Events
Church Street Fair: A celebration of music, art, food and wine
Santa Cruz Civic AuditoriumSaturday and Sunday, August 2nd and 3rd see the return of Cabrillo Festival's popular Church Street Fair - a festival of music, art & wine. Celebrating its 23rd year, the two-day festival within the Festival offers an inspiring reflection of the arts in Santa Cruz. The weekend bursts with non-stop world and ethnic music and […]
FreeSanta Cruz Shakespeare: "The Fringe Show: The Beard of Avon" (Jul 29 & Aug 5)
Sinsheimer-Stanley Festival GlenThe Fringe Show: The Beard of Avon By Amy Freed Directed by Steve Boyle In the Sinsheimer-Stanley Festival Glen July 29th and August 5th ONLY (All Fringe Show Tickets are $16.00) In this mad-cap comedy a swain known as "Will Shakspere" who longs to be an artist flees his rural life for the stages of […]
Santa Cruz Shakespeare: "The Merry Wives of Windsor" (Jul 13 – Aug 10)
Sinsheimer-Stanley Festival GlenThe Merry Wives of Windsor By William Shakespeare Directed by Kirsten Brandt In the Sinsheimer-Stanley Festival Glen July 13 – August 10 Previews July 13th, 14th and 15th (All Preview Tickets are $20.00) The Merry Wives of Windsor marks the return of audience favorite Sir John Falstaff once again down on both luck and cash. […]
Santa Cruz Shakespeare: "As You Like It" (Jul 1 – Aug 10)
Sinsheimer-Stanley Festival GlenAs You Like It By William Shakespeare Directed by Mark Rucker In the Sinsheimer-Stanley Festival Glen July 1 – August 10 Previews July 1st , 2nd and 3rd (All Preview Tickets are $20.00) Love at first sight, a wrestling match, cross-dressing and a fool! Shakespeare’s delightful, romantic comedy As You Like It boasts all four, […]
Modern Jewish Spaces From the Venice Ghetto to Contemporary Classifications: Summer Workshop for Young Researchers in Jewish Culture and Identity
Van Leer Jerusalem InstituteModern Jewish Spaces From the Venice Ghetto to Contemporary Classifications Summer Workshop for Young Researchers in Jewish Culture and Identity In conjunction with the University of California, Santa Cruz June 30 – July 2, 2014 at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute Attending the workshop is by invitation only Summer Workshop Program Contemporary globalization brings to […]
Mortality: Facing Death in Ancient Greece
Mortality: Facing Death in Ancient Greece is a four-week Summer Institute funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Beginning from the premise that mortality is the condition that gives life its singular human quality, the goal of the Institute is to develop a multi-disciplinary approach to mortality in ancient Greece as the basis for […]
Contemporary Horror Auteur Film Series: À l ́interieur
Stevenson, Room 150A French body horror film that takes home invasion movies to their ne plus ultra, Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury’s À l'intérieur depicts the attempts of Sarah (Alysson Paradis), very pregnant and very alone in her house on Christmas Eve, to ward off the efforts of “La Femme” (Beátrice Dalle) to break into Sarah’s home […]
FreeWhat Makes Applied Linguistics Applied? Language Acquisition & Language in Use
University Center University Center University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Language Program has been granted department status earlier this spring, and we are hosting an event to celebrate becoming the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics. Professor Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig, a leading scholar in second language acquisition, will give a talk on June 6 in the University Center after a brief welcome by Dean William […]
Free"Doing Critical Race and Ethnic Studies in a Neoliberal Age" Symposium
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThis spring bears the fruit of many years of student activism at UC Santa Cruz, namely, the inauguration of a Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES) program dedicated to studying the ideological formations and institutional productions of race and ethnicity. Recognizing that the institutionalization of CRES is both an exciting moment and a reminder of […]
FreeLiving Writers Series: Publications Reading
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesA selection of Publications Readings. The spring 2014 Living Writers Reading Series, Dislocations and the Imagined, will take place on Thursday evenings at 6:00 p.m. in the Humanities Lecture Hall, room 206. These readings are free and open to the public.