Literary Arts
Inlandia Institute Presents: One Community, Many Voices
CA, United StatesOne Community, Many Voices celebrates the voices of Queer Writers of Color in the Inland Empire. April will kick off their community read and discussion project with a novel set in the Inland Empire. Pick up your free copy at select libraries in San Bernardino and Riverside. RSVP here: https://tinyurl.com/OneCommunityBookDiscussions Watch a conversation with the […]
Live From Joshua Tree – A Virtual Spoken Word Event
Online EventMil-Tree presents, Live From Joshua Tree, a fundraiser curated and hosted by Cheryl Montelle. The evening is an entertaining community celebration with desert stories, songs and poetry, featuring performers: Cooper […]
Sunday Series Poetry Workshop with Michael Torres
ZoomJoin us on the 3rd Sunday of every month for a 2.5 hour workshop led by an accomplished poet. Our Sunday Series workshops are a combination of craft talk and generative writing class. While there is no critique in these sessions, you will have an opportunity to share your newly generated work by reading aloud […]
Blacklandia: Virtual Photography and Poetry Ekphrasis Workshop with Dr. Natalie Graham
ZoomNatalie J. Graham, poet and co-founder of KayJo Creatives, will guide participants on a writing journey through a series of writing prompts that consider the visual rhetoric of photographs as a foundations for metaphor, imagery, and story. As we consider the ways that photographs provide us new ways of seeing landscape and persona, we will […]
Space Cowboy Books: Flash Science Fiction Night Online Reading
online, free registration , United StatesDo you like science fiction stories? Don't have a lot of time? I've got an event for you! Space Cowboy Books in sunny Joshua Tree will be broadcasting live a Flash Science Fiction Reading! Join me and writers Cora Buhlert and Andy Dibble and our host Jean-Paul Garnier for an evening of sci-fi flash fiction. […]
Teen Writing Workshop
Riverside Main Library 3900 Mission Inn Ave, Riverside, CA, United StatesInlandia Institute presents a brand new creative writing workshop designed especially for teens! To be held live and in person at the NEW Main Riverside Public Library, this four-part workshop, led by poet Nia Campbell, will meet in the Innovation Center from 3:30-5:00 PM on four consecutive Thursdays in August (August 5, 12, 19, and […]
PRECIOUS FRIEND – Around the World with Karen & Nicole: Puppets & Storytelling
Riverside Main Library 3900 Mission Inn Ave, Riverside, CA, United StatesIn celebration of the Friends of the Riverside Library and National Friendship Day August 1, storyteller Karen Rae Kraut and puppeteer Nicole Cloeren will present “Precious Friend” stories, poems, puppets, and a song or two about friendship. Is it true that with a friend joys are doubled and sorrows cut in half? What do you […]
Virtual Workshop: Ekphrasis Writing ( Writing Inspired by Art)
online, free registration , United StatesPlease join Inlandia Institute for a virtual art and poetry workshop with James Coats, poet and founder of Lift Our Voices Education. This two-session workshop will explore how visual arts can expound and inform written text. We will discuss the shared connection between art and poetry, and how both mediums have been used as tools […]
MOJAVE NOIR
Sunburst Junction 62035 Sunburst Circle, joshua tree, CA, United StatesCome out to Mojave Noir to hear the best crime fiction in the desert. Join Mil-Tree in hosting Josh Stallings, Kelly Shire, and Ben Goulet to Sunburst Junction to read gripping stories of cheap thrills and costly mistakes. Music by Mystery Crime Jazz Quartet.
All Points Artist Salon -Where High Desert Creatives Converge
DREAM Lounge 19341 Bear Valley Road Suite 201, Apple Valley, CA, United StatesA free, inclusive salon where visual, literary, and performing artists in the High Desert converge for community, expression, and dialogue.