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The 2026 Festival of Monsters image is a monstrous banana slug rampaging across a city, like a kaiju.

Festival of Monsters: Academic Conference

Festival of Monsters 2026
Courtyard by Marriott Santa Cruz 313 Riverside Ave, Santa Cruz

The 2026 Festival of Monsters Academic Conference (Oct. 14-18, 2026) explores how monsters and language intertwine with panels on monsters and communication, cursed texts, monster poetry and more. Monster-related games will be played. Comics writer Iván Brandon and bioethicist author Rosemarie Garland Thomson  are scheduled to give the keynote talks. The academic conference will take […]

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The Audacity to Create title from exhibition poster

Exhibition—The Audacity to Create, works by BIPOC UC Santa Cruz alumni

Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery Baskin Service Road, Santa Cruz

The Audacity to Create is an alumni exhibition showcasing the work of UC Santa Cruz Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) alumni Alejandra Chavez, Jorge Gomez-Gonzalez , Katie Dorame, Seráb Serabia, Aleya Caballero, Edward Ramirez, Josselyne Morales, and Marceline Valentine. ADMISSION Attend in person at the Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery at UC Santa […]

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Learning Support Services (LSS) Successful Slug Workshops!

Goal Setting

Successful Slug Workshops
Academic Resources Center (ARC) 408 McHenry Road, Santa Cruz

In this workshop, you will: Set SMART goals to help you get organized & on track for success. The Successful Slug Workshop series, hosted by Learning Support Services Peer Coaches, are open to all UCSC undergraduate students and focus on academic skills and tools to support your success as a student. At each workshop, you […]

Fall Career & Internship Fair

2026 Fall (all-majors) Career & Internship Fair

Colleges Nine and John R. Lewis College Multi-purpose Room 615 College Nine Road, Santa Cruz

Undergraduate and graduate students and recent alumni interested in pursuing careers in all industries are welcome to attend. Get the chance to meet recruiters from all industries/firms seeking to fill both internship, full-time, and part-time roles. Come take essential steps toward laying the foundation for your future career and potentially even land an interview!

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Carlos Motta: When Time Stands Still

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

Carlos Motta’s When Time Stands Still, the artist’s second solo show with the IAS, features new and recent installations, videos, and sculptures highlighting the artist’s preoccupation with the historical and aesthetic productions of difference and marginalization that shape the present. The selection of artworks in the exhibition explore the unsettling experience of living in a time that seems […]

close up of face painted on pyramid of ice coolers

Victor ‘Marka27’ Quiñonez: Ni de Aquí, Ni de Allá

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

Organized in partnership with the Center for Art and Advocacy, located in Brooklyn, New York, Ni de Aquí, Ni de Allá (Not From Here, Not From There) by multidisciplinary artist Victor ‘Marka27’ Quiñonez features a wide range of artworks  that issue a bold declaration of dual belonging, including altars, an elaborately immersive botanica, paintings referencing […]