Arts & Culture Community Events

Get excited as we host our second annual Santa Ana Tết (Lunar New Year) Festival, hosted in collaboration by the Santa Ana Parks, Recreation & Community Services Agency and the Santa Ana Public Library. Come together and celebrate the year of the snake with us during this free family-friendly event.

This presentation discusses the efforts of one man who led NASA engineers to a radical approach to moving fragile space vehicles.

Join artist-in-residence Michele Lorusso for drop-in activities including letters to the world in the future, environmental chats, and hands-on art-making workshops inspired by the exhibition Nature on Notice: Contemporary Art and Ecology. All ages are welcome to participate. All programs provided with bilingual translation in Spanish.

Celebrate the Year of the Serpent with artist Flora Kao as we encounter the vibrant traditions of the Lunar New Year. Join us for an exciting event where you will create your own firecrackers and adorn paper lanterns, setting the stage for a joyful Lunar New Year. Space is limited. Sign up required.

Presented by Orange County School of the Arts Musical Theatre Conservatory

This “music hall” version of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass is an imaginative rendering of the Lewis Carroll classics, performed concert-style on a bare stage. The actors build the world and its characters into a wild ride down the rabbit hole! Fun for the whole family!

Make a spectroscope and bend white light into the seven different colors of the rainbow while exploring the art and science of prisms, light diffraction, and the visible color spectrum in this drop-in, family friendly workshop.

Sand Acknowledgment in action with flute-playing and artist-facilitated meditation in the installation space, focused on the meaning of the sand painting in the exhibition Fire Kinship: Southern California Native Ecology and Art.

This program will showcase a selection of these avant-garde state supported films that reflect the radical values, perspectives and ideas that shaped the vision of Indian democracy.