Events
Week of Events
Sunday, August 9, 2020
- August 9, 2020 -VIRTUAL – Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music Presents: Suffrage + the Struggle for Voting Rights
VIRTUAL – Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music Presents: Suffrage + the Struggle for Voting Rights
As we approach the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment and stand at the threshold of a presidential election, "Celebrating Woman Suffrage + the Struggle for Voting Rights” is a panel discussion examining the complex history of enfranchisement in the United States and its relevance to the ongoing anti-racist struggle against voter […]
Monday, August 10, 2020
- August 10, 2020 -Slugs & Steins – Beyond the Middle Passage: Slave Trading within the Americas, 1619-1807
Slugs & Steins – Beyond the Middle Passage: Slave Trading within the Americas, 1619-1807
More than 12 million enslaved African people endured the infamous Middle Passage across the Atlantic in the slave trade, but for many, the forced migration was not yet over when they reached an American port. Demand for enslaved labor was so rampant in the Americas, that speculators purchased many arriving people only to ship them […]
Tuesday, August 11, 2020
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Wednesday, August 12, 2020
- August 12, 2020 -VIRTUAL – Undiscovered Shakespeare: The Wars of the Roses – Henry VI, Part 3
VIRTUAL – Undiscovered Shakespeare: The Wars of the Roses – Henry VI, Part 3
Join actors, scholars, and friends for ten live readings and discussions focused on the plays about a divided society and a civil war that made Shakespeare famous in the London theater. Undiscovered Shakespeare: The Wars of the Roses is a public arts and humanities series co-produced by Santa Cruz Shakespeare, UCSC Shakespeare Workshop, and The […]
Thursday, August 13, 2020
- August 13, 2020 -VIRTUAL – Karen Tei Yamashita: Sansei and Sensibility
VIRTUAL – Karen Tei Yamashita: Sansei and Sensibility
Bookshop Santa Cruz and The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz invite you to join us for a free online event with Karen Tei Yamashita who will celebrate her newest book, Sansei and Sensibility. Generations of Japanese Americans merge with Jane Austen's characters in these lively stories, pairing uniquely American histories with reimagined classics. This […]
Friday, August 14, 2020
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Saturday, August 15, 2020
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