Welcome to the City: Santa Cruz
Homeless Garden Project Farm Shaffer Road, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJoin us for a volunteer day at the Homeless Garden Project farm.
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Broadsides No.2: Pairing Artworks with Poetry – Poetry Reading & Artist Talk
m.k. contemporary art 703 Front Street, Santa Cruz, United StatesFollowing the success of its 2023 debut, Broadsides No. 2 returns this fall to MK Contemporary Art Gallery with a compelling exploration of the dynamic relationship between poetry and visual art. The exhibition pairs nine nationally recognized poets with nine distinguished visual artists, presenting collaborative works that reveal the unexpected resonances between image and language. The participating […]
Korean Experimental Music Festival—Featuring the National Gugak Center and Del Sol Quartet
Music Center Recital Hall 400 McHenry Road, Santa Cruz, CAThe National Gugak Center, Korea’s premier institution for traditional music, collaborates with the Bay Area’s acclaimed Del Sol String Quartet to present a rare and resonant festival blending Korean musical traditions, Western classical instrumentation, and cutting-edge technology.
FREE and open to the public
The SpongeBob Musical
Theater Arts Mainstage 411 Kerr Road, Santa Cruz, CAThe SpongeBob Musical follows SpongeBob and his friends as they race to save Bikini Bottom from an erupting volcano.
$5 – $25
Barnstorm Presents—1972: The Future of Sex
Theater Arts Center 453 Kerr Road, Santa Cruz, CADevised by The Wardrobe Ensemble, 1972: The Future of Sex incorporates the company’s trademark theatricality, irreverent humour and ensemble ingenuity to tell the story of three couples having sex for the first time—and a country on the brink of a sexual awakening.
Free – $20
International Education Week 2025
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Boundaries & Communication: International Grad Student Circle
Graduate Student Commons 420 Hagar Drive, Santa Cruz, CABoundaries & Communication: International Grad Student Circle Date: Monday, November 17 Time: 1–3 p.m. Location: Graduate Student Commons (above Cafe Iveta in Quarry Plaza) Description: Join CARE, International Student Services & Programs, and the Grad Student Commons for lunch and conversation about boundaries, culture, and healthy professional relationships. This event centers international graduate students and is […]
AM Seminar: Dynamo Action Inside the Giant Planets
Presenter: Dr. Paula Wulff, UCLA Description: Our solar system hosts six unique planetary magnetic fields. Intrinsic magnetic fields are generated deep inside planets by dynamo action. This process requires regions of electrically conducting material and energy sources to maintain the dynamo. Thus, we can learn about the deep interiors of planets, including their structures and […]
Statistics Seminar: Beyond the Average Treatment Effect: Causal Mediation Methods for Understanding Intervention Mechanisms
Presenter: Hanna Kim, Assistant Professor, Psychology Department, UCSC Description: Understanding how an intervention works is a central question in behavioral and social research, following the demonstration of its overall effect. Traditional mediation analysis techniques often assume a homogeneous mechanism of effects, overlooking both validity concerns and subgroup variation in causal pathways. In this talk, I […]
IEW Kickoff Fair
Namaste Lounge 615 College Nine Road, Santa Cruz, CA@ucsc_isp
Western Regional Hub: Undergraduate Success Group Meeting
Members of the hub’s working group focused on Undergraduate student success will meet to share ideas and strategize. If you would like to be involved in the hub’s work, please contact Richard Raygoza at riraygoz@ucsc.edu
Corporations at Climate Crossroads: Book Talk with Lily Hsueh
Interdisciplinary Sciences Building 7487 Red Hill Road, Santa Cruz, CAWith climate risks growing, climate action facing political headwinds in many countries, and international cooperation increasingly challenged, Lily Hsueh’s Corporations at Climate Crossroads illuminates how and under what conditions the world’s largest corporations have taken proactive action on climate change during the years leading up to and after the Paris Agreement. Drawing on insights from […]
Yoga as Healing Series
Health Center (Student Health Center) 525 McLaughlin Drive, Santa Cruz, CAYoga 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
Elena Baskin Visual Arts Center Baskin Service Road, Santa Cruz, CADrop-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.
Produce Pop-Up
Affordable produce from the campus farm and local farmers market for students and the community! Fall 2025 Schedule Wednesdays: 11am–3pm at Quarry Plaza Fridays: 11am–3pm outside the Science & Engineering Library
Road Trip! Light in the American West, from Baja to the Yukon
Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery 11 Cowell Service Rd, Santa Cruz, CAThe 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
Humanities at Work: Informational Interviewing
Humanities 1 Building 420 Hagar Drive, Santa Cruz, CAAre you curious about your career options as a humanities student? Wondering how the professionals around you got to where they are? Join this interactive workshop to learn about informational interviewing*, a way you can use your curiosity to explore career possibilities and make meaningful professional connections. You’ll leave ready to reach out, learn from […]
Open House: Oakes Collaborations
Explore Our New Collaborative Spaces in Oakes College! We’re excited to welcome you to the newly expanded spaces in the Oakes Academic Building, now home to a vibrant community of Social Sciences research centers and programs. Connect with colleagues from the Institute for Social Transformation, the Center for Labor and Community, the Right Livelihood Center, […]
Free
College Night: One Planet, One Home
College Nine/ John R. Lewis Dining HallCollege Nine and John R. Lewis College, in collaboration with UCSC Dining, present “One Planet, One Home” a conservation college night during International Education Week. Join us Wednesday, November 19, from 5–8 p.m. at the College Nine/John R. Lewis Dining Hall for a night of activities, fun, community, and a special themed menu. There will […]
International Trivia Night
Namaste Lounge 615 College Nine Road, Santa Cruz, CA@ucsc_isp