Events
Events
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Ruth Ozeki – The Typing Lady
Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBookshop welcomes Booker Prize finalist Ruth Ozeki (A Tale for the Time Being), who will share her spellbinding story collection The Typing Lady: And Other Fictions about the lives we […]
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Homer’s The Odyssey Reading Group
Virtual EventHomer’s Odyssey is becoming a major motion picture. Whether you like movies or not, this is a great excuse to read this millennia-old story about a salty war hero who […]
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Homer’s The Odyssey Reading Group
Virtual EventHomer’s Odyssey is becoming a major motion picture. Whether you like movies or not, this is a great excuse to read this millennia-old story about a salty war hero who […]
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Santa Cruz Shakespeare 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 2026 Season, featuring Much Ado About Nothing and Macbeth. Co-sponsored by the Humanities Institute. The 2026 season runs from July 16 - August 30. […]
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Macbeth – Opening Night
The Audrey Stanley Grove in Delaveaga Park 501 Upper Park Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesDark, bloody, brutal, and magnificent, William Shakespeare’s Macbeth is one of the greatest plays ever written. Its central couple, ironically, is one of Shakespeare’s happiest. At least at the beginning. […]
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Ocean Vuong – The Emperor of Gladness
Rio Theater 1205 Soquel Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe hardest thing in the world is to live only once... Bookshop Santa Cruz and The Humanities Institute are pleased to welcome critically acclaimed author and staff favorite Ocean Vuong […]
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Daniel Mason – Country People
Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Pulitzer Prize finalist Daniel Mason (North Woods) for a reading and signing of his new novel Country People—a rollicking, lyrical year in the life of a […]
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Cabrillo Festival 2026 Opening Night
Santa Cruz Santa Cruz, CA, United States"We the Dreamers is both an invitation and a responsibility"; says Music Director Cristian Măcelaru. "At this historic moment, we are asking how music can help us imagine a more […]
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2026 Dickens Universe
UC Santa CruzThe Dickens Project at UC Santa Cruz invites the community to the 2026 Dickens Universe, held July 26–August 1, a weeklong scholarly gathering devoted to Charles Dickens’s Bleak House. The […]
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Weekend with Shakespeare
UCSC ArboretumDig deeply into this season’s Shakespeare productions with a special weekend of lectures, discussions and hands-on activities. In partnership with UCSC’s Shakespeare Workshop and The Humanities Institute, this is a […]