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Events in June 2024

  • - Inlandia at the Maloof Artist Series Presents Ellen Estilai and Exit Prohibited, 3-Week Manga Workshop with Sebraé Harris
    Inlandia at the Maloof Artist Series Presents Ellen Estilai and Exit Prohibited

    Inlandia at the Maloof Artist Series Presents Ellen Estilai and Exit Prohibited


    June 8, 2024

    Saturday, June 8, 2024

    Inlandia at the Maloof Artist Series Presents Ellen Estilai and Exit Prohibited

    12:00-2:00 PM

    Sam and Alfreda Maloof Foundation for Arts and Crafts

    5131 Carnelian St

    Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91701

    Free and open to all ages.

    Inlandia Institute, in partnership with the Sam and Alfreda Maloof Foundation for Arts and Crafts, invites you to a very special afternoon with Ellen Estilai, author of Exit Prohibited: A Memoir of Iran, published by Inlandia Books. A book talk is scheduled for Saturday, June 8, at 12:00 PM, at the Maloof Home, Gardens, and Gallery in Rancho Cucamonga, and will include a discussion of the author’s extraordinary experiences living in—and leaving—Iran, accompanied by selected readings and book signing by the author.

    Books will be available for sale in the Maloof Store, and may be purchased online at https://inlandia-institute.square.site/ and through Amazon.

    Exit Prohibited explores a side of Iran and Iranians seldom portrayed in popular media. It follows Ellen Estilai and her family after the 1979 Iranian Revolution as they attempt to leave Tehran, their home of nine years. At the airport, Ali, her Iranian husband, is inexplicably prevented from leaving. As he confronts hostile colleagues and the Islamic Republic’s opaque bureaucracy, Estilai examines their lives, trying to understand what might have brought them to this point. It is a story of an Iran that is at once welcoming and hostile, progressive and traditional, enamored of and distrustful of the West—an Iran as complex as Estilai’s relationship to it.

    Ellen Estilai has spent much of her career collaborating with artists, writers, and agencies to strengthen communities through the arts.  She has served as the executive director of the Riverside Arts Council and the Arts Council for San Bernardino County, and has taught English language, literature, and writing in universities in Iran and California. Because Ellen and her husband have been immigrants in each other’s countries, her writing frequently explores the joys and tribulations of the immigrant experience.

    3-Week Manga Workshop with Sebraé Harris

    3-Week Manga Workshop with Sebraé Harris


    June 8, 2024

    Saturdays, June 8, 15, 22, and 29, 2024

    3-Week Manga Workshop with Sebraé Harris

    FREE and open to all ages, but registration is required: https://tinyurl.com/MangaRPL

    1:00-3:00 PM

    Riverside Main Library Carnegie Room

    3900 Mission Inn Avenue

    Riverside, CA 92501

    Join Inlandia at Riverside Main Library for a creative workshop introduction to the inner workings of the Japanese comic medium, Manga, which will explore terminology, story, character design, and paneling to create your own one shot or series! Presented by animator and mangaka, Sebraé Harris.

    Sebraé Harris – AKA “StarLite Crystal” – is an African American artist, entrepreneur, and professional mangaka. He started drawing at the age of four and began taking art seriously when he was eight. Sebraé is a graduate of Riverside City College with degrees in Fine & Applied Arts, Animation, and Business & Entrepreneurship. The Vermillion Speedateer is his first manga/comic series.

  • - 3-Week Manga Workshop with Sebraé Harris
    3-Week Manga Workshop with Sebraé Harris

    3-Week Manga Workshop with Sebraé Harris


    June 15, 2024

    Saturdays, June 8, 15, 22, and 29, 2024

    3-Week Manga Workshop with Sebraé Harris

    FREE and open to all ages, but registration is required: https://tinyurl.com/MangaRPL

    1:00-3:00 PM

    Riverside Main Library Carnegie Room

    3900 Mission Inn Avenue

    Riverside, CA 92501

    Join Inlandia at Riverside Main Library for a creative workshop introduction to the inner workings of the Japanese comic medium, Manga, which will explore terminology, story, character design, and paneling to create your own one shot or series! Presented by animator and mangaka, Sebraé Harris.

    Sebraé Harris – AKA “StarLite Crystal” – is an African American artist, entrepreneur, and professional mangaka. He started drawing at the age of four and began taking art seriously when he was eight. Sebraé is a graduate of Riverside City College with degrees in Fine & Applied Arts, Animation, and Business & Entrepreneurship. The Vermillion Speedateer is his first manga/comic series.

  • - 3-Week Manga Workshop with Sebraé Harris
    3-Week Manga Workshop with Sebraé Harris

    3-Week Manga Workshop with Sebraé Harris


    June 22, 2024

    Saturdays, June 8, 15, 22, and 29, 2024

    3-Week Manga Workshop with Sebraé Harris

    FREE and open to all ages, but registration is required: https://tinyurl.com/MangaRPL

    1:00-3:00 PM

    Riverside Main Library Carnegie Room

    3900 Mission Inn Avenue

    Riverside, CA 92501

    Join Inlandia at Riverside Main Library for a creative workshop introduction to the inner workings of the Japanese comic medium, Manga, which will explore terminology, story, character design, and paneling to create your own one shot or series! Presented by animator and mangaka, Sebraé Harris.

    Sebraé Harris – AKA “StarLite Crystal” – is an African American artist, entrepreneur, and professional mangaka. He started drawing at the age of four and began taking art seriously when he was eight. Sebraé is a graduate of Riverside City College with degrees in Fine & Applied Arts, Animation, and Business & Entrepreneurship. The Vermillion Speedateer is his first manga/comic series.

  • - Culver Center of the Arts Mini Comic Fest
    Culver Center of the Arts Mini Comic Fest

    Culver Center of the Arts Mini Comic Fest


    June 29, 2024

    Saturday, June 29, 2024

    Culver Center of the Arts Mini Comic Fest

    Featuring Black Kirby

    1:00 PM-5:00 PM

    UCR ARTS

    Barbara and Art Culver Center of the Arts

    3824 Main Street, Riverside, CA 92501

    $15 Admission

    Culver Center of the Arts Mini Comic Fest is back! This event brings together artists, writers, creators, and scholars to discuss comics, culture, and industry. The event will feature panel discussions and the Black Kirby exhibition “Whatever Happened to Dyno-Woman: The Alternative History of an Afrofuturist Icon” on view now at the Culver Center of the Arts.