Events in October 2021
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September 26, 2021
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September 27, 2021(1 event)
6:00 pm: Expressions From Our Soul: Teen Workshop Reading6:00 pm: Expressions From Our Soul: Teen Workshop Reading – Monday, September 27, 2021 (6:00-7:00 PM) Inlandia Institute Presents Expressions From Our Soul: Teen Creative Writing Workshop Final Reading with Nia Sharron Campbell and Teen Workshop Participants FREE and in person at Back to the Grind 3575 University Ave Riverside, CA 92501 Masks required. “I’ll give you a piece of me, a very small piece of me, not yet a symphony, but so small you cannot see.” —Nia Sharron Campbell Join Inlandia Institute on Monday, September 27, 2021, from 6:00-7:00 PM for a celebration of teen writing! Workshop leader Nia Sharron Campbell and her talented band of young writers will be sharing poems and stories written during a summer workshop at Riverside Main Library. “Expressions from Our Soul” is free and in person at Back to the Grind, 3575 University Avenue, Riverside. Masks required. |
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October 7, 2021(1 event)
7:00 pm: How to “Win” NaNoWriMo: A National Novel Writing Month Workshop with Becca Spence Dobias7:00 pm: How to “Win” NaNoWriMo: A National Novel Writing Month Workshop with Becca Spence Dobias –
First Thursdays Arts Walk event in the Riverside Main Library Community Room! 3900 Mission Inn Avenue, Riverside, CA 92501 7:00-8:00 PM MASKS REQUIRED Join Inlandia Institute and Riverside Public Library for an extra-special First Thursdays Arts Walk event: How to “Win” NaNoWriMo: A National Novel Writing Month Workshop with Becca Spence Dobias. The author of On Home, Becca Spence Dobias wrote the first draft of her novel during NaNoWriMo in November 2012. In this workshop, she will share the journey from that draft to a published novel, provide tips and tricks for “winning” NaNoWriMo, and answer questions. Come prepared to write, as parts of the workshop will be participatory. |
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October 16, 2021(1 event)
11:00 am: "Harvesting Balance: Painting and Storytelling" with Kayjo Creatives at RAM11:00 am: "Harvesting Balance: Painting and Storytelling" with Kayjo Creatives at RAM – Harvesting Balance: Painting and Storytelling Presented by Kayjo Creatives in partnership with Inlandia Institute Riverside Art Museum, 3425 Mission Inn Ave, Riverside, CA 92501 Free and in person. Maximum 15 participants. Registration required. To register: https://tinyurl.com/HarvestingBalance Registrations accepted on a first come, first served basis. Masks required. Join Inlandia Institute and KayJo Creatives for Harvesting Balance: A Painting and Storytelling Workshop. Keya Vance and Natalie Graham will lead participants through a series of guided and meditative painting and writing activities. These activities are designed to connect arts practice to mindfulness, storytelling, and balance. We will consider the power of affirming and integrating fragments and messiness as part of creating art and an artist’s statement. The workshop is free and all materials will be provided (although a donation toward material costs is appreciated). Boxed lunches will be available for $15. In April 2018, Natalie J. Graham (Poet Laureate of Orange County) and Keya Vance founded KayJo Creatives, an artistic event planning and management company, with a mission to create community and reveal the beauty of humanity. In addition to creating a range of media deliverables for their clients, they host joyful and engaging workshops and events that empower diverse creators at all stages of development in Orange and San Bernardino County. |
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October 20, 2021(1 event)
2:00 pm: Food Writing Workshop with Alaina Bixon2:00 pm: Food Writing Workshop with Alaina Bixon – Join Alaina Bixon for an 8-week food writing workshop! On Zoom, register here: https://tinyurl.com/WritingOnFood Alaina studied food writing with NYTimes writer Jeannette Ferrary and wrote about wine while working as regional director for Wines West in San Francisco. Her inspiration for many articles came from her friendship with Maggie Waldron, who operated the Ketcham Test Kitchen in San Francisco. For several years, Alaina has led creative writing and memoir writing workshops for Inlandia Institute. She has spoken on food and wine pairing, food irradiation, and her adventures in the wine business. The previous Inlandia food writing series took place online from October-November 2021, and participants included a restaurant owner, home chefs and enthusiastic writers of all levels, from Los Angeles to the Inland Empire and even the San Francisco Bay area. The response was so encouraging, and the writing so fascinating, that Inlandia and Alaina are pleased to present another series of food writing workshops – stories told through the lens of food and drink. Each 90-minute workshop will include 2 writing prompts, with time to create a food-related story for both prompts. Some topics we will address are food history, sustainability, nutrition and health, family stories, cookbooks, food and travel, culinary memoirs, and the politics of food. Resources: Reading lists, podcasts, magazines, web sites, blogs, YouTube. We will discuss how to submit articles for publication. |
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October 26, 2021
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October 27, 2021(1 event)
2:00 pm: Food Writing Workshop with Alaina Bixon2:00 pm: Food Writing Workshop with Alaina Bixon – Join Alaina Bixon for an 8-week food writing workshop! On Zoom, register here: https://tinyurl.com/WritingOnFood Alaina studied food writing with NYTimes writer Jeannette Ferrary and wrote about wine while working as regional director for Wines West in San Francisco. Her inspiration for many articles came from her friendship with Maggie Waldron, who operated the Ketcham Test Kitchen in San Francisco. For several years, Alaina has led creative writing and memoir writing workshops for Inlandia Institute. She has spoken on food and wine pairing, food irradiation, and her adventures in the wine business. The previous Inlandia food writing series took place online from October-November 2021, and participants included a restaurant owner, home chefs and enthusiastic writers of all levels, from Los Angeles to the Inland Empire and even the San Francisco Bay area. The response was so encouraging, and the writing so fascinating, that Inlandia and Alaina are pleased to present another series of food writing workshops – stories told through the lens of food and drink. Each 90-minute workshop will include 2 writing prompts, with time to create a food-related story for both prompts. Some topics we will address are food history, sustainability, nutrition and health, family stories, cookbooks, food and travel, culinary memoirs, and the politics of food. Resources: Reading lists, podcasts, magazines, web sites, blogs, YouTube. We will discuss how to submit articles for publication. |
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November 3, 2021(1 event)
2:00 pm: Food Writing Workshop with Alaina Bixon2:00 pm: Food Writing Workshop with Alaina Bixon – Join Alaina Bixon for an 8-week food writing workshop! On Zoom, register here: https://tinyurl.com/WritingOnFood Alaina studied food writing with NYTimes writer Jeannette Ferrary and wrote about wine while working as regional director for Wines West in San Francisco. Her inspiration for many articles came from her friendship with Maggie Waldron, who operated the Ketcham Test Kitchen in San Francisco. For several years, Alaina has led creative writing and memoir writing workshops for Inlandia Institute. She has spoken on food and wine pairing, food irradiation, and her adventures in the wine business. The previous Inlandia food writing series took place online from October-November 2021, and participants included a restaurant owner, home chefs and enthusiastic writers of all levels, from Los Angeles to the Inland Empire and even the San Francisco Bay area. The response was so encouraging, and the writing so fascinating, that Inlandia and Alaina are pleased to present another series of food writing workshops – stories told through the lens of food and drink. Each 90-minute workshop will include 2 writing prompts, with time to create a food-related story for both prompts. Some topics we will address are food history, sustainability, nutrition and health, family stories, cookbooks, food and travel, culinary memoirs, and the politics of food. Resources: Reading lists, podcasts, magazines, web sites, blogs, YouTube. We will discuss how to submit articles for publication. |
November 4, 2021(1 event)
7:00 pm: Native American Heritage Month Event: A Conversation with Gordon Lee Johnson and Terria Smith7:00 pm: Native American Heritage Month Event: A Conversation with Gordon Lee Johnson and Terria Smith – 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/. |
November 5, 2021
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November 6, 2021(1 event)
4:00 pm: How to Write About Black Art with Richard Allen May III – Part 24:00 pm: How to Write About Black Art with Richard Allen May III – Part 2 – Inlandia’s Blacklandia Event Series Presents How to Write About Black Art with Richard Allen May III – Part 2 On Zoom. Free and open to the public, but registration is required To register: https://tinyurl.com/WritingBlackArt Back by popular demand, Writing about Black Art with Richard Allen May III returns this November with both new and continued explorations of Black art. If you’re curious about Black art and interested in learning more about it – and would like to discover new tools for experiencing and writing about art – then please join Inlandia Institute’s Blacklandia events series for this in-depth virtual workshop, “How to Write About Black Art, Part 2” with Richard Allen May III. Classes run for three consecutive Saturdays – November 6, 13, and 20, 2021 – from 4:00-6:00 PM, and are free and open to the public. This second series of workshops on How to Write About Black Art concentrates on making Black art accessible to readers through the methodology of Formalism where the emphasis is analyzing the elements of form (structure) in a work of art such as line, composition, light, color, shape, balance, and texture. The outcome of this three-week workshop is that through peer discussion and peer reviews, participants will produce a minimum of two edited and revised essays on Black art that reflect proficiency in using the language of art and design. Free and open to the public. You are not required to have taken Part 1 of this workshop series to participate in Part 2. To register, please visit: https://tinyurl.com/WritingBlackArt Artist and educator, Richard Allen May III comes with a wealth of knowledge about the AfriCOBRA Movement, having written the forward to AfriCOBRA: Experimental Art Toward a School of Thought, published by Duke University, 2020. He is a staff writer at Artillery magazine and his work has been displayed in art galleries throughout the Inland Empire, as well as exhibits throughout the United States. May has taught courses in community colleges, universities, and prisons and will discuss his artwork in the context of community. https://richardmayart.com/ The Blacklandia events series was initiated in 2020 in response to the May 25, 2020 murder of George Floyd at the hands of police. As an organization centered around the power of words – and one that values speaking up, and speaking out – Inlandia made a renewed and public commitment to providing a space for people in the Black community to come together, and from that arose a Black-led Black voices steering committee, and a new series of events, Blacklandia. |