Festival of Monsters 2025
Digital Arts Research Center 407 McHenry Rd, Santa Cruz, CA +4 moreExploring the ways monsters and tropes of monstrosity pervade our culture.
$225 – $275
20 events found.
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Festival of Monsters: David Livingstone Smith Keynote
Museum of Art & History 705 Front St, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesExploring the ways monsters and tropes of monstrosity pervade our culture.
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Sesnon Salon: History of Art & Visual Culture
Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery Baskin Service Road, Santa Cruz, CAThe 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.
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Someone Always Dies (SAD): An Improv Comedy Show
Theater Arts Center 453 Kerr Road, Santa Cruz, CASomeone Always Dies (SAD) is UC Santa Cruz’s premier long-form improv team.
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Festival of Monsters: Oh, the Horror!
Bookshop Santa Cruzexploring the ways monsters and tropes of monstrosity pervade our culture.
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Festival of Monsters: Artist Cole Lemke
Atlantis Fantasyworldexploring the ways monsters and tropes of monstrosity pervade our culture.
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Festival of Monsters: Blood on the Clocktower
Game Santa Cruz 1101 Cedar St, Santa Cruz, CA, United Statesexploring the ways monsters and tropes of monstrosity pervade our culture.
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Barnstorm Presents: 24-Hour Theater
Theater Arts Center 453 Kerr Road, Santa Cruz, CAAudiences are invited to attend the grand finale of this 24-Hour Theater process.
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Mark Primack: The Truth in Drawing
Media Theater Experimental Theater, Santa Cruz, CALecture by Mark Primack where he will present “Truth in Drawing”
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Barnstorm presents: At the Hands of Fire & Iron
Theater Arts B100 Studio Theater 453 Kerr Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBarnstorm theatre presents a fantasy show.
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A Joyful Noise—video, music, panel discussion, and fellowship
Audiences are invited to listen, share, and express ideas and feelings about individual and collective struggles in this interdisciplinary event featuring music, arts, science, and creative videography.
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Campus to Career: Job Talk with Rebecca Hernandez, Community Archivist
Virtual EventWondering what you can do with your Arts or Humanities degree? Come hear from a real professional on our campus with a background in both. If you are interested in careers in higher education, museums, or archives, this event is for you!
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Visual & Media Cultures Colloquium (VMCC) Series
Porter College D-Building, Santa Cruz, CAThe Visual & Media Cultures Colloquium (VMCC) is an annual lecture series that brings cutting-edge scholars to speak on a broad range of subjects related to visual and media culture. The series is co-sponsored with the graduate programs in the History of Art & Visual Culture (HAVC) and the Film & Digital Media departments. Each […]
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Visiting Theater Artists 2-Day Residency with Torange Yeghiazarian and Evren Odcikin from MENA
Digital Arts Research Center 407 McHenry Rd, Santa Cruz, CAMENA theater artists Torange Yeghiazarian and Evren Odcikin for a 2-day residency Nov 12th and 13th on campus.
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Book Talk with Winnie Wong—VMCC Series
Porter College D-Building, Santa Cruz, CAIn this public talk, Winnie Wong presents her latest book, The Many Names of Anonymity: Portraitists of the Canton Trade, which examines the tension between recognizing individuals as artists with rights of authorship and the limitations of the modern “artist” concept.
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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.
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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.
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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