• Winter 2026 Open Studios

    Elena Baskin Visual Arts Center Baskin Service Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    Art Department students exhibit their art work throughout studios and classrooms at the Elena Baskin Visual Arts Center at UC Santa Cruz. The Open Studios event features student art work in a variety of media, including: – Drawing – Painting – Print media – Sculpture – Photography – Environmental art – Electronic art/new media — […]

    FREE and open to the public.
  • Wang, H. (CSE) – Accelerating RTL Simulation with Specialized Graph Partitioners

    Jack Baskin Engineering Baskin Engineering 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA

    Register transfer level (RTL) simulation is an invaluable tool for developing, debugging, verifying, and validating hardware designs. However, the performance of RTL simulation has long been a limiting factor in industry. Despite the inherent parallelism of hardware, current RTL simulators have not achieved practical performance gains due to fundamental challenges in communication, synchronization, memory bandwidth, […]

  • UCSC Concert Choir

    Music Center Recital Hall 400 McHenry Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    UCSC Concert Choir

    Free – $12
  • Non-Toxic Gopher Control workshop

    Hay Barn 94 Ranch View Road, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    Gophers! Every backyard gardener’s nemesis. Join Anastatia Foster for this informative class on effective gopher control methods that are safe for humans and the environment. Gophers and other vertebrate pests […]

    Sliding scale
  • Planting for Hummingbirds

    Would you like to attract hummingbirds to your garden? Join us on the patio at Norrie’s Gift & Garden Shop where UC Master Gardeners will host a pop-up information booth to offer advice and answer questions about the best Arboretum plants to attract hummingbirds.  Flowers really are the best hummingbird feeders and these tiny birds […]

  • Wildlife Photography from Hummingbirds to Elephants – a photo presentation by Kevin Lohman

    Join Kevin for “Wildlife Photography from Hummingbirds to Elephants” at the UC Santa Cruz Arboretum & Botanic Garden in the Horticulture 2 Meeting Hall. He will offer tips for photographing hummingbirds, share beautiful images taken at the arboretum, and present highlights from his wildlife photography across Monterey Bay and from his travels around the globe. […]

  • UCSC Chamber Singers

    Music Center Recital Hall 400 McHenry Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    UCSC Chamber Singers

    Free – $12
  • OLLI at UCSC Sunday Speaker Meeting

    Colleges Nine and John R. Lewis College Multi-purpose Room 615 College Nine Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    Join us for a social hour and a presentation titled, Sparrows in the Mist: Complex Winter Social Behavior in a Little Brown Bird.

    Free
  • Cookies & LoFi Cram (finals study hall)

    Porter/Kresge Dining Hall 411 Porter-Kresge Rd, Santa Cruz, CA

    If studying in your room or apartment is not getting you where you need to be, change up the scenery and head to Porter Dining Hall for an hour or three. Bring your book, bring your final draft, or your flash cards. We’ll bring the cookies & coffee (and tea & hot chocolate). If you […]

  • Teng, Z. (CM) – Visualizing Player Processes: Towards Design Guidelines for Interactive Process Visualization Tools in Game Analytics

    Virtual Event

    Game analysts face a significant challenge in understanding problem-solving and decision-making processes from the vast and complex sequential data generated by modern video games. Existing visualization tools often fail to adequately support the exploration, suffering from issues of visual clutter, inflexible cohort construction, and a lack of interactive depth. To address this gap, this dissertation […]

  • Karen Russell – The Antidote

    Bookshop Santa Cruz

    Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes bestselling author Karen Russell (Swamplandia!) for a discussion about her latest novel The Antidote, which will be available in paperback on the night of the event. “The Antidote blends speculative and fantasy elements with rich language and vivid characters in an effort not to escape reality but to comment even more thoughtfully on […]

  • The Art of Spontaneous Creativity

    Porter/Kresge Dining Hall 411 Porter-Kresge Rd, Santa Cruz, CA

    Come and enjoy a winter concert by the spontaneous composition and improvisation, MUSC 150J ensemble. You’ll be able to experience the art of spontaneous creativity in action. — ADMISSION – FREE and open to UCSC affliates – Located in Porter Dining Hall — PARKING – Lot 124 & 125 are the closest parking lots to […]

    FREE and open to the public
  • Jazz at Lunch! The Art of Spontaneous Creativity

    Porter/Kresge Dining Hall 411 Porter-Kresge Rd, Santa Cruz, CA

    Take a break from studying for finals and grab lunch in the Porter/Kresge Dining Hall and enjoy the Jazz. Grab a snack from the Porter Market and take in the concert from the Mezzanine.  Or purchase lunch at the dining hall and enjoy the performance from the Dinning room floor. Porter/Kresge Dining Hall Wednesday, March […]

    Free
  • Undiscovered Shakespeare: The Two Noble Kinsmen – Episode III

    Shakespeare returns to the characters and themes of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in what may have been the last play he had a hand in writing: The Two Noble Kinsmen. This time, however, the story of Theseus and Hippolyta, the disorienting experience of adolescent sexual desire, and the conflict of duties to sovereigns, parents, friends, and spouses are […]

  • Younger Lagoon Reserve Tours

    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
  • Digital Accessibility: Video and Zoom

    Virtual Event

    In this session, we will discuss what you can do to ensure your audio/visual content – including live meetings – is as accessible as possible to people with disabilities.

  • AI-Enhanced Project Management Workshop

    Silicon Valley Campus 3175 Bowers Avenue, Santa Clara, CA, United States

    Transform the way you manage projects Join Sri Srinivasa, program management leader at Tesla, for a one-day workshop focused on leveraging generative AI tools for project management. Workshop goals Describe and discuss […]

    $145