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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 London. Lee Jackson, author of Dickensland (Yale, 2023) will discuss the curious history of London's Dickensian tourist destinations. Louisa May Alcott, visiting in 1866, was […]

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 July 13-August 27. The Book of Will, by Lauren Gunderson - Directed by Laura Gordon A love letter to William Shakespeare, this moving and joyful […]

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 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 […]

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 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. […]

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, and of the men and women who seek to uncover its secrets. "A fascinating account of the ocean below its twilight zone." —Kirkus Reviews, starred […]

Nina Simon: Mother – Daughter Murder Night

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

Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes local author Nina Simon for a launch event to celebrate her captivating new novel, Mother-Daughter Murder Night—a fun, fresh, and twisty debut whodunnit about a grandmother-mother-daughter […]

Public Philosophy Network Conference

UC Santa Cruz

The 7th Public Philosophy Network Conference, on the theme of "Facing Technology: The Role of Public Philosophy," will be hosted by the Center for Public Philosophy at the University of […]