Events
FeaturedThe Deep Read | Margaret Atwood Live
Virtual EventMargaret Atwood will join the UC Santa Cruz community for a free, live, virtual event on Tuesday September 22 at 4:30 PM PT. Part of The Humanities Institute’s Deep Read Program, this event culminates months of in-depth programming and community engagement focused on Atwood’s latest Booker Prize-winning novel, The Testaments, a sequel to her 1985 […]
Zoom Forward! Micah Perks & Karen Tei Yamashita
Virtual EventVIRTUAL EVENT: Please join us for an online reading with Micah Perks and Karen Tei Yamashita, part of the Zoom Forward Reading Series, hosted by poet, fiction writer, and essayist Jory Post. Presented by phren-Z, The Hive Poetry Collective, and Bookshop Santa Cruz to showcase writers, keep our cultural spirits high, and support Bookshop Santa […]
Undiscovered Shakespeare: The Wars of the Roses – Richard III
Virtual EventJoin actors, scholars, and friends for ten live readings and discussions focused on the plays about a divided society and a civil war that made Shakespeare famous in the London theater. Undiscovered Shakespeare: The Wars of the Roses is a public arts and humanities series co-produced by Santa Cruz Shakespeare, UCSC Shakespeare Workshop, and The […]
Undiscovered Shakespeare: The Wars of the Roses – Henry VI, Part 3
Virtual EventJoin actors, scholars, and friends for ten live readings and discussions focused on the plays about a divided society and a civil war that made Shakespeare famous in the London theater. Undiscovered Shakespeare: The Wars of the Roses is a public arts and humanities series co-produced by Santa Cruz Shakespeare, UCSC Shakespeare Workshop, and The […]
POSTPONED – Undiscovered Shakespeare: The Wars of the Roses – Henry VI, Part 3
This event has been postponed to September 2, 2020 Join actors, scholars, and friends for ten live readings and discussions focused on the plays about a divided society and a civil war that made Shakespeare famous in the London theater. Undiscovered Shakespeare: The Wars of the Roses is a public arts and humanities series co-produced […]
VIRTUAL – Santa Cruz Pickwick Club presents Waverley
Santa Cruz Pickwick Club presents Waverley by Sir Walter Scott. Join Dickens Project Director, John O. Jordan, and Friends of the Dickens Project Board Member, David Brownell for a series of virtual discussions about how one of the first historical novels may have inspired Charles Dickens. RSVP for a Zoom link and password for the […]
VIRTUAL – Undiscovered Shakespeare: The Wars of the Roses – Henry VI, Part 3
Join actors, scholars, and friends for ten live readings and discussions focused on the plays about a divided society and a civil war that made Shakespeare famous in the London theater. Undiscovered Shakespeare: The Wars of the Roses is a public arts and humanities series co-produced by Santa Cruz Shakespeare, UCSC Shakespeare Workshop, and The […]
VIRTUAL – Karen Tei Yamashita: Sansei and Sensibility
Bookshop Santa Cruz and The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz invite you to join us for a free online event with Karen Tei Yamashita who will celebrate her newest book, Sansei and Sensibility. Generations of Japanese Americans merge with Jane Austen's characters in these lively stories, pairing uniquely American histories with reimagined classics. This […]
VIRTUAL – Undiscovered Shakespeare: The Wars of the Roses – Henry VI, Part 3
Join actors, scholars, and friends for ten live readings and discussions focused on the plays about a divided society and a civil war that made Shakespeare famous in the London theater. Undiscovered Shakespeare: The Wars of the Roses is a public arts and humanities series co-produced by Santa Cruz Shakespeare, UCSC Shakespeare Workshop, and The […]
Slugs & Steins – Beyond the Middle Passage: Slave Trading within the Americas, 1619-1807
More than 12 million enslaved African people endured the infamous Middle Passage across the Atlantic in the slave trade, but for many, the forced migration was not yet over when they reached an American port. Demand for enslaved labor was so rampant in the Americas, that speculators purchased many arriving people only to ship them […]