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  • May 2026

  • Wed 27
    graphic with text COLLEGE NIGHT, bright magenta background, silhouette of trees, crescent moon and one star in background

    College Night: Performing Arts of the World

    May 27 @ 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm College Nights
    College Nine and John R. Lewis Dining Hall

    College Nine and John R. Lewis College, in collaboration with UCSC Dining, present “Performing Arts of the World”, featuring performances from various student orgs. Join us Wednesday, May 27 from […]

  • Wed 27

    Lounge ‘n Lei

    May 27 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
    Terry Freitas Commons 600 McLaughlin Dr. College Nine, Santa Cruz, CA

    Join AA/PIRC and APISA on Wednesday, May 27th from 6:30-8pm at Terry Freitas Commons to learn about the significance of different leis in Pasifika culture before making your own lei! Register […]

  • Wed 27

    Drop-in Figure Drawing

    May 27 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Drop-In Figure Drawing
    Elena Baskin Visual Arts Center Baskin Service Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    Drop-In Draw provides a live model and room monitor. There is no formal lesson and only dry media is allowed (no paints). — ADVISORIES – These events contain mature content […]

    FREE and open to the public.
  • Thu 28
    The bold, navy blue text "Queer Connections" is displayed over a light cream, textured background accented with delicate pink and yellow floral illustrations.

    Queer Connections: ARO/ACE

    May 28 @ 11:00 am – 12:30 pm Queer Connections
    Lionel Cantú Queer Center Crown Lane, Santa Cruz, CA

    CAPS & Cantú Collaboration: Queer Connections. Join us at the Lionel Cantú Queer Center for conversations facilitated by CAPS Providers. ARO/ACE: This is a workshop and art-based activity group focusing […]

  • Thu 28
    2 people looking at artwork of a map

    Spring Exhibitions at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences

    May 28 @ 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 […]

  • Thu 28
    film still

    Visualizing Abolition Screening Series: Beyond Access

    May 28 @ 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 […]

  • Thu 28

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

    May 28 @ 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
  • Thu 28

    Black on the Block

    May 28 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
    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 […]

  • Thu 28
    Two sammy slug illustrations sit down at a desk to have a chat. One is wearing a pink t-shirt and is holding a UCSC-themed water bottle. The other one in a blue shirt listens intently, with a plant in the background and a placard on the desk that says "CAPS". In the top left is "Let's Talk!" with trees that can be seen out of the window.

    Let’s Talk

    May 28 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Let’s Talk
    Cantu Queer Center Crown Lane, Santa Cruz, CA

    Need to talk? We’re here to listen! Drop in for a confidential chat with a professional counselor who can provide support, advice and information. Where:  UCSC Cantú Queer Center, 633 Crown […]

  • Thu 28

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

    May 28 @ 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. Directed by Kinan Valdez. […]

    Free – $20
  • Thu 28
    Orpheus hero image

    UCSC Opera—Orpheus in the Underworld

    May 28 @ 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 […]

  • Fri 29
    Two sammy slug illustrations sit down at a desk to have a chat. One is wearing a pink t-shirt and is holding a UCSC-themed water bottle. The other one in a blue shirt listens intently, with a plant in the background and a placard on the desk that says "CAPS". In the top left is "Let's Talk!" with trees that can be seen out of the window.

    Let’s Talk

    May 29 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
    Virtual Event

    Need to talk? We’re here to listen! Drop in for a confidential chat with a professional counselor who can provide support, advice and information. Zoom Meeting Link Meeting ID: 635 […]

  • Fri 29
    2 people looking at artwork of a map

    Spring Exhibitions at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences

    May 29 @ 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 […]

  • Fri 29

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

    May 29 @ 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
  • Fri 29
    Learning Support Services (LSS) Successful Slug Workshops! graphic featuring a pink background and a smiling daisy mascot.

    Productive Struggle & Study Skills

    May 29 @ 1:00 pm – 1:45 pm Successful Slug Workshops
    Academic Resources Center (ARC) 408 McHenry Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    In this workshop, you will: Learn study strategies and why making it hard for yourself supports durable learning. The Successful Slug Workshop series, hosted by Learning Support Services Peer Coaches, […]

  • Fri 29
    Taunee Smith, Frank Perkins, Aaron Addison, Ken Middleton, and Dennis Littleton

    Making an Exoneree Showcase

    May 29 @ 6:00 pm – 9:30 pm
    Digital Arts Research Center 407 McHenry Rd, Santa Cruz, CA

    Audiences are invited to Making an Exoneree, a reception and film screening featuring the premiere of five student-made short documentaries that reveal the facts—and falsehoods—of wrongful conviction cases from around […]

    FREE and open to the public
  • Fri 29

    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

    May 29 @ 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

    fully-staged performances in French, Japanese, and Spanish, with English super-titles projected above the stage. The program will be directed by Language lecturers and performed by Language students.

    French: Dur dur la torture (Pure Torture), written by the students, directed by Renée Cailloux.

    Japanese: “きぼうのうた” (Song of Hope), directed by Naoko Yamamoto.

    Spanish: “Noble campaña” (A Lofty Cause), Based on a short story by Gregorio López y Fuentes directed by Carolina Castillo-Trelles and Sandra Malone.

    Free
  • Fri 29

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

    May 29 @ 7:30 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. Directed by Kinan Valdez. Advisories Content advisory: includes violence, adult language, mature themes, and mention of sexual violence This presentation is an estimated 90 minutes with no intermission. Seating […]

    Free – $20
  • Fri 29
    Orpheus hero image

    UCSC Opera—Orpheus in the Underworld

    May 29 @ 7:30 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 the can-can dance. This operetta follows the unhappy (and unfaithful) union of Orpheus and Eurydice, as the latter’s love affair with the god of the […]

  • Sat 30
    u-pick strawberry patch

    Berry U-Pick at the UCSC Farm

    May 30 @ 9:00 am 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 bounty. When: U-picks will take place on Saturdays from 9am to 12pm while supplies last. Blueberries will be available approximately through June, and strawberries will […]

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