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  • May 2026

  • Fri 15
    A graphic advertising the "stem culture festival" with the date "May 15, 1-4pm" and the Baskin Engineering logo

    STEM Culture Festival

    Featured May 15 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
    Jack Baskin Engineering Baskin Engineering 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA

    Join us for a celebration of UCSC’s vibrant, innovative, and diverse STEM community featuring: Musical performances Dance lessons STEM-themed drag shows Inspirational talks Student organization tabling Student-led games & activities […]

  • Fri 15
    woman dancing

    Rasanblé/Rasanblaj: Call & Response

    May 15 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
    Institute of the Arts and Sciences 100 Panetta Ave, Santa Cruz, United States

    Join us for an evening of call and response between Portsha Jefferson, dancer and artistic director of Rara Tou Limen, and artist-scholar Gina Athena Ulysse. Jefferson will offer a Haitian dance response to Ulysse’s art exhibition Redwoods Rasanblaj: Origins & Disentanglements and screen her short film IMAMOU: Hotô to Shore… Agbe | Agwe. Ulysse will read from […]

  • Fri 15

    UCSC Concert Choir

    May 15 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
    Music Center Recital Hall 400 McHenry Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    UCSC Concert Choir

    Free – $12
  • Fri 15

    Who Can I Run To?, by Alyssa Windom—2026 Dharma Grace Creative Writing Award and Theatrical Production

    May 15 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm Who Can I Run To?, by Alyssa Windom—2026 Dharma Grace Creative Writing Award and Theatrical Production
    Second Stage Second Stage, Santa Cruz, CA

    Through their belief in Ifá and the divine, three generations of women grow their relationships with each other and navigate living within their African diasporic identities.

  • Sat 16

    Who Can I Run To?, by Alyssa Windom—2026 Dharma Grace Creative Writing Award and Theatrical Production

    May 16 @ 7:30 pm Who Can I Run To?, by Alyssa Windom—2026 Dharma Grace Creative Writing Award and Theatrical Production
    Second Stage Second Stage, Santa Cruz, CA

    Through their belief in Ifá and the divine, three generations of women grow their relationships with each other and navigate living within their African diasporic identities.

  • Sat 16
    Mariachi ensemble on stage

    La Alegria del Mariachi with guest artist Lupita Infante

    May 16 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
    Music Center Recital Hall 400 McHenry Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    UCSC Music Ensemble

    Free – $12
  • Sun 17

    Who Can I Run To?, by Alyssa Windom—2026 Dharma Grace Creative Writing Award and Theatrical Production

    May 17 @ 2:00 pm Who Can I Run To?, by Alyssa Windom—2026 Dharma Grace Creative Writing Award and Theatrical Production
    Second Stage Second Stage, Santa Cruz, CA

    Through their belief in Ifá and the divine, three generations of women grow their relationships with each other and navigate living within their African diasporic identities.

  • Sun 17
    grad student

    DMA Recital—Maisha Lani

    May 17 @ 3:00 pm
    Music Center Recital Hall 400 McHenry Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    Graduate student Maisha Lani debuts new compositions composed over the course of two years in the D.M.A. Music Composition program at UC Santa Cruz. The pieces range in instrumentation and style: from a blues to a post-tonal work, consisting of vibraphone and stringed instruments, to afrobeat inspired compositions, to graphic scores and improvisation. Audiences are […]

    FREE and open to the public
  • Thu 21

    Who Can I Run To?, by Alyssa Windom—2026 Dharma Grace Creative Writing Award and Theatrical Production

    May 21 @ 7:30 pm Who Can I Run To?, by Alyssa Windom—2026 Dharma Grace Creative Writing Award and Theatrical Production
    Second Stage Second Stage, Santa Cruz, CA

    Through their belief in Ifá and the divine, three generations of women grow their relationships with each other and navigate living within their African diasporic identities.

  • Thu 21

    Of Nature and the Cosmos—April in Santa Cruz

    May 21 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm April in Santa Cruz Festival of Creative Music 2026 (AiSC)
    Music Center Performance Studio 131 Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    Join acclaimed Iranian virtuosi Siamak Barghi (kamancheh, tombak), and Arya Tavallaei (santour); Stanford University’s celebrated guzheng master Hui You; and San Francisco’s Del Sol Quartet (“excavations of beauty from the elemental”—New York Times) for an intrepid concert that explores nature, the cosmos, the “deep acoustics” of musical harmony, and an exchange of imagination and inspiration among […]

    FREE and open to the public
  • Fri 22
    Ronaldo and Terri

    Something held by poetry

    May 22 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
    Institute of the Arts and Sciences 100 Panetta Ave, Santa Cruz, United States

    In this intimate workshop, UC Santa Cruz students, faculty, and staff are invited into conversation with poets Ronaldo V. Wilson and Terri Witek. Something held by poetry is programmed for Wilson’s multimedia exhibition, there are no words, but melodies, currently on view at the IAS. RSVP is required. Ronaldo V. Wilson is a poet, interdisciplinary artist, […]

  • Fri 22

    Who Can I Run To?, by Alyssa Windom—2026 Dharma Grace Creative Writing Award and Theatrical Production

    May 22 @ 7:30 pm Who Can I Run To?, by Alyssa Windom—2026 Dharma Grace Creative Writing Award and Theatrical Production
    Second Stage Second Stage, Santa Cruz, CA

    Through their belief in Ifá and the divine, three generations of women grow their relationships with each other and navigate living within their African diasporic identities.

  • Sat 23

    Who Can I Run To?, by Alyssa Windom—2026 Dharma Grace Creative Writing Award and Theatrical Production

    May 23 @ 7:30 pm Who Can I Run To?, by Alyssa Windom—2026 Dharma Grace Creative Writing Award and Theatrical Production
    Second Stage Second Stage, Santa Cruz, CA

    Through their belief in Ifá and the divine, three generations of women grow their relationships with each other and navigate living within their African diasporic identities.

  • Sun 24

    Who Can I Run To?, by Alyssa Windom—2026 Dharma Grace Creative Writing Award and Theatrical Production

    May 24 @ 2:00 pm Who Can I Run To?, by Alyssa Windom—2026 Dharma Grace Creative Writing Award and Theatrical Production
    Second Stage Second Stage, Santa Cruz, CA

    Through their belief in Ifá and the divine, three generations of women grow their relationships with each other and navigate living within their African diasporic identities.

  • Thu 28

    UCSC Opera—Orpheus in the Underworld

    May 28 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm UCSC Opera—Orpheus in the Underworld
    Music Center Recital Hall 400 McHenry Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    A rollicking and irreverent spoof of the Orpheus myth, Jacques Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld is most famous as the origin of the “gallop infernal”—the music now strongly associated with the can-can dance. This operetta follows the unhappy (and unfaithful) union of Orpheus and Eurydice, as the latter’s love affair with the god of the […]

  • Fri 29

    UCSC Opera—Orpheus in the Underworld

    May 29 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm UCSC Opera—Orpheus in the Underworld
    Music Center Recital Hall 400 McHenry Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    A rollicking and irreverent spoof of the Orpheus myth, Jacques Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld is most famous as the origin of the “gallop infernal”—the music now strongly associated with the can-can dance. This operetta follows the unhappy (and unfaithful) union of Orpheus and Eurydice, as the latter’s love affair with the god of the […]

  • Sat 30
    Ronaldo V. Wilson

    Office Hours Under the Sea

    May 30 @ 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm
    Institute of the Arts and Sciences 100 Panetta Ave, Santa Cruz, United States

    Join Ronaldo Wilson and special guests for a site-specific, endurance performance as part of there are no words, but melodies. The exhibition emerges at the intersections of Black poetics, performance, and visual art toshuttle between verbal and non-verbal forms of language, rendering the boundaries of identity and meaning slippery. Drop in and visit Wilson’s office […]

  • Sat 30

    UCSC Opera—Orpheus in the Underworld

    May 30 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm UCSC Opera—Orpheus in the Underworld
    Music Center Recital Hall 400 McHenry Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    A rollicking and irreverent spoof of the Orpheus myth, Jacques Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld is most famous as the origin of the “gallop infernal”—the music now strongly associated with the can-can dance. This operetta follows the unhappy (and unfaithful) union of Orpheus and Eurydice, as the latter’s love affair with the god of the […]

  • Sun 31

    UCSC Opera—Orpheus in the Underworld

    May 31 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm UCSC Opera—Orpheus in the Underworld
    Music Center Recital Hall 400 McHenry Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    A rollicking and irreverent spoof of the Orpheus myth, Jacques Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld is most famous as the origin of the “gallop infernal”—the music now strongly associated with the can-can dance. This operetta follows the unhappy (and unfaithful) union of Orpheus and Eurydice, as the latter’s love affair with the god of the […]

  • June 2026

  • Tue 2

    UCSC Chamber Music Concert

    June 2 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
    Music Center Recital Hall 400 McHenry Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    Audiences are invited to a free spring quarter chamber music concert featuring a variety of student ensembles. — ADMISSION – Attend in person at the Music Center Recital Hall at UC Santa Cruz – Free and open to the public. – Open seating (no ticket required). – Doors are scheduled to open 30 minutes prior […]

    FREE and open to the public
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