Current Events
Welcome! This year, we're celebrating 10 years of bringing you incredible activities,
lectures, performances, exhibits, collaborations, and good times!
The College of Humanities & the Arts creates more than 500 events each year, most
of them free and open to the public. Scroll through our selections below and join
us any time on campus or at the Hammer Theatre. Check back often to see new events and offerings or subscribe to our weekly newsletter full of interesting events and programming sent right to your inbox.
Read more about the ideas behind these events by exploring our public programming initiatives.
For those especially interested in our premiere events and programming (supported
by an Artistic Excellence Programming Grant - AEPG@10) around the themes of Belonging and Freedom of Expression (new for 26-27!), check out the AEPG 2026-2027 upcoming event descriptions to learn about Barbara Kingsolver's Steinbeck award, sanctuary for dreamers, human
dialogue in an age of generative AI, street culture and ancestral tradition art exhibit, Sweeney Todd, Dido & Aeneas opera, film series, Steinbeck film adaptation, scholars on comics, Romeo & Juliet, Monteverdi's Vespers, and the 100th anniversary of SJSU's marching band!
Join us for community, good vibes, and incredible performances!
For Faculty: If you'd like to integrate an AEPG event into your course, please contact the AEPG
coordinator associated with the event (listed here) to collaborate on an assignment.
For our community members: See all of our public programming offerings below and join us one afternoon or evening
- many of which are free or low cost. Subscribe to our Monday Mailer to receive weekly reminders of all of these incredible happenings.
Current Events
