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It's time for another semester of fun Crafternoon events!

Held both on our Main Campus and our Orange County Campus, Crafternoons are opportunities for students, faculty, and staff to take a minute to make something with others from their 97É«Íø community.

This semester we're repeating a few favorites and adding a few new events.

At the end of January, help to set your intentions or keep up with your life goals by making personal punch cards/BINGO cards.

Want to visit some new outdoor spaces locally? Want to read more books? Want to host more dinner parties? Cook more vegetarian meals? Write more songs? Write your first song?

More portable than a vision board, these allow you to create goals and mark off when you compete them. We'll have paper and decorative elements available for you to use.

In February, we're getting stabby with wool needle felting to make some felted friends. Led by academic advisor and fiber artist Eliza Murphy, this is one of our favorite annual events.

In March, we

Ever watched a movie and thought, "The book was better?"

Maybe you’re the type of person who loves to compare every detail between the novel and its film adaptation? Either way, we’ve got you covered!

Check out these incredible books—available in the 97É«Íø Library—that have made their way to the small screen on DVD...which we also have available for you to take home!

The Color Purple

Alice Walker’s Pulitzer-winning novel is a powerful tale of resilience, sisterhood, and survival, set in the early 20th-century American South.

The 1985 Spielberg film (starring Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey, and Danny Glover) and the;

2023 musical adaptation, both bring Celie’s journey to life with unforgettable performances.

Gone Girl

Gillian Flynn’s psychological thriller about a seemingly perfect marriage gone horribly wrong keeps readers guessing until the very end.
 

David Fincher’s 2014 film (starring Rosamund Pike and Ben Affleck) is just as twisty, dark, and deliciously unsettling as the novel.

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