• Black on the Block

    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 engagement space. Stop by to learn about campus resources, upcoming programs, and ways to get involved. It’s a casual, welcoming space to ask questions, make […]

  • Let’s Talk

    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:Β Β UCSC CantΓΊ Queer Center, 633 Crown Rd, Santa Cruz, CAΒ  95064 Facilitator:Β Dean Khambatta, LMFT (831) 459-5346 You Belong Here: The programs and services described here are open to all, consistent with […]

  • Panel on Affordable Housing and Basic Needs for Graduate Students

    Graduate Student Commons 420 Hagar Drive, Santa Cruz, CA

    The panel will be at UCSC’s Graduate Student Commons Co-organized by the GSA and Graduate Division Part of Housing Santa Cruz County Affordable Housing MonthΒ  Co-sponsored by UCSC’s Humanities Institute, Graduate Division and Community Relations (University Advancement) Zoom Link:Β Join via Zoom RSVP:Β Google Form Panelists: Steve McKay & Ankit Sharma (Department of Sociology, Center for Labor […]

  • Concert at the Cafe

    Quarry Plaza Student Union, Santa Cruz, CA

    Enjoy the first live music show at Iveta Cafe on campus. A lineup of UCSC songwriters and musicians will perform original songs and covers. The cafe will stay open for […]

  • College Night: Sanrio

    College Nights
    Rachel Carson/Oakes Dining Hall

    Oakes and Rachel Carson Colleges, in collaboration with UCSC Dining, present a Sanrio-themed college night. Join us Thursday, May 21, from 5–8 p.m. at the Rachel Carson/Oakes Dining Hall for a night of fun, community, and a special themed menu. Standard dining hall entry pricing applies, and all students, faculty, and staff are invited. Please […]

  • Educational Therapy Program Info Session

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

    Transform learning JoinΒ Diana Black Kennedy, chair ofΒ UCSC Silicon Valley’s Educational Therapy certificate program, to learn how this distinctive program prepares educators and professionals to create meaningful, lasting impact. As one of the few programs approved by the Association of Educational Therapists (AET), it equips you with the skills to assess learning differences and implement research-based, […]

  • UCSC Operaβ€”Orpheus in the Underworld

    UCSC Operaβ€”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 β€œgallop 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 […]

  • Let’s Talk

    Let’s Talk
    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: 635 182 8273 Passcode: 231831 Facilitator: Mitchell Rees, PhD (831) 459-2628   You Belong Here: The programs and services described here are open to all, consistent […]

  • Grad Cap Decorating with the ERCs

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

    Calling all graduating seniors! βœ¨πŸŽ“ Get creative and celebrate your achievements at our Grad Cap Decorating event hosted by El Centro, AA/PIRC, and AARCC! πŸ’™ Supplies, pizza, and cake will […]

  • Insurance, Risk, and Resilience in a Changing World

    Virtual Event

    Climate change is reshaping every system it touches. This panel examines one that most people haven’t much considered in climate terms: insurance. When the industry built to share risk retreats […]

    Free
  • 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 […]

  • 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