Events
Week of Events
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 […]
Sunday, April 12, 2026
No events on this day.
Monday, April 13, 2026
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April 13, 2026 -Slugs and Steins with Greg O’ Malley – The Escapes of David George: An Odyssey of Slavery, Freedom, and the American Revolution
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 […]
Tuesday, April 14, 2026
No events on this day.
Wednesday, April 15, 2026
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April 15, 2026 -Carlos Martinez – The Carceral Frontier: Migrant Captivity and Care on the Mexico-U.S. Border
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April 15, 2026 -SOLD OUT: Ritual Drinking in the Ancient World
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 […]
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 […]
Thursday, April 16, 2026
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April 16, 2026Omar Zahzah – Virtual Palestine: Digital Settler Colonialism and Palestinian Resistance
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April 16, 2026 -Living Writers with Joe De Vera and Josen Diaz
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, […]
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 Joe deVera’s paintings and installations are attempts to clarify the absurd theaters of human tragedy — examining the possible relationships between historiography and art objects — while simultaneously investigating the resonant aftermath of mass conflict. Having emigrated from the […]
Friday, April 17, 2026
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April 17, 2026 -Santa Cruz Night of Ideas
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 - […]
Saturday, April 18, 2026
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April 18, 2026Saturday Shakespeare – Macbeth
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 […]