🍊 Monday Gazette: March 31, 2025

Monday Gazette: March 31, 2025

Hello Riverside, and Happy César Chávez Day!

If you haven't yet had a chance to visit the Civil Rights Institute, today is a great excuse to head downtown (on Mission Inn Ave across from the Main Library) to visit the Working Coachella exhibition, which highlights the farmworker community of the Coachella Valley.

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GOVERNMENT

This Week in City Hall: March 31, 2025

City Council does not meet this week. The Transportation Board will weigh options for more 20-minute parking spaces downtown to help local businesses and a Tyler Street railroad crossing closure pilot to ease traffic congestion.

Welcome to our weekly digest on public meetings and agenda items worthy of your attention in the next week. This guide is part of our mission to provide everyday Riversiders like you with the information to speak up on the issues you care about.

Transportation Board

The Transportation Board meets on Wednesday, April 2, at 5:30 p.m. (agenda) to:

• Consider a request for speed humps on Kilmarnock Way (in Mission Grove).
• Review a proposal to convert a 2-hour parking space and loading zone into 20-minute parking zones on Market Street to increase customer turnover for local businesses.
• Consider a 3-6 month pilot program to close the Tyler Street railroad crossing to vehicles to reduce traffic congestion caused by 90 daily train crossings.

Board of Ethics

The Board of Ethics meets on Thursday, April 3, at 5:00 p.m. (agenda) for regular business.

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ART

Acclaimed Chicana Artist's Retrospective Makes Final Stop at The Cheech

Mesa-Bains exhibition showcases over 30 years of influential work through August 2025.

Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory, the first retrospective of the acclaimed Chicana artist, is on display at The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture through August 2025. The exhibition showcases over 30 years of Mesa-Bains' work, including immersive installations and never-before-seen pieces.

Driving the news: The retrospective, concluding its national tour, features nearly 40 works by the MacArthur "Genius" Grant recipient, highlighting her commitment to social justice, cultural resilience, and feminist advocacy.

• The exhibition includes the Southern California debut of Mesa-Bains' latest sculpture, Celestial Cihuateotl.

Why it matters: Despite numerous international honors, this is Mesa-Bains' first comprehensive career retrospective, showcasing her significant contributions to Chicanx art and culture.

• Her work challenges colonialism's legacies and affirms the value of marginalized communities.

The big picture: Mesa-Bains' installations explore themes of memory, identity, and feminist reclamation through her distinctive archaeological aesthetic.

• The exhibition features all four chapters of her celebrated biographical series, Venus Envy.

What's next: A fully illustrated catalog, co-published with UC Press, accompanies the exhibition, featuring essays by leading scholars and the artist herself.

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What's Happening in Riverside

Today

• Celebrate Riverside County Arts and Culture Month at Participating Locations throughout Riverside County (Free - $35)
• Monday Carillon Recitals at UCR Bell Tower
• Spring Animal Kids Camp - Session Two at Mary S. Roberts Pet Adoption Center ($240)
• Ward 1 Community Conversation Office Hours at Riverside City Hall

Tomorrow

• Volunteer Interest Hour at Riverside Meals on Wheels, Inc
• Lunchtime Jazz at RCCD Center for Social Justice and Civil Liberties
• Inland Empire Chorus Rehearsal at Temple Beth El Synagogue
• Tuesday Karaoke at The Hideaway

Save The Date

• April 4: World Premier Melodrama by Westmont Village Masquers Theatre Club at Westmont Village
• April 5: Alzheimer's & Dementia Support Group at Discovery Commons Raincross
• April 5: 4th Annual Downtown Riverside Tweed Ride begins at Riverside Historic Courthouse
• April 5: In/VISIBLE, Un/HEARD: Riverside’s Civil Rights Stories at Multiple Sites
• April 5: Riverside Arts Council's Mayor's Ball for the Arts at Barbara & Art Culver Center for the Arts ($100) 
• April 12: Braver Angels Red/Blue Workshop at Joyce Johnson Community Center at Nichols Park

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