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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 […]

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2026 Right Livelihood International Conference

Hybrid Event

The Right Livelihood International Conference is a five-week global conference exploring how education can strengthen democracy, collective intelligence, and just futures. Bringing together Right Livelihood Laureates, students, faculty, and community partners […]

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Berry U-Pick at the UCSC Farm

Berry U-Pick at the UCSC Farm
UCSC Farm 152 Farm Rd, Santa Cruz

Come enjoy picking your own organic strawberries and/or blueberries at the campus farm! Our delicious, organic berries will be plentiful this spring and we hope you can come enjoy the bounty. When: U-picks will take place on Saturdays from 9am to 12pm while supplies last. Blueberries will be available approximately through June, and strawberries will […]

First Saturday Tour at the Arboretum

First Saturday Tour at the Arboretum
Arboretum 122 Arboretum Road, Santa Cruz

First Saturday Tours are a wonderful way to introduce yourself to the Arboretum or to deepen your knowledge of the Arboretum’s plant collections. Each tour is a little different depending on the time of year, the interests of the tour guide, and the people who join in. For example, you might learn about the birds […]

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Visualizing Abolition Screening Series: Beyond Access

Visualizing Abolition
Institute of the Arts and Sciences 100 Panetta Ave, Santa Cruz

On view in the IAS Screening Room is a selection of short films curated by Visualizing Abolition Visiting Faculty Fellow Dr. Pooja Rangan. Prisons deny and censor the access of those trapped inside them—to information, to intimacy, to community, to meaningful work, to nourishment of all kinds, and perhaps most cruelly, to care. This program […]

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Sister Warriors in Conversation: Expanding Communities of Care in CA Women’s Prisons

Visualizing Abolition
Institute of the Arts and Sciences 100 Panetta Ave, Santa Cruz

This panel discussion with Niki Martinez, Elizabeth Lozano, and Susan Bustamente of Sister Warriors Freedom Coalition will be moderated by Dr. Julissa O. Muñiz, UCLA.  Organized for Visualizing Abolition, the event will talk about the movement women and gender expansive folks who have been incarcerated are building to support each other, shift power, and lead systems and policy […]