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  • - Crocodile & Hen
    Crocodile & Hen

    Crocodile & Hen

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    November 1, 2020

    First Sundays with RAM and Inlandia@home
    Sunday, November 1 • 2 PM
    RSVP required: https://tinyurl.com/AroundTheWorldStory3 

    Crocodile and Hen (Democratic Republic of Congo)

    Crocodile wants to eat that juicy little hen, but hen and others finally convince him that they are truly brother and sister.

    As we shelter at home, join Inlandia as we take you to distant lands without ever leaving your living room. Master puppeteer Nicole Cloeren joins beloved storyteller Karen Rae Kraut for a powerful mix of interactive storytelling and puppetry. Karen’s stories and Nicole’s puppets will open your eyes to new ways of interpreting the world and open your hearts to a powerful form of play. In this series, we will travel to India, France, Mexico, Democratic Republic of Congo, Japan, and Kasakhstan through these universal stories of friendship and understanding.

     

    Nicole Cloeren is the founder of Puppets a la Carte, where she uses puppets and techniques of improvisation to create a space of surprise and wonder in which we can all learn from one another. She is a resident artist at Riverside Film Studios, has performed with puppets at numerous indoor, outdoor, and online events around southern California, and loves partnering with other artists.

    Karen Rae Kraut has been blending story, song and creative movement in schools, libraries, museums and theatres from California to East Tennessee since 1990.  She has toured for the Smithsonian, and was commissioned by the McCallum Theatre to create a storyteller’s version of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute.”  Karen’s CD, “Cooler Water Cora and Other Stories,” is the winner of an iParenting Media Award for Audio Excellence and a National Parenting Publications Honors Award.  She has performed for Riverside’s First Sundays program since its inception in 1997.

  • - 2019 Writing from Inlandia Anthology Book Launch!
    2019 Writing from Inlandia Anthology Book Launch!

    2019 Writing from Inlandia Anthology Book Launch!

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    November 5, 2020

    Reading • Book Launch

    Free • Registration Required • Go to https://tinyurl.com/2019WFI

    Thursday, November 5 • 7 PM

    Join Inlandia@Home for a virtual Arts Walk presentation featuring contributors to the latest Inlandia creative writing workshops anthology, 2019 Writing from Inlandia. Learn more about Inlandia’s writing workshop opportunities and listen to readings from featured contributors.

    This activity was supported in part by the California Arts Council, a state agency. Learn more at www.arts.ca.gov.

  • - Reading from Slow Unraveling of Living Ghosts: by Johnny Bender and Cati Porter
    Reading from Slow Unraveling of Living Ghosts: by Johnny Bender and Cati Porter

    Reading from Slow Unraveling of Living Ghosts: by Johnny Bender and Cati Porter

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    November 7, 2020

    November 7, 2020 3:30 pm | Free | Registration Required
    Inlandia Institute Board President Johnny Bender and Executive Director Cati Porter to read from their pandemic-inspired collaborative chapbook, Slow Unravelling of Living Ghosts, as the closing event for the Moreno Valley Writers Expo. Purchase a signed copy of this limited edition chapbook for $10 here, while supplies last.
    Free and open to the public but RSVP required: https://tinyurl.com/SULGReading
    Also featuring readings by Larry Burns, S. Kay Murphy, Anna Christian, and more! Complete author lineup with registration links for each session are available on Moreno Valley Public Library's Facebook page here: https://www.facebook.com/MorenoValleyPublicLibrary/)
    Poet and doghouse-bass player Johnny Bender follows the Beat tradition in attitude but also enjoys fiddling with form. He lives with his longtime wife, Rene, near the Box Springs Mountains in beautiful Moreno Valley. A short workshop he took with Allen Ginsberg at Naropa Institute in summer 1982 inspired Bender to start the poetry performance troupe “Poets in Distress” that same year.
    Cati Porter is a poet, editor, essayist, arts administrator, wife, mother, daughter, friend. She is the author of nine books and chapbooks, most recently The Body at a Loss and Slow Unraveling with Living Ghosts, a collaborative chapbook with Johnny Bender and illustrated by Steve "Lu" Lossing. Her poems, and essays have been published in a variety of venues both in print and online. She now lives in Riverside where she has been sheltering in place since March 19, 2020.