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  • The Power of One: A Celebration of Earth Day at UC Santa Cruz

    Merrill Cultural Center 200 McLaughlin Dr, Santa Cruz, CA

    In honor of Earth Day, The Power of One brings together the campus and the community for a unique blend of film, dialogue, and environmental stewardship. The program begins Friday […]

  • Night of Ideas 2026

    Institute of the Arts and Sciences 100 Panetta Ave, Santa Cruz, United States

    Enlightenment, Now! Join us for a nocturnal celebration of art, philosophy, and activism! Enlightenment, Now! As the United States approaches the 250th anniversary of its independence, the 2026 Santa Cruz […]

  • 4th Annual Mother Earth Drag Extravaganza

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    Seymour Marine Discovery Center 100 McAllister Way, Santa Cruz, CA

    Get ready to slay and celebrate nature’s fierce beauty at the Mother Earth Drag Extravaganza! A student drag show and queer prom! You won’t want to miss the 4th Annual […]

    Free
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    Raíces Y Futuros: Food Justice and Abolition

    Hay Barn 94 Ranch View Road, Santa Cruz, CA, United States +1 more

    Join us at the UCSC Farm for an all-day conference on Food Justice and Abolition. We envision this conference as a grounds for cultivating hope and action towards food justice […]

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    Noir Faire

    Oakes Lower Lawn Oakes College, Santa Cruz, CA

    The African American Resource & Cultural Center (AARCC) invites you to the Noir Faire. Come join us for an afternoon of fun and connection in a medieval style! Saturday, April […]

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    Native Star Stories Night

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    Lick Observatory 7281 Mount Hamilton Road, Mount Hamilton, CA

    Native Star Stories with free private tour for students and their families at Lick Observatory in San Jose.

    Free
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    Native Star Stories Night

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    Lick Observatory 7281 Mount Hamilton Road, Mount Hamilton, CA

    Native Star Stories with free private tour for students and their families at Lick Observatory in San Jose.

    Free

  • DRAIN – Quarry Amphitheater (April 18th)

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    Upper Quarry Amphitheater 15 McLaughlin Drive, Santa Cruz, CA

    Tickets are on sale at quarryamphitheater.com, starting at $55.96 for general admission DRAIN came together in the sleepy, oceanside NorCal climes of Santa Cruz in 2014 when Ciaramitaro met up […]

  • OLLI at UCSC Sunday Speaker Meeting

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

    Join OLLI for a social hour and a presentation titled, Are We Alone? Thirty Years of Exoplanet Discovery

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  • Building Soil with Microbes: Compost as Biological Infrastructure

    Keisha Ernst from the Catalyst Bio-Amendments and Compost Academy In Person Location: ISB 221 Zoom Link In this talk, Keisha will explore how biologically focused compost production differs from conventional composting systems designed primarily for waste diversion. She will discuss how microbial communities influence soil structure, nutrient cycling, plant resilience, and water dynamics—and how managing […]

  •  Waste and Cataclysm, Waste as Catalyst: The Politics of Disposability in New Orleans

    Christopher Lang from the UCSC Environmental Studies Department In Person Location: ISB 221 Zoom Link Lang explores the politics of disposability in New Orleans, Louisiana, revealing how pollution intersects with Black community health, waste workers’ lives and livelihoods, and the city’s overall resilience in the face of increasing flood risk. Using a combination of methods […]

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    AM Seminar: Variational Inference and Density Estimation with Non-Negative Tensor Train

    Presenter: Dr. Xun Tang, Stanford University Description: This talk covers an efficient numerical approach for compressing a high-dimensional discrete distribution function into a non-negative tensor train (NTT) format. The two settings we consider are variational inference and density estimation, whereby one has access to either the unnormalized analytic formula of the distribution or the samples […]