Community Calendar

Hosted by Violet Crown Theater, The Hours chronicles a day in the life of three very different individuals, all of whom share the feeling that they have been living their lives for someone else. Virginia Woolf lives in a suburb of London in the 1920s as she struggles to begin writing her first great novel, Mrs. Dalloway, while also attempting to overcome the mental illness that threatens to engulf her. Laura Brown, a young wife and mother in post-World War II Los Angeles, is reading Mrs. Dalloway, and is so deeply affected by it that she begins to question the life she has chosen for herself. Finally, Clarissa Vaughan is a modern-day Mrs. Dalloway in contemporary New York, planning a party for her friend and former lover who is slowly losing his fight with AIDS. Three women, separated by a span of nearly 80 years, find themselves weathering similar crises, all linked by a single work of literature.

Hosted by Violet Crown, the stunning debut feature documentary from Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie, Sugarcane, offers an illuminating cinematic portrait of a community during a moment of profound reckoning. The film received raves, including winning the 2024 Directing Award at the Sundance Film Festival.

This is an SFCC event jointly sponsored by the SFCC Creative Writing program and the SFCC library.

Participants only need to register once and will be registered for every event in the series.
Register: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/WriGenSp2025

All sessions will take place online and the URL for each session will be sent out the morning of each event. The events are free and are open to anyone who would like to attend.

At the end of the semester, participants will have an opportunity to share their work during the final Zoom session on May 7.

Hosted by Violet Crown, and a continuation of the Santa Fe International's Film Series, The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan is a novel exploring the complex relationships between four Chinese-American immigrant mothers and their daughters, focusing on the cultural and generational differences between them. The story unfolds through a series of interwoven narratives, revealing each mother's past in China and the challenges they face in adapting to a new life in America, as well as their daughters' struggles with identity and expectations.

Hosted by Violet Crown, and a continuation of our Film Series, American Fiction is a satirical dramedy film by Cord Jefferson, exploring themes of racial representation in literature and the publishing industry. The story follows Thelonious "Monk" Ellison, a Black literature professor, who becomes a pseudonymous success writing a potboiler novel that satirizes stereotypical Black narratives. Through Monk's experiences, the film critiques the expectations and pressures placed on Black writers and the ways in which Black identity is often portrayed in popular culture.

The Santa Fe International Literary Festival will take place May 16–18, 2025, bringing together world-renowned authors, thinkers, and passionate readers to celebrate the power of story in a city known throughout the world for its beauty, history, and artistic inspiration.
The three-day festival features big-stage presentations, intimate talks, and curated excursions. In all, more than thirty Festival events will take place over the weekend at the Santa Fe Community Convention Center, in Santa Fe’s historic downtown.
Rich in cultural diversity and creativity, including a literary tradition that stretches back centuries, the beautiful, maverick city of Santa Fe is a perfect host for the Festival. At this time of extraordinary upheaval, authors and readers from around the world and close to home come together for three remarkable days to explore a range of issues—in politics, justice, race, the environment, and much more.

The Santa Fe International Literary Festival will take place May 16–18, 2025, bringing together world-renowned authors, thinkers, and passionate readers to celebrate the power of story in a city known throughout the world for its beauty, history, and artistic inspiration.
The three-day festival features big-stage presentations, intimate talks, and curated excursions. In all, more than thirty Festival events will take place over the weekend at the Santa Fe Community Convention Center, in Santa Fe’s historic downtown.
Rich in cultural diversity and creativity, including a literary tradition that stretches back centuries, the beautiful, maverick city of Santa Fe is a perfect host for the Festival. At this time of extraordinary upheaval, authors and readers from around the world and close to home come together for three remarkable days to explore a range of issues—in politics, justice, race, the environment, and much more.

The Santa Fe International Literary Festival will take place May 16–18, 2025, bringing together world-renowned authors, thinkers, and passionate readers to celebrate the power of story in a city known throughout the world for its beauty, history, and artistic inspiration.
The three-day festival features big-stage presentations, intimate talks, and curated excursions. In all, more than thirty Festival events will take place over the weekend at the Santa Fe Community Convention Center, in Santa Fe’s historic downtown.
Rich in cultural diversity and creativity, including a literary tradition that stretches back centuries, the beautiful, maverick city of Santa Fe is a perfect host for the Festival. At this time of extraordinary upheaval, authors and readers from around the world and close to home come together for three remarkable days to explore a range of issues—in politics, justice, race, the environment, and much more.