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  • Ocean Vuong

    Bookshop Santa Cruz presents: An evening with Ocean Vuong

    Cowell Ranch Hay Barn Ranch View Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    In this deeply intimate second poetry collection (in paperback June 6th), Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershocks of his mother’s death, embodying the paradox of sitting within grief […]

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    Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona

    Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    Presented by Bookshop Santa Cruz, Ottessa Moshfegh (My Year of Rest and Relaxation) will discuss her recent novel Lapvona, available in paperback June 20th. In a village in a medieval fiefdom buffeted by natural disasters, a motherless shepherd boy finds himself the unlikely pivot of a power struggle that puts all manner of faith to […]

  • Dickensland: The Curious History of Dickens’s London

    Virtual Event

    Please join the Santa Cruz Dickens Fellowship and the Santa Cruz Pickwick Club for our June Pickwick Club talk by author and historian Lee Jackson who will be discussing Dickens’s […]

  • Santa Cruz Shakespeare 2023 Season Opening Night

    The Audrey Stanley Grove in Delaveaga Park 501 Upper Park Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    Tickets are now on sale for Santa Cruz Shakespeare's 2023 season, featuring The Book of Will and The Taming of the Shrew. Co-sponsored by the Humanities Institute. The season runs from […]

  • Dickens Universe: A Tale of Two Cities

    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 […]

  • Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music 2023

    The Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music

    Santa Cruz Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    The Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, even at a seasoned 60 years old, is all about the new—the here and now of contemporary works for orchestra. To quote Financial Times music critic Allan Ulrich, “…in the surf mecca of Santa Cruz, 75 miles south of San Francisco, the Cabrillo Festival has made the contemporary repertoire […]

  • Weekend With Shakespeare

    UCSC Arboretum

    Join Shakespeare scholars and artists for two days of lectures, discussions, and demonstrations about the 2023 Season’s main stage productions, The Taming of the Shrew and King Lear. The Weekend […]

  • Susan Casey: The Underworld

    Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    FREE IN-STORE EVENT: Bookshop welcomes New York Times bestselling author Susan Casey (The Wave) for a discussion of The Underworld, her awe-inspiring portrait of the mysterious world beneath the waves, […]

  • Slugs and Steins with Professor Eric Porter: What Can We Learn from the Airport?

    Virtual Event

    For many people, airports may seem like alienating “nonplaces”—as anthropologist Marc Augé put it—where we rush to make connections and spend long, monotonous hours waiting for delayed flights. But airports are fascinating sites that can tell us a lot about the places where they are situated. Among other things, they are complex infrastructures where people, […]

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