The Santa Clara City Library has expanded its prizes for Summer Reading this year. Everyone who signs up is eligible for a weekly prize raffle, a prize to pick up in August, and a raffle for a grand prize. It’s a lot! Kids Prizes Kids (12 and under) who win the weekly raffle will get …
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The English as a Second Language (ESL) Book Club is a fun opportunity to practice your English reading, speaking, and listening skills. Join us to discuss award-winning novels, non-fiction books, classic American/English books and meet new people. We look forward to seeing you! This month we’ll be discussing Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. …
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Join the Santa Clara City Library for their UnBook Club! This event will be on Zoom on Tuesday May 17 at 6pm for a fun, informal hour chatting about books. Rather than talking about one specific book, this “unbook club” event will give you the opportunity to share the best books you’ve read lately …
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April’s Health Talk is coming up – all about Your Skin and Common Myths! The Santa Clara City Library and Kaiser Permanente are hosting a talk with a dermatologist about how to take care of your skin. You will learn about basic skin care, acne solutions, skin cancer, and more. Register today!
We’re proud to support National Poetry Month at the Santa Clara City Library! From the library: “On April 26, 2022 at 5:00PM on Zoom join us for this virtual talk with two Bay Area poets, the 2021 Oakland Youth Poet Laureate Myra Estrada and 2016 Santa Clara County Poet Laureate Arlene Biala! They have …
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We’re proud to support Read 22 in 2022, The Santa Clara City Library’s program to help you expand your reading horizons or to get out of your reading rut. This is so much fun! Choose books that meet different criteria, to check off different items on the list – like a book set in …
The ESL Book Club is a fun opportunity to practice your English reading, speaking, and listening skills. Join us to discuss award-winning novels, non-fiction books, classic American/English books and meet new people. This month we’ll be discussing Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin. We look forward to seeing you!
We’re proud to support this online presentation about your health, put on by The Santa Clara City Library and Kaiser Permanente. A healthy digestive system contributes significantly to your overall health. Join us for a presentation by Dr. Stephen Moff, Kaiser Permanente Gastroenterologist. This 1-hour presentation includes a Q&A session. We hope to …
Meet the author of In Defense of Kindness, Pastor Bruce Reyes-Chow! These days we view kindness as an inert act based on the absence of being a jerk, or we see it as heroic and herculean, beyond the reach and capability of mere mortals. But what if kindness was a practice we could each choose, …
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Join us for our Music Mends Minds presentation and capture this month’s Silicon Valley Reads’ themes of resilience and hope! Language falls away in degenerative conditions like Parkinson’s Disease, Alzheimer’s Disease and other dementias. This diminishes patients’ ability to connect. You’ll hear scientific evidence supporting the many benefits of music, and see the immediate results …