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Events in November 2021

  • - Native American Heritage Month Event: A Conversation with Gordon Lee Johnson and Terria Smith
    Native American Heritage Month Event: A Conversation with Gordon Lee Johnson and Terria Smith

    Native American Heritage Month Event: A Conversation with Gordon Lee Johnson and Terria Smith


    November 4, 2021

    Free and in person. Masks required.

    3900 Mission Inn Ave, Riverside, CA 92501, Community Room (ground level)

    “The only fight he’d ever won was the grappling match against a stubborn package of Hostess Twinkies, and that was hard fought.” — Gordon Johnson, “Plato Plus Alexis,” from Bird Songs Don’t Lie

    In honor of Native American Heritage Month, join Inlandia Institute for a conversation with author and newspaperman Gordon Lee Johnson and editor/author Terria Smith. This event is part of Inlandia at Riverside Public Library’s First Thursdays Arts Walk events series.

    Rich in culture, history, and heritage, Johnson and Smith will discuss their own paths to writing, what they’re working on now, their work together as author and editor, and more.

    “Johnson is certainly an ultimate tour guide through Inland Native California …,” writes Ruth Nolan. “[He] leads readers through his many stories in ways that share cultural values and practices along with glimpses of the heartbreak and outrage that have resulted from centuries of forced assimilations from the non-Native world.”

    Terria Smith is the Berkeley Roundhouse Director for Heyday Books, which includes editing News From Native California magazine – a quarterly publication “devoted to the vibrant cultures, arts, languages, histories, social justice movements, and stories of California’s diverse Indian peoples” and serving as the Director of California Indian Publishing.

    Books will be available for sale at the event. To preorder, please visit: https://www.heydaybooks.com/catalog/bird-songs-dont-lie-writings-from-the-rez/.

  • - 2020 Writing From Inlandia VIRTUAL Event
    2020 Writing From Inlandia VIRTUAL Event

    2020 Writing From Inlandia VIRTUAL Event


    November 21, 2021

    Sunday, November 21, 2021 (1:00-3:00 PM)

    2020 Writing From Inlandia VIRTUAL Event

    Free and open to the public, but registration is required. To attend, please register at: https://tinyurl.com/2020WFI

    If you are a 2020 WFI anthology contributor and would like to participate, please contact: programs@inlandiainstitute.org.

    Join Inlandia Institute for a special online reading of selected works from 2020 Writing from Inlandia! This yearly anthology has been published since 2011 and is an Inlandia tradition, with contributors from sixteen of Inlandia’s creative writing workshops in the 2020 edition. Packed with over 300 pages of stories, poems, and essays, 2020 Writing from Inlandia explores the experience of being alive through memoir, food writing, reflections on the COVID pandemic, and more. Participants will read their work aloud in reflection of the myriad challenges – and rewards – of being human. Don’t miss it!

    In memory of Candace Shields, Morris Mendoza, and CelenaDiana Bumpus.

    To order your copy of 2020 Writing From Inlandia, visit https://inlandia-institute.square.site

    All 2020 Inlandia workshops were supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts and the California Arts Council, a state agency. To find out more about how National Endowment for the Arts grants impact individuals and communities, visit www.arts.gov. Learn more about the California Arts Council at www.arts.ca.gov.