• Exhibition—The One with the Manes, works by Yasmine Benabdallah

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

    A multimedia exhibition by Yasmine Benabdallah, Film and Digital Media PhD candidate, explores a shared history between Morocco, Brazil, and Portugal through video installations, photographs, and watercolors. More information about […]

    FREE and open to the public
  • March is Hummingbird Month at the UCSC Arboretum & Botanic Garden

    Arboretum 122 Arboretum Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    Celebrate the wild acrobats of hummingbirds during their courtship & territorial displays in the gardens! Visit our website for special event updates throughout March! arboretum.ucsc.edu/visit/events

    $10.00
  • Optional Practical Training (OPT) Awareness Week

    Zoom

    Join us for OPT Awareness Week at UC Santa Cruz, a supportive and informative series designed to help international students learn about and confidently prepare for Optional Practical Training. You’ll learn application […]

  • Teach For America Information Session

    Jack Baskin School of Engineering (E1), 156, Santa Cruz, California, United States 606 Engineering Loop, Santa Cruz, United States

    Interested in launching a career rooted in service, learning, and community impact? Join Teach For America staff members for an upcoming informational session where you’ll learn more about the paid […]

  • Black on the Block

    Crown Provost House 660 Crown Service Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    Join the African American Resource & Cultural Center every Thursday from 1–2 p.m., at the front of the Ethnic Resource Center for Black on the Block, a weekly tabling and […]

  • Planting Oceania and Healing Communities

    Namaste Lounge 615 College Nine Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    Planting Oceania is a Oceanian/Indigenous Pacific Islander community organization that plants traditional foods in two gardens located at Filoli Historic House and Gardens in Woodside and at the UC Giltract […]

  • Traveling Film Southasia – Film Screening Festival Launch

    Communications Building 7487 Red Hill Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    Located in Communications 150, Studio C Join the Center for South Asian Studies (CSAS) for a celebratory film screening event to launch Travelling Film Southasia, a mobile film festival highlighting […]

  • Weather and the Whale Book Launch and Closing Party

    Institute of the Arts and Sciences 100 Panetta Ave, Santa Cruz, United States

    March 6, 2026 5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. The IAS will host a Celebration of the release of the Weather and the Whale catalog with an after-hours viewing of the […]

  • Science in the Neighborhood: Transforming Pacific salmon recovery, from genes to ecosystems

    Science in the Neighborhood
    Coastal Biology Building 130 McAllister Way, Santa Cruz, CA

    For millennia, Pacific salmon have been integral to the health of coastal ecosystems and human communities from California to Alaska. Salmon are ecological and cultural keystone species, connecting marine and freshwater food webs and supporting thriving fisheries. Yet, wild salmon have declined precipitously due to a combination of factors including dams, harvest, hatcheries, water use—and now, climate change. This is part of the Science in the Neighborhood lecture series.

    Free