Many Stories & Many Ways: How & Where to Document IE History

How do we work collectively to make sure this history is documented and made visible?

Join us to hear from a panel of speakers who have each chosen to steward and care for their materials in distinct ways; whether working with social media or institutional archives, there are a multitude of ways to ensure that IE history is preserved.

Mariah Green is an artist, curator, and an archivist exploring different routes of sharing Inland Empire historical to present stories. Memory is tied into reparations and aids the reimagination needed for worldbuilding the future. Mariah seeks storytelling as a vehicle to rectify erasure of black and brown stories.

Can sharing history transform the way we think of belonging and access? How can storytelling about our lives in the Inland Empire reward us with speculative ideas for building OUR futures? Is liberation closer than we think?

As a curator and archivist Mariah aims to document and platform local artists living within the deep cuts of our valleys. She has curated over five local exhibitions from THE DEEP CUT originating in 2023 at San Bernardino’s ALL Eyes Gallery. This annual exhibition continues to address I.E photographers as ethnographers who are documenting the seams that hold us together as a community. BLUEPRINTS at Riverside's local PAINSUGAR Gallery on 9th street was a collaboration with all black artists such as community members Maurice Howard, Jina Imani, and John Jennings. In addition they have begun an online archive and collection system titled IE ARCHIVES that dedicates itself to intentionally tell the historic and present stories in the Inland Empire told through the work of IE artists.

Deborah Wong is an ethnomusicologist and Professor Emerita of Music at the University of California, Riverside. She has written three books: Louder and Faster: Pain, Joy, and the Body Politic in Asian American Taiko (2019), Speak It Louder: Asian Americans Making Music (2004), and Sounding the Center: History and Aesthetics in Thai Buddhist Ritual (2001). She served as editor for Nobuko Miyamoto’s extraordinary memoir, Not Yo’ Butterfly: My Long Song of Relocation, Race, Love, and Revolution (2021). Committed to public sector work at the national, state, and local levels, she serves on the board of Great Leap. Her happiest hours of the week are spent going on air with her weekly radio show Gold Mountain for KUCR 88.3 FM in Riverside. She was a member of the Taiko Center of Los Angeles for many years and still dances bon-odori every summer in Southern California Obon gatherings. She is a core member of the collaborative team that conducted the 45 interviews in the forthcoming book Riverside Women Creating Change: Stories and Inspiration from Activists and Organizers (Inlandia Institute, 2024).

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This event is part of Archives Fair 2024, brought to you by UCR Special Collections & University Archives and partners. Learn more about all Archives Fair activities at library.ucr.edu/archives-fair.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Tomás Rivera Library (Room 140), 900 University Avenue, Riverside, United States