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  • May 2026

  • Fri 8

    Music on the Meadow—April in Santa Cruz

    May 8 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm April in Santa Cruz Festival of Creative Music 2026 (AiSC)
    Music Center Recital Hall 400 McHenry Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    Music On The Meadow (MOTM) presents “Episode 0: Music with the Meadow.” MOTM showcases engagement from students, artists, scientists, scholars, and culture bearers, who engage in “listening with the meadow” […]

    FREE and open to the public
  • Fri 8

    Reflections of Us Evening Bazaar – 2nd annual AA/PI/SWANA Heritage Night Market

    May 8 @ 5:00 pm
    Upper Quarry Amphitheater 15 McLaughlin Drive, Santa Cruz, CA

    It’s time for the 2nd annual AA/PI/SWANA Heritage Night Market on FRIDAY, MAY 8TH, from 5-9PM @ the QUARRY AMPHITHEATER! In celebration of AA/PI Heritage Month in May and SWANA Heritage Month in April, AA/PIRC invites you to join us for the Reflections of Us Evening Bazaar — an evening full of free food, games, […]

  • Fri 8
    Hao Yang holding guitar

    Guitar Virtuoso Hao Yang in Concert—An Evening of Classical Guitar Music from Around the World

    May 8 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
    Music Center Recital Hall 400 McHenry Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    Join acclaimed classical guitarist Hao Yang as she brings her extraordinary talent to the stage, fresh off winning the prestigious 2024 Koblenz International Guitar Competition, “Hubert Käppel,” and placing second […]

    FREE and open to UCSC affiliates.
  • Fri 8

    UCSC Wind Ensemble

    May 8 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
    Music Center Recital Hall 400 McHenry Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    UCSC Wind Ensemble concert

    Free – $12
  • Sat 9
    u-pick strawberry patch

    Berry U-Pick at the UCSC Farm

    May 9 @ 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 9

    Pitch-In! Campus Clean Up Day 2026!

    May 9 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
    Porter College D-Building, Santa Cruz, CA

    Help us keep our campus and county beautiful. Come volunteer to pick up litter across the county and campus. Our meet-up spot will be in front of the Porter Squiggle! We’ll be picking up litter, beautifying our campus, and celebrating with some snacks and prizes. Bring a friend, and help us save the planet! If you’re unable […]

    Free
  • Sat 9

    Younger Lagoon Reserve Tours

    May 9 @ 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 9
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    Spring Exhibitions at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences

    May 9 @ 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 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 […]

  • Sat 9
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    Visualizing Abolition Screening Series: Beyond Access

    May 9 @ 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 9

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

    May 9 @ 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 span widely circulated commercial games to independently produced projects, one-of-a-kind artworks by artists, faculty, alumni, and students, and materials drawn from UC Santa Cruz Special […]

    Free
  • Sat 9
    A vibrant field of red poppies and colorful wildflowers is overlaid with the white cursive text, "Where cultures bloom, We belong here."

    Where Cultures Bloom — We Belong here

    May 9 @ 12:30 pm – 3:00 pm
    Oakes Learning Center

    Where Cultures Bloom is a large-scale cultural celebration centered on community, expression, and belonging, grounded in the idea that UCSC is shaped by the diverse identities and voices of those […]

  • Sat 9

    ABC Ensemble and This Never Happened—April in Santa Cruz

    May 9 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm April in Santa Cruz Festival of Creative Music 2026 (AiSC)
    Music Center Recital Hall 400 McHenry Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    Pianists/experimentalists Amy Beal and Ben Carson, and friends in the This Never Happened Ensemble, present a concert of toys, noise, open-questions, and a love of play, including one piece involving […]

    FREE and open to the public
  • Sun 10
    2 people looking at artwork of a map

    Spring Exhibitions at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences

    May 10 @ 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 […]

  • Sun 10
    film still

    Visualizing Abolition Screening Series: Beyond Access

    May 10 @ 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 […]

  • Mon 11
    Close-up abstract image of a circuit board with glowing lines and interconnected pathways.

    Johns, M. (CMPM) – Playing Together in a Co-Designed Future: Building Resilience Through Community-Centered Gameful Design

    May 11 @ 8:00 am
    Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA
    Hybrid Event

    Complex societal problems (e.g. wicked problems) such as those brought on by climate change can be addressed through a combination of Research through Design (RtD), co-design, and Serious Games (SG) by inviting affected communities to take part in developing iterative, experimental solutions and exploring their potential impact. In the course of my research, I have […]

  • Mon 11

    SEACoast Spring Slow Seminar: More-than-Human Water Engineers

    May 11 @ 8:00 am – 10:00 am
    Humanities 1 Building 257 Cowell-Stevenson Road, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    The Center for Southeast Asian Coastal Interactions (SEACoast) at University of California, Santa Cruz and Aarhus University Research on the Anthropocene (AURA) invite you to join us for our Spring […]

    Free
  • Mon 11
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    ECE 290 Seminar: Speaker Asir Intisar Khan – Engineering Heterogeneous Interfaces for Energy Efficient Electronics

    May 11 @ 10:40 am
    Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA

    Presenter: Asir Intisar Khan, Assistant Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS), University of California, Berkeley Description: With the rise in global data demands, energy efficiency in electronics is becoming increasingly important for sustainable progress in AI, healthcare, IoT, and beyond. Emerging technologies, such as neuro-inspired computing and the 3D integration of logic and […]

  • Mon 11

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

    May 11 @ 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
  • Mon 11
    A man wearing a white shirt and purple dress jacket stands in front of a courtyard. He has a VR device on his forehead.

    CM Seminar – Robby Ratan, “Examining AI-Infused Pedagogy in Non-Technical Undergrad Classes: AI-vatars, Book-bots, and CompAInions, Oh My”

    May 11 @ 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
    Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA

    Presented by: Rabindra (Robby) Ratan Description: “Novel communication technologies have always presented challenges and opportunities in education. Since my days as a wee assistant professor of media and information, I have […]

  • Mon 11

    Living Roots: The Promise of Perennial Foods

    May 11 @ 1:25 pm

    Liz Carlisle from UC Santa Barbara In Person Location: ISB 221 Zoom Link Living Roots makes the case for putting perennial foods at the center of our farms and our plates, to add flavor and nutrients to our diets while reducing emissions and making our food system more resilient to climate change and economic uncertainty. […]

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