Fletcher Mandarin Language and GATE Academy dual-immersion students and their families travel to Taiwan for Spring Break to engage in local culture. Look for a smile under the orange-trimmed hat. Thank you, Global Cultural Education Foundation for organizing this unique experience for our dual-immersion students.

Enjoying camaraderie, scholarship, and literature this weekend with all of my companions from the National Council for Teachers of English. Highlights include Poet/Activist Xavier Zamora, YA Author Nic Stone, Journalist Seema Yasmi, the Library of Congress, the team from WestEd . . . and thousands more!

Enjoy interactive encounters with

• Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Shelley, 
• Mephistopheles & Faustus,
• Dr. Jekyl & Mr. Hyde, The Weird Sisters, 
• Dr. Frankenstein, Madame Philomena

Villa Montezuma - Palace of the Arts
1925 K Street, San Diego, CA 92102

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Public Podcasting has partnered with Santiago Canyon College to produce three episodes: Crypto Space, Turning A New Leaf, and Teenage Addiction And Quitting . Student groups from the English 100 class at Santiago Canyon College researched topics and created scripts to record. Public Podcasting mentored the students in how to tell a story, how to share research, and how to personalize their episodes.  
This program is sponsored by the Santiago Canyon College Foundation. The mission of the SCC Foundation is to sponsor various gift‐giving opportunities, increase public awareness, and participate in campaigns needed to provide for the scholarships, programs, and capital needs of the College.

California State University, Long Beach, Criminal Justice Students partner with the staff of  Project Optimism to host two Community Feed events. Students learn more about the community of Long Beach through their research and hands-on engagement, which includes providing balanced meals, clean clothes, and showers to support currently unhoused individuals. Students promote, fundraise, and document the event. Go Beach!

Fans of nineteenth-century literature, culture, and history gather for a Saturday of magic in San Diego.
(Above) Dancing on the lawn
(Below) Hosting the Never-ending Story

Chapters is a multi-part Creative + Cultural Podcast series concerning the history and the lessons of civil rights violations or civil liberties injustices carried out against communities or populations—including civil rights violations or civil liberties injustices that are perpetrated on the basis of an individual’s race, national origin, immigration status, religion, gender, or sexual orientation.
This series connects with ten California nonprofit organizations and the community leaders they collaborate with. Through art, education, and storytelling these episodes reflect on the past, react to our current times, and consider the future.

• Episode 273 - Nichi Bei
• Episode 270 - JACL of Monterey Bay 
• Episode 266 - Kizuna
• Episode 265: San Jose Taiko
• Episode 264: Yuba Sutter Arts & Culture
• Episode 263 - Write Out Loud 
• Episode 262 - Fresno Arts Council
• Episode 261 - LA Opera

This project was made possible with support from Chapman University and The California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library.

Join us online for a celebration of 19th century literature read by professional actors. It's free. Don't know about Write Out Loud? Visit their webpage http://writeoutloudsd.com and/ or sign up for a daily professionally read story delivered to your inbox. Again, did I mention this?--it's free! Stay tuned for more information regarding this fabulous San Diego based non-profit organization.