliver donations: Inlandia Institute * 4178 Chestnut Street * Riverside, California 92501 Please remember: Donations are optional! Support comes in many forms. Thank you for supporting the Inlandia Institute! More	Feb 8, '17 10:00 am: WINTER CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP WITH MAE WAGNER 10:00 am: WINTER CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP WITH MAE WAGNER 10:00 am – 12:00 pm February 8, 2017 Welcome to Inlandia Institute's Creative Writing Workshops Program. With venues in multiple cities, we hope you find one that works well with your location and schedule. Currently, we have workshops in: Riverside with Jo Scott-Coe, San Bernardino with Nikia Chaney, Corona with Andrea Fingerson, Ontario with Tim Hatch, and Redlands with Mae Wagner at the Joslyn Senior Center located at 21 Grant Street. Workshops are held seasonally: fall, winter, and spring, with a break in the summer. Each seasonal workshop lasts ten weeks and meets a total of ten hours during that period. Workshops are filled on a first come, first served basis, with caps on workshop registrations based on total number of available seats per location. RIVERSIDE AND ONTARIO IS FULL All workshops are open to the public but registration is required. Once the workshop has begun, vacant seats can only be filled at the discretion of the workshop leader and Inlandia staff. To register, go here: https://goo.gl/forms/XCjwneXxXh1FVFD43 By registering for an Inlandia workshop you are entitled to submit work for inclusion in the annual Writing from Inlandia anthology. Inlandia's Creative Writing Workshops are free but a donation toward the workshops program is appreciated. Donations are accepted via PayPal or snail mail or directly to the Inlandia Institute office only. - To donate via PayPal visit www.paypal.com and choose "send money" to donations @inlandiainstitute.org. - To mail or hand-deliver donations: Inlandia Institute * 4178 Chestnut Street * Riverside, California 92501 Please remember: Donations are optional! Support comes in many forms. Thank you for supporting the Inlandia Institute! More 6:30 pm: WINTER CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP WITH TIM HATCH 6:30 pm: WINTER CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP WITH TIM HATCH 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm February 8, 2017 Welcome to Inlandia Institute's Creative Writing Workshops Program. With venues in multiple cities, we hope you find one that works well with your location and schedule. Currently, we have workshops in: Riverside with Jo Scott-Coe, San Bernardino with Nikia Chaney, Corona with Andrea Fingerson, Ontario with Tim Hatch, and Redlands with Mae Wagner at the Joslyn Senior Center located at 21 Grant Street. Workshops are held seasonally: fall, winter, and spring, with a break in the summer. Each seasonal workshop lasts ten weeks and meets a total of ten hours during that period. Workshops are filled on a first come, first served basis, with caps on workshop registrations based on total number of available seats per location. RIVERSIDE AND ONTARIO IS FULL All workshops are open to the public but registration is required. Once the workshop has begun, vacant seats can only be filled at the discretion of the workshop leader and Inlandia staff. To register, go here: https://goo.gl/forms/XCjwneXxXh1FVFD43 By registering for an Inlandia workshop you are entitled to submit work for inclusion in the annual Writing from Inlandia anthology. Inlandia's Creative Writing Workshops are free but a donation toward the workshops program is appreciated. Donations are accepted via PayPal or snail mail or directly to the Inlandia Institute office only. - To donate via PayPal visit www.paypal.com and choose "send money" to donations @inlandiainstitute.org. - To mail or hand-deliver donations: Inlandia Institute * 4178 Chestnut Street * Riverside, California 92501 Please remember: Donations are optional! Support comes in many forms. Thank you for supporting the Inlandia Institute! More	Feb 9, '17 4:30 pm: WINTER CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP WITH JO SCOTT-COE 4:30 pm: WINTER CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP WITH JO SCOTT-COE 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm February 9, 2017 Welcome to Inlandia Institute's Creative Writing Workshops Program. With venues in multiple cities, we hope you find one that works well with your location and schedule. Currently, we have workshops in: Riverside with Jo Scott-Coe, San Bernardino with Nikia Chaney, Corona with Andrea Fingerson, Ontario with Tim Hatch, and Redlands with Mae Wagner at the Joslyn Senior Center located at 21 Grant Street. Workshops are held seasonally: fall, winter, and spring, with a break in the summer. Each seasonal workshop lasts ten weeks and meets a total of ten hours during that period. Workshops are filled on a first come, first served basis, with caps on workshop registrations based on total number of available seats per location. All workshops are open to the public but registration is required. Once the workshop has begun, vacant seats can only be filled at the discretion of the workshop leader and Inlandia staff. To register, go here: https://goo.gl/forms/XCjwneXxXh1FVFD43 By registering for an Inlandia workshop you are entitled to submit work for inclusion in the annual Writing from Inlandia anthology. Inlandia's Creative Writing Workshops are free but a donation toward the workshops program is appreciated. Donations are accepted via PayPal or snail mail or directly to the Inlandia Institute office only. - To donate via PayPal visit www.paypal.com and choose "send money" to donations @inlandiainstitute.org. - To mail or hand-deliver donations: Inlandia Institute * 4178 Chestnut Street * Riverside, California 92501 Please remember: Donations are optional! Support comes in many forms. Thank you for supporting the Inlandia Institute! More 7:00 pm: CONVERSATIONS AT THE CULVER WITH JILL ALEXANDER ESSBAUM 7:00 pm: CONVERSATIONS AT THE CULVER WITH JILL ALEXANDER ESSBAUM 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm February 9, 2017 On Thursday February 9, 2017 from 7:00pm- 8:30pm, join the Inlandia Institute for Conversations at the Culver featuring a reading and conversation with author Jill Alexander Essbaum on her new book, Hausfrau. The Barbara and Art Culver Center of the Arts is located at 3834 Main St, Riverside, CA 92501. For readers of The Girl on the Train and The Woman Upstairs comes a striking debut novel of marriage, fidelity, sex, and morality, featuring a fascinating heroine who struggles to live a life with meaning. Anna Benz, an American in her late thirties, lives with her Swiss husband, Bruno--a banker--and their three young children in a postcard-perfect suburb of Zurich. Though she leads a comfortable, well-appointed life, Anna is falling apart inside. Adrift and increasingly unable to connect with the emotionally unavailable Bruno or even with her own thoughts and feelings, Anna tries to rouse herself with new experiences: German language classes, Jungian analysis, and a series of sexual affairs she enters with an ease that surprises even her. But Anna can't easily extract herself from these affairs. When she wants to end them, she finds it's difficult. Tensions escalate, and her lies start to spin out of control. Having crossed a moral threshold, Anna will discover where a woman goes when there is no going back. Intimate, intense, and written with the precision of a Swiss Army knife, Jill Alexander Essbaum's debut novel is unforgettable story of marriage, fidelity, sex, morality, and most especially self. Navigating the lines between lust and love, guilt and shame, excuses and reasons, Anna Benz is an electrifying heroine whose passions and choices readers will debate with recognition and fury. Her story reveals, with honesty and great beauty, how we create ourselves and how we lose ourselves and the sometimes disastrous choices we find ourselves. Jill Alexander Essbaum is the author of several collections of poetry and her work has appeared in The Best American Poetry, as well as its sister anthology, The Best American Erotic Poems, 1800-Present. She is the winner of the Bakeless Poetry Prize and recipient of two NEA literature fellowships. A member of the core faculty at the University of California, Riverside's Palm Desert Low-Residency MFA program, she lives and writes in Austin, Texas. Praise for Hausfrau "Elegant...There is much to admire in Essbaum's intricately constructed, meticulously composed novel, including its virtuosic intercutting of past and present."--Chicago Tribune "A powerful, lyrical novel...Hausfrau boasts taut pacing and melodrama, but also a fully realized heroine as love-hateable as Emma Bovary."--The Huffington Post "Imagine Tom Perrotta's American nowheresvilles swapped out for a tidy Zurich suburb, sprinkled liberally with sharp riffs on Swiss-German grammar and European hypocrisy."--New York Books will be available for signing and purchase. Light refreshments will also be served. This event is free and open to the public. More	Feb 10, '17	Feb 11, '17

Events in February 2017

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			1 10:00 am: WINTER CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP WITH MAE WAGNER 10:00 am – 12:00 pm February 1, 2017 Welcome to Inlandia Institute's Creative Writing Workshops Program. With venues in multiple cities, we hope you find one that works well with your location and schedule. Currently, we have workshops in: Riverside with Jo Scott-Coe, San Bernardino with Nikia Chaney, Corona with Andrea Fingerson, Ontario with Tim Hatch, and Redlands with Mae Wagner at the Joslyn Senior Center located at 21 Grant Street. Workshops are held seasonally: fall, winter, and spring, with a break in the summer. Each seasonal workshop lasts ten weeks and meets a total of ten hours during that period. Workshops are filled on a first come, first served basis, with caps on workshop registrations based on total number of available seats per location. RIVERSIDE AND ONTARIO IS FULL All workshops are open to the public but registration is required. Once the workshop has begun, vacant seats can only be filled at the discretion of the workshop leader and Inlandia staff. To register, go here: https://goo.gl/forms/XCjwneXxXh1FVFD43 By registering for an Inlandia workshop you are entitled to submit work for inclusion in the annual Writing from Inlandia anthology. Inlandia's Creative Writing Workshops are free but a donation toward the workshops program is appreciated. Donations are accepted via PayPal or snail mail or directly to the Inlandia Institute office only. - To donate via PayPal visit www.paypal.com and choose "send money" to donations @inlandiainstitute.org. - To mail or hand-deliver donations: Inlandia Institute * 4178 Chestnut Street * Riverside, California 92501 Please remember: Donations are optional! Support comes in many forms. Thank you for supporting the Inlandia Institute! More	2 7:00 pm: ARTS WALK: POETRY! AT THE LIBRARY 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm February 2, 2017 Each month this winter and spring we will explore the range of poerty that exists in the Inland Empire, fromo the Beat tradition to the Indian diaspora, form desert to ecology to spoken word, and more, leading up to National Poetry Month in April. Each reading will be followed by a brief open mic, so bring a poem to share and be in the spotlight too! Sign ups begin at 6:45 pm. About the readers: Nan Friedley is a retired specail education teacher originally from Indiana. Her poerty has been published in the 2013 Inlandia Anthology and Three by PushPen Press. Her collection of poetry, Short Bus Ride, was published in 2015. Carlos Cortes is a professor emeritus of history at the University of California, Riverside. His most recent book is Fourth Quarter, a collection of poetry. He is also author of an autobiography, Rose Hill: An Intermarriage Before Its Time. He also travels the country performing his one person autobiographical play, A Conversation with Alana: One Boy's Mulitcultural Rite of Passage, while he co-wrote the book and lyrics for the musical, We Are Not Alone: Thomas Rivera--A Musical Narrative, which premiered in 2011. Books will be available for signing and purchase. Light refreshents will also be served. More	3	4
5	6 6:00 pm: INDIE PUBLISHING WORKSHOPS WITH MARJ CHARLIER IN PALM SPRINGS 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm February 6, 2017 WORKSHOP COST: FREE WORKSHOP DATE: Begins Monday January 23, 2017 and runs every other Monday for ten weeks. Workshop meets five times. WORKSHOP LOCATION: Welwood Murray Memorial Library, Palm Springs * 100 S. Palm Canyon Dr * Palm Springs, CA 92262 WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION: Getting from Here to There: An Inlandia Indie Publishing Workshop with Marj Charlier The chances of being traditionally published these days are as slim as they've ever been. With e-book sales soaring and publishers consolidating, traditionally published books are now a small minority of the 4,000 new books published every day. For the vast majority of aspiring writers who want to see their works in print, independent publishing, self-publishing, and subsidy publishing have become better options. But fear keeps many new writers from approaching the steep learning curve of indie publishing and self-marketing, and many of them don't know where to start. The common lament: "I have a memoir/novel/collection of short stories, but I don't know where to go from here." This series of workshops will demystify the steps to indie publishing, helping fence sitters get off the rail and into print. The five "Getting from Here to There" workshops will cover: 1 - Choosing your indie path 2 - Preparing your manuscript 3 - Publishing and distributing 4 - Websites and Facebook marketing 5 - Additional marketing paths Marj Charlier has a bachelor's degree from Iowa State University (Phi Beta Kappa) and a masters degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison as well as an MBA. She worked at several small and mid-sized dailies before joining the Wall Street Journal as a staff reporter. After twenty years in journalism, she spent twenty years in finance departments, during which she wrote her first novel, Putt for Show, which she self-published in 2013. After retiring, she wrote the sequel, Drive for Dough, and three other novels about women facing major career and life changes. Her romance novel, One Way to Succeed, was published late in 2016. A second romance will be published in 2017. REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED: https://goo.gl/forms/JBtcwQRBbMtYd0L93 While this workshop is free, donations gratefully accepted. You may donate via PayPal or mail a check to the Inlandia Institute office. - To donate via PayPal visit www.paypal.com and choose "send money" to donations (at) inlandiainstitute (dot) org. - To mail or hand-deliver donations: Inlandia Institute * 4178 Chestnut Street * Riverside, California 92501 If you have any questions or concerns, please call Cati Porter at the Inlandia Institute at 951 790 2458 or email cati.porter@inlandiainstitute.org. Thank you, and enjoy the workshop! More	7 3:30 pm: WINTER CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP WITH NIKIA CHANEY 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm February 7, 2017 Welcome to Inlandia Institute's Creative Writing Workshops Program. With venues in multiple cities, we hope you find one that works well with your location and schedule. Currently, we have workshops in: Riverside with Jo Scott-Coe, San Bernardino with Nikia Chaney, Corona with Andrea Fingerson, Ontario with Tim Hatch, and Redlands with Mae Wagner at the Joslyn Senior Center located at 21 Grant Street. Workshops are held seasonally: fall, winter, and spring, with a break in the summer. Each seasonal workshop lasts ten weeks and meets a total of ten hours during that period. Workshops are filled on a first come, first served basis, with caps on workshop registrations based on total number of available seats per location. All workshops are open to the public but registration is required. Once the workshop has begun, vacant seats can only be filled at the discretion of the workshop leader and Inlandia staff. To register, go here: https://goo.gl/forms/XCjwneXxXh1FVFD43 By registering for an Inlandia workshop you are entitled to submit work for inclusion in the annual Writing from Inlandia anthology. Inlandia's Creative Writing Workshops are free but a donation toward the workshops program is appreciated. Donations are accepted via PayPal or snail mail or directly to the Inlandia Institute office only. - To donate via PayPal visit www.paypal.com and choose "send money" to donations @inlandiainstitute.org. - To mail or hand-deliver donations: Inlandia Institute * 4178 Chestnut Street * Riverside, California 92501 Please remember: Donations are optional! Support comes in many forms. Thank you for supporting the Inlandia Institute! More	8 10:00 am: WINTER CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP WITH MAE WAGNER 10:00 am – 12:00 pm February 8, 2017 Welcome to Inlandia Institute's Creative Writing Workshops Program. With venues in multiple cities, we hope you find one that works well with your location and schedule. Currently, we have workshops in: Riverside with Jo Scott-Coe, San Bernardino with Nikia Chaney, Corona with Andrea Fingerson, Ontario with Tim Hatch, and Redlands with Mae Wagner at the Joslyn Senior Center located at 21 Grant Street. Workshops are held seasonally: fall, winter, and spring, with a break in the summer. Each seasonal workshop lasts ten weeks and meets a total of ten hours during that period. Workshops are filled on a first come, first served basis, with caps on workshop registrations based on total number of available seats per location. RIVERSIDE AND ONTARIO IS FULL All workshops are open to the public but registration is required. Once the workshop has begun, vacant seats can only be filled at the discretion of the workshop leader and Inlandia staff. To register, go here: https://goo.gl/forms/XCjwneXxXh1FVFD43 By registering for an Inlandia workshop you are entitled to submit work for inclusion in the annual Writing from Inlandia anthology. Inlandia's Creative Writing Workshops are free but a donation toward the workshops program is appreciated. Donations are accepted via PayPal or snail mail or directly to the Inlandia Institute office only. - To donate via PayPal visit www.paypal.com and choose "send money" to donations @inlandiainstitute.org. - To mail or hand-deliver donations: Inlandia Institute * 4178 Chestnut Street * Riverside, California 92501 Please remember: Donations are optional! Support comes in many forms. Thank you for supporting the Inlandia Institute! More 6:30 pm: WINTER CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP WITH TIM HATCH 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm February 8, 2017 Welcome to Inlandia Institute's Creative Writing Workshops Program. With venues in multiple cities, we hope you find one that works well with your location and schedule. Currently, we have workshops in: Riverside with Jo Scott-Coe, San Bernardino with Nikia Chaney, Corona with Andrea Fingerson, Ontario with Tim Hatch, and Redlands with Mae Wagner at the Joslyn Senior Center located at 21 Grant Street. Workshops are held seasonally: fall, winter, and spring, with a break in the summer. Each seasonal workshop lasts ten weeks and meets a total of ten hours during that period. Workshops are filled on a first come, first served basis, with caps on workshop registrations based on total number of available seats per location. RIVERSIDE AND ONTARIO IS FULL All workshops are open to the public but registration is required. Once the workshop has begun, vacant seats can only be filled at the discretion of the workshop leader and Inlandia staff. To register, go here: https://goo.gl/forms/XCjwneXxXh1FVFD43 By registering for an Inlandia workshop you are entitled to submit work for inclusion in the annual Writing from Inlandia anthology. Inlandia's Creative Writing Workshops are free but a donation toward the workshops program is appreciated. Donations are accepted via PayPal or snail mail or directly to the Inlandia Institute office only. - To donate via PayPal visit www.paypal.com and choose "send money" to donations @inlandiainstitute.org. - To mail or hand-deliver donations: Inlandia Institute * 4178 Chestnut Street * Riverside, California 92501 Please remember: Donations are optional! Support comes in many forms. Thank you for supporting the Inlandia Institute! More	9 4:30 pm: WINTER CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP WITH JO SCOTT-COE 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm February 9, 2017 Welcome to Inlandia Institute's Creative Writing Workshops Program. With venues in multiple cities, we hope you find one that works well with your location and schedule. Currently, we have workshops in: Riverside with Jo Scott-Coe, San Bernardino with Nikia Chaney, Corona with Andrea Fingerson, Ontario with Tim Hatch, and Redlands with Mae Wagner at the Joslyn Senior Center located at 21 Grant Street. Workshops are held seasonally: fall, winter, and spring, with a break in the summer. Each seasonal workshop lasts ten weeks and meets a total of ten hours during that period. Workshops are filled on a first come, first served basis, with caps on workshop registrations based on total number of available seats per location. All workshops are open to the public but registration is required. Once the workshop has begun, vacant seats can only be filled at the discretion of the workshop leader and Inlandia staff. To register, go here: https://goo.gl/forms/XCjwneXxXh1FVFD43 By registering for an Inlandia workshop you are entitled to submit work for inclusion in the annual Writing from Inlandia anthology. Inlandia's Creative Writing Workshops are free but a donation toward the workshops program is appreciated. Donations are accepted via PayPal or snail mail or directly to the Inlandia Institute office only. - To donate via PayPal visit www.paypal.com and choose "send money" to donations @inlandiainstitute.org. - To mail or hand-deliver donations: Inlandia Institute * 4178 Chestnut Street * Riverside, California 92501 Please remember: Donations are optional! Support comes in many forms. Thank you for supporting the Inlandia Institute! More 7:00 pm: CONVERSATIONS AT THE CULVER WITH JILL ALEXANDER ESSBAUM 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm February 9, 2017 On Thursday February 9, 2017 from 7:00pm- 8:30pm, join the Inlandia Institute for Conversations at the Culver featuring a reading and conversation with author Jill Alexander Essbaum on her new book, Hausfrau. The Barbara and Art Culver Center of the Arts is located at 3834 Main St, Riverside, CA 92501. For readers of The Girl on the Train and The Woman Upstairs comes a striking debut novel of marriage, fidelity, sex, and morality, featuring a fascinating heroine who struggles to live a life with meaning. Anna Benz, an American in her late thirties, lives with her Swiss husband, Bruno--a banker--and their three young children in a postcard-perfect suburb of Zurich. Though she leads a comfortable, well-appointed life, Anna is falling apart inside. Adrift and increasingly unable to connect with the emotionally unavailable Bruno or even with her own thoughts and feelings, Anna tries to rouse herself with new experiences: German language classes, Jungian analysis, and a series of sexual affairs she enters with an ease that surprises even her. But Anna can't easily extract herself from these affairs. When she wants to end them, she finds it's difficult. Tensions escalate, and her lies start to spin out of control. Having crossed a moral threshold, Anna will discover where a woman goes when there is no going back. Intimate, intense, and written with the precision of a Swiss Army knife, Jill Alexander Essbaum's debut novel is unforgettable story of marriage, fidelity, sex, morality, and most especially self. Navigating the lines between lust and love, guilt and shame, excuses and reasons, Anna Benz is an electrifying heroine whose passions and choices readers will debate with recognition and fury. Her story reveals, with honesty and great beauty, how we create ourselves and how we lose ourselves and the sometimes disastrous choices we find ourselves. Jill Alexander Essbaum is the author of several collections of poetry and her work has appeared in The Best American Poetry, as well as its sister anthology, The Best American Erotic Poems, 1800-Present. She is the winner of the Bakeless Poetry Prize and recipient of two NEA literature fellowships. A member of the core faculty at the University of California, Riverside's Palm Desert Low-Residency MFA program, she lives and writes in Austin, Texas. Praise for Hausfrau "Elegant...There is much to admire in Essbaum's intricately constructed, meticulously composed novel, including its virtuosic intercutting of past and present."--Chicago Tribune "A powerful, lyrical novel...Hausfrau boasts taut pacing and melodrama, but also a fully realized heroine as love-hateable as Emma Bovary."--The Huffington Post "Imagine Tom Perrotta's American nowheresvilles swapped out for a tidy Zurich suburb, sprinkled liberally with sharp riffs on Swiss-German grammar and European hypocrisy."--New York Books will be available for signing and purchase. Light refreshments will also be served. This event is free and open to the public. More	10	11
12	13 N/A: MONDAY NIGHT RUPO Open Mic at Back to the Grind N/A February 13, 2017 RUPO Open Mic is a weekly event for the community to come together and support each other as they express themselves through poetry, music, comedy, dance, and theater. RUPO has been serving the community of Riverside for the last 20 years, providing Raw Uncensored entertainment to the artistic community. For Mature Audience Only \| Admission is Free. When: Monday's from 9:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m. (sign-ups @ 8:30 p.m. sharp) Where: Back to the Grind, 3575 University Ave., Riverside, CA 92501 For more information, please visit www.facebook.com/MNRUPO More	14	15 10:00 am: CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP WITH MAE WAGNER IN REDLANDS 10:00 am – 12:00 pm February 15, 2017 Welcome to Inlandia Institute's Creative Writing Workshops Program. With venues in multiple cities, we hope you find one that works well with your location and schedule. Currently, we have workshops in: Riverside with Jo Scott-Coe, San Bernardino with Nikia Chaney, Corona with Andrea Fingerson, Ontario with Tim Hatch, and Redlands with Mae Wagner at the Joslyn Senior Center located at 21 Grant Street. Workshops are held seasonally: fall, winter, and spring, with a break in the summer. Each seasonal workshop lasts ten weeks and meets a total of ten hours during that period. Workshops are filled on a first come, first served basis, with caps on workshop registrations based on total number of available seats per location. All workshops are open to the public but registration is required. Once the workshop has begun, vacant seats can only be filled at the discretion of the workshop leader and Inlandia staff. To register, go here: https://goo.gl/forms/XCjwneXxXh1FVFD43 By registering for an Inlandia workshop you are entitled to submit work for inclusion in the annual Writing from Inlandia anthology. Inlandia's Creative Writing Workshops are free but a donation toward the workshops program is appreciated. Donations are accepted via PayPal or snail mail or directly to the Inlandia Institute office only. - To donate via PayPal visit www.paypal.com and choose "send money" to donations @inlandiainstitute.org. - To mail or hand-deliver donations: Inlandia Institute * 4178 Chestnut Street * Riverside, California 92501 Please remember: Donations are optional! Support comes in many forms. Thank you for supporting the Inlandia Institute! More	16	17	18 1:30 pm: WINTER CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP WITH ANDREA FINGERSON 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm February 18, 2017 Welcome to Inlandia Institute's Creative Writing Workshops Program. With venues in multiple cities, we hope you find one that works well with your location and schedule. Currently, we have workshops in: Riverside with Jo Scott-Coe, San Bernardino with Nikia Chaney, Corona with Andrea Fingerson, Ontario with Tim Hatch, and Redlands with Mae Wagner at the Joslyn Senior Center located at 21 Grant Street. Workshops are held seasonally: fall, winter, and spring, with a break in the summer. Each seasonal workshop lasts ten weeks and meets a total of ten hours during that period. Workshops are filled on a first come, first served basis, with caps on workshop registrations based on total number of available seats per location. All workshops are open to the public but registration is required. Once the workshop has begun, vacant seats can only be filled at the discretion of the workshop leader and Inlandia staff. To register, go here: https://goo.gl/forms/XCjwneXxXh1FVFD43 By registering for an Inlandia workshop you are entitled to submit work for inclusion in the annual Writing from Inlandia anthology. Inlandia's Creative Writing Workshops are free but a donation toward the workshops program is appreciated. Donations are accepted via PayPal or snail mail or directly to the Inlandia Institute office only. - To donate via PayPal visit www.paypal.com and choose "send money" to donations @inlandiainstitute.org. - To mail or hand-deliver donations: Inlandia Institute * 4178 Chestnut Street * Riverside, California 92501 Please remember: Donations are optional! Support comes in many forms. Thank you for supporting the Inlandia Institute! More
19	20 6:00 pm: INDIE PUBLISHING WORKSHOPS WITH MARJ CHARLIER IN PALM SPRINGS 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm February 20, 2017 WORKSHOP COST: FREE WORKSHOP DATE: Begins Monday January 23, 2017 and runs every other Monday for ten weeks. Workshop meets five times. WORKSHOP LOCATION: Welwood Murray Memorial Library, Palm Springs * 100 S. Palm Canyon Dr * Palm Springs, CA 92262 WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION: Getting from Here to There: An Inlandia Indie Publishing Workshop with Marj Charlier The chances of being traditionally published these days are as slim as they've ever been. With e-book sales soaring and publishers consolidating, traditionally published books are now a small minority of the 4,000 new books published every day. For the vast majority of aspiring writers who want to see their works in print, independent publishing, self-publishing, and subsidy publishing have become better options. But fear keeps many new writers from approaching the steep learning curve of indie publishing and self-marketing, and many of them don't know where to start. The common lament: "I have a memoir/novel/collection of short stories, but I don't know where to go from here." This series of workshops will demystify the steps to indie publishing, helping fence sitters get off the rail and into print. The five "Getting from Here to There" workshops will cover: 1 - Choosing your indie path 2 - Preparing your manuscript 3 - Publishing and distributing 4 - Websites and Facebook marketing 5 - Additional marketing paths Marj Charlier has a bachelor's degree from Iowa State University (Phi Beta Kappa) and a masters degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison as well as an MBA. She worked at several small and mid-sized dailies before joining the Wall Street Journal as a staff reporter. After twenty years in journalism, she spent twenty years in finance departments, during which she wrote her first novel, Putt for Show, which she self-published in 2013. After retiring, she wrote the sequel, Drive for Dough, and three other novels about women facing major career and life changes. Her romance novel, One Way to Succeed, was published late in 2016. A second romance will be published in 2017. REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED: https://goo.gl/forms/JBtcwQRBbMtYd0L93 While this workshop is free, donations gratefully accepted. You may donate via PayPal or mail a check to the Inlandia Institute office. - To donate via PayPal visit www.paypal.com and choose "send money" to donations (at) inlandiainstitute (dot) org. - To mail or hand-deliver donations: Inlandia Institute * 4178 Chestnut Street * Riverside, California 92501 If you have any questions or concerns, please call Cati Porter at the Inlandia Institute at 951 790 2458 or email cati.porter@inlandiainstitute.org. Thank you, and enjoy the workshop! More	21 3:30 pm: WINTER CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP WITH NIKIA CHANEY 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm February 21, 2017 Welcome to Inlandia Institute's Creative Writing Workshops Program. With venues in multiple cities, we hope you find one that works well with your location and schedule. Currently, we have workshops in: Riverside with Jo Scott-Coe, San Bernardino with Nikia Chaney, Corona with Andrea Fingerson, Ontario with Tim Hatch, and Redlands with Mae Wagner at the Joslyn Senior Center located at 21 Grant Street. Workshops are held seasonally: fall, winter, and spring, with a break in the summer. Each seasonal workshop lasts ten weeks and meets a total of ten hours during that period. Workshops are filled on a first come, first served basis, with caps on workshop registrations based on total number of available seats per location. All workshops are open to the public but registration is required. Once the workshop has begun, vacant seats can only be filled at the discretion of the workshop leader and Inlandia staff. To register, go here: https://goo.gl/forms/XCjwneXxXh1FVFD43 By registering for an Inlandia workshop you are entitled to submit work for inclusion in the annual Writing from Inlandia anthology. Inlandia's Creative Writing Workshops are free but a donation toward the workshops program is appreciated. Donations are accepted via PayPal or snail mail or directly to the Inlandia Institute office only. - To donate via PayPal visit www.paypal.com and choose "send money" to donations @inlandiainstitute.org. - To mail or hand-deliver donations: Inlandia Institute * 4178 Chestnut Street * Riverside, California 92501 Please remember: Donations are optional! Support comes in many forms. Thank you for supporting the Inlandia Institute! More	22 10:00 am: CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP WITH MAE WAGNER IN REDLANDS 10:00 am – 12:00 pm February 22, 2017 Welcome to Inlandia Institute's Creative Writing Workshops Program. With venues in multiple cities, we hope you find one that works well with your location and schedule. Currently, we have workshops in: Riverside with Jo Scott-Coe, San Bernardino with Nikia Chaney, Corona with Andrea Fingerson, Ontario with Tim Hatch, and Redlands with Mae Wagner at the Joslyn Senior Center located at 21 Grant Street. Workshops are held seasonally: fall, winter, and spring, with a break in the summer. Each seasonal workshop lasts ten weeks and meets a total of ten hours during that period. Workshops are filled on a first come, first served basis, with caps on workshop registrations based on total number of available seats per location. All workshops are open to the public but registration is required. Once the workshop has begun, vacant seats can only be filled at the discretion of the workshop leader and Inlandia staff. To register, go here: https://goo.gl/forms/XCjwneXxXh1FVFD43 By registering for an Inlandia workshop you are entitled to submit work for inclusion in the annual Writing from Inlandia anthology. Inlandia's Creative Writing Workshops are free but a donation toward the workshops program is appreciated. Donations are accepted via PayPal or snail mail or directly to the Inlandia Institute office only. - To donate via PayPal visit www.paypal.com and choose "send money" to donations @inlandiainstitute.org. - To mail or hand-deliver donations: Inlandia Institute * 4178 Chestnut Street * Riverside, California 92501 Please remember: Donations are optional! Support comes in many forms. Thank you for supporting the Inlandia Institute! More 6:30 pm: CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP WITH TIM HATCH IN ONTARIO 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm February 22, 2017 Welcome to Inlandia Institute's Creative Writing Workshops Program. With venues in multiple cities, we hope you find one that works well with your location and schedule. Currently, we have workshops in: Riverside with Jo Scott-Coe, San Bernardino with Nikia Chaney, Corona with Andrea Fingerson, and Ontario with Tim Hatch. Workshops are held seasonally: fall, winter, and spring, with a break in the summer. Each seasonal workshop lasts ten weeks and meets a total of ten hours during that period. Workshops are filled on a first come, first served basis, with caps on workshop registrations based on total number of available seats per location. All workshops are open to the public but registration is required. Once the workshop has begun, vacant seats can only be filled at the discretion of the workshop leader and Inlandia staff. To register, go here: https://goo.gl/forms/XCjwneXxXh1FVFD43 By registering for an Inlandia workshop you are entitled to submit work for inclusion in the annual Writing from Inlandia anthology. Inlandia's Creative Writing Workshops are free but a donation toward the workshops program is appreciated. Donations are accepted via PayPal or snail mail or directly to the Inlandia Institute office only. - To donate via PayPal visit www.paypal.com and choose "send money" to donations @inlandiainstitute.org. - To mail or hand-deliver donations: Inlandia Institute * 4178 Chestnut Street * Riverside, California 92501 Please remember: Donations are optional! Support comes in many forms. Thank you for supporting the Inlandia Institute! More	23 4:30 pm: WINTER CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP WITH JO SCOTT-COE 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm February 23, 2017 Welcome to Inlandia Institute's Creative Writing Workshops Program. With venues in multiple cities, we hope you find one that works well with your location and schedule. Currently, we have workshops in: Riverside with Jo Scott-Coe, San Bernardino with Nikia Chaney, Corona with Andrea Fingerson, Ontario with Tim Hatch, and Redlands with Mae Wagner at the Joslyn Senior Center located at 21 Grant Street. Workshops are held seasonally: fall, winter, and spring, with a break in the summer. Each seasonal workshop lasts ten weeks and meets a total of ten hours during that period. Workshops are filled on a first come, first served basis, with caps on workshop registrations based on total number of available seats per location. All workshops are open to the public but registration is required. Once the workshop has begun, vacant seats can only be filled at the discretion of the workshop leader and Inlandia staff. To register, go here: https://goo.gl/forms/XCjwneXxXh1FVFD43 By registering for an Inlandia workshop you are entitled to submit work for inclusion in the annual Writing from Inlandia anthology. Inlandia's Creative Writing Workshops are free but a donation toward the workshops program is appreciated. Donations are accepted via PayPal or snail mail or directly to the Inlandia Institute office only. - To donate via PayPal visit www.paypal.com and choose "send money" to donations @inlandiainstitute.org. - To mail or hand-deliver donations: Inlandia Institute * 4178 Chestnut Street * Riverside, California 92501 Please remember: Donations are optional! Support comes in many forms. Thank you for supporting the Inlandia Institute! More	24	25
26 3:00 pm: Lady & the Blues: Art & Poetry from African American Women hosted by Nikia Chaney 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm February 26, 2017 In honor of Black History Month, please join the Inlandia Institute for an afternoon of African American art and poetry at the Garcia Center for the Arts in San Bernardino on Sunday, February 26, from 3 - 5 pm. Listen to spoken word performances by Inlandia Literary Laureate Nikia Chaney, Romaine Washington, and Ginger Galloway. Enjoy a special limited-time exhibition of the artworks of Linda J. Phelps Young. The Garcia Center is located at 536 W. 11th Street in San Bernardino. About the presenters: Romaine Washington: Romaine Washington, M.Ed. is the author of Sirens in Her Belly, published by Jamii publishing, was chosen as one of BET's top ten must-reads for 2016 by Editor Britt Middleton. She is a native Californian, a graduate of Azusa Pacific University, an active participant in the Inlandia Writing Workshops and a fellow of the Inland Area Writing Project, U. C. Riverside and The Watering Hole, South Carolina. Ms. Washington has been published in a wide variety of anthologies and periodicals and has presented her work on TV, radio and various venues Ginger Galloway: In one word, Ginger M. Galloway can be described as intricate. Ginger is the author of several poetic collections, novellas, children's books, and stage plays. She enjoys art and has penned illustrations for two picture storybooks and a coloring book. Her other interests and hobbies include crochet, knitting, quilting, and reading. She is an educator and loves to engage her students in creative, performing and expressive arts. Ginger and her husband, Richard, live in Menifee with four of their seven children. She is a freelance writer and writing coach. Her books can be found on Amazon. Check out her blog: mommygalloway.blogspot.com. Nikia Chaney: Nikia Chaney is the current Inlandia Literary Laureate (2016-2018). She is the author of two chapbooks, Sis Fuss (2012, Orange Monkey Publishing) and ladies, please (2012, Dancing Girl Press). She is founding editor of shufpoetry, an online journal for experimental poetry, and founding editor of Jamii Publishing, a publishing imprint dedicated to fostering community among poets and writers. She has won grants from the Barbara Demings Fund for Women, Poets & Writers, and Cave Canem. About the artist, Linda J Phelps Young: Ms. Young is a California native, born in Riverside CA. She worked for 6 years as an Art Instructor with the Riverside Arts Council in conjunction RUSD after school program the Hearts and Prime Time program. Her series of paintings, titled "Our Ladies of Blues" was created in 2007. The series commemorates Billie Holiday, Bessie Smith, Josephine Baker, Ethel Waters and Ella Fitzgerald. Painting is Linda's passion and she considers herself to be a colorist. Her vision is to make art filled with creative possibilities and hope to bring joy to those who view it This event is free and open to the public. ### More	27	28

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6:00 pm: INDIE PUBLISHING WORKSHOPS WITH MARJ CHARLIER IN PALM SPRINGS

6:00 pm: INDIE PUBLISHING WORKSHOPS WITH MARJ CHARLIER IN PALM SPRINGS

3:30 pm: WINTER CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP WITH NIKIA CHANEY

3:30 pm: WINTER CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP WITH NIKIA CHANEY

10:00 am: WINTER CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP WITH MAE WAGNER

10:00 am: WINTER CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP WITH MAE WAGNER

6:30 pm: WINTER CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP WITH TIM HATCH

6:30 pm: WINTER CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP WITH TIM HATCH

4:30 pm: WINTER CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP WITH JO SCOTT-COE

4:30 pm: WINTER CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP WITH JO SCOTT-COE

7:00 pm: CONVERSATIONS AT THE CULVER WITH JILL ALEXANDER ESSBAUM

7:00 pm: CONVERSATIONS AT THE CULVER WITH JILL ALEXANDER ESSBAUM

N/A: CHOP SHOP REVISIONS COURSE WITH MINDA REVES

10:00 am: WINTER CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP WITH MAE WAGNER

7:00 pm: ARTS WALK: POETRY! AT THE LIBRARY

6:00 pm: INDIE PUBLISHING WORKSHOPS WITH MARJ CHARLIER IN PALM SPRINGS

3:30 pm: WINTER CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP WITH NIKIA CHANEY

10:00 am: WINTER CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP WITH MAE WAGNER

6:30 pm: WINTER CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP WITH TIM HATCH

4:30 pm: WINTER CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP WITH JO SCOTT-COE

7:00 pm: CONVERSATIONS AT THE CULVER WITH JILL ALEXANDER ESSBAUM

N/A: MONDAY NIGHT RUPO Open Mic at Back to the Grind

10:00 am: CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP WITH MAE WAGNER IN REDLANDS

1:30 pm: WINTER CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP WITH ANDREA FINGERSON

6:00 pm: INDIE PUBLISHING WORKSHOPS WITH MARJ CHARLIER IN PALM SPRINGS

3:30 pm: WINTER CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP WITH NIKIA CHANEY

10:00 am: CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP WITH MAE WAGNER IN REDLANDS

6:30 pm: CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP WITH TIM HATCH IN ONTARIO

4:30 pm: WINTER CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP WITH JO SCOTT-COE

3:00 pm: Lady & the Blues: Art & Poetry from African American Women hosted by Nikia Chaney

10:00 am: CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP WITH MAE WAGNER IN REDLANDS

9:00 am: WRITING OUR WAY FORWARD WITH LAURA HOOPES AND ANITA ZACHARY

7:00 pm: ARTS WALK FOR BOOK LOVERS: POETRY! AT THE LIBRARY

10:00 am: LADY & THE BLUES ART EXHIBIT