Arts & Ecology Festival: Creative Resistance
On Earth Day, UC Santa Cruz launches the inaugural Arts & Ecology Festival: Creative Resistance, a campus-wide gathering that refuses to treat climate change as a problem of carbon alone. […]
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Digital Arts Research Center 407 McHenry Rd, Santa Cruz, CA
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Palaver Strings—April in Santa Cruz
Kuumbwa Jazz Center 320-2 Cedar St, Santa Cruz, United StatesKuumbwa Jazz, Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, and the Arts Division at UC Santa Cruz partner to present: A Change is Gonna Come, featuring Palaver Strings and tenor Nicholas Phan. […]
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Pianist Keisuke Nakagoshi—April in Santa Cruz
Music Center Recital Hall 400 McHenry Road, Santa Cruz, CAPianist Keisuke Nakagoshi graces UC Santa Cruz’s Music Center Recital Hall with Rippling, Resistance, and Rain, a unique concert of 21st century piano music written by composers from Japan and […]
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Denim Day Open Mic & Survivor Share-Out
Namaste Lounge 615 College Nine Road, Santa Cruz, CAJoin CARE in closing out Sexual Assault Awareness Month 2026, during Denim Day, for a space where we’ll connect as a community, hand out copies of the new volume of […]
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Percussionist Christopher Clarino—April in Santa Cruz
Music Center Recital Hall 400 McHenry Road, Santa Cruz, CAJoin percussionist Christopher Clarino in a concert of revolutionary work that invites listeners of all kinds to rethink hearing itself. This concert features a wide range of pieces—some well known […]
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Music on the Meadow—April in Santa Cruz
Music Center Recital Hall 400 McHenry Road, Santa Cruz, CAMusic On The Meadow (MOTM) presents “Episode 0: Music with the Meadow.” MOTM showcases engagement from students, artists, scientists, scholars, and culture bearers, who engage in “listening with the meadow” […]
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UCSC Wind Ensemble
Music Center Recital Hall 400 McHenry Road, Santa Cruz, CAUCSC Wind Ensemble concert
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Where Cultures Bloom — We Belong here
Oakes Learning CenterWhere Cultures Bloom is a large-scale cultural celebration centered on community, expression, and belonging, grounded in the idea that UCSC is shaped by the diverse identities and voices of those […]
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ABC Ensemble and This Never Happened—April in Santa Cruz
Music Center Recital Hall 400 McHenry Road, Santa Cruz, CAPianists/experimentalists Amy Beal and Ben Carson, and friends in the This Never Happened Ensemble, present a concert of toys, noise, open-questions, and a love of play, including one piece involving […]
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STEM Culture Festival
FeaturedJack Baskin Engineering Baskin Engineering 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CAJoin 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 […]
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Rasanblé/Rasanblaj: Call & Response
Institute of the Arts and Sciences 100 Panetta Ave, Santa Cruz, United StatesJoin 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 […]
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UCSC Concert Choir
Music Center Recital Hall 400 McHenry Road, Santa Cruz, CAUCSC Concert Choir
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Who Can I Run To?, by Alyssa Windom—2026 Dharma Grace Creative Writing Award and Theatrical Production
Second Stage Second Stage, Santa Cruz, CAThrough 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.
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Who Can I Run To?, by Alyssa Windom—2026 Dharma Grace Creative Writing Award and Theatrical Production
Second Stage Second Stage, Santa Cruz, CAThrough 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.
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La Alegria del Mariachi with guest artist Lupita Infante
Music Center Recital Hall 400 McHenry Road, Santa Cruz, CAUCSC Music Ensemble
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Who Can I Run To?, by Alyssa Windom—2026 Dharma Grace Creative Writing Award and Theatrical Production
Second Stage Second Stage, Santa Cruz, CAThrough 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.
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DMA Recital—Maisha Lani
Music Center Recital Hall 400 McHenry Road, Santa Cruz, CAGraduate 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 […]
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Who Can I Run To?, by Alyssa Windom—2026 Dharma Grace Creative Writing Award and Theatrical Production
Second Stage Second Stage, Santa Cruz, CAThrough 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.
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Of Nature and the Cosmos—April in Santa Cruz
Music Center Performance Studio 131 Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJoin 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 […]
FREE and open to the public