• Fall is for Planting!

    Arboretum 122 Arboretum Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    Join us on the patio at Norrie’s Gift & Garden Shop at the Arboretum & Botanic Garden. The UC Master Gardeners will host a pop-up booth to give information and answer questions about the benefits of planting in the fall and growing Mediterranean climate plants. We know how hard it is to resist a beautiful […]

  • Celebrate Sustainably: A Fall Field Day

    This school year, PoCSC is implementing a new quarterly field day program where each quarter we come together for a fun, community-bonding day of activities, food, and conversation. This series is an informal educational opportunity for the UCSC community to engage with each other while learning about different themes within environmentalism, such as inclusive sustainability.  […]

  • Celebrate Sustainably: A Fall Field Day

    Social Sciences Lawn 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz

    Celebrate sustainably at PoCSC’s Fall Field Day with food, music, and eco-friendly activities for the UCSC community.

  • Opening Celebration—Celine Grenier Retrospective Exhibition

    Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery Baskin Service Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    2025 marks Céline Grenier’s 50th graduation anniversary from the Art Department at UC Santa Cruz. This retrospective celebrates the Santa Cruz-based alumna’s vast body of work in a diverse range […]

    FREE and open to UCSC affiliates
  • Free Guided Tour of the UCSC Farm

    Hay Barn 94 Ranch View Road, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    Take a free, guided tour of the 30-acre organic UCSC Farm. Visitors can enjoy touring the organically managed greenhouses, hand-worked garden beds, orchards, row crop fields, and children’s garden, while […]

  • ECE 290 Seminar: Operational Cybersecurity of Modern Power Systems

    Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA

    Presenter: Dr. Daniel Arnold, Lead Power Systems Engineer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory   Description: The adoption of new types of generation and loads, such as data centers, small modular reactors, and […]

  • AI Frontier: Data, Agents & Robots at TechWeek SF

    Join us for an immersive SF Tech Week experience hosted by the Silicon Valley AI Pioneer Club and UC Santa Cruz GenAI Center — where AI builders, investors, innovators and […]

    free
  • Printing Party in McHenry Library

    McHenry Library 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, CA

    On Monday, 10/6, Special Collections and Archives is bringing our BookBeetle (a mini replica Gutenberg-era common press) into the 3rd floor hallway of McHenry Library for a printing party! Participants […]

  • CM Seminar – Tracing and Shaping Paths in Design Space

    Silicon Valley Campus 3175 Bowers Avenue, Santa Clara, CA, United States

    Presenter: Max Kreminski   About: It’s notoriously difficulty to evaluate interfaces intended to support creative work – but as software creative tools proliferate, the importance of understanding whether and how […]

  • Tracing and Shaping Paths in Design Space

    Silicon Valley Campus 3175 Bowers Avenue, Santa Clara, CA, United States

    Presented by Max Kreminski Description: It’s notoriously difficulty to evaluate interfaces intended to support creative work – but as software creative tools proliferate, the importance of understanding whether and how these […]

  • AM Seminar: Applications of the Flow-Density Relationship in Traffic Modeling

    Presenter: Dr. Martha Shott, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Sonoma State University   Description: Many mathematical models of traffic are macroscopic in nature, meaning that they model the relationship between average speed, density, and flow along a road or freeway segment. One of the fundamental relationships connecting these three quantities is the flow-density relationship, for which various […]

  • Familiar Touch Screening

    This is a public screening and discussion of FAMILIAR TOUCH. Ruth (Kathleen Chalfant), a retired cook, prepares breakfast in her sunny and cozy kitchen — a dish she seems to have made many times before, although small and puzzling errors now punctuate her comfortable routine. When her son (H. Jon Benjamin) arrives to dine with […]

    Complimentary ticket for UCSC students
  • Familiar Touch Screening

    This public screening and discussion of FAMILIAR TOUCH, the debut feature by filmmaker and choreographer Sarah Friedland, follows retired cook Ruth (Kathleen Chalfant) as she navigates memory loss and mistaken identities.

    Complimentary ticket for UCSC students
  • Road Trip! Light in the American West, from Baja to the Yukon

    Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery 11 Cowell Service Rd, Santa Cruz, CA

    The photographs in this exhibition, made between 2004 and 2025, span across the American West from the Baja California Peninsula in Mexico to The Yukon territory in Canada. Paul Schoellhamer’s (Cowell ‘69) color photographs invite us to travel with him and reflect on our relationship to land, the light that shapes it, and the freedom […]

    Free
  • US – India: Normalization or Reset?

    The US–India relationship stands at a crossroads balancing strategic pragmatism with shared democratic values. Recent tensions over trade, tariffs, and technology have raised questions about whether the partnership is being recalibrated or simply cooling. The 8th annual AIMA US–India Conference examines how the two countries can review their priorities and either restore normalcy or redefine […]

    Free
  • Yoga as Healing Series

    Yoga as Healing Series
    Health Center (Student Health Center) 525 McLaughlin Drive, Santa Cruz, CA

    Yoga as Healing is a 7-week program at UC Santa Cruz for students who identify as survivors of interpersonal violence. Participants are welcome to join any of the sessions, and attendance at the orientation is not required.

  • Drop-In Figure Drawing

    Drop-In Figure Drawing
    Elena Baskin Visual Arts Center Baskin Service Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    Drop-In Draw provides a live model and room monitor. There is no formal lesson and only dry media is allowed (no paints). — ADVISORIES – These events contain mature content and nudity. – Drop-In Draw is subject to the possibility of last-minute cancellation without notification, and sessions are not guaranteed. — ADMISSION – FREE and […]

    FREE and open to the public.