UCSC Jazz Big Band—with guest artist Marcus Shelby, bass
UCSC Jazz Big Band
Free – $12
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Music Center Recital Hall 400 McHenry Road, Santa Cruz, CA
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The Art of Spontaneous Creativity
Porter/Kresge Dining Hall 411 Porter-Kresge Rd, Santa Cruz, CACome and enjoy a winter concert by the spontaneous composition and improvisation, MUSC 150J ensemble. You’ll be able to experience the art of spontaneous creativity in action. — ADMISSION – FREE and open to UCSC affliates – Located in Porter Dining Hall — PARKING – Lot 124 & 125 are the closest parking lots to […]
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Jazz at Lunch! The Art of Spontaneous Creativity
Porter/Kresge Dining Hall 411 Porter-Kresge Rd, Santa Cruz, CATake a break from studying for finals and grab lunch in the Porter/Kresge Dining Hall and enjoy the Jazz. Grab a snack from the Porter Market and take in the concert from the Mezzanine. Or purchase lunch at the dining hall and enjoy the performance from the Dinning room floor. Porter/Kresge Dining Hall Wednesday, March […]
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A Sacred Witnessing: A Trans Day of Euphoria Event
Diversity Center 1117 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJoin the Cantu Queer Center and the Diversity Center for an intergenerational Trans Day of Visibility gathering rooted in euphoria, joy, and sacred witnessing. Trans, nonbinary, Two-Spirit, and gender-expansive people of all ages are invited to share their stories, create art, and witness each other’s full humanity in a moment of dangerous hypervisibility and harm […]
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The Garden – Quarry Amphitheater (April 3rd)
FeaturedUpper Quarry Amphitheater 15 McLaughlin Drive, Santa Cruz, CATickets are on sale at quarryamphitheater.com, starting at $49.04 for general admission, and $72.11 VIP seating. THE GARDEN IS A CONSTANTLY EVOLVING BAND ORIGINALLY FROM ORANGE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA. ESTABLISHED IN 2011 BY WYATT AND FLETCHER SHEARS. THEY HAVE BEEN TOURING SINCE 2012 AND HAVE PLAYED IN DIFFERENT REGIONS INCLUDING THE UNITED KINGDOM, EUROPE, UNITED STATES, […]
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Student Recital—Maddison Ramirez, soprano
Music Center Recital Hall 400 McHenry Road, Santa Cruz, CAMaddison Ramirez, soprano, presents their Bachelor of Music (B.M.) recital, with music from Renaissance, Romantic, and Modern eras. Accompanied by Luke Shepherd, piano; Faith Lanam, harpsichord, Denali Zia, cello, and various additional vocalists. Download and share the event flyer here. — ADMISSION – Attend in person at the Music Center Recital Hall at UC Santa […]
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NOIZ: An Evening of Words, Sounds + Ideas
Digital Arts Research Center 407 McHenry Rd, Santa Cruz, CAHosted by Assistant Professor and hip hop artist akua naru, the evening features live student performances, a DJ set, and an intimate conversation with guest artist/performer Edd Wheeler: pioneering Brazilian rapper, founding member of As Damas do Rap, the first female Hip Hop group in Rio de Janeiro, and practicing lawyer and organizer whose life […]
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NOIZ—April in Santa Cruz festival opening
Digital Arts Research Center 407 McHenry Rd, Santa Cruz, CANOIZ: An Evening of Words, Sounds + Ideas is a live gathering at the intersection of Hip Hop, activism, and the spoken word—a space where music meets testimony. Hosted by assistant professor and hip hop artist akua naru, the evening features live student performances, a DJ set, and an intimate conversation with guest artist/performer Edd […]
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Night of Ideas 2026
Institute of the Arts and Sciences 100 Panetta Ave, Santa Cruz, United StatesEnlightenment, Now! Join us for a nocturnal celebration of art, philosophy, and activism! Enlightenment, Now! As the United States approaches the 250th anniversary of its independence, the 2026 Santa Cruz Night of Ideas invites us not to celebrate the Enlightenment, but to interrogate it. Long associated with democracy, progress, and universal reason, the Enlightenment’s legacy […]
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4th Annual Mother Earth Drag Extravaganza
FeaturedSeymour Marine Discovery Center 100 McAllister Way, Santa Cruz, CAGet ready to slay and celebrate nature’s fierce beauty at the Mother Earth Drag Extravaganza! A student drag show and queer prom! You won’t want to miss the 4th Annual Mother Earth Drag Extravaganza. ABOUT Mother Earth is inherently queer. Come celebrate nature with performances from student drag artists, tabling from queer groups as well […]
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DRAIN – Quarry Amphitheater (April 18th)
FeaturedUpper Quarry Amphitheater 15 McLaughlin Drive, Santa Cruz, CATickets are on sale at quarryamphitheater.com, starting at $55.96 for general admission DRAIN came together in the sleepy, oceanside NorCal climes of Santa Cruz in 2014 when Ciaramitaro met up with guitarist Cody Chavez and drummer Tim Flegal while attending college. “We had no idea or gameplan of what we were trying to do,” says […]
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Field Trip to ALBA
MJ Organic Farms 1700 Old Stage Rd, Salinas, CaliforniaJoin us for an opportunity to visit the Agriculture and Land-Based Training Association (ALBA) in Salinas! ALBA is a non-profit whose mission is to create economic opportunity for aspiring organic farmers and […]
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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. Instead, it brings together artists, scientists, students, and community partners to engage the deeper conditions of the crisis, and to open space for cultural, political, […]
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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. Grammy award-winning tenor Nicholas Phan joins Portland, Maine-based ensemble Palaver Strings, in a program that explores our country’s rich legacy of protest songs. Repertoire includes […]
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Harriet: Performing Anarchive
Digital Arts Research Center 407 McHenry Rd, Santa Cruz, CAThrough motion capture, immersive sound, and real-time digital systems, CHARI (Dr. Chari Smith) performs alongside Harriet, a life-scale avatar carrying a living archive of Black sonic and vernacular memory. Drawing from Black archival traditions rooted in call-and-response, improvisation, and communal stewardship, the performance understands memory as relational and alive. Together, our movements shape the environment […]
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Harriet: Performing an Archive
Digital Arts Research Center 407 McHenry Rd, Santa Cruz, CAThrough motion capture, immersive sound, and real-time digital systems, CHARI performs alongside Harriet, a life-scale avatar carrying a living archive of Black sonic and vernacular memory. Drawing from Black archival traditions rooted in call-and-response, improvisation, and communal stewardship, the performance understands memory as relational and alive. Together, our movements shape the environment as the performance […]
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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 the CARE Art Zine, and hold an open mic and survivor share-out, open to all UCSC survivors, their supporters, and allies! Food and refreshments provided, […]
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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 and others newly commissioned—that explore sound, language, and gesture through electronics, field recordings, text, and American Sign Language (ASL). Framed in dialogue with these premieres […]
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