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Oceans of Dissent: Towards a Feminist Commons Workshop

Humanities 1 Building 420 Hagar Drive, 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 […]

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Ongoing

Environmental Art & Social Practice: 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 MFA program at UCSC presents new projects developed through concentrated inquiry over a two-year period and offers a window into […]

FREE and open to the public

Spring 2026 Drop in Figure Drawing

Drop-In Figure Drawing
Elena Baskin Visual Arts Center Baskin Service Road, Santa Cruz

Drop-In Draw provides a live model and room monitor. There is no formal lesson and only dry media is allowed (no paints). — ADVISORIES – These events contain mature content […]

FREE and open to the public.

Suzanne Simard – When the Forest Breathes

Hay Barn 94 Ranch View Road, Santa Cruz

Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes bestselling author Suzanne Simard (Finding the Mother Tree), a scientist who pioneered the concept of sophisticated communication between trees. Simard will share her highly anticipated new […]