Events

Name: Environmental Crisis in Gabes: Agriculture and Revolt in Tunisia
Start: 2026-04-30T17:30:00-07:00
End: 2026-04-30T19:00:00-07:00
Location: Communications 150, Studio C

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0 events 5 0 events, 5	0 events 6 0 events, 6	0 events 7 0 events, 7	1 event 8 1 event, 8 3:00 pm Documentación Lingüística en México April 8 @ 3:00 pm Documentación Lingüística en México Please join us for a presentation on "Children's role in Language Documentation Efforts in Mexico". Cuando realizamos proyectos de documentación lingüística, nos encontramos con niñas y niños que quieren participar en alguna actividad del proceso de documentación, sean o no hablantes o sean hablantes de herencia. Su colaboración es valiosa en los proyectos porque aportan […]	1 event 9 1 event, 9 12:00 pm - 6:00 pm New Articulations with James Clifford April 9 @ 12:00 pm - 6:00 pm New Articulations with James Clifford This event engages the theme of articulation and James Clifford’s contributions to cultural studies, anthropology, and literary studies, addressing our current disconcerting cultural, historical, and ecological conjuncture. For more info, please visit: tinyurl.com/5ecv4t27 With talks by Elizabeth Povinelli (Columbia), James Clifford (UCSC), and Kirin Narayan (ANU), and a panel with Mark Anderson (UCSC), Chris Connery […]	0 events 10 0 events, 10	0 events 11 0 events, 11
0 events 12 0 events, 12	1 event 13 1 event, 13 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm Slugs and Steins with Greg O’ Malley – The Escapes of David George: An Odyssey of Slavery, Freedom, and the American Revolution April 13 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm Slugs and Steins with Greg O’ Malley – The Escapes of David George: An Odyssey of Slavery, Freedom, and the American Revolution The Escapes of David George: An Odyssey of Slavery, Freedom, and the American Revolution describes the life of a man born enslaved in colonial Virginia, whose repeated escape attempts made his life a remarkable odyssey. He survived enslavement on Virginia and Carolina plantations, stints hiding in backcountry Carolina settlements, captivity in Native American communities, battlefields […]	0 events 14 0 events, 14	2 events 15 2 events, 15 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm Carlos Martinez – The Carceral Frontier: Migrant Captivity and Care on the Mexico-U.S. Border April 15 @ 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm Carlos Martinez – The Carceral Frontier: Migrant Captivity and Care on the Mexico-U.S. Border This talk offers an ethnographic account of the structures of captivity that keep migrants and deportees in conditions of enforced immobility and precarity at the Mexico-U.S. border. Whereas much scholarship has framed the border primarily as a site of transit or deadly deterrence, Martinez argues that it has been transformed into a carceral frontier that […], 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm SOLD OUT: Ritual Drinking in the Ancient World April 15 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm SOLD OUT: Ritual Drinking in the Ancient World “Drink and make a happy day!” (New Kingdom Theben tomb) “Wine gladdens the heart of man…” (Psalm 104:15) At this ‘symposium’ event, three UCSC professors in Classical, Biblical, and Egyptian antiquity will tell stories about how various ancient cultures drank wine to commune with their gods, suspend the normal social rules, and prepare for the […]	3 events 16 3 events, 16 2026-04-16 Ripple Effect Arts Festival Opening Ripple Effect Arts Festival Opening April 16 Ripple Effect Arts Festival Opening A celebration of Santa Cruz County's creative community during arts and culture month in California! The arts community of Santa Cruz County is coming together for this exciting new 11-day celebration showcasing the region's rich artistic landscape. The festival will feature performances, exhibitions, workshops, and interactive events across venues countywide, inviting audiences of all ages […] 3:00 pm Omar Zahzah – Virtual Palestine: Digital Settler Colonialism and Palestinian Resistance April 16 @ 3:00 pm Omar Zahzah – Virtual Palestine: Digital Settler Colonialism and Palestinian Resistance The Center for Racial Justice is very proud to sponsor the second annual Possibilities of Palestinian Refusal: Against Disciplining Knowledge and Movement series! Please join us for the following talk with Omar Zahzah- Virtual Palestine: Digital Settler Colonialism and Palestinian Resistance. In this talk, Omar Zahzah will elaborate upon the concept of digital settler colonialism, […], 5:20 pm - 6:55 pm Living Writers with Joe De Vera and Josen Diaz April 16 @ 5:20 pm - 6:55 pm Living Writers with Joe De Vera and Josen Diaz In Nourishment, Us. Joe De Vera (WSU) Visual Artist and Josen Diaz (UCSC) Critic and Archivist Living Writers Spring 2026: Our Nourishment, US features poets, writers, critics, visual and performance artists, who demonstrate how writing and art enacts around the idea of freedom and the imaginary in the face of the constant threat of terror and […]	1 event 17 1 event, 17 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm Santa Cruz Night of Ideas April 17 @ 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm Santa Cruz Night of Ideas Join us for a nocturnal celebration of art, philosophy, and activism! As the United States approaches the 250th anniversary of its independence, the 2026 Santa Cruz Night of Ideas invites us not to celebrate the Enlightenment, but to interrogate it. Long associated with democracy, progress, and universal reason, the Enlightenment’s legacy remains deeply ambivalent - […]	1 event 18 1 event, 18 10:15 am Saturday Shakespeare – Macbeth April 18 @ 10:15 am Saturday Shakespeare – Macbeth Saturday Shakespeare in Santa Cruz Presents Macbeth by William Shakespeare Aptos Library on Aoril 18, 25, May 2, 9 & 16 2026 at 10:15 a.m in the Aptos Library Betty Leonard Community Room (in person or join by Zoom). The first hour will be a conversation with the scheduled guest speaker followed by a volunteer read aloud […]
0 events 19 0 events, 19	3 events 20 3 events, 20 6:30 pm ICE Surveillance Is Not Safety / La vigilancia de ICE no es seguridad April 20 @ 6:30 pm ICE Surveillance Is Not Safety / La vigilancia de ICE no es seguridad During a time of escalating state violence, Pajaro Valley for Ethnic Studies and Justice (PVESJ) and Get The Flock Out Santa Cruz County invite you to join us for an evening of community education and resistance against automated license plate readers (ALPR) that track us and endanger migrant members of our community. At this freedom […], 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Aziz Abu Sarah & Maoz Inon – The Future is Peace April 20 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Aziz Abu Sarah & Maoz Inon – The Future is Peace Two lifelong peace activists and guides to Israel/Palestine, both of whom have lost family in the conflict, take readers on a revealing life-changing journey across this holy, bloodstained land and discover the mythic, political, and personal history that divides but also binds them and their peoples. In The Future Is Peace, Sarah and Inon take […], 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm Film screening with Julie Wyman: The Tallest Dwarf April 20 @ 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm Film screening with Julie Wyman: The Tallest Dwarf The Tallest Dwarf charts Julie Wyman’s quest to find her place within the little people (LP) community at a moment when dwarf identity is poised to radically change. Wyman’s work engages issues of embodiment, body image, and the possibilities and problematics of media spectatorship—all informed by her experience of living with hypochondroplasia dwarfism. Julie Wyman […]	0 events 21 0 events, 21	1 event 22 1 event, 22 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm Ashwak Hauter – Physics of Affinity: Violence, Love, & Affinity in the Physician-Patient Relationship April 22 @ 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm Ashwak Hauter – Physics of Affinity: Violence, Love, & Affinity in the Physician-Patient Relationship This talk recalls the recent phenomena of the murder of physicians in Jordan and Yemen, and the rise in altercations in Saudi Arabia between physicians and patients and their family. Aiming to work on the physics of affinity, the binding and unbinding of ethical relationalities, within the patient-doctor relationship the physicians claim to be prophets […]	0 events 23 0 events, 23	1 event 24 1 event, 24 2026-04-24 This is Thirty Exhibition Opening This is Thirty Exhibition Opening April 24 This is Thirty Exhibition Opening In celebration of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History’s 30 year anniversary, this exhibition will highlight some of the artwork and artifacts from the MAH's permanent collection. In addition, artist Joshua Moreno will create a site specific installation inspired by the MAH’s historical archives. The exhibition runs from April 24th to August 9th, […]	1 event 25 1 event, 25 10:15 am Saturday Shakespeare – Macbeth April 25 @ 10:15 am Saturday Shakespeare – Macbeth Saturday Shakespeare in Santa Cruz Presents Macbeth by William Shakespeare Aptos Library on Aoril 18, 25, May 2, 9 & 16 2026 at 10:15 a.m in the Aptos Library Betty Leonard Community Room (in person or join by Zoom). The first hour will be a conversation with the scheduled guest speaker followed by a volunteer read aloud […]
1 event 26 1 event, 26 10:00 am - 4:00 pm Guelaguetza Cultural Festival April 26 @ 10:00 am - 4:00 pm Guelaguetza Cultural Festival The Vive Oaxaca Guelaguetza is an authentic cultural festival with food, dance, music, and crafts presented each spring by Senderos. This local festival is like the traditional fiestas celebrated each summer in Oaxaca, Mexico. Guelaguetza is a Zapotec word that means “a commitment of sharing and cooperation.” Guelaguetza is a celebration that honors the gods for sufficient rainfall […]	0 events 27 0 events, 27	1 event 28 1 event, 28 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Karen Tei Yamashita – Questions 27 & 28 April 28 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Karen Tei Yamashita – Questions 27 & 28 Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes acclaimed author Karen Tei Yamashita (I Hotel) to celebrate the launch of her new novel Questions 27 & 28—a masterful polyvocal history of Japanese Americans before, during, and after World War II. Yamashita will be in conversation with Alice Yang, Professor of History and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at UC […]	1 event 29 1 event, 29 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm Quinn Slobodian – Whither Neoliberalism Studies? April 29 @ 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm Quinn Slobodian – Whither Neoliberalism Studies? Co-sponsored by the Politics Department The last two decades have seen a flood of research on neoliberalism. Defined in multiple and even conflicting ways, the term nonetheless served as a master category of analysis for scholars from history to geography and communications. Where does the field sit now as trends of authoritarianism and reterritorialization shatter […]	2 events 30 2 events, 30 5:20 pm - 6:55 pm Living Writers with Nathan Osorio April 30 @ 5:20 pm - 6:55 pm Living Writers with Nathan Osorio In Nourishment, Us. Nathan Osorio (Texas Tech) Poet and Critic UCSC Alum Living Writers Spring 2026: Our Nourishment, US features poets, writers, critics, visual and performance artists, who demonstrate how writing and art enacts around the idea of freedom and the imaginary in the face of the constant threat of terror and erasure. In the presence […], 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm Environmental Crisis in Gabes: Agriculture and Revolt in Tunisia April 30 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm Environmental Crisis in Gabes: Agriculture and Revolt in Tunisia Film Screening and Discussion: 5:30-7pm, Communications (Studio C) Reception: 7-8:30pm, Communications 139 Gabes Labess (All is well in Gabes) questions current development models by focusing on the Oasis of Gabes, the only coastal oasis in the world. What was once considered "The Paradise of the World" has been transformed into an economic, social, and ecological […]