Events
Events
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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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Musical Storytelling: MLK’s Legacy Through the Lens of Music
Santa Cruz Civic AuditoriumOn August 1st, composer James Lee III’s piano concerto Shades of Unbroken Dreams will receive its West Coast premiere at the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music. The concerto is inspired […]
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Creative Kontrol: AI and the Future of Music
Santa Cruz Civic AuditoriumOn August 8th, composer Clarice Assad's new commissioned work, Kontrol, will premiere at the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music. The afternoon before, Assad will join D. Riley Nicholson, Executive Director […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Nina Simon – My Sister Is Going To Kill Me
Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesWhat's a family vacation without a little murder? Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes New York Times bestselling author Nina Simon (Mother-Daughter Murder Night) back to the store for a reading and […]