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September 8, 2024
September 9, 2024(1 event)

6:30 pm: Honoring Our Ancestors with James Coats


September 9, 2024

Honoring Our Ancestors with James Coats

(All Levels)

Alternating Mondays, 9/9, 9/23, 10/7, and 10/21, 6:30-8:30 PM PT, on Zoom, plus Saturday, 11/2, in person at White Park, Riverside.

White Park time to be determined.

$50. Registration required. To register: https://tinyurl.com/Fall2024CWW

Honoring Our Ancestors is a workshop designed to celebrate loved ones we have lost. We will be writing elegy and celebration of life pieces as well as learning performance skills. The workshop will culminate with a reading/performance at this year’s Day of the Dead event on Saturday, November 2 at White Park in Riverside.

James Coats is a poet, performer, and educator born in Los Angeles and raised in the Inland Empire. You can take a poetry workshop with him through his organization Lift Our Voices Education, which hosts an award-winning workshop monthly called Be the Change. He is the author of four poetry collections. His most recent is Midnight & Mad Dreams.

September 10, 2024(1 event)

11:30 am: Celena’s Scribes with Wil Clarke


September 10, 2024

Celena’s Scribes with Wil Clarke

(All Levels)

Tuesdays, 9/10, 9/17, 9/24, 10/8, 10/15, 10/22, 11/5, 11/12, and 11/19/24, 11:30 AM-1:00 PM PT, on Zoom.

Registration required. To register: https://tinyurl.com/Fall2024CWW

Participants respond to prompts about universal themes related to the human condition and are encouraged to explore all genres of writing. Individual writing is shared with a friendly, supportive group who do their best to encourage each member’s success.

Wil Clarke was born in Africa to missionary parents. He lived a total of 27 years in Africa. He is a career mathematician and is enjoying writing memoirs of his various experiences. His motto is, “You only live life once, so you may as well enjoy it the first time around and do all the good you

September 11, 2024(1 event)

6:00 pm: All Genres Workshop with Victoria Waddle


September 11, 2024

All Genres Workshop with Victoria Waddle

(Int.-Adv.)

Alternating Wednesdays, 9/11, 9/25, 10/9, 10/23, and 11/6/24, 6:00-9:00 PM PT, on Zoom.

$50. Registration required. To register: https://tinyurl.com/Fall2024CWW

In this multi-genre workshop, participants submit poetry and prose for biweekly critiques and receive feedback from other group members. Discussions include the craft of writing and the challenges writers face. The workshop leader provides biweekly articles and links related to participants’ work, particularly to problems that were discussed in the previous session.

Victoria Waddle is a Pushcart Prize-nominated writer, with fiction and nonfiction published in literary journals and anthologies, including in Best Short Stories from The Saturday Evening Post Great American Fiction Contest. A collection of her short fiction, Acts of Contrition, is available from Los Nietos Press and her chapbook, The Mortality of Dogs and Humans, is available from Bamboo Dart Press. Her YA novel about a teen escaping a polygamist cult is coming from Inlandia Books. Previously the managing editor of Inlandia: A Literary Journey, she helped to establish a yearly teen issue. In a previous life, she was a high school English teacher and librarian.

September 12, 2024(1 event)

11:00 am: All Genres Workshop with Mae Wagner Marinello *FULL


September 12, 2024

All Genres Workshop with Mae Wagner Marinello

(All Levels)

Thursdays, 11:00 AM-1:00 PM, Redlands Community Center, 111 W. Lugonia Ave, Redlands, Ongoing. Meets Weekly. (A Zoom option may be available; contact Inlandia for details.)

*This workshop is full. No new registrations will be accepted at this time.

This ongoing writing workshop meets weekly at Redlands Community Center. Memoir writing, poetry, fiction, and nonfiction writing are all encouraged and welcome. Discover the pure joy of writing and creating with others in a supportive environment.

Mae Wagner Marinello has been a part of Inlandia since a 2008 writing workshop with Ruth Nolan. In 2014, she began facilitating a weekly writing workshop called Joslyn Joy Writers, at the Joslyn Senior Center in Redlands. During the pandemic lockdown, the weekly workshop continued on Zoom; it is now a hybrid class averaging between 10-20 combined participants on Zoom and in-person.

September 13, 2024
September 14, 2024(1 event)

10:00 am: Inlandia at DeaFest!


September 14, 2024

Saturday, September 14 – Deaf Festival

10:00 AM-4:00 PM

Riverside City Hall Breezeway

3900 Main St, Riverside, CA 92501

On Saturday, September 14, 2024, please join Inlandia and the Deaf Community of Riverside for the 25th annual Deaf Awareness Day – also known as DeaFestival! The theme this year is “A World Where Deaf People Can Sign Anywhere!” with local guests Maisha Franklin of the Center on Deafness Inland Empire (CODIE) Franklin and Steve Longacre, Deaf Magician and retired educator. Enjoy food services provided by Deaf-owned businesses, live entertainment, vendor booths, bounce houses, and several opportunities to learn about Deaf culture!