The week's events
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- “Puppets a la Chagall” with Nicole Cloeren and Puppets a la Carte
“Puppets a la Chagall” with Nicole Cloeren and Puppets a la Carte
“Puppets a la Chagall” with Nicole Cloeren and Puppets a la Carte
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April 2, 2023Sunday, April 2, 2023
1:00-3:00 PM
Inlandia Institute and Riverside Art Museum Present
First Sundays at RAM
“Puppets a la Chagall” with Nicole Cloeren and Puppets a la Carte
Riverside Art Museum
3425 Mission Inn Blvd
Riverside, CA 92501
1:00-3:00 PM, with puppet shows at 1:00 and 2:00 PM
Free family fun. No registration required.
Watch as puppets and music bring a painting to life. Learn about the artist, Marc Chagall, and make some Chagall-inspired puppets to express a simple story you see in Chagall's artwork.
Nicole B. Cloeren is the founder and creative director of Puppets a la Carte where she uses puppets to feed the imagination. Emphasizing play and techniques of improvisation, she creates a space of surprise and wonder in which we all learn from one another through puppetry arts. Nicole is a Teaching Artist with the McCallum Theatre. She likes to pretend her PhD stands for doctor of puppet handling. When not talking with her hands – or to her hands – Nicole enjoys eating jicama, playing dice, camping, and spending time with her family.
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- “Arranging Your Poetry Manuscript” with Cati Porter and guests
“Arranging Your Poetry Manuscript” with Cati Porter and guests
“Arranging Your Poetry Manuscript” with Cati Porter and guests
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April 6, 2023Thursday, April 6, 2023
Inlandia Institute and Riverside Public Library Present
First Thursdays Arts Walk
“Arranging Your Poetry Manuscript”
with Cati Porter and guests
Free and open to the public. No registration required.
Riverside Main Library
3900 Mission Inn Blvd
Riverside, CA 92501
Doors Open at 6:00 PM
6:30-8:00 PM
For National Poetry Month, learn some new techniques for arranging a poetry manuscript. Join Cati Porter and special guests who talk about their own adventures in arranging a poetry manuscript and give you some strategies for arranging your own.
If a poem is the best words in their best order, then a poetry manuscript is the best poems in their best order. But with so many possible variations, how do you decide what is “best”? Cati Porter is the author of eleven poetry books and chapbooks and has extensive experience in what not to do, and some tried-and-true strategies and tips.
Attendees of this program who submit a manuscript to the Hillary Gravendyk Prize open poetry book competition will have their contest entrance fee comped.
Open mic poetry readings start at 6:30. Program begins at 7:00.
Cati Porter has been writing and publishing for three decades. She has a Masters in Fine Arts — Poetry from Antioch University, Los Angeles, and is the author of eleven collections of poetry, including The Body at a Loss (CavanKerry Press, 2019), Novel (Bamboo Dart Press, 2022), and the forthcoming small mammals (Mayapple Press, 2023). She is founder and editor of Poemeleon: A Journal of Poetry and executive director of Inlandia Institute.