Events in September 2023
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- “The Banned Books Tour”
“The Banned Books Tour”
“The Banned Books Tour”
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September 7, 2023Thursday, September 7, 2023
7:00-8:00 PM
Doors open at 6:30
First Thursdays Arts Walk: “The Banned Books Tour”
Riverside Public Library
3900 Mission Inn Avenue, Riverside 92501
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Civil Rights Institute of Southern California
3933 Mission Inn Avenue, Riverside 92501
Book banning might seem like the stuff of earlier times and foreign places – the very term evokes a pile of flaming literature from wartime Germany or Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 – yet the resurgence of book banning in the 2020s is a real-time, real-life concern. School boards and other political entities have caused certain books to be prohibited or restricted on a variety of grounds, including the personal discomfort of a single individual. According to PBS News, “book ban attempts soared in 2022.”
Please join Inlandia – in partnership with Riverside Public Library, the Civil Rights Institute of Inland Southern California, and the Center for Social Justice and Civil Liberties – at Riverside Main Library at 7:00 PM on September 7 for a discussion on the resurgence of book banning in the 2020s. The evening will include readings of favorite banned books by community members interlaced with conversation, a call to action, and a tour of the Civil Rights Institute, located directly across the street from the library.
The library will provide an array of banned and challenged books available for check out. Don’t have a library card? You can get one on the spot!
The Civil Rights Institute will also host a Downtowne Book Store pop-up bookstore where you may purchase books for yourself and/or for donation to the new Project Legacy campus in Riverside, which serves area homeless people in vulnerable populations, including LGBTQ+, youths, older residents, veterans, and those with chronic health conditions or disabilities.
Curious about what books have been banned, censored, or challenged? A partial list includes To Kill a Mockingbird, 1984, The Diary of a Young Girl, The Handmaid’s Tale, Grapes of Wrath, books from the Harry Potter series, and The Bluest Eye. There are many, many more.
For a more comprehensive list, please visit https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1360.Best_Banned_Censored_and_Challenged_Books
We’d love to hear from you about your favorite banned or challenged books. Which ones changed your life? What stories have stuck with you and shifted your perspective or understanding of the world? Please send us the titles that you love, and, if possible, a short quotation from each. We will share community input in a slideshow during Arts Walk. You can send your favorite books and quotes to: programs@inlandiainstitute.org.
Free and open to the public. Please join us.
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- So You Want To Be a Writer? with James Coats
So You Want To Be a Writer? with James Coats
So You Want To Be a Writer? with James Coats
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September 9, 2023Saturdays, September 9-November 11, 2023
12:00-2:00 PM
In person at Riverside Main Library
3900 Mission Inn Avenue, Riverside, CA 93501
Free and open to teens ages 13-19
So You Want To Be a Writer? with James Coats
(Teens ages 13-19)
Saturdays, 12 - 2 PM PT, 9/9/23-11/11/23, in person at the Riverside Main Library
3900 Mission Inn Avenue Riverside, CA 92501
Free and open to teens ages 13-19
Registration required: https://tinyurl.com/Inlandia4Teens
This fall, Inlandia brings college-level creative writing workshops to teen-aged creatives thanks to a unique partnership with the City of Riverside Library. Led by James Coats, working writers drawn from the area community will lead teens through a ten-week progressive series. The program will be held at the Riverside Main Library on Saturdays beginning September 9, from 12:00 – 2:00 PM.
Workshop leader James Coats, himself an author, poet, and educator, will welcome a new guest writer each week, offering teens the opportunity to learn from professional working writers in a library environment. Topics will include: poetry, and the different modes of poetic expression; memoir and memory; fiction writing including micro fiction, flash, short stories, and long-form fiction; journalism and the newspaper industry; writing for magazines and periodicals; reading and performing your work for an audience; strategies for revising work toward publication; what it’s like to be an editor; and getting published. The final session will be a public reading and discussion.
Free and open to all interested teens but registration is required.
James Coats is an author, poet, and educator born in Los Angeles and raised in the Inland Empire. He received his BFA from Cal Poly Pomona and his MBA from Cal State San Bernardino. As a creative change agent, he believes the arts can inspire youth and influence positive change in the world. His first poetry collection, If I had Lived, was published in 2018. In 2021, he founded Lift Our Voices Education, which hosts the monthly “Be The Change: Social Justice Writing Workshop.” His newest poetry collection, Midnight & Mad Dreams, is published by World Stage Press. Follow him on Instagram @MrLovingWords.
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- So You Want To Be a Writer? with James Coats
So You Want To Be a Writer? with James Coats
So You Want To Be a Writer? with James Coats
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September 16, 2023Saturdays, September 9-November 11, 2023
12:00-2:00 PM
In person at Riverside Main Library
3900 Mission Inn Avenue, Riverside, CA 93501
Free and open to teens ages 13-19
So You Want To Be a Writer? with James Coats
(Teens ages 13-19)
Saturdays, 12 - 2 PM PT, 9/9/23-11/11/23, in person at the Riverside Main Library
3900 Mission Inn Avenue Riverside, CA 92501
Free and open to teens ages 13-19
Registration required: https://tinyurl.com/Inlandia4Teens
This fall, Inlandia brings college-level creative writing workshops to teen-aged creatives thanks to a unique partnership with the City of Riverside Library. Led by James Coats, working writers drawn from the area community will lead teens through a ten-week progressive series. The program will be held at the Riverside Main Library on Saturdays beginning September 9, from 12:00 – 2:00 PM.
Workshop leader James Coats, himself an author, poet, and educator, will welcome a new guest writer each week, offering teens the opportunity to learn from professional working writers in a library environment. Topics will include: poetry, and the different modes of poetic expression; memoir and memory; fiction writing including micro fiction, flash, short stories, and long-form fiction; journalism and the newspaper industry; writing for magazines and periodicals; reading and performing your work for an audience; strategies for revising work toward publication; what it’s like to be an editor; and getting published. The final session will be a public reading and discussion.
Free and open to all interested teens but registration is required.
James Coats is an author, poet, and educator born in Los Angeles and raised in the Inland Empire. He received his BFA from Cal Poly Pomona and his MBA from Cal State San Bernardino. As a creative change agent, he believes the arts can inspire youth and influence positive change in the world. His first poetry collection, If I had Lived, was published in 2018. In 2021, he founded Lift Our Voices Education, which hosts the monthly “Be The Change: Social Justice Writing Workshop.” His newest poetry collection, Midnight & Mad Dreams, is published by World Stage Press. Follow him on Instagram @MrLovingWords.
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- So You Want To Be a Writer? with James Coats
So You Want To Be a Writer? with James Coats
So You Want To Be a Writer? with James Coats
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September 23, 2023Saturdays, September 9-November 11, 2023
12:00-2:00 PM
In person at Riverside Main Library
3900 Mission Inn Avenue, Riverside, CA 93501
Free and open to teens ages 13-19
So You Want To Be a Writer? with James Coats
(Teens ages 13-19)
Saturdays, 12 - 2 PM PT, 9/9/23-11/11/23, in person at the Riverside Main Library
3900 Mission Inn Avenue Riverside, CA 92501
Free and open to teens ages 13-19
Registration required: https://tinyurl.com/Inlandia4Teens
This fall, Inlandia brings college-level creative writing workshops to teen-aged creatives thanks to a unique partnership with the City of Riverside Library. Led by James Coats, working writers drawn from the area community will lead teens through a ten-week progressive series. The program will be held at the Riverside Main Library on Saturdays beginning September 9, from 12:00 – 2:00 PM.
Workshop leader James Coats, himself an author, poet, and educator, will welcome a new guest writer each week, offering teens the opportunity to learn from professional working writers in a library environment. Topics will include: poetry, and the different modes of poetic expression; memoir and memory; fiction writing including micro fiction, flash, short stories, and long-form fiction; journalism and the newspaper industry; writing for magazines and periodicals; reading and performing your work for an audience; strategies for revising work toward publication; what it’s like to be an editor; and getting published. The final session will be a public reading and discussion.
Free and open to all interested teens but registration is required.
James Coats is an author, poet, and educator born in Los Angeles and raised in the Inland Empire. He received his BFA from Cal Poly Pomona and his MBA from Cal State San Bernardino. As a creative change agent, he believes the arts can inspire youth and influence positive change in the world. His first poetry collection, If I had Lived, was published in 2018. In 2021, he founded Lift Our Voices Education, which hosts the monthly “Be The Change: Social Justice Writing Workshop.” His newest poetry collection, Midnight & Mad Dreams, is published by World Stage Press. Follow him on Instagram @MrLovingWords.
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- So You Want To Be a Writer? with James Coats
So You Want To Be a Writer? with James Coats
So You Want To Be a Writer? with James Coats
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September 30, 2023Saturdays, September 9-November 11, 2023
12:00-2:00 PM
In person at Riverside Main Library
3900 Mission Inn Avenue, Riverside, CA 93501
Free and open to teens ages 13-19
So You Want To Be a Writer? with James Coats
(Teens ages 13-19)
Saturdays, 12 - 2 PM PT, 9/9/23-11/11/23, in person at the Riverside Main Library
3900 Mission Inn Avenue Riverside, CA 92501
Free and open to teens ages 13-19
Registration required: https://tinyurl.com/Inlandia4Teens
This fall, Inlandia brings college-level creative writing workshops to teen-aged creatives thanks to a unique partnership with the City of Riverside Library. Led by James Coats, working writers drawn from the area community will lead teens through a ten-week progressive series. The program will be held at the Riverside Main Library on Saturdays beginning September 9, from 12:00 – 2:00 PM.
Workshop leader James Coats, himself an author, poet, and educator, will welcome a new guest writer each week, offering teens the opportunity to learn from professional working writers in a library environment. Topics will include: poetry, and the different modes of poetic expression; memoir and memory; fiction writing including micro fiction, flash, short stories, and long-form fiction; journalism and the newspaper industry; writing for magazines and periodicals; reading and performing your work for an audience; strategies for revising work toward publication; what it’s like to be an editor; and getting published. The final session will be a public reading and discussion.
Free and open to all interested teens but registration is required.
James Coats is an author, poet, and educator born in Los Angeles and raised in the Inland Empire. He received his BFA from Cal Poly Pomona and his MBA from Cal State San Bernardino. As a creative change agent, he believes the arts can inspire youth and influence positive change in the world. His first poetry collection, If I had Lived, was published in 2018. In 2021, he founded Lift Our Voices Education, which hosts the monthly “Be The Change: Social Justice Writing Workshop.” His newest poetry collection, Midnight & Mad Dreams, is published by World Stage Press. Follow him on Instagram @MrLovingWords.