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The Deep Read: Community Salon

The Seymour Marine Discovery Center 100 McAllister Way, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

On June 7, we’ll be hosting a salon—co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute and Lookout Santa Cruz—focused on actions we can all take in the face of climate change. Ecology Action, Elkhorn Slough […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]