Events
Week of Events
Sunday, April 26, 2026
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April 26, 2026 -Guelaguetza Cultural Festival
Guelaguetza Cultural Festival
Senderos presents the 21st annual Vive Oaxaca Guelaguetza, a family friendly, Indigenous cultural festival. The Guelaguetza brings together food, music, dance, language, crafts, and community to celebrate the beautiful traditions of Oaxaca, Mexico. Local dancers from Senderos’ own Centeotl Danza y Baile will represent the eight regional traditions of Oaxaca, accompanied by Oaxacan musicians from Los […]
Monday, April 27, 2026
No events on this day.
Tuesday, April 28, 2026
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April 28, 2026 -Karen Tei Yamashita – Questions 27 & 28
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 […]
Wednesday, April 29, 2026
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April 29, 2026 -Quinn Slobodian – Whither Neoliberalism Studies?
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April 29, 2026 -Muskism – A Guide For The Perplexed
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 […]
Muskism – A Guide For The Perplexed
Everyone’s got an Elon take. He’s a messiah. A menace; a genius; a clown. The verdicts differ, but they share one theme: they treat him as an individual. Muskism argues otherwise. Elon Musk isn’t a glitch in the system—he is the system. His worldview promises sovereignty through technology: plug in, power up, and become self-reliant. […]
Thursday, April 30, 2026
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April 30, 2026 -Living Writers with Nathan Osorio
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April 30, 2026 -Environmental Crisis in Gabes: Agriculture and Revolt in Tunisia
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 […]
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 […]
Friday, May 1, 2026
No events on this day.
Saturday, May 2, 2026
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May 2, 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 […]