“Hope Springs Eternal” Live Storytelling with Steve Taken Thursday, March 4 • 7 PM Free • Registration required: https://tinyurl.com/Flame-Hope In times of trouble we seek to find courage and strength – and to persevere – in the hope that circumstances will take a turn for the better. The Flame’s March storytelling event will embrace the […]
Around the World with Karen and Nicole Heart Full of Turquoise Sunday, March 7 • 2 pm FREE • Registration required: https://tinyurl.com/aroundtheworldstory6 Sunday, March 7, Karen and Nicole bring us “Heart Full of Turquoise” from the Pueblo People of the American Southwest. In this story, a medicine woman must protect her people from starvation when a […]
Still Water Saints • A novel about our Inland region Meet author Alex Espinoza and host Richard T. Rodríguez • Friday, March 26 • 7 PM Free • Reservations required: https://tinyurl.com/StillWaterSaints “Fresh, magical, beautiful, evocative” says Lisa See, about this wonderful first novel by Alex Espinoza. Still Water Saints chronicles a momentous year in the […]
Hillary Gravendyk Prize: 2020 National: among the enemies by Michael Samra Among the Enemies renders a dewy nightmare, cleanly, clearly and in deft complexity. Sometimes the enemy is metaphor. Sometimes the enemy is literal. Sometimes there is disjunction. At times the ‘enemies’ are so pervasive they feel environmental. At other times, the vagueness of the […]
2021 Hillary Gravendyk Poetry Prize Open for submissions February 1 – April 30, 2021 Fee: $20 per manuscript entry Submit online at: https://tinyurl.com/HillaryGravendykPrize Two prizes of $1,000 each and publication by the Inlandia Institute are given annually for a poetry collection by a U.S. resident and a poetry collection by a poet residing in Inland […]
Online with Zoom Click here to go to the registration form https://tinyurl.com/Winter2021CWW Corona—Andrea FingersonBeginning/Intermediate Levels: All GenresEvery other Saturday starting 1/2311:00 am – 1:00 pm Ontario—Tim HatchIntermediate/Advanced Levels: All GenresEvery other Wednesday starting 1/136:30 – 8:30 pm Redlands—James DucatBeginning/Intermediate Levels: PoetryEvery other Tuesday starting 1/196:30 – 8:30 pm Riverside—Carlos CortesAdventures in ChronologylandPartner: Riverside Public Library, […]
National Award: The Silk the Moths Ignore by Bronwen Tate Regional Award: Remyth: A Postmodernist Ritual by Adam Martinez Judges Jessica Fisher and Megan Gravendyk-Estrella selected The Silk the Moths Ignore by Bronwen Tate, of Vermont, and Remyth: A Postmodernist Ritual by Adam Martinez, of Redlands, California, as winners of the 2019 Hillary Gravendyk […]
Facing Fire: Art, Wildfire, and the End of Nature in the New Westby Douglas McCulloh Facing Fire catalogue published by the Inlandia Institute130 pages, 132 illustrations, complete exhibition checklist Fire as omen and elemental force, as metaphor and searing personal experience—these are the subjects Douglas McCulloh explores in Facing Fire: Art, Wildfire, and the End […]
Announcing 2018 Hillary Gravendyk Poetry Prizes National Prize: Michelle Peñaloza Regional Prize: Elizabeth Cantwell In Former Possessions of the Spanish Empire, Michelle Peñaloza asks: How do children born of empire once removed possess the history of their naming? In this astonishing debut poetry collection, winner of Inlandia Books’ 2018 Hillary Gravendyk Prize, the phrase Former […]
Henry L.A. Jekel: Architect of Eastern Skyscrapers and the California Style 1895-1950 Architect, engineer, builder, award-winning landscape designer… Henry Jekel could do it all. Henry Jekel left his career as a designer and builder of skyscrapers in Chicago, Philadelphia, and Washington DC for the romance of an art-driven studio in Riverside, California. He realized his […]