Established in 2003 at San Quentin, Shakespeare for Social Justice has offered Shakespeare courses and performing arts programs across fourteen California state prisons and rehabilitation centers.Participants will learn about the crisis in mass incarceration in California (and across the U.S.) and explore through creative exercises the power of theater to build bridges, foster empathy, and transform lives.
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Dorm Life: 175 Years of Student Housing displays photos tracing Santa Clara’s housing evolution from a boarding school to 6,500 undergraduates, in the Learning Commons, 3rd‑floor Reading Room.
Art exhibition by people experiencing homelessness on the Library’s 2nd floor, featuring paintings and photography by Amanda Cole, John Betts, Liat Noten and Nadine Zellner, for all ages.
Librarians share stories, songs, rhymes, fingerplays and movement, then provide toys, puppets and sensory stations for free play in the Redwood Room, for ages 2–5.
Mission Branch Library hosts an English conversation club with new weekly topics, welcoming all levels to practice speaking and meet others.
Software Support Office Hour (w/ Teri) — In‑person or Zoom session offering one‑on‑one help with MS Office, TerminalFour, LiveWhale, Google Apps, data work, Adobe Suite, graphics.
Course reads, watches, and discusses August Wilson's American Cycle plays, featuring four of the five works, led by Dr. Ladrica Menson‑Furr.
Engineering Peer Advising Session – CSEN/WebDev with Catherine and Samia, held in Kenna 104, Santa Clara.
Casual drop-in career advice hour for undergraduate and graduate STEM students, featuring Myriam Bartz or Vania Tong and a WOOP procrastination workshop.
