Artist Talk with Federico Cuatlacuatl
We invite you to join us for a film screeening and discussion with artist Federico Cuatlacuatl. This will be the west coast premiere of QUEMAR LAS PATAS DEL IMPERIO (to […]
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Institute of the Arts and Sciences 100 Panetta Ave, Santa Cruz, United States
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Alumni Reunion Weekend 2026
Join your classmates back at UC Santa Cruz for Alumni Reunion Weekend, April 24–26, 2026. This annual celebration honors the pioneering classes of 1965–1976 and the mark you have left on our campus and the world. Reconnect with classmates, celebrate your achievements, and enjoy time among the redwoods. Whether you never left or you haven’t […]
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Slug48—Student Film Competition, Screening, and Awards Ceremony
The third annual Slug48 returns with a 48-hour film competition—open to all UC Santa Cruz students. A 48-hour film is one that is written, shot, edited, and all music composed within a 48-hour time period. Teams and strategies for filming may be formed ahead of time, but nothing can be written, and no footage can […]
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Harriet: Performing an Archive
Digital Arts Research Center 407 McHenry Rd, Santa Cruz, CAThrough motion capture, immersive sound, and real-time digital systems, CHARI performs alongside Harriet, a life-scale avatar carrying a living archive of Black sonic and vernacular memory. Drawing from Black archival traditions rooted in call-and-response, improvisation, and communal stewardship, the performance understands memory as relational and alive. Together, our movements shape the environment as the performance […]
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Artist Tour with Libia Posada
Institute of the Arts and Sciences 100 Panetta Ave, Santa Cruz, United StatesWe are thrilled to invite you to join Libia Posada, a multidisciplinary artist as well as a physician, for this artist-led tour of Everything is Going Right, the premiere solo exhibition of her work in the United States. With artworks influenced by her medical training, Posada will discuss how she engages the body as a […]
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The 60th Faculty Research Lecture, featuring Professor Patty Gallagher, department of Performance, Play & Design
Theater Arts Mainstage 411 Kerr Road, Santa Cruz, CAThis lecture is an annual event which dates back to 1967; selected Faculty Research Lecturers are considered an elite group, as the honor is among the highest bestowed upon a faculty member by his or her own campus colleagues.
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VMCC Talk with Jaleh Mansoor—Political Agency in The Anthropocene
Virtual EventIn this presentation, Jaleh Mansoor will draw upon recent Italian Marxist Feminist perspectives on ecology and discourses on the Anthropocene to question how Italian feminist analyses of invisible labor came to be elided with the question of a wider, post anthropocentric ecological horizon. Jaleh Mansoor is a writer and an associate professor of Art History […]
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Rasanblaj as Spirit Turn: Gina Athena Ulysse in Conversation with Jennifer González
Institute of the Arts and Sciences 100 Panetta Ave, Santa Cruz, United StatesPlease join us for a conversation between Gina Athena Ulysse and Jennifer González, discussing Ulysse’s solo exhibition Redwoods Rasanblaj: Origins & Disentanglements. The internationally-lauded work of humanities professor Gina Athena Ulysse […]
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Guitar Virtuoso Hao Yang in Concert—An Evening of Classical Guitar Music from Around the World
Music Center Meyer Drive, Santa Cruz, CAJoin 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 at the 2024 GFA International Concert Artist Competition. A recipient of the Clifton Foundation’s Emerging Artists Award, she has captivated audiences at Carnegie Hall, the […]
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[Cancelled] UCSC Wind Ensemble
Music Center Recital Hall 400 McHenry Road, Santa Cruz, CAUCSC Wind Ensemble concert
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Flow and Friction Symposium: Media Practices Across Global Asias
Cowell Conference Room 257 Cowell-Stevenson Road, Santa Cruz, CA“Media Practices Across Global Asias,” a graduate-student research cluster working across the History of Art and Visual Culture and Film and Digital Media departments, hosts their first symposium titled “Flow and Friction.” The […]
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Rasanblé/Rasanblaj: Call & Response
Institute of the Arts and Sciences 100 Panetta Ave, Santa Cruz, United StatesJoin 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 […]
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Who Can I Run To?, by Alyssa Windom—2026 Dharma Grace Creative Writing Award and Theatrical Production
Second Stage Second Stage, Santa Cruz, CAThrough 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.
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UCSC Concert Choir
Music Center Recital Hall 400 McHenry Road, Santa Cruz, CAUCSC Concert Choir
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La Alegria del Mariachi with guest artist Lupita Infante
Music Center Recital Hall 400 McHenry Road, Santa Cruz, CAUCSC Music Ensemble
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D.M.A. Student Recital—Maisha Lani
Music Center Recital Hall 400 McHenry Road, Santa Cruz, CAGraduate student Maisha Lani debuts new compositions composed over the course of two years in the D.M.A. Music Composition program at UC Santa Cruz. The pieces range in instrumentation and style: from a blues to a post-tonal work, consisting of vibraphone and stringed instruments, to afrobeat inspired compositions, to graphic scores and improvisation. Audiences are […]
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VMCC Talk with Salar Mameni—Blood of Tulips
Porter College D-Building, Santa Cruz, CAWhat counts as life in the midst of war, genocide, and planetary destruction? What is death and how do ideas around martyrdom and sacrifice contribute to our understanding of sacred ecologies? In this talk, Mameni engages these questions based on research for his second book project focusing on ecologies of war and martyrdom in the […]
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Tripoli: A Tale of Three Cities—reception, screening, and discussion with the filmmmaker
Communications Building 7487 Red Hill Road, Santa Cruz, CAWhile living abroad, a filmmaker returns to Tripoli, Lebanon, to confront a hometown that once rejected him as a queer child. With a microphone in hand, he walks around coffee shops, public squares, and a park to ask the city’s inhabitants about their cultural and social beliefs and their embrace of new ideas. Gradually, he […]
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Something held by poetry
Institute of the Arts and Sciences 100 Panetta Ave, Santa Cruz, United StatesIn this intimate workshop, UC Santa Cruz students, faculty, and staff are invited into conversation with poets Ronaldo V. Wilson and Terri Witek. Something held by poetry is programmed for Wilson’s multimedia exhibition, there are no words, but melodies, currently on view at the IAS. RSVP is required. Ronaldo V. Wilson is a poet, interdisciplinary artist, […]