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  • May 2026

  • Sat 30
    Colorful nebula with swirling clouds of blue, gold, and brown gas and dust, forming pillar-like structures against a dense star field.

    Beautiful Universe – An astrophotography exhibit

    May 21 @ 12:00 pm – May 31 @ 6:00 pm
    Museum of Art & History 705 Front St, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    Beautiful Universe is a pop-up exhibit in collaboration with the UC Santa Cruz Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics that will be on display at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art […]

  • Sat 30
    u-pick strawberry patch

    Berry U-Pick at the UCSC Farm

    May 30 @ 9:00 am – 12:00 pm Berry U-Pick at the UCSC Farm
    UCSC Farm 152 Farm Rd, Santa Cruz, CA

    Come enjoy picking your own organic strawberries and/or blueberries at the campus farm! Our delicious, organic berries will be plentiful this spring and we hope you can come enjoy the […]

  • Sat 30

    Younger Lagoon Reserve Tours

    May 30 @ 10:30 am – 12:00 pm Younger Lagoon Reserve Tours
    Seymour Marine Discovery Center 100 McAllister Way, Santa Cruz, CA

    Younger Lagoon Reserve tours are free and open to the public. Space is limited to 18 participants. Call 831-459-3800 or sign-up online. Virtual tours are available online.  

    Free
  • Sat 30

    Rooted in Identity — Mixed Identity Retreat

    May 30 @ 10:30 am – 1:30 pm
    Crown Provost House 660 Crown Service Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    Join the Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center on Saturday 5/30 from 10:30am-1:30pm at the Ethnic Resource Centers (located at the Crown Provost House) to explore the unique experiences of those with mixed racial and cultural identities within […]

  • Sat 30
    herb garden

    Herbs and Tending the Inner Garden

    May 30 @ 12:00 pm
    UCSC Farm 152 Farm Rd, Santa Cruz, CA

    The way to care for humans and gardens have lots of similarities. We will explore the realm of self care, health maintenance and disharmony management through the lens of herbal medicine and metaphors of organic garden management. This class will be an herb walk where we will visit common garden plants, “weeds” and medicinal plants […]

  • Sat 30
    2 people looking at artwork of a map

    Spring Exhibitions at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences

    May 30 @ 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm Spring Exhibitions at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences
    Institute of the Arts and Sciences 100 Panetta Ave, Santa Cruz, United States

    Visit the IAS, UCSC’s premier art galleries, for our spring exhibitions. On view April 10–August 16, 2026 are three diverse and interdisciplinary shows: Libia Posada: Everything is Going Right, the […]

  • Sat 30
    film still

    Visualizing Abolition Screening Series: Beyond Access

    May 30 @ 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm Visualizing Abolition
    Institute of the Arts and Sciences 100 Panetta Ave, Santa Cruz, United States

    On view in the IAS Screening Room is a selection of short films curated by Visualizing Abolition Visiting Faculty Fellow Dr. Pooja Rangan. Prisons deny and censor the access of […]

  • Sat 30
    Ronaldo V. Wilson

    Office Hours Under the Sea

    May 30 @ 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm
    Institute of the Arts and Sciences 100 Panetta Ave, Santa Cruz, United States

    Join Ronaldo Wilson and special guests for a site-specific, endurance performance as part of there are no words, but melodies. The exhibition emerges at the intersections of Black poetics, performance, […]

  • Sat 30

    Rules Are Not Neutral: Play As Sense-Making, Acts Of Resistance, And Imagining Otherwise

    May 30 @ 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm Rules Are Not Neutral: Play As Sense-Making, Acts Of Resistance, And Imagining Otherwise
    Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery 11 Cowell Service Rd, Santa Cruz, CA

    This exhibition brings together a range of analog games – including board, card, role-playing, and other participatory works – that engage social and political realities in different ways. The works […]

    Free
  • Sat 30

    Arts Staff Live!

    May 30 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
    Digital Arts Research Center 407 McHenry Rd, Santa Cruz, CA

    UCSC Arts Staff Live! 2

    FREE and open to the public
  • Sat 30
    A vibrant, yellow graffiti-style poster features the bold text "GO BANANAS! CARNIVAL" above a row of six cheerful, cartoonish snails and a stamp celebrating 40 years of Sammy.

    Go Bananas! Carnival

    May 30 @ 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm
    Upper East Field

    Get ready to turn the field yellow! Presented by the Division of Student Affairs and Success Leadership and Involvement Team Join us for the ultimate end-of-year bash as we celebrate […]

  • Sat 30

    UCSC French and Japanese Student Performance Evening

    May 30 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm UCSC MEIP XXIII, May 29, 30, and 31st, at 7:00 PM in the Stevenson Event Center-Performances in French, Japanese and Spanish. FREE-ALL WELCOME
    Stevenson Event Center Stevenson Service Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    Students from the French and Japanese programs at UCSC present an evening of theater and music performances.

    Free
  • Sat 30

    Mojada: A Medea in Los Angeles, directed by Kinan Valdez

    May 30 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Mojada: A Medea in Los Angeles, directed by Kinan Valdez
    Experimental Theater Theater Arts Center, Santa Cruz, CA

    Blending Euripides’ classic Medea with Mexican folklore, Luis Alfaro examines the tragedy behind America’s immigration system and the destiny of one family caught in its grip.

    Free – $20
  • Sat 30
    Orpheus hero image

    UCSC Opera—Orpheus in the Underworld

    May 30 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm UCSC Opera—Orpheus in the Underworld
    Music Center Recital Hall 400 McHenry Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    A rollicking and irreverent spoof of the Orpheus myth, Jacques Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld is most famous as the origin of the “gallop infernal”—the music now strongly associated with […]

  • Sat 30

    SOAR— Los Mejicas Grupo Folklórico

    May 30 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm Grupo Folklórico Los Mejicas
    Theater Arts Mainstage 411 Kerr Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    Come enjoy Los Mejicas’ 54th Anniversary Spring Show: Aqui Estamos y No Nos Vamos, Con Amor a Mi Mexico on Friday, May 29th and Saturday, May 30 at the UCSC […]

    TICKETS REQUIRED; General Admission
  • Sun 31
    Lavender Graduation Celebration with three images featuring students wearing Lavender Graduation sashes and an image of the UCSC Sammy Slug Mascot

    Lavender Graduation Celebration

    May 31 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
    Colleges Nine and John R. Lewis College Multi-purpose Room 615 College Nine Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    For over 20 years, The Lionel Cantú Queer Resource Center has proudly honored the accomplishments of graduating students at UCSC.  At the annual Lavender Graduation Celebration, graduates of all academic […]

  • Sun 31

    The Deep Read – A Conversation with Merlin Sheldrake

    May 31 @ 4:00 pm
    Upper Quarry Amphitheater 15 McLaughlin Drive, Santa Cruz, CA

    Join us for a free, public conversation with British mycologist and author, Merlin Sheldrake, at UC Santa Cruz’s Quarry Amphitheater on May 31, 2026. He’ll discuss his New York Times bestseller, Entangled […]

  • June 2026

  • Mon 1
    Sung-mo Steve Kang

    ECE 290 Seminar: Memristors for a brain-scale neuromorphic chip

    June 1 @ 10:40 am – 11:45 am
    Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA

    Presenter: Sung-Mo “Steve” Kang, Distinguished Professor Emeritus and Research Professor, UC Santa Cruz   Description: Recently, applications of artificial intelligence (AI) have far outpaced Moore’s law in chip development, thus […]

  • Mon 1

    CM Seminar – Alex Olwal, “Human-Centered Augmentation: Interacting with Matter, Humans, and Machines”

    June 1 @ 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
    Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA

    Presented by: Alex Olwal Description: “In this talk, I will share my perspectives on the evolution and future of human-centered augmentation, through the lens of two decades of research and […]

  • Mon 1
    river and green mountains

    Seminar Series | What you may not know about groundwater management in California with Ruth Langridge

    June 1 @ 1:25 pm – 2:30 pm
    Interdisciplinary Sciences Building 7487 Red Hill Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    Host: ENVS Personnel Committee Groundwater is a critical source of California’s water supply. Many basins in critical overdraft are now being managed under the 2015 Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) […]

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