Events
Week of Events
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, […]
Sunday, April 19, 2026
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Monday, April 20, 2026
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April 20, 2026ICE Surveillance is Not Safety / La Vigilancia de ICE No es Seguridad
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April 20, 2026 -Aziz Abu Sarah & Maoz Inon – The Future is Peace
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April 20, 2026 -Film Screening with Julie Wyman – The Tallest Dwarf
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Tuesday, April 21, 2026
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April 21, 2026 -Film Screening with Dolly Kikon – A Sacred Place
Film Screening with Dolly Kikon – A Sacred Place
Please join us for the American premiere of A Sacred Place (2026), a new film by Professor Dolly Kikon (Anthropology). The film tells the story of stones, spirits, and salt springs in Makhel. The film focuses on intergenerational storytellers and their relationship with the land. It integrates visual ethnography, oral tradition, and geological features of […]
Wednesday, April 22, 2026
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April 22, 2026 -Ashwak Hauter – Physics of Affinity: Violence, Love, & Affinity in the Physician-Patient Relationship
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April 22, 2026 -Arts and Ecology Festival
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April 22, 2026 -Bibliography as Biography – Recovering Early-Nineteenth-Century Latinx Figures
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 […]
Arts and Ecology Festival
The first Arts & Ecology Festival at UC Santa Cruz will bring together talks and panels featuring artists, scientists, and researchers. The April 22 program includes film screenings, live music, artworks, a clothing swap, a poetry slam, a solar powered mobile projection system, and groups like the Norris Center of Natural History, The Fábrica community […]
Bibliography as Biography – Recovering Early-Nineteenth-Century Latinx Figures
The lecture will focus on the history of Spanish-language writing and publishing in the United States with particular attention to a New York publisher in the early nineteenth century. Carmen E. Lamas is Associate Professor of English at the University of Virginia. She is the author of The Latino Continuum and the Nineteenth-Century Americas: Literature, […]
Thursday, April 23, 2026
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Friday, April 24, 2026
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Saturday, April 25, 2026
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April 25, 2026Saturday Shakespeare – Macbeth
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April 25, 2026Emmaia Gelman – The Anti-Defamation League and the Racial State
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 […]
Emmaia Gelman – The Anti-Defamation League and the Racial State
“The ADL was born of the belief that the best protection from antisemitism was admission into the white racial state and waging a vigorous defense of capitalism, individual rights, and the West against communists and barbarians. And it has never looked back.” –Robin D. G. Kelley The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) once sought to portray itself […]