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Santa Cruz Public Library – Downtown Branch
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Talking Tales of the Undead
Santa Cruz Public Library - Downtown Branch 224 Church Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesGet ready for the season with vampires, ghouls and zombies! Join UC Santa Cruz professors Michael Chemers (The Monster in Theater History), Renée Fox (The Necromantics), and Kimberly Lau (Specters of the Marvelous) as they discuss the histories and politics of vampires, ghouls, zombies and other undead monsters in literature, theater, and pop culture. The Center for […]
Shakespeare Talk with Dr. Sean Keilen
Santa Cruz Public Library - Downtown Branch 224 Church Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJoin Dr. Sean Keilen, professor of literature at UCSC and lead dramaturg at Santa Cruz Shakespeare, for an exciting talk about SCS' summer Shakespeare offerings: comic masterpiece, A Midsummer Night's Dream, […]
How Fairy Tales Became White: A Conversation with Professors Kimberly Lau and Micah Perks
Santa Cruz Public Library - Downtown Branch 224 Church Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPlease join Professors Micah Perks and Kimberly Lau for a conversation about fairy tales, fantasy, and the ways that historically and culturally specific ideas about race contribute to the making and maintenance of their white worlds. This is an after-hours event at Downtown Library. Refreshments will be served. Kimberly Lau is Professor of Literature at […]
Christmas Carol Dramaturgy Talk with Santa Cruz Shakespeare
Santa Cruz Public Library - Downtown Branch 224 Church Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJoin Santa Cruz Shakespeare for a presentation and talk by their brilliant Christmas Carol dramaturgs Dr. Renee Fox (UC Santa Cruz), Dr. Michael Chemers (UC Santa Cruz), and Charles Pasternak (SCS Artistic Director). Renee and Michael will discourse on Dickens and his marvelous novella. Q&A to follow. Expertise breeds love; don't be a Scrooge; join […]
Book-to-Action | The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Santa Cruz Public Library - Downtown Branch 224 Church Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesAuthor Michelle Alexander helped initiate a national movement with her best selling book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. This month, Santa Cruz Public Libraries sponsors Book-to-Action, a month-long series of events fostering community dialog and civic engagement. Event Dates and Information: Friday April 3 | 6:30pm | Prison USA Resource Center for Nonviolence | 612 […]
FreeNoel Q. King Annual Lecture: “Higher Mysteries: Faith and Theology in Crime Fiction”
Santa Cruz Public Library - Downtown Branch 224 Church Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe King Lecture Series, preserving the work of UCSC History and Comparative Religion professor Noel Q. King, promotes and explores the dialogue between faiths. This year's lecture also incorporates the interests of his wife, crime writer Laurie R. King, in conversation with three other award-winning crime writers, for an event called: Higher Mysteries: Faith and […]