Events for April 2, 2026

Events Search and Views Navigation

Event Views Navigation

Filters

Changing any of the form inputs will cause the list of events to refresh with the filtered results.

Today
All Day

Oceans of Dissent: Towards a Feminist Commons Workshop

Humanities 1 Building 257 Cowell-Stevenson Road, Santa Cruz

We gather to forge new vernaculars of the geopolitical, to assemble spatial imaginaries of the “oceanic” that refuse rather than relent to the insistent march of capital and empire. To dissent here is an invitation to think more about the messiness and stuckness of our intellectual labors across histories of slavery, indenture, colonialism and more. This event is open to the campus community. Further details about registration to come. With questions email Sadie Lynn at sklynn@ucsc.edu This […]

Free

A screenshot of the UCSC Genome Browser interface

Learn to use the UCSC Genome Browser

Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz

The UCSC Genome Browser is hosting a free workshop for new and advanced users! Beginner session starts at 9 and will include: How to understand genome annotations How to find annotation data Overview of training resources Intermediate + advanced session starts at 10, covering Custom tracks Track hubs BLAT And more!! Join us and be […]

Wellness in Action: Healthy Metabolism, Healthy Heart Workshop

Wellness in Action

Thursday, April 2, 12:00 PM -12:30 PM Register for the Zoom link. Healthy metabolism and heart health play a key role in overall energy, resilience, and long-term well-being. This workshop will highlight simple, everyday habits that support metabolic function and cardiovascular health. This new Wellness in Action workshop series is designed to help you improve […]

MFA-exhbition-webpage-placeholder

M.F.A. Exhibition for Environmental Art & Social Practice (EASP)—”Picking up Shells Amid a Tsunami”

Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery Baskin Service Road, Santa Cruz

The culminating exhibition of the Environmental Art and Social Practice (EASP) M.F.A. program at UC Santa Cruz presents new projects—Picking up Shells Amid a Tsunami 쓰나미가 밀려오는데, 조개나 줍고 있네—developed through concentrated inquiry over a two-year period and offers a window into the artists’ unique long-term research projects that expand beyond the gallery space. — FULL SCHEDULE OF EVENTS […]

FREE and open to the public

Thurs. April 2, 2026 Event flyer (2)

Beyond public and private: Collaborative governance in global education reform with Antoni Verger and René Espinoza Kissell

McHenry Library 1156 High St, Santa Cruz

We are excited to invite you to join us for a hybrid research talk on collaborative governance with international education scholar and sociologist Dr. Antoni Verger (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) in conversation with Dr. René Espinoza Kissell (UCSC) on Thursday, April 2, 2026 at 5pm. Neoliberal educational policies aimed at efficiency through competition have often resulted in greater inequality […]

Free
MFA-exhbition-webpage-placeholder

Opening Celebration for EASP M.F.A. Exhibition—”Picking up Shells Amid a Tsunami”

Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery Baskin Service Road, Santa Cruz

The culminating exhibition of the Environmental Art and Social Practice (EASP) M.F.A. program at UC Santa Cruz presents new projects—Picking up Shells Amid a Tsunami 쓰나미가 밀려오는데, 조개나 줍고 있네—developed through concentrated inquiry over a two-year period and offers a window into the artists’ unique long-term research projects that expand beyond the gallery space. — FULL SCHEDULE OF EVENTS […]

Purple and black microchip.

The toughest challenges in advanced IC development

Silicon Valley Campus 3175 Bowers Avenue, Santa Clara

Explore the expanding career opportunities in semiconductors The modern economy is powered by silicon and the demand for skilled professionals in semiconductor design and engineering continues to grow. In this live-online discussion with Jignesh Shah, principal STA & CAD engineer and UCSC Extension instructor, we’ll explore how Timing Closure in Silicon IC Design prepares engineers […]

Untitled design (47)

Colm Toibin – The News From Dublin

Hay Barn 94 Ranch View Road, Santa Cruz

Bookshop Santa Cruz and The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz welcome acclaimed author Colm Tóibín (Long Island, Brooklyn) for a discussion about The News from Dublin, a brilliant collection of nine short stories, many never-before-published, set across Ireland, Spain, and America—about the complexities of family, longing, loss, and love. Celebrated as “his generation’s most […]

Movie Night Under the Stars poster for the film Castle in the Sky, featuring an illustration of characters Sheeta and Pazu falling through a blue sky.

Movie Night Under the Stars: Screening “Castle in the Sky”

Oakes Lower Lawn Oakes College, Santa Cruz

The DSAS Office of Leadership and Involvement invite you to join us for our Movie Night Under the Stars event screening the Studio Ghibli movie “Castle in the Sky”: Date: Thursday, April 2nd Screening Time: 8:00 p.m. Location: Oakes Lower Lawn *Bring your own blanket* There will be free ramen, candy, drinks and activities! For […]

Free

Wellness in Action: Healthy Metabolism, Healthy Heart Workshop

Wellness in Action

Thursday, April 2, 12:00 PM -12:30 PM Register for the Zoom link. Healthy metabolism and heart health play a key role in overall energy, resilience, and long-term well-being. This workshop will highlight simple, everyday habits that support metabolic function and cardiovascular health. This new Wellness in Action workshop series is designed to help you improve […]