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Weekend With Shakespeare

UCSC Arboretum

Join Shakespeare scholars and artists for two days of lectures, discussions, and demonstrations about the 2022 Season’s main stage productions, Twelfth Night and The Tempest. The Weekend with Shakespeare Lecture Series is free, however seating is limited! Please email Rebecca Clark, Santa Cruz Shakespeare's Education Coordinator, at rebecca@santacruzshakespeare.org, to reserve your spot. Weekend with Shakespeare […]

Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music: Let Me See The Sun

Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium

Four composers will join you in the audience for our second night as Maestro Măcelaru leads the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra in the West Coast premiere of Iván Enrique Rodríguez’ A Metaphor for Power—reflecting on our ideals of equality in America, as seen through the lens of the composer’s Latinx experience. Iván Enrique Rodríguez: A Metaphor for Power (WCP) Stacy Garrop: The […]

Blossoms into Gold: The Croatians in the Pajaro Valley

Museum of Art & History 705 Front Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

Of all the immigrant groups who flocked to California in the last two hundred years, probably the least known are the Croatians of the Dalmatian Coast. Often identified as Austrians, Slavonians, or Dalmatians, they came from a glorious background of international traders, sailors, and political thinkers few people in America knew about, and brought with […]

Dickens Universe: Iola + David

UCSC

The Dickens Universe is a unique cultural event that brings together scholars, teachers, students, and members of the general public for a week of stimulating discussion and festive social activity on the beautiful Santa Cruz campus of the University of California—all focused on one or two Victorian novels, usually (but not always) one by Charles […]

Digital Humanities Workshop Series 2022: Virtual & Augmented Reality

Virtual Event

Join us for the fourth meeting of the Digital Humanities Workshop Series 2022. Learn how to use AR/VR for your projects to enhance your user's experience. This event covers available game engines, software, and services; using VR/AR for exhibits or teaching; and a demonstration on how to create an interactive, digital environmentNo prior experience is […]

2022 CART Fellows Exhibit

McHenry Library (3rd Floor), Special Collections

Please join us for the opening reception for this year’s exhibits in the Elisabeth Remak-Honnef Center for Archival Research and Training (CART) These exhibits, curated by the 2022 CART Fellows, feature the following new acquisitions to Special Collections & Archives: the Miriam C. and Raymond Rice Papers exhibit curated by Sienna Ballou and Joseph Finkel and […]

Slugs & Steins: Jennifer Lynn Kelly – Invited to Witness: Solidarity Tourism Across Occupied Palestine

Virtual Event

Drawing from her research on solidarity tours in Palestine, Jennifer Kelly shows how solidarity tourism in Palestine functions as a fraught localized political strategy, and an emergent industry, through which Palestinian organizers refashion conventional tourism to the region by extending deliberately truncated invitations to tourists to come to Palestine and witness the effects of Israeli […]

Japanese Cultural Fair

103 Emmett Street, Santa Cruz 103 Emmett Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

Since its founding in 1986, the fair has provided an opportunity for members of the Santa Cruz County community to increase their awareness and understanding of Japanese culture, both traditional and contemporary. Through the arts, crafts, and culture of Japan, the fair has brought together thousands of people, improving their understanding of our Pacific Rim […]

Humanities Division Spring Awards

Virtual and In Person

Join us for our annual celebration recognizing student and faculty academic achievement in the Humanities Division at UC Santa Cruz. The 2021–22 Spring Awards ceremony will be a hybrid event with an option to attend in person at the Cowell Ranch Hay Barn or via Zoom. Friends and family are welcome. We will join together […]