Week of Events
Monday, April 20, 2026
No events on this day.
Tuesday, April 21, 2026
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April 21, 2026Field Trip to ALBA
Field Trip to ALBA
Join 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 […]
Wednesday, April 22, 2026
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April 22, 2026Arts & Ecology Festival: Creative Resistance
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. […]
Thursday, April 23, 2026
No events on this day.
Friday, April 24, 2026
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April 24, 2026Palaver Strings—April in Santa Cruz
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April 24, 2026Harriet: Performing Anarchive
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April 24, 2026Harriet: Performing an Archive
Palaver Strings—April in Santa Cruz
Kuumbwa 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 […]
Harriet: Performing Anarchive
Through 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 […]
Harriet: Performing an Archive
Through motion capture, immersive sound, and real-time digital systems, CHARI perform 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 […]
Saturday, April 25, 2026
No events on this day.
Sunday, April 26, 2026
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April 26, 2026Pianist Keisuke Nakagoshi—April in Santa Cruz
Pianist Keisuke Nakagoshi—April in Santa Cruz
Pianist 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 the United States. The program opens with an imaginative fantasy of a bird, explores the psychology of addiction and mental illness, explores a liberating sense […]