Events
Patti Smith: Songs & Stories, A Book of Days
Rio Theater 1205 Soquel Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBookshop Santa Cruz is thrilled to welcome Patti Smith, National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, back to town for a celebration of A Book of Days—her deeply moving and idiosyncratic visual book of days featuring more than 365 images and reflections. Tickets include entry to the event and a copy of […]
Pamela Z – Concert and Panel Discussion
Rio Theater 1205 Soquel Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPamela Z is a composer, technologist, mixed-media and performance artist specializing in real-time synthesis, voice and vocality, and the framing of found objects and found texts as opportunities for unexpectedly visceral engagements— engagements with the interiorities and exteriorities of our identities and communities. She will complete a two-part residency at UC Santa Cruz, engaging with […]
TEDx Santa Cruz
Rio Theater 1205 Soquel Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesTEDxSantaCruz 2019: The Art of Hope Features riveting talks and performances from a diverse range of inspired, innovative and renowned speakers and artists. Join the local conference on December 7, 2019, at the Rio Theatre. Nine UCSC speakers join TEDx Santa Cruz extravaganza on Dec. 7 For tickets and more information visit www.tedxsantacruz.org
Zakir Hussain: Masters of Percussion
Rio Theater 1205 Soquel Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesZakir Hussain is appreciated as one of the greatest musicians of our time. A classical tabla virtuoso of the highest order, his consistently brilliant and exciting performances have established him as a national treasure in India and he is one of India’s reigning cultural ambassadors. Along with his legendary father and teacher, Ustad Allarakha, he has […]
María en tierra de nadie: Screening & Q&A with Marcela Zamora
Rio Theater 1205 Soquel Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJoin us for a free, public film screening to kickoff Borders and Belonging: A Series of Events on Human Migration To foster a conversation about migration, LALS and the CLRC are jointly hosting a special screening of Marcela Zamora's María en tierra de nadie (María in No Man’s Land), 2010. This is the story of […]
Saving Capitalism For the Many, Not the Few: A Curated Conversation with Robert Reich
Rio Theater 1205 Soquel Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesRobert Reich, Former Secretary of Labor, in the Clinton administration, is the author of more than a dozen books, including Aftershock, The Work of Nations, and Beyond Outrage. He is Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at UC Berkeley and a Senior Fellow at the Blum Center for Developing Economics. Reich is also the subject of Inequality […]
Toni Morrison: "Literature and the Silence of Goodness" (Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture)
Rio Theater 1205 Soquel Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesHumanities Division and Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture Presents: Toni Morrison: "LITERATURE AND THE SILENCE OF GOODNESS" at the Rio Theatre in Santa Cruz Tickets: $12 Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture with Toni Morrison $145 Founders Celebration Dinner and Baskin Ethics Lecture with Toni Morrison (combo ticket) *If you were not able to get tickets […]
Ursula K. le Guin
Rio Theater 1205 Soquel Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesAnthropocene: Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet Video Ursula K. Le Guin is one of the most-loved writers of our time. Her work includes science fiction, novels, essays, and children's books. Donna Haraway the author of When Species Meet. James Clifford is the author of Returns: Becoming Indigenous in the Twenty-First Century. Tickets Required • […]
Salt of the Earth: Exploring the Cultural Diasporas of Surfing
Rio Theater 1205 Soquel Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe spirit of the Salt of the Earth event is to essentially celebrate the indigenous Hawaiian practice of heʻe nalu (surfing) and the impact it has had on the world.
The Sammy Awards
Rio Theater 1205 Soquel Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesClick image to enlarge Join us for the Sammy Awards, the UC Santa Cruz Annual Game Design Awards showcasing student work from the Computer Science Game Design major. Featuring CS Chair Jim WHitehead as MC, and a panel of tech and game industry judges from Google, Microsoft, EA, Pixar, and more! Music by Terminal Degree! […]