The STEM Culture Festival is returning to UC Santa Cruz on Friday, May 15 from 1-4pm in the Baskin Engineering Courtyard. Join us! This year, we’re expanding with even more performances, activities, and creative ways to celebrate UCSC’s vibrant, diverse, and excellent STEM culture! What to expect: Cuban Dance Master Susana Arenas and her troupe […]
Friday, May 15, 1:00-4:00 PM (PDT) McHenry Library | Information Commons South on the Main Floor We are delighted to invite you to the 22nd Annual Graduate Research Symposium! This […]
UCSC 22nd Annual Graduate Research Symposium Friday, May 15, 1:00-4:00 PM (PDT) McHenry Library | Information Commons South on the Main Floor This event celebrates and highlights the work of UCSC […]
Join us for an evening of call and response between Portsha Jefferson, dancer and artistic director of Rara Tou Limen, and artist-scholar Gina Athena Ulysse. Jefferson will offer a Haitian dance response to Ulysse’s art exhibition Redwoods Rasanblaj: Origins & Disentanglements and screen her short film IMAMOU: Hotô to Shore… Agbe | Agwe. Ulysse will read from […]
Welcome to the premier physical AI hackathon on the West Coast. We are bringing together the top 200 AI, infrastructure, and hardware engineers to build autonomous, agentic applications on the […]
CMENA is proud to present AZA for our 2026 Spring concert. AZA weaves the rich musical traditions of North Africa’s Tamazight culture with contemporary global influences, creating a unique and captivating sound. Led by Moroccan-born musician Fattah Abbou, AZA blends the intricate melodies and dynamic rhythms of styles like Ahwash, Rwais, and Gnawa. The band […]
Through their belief in Ifá and the divine, three generations of women grow their relationships with each other and navigate living within their African diasporic identities.
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 […]
The 4th Annual Cantú & Athletics Pool Party! Come celebrate our 4th annual pool party hosted by the Cantú Queer Center and the Athletics and Recreation Department on May 16 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
Join us at Santa Cruz Barrios Unidos for the opening celebration of Visions from Within: Resilience. Visions From Within is a continued series of art exhibitions dedicated to uplifting and […]
Through their belief in Ifá and the divine, three generations of women grow their relationships with each other and navigate living within their African diasporic identities.
UCSC Music Ensemble
Join OLLI for a social hour and a presentation with Michael Hutchinson, Distinguished Professor Emeritus,
Department of Economics at UC Santa Cruz.
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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 […]
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 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 […]