Diane Andrews

1 week ago | svvoice.com | Diane Andrews

Proving its versatility, the Santa Clara Players (SCP) switches from comedy to drama for the close of its 2024 – 2025 season, staging two provocative one-act dramas by British playwrights. The world premiere (yes, in Santa Clara!) of “The Seventh Suitcase” by Phil Mansell and “Heaven’s Paradise” by Derek Webb run for eight performances, May 9-24. Both are dramas with underlying mystery, hints of things unknown. “The Seventh Suitcase” is set in a run-down hovel—perhaps in Ireland.

2 weeks ago | svvoice.com | Diane Andrews

After her book discussion group on March 25, Santa Clara resident Carol Buchser stopped off for the first time at TOUS les JOURS, a French Asian bakery at Homestead Road and Lawrence Expressway, to meet up with a friend. She paused at a glass-enclosed food display case, deliberating but a moment before selecting a sugar-sprinkled donut—generously filled with chocolate cream—to go with a coffee. “Bob would love this place!” she said, settling in at a small wooden table.

3 weeks ago | svvoice.com | Diane Andrews

“Maya Gurantz: The Plague Archives,” at the de Saisset Museum on the campus of Santa Clara University (SCU) through June 14, is not a traditional art exhibition of original paintings, photography, sculptures, or artifacts. Rather, “The Plague Archives” comprises researched, copied and assembled historical records, music, original murals and videos that reveal the world’s shifting attitudes and definitions of disease, dating from the tenth century through today in the aftermath of COVID-19.

1 month ago | svvoice.com | Diane Andrews

The former headquarters of Sunnyvale Community Services was transformed Feb. 8 into a temporary art gallery for the unveiling of “Sun Flair”—26 public art sun sculptures commissioned by the Sunnyvale Arts Commission. Each sun face was decorated by a different Bay Area artist (nine from Sunnyvale) to reflect the history, values, and characteristics of the city. It was the first and only time that all 26 suns would shine in one location.

1 month ago | svvoice.com | Diane Andrews

Learning Mandarin is about culture as well as language for the K – 8 CLIP students at John Muir Elementary School and Joaquin Miller Middle School in San Jose. CLIP (Cupertino Language Immersion Program) is an Alternative School Program of the Cupertino Union School District (CUSD), which includes 23 K – 8 schools (no high schools) in Cupertino and parts of Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, San Jose, Saratoga and Los Altos. At Miller Middle School, in the early evening on Jan.