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  • A group of six LP (little people) performers regard their paper body cut outs on the wall.

    Film Screening with Julie Wyman – The Tallest Dwarf

    Communications 150, Studio C

    The Tallest Dwarf charts Julie Wyman’s quest to find her place within the little people (LP) community at a moment when dwarf identity is poised to radically change. Wyman’s work engages issues of embodiment, body image, and the possibilities and problematics of media spectatorship—all informed by her experience of living with hypochondroplasia dwarfism. Julie Wyman […]

  • Aziz Abu Sarah & Maoz Inon – The Future is Peace

    Temple Beth El 3055 Porter Gulch Road, Aptos, CA, United States

    Two lifelong peace activists and guides to Israel/Palestine, both of whom have lost family in the conflict, take readers on a revealing life-changing journey across this holy, bloodstained land and discover the mythic, political, and personal history that divides but also binds them and their peoples. In The Future Is Peace, Sarah and Inon take […]

  • ICE Surveillance is Not Safety / La Vigilancia de ICE No es Seguridad

    Santa Cruz County Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    During a time of escalating state violence, Pajaro Valley for Ethnic Studies and Justice (PVESJ) and Get The Flock Out Santa Cruz County invite you to join us for an evening of community education and resistance against automated license plate readers (ALPR) that track us and endanger migrant members of our community. At this freedom […]

  • Saturday Shakespeare – Macbeth

    Virtual and In Person

    Saturday Shakespeare in Santa Cruz Presents Macbeth by William Shakespeare Aptos Library on Aoril 18, 25, May 2, 9 & 16 2026 at 10:15 a.m in the Aptos Library Betty Leonard Community Room (in person or join by Zoom). The first hour will be a conversation with the scheduled guest speaker followed by a volunteer read aloud […]

  • Santa Cruz Night of Ideas

    Institute of the Arts and Sciences 100 Panetta Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    Join us for a nocturnal celebration of art, philosophy, and activism! As the United States approaches the 250th anniversary of its independence, the 2026 Santa Cruz Night of Ideas invites us not to celebrate the Enlightenment, but to interrogate it. Long associated with democracy, progress, and universal reason, the Enlightenment’s legacy remains deeply ambivalent - […]

  • Living Writers with Joe De Vera and Josen Diaz

    Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    In Nourishment, Us. Joe De Vera (WSU) Visual Artist and Josen Diaz (UCSC) Critic and Archivist Joe deVera’s paintings and installations are attempts to clarify the absurd theaters of human tragedy — examining the possible relationships between historiography and art objects — while simultaneously investigating the resonant aftermath of mass conflict. Having emigrated from the […]

  • Omar Zahzah – Virtual Palestine: Digital Settler Colonialism and Palestinian Resistance

    Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States

    The Center for Racial Justice is very proud to sponsor the second annual Possibilities of Palestinian Refusal: Against Disciplining Knowledge and Movement series! Please join us for the following talk with Omar Zahzah- Virtual Palestine: Digital Settler Colonialism and Palestinian Resistance. In this talk, Omar Zahzah will elaborate upon the concept of digital settler colonialism, […]

  • Ripple Effect Arts Festival Opening

    Santa Cruz County Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    A celebration of Santa Cruz County's creative community during arts and culture month in California! The arts community of Santa Cruz County is coming together for this exciting new 11-day celebration showcasing the region's rich artistic landscape. The festival will feature performances, exhibitions, workshops, and interactive events across venues countywide, inviting audiences of all ages […]

  • SOLD OUT: Ritual Drinking in the Ancient World

    Stockwell Cellars 1100 Fair Ave, Santa Cruz, CA

    “Drink and make a happy day!” (New Kingdom Theben tomb) “Wine gladdens the heart of man…” (Psalm 104:15) At this ‘symposium’ event, three UCSC professors in Classical, Biblical, and Egyptian antiquity will tell stories about how various ancient cultures drank wine to commune with their gods, suspend the normal social rules, and prepare for the […]

  • Carlos Martinez – The Carceral Frontier: Migrant Captivity and Care on the Mexico-U.S. Border

    Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States

    This talk offers an ethnographic account of the structures of captivity that keep migrants and deportees in conditions of enforced immobility and precarity at the Mexico-U.S. border. Whereas much scholarship has framed the border primarily as a site of transit or deadly deterrence, Martinez argues that it has been transformed into a carceral frontier that […]

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