SANTA ANA, Calif. – The City of Santa Ana is introducing a new city-wide community event to celebrate the Lunar New Year on Saturday, February 3, 2024. The Tết Lunar New Year Festival will commemorate our community’s Asian and Vietnamese cultures and will become a new large-scale event on the City’s calendar. Santa Ana’s Tết … Continued
Santa Ana welcomes its new community services mascots: the CommuniTEAM The City of Santa Ana voted to name the new mascots and the results are in! New year, new mascots! Introduced in late November of 2023, the Santa Ana’s Parks, Recreation, and Community Services Agency presented three mascots to the community: a red-crowned amazon parrot, … Continued
The Main Library is undergoing a major transformation to preserve and enhance library facilities and services for the entire community. Over the next two years, the Main Library will be reimagined with a new interactive children’s learning area, modern building mechanicals, a complete restoration of its Italian marble façade, and a return to the building’s … Continued
The Santa Ana Public Library (SAPL) will showcase new blood pressure kits donated by the American Heart Association during a health resource fair on Saturday, Aug. 12. As the American Heart Association’s first Libraries with Heart partner in Orange County, SAPL is proud to offer support to community members focusing on their health journey. The … Continued
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen will join other Vietnamese-American writers and editors for a panel discussion and poetry reading on Saturday, June 3, at Santa Ana Public Library. The free event, which was organized in collaboration with the Vietnamese American Arts and Letters Association (VAALA) as part of their Viet Book Fest, will take … Continued
The original author of the beloved children’s book character Pete the Cat will perform and sign books during the Santa Ana Public Library’s Día de los Niños, Día de los Libros (Children’s Day, Book Day) on Saturday, April 29. The Library invites children and families to join in the festivities from 10:30 a.m. to 2 … Continued
The Santa Ana Public Library celebrated the opening of the new TeenTime program at El Salvador Community Center on Saturday, March 25, 2023, with a ribbon cutting and Spring Fest in partnership with the Parks, Recreation and Community Services Agency. Councilmember Johnathan Ryan Hernandez joined in the ribbon cutting to help officially open TeenTime. This … Continued
The Santa Ana Public Library is excited to announce the expansion of our teen-focused programming! TeenTime by SAPL opened on Jan. 23 at Garfield Community Center, 501 N. Lacy St. Designed as a safe space for homework and hanging out, teens will have access to study stations with charging ports, Chromebooks and iPads, games, supplies … Continued
The Santa Ana Public Library will be expanding the Main Library’s hours beginning Jan. 9, 2023, creating a more consistent schedule and adding eight more hours of service per week. The Main Library’s new hours will be 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Thursday, and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday and Saturday. The … Continued
The City of Santa Ana’s Library Services Agency has been awarded over $9.3 million from the California State Library “Building Forward” grant program to fund a variety of critical maintenance and infrastructure needs at the Main Library. This grant will supplement the federally funded Revive Santa Ana pandemic recovery program and other funding sources, allowing … Continued
