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SUMMARY:Survivor Circles: Healing After Trauma
DESCRIPTION:CARE’s Healing After Trauma survivor circles are an in-person\, drop-in space to share and connect on the glimmers & struggles of recovering from harmful sexual experiences. Guided and led by CARE advocates\, each week’s session will offer an opportunity to engage with a different alternative healing modality – from sound healing\, to art therapy\, collective rest\, and more.\n\n\nFill out an Interest Form for more information. \n\nPlease note: The interest form is not required for attendance\, nor a registration form – registration is not necessary for these events.\n\n\n\nYou Belong Here: The programs and services described here are open to all\, consistent with state and federal law\, as well as the University of California’s nondiscrimination policies. Every initiative—whether a student service\, faculty program\, or community event—is designed to be accessible\, inclusive\, and respectful of all identities. To learn more\, please visit UC Nondiscrimination Statement or Nondiscrimination Policy for UC Publications. 
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/survivor-circles-healing-after-trauma/2026-04-30/
LOCATION:Hahn Student Services\, Hahn Student Services\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
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SUMMARY:TLC Convocation 2026
DESCRIPTION:The Opposite of Cheating: Rethinking Instruction in the Age of AI\nDavid Rettinger\, Applied Professor and Undergraduate Program Director at the University of Tulsa\nHigher education stands at a crossroads. Generative AI is a powerful and flawed tool that may render traditional assessments obsolete and call fundamental pedagogical assumptions into question across all disciplines. Yet this moment of disruption also presents an opportunity to refocus on what truly matters: student learning and growth. In this session\, David Rettinger will outline a positive\, evidence-based approach to academic integrity in the age of AI\, encouraging all of us to move beyond policing to authentic learning. Together\, we will take an evidence-based approach toward change\, by rethinking assessments to focus on durable human skills\, by learning to communicate the value of higher education to our students\, and by evaluating strategies for integrating AI thoughtfully into our courses. Attendees will leave with both conceptual frameworks for decision-making and concrete tools for AI integration\, communicating about integrity\, and reducing misconduct through improved teaching and learning. \nRegister to attend in person or watch remotely
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/tlc-convocation-2026/
LOCATION:Colleges Nine and John R. Lewis College Multi-purpose Room\, 615 College Nine Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations
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SUMMARY:Drop-in Figure Drawing
DESCRIPTION:Drop-In Draw provides a live model and room monitor. There is no formal lesson and only dry media is allowed (no paints).\n—\nADVISORIES\n– These events contain mature content and nudity.\n– Drop-In Draw is subject to the possibility of last-minute cancellation without notification\, and sessions are not guaranteed.\n—\nADMISSION\n– FREE and open to the public\n– UCSC Art Department Room M-101\n—\nFULL SCHEDULE OF EVENTS\nThis series occurs weekly on Wednesday evenings during spring quarter\, including the following: \nWednesday April 1\, 2026\, 7:00–9:00 p.m.\nWednesday April 8\, 2026\, 7:00–9:00 p.m.\nWednesday April 15\, 2026\, 7:00–9:00 p.m.\nWednesday April 22\, 2026\, 7:00–9:00 p.m.\nWednesday April 29\, 2026\, 7:00–9:00 p.m.\nWednesday May 6\, 2026\, 7:00–9:00 p.m.\nWednesday May 13\, 2026\, 7:00–9:00 p.m.\nWednesday May 20\, 2026\, 7:00–9:00 p.m.\nWednesday May 27\, 2026\, 7:00–9:00 p.m.\n—\nPARKING\n– Parking by permit or ParkMobile.\n– Arts Lot #126 is the closest parking lot to the event.\n– Visitors with DMV placards or plates may park for free in DMV spaces\, Medical spaces\, or ParkMobile spaces without additional payment\, or in timed zones for longer than the posted time.\n– More information provided by UCSC Transportation & Parking Services (TAPS).\n—\nThis program is open to all members of the public consistent with state and federal law.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/drop-in-draw-spr-2026/2026-04-29/
LOCATION:Elena Baskin Visual Arts Center\, Baskin Service Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Exhibits
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SUMMARY:Pasifika Patterns
DESCRIPTION:Join AA/PIRC and Mauna Kea Protectors on Wednesday\, April 29th from 6-8pm at Terry Freitas Commons to learn about the cultural significance of different Pasifika patterns and how to respectfully use the designs\, before creating your own linocut stamps! \nYou Belong Here: The programs and services described here are open to all\, consistent with state and federal law\, as well as the University of California’s nondiscrimination policies. Every initiative—whether a student service\, faculty program\, or community event—is designed to be accessible\, inclusive\, and respectful of all identities. \nTo learn more\, please visit UC Nondiscrimination Statement or Nondiscrimination Policy for UC Publications.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/pasifika-patterns/
LOCATION:Terry Freitas Commons\, 600 McLaughlin Dr. College Nine\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
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SUMMARY:Denim Day Open Mic & Survivor Share-Out
DESCRIPTION:Join CARE in closing out Sexual Assault Awareness Month 2026\, during Denim Day\, for a space where we’ll connect as a community\, hand out copies of the new volume of the CARE Art Zine\, and hold an open mic and survivor share-out\, open to all UCSC survivors\, their supporters\, and allies! Food and refreshments provided\, no RSVP required! For questions or accommodations\, please email the CARE team. \nYou Belong Here: The programs and services described here are open to all\, consistent with state and federal law\, as well as the University of California’s nondiscrimination policies. Every initiative—whether a student service\, faculty program\, or community event—is designed to be accessible\, inclusive\, and respectful of all identities. \nTo learn more\, please visit UC Nondiscrimination Statement or Nondiscrimination Policy for UC Publications.  \n 
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/denim-day-open-mic-survivor-share-out/
LOCATION:Namaste Lounge\, 615 College Nine Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Performances,Social Gathering
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SUMMARY:Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed
DESCRIPTION:Please join us as Quinn Slobodian & Ben Tarnoff discuss their new book\, Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed (April\, 2026). \nA Financial Times Most Anticipated Nonfiction Book of the Year • A Kirkus Most Anticipated Nonfiction Book of Spring 2026• A Literary Hub Most Anticipated Book of the Year\n\nA pyrotechnic examination of Elon Musk as a symptom and avatar of our postliberal age \nEveryone’s got an Elon take. He’s a messiah. A menace; a genius; a clown. The verdicts differ\, but they share one theme: they treat him as an individual. Muskism argues otherwise. Elon Musk isn’t a glitch in the system—he is the system. His worldview promises sovereignty through technology: plug in\, power up\, and become self-reliant. But the more you connect\, the more he owns you.\nIf Fordism defined the capitalism of the twentieth century\, Muskism may define the twenty-first. Fordism helped build the welfare state. Musk undoes it. He thrives on dependence while preaching freedom. His cars run on subsidies; his satellites run the battlefield; his social networks train the AI that trains us. Muskism sells itself as the future but entrenches age-old hierarchies. It offers autonomy for some and exclusion for others. It’s pro-natalist but anti-immigrant\, futurist but reactionary. It speaks of humanity but warns against empathy. Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff cut through the hype and the hate to reveal what Musk really represents: a new political economy\, where to be “free” means to serve a Technoking. Muskism isn’t about the man. It’s about the machine that made him—and the world he’s making next. \nQuinn Slobodian is professor of international history at Boston University\, and the author or editor of seven books translated into ten languages including\, Hayek’s Bastards: Race\, Gold\, IQ and the Capitalism of the Far Right\, Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World without Democracy\, and Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism. \nBen Tarnoff is a writer and technologist based in Massachusetts and is the author of Internet for the People and the co-author of Voices from the Valley: Tech Workers Talk About What They Do—And How They Do It. He is a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books\, and has also written for the New York Times\, The New Yorker\, and the New Republic\, among other publications.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/muskism-a-guide-for-the-perplexed/
LOCATION:Merrill Cultural Center\, 200 McLaughlin Dr\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations
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SUMMARY:Visualizing Abolition Screening Series: Beyond Access
DESCRIPTION:On view in the IAS Screening Room is a selection of short films curated by Visualizing Abolition Visiting Faculty Fellow Dr. Pooja Rangan. \nPrisons deny and censor the access of those trapped inside them—to information\, to intimacy\, to community\, to meaningful work\, to nourishment of all kinds\, and perhaps most cruelly\, to care. This program assembles a series of films\, including works by filmmakers incarcerated in California as well as others without that lived experience. Together\, these works confront the debilitating impacts of these restrictions and reveal how the disabling logic of the prison is extended to other institutional spaces (the hospital\, the university)\, turning access into a scarce commodity by enclosing what should be held in common. Questioning the carceral and state-sponsored productions of disability and accessibility\, the short films together reveal the courage of people working despite limitations to produce collective access for one another\, described simply and beautifully by disability justice activist Leah-Lakshmi Piepzna Samarasinha as “revolutionary love without charity.” \nThanh Tran\nDying in Prison\, 2022\nHD Video (color\, sound)\, 3 minutes\nCourtesy of the artist \nCarolyn Lazard\nPre-Existing Condition\, 2019\nHD video (color\, sound)\, 6 minutes\nCourtesy of the artist and Trautwein Herleth3 \nAnthony Alejandrez\nAnother Rainy Day\, 2023\nPhone video (color\, sound)\, 3 minutes\nCourtesy of the artist \nJordan Lord\nAfter…After… (Access)\, 2018\nHD Video (color\, sound)\, 16 minutes\nCourtesy of the artist \nRahsaan “New York” Thomas\nFriendly Signs\, 2023\nVideo (color\, sound) 21 minutes\nCourtesy of Tommy Wickerd\, Empowerment Ave & System Impact Media
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/visualizing-abolition-screening-series-beyond-access/2026-04-29/
LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Ave\, Santa Cruz\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibits
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SUMMARY:Spring Exhibitions at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences
DESCRIPTION: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 first US solo exhibition by the Colombia-based artist and medical doctor; Gina Athena Ulysse: A Redwoods Rasanblaj\, a site-specific and immersive exploration of the Haitian kreyol conception of rasanblaj; and Ronaldo V. Wilson: There Are No Words\, But Melodies\, a mixed-media exhibition emerging at the intersections of Black poetics\, performance\, and visual art. \nThe IAS Galleries are open Wednesday-Sunday\, 12 pm – 5 pm. Admission is free to the public. \nLibia Posada: Everything is Going Right\nLibia Posada’s first solo exhibition in the United States features installations\, sculptures\, and drawings meticulously constructed from surgical instruments\, gauze bandages\, crutches\, used books\, and domestic picture frames. The new and existing works in the exhibition powerfully stitch together the personal\, social\, and political disorders and afflictions that currently trouble the world\, from the wars that resonate across the globe to the violences of aging in US prisons.  \nGina Athena Ulysse: A Redwoods Rasanblaj: Origins & Disentanglements\nThe internationally-lauded work of humanities professor Gina Athena Ulysse is on view as a premier Faculty Spotlight Exhibition. The site-specific installation\, produced in community from things collected\, found\, purchased and donated\, centers on the Haitian concept of rasanblaj\, a form of assembly and collage that transcends the formal use of materials to draw together people\, spirits\, and ideas.  \nRonaldo V. Wilson: There Are No Words\, But Melodies\nCollage is both a material practice and a structural interrogation in the Faculty Spotlight Exhibition artworks by literature professor Ronaldo V. Wilson. In video\, painting\, and installation\, layers and folds conceal and reveal\, delving into the experience\, both bodily and emotive\, of living in times of violence.  \n 
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/spring-exhibitions-at-the-institute-of-the-arts-and-sciences/2026-04-29/
LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Ave\, Santa Cruz\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibits
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SUMMARY:Engineering Teaching Community (Faculty)
DESCRIPTION:During the chaos of a quarter\, is it hard to find time to reflect and improve as an instructor? Would you like to be a part of an inclusive\, supportive group of engineering instructors who do this in community? ETC is for sharing teaching experiences\, classroom ideas\, research on learning\, and methods that support instructors and students. All are welcome\, and lunch is provided. Please reach out to Jenny Quynn with questions.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/engineering-teaching-community-faculty/2026-04-29/
LOCATION:Jack Baskin Engineering\, Baskin Engineering 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Meetings & Conferences,Training
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SUMMARY:CSE Colloquium - Towards Safe and Resilient Large-scale Distributed Programming
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Philipp Haller\, KTH Royal Institute of Technology \nAbstract: \nDistributed programming is notoriously difficult. Not only are distributed systems concurrent\, they pose additional challenges including data consistency and fault tolerance. At the same time\, the share of software systems that are necessarily distributed systems is growing rapidly. As a result\, too many software developers are asked to become distributed systems experts. Thus\, tools and techniques for ensuring the correctness of distributed systems are urgently needed in order to leave this unsustainable trajectory. This talk presents research results towards the design and implementation of programming systems that support emerging applications and workloads; provide reliability and trust; and embrace simplicity and accessibility. Concretely\, the presented work focuses on two directions. \nThe first direction explores a distributed programming model that provides consistency while enabling high availability for workloads operating on join-semilattices without sacrificing partition tolerance. We propose a new consistency protocol\, called observable atomic consistency protocol (OACP)\, which leverages on-demand coordination to support both coordination-free operations as well as totally-ordered operations on replicated data types. We present a formal\, mechanized model of OACP in rewriting logic and verify key correctness properties using the model checking tool Maude. Furthermore\, we present the evaluation of a prototype implementation of OACP based on Akka\, a widely-used actor-based middleware. The second direction explores a programming system that aims to reconcile the scalability and fault tolerance of stream processing systems with the flexibility of the actor concurrency model. The programming system ensures a failure-transparency property\, effectively masking failures through transparent recovery. Our work is the first to formalize failure transparency using a small-step operational semantics\, and to provide proofs of failure transparency for stateful dataflow streaming and a fault-tolerant actor-based programming model. \nBio: \nPhilipp Haller is an Associate Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm\, Sweden. His main research interests are in the design and implementation of programming languages\, type systems\, concurrency\, and distributed programming. He was part of the team that received the 2019 ACM SIGPLAN Programming Languages Software Award for the development of the Scala programming language. Prior to KTH\, he was an early employee at Akka (previously Lightbend\, Inc.)\, a start-up company developing and supporting Scala as well as frameworks for large-scale distributed programming. Prior to Akka\, he was a post-doctoral fellow at Stanford University\, USA\, and at EPFL\, Switzerland. In 2010 he received his PhD in computer science from EPFL\, including a nomination for the 2010 EPFL Doctorate Award. In 2006 he received his Dipl.-Inform. degree from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (previously University of Karlsruhe)\, Germany. \nHosted by: Professor Mohsen Lesani \nLocation: Engineering 2\, Room E2-180 (Refreshments such as fruit\, pastries\, coffee\, and tea will be provided.) \nZoom Option: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/93445911992?pwd=YkJ2TQtF79h0PcNXbEcpZLbpK0coiY.1&jst=3
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/cse-colloquium-towards-safe-and-resilient-large-scale-distributed-programming/
LOCATION:Engineering 2\, Engineering 2 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations,Seminars
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SUMMARY:Karen Tei Yamashita – Questions 27 & 28
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes acclaimed author Karen Tei Yamashita (I Hotel) to celebrate the launch of her new novel Questions 27 & 28—a masterful polyvocal history of Japanese Americans before\, during\, and after World War II. Yamashita will be in conversation with Alice Yang\, Professor of History and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at UC Santa Cruz. \nIn February 1942\, shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor\, Franklin D. Roosevelt issued an executive order authorizing the secretary of war to remove 120\,000 Japanese Americans from their homes on the West Coast and corral them into inland concentration camps. \n \nQuestions 27 & 28 reaches backward and forward from the time of the questionnaire\, chronicling the individuals who arrived in the US from Japan at the turn of the century\, their children who came of age during war and incarceration\, and their descendants who lived in its aftermath. Yamashita mixes fact with fiction and layers genres from James Bond movies to haiku to oral history\, transfiguring an enormity of archival research into a chorus of stories. With her signature wit and aplomb\, she gives voice to laborers\, artists\, scholars\, informants\, and activists who\, over three generations\, defined an immigrant community. \nKaren Tei Yamashita is the author of nine books\, including I Hotel\, finalist for the National Book Award. Recipient of the National Book Foundation’s 2021 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters\, she is Professor Emerita of literature and creative writing at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. In 2024 Yamashita was inducted as a Literature Fellow in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. \nAlice Yang is Professor of History and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. She received her Ph.D. in history from Stanford University and currently co-directs the Center for the Study of Pacific War Memories. She specializes in memories of the Pacific War\, Asian American history\, race\, gender\, oral history\, historical memory\, and twentieth-century America. Her publications include Historical Memories of the Japanese American Internment and the Struggle for Redress (2007)\, Major Problems in Asian American History (2003\, 2017) and What Did the Internment of Japanese Americans Mean? (2000). Her exhibit\, Never Again is Now: Japanese American Women Activists and the Legacy of Mass Incarceration\, appeared at UC Santa Cruz\, the Watsonville Public Library and the Japanese American Museum of San Jose. She also has served as chair of the UCSC History Department and provost of Stevenson College at UCSC. \nMore information at: Bookshop Santa Cruz – Karen Tei Yamashita \n\nCo-sponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/karen-tei-yamashita-questions-27-28/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz
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SUMMARY:Landesman Lecture
DESCRIPTION: Ancestral Matter\, Shared Humanity\, Beyond Borders and Labels\nThis evening blends science\, poetry\, and storytelling to explore our deepest origins and shared humanity. Tracing the cosmic formation of the elements that make our bodies\, we reflect on an ancestry older than nations\, borders\, and labels. Through verse and story\, we connect stellar history with lived experience\, inviting us to see how our many identities arise from the same ancestral matter. Together\, we explore how storytelling can soften divisions\, cross boundaries\, and remind us that we are forged from one common origin. \nRegister to attend in-person or virtual\nDoors open at 5:30 p.m. for guests attending in person\nLecture: 6 p.m.\nFollowed by a reception for in-person guests\nFree and open to the public\nParking is $6 \nPresented by the UC Santa Cruz Emeriti Association \n  \n  \n \nEnrico Ramirez-Ruiz studies some of the most powerful explosions since the birth of the universe by looking not at the heavens but at computer models. Eager to understand our origins\, he uses simulations to explore the cataclysmic death of stars that give rise to many of the elements of the periodic table. His work tests ideas at the edge of human experience\, challenging how we imagine the universe and our place within it. \n \nJasmine Schlafke\, better known by her stage name Queen Jasmeen\, is a poet\, slam coach\, diversity trainer\, and a doula from Santa Cruz\, CA. Her first book\, Crowned\, published in 2019 by Bay Company Books\, is a widely respected expression of the complexity of compounded identities\, reflecting on mental health\, race\, teen parenting\, womanhood\, ministry\, and so much more. Currently\, she works as a privately contracted poetry and performance coach and is a proud single mother of two grown children. \n 
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/landesman-lecture/
LOCATION:Music Center Recital Hall\, 400 McHenry Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations
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SUMMARY:Yoga as Healing Series
DESCRIPTION:Yoga as Healing is a 7-session trauma-informed yoga and mindfulness program hosted by UCSC’s CARE office. Spring Quarter classes will be held Tuesdays\, 6:00–7:30 p.m. from March 31–May 12. Classes are free for students. \nEach class facilitated by CARE Advocate Abbey Wise (she/ella)\, includes gentle\, trauma-informed movement\, breathwork\, meditation and reflective journaling to support survivors in reconnecting with their bodies\, building confidence and being present. Mats\, blocks\, blankets and journals are provided. Participants are encouraged to wear comfortable clothing and bring a water bottle. \nCARE aims to build a consistent group of 8-10 survivors who can attend all 7 classes to foster the community\, predictability and safety core to the trauma-informed structure of the program. \nIf you are interested in participating submit an application and a CARE Advocate will get back to you with further information. Location will be provided upon approval to participate. \nCheck out our schedule for the series: \n3/31   — Orientation and Intention\n4/7 — Safety & Grounding\n4/14   —Self-Care as Daily Practice\n4/21   — Embodied Boundaries\n4/28  — Self-Compassion\n5/5    — Inner Strength & Trust\n5/12  — Cultivating Community \nIf you have previously attended Yoga as Healing\, we would love to hear from you. Please complete our short\, anonymous survey —your feedback helps us grow and improve our programming.  \nYou Belong Here: The programs and services described here are open to all\, consistent with state and federal law\, as well as the University of California’s nondiscrimination policies. Every initiative—whether a student service\, faculty program\, or community event—is designed to be accessible\, inclusive\, and respectful of all identities. \nTo learn more\, please visit UC Nondiscrimination Statement or Nondiscrimination Policy for UC Publications. 
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/yoga-as-healing/2026-04-28/
CATEGORIES:Social Gathering,Undergraduate,Workshop
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SUMMARY:LinkedIn 101: Create A Great Profile That Gets Noticed!
DESCRIPTION:“Do I really need a LinkedIn profile to get hired?”  The answer is YES! Employers and recruiters absolutely use LinkedIn to look for and research candidates.  Come to this fast-paced and practical workshop to learn more about the basics of creating a LinkedIn profile that gets noticed and just might help you land your dream job! \n  \nAll students are welcome. The presentation will last about 45 minutes\, followed by a 15-minute Q&A. \nWe will provide captions for the presentation. If you have disability-related needs\, please contact the Career Success office at csuccess@ucsc.edu or (831) 459-4420 as soon as possible. \n  \nYOU BELONG HERE\nPrograms and services are open to all\, consistent with state and federal law\, as well as the University of California’s nondiscrimination policies. Every initiative—whether a student service\, faculty program\, or community event—is designed to be accessible\, inclusive\, and respectful of all identities. To learn more\, please visit UC Nondiscrimination Statement or Nondiscrimination Policy for UC Publications.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/linkedin-101-create-a-great-profile-that-gets-noticed/
LOCATION:Hahn Student Services\, Hahn Student Services\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Meetings & Conferences
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260428T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260428T110000
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SUMMARY:Coffee with Provost Aims
DESCRIPTION:Warm greetings and hot coffee are served by Provost Aims and Poppy the Merrill Chihuahua each Tuesday in April. Breakfast snacks\, tea\, and cocoa too.  \nStop by and say “hi” \nOutside of the Merrill Mailroom\, Merrill College
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/coffee-with-provost-aims/2026-04-28/
LOCATION:Merrill College Office\, 641 Merrill Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Social Gathering
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260426T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260426T170000
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SUMMARY:Pianist Keisuke Nakagoshi—April in Santa Cruz
DESCRIPTION:Pianist Keisuke Nakagoshi graces UC Santa Cruz’s Music Center Recital Hall with Rippling\, Resistance\, and Rain\, a unique concert of 21st century piano music written by composers from Japan and the United States. The program opens with an imaginative fantasy of a bird\, explores the psychology of addiction and mental illness\, explores a liberating sense of dance\, a deep exploration of “synaesthesic” texture\, testifies to our profound crisis of human-caused climate change—and the need to resist it—and concludes whimsically with a scent of rain. Featuring the music of Samuel Adams\, Ben Leeds Carson\, Ben Dorfan\, Sam Rider\, Karen Tanaka\, and Atsushi Yamanaka. \nThis event is a co-production of the Arts Council Santa Cruz County and April in Santa Cruz Festival of Creative Music.\n—\nADMISSION\n– Free and open to the public\n– Attend in-person at the Music Center Recital Hall at UC Santa Cruz\n– Open admission (no ticket or registration required)\n—\nPARKING\n– Parking by permit\, ParkMobile\, or $11 cash/credit via the on-site parking attendant\n– Arts Lot #126 is the closest parking lot to the event\n– Visitors with DMV placards or plates may park for free in DMV spaces\, Medical spaces\, or ParkMobile spaces without additional payment\, or in timed zones for longer than the posted time.\n– UCSC affiliates must purchase their permits before arriving at the event in order to receive their discounted UCSC rate. Attendants will only sell the non-affiliate-priced permits.\n– More information provided by UCSC Transportation & Parking Services (TAPS)\n—\nFULL SCHEDULE OF EVENTS\n– This year’s festival includes seven events between April 15 and May 21\, 2026\n– Additional April in Santa Cruz events and information at aprilsc.ucsc.edu\n—\nPIANIST KEISUKE NAKAGOSHI\nIN RECITAL\n\nimage: photo of Keisuke Nakagoshi\n—\n\n—\nThis program is open to all members of the public consistent with state and federal law.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/aisc-pianist-keisuke-nakagoshi-04-26-26/
LOCATION:Music Center Recital Hall\, 400 McHenry Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Concerts,Performances
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260426T130000
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SUMMARY:Santa Cruz Pickwick Club presents: Bleak House
DESCRIPTION:Spontaneous human combustion! Evil lawyers! Detectives! Family intrigue! These all come together in Charles Dickens’s masterwork\, Bleak House. This year\, we will spend the year reading the 2026 Dickens Universe novel. Join Dickens enthusiasts and Pickwick Club members on Zoom for a series of discussions about this beloved book. \nRegister via Zoom \nReading Schedule:  \n\nOCT 26: Chapters 8-13\nNOV 23: Chapters 14-19\nDEC 28: No meeting\nJAN 25: Chapters 20-25\nFEB 22: Chpaters 26-32\nMAR 22: Chapters 33-38\nAPR 26: Chapters 39-46\nMAY 24: Chapters 47-53\nJUN 28: Chapters 54-67 (End)\n\nRecommended Edition: We recommend the Penguin Classics edition of the novel for its appendices and notes\, but other versions are fine. First-time readers should avoid the Introduction if they don’t want spoilers. Download the novel to read at Gutenburg.org or listen to it at LibriVox.org. \nThe Santa Cruz Pickwick (Book) Club\, a branch of the Dickens Fellowship\, is a community of local bookworms\, students\, and teachers who meet monthly to discuss a nineteenth-century novel. The Santa Cruz Public Libraries provide support for the reading group.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/santa-cruz-pickwick-club-presents-bleak-house-2/2026-04-26/
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260426T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260426T170000
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SUMMARY:Visualizing Abolition Screening Series: Beyond Access
DESCRIPTION:On view in the IAS Screening Room is a selection of short films curated by Visualizing Abolition Visiting Faculty Fellow Dr. Pooja Rangan. \nPrisons deny and censor the access of those trapped inside them—to information\, to intimacy\, to community\, to meaningful work\, to nourishment of all kinds\, and perhaps most cruelly\, to care. This program assembles a series of films\, including works by filmmakers incarcerated in California as well as others without that lived experience. Together\, these works confront the debilitating impacts of these restrictions and reveal how the disabling logic of the prison is extended to other institutional spaces (the hospital\, the university)\, turning access into a scarce commodity by enclosing what should be held in common. Questioning the carceral and state-sponsored productions of disability and accessibility\, the short films together reveal the courage of people working despite limitations to produce collective access for one another\, described simply and beautifully by disability justice activist Leah-Lakshmi Piepzna Samarasinha as “revolutionary love without charity.” \nThanh Tran\nDying in Prison\, 2022\nHD Video (color\, sound)\, 3 minutes\nCourtesy of the artist \nCarolyn Lazard\nPre-Existing Condition\, 2019\nHD video (color\, sound)\, 6 minutes\nCourtesy of the artist and Trautwein Herleth3 \nAnthony Alejandrez\nAnother Rainy Day\, 2023\nPhone video (color\, sound)\, 3 minutes\nCourtesy of the artist \nJordan Lord\nAfter…After… (Access)\, 2018\nHD Video (color\, sound)\, 16 minutes\nCourtesy of the artist \nRahsaan “New York” Thomas\nFriendly Signs\, 2023\nVideo (color\, sound) 21 minutes\nCourtesy of Tommy Wickerd\, Empowerment Ave & System Impact Media
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/visualizing-abolition-screening-series-beyond-access/2026-04-26/
LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Ave\, Santa Cruz\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibits
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260426T120000
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SUMMARY:Spring Exhibitions at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences
DESCRIPTION: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 first US solo exhibition by the Colombia-based artist and medical doctor; Gina Athena Ulysse: A Redwoods Rasanblaj\, a site-specific and immersive exploration of the Haitian kreyol conception of rasanblaj; and Ronaldo V. Wilson: There Are No Words\, But Melodies\, a mixed-media exhibition emerging at the intersections of Black poetics\, performance\, and visual art. \nThe IAS Galleries are open Wednesday-Sunday\, 12 pm – 5 pm. Admission is free to the public. \nLibia Posada: Everything is Going Right\nLibia Posada’s first solo exhibition in the United States features installations\, sculptures\, and drawings meticulously constructed from surgical instruments\, gauze bandages\, crutches\, used books\, and domestic picture frames. The new and existing works in the exhibition powerfully stitch together the personal\, social\, and political disorders and afflictions that currently trouble the world\, from the wars that resonate across the globe to the violences of aging in US prisons.  \nGina Athena Ulysse: A Redwoods Rasanblaj: Origins & Disentanglements\nThe internationally-lauded work of humanities professor Gina Athena Ulysse is on view as a premier Faculty Spotlight Exhibition. The site-specific installation\, produced in community from things collected\, found\, purchased and donated\, centers on the Haitian concept of rasanblaj\, a form of assembly and collage that transcends the formal use of materials to draw together people\, spirits\, and ideas.  \nRonaldo V. Wilson: There Are No Words\, But Melodies\nCollage is both a material practice and a structural interrogation in the Faculty Spotlight Exhibition artworks by literature professor Ronaldo V. Wilson. In video\, painting\, and installation\, layers and folds conceal and reveal\, delving into the experience\, both bodily and emotive\, of living in times of violence.  \n 
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/spring-exhibitions-at-the-institute-of-the-arts-and-sciences/2026-04-26/
LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Ave\, Santa Cruz\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibits
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260425T140000
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SUMMARY:Artist Tour with Libia Posada
DESCRIPTION:We are thrilled to invite you to join Libia Posada\, a multidisciplinary artist as well as a physician\, for this artist-led tour of Everything is Going Right\, the premiere solo exhibition of her work in the United States. With artworks influenced by her medical training\, Posada will discuss how she engages the body as a site for the staging of human experience\, both individual and collective\, and a territory closely connected to the geopolitical. \nLibia Posada’s work has been shown broadly internationally\, including at the Museum of Modern Art of Medellín; Musée Les Abattoirs\, Toulouse\, France; National Museum of Colombia; and the Havana Biennial.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/artist-tour-with-libia-posada/
LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Ave\, Santa Cruz\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibits,Lectures & Presentations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260425T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260425T180000
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SUMMARY:Chemistry and Biochemistry symposium
DESCRIPTION:On April 25\, the department will hold its Annual Chemistry Symposium. This year\, we will host the Bunnett Organic Chemistry Seminar\, the Fink Biomedical Chemistry Seminar\, and the UCSC Phillip Crews Symposium: Powered by Chemistry\, Strengthened by Discovery Science Lecture\, all on the same day. In addition\, we will include a lecture focused on Physical Chemistry and Materials Research.\nWe hope to see you in April\, more information and to register  here.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/chemistry-and-biochemistry-symposium-2/
LOCATION:Jack Baskin Auditorium\, 191 Baskin Cir\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260425T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260425T180000
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SUMMARY:Chemistry and Biochemistry symposium
DESCRIPTION:On April 25\, the department will hold its Annual Chemistry Symposium. This year\, we will host the Bunnett Organic Chemistry Seminar\, the Fink Biomedical Chemistry Seminar\, and the Crews Diversity in Science Lecture\, all on the same day. In addition\, we will include a lecture focused on Physical Chemistry and Materials Research.\nWe hope to see you in April\, more information here.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/chemistry-and-biochemistry-symposium/
LOCATION:Jack Baskin Auditorium\, 191 Baskin Cir\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260425T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260425T170000
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SUMMARY:Visualizing Abolition Screening Series: Beyond Access
DESCRIPTION:On view in the IAS Screening Room is a selection of short films curated by Visualizing Abolition Visiting Faculty Fellow Dr. Pooja Rangan. \nPrisons deny and censor the access of those trapped inside them—to information\, to intimacy\, to community\, to meaningful work\, to nourishment of all kinds\, and perhaps most cruelly\, to care. This program assembles a series of films\, including works by filmmakers incarcerated in California as well as others without that lived experience. Together\, these works confront the debilitating impacts of these restrictions and reveal how the disabling logic of the prison is extended to other institutional spaces (the hospital\, the university)\, turning access into a scarce commodity by enclosing what should be held in common. Questioning the carceral and state-sponsored productions of disability and accessibility\, the short films together reveal the courage of people working despite limitations to produce collective access for one another\, described simply and beautifully by disability justice activist Leah-Lakshmi Piepzna Samarasinha as “revolutionary love without charity.” \nThanh Tran\nDying in Prison\, 2022\nHD Video (color\, sound)\, 3 minutes\nCourtesy of the artist \nCarolyn Lazard\nPre-Existing Condition\, 2019\nHD video (color\, sound)\, 6 minutes\nCourtesy of the artist and Trautwein Herleth3 \nAnthony Alejandrez\nAnother Rainy Day\, 2023\nPhone video (color\, sound)\, 3 minutes\nCourtesy of the artist \nJordan Lord\nAfter…After… (Access)\, 2018\nHD Video (color\, sound)\, 16 minutes\nCourtesy of the artist \nRahsaan “New York” Thomas\nFriendly Signs\, 2023\nVideo (color\, sound) 21 minutes\nCourtesy of Tommy Wickerd\, Empowerment Ave & System Impact Media
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/visualizing-abolition-screening-series-beyond-access/2026-04-25/
LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Ave\, Santa Cruz\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibits
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SUMMARY:Spring Exhibitions at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences
DESCRIPTION: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 first US solo exhibition by the Colombia-based artist and medical doctor; Gina Athena Ulysse: A Redwoods Rasanblaj\, a site-specific and immersive exploration of the Haitian kreyol conception of rasanblaj; and Ronaldo V. Wilson: There Are No Words\, But Melodies\, a mixed-media exhibition emerging at the intersections of Black poetics\, performance\, and visual art. \nThe IAS Galleries are open Wednesday-Sunday\, 12 pm – 5 pm. Admission is free to the public. \nLibia Posada: Everything is Going Right\nLibia Posada’s first solo exhibition in the United States features installations\, sculptures\, and drawings meticulously constructed from surgical instruments\, gauze bandages\, crutches\, used books\, and domestic picture frames. The new and existing works in the exhibition powerfully stitch together the personal\, social\, and political disorders and afflictions that currently trouble the world\, from the wars that resonate across the globe to the violences of aging in US prisons.  \nGina Athena Ulysse: A Redwoods Rasanblaj: Origins & Disentanglements\nThe internationally-lauded work of humanities professor Gina Athena Ulysse is on view as a premier Faculty Spotlight Exhibition. The site-specific installation\, produced in community from things collected\, found\, purchased and donated\, centers on the Haitian concept of rasanblaj\, a form of assembly and collage that transcends the formal use of materials to draw together people\, spirits\, and ideas.  \nRonaldo V. Wilson: There Are No Words\, But Melodies\nCollage is both a material practice and a structural interrogation in the Faculty Spotlight Exhibition artworks by literature professor Ronaldo V. Wilson. In video\, painting\, and installation\, layers and folds conceal and reveal\, delving into the experience\, both bodily and emotive\, of living in times of violence.  \n 
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/spring-exhibitions-at-the-institute-of-the-arts-and-sciences/2026-04-25/
LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Ave\, Santa Cruz\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibits
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SUMMARY:Younger Lagoon Reserve Tours
DESCRIPTION: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. seymourcenter.ucsc.edu. \n 
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/younger-lagoon-reserve-tours/2026-04-25/
LOCATION:Seymour Marine Discovery Center\, 100 McAllister Way\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260425T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260425T150000
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SUMMARY:Spring Plant Sale
DESCRIPTION:Stock your garden with premium organic seedlings while supporting student education! Browse a huge variety of flowers\, vegetables\, herbs\, and strawberries—all grown by UCSC Farm staff\, students\, and volunteers in our greenhouses. Proceeds support the Center for Agroecology’s hands-on learning programs. \nFull list of varieties coming soon. \nSpecial Perks: \n\nFriends of the Farm & Garden members: 10% off all plants + early bird shopping at 9 AM\nUCSC students with valid ID: 25% off\n\nParking and logistics: \nPlease plan to park across the street from the Hay Barn in parking lot 116.  We encourage you to bring a basket\, wagon\, or other means to carry your plants. We will have a limited number of cardboard boxes available but encourage you to bring your own. \nPayment: \nWe accept cash\, checks made out to “UC Regents\,” or credit card (we do not have a traditional credit card reader; you will need a smart phone to scan a QR code and then manually enter your credit card number.) \nInterested in volunteering in the greenhouses in preparation for our plant sale? Fill out this form! \nThis event is open to all members of the public consistent with state and federal law.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/cfa-spring-plant-sale/
LOCATION:Hay Barn\, 94 Ranch View Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260424T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260424T200000
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SUMMARY:Palaver Strings—April in Santa Cruz
DESCRIPTION:Kuumbwa Jazz\, Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music\, and the Arts Division at UC Santa Cruz partner to present: A Change is Gonna Come\, featuring Palaver Strings and tenor Nicholas Phan. \nGrammy award-winning tenor Nicholas Phan joins Portland\, Maine-based ensemble Palaver Strings\, in a program that explores our country’s rich legacy of protest songs. Repertoire includes traditional songs of protest and music inspired by social movements and historical events\, including Akenya Seymour’s “Fear the Lamb\,” and Errollyn Wallen’s Protest Songs\, both commissioned by the ensemble\, and premiers written for this program by UC Santa Cruz composers Lukáš Janata and Siamak Barghi. Spanning genres\, eras\, and movements\, A Change Is Gonna Come confronts our past and present and celebrates protest as one of our most precious rights. \nThis event is a co-production of the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music and April in Santa Cruz Festival of Creative Music.\n—\nADMISSION\n– Tickets and information here on the Kuumbwa website\n– Attend in-person at the Kuumbwa Jazz Center in downtown Santa Cruz\n—\nFULL SCHEDULE OF EVENTS\n– This year’s festival includes seven events between April 15 and May 21\, 2026\n– Additional April in Santa Cruz events and information at aprilsc.ucsc.edu\n—\nA CHANGE IS GONNA COME\nPALAVER STRINGS WITH NICHOLAS PHAN \n\nimage: photo of Palaver Strings\n—
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/aisc-palaver-strings-04-24-26/
LOCATION:Kuumbwa Jazz Center\, 320-2 Cedar St\, Santa Cruz\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Concerts,Performances
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260424T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260424T134500
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SUMMARY:Time Management
DESCRIPTION:In this workshop\, you will: Learn the ways you can manage your time and avoid procrastination/burnout. \nThe Successful Slug Workshop series\, hosted by Learning Support Services Peer Coaches\, are open to all UCSC undergraduate students and focus on academic skills and tools to support your success as a student. At each workshop\, you will be introduced to a topic\, engage in active learning\, be given resources to begin implementing the same day\, and have an opportunity to learn more if you are interested. \nYou Belong Here: The programs and services described here are open to all\, consistent with state and federal law\, as well as the University of California’s nondiscrimination policies. Every initiative—whether a student service\, faculty program\, or community event—is designed to be accessible\, inclusive\, and respectful of all identities. \nTo learn more\, please visit UC Nondiscrimination Statement or Nondiscrimination Policy for UC Publications.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/time-management/
LOCATION:Academic Resources Center (ARC)\, 408 McHenry Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Undergraduate,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260424T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260424T170000
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SUMMARY:Spring Exhibitions at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences
DESCRIPTION: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 first US solo exhibition by the Colombia-based artist and medical doctor; Gina Athena Ulysse: A Redwoods Rasanblaj\, a site-specific and immersive exploration of the Haitian kreyol conception of rasanblaj; and Ronaldo V. Wilson: There Are No Words\, But Melodies\, a mixed-media exhibition emerging at the intersections of Black poetics\, performance\, and visual art. \nThe IAS Galleries are open Wednesday-Sunday\, 12 pm – 5 pm. Admission is free to the public. \nLibia Posada: Everything is Going Right\nLibia Posada’s first solo exhibition in the United States features installations\, sculptures\, and drawings meticulously constructed from surgical instruments\, gauze bandages\, crutches\, used books\, and domestic picture frames. The new and existing works in the exhibition powerfully stitch together the personal\, social\, and political disorders and afflictions that currently trouble the world\, from the wars that resonate across the globe to the violences of aging in US prisons.  \nGina Athena Ulysse: A Redwoods Rasanblaj: Origins & Disentanglements\nThe internationally-lauded work of humanities professor Gina Athena Ulysse is on view as a premier Faculty Spotlight Exhibition. The site-specific installation\, produced in community from things collected\, found\, purchased and donated\, centers on the Haitian concept of rasanblaj\, a form of assembly and collage that transcends the formal use of materials to draw together people\, spirits\, and ideas.  \nRonaldo V. Wilson: There Are No Words\, But Melodies\nCollage is both a material practice and a structural interrogation in the Faculty Spotlight Exhibition artworks by literature professor Ronaldo V. Wilson. In video\, painting\, and installation\, layers and folds conceal and reveal\, delving into the experience\, both bodily and emotive\, of living in times of violence.  \n 
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/spring-exhibitions-at-the-institute-of-the-arts-and-sciences/2026-04-24/
LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Ave\, Santa Cruz\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibits
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260424T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260424T130000
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SUMMARY:DNA Day
DESCRIPTION:Please join the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute for our annual celebration of DNA! \nWe will be in the Baskin Engineering courtyard from 11am-1pm with swag\, music\, and activities. This is a fun\, family-friendly event and open to the public. Activities will include: \n\nStrawberry DNA Extraction demonstration (WiSE)\nDouble helix origami\nPoster session and resource fair\nFace painting\nStickers\, bookmarks\, pins\, and other swag\nDouble human helix conga line (everyone who participates gets a free shirt!)\n\nStop by and learn about the amazing molecule that codes all of life. 🧬❤️ \nWant to be a part of DNA Day? Sign up to: \n1. Give a poster presentation\n2. Volunteer during DNA day\n3. Have your student group or org participate in our resource fair
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/dna-day/
LOCATION:Jack Baskin Engineering\, Baskin Engineering 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Undergraduate
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