• Tailor Your Resume for Success (Drop-in Session)

    Join us to receive feedback on your resume and gain tips on tailoring it for success. You will get 1-on-1 feedback from our Career Success team. If you don't already have a resume, join us to learn how to get started. While you're here, you can enjoy snacks in our open house to learn more […]

  • Make Your Resume Awesome!

    Does your resume need a little help?  Are you unsure about where to start, or about how to make your resume absolutely fantastic?  Join us for this 30-minute workshop to learn about cutting-edge resume best practices, followed by an optional 30 minutes of "resume work time" where you can meet individually with a coach to […]

  • 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 of media. Grenier is both inspired by the beauty of life closely examined and horrified by man’s trajectory. She works from a large mental catalog […]

    FREE and open to UCSC affiliates
  • Familiar Touch Screening

    Communications Building 7487 Red Hill Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    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

    Communications Building 7487 Red Hill Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    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
  • Talking Tales of the Undead

    Santa Cruz Public Library

    Exploring the ways monsters and tropes of monstrosity pervade our culture.

    FREE and open to the public
  • Creative Interventions (CI) Series

    Creative Interventions (CI) Series

    Creative Interventions (CI) is a community colloquium in contemporary creativity and creative practices that addresses the interconnected work of artists, designers, activists, and knowledge workers—and the intrinsic and transformative capacity of that work to cultivate a just society. The CI Speaker Series raises questions of import to contemporary creative workers in media and technology: – How […]

    FREE and open to UCSC affiliates
  • Sesnon Salon: History of Art & Visual Culture

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

    The Arts Division welcome students, faculty, staff, and the general community to a salon-style gathering presenting the work of UC Santa Cruz’s History of Art and Visual Culture (HAVC) Department.

    FREE and open to the public
  • Festival of Monsters: Oh, the Horror!

    Bookshop Santa Cruz

    exploring the ways monsters and tropes of monstrosity pervade our culture.

    Registration Required; FREE and open to the public
  • Barnstorm Presents: 24-Hour Theater

    Theater Arts Center 453 Kerr Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    Audiences are invited to attend the grand finale of this 24-Hour Theater process.

    Free – $20
  • Mark Primack: The Truth in Drawing

    Media Theater Experimental Theater, Santa Cruz, CA

    Lecture by Mark Primack where he will present “Truth in Drawing”

    FREE and open to the public
  • Creative Interventions: “Asymptote” with Nora Khan

    Nora Khan explores our personal relationships with computational systems through moments spanning from childhood gaming experiences to contemporary AI. The central metaphor of the “asymptote”—a curve endlessly approaching but never reaching a line—describes both humanity’s pursuit of technological mastery, and the incomputable aspects of experience that resist capture by algorithms and surveillance. Through encounters with […]

    FREE and open to UCSC affiliates
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