Events
Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona
Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPresented by Bookshop Santa Cruz, Ottessa Moshfegh (My Year of Rest and Relaxation) will discuss her recent novel Lapvona, available in paperback June 20th. In a village in a medieval fiefdom buffeted by natural disasters, a motherless shepherd boy finds himself the unlikely pivot of a power struggle that puts all manner of faith to […]
Dickensland: The Curious History of Dickens’s London
Virtual EventPlease join the Santa Cruz Dickens Fellowship and the Santa Cruz Pickwick Club for our June Pickwick Club talk by author and historian Lee Jackson who will be discussing Dickens’s London. Lee Jackson, author of Dickensland (Yale, 2023) will discuss the curious history of London's Dickensian tourist destinations. Louisa May Alcott, visiting in 1866, was […]
Santa Cruz Shakespeare 2023 Season Opening Night
The Audrey Stanley Grove in Delaveaga Park 501 Upper Park Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesTickets are now on sale for Santa Cruz Shakespeare's 2023 season, featuring The Book of Will and The Taming of the Shrew. Co-sponsored by the Humanities Institute. The season runs from July 13-August 27. The Book of Will, by Lauren Gunderson - Directed by Laura Gordon A love letter to William Shakespeare, this moving and joyful […]
Dickens Universe: A Tale of Two Cities
UCSCThe Dickens Universe is a unique cultural event that brings together scholars, teachers, students, and members of the general public for a week of stimulating discussion and festive social activity on the beautiful Santa Cruz campus of the University of California—all focused on one or two Victorian novels, usually (but not always) one by Charles […]
The Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music
Santa Cruz Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, even at a seasoned 60 years old, is all about the new—the here and now of contemporary works for orchestra. To quote Financial Times music critic Allan Ulrich, “…in the surf mecca of Santa Cruz, 75 miles south of San Francisco, the Cabrillo Festival has made the contemporary repertoire […]
Weekend With Shakespeare
UCSC ArboretumJoin Shakespeare scholars and artists for two days of lectures, discussions, and demonstrations about the 2023 Season’s main stage productions, The Taming of the Shrew and King Lear. The Weekend with Shakespeare Lecture Series is free, however seating is limited! Please email Rebecca Clark, Santa Cruz Shakespeare's Education Coordinator, at rebecca@santacruzshakespeare.org, to reserve your spot. […]
Susan Casey: The Underworld
Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesFREE IN-STORE EVENT: Bookshop welcomes New York Times bestselling author Susan Casey (The Wave) for a discussion of The Underworld, her awe-inspiring portrait of the mysterious world beneath the waves, […]
Slugs and Steins with Professor Eric Porter: What Can We Learn from the Airport?
Virtual EventFor many people, airports may seem like alienating “nonplaces”—as anthropologist Marc Augé put it—where we rush to make connections and spend long, monotonous hours waiting for delayed flights. But airports […]
Leaning Toward Light: An Evening of Poetry with Tess Taylor, Danusha Laméris & Ellen Bass
Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesFREE IN-STORE EVENT: Bookshop welcomes poets Tess Taylor, Danusha Laméris, and Ellen Bass for a reading of their beautiful anthology Leaning Toward Light: Poems for Gardens & the Hands that […]
Nina Simon: Mother – Daughter Murder Night
Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBookshop Santa Cruz welcomes local author Nina Simon for a launch event to celebrate her captivating new novel, Mother-Daughter Murder Night—a fun, fresh, and twisty debut whodunnit about a grandmother-mother-daughter […]