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SUMMARY:Festival of Monsters 2025
DESCRIPTION:The Festival of Monsters returns for the annual academic conference with public performances\, installations\, readings\, and more. Learn more about the Center for Monster Studies here and refer to the full schedule of events\, below\, for individual event details. \nCo-presented by the UC Santa Cruz Center for Monster Studies\, Department of Performance\, Play & Design\, The Humanities Institute (THI)\, and Porter College.\n—\nADMISSION\n– Open to the public\n– Some events have required registration; refer to individual event listings in the full schedule of events\n– UCSC students\, faculty\, and staff registration HERE\n– Academic conference registration for non-affiliates HERE\n—\nAUDIENCE ADVISORIES\n– Mature themes and content\n—\nFULL SCHEDULE OF EVENTS\n– Wed. Oct. 15\, 5:30 p.m\, Museum of Art & History (MAH): David Livingstone Smith Keynote \n– Thurs. Oct. 16\, 9:00 a.m.–6:30 p.m\, UCSC Digital Arts Research Center (DARC): Conference Panels\, Kim Lau keynote\n– Fri. Oct. 17\, 9:00 a.m.–6:30 p.m\, UCSC Digital Arts Research Center (DARC): Conference Panels\, Jeffery Jerome Cohen keynote\n– Fri. Oct. 17\, 8:30 p.m.–11:30 p.m\, UCSC Digital Arts Research Center—DARC 108: Monsters Ball (previously advertised location of the Hay Barn was incorrect)\n– Sat. Oct. 18\, 11:00 a.m\, Bookshop Santa Cruz: “Oh! The Horror” Writers Panel\n– Sat. Oct. 18\, 2:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m\, Atlantis Fantasyworld: Cole Lemke\, Horror Comic Artist \n– Sat. Oct. 18\, 6:00 p.m\, Game Santa Cruz: “Blood on the Clocktower”\n—\nThis program is open to all members of the public consistent with state and federal law.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/festival-of-monsters-2025/
LOCATION:Digital Arts Research Center\, 407 McHenry Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
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SUMMARY:Creative Interventions (CI) Series
DESCRIPTION:Creative Interventions (CI) is a community colloquium in contemporary creativity and creative practices that addresses the interconnected work of artists\, designers\, activists\, and knowledge workers—and the intrinsic and transformative capacity of that work to cultivate a just society. \nThe CI Speaker Series raises questions of import to contemporary creative workers in media and technology:\n– How do creative workers address their most challenging problems?\n– How does creative labor intersect with other forms of labor to nurture the world views and cultural practices of our democracy? \nThe Creative Interventions (CI) Series is co-sponsored by the Arts Division’s Creative Technologies program and Porter College at UC Santa Cruz.\n—\nADMISSION\n– Free and open to UCSC affiliates.\n– All events in the series are presented online with registration required.\n– Refer to the individual event listings for more information and a link to register.\n—\nFULL SCHEDULE OF EVENTS\n– Wed.\, Oct 15\, 4:00 p.m.: “Expensive-Sounding Sounds” with Catherine Provenzano\n– Wed.\, Oct 29\, 4:00 p.m.: “Asymptote: Computation\, Disillusion\, and Enchantment” with Nora Khan\n– Additional event dates to be announced on the Creative Interventions events page here\n—\nThis program is open to all UC Santa Cruz affiliates consistent with state and federal law.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/ci-series/2025-10-15/
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SUMMARY:Festival of Monsters: David Livingstone Smith Keynote 
DESCRIPTION:David Livingstone Smith\, author of Making Monsters: The Uncanny Power of Dehumanization\, opens the 2025 Festival of Monsters with a free public keynote talk 5:30 p.m. Wednesday\, Oct. 15 at the Museum of Art and History (705 Front Street). A philosophy professor at University of New England in Maine\, Livingstone Smith writes about the ways in which we dehumanize one another — creating our own monsters through pogroms\, genocide and massacres. He asks “How do some people come to believe that their enemies are monsters\, and therefore easy to kill?” The Festival of Monsters is hosted by the UC Santa Cruz Center for Monster Studies.\n—\nADMISSION\n– FREE and open to the public\n—\nAUDIENCE ADVISORIES\n– Mature themes and content\n—\nFULL SCHEDULE OF EVENTS\n– Wed. Oct. 15\, 5:30 p.m\, Museum of Art & History (MAH): David Livingstone Smith Keynote \n– Thurs. Oct. 16\, 9:00 a.m.–6:30 p.m\, UCSC Digital Arts Research Center (DARC): Conference Panels\, Kim Lau keynote\n– Fri. Oct. 17\, 9:00 a.m.–6:30 p.m\, UCSC Digital Arts Research Center (DARC): Conference Panels\, Jeffery Jerome Cohen keynote\n– Fri. Oct. 17\, 8:30 p.m.–11:30 p.m\, DARC 108 (No longer at the UCSC Cowell Ranch Hay Barn): Monsters Ball\n– Sat. Oct. 18\, 11:00 a.m\, Bookshop Santa Cruz: “Oh! The Horror” Writers Panel\n– Sat. Oct. 18\, 2:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m\, Atlantis Fantasyworld: Cole Lemke\, Horror Comic Artist \n– Sat. Oct. 18\, 6:00 p.m\, Game Santa Cruz: “Blood on the Clocktower”\n—\nThe Festival of Monsters returns for a three-day academic conference with public performances\, installations\, readings\, and more. Learn more about the Center for Monster Studies here.\nThis program is open to all members of the public consistent with state and federal law
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/festival-monsters-david-livingstone-smith/
LOCATION:Museum of Art & History\, 705 Front St\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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