Events
Jonathan Franzen, Crossroads
Virtual EventTICKETED VIRTUAL EVENT: Bookshop Santa Cruz is thrilled to host local and award-winning author Jonathan Franzen for the launch event of his new book, Crossroads, which tells the story of a Midwestern family across three generations, mirroring the preoccupations and dilemmas of the United States from the Vietnam War to the 2020s. This event is […]
Ruth Ozeki: The Book of Form and Emptiness
Virtual EventTICKETED VIRTUAL EVENT: Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes bestselling author and staff favorite Ruth Ozeki for an online discussion of The Book of Form and Emptiness, her brilliantly inventive novel about loss, growing up, and our relationship with things. Ozeki will be in conversation with writer Katie Kitamura. Cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa […]
Frequency: A Festival of Light, Sound & Digital Culture
Santa Cruz Museum of Art and HistoryFrequency is a new biennial festival of light, sound, and digital culture hosted in and around the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. This 4-night downtown takeover activates the museum, neighboring gardens and plazas with installations of site-responsive work, live performances, interactive technologies, and immersive experiences from local and international artists. Frequency is a […]
Envisioning Careers With A Humanities PhD: A UC Humanities Virtual Retreat
Virtual EventEnvisioning Careers With A Humanities PhD: A UC Humanities Virtual Retreat September 15 - 17, 2021 | 9 AM - 12 PM (PDT) Join us for a career exploration retreat for Humanities PhD students and faculty advisors. The UC Humanities Network event will feature sessions on exploring careers in and beyond the academy, reflecting […]
Sandra Cisneros: Martita, I Remember You / Martita, te recuerdo
Virtual EventTICKETED VIRTUAL EVENT: Bookshop Santa Cruz is delighted to welcome acclaimed and bestselling author Sandra Cisneros for a ticketed online event celebrating her new book, Martita, I Remember You/Martita, te recuerdo. Cisneros will be in conversation with Rubén Martínez. This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. A long-forgotten letter sets […]
Opening today – Do You Know My Name?
Santa Cruz Museum of Art and HistoryInspired by the MAH publication of the same name, uncover inspiring stories about Santa Cruz County residents from the early 20th century to the present. Get to know the overlooked, hidden, and relatable histories of the people of Santa Cruz County from the 19th century to today. Popping-up in a breakout history pod inside our […]
Excellent Sport: A Shakespeare Game Show
Virtual EventTest your knowledge of Shakespeare! Our most excellent game show will be hosted by Professors Julia Lupton (UCI English) and Sean Keilen (UCSC Literature). Additional revels will be hosted by Professor Eli Simon (UCI Drama). Enjoy a festival of questions designed to enlighten and amuse, interspersed with scenes from Shakespeare and music inspired by the […]
A Year Ago Today: Communities Reflect on the CZU Lightening Complex Fires
Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History“As a way to begin talking about the disaster, we invited people to bring in objects found in the ashes of their homes to be photographed and to tell us the stories these objects conjure. The objects salvaged from the ashes and the stories that emerge, build, one to the next, revealing details of daily […]
Slugs and Steins: The Neurodiversity Perspective of Autism: What it is and How it Matters
Virtual EventAccording to the neurodiversity perspective some neurocognitive differences that are taken to be disorders should instead be understood as forms of human diversity. Proponents of this perspective, as it applies to autism, claim that autism is an ineliminable aspect of an autistic person’s identity and that atypical functioning and modes of experience associated with autism […]
Intonations: Songs from the Violins of Hope
Virtual EventThe Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, America’s longest-running festival of new orchestral music, presents its second-ever virtual season over two weekends in Summer 2021: July 31-August 1, and August 7-8. Cabrillo Festival’s presentation of composer Jake Heggie and librettist Gene Scheer’s INTONATIONS: Songs from the Violins of Hope is the culmination of an extensive SF […]