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Events in January 2022

  • - CANCELED: More Dreamers Storytelling at RAM
    CANCELED: More Dreamers Storytelling at RAM

    CANCELED: More Dreamers Storytelling at RAM


    January 2, 2022

    More Dreamers of the Golden Dream Family Storytelling Day

    CANCELED: Sunday, January 2, 2022 (2:00 – 3:00 PM)

    Due to rising COVID numbers and concerns about the health and safety of all, we have, regretfully, canceled this event.

     

     

  • - On Writing Home: Writers Talk about Place with Larry Burns and Nikia Chaney
    On Writing Home: Writers Talk about Place with Larry Burns and Nikia Chaney

    On Writing Home: Writers Talk about Place with Larry Burns and Nikia Chaney


    January 5, 2022

    Riverside Public Library’s Humanity Series is back! Join Inlandia Institute in partnership with Riverside Public Library for a four-part spin around the Inland Empire with local writers Larry Burns, Nikia Chaney, Rebecca K. O’Connor, Teresa Rhyne, Susan Straight, Douglas McCulloh, Isabel Quintero, and Casandra Lopez.

    This series is free and open to the public, but registration is required: https://tinyurl.com/HumanitiesHour202

    “A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.” ― Joan Didion

    The scheduled speakers will offer insights, observations, and tools for writing about the location we call home – Inland Southern California.

    January 5: Larry Burns and Nikia Chaney

    January 19: Rebecca K. O’Connor and Teresa J. Rhyne

    February 2: Susan Straight and Douglas McCulloh

    February 16: Isabel Quintero and Casandra Lopez

    Larry Burns draws inspiration and ideas from the heady mixture of sights, sounds, peoples, and places of his hometown, Riverside, California. He is an active community leader, booster, and all-around fan of the recreation, entertainment, arts, and culture ready to be discovered across the Inland Empire. He is a founding member of the Inlandia Institute, and teaches English at Riverside City College and Humanities at Southern New Hampshire University. His second book with Reedy Press Publishers, Secret Inland Empire, is available through Barnes & Noble and other booksellers.

    Poet Nikia Chaney is the author of us mouth (University of Hell Press, 2018) and two chapbooks, Sis Fuss (2012, Orange Monkey Publishing) and ladies, please (2012, Dancing Girl Press). She has served as Inlandia Literary Laureate (2016-2018). 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 been published in the Portland Review, Welter, Vinyl, Saranac Review, Kweli, 491, and Apogee.

  • - On Writing Home: Writers Talk about Place with Rebecca K. O'Connor and Teresa J. Rhyne
    On Writing Home: Writers Talk about Place with Rebecca K. O'Connor and Teresa J. Rhyne

    On Writing Home: Writers Talk about Place with Rebecca K. O'Connor and Teresa J. Rhyne


    January 19, 2022

    Riverside Public Library’s Humanity Series is back! Join Inlandia Institute in partnership with Riverside Public Library for a four-part spin around the Inland Empire with local writers Larry Burns, Nikia Chaney, Rebecca K. O’Connor, Teresa Rhyne, Susan Straight, Douglas McCulloh, Isabel Quintero, and Casandra Lopez.

    This series is free and open to the public, but registration is required: https://tinyurl.com/HumanitiesHour202

    “A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.” ― Joan Didion

    The scheduled speakers will offer insights, observations, and tools for writing about the location we call home – Inland Southern California.

    January 5: Larry Burns and Nikia Chaney

    January 19: Rebecca K. O’Connor and Teresa J. Rhyne

    February 2: Susan Straight and Douglas McCulloh

    February 16: Isabel Quintero and Casandra Lopez

    Rebecca K. O'Connor is Development Director at Rivers & Lands Conservancy, a falconer and an author. She has published reference books, pet owner's manuals, novels and a memoir. Her falconry memoir, LIFT, was published by Red Hen Press. Essays of her writing have been published in Los Angeles Times Magazine (in its West incarnation), South Dakota Review, Iron Horse Review and divide. He work has also been included in New California Writing 2011 and 2012. O'Connor's most recent novel is We Were Wilder, a post-apocalyptic wilderness journey.

    Teresa J. Rhyne is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Dog Lived (and So Will I), a surprisingly hilarious memoir about her dog and her both surviving cancer. The sequel, The Dogs Were Rescued (and So Was I), won the Pat Santi Memorial award from the Dog Writers Association of America. Her newest book, Poppy in the Wild: A Lost Dog, Fifteen Hundred Acres of Wilderness and the Dogged Determination that Brought Her Home continues her tradition of writing humorously about tragedies that happen to her and her dogs. Tragedy plus time plus cute dogs equal heartfelt comedy.

  • - Book Launch for Tales of an Inland Empire Girl by Juanita E. Mantz
    Book Launch for Tales of an Inland Empire Girl by Juanita E. Mantz

    Book Launch for Tales of an Inland Empire Girl by Juanita E. Mantz


    January 29, 2022

    Saturday, January 29, 2022 (1:00-3:00 PM)

    Book Launch and Celebration for

    Tales of an Inland Empire Girl by Juanita E. Mantz

    Garcia Center for the Arts

    536 W 11th St

    San Bernardino CA 92410

    Free and open to the public.

    Masks required.

     Meet us at the Garcia Center in San Bernardino as we celebrate the launch of Tales of an Inland Empire Girl by local author and public defender, Juanita E. Mantz.

    Tales of an Inland Empire Girl will available at the event for sale and signing, or you may order here: https://www.amazon.com/Tales-Inland-Empire-Juanita-Mantz/dp/1735698431

    Tales of an Inland Empire Girl is a searing, beautiful memoir that illuminates the struggles of parents who are beaten down by life and their arduous working-class jobs and of children who are trapped in the middle of their parents’ battles. A compelling read-raw, honest, and hopeful. I wish this book existed when I was growing up. It would have been my life preserver.” liz gonzález, author of Dancing in the Santa Ana Winds