Rasanblé/Rasanblaj: Call & Response
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 […]
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Institute of the Arts and Sciences 100 Panetta Ave, Santa Cruz, United States
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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, […]
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Mojada: A Medea in Los Angeles, directed by Kinan Valdez
Experimental Theater Theater Arts Center, Santa Cruz, CABlending Euripides’ classic Medea with Mexican folklore, Luis Alfaro examines the tragedy behind America’s immigration system and the destiny of one family caught in its grip.
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Film Screening—Let the City Speak: The Sonic Journey of Quetzal—Arts Dean’s Speaker Series
Digital Arts Research Center 407 McHenry Rd, Santa Cruz, CAAudiences are invited to Let the City Speak: The Sonic Journey of Quetzal—a conversation and panel discussion with filmmaker Akira Boch and Quetzal members Martha Gonzalez and Quetzal Flores. Introduced by […]
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Panel Discussion—Let the City Speak: The Sonic Journey of Quetzal—Arts Dean’s Speaker Series
Digital Arts Research Center 407 McHenry Rd, Santa Cruz, CAAudiences are invited to Let the City Speak: The Sonic Journey of Quetzal—a conversation and panel discussion with filmmaker Akira Boch and Quetzal members Martha Gonzalez and Quetzal Flores. Introduced by […]
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UCSC Opera—Orpheus in the Underworld
Music Center Recital Hall 400 McHenry Road, Santa Cruz, CAA rollicking and irreverent spoof of the Orpheus myth, Jacques Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld is most famous as the origin of the “gallop 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 […]
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Making an Exoneree Showcase
Digital Arts Research Center 407 McHenry Rd, Santa Cruz, CAAudiences are invited to Making an Exoneree, a reception and film screening featuring the premiere of five student-made short documentaries that reveal the facts—and falsehoods—of wrongful conviction cases from around the country. Over the Winter and Spring quarters, 15 UCSC undergraduate students in the Making an Exoneree course dedicated themselves to uncovering the truth about […]
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SOAR— Los Mejicas Grupo Folklórico
Theater Arts Mainstage 411 Kerr Road, Santa Cruz, CACome enjoy Los Mejicas’ 54th Anniversary Spring Show: Aqui Estamos y No Nos Vamos, Con Amor a Mi Mexico on Friday, May 29th and Saturday, May 30 at the UCSC Theater Arts Mainstage. — ADMISSION – Doors open at 7:00 p.m., and the show begins at 7:30 p.m. – Please note that seating is not […]
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Office Hours Under the Sea
Institute of the Arts and Sciences 100 Panetta Ave, Santa Cruz, United StatesJoin Ronaldo Wilson and special guests for a site-specific, endurance performance as part of there are no words, but melodies. The exhibition emerges at the intersections of Black poetics, performance, and visual art toshuttle between verbal and non-verbal forms of language, rendering the boundaries of identity and meaning slippery. Drop in and visit Wilson’s office […]
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Arts Staff Live!
Digital Arts Research Center 407 McHenry Rd, Santa Cruz, CAUCSC Arts Staff Live! 2
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Chamber Music Concert with UCSC Music Ensembles —Percussion, Celtic, Classical Guitar, Horns, Central Asian, Experimental
Music Center Recital Hall 400 McHenry Road, Santa Cruz, CAAudiences are invited to a free spring quarter chamber music concert featuring a variety of student ensembles. — ADMISSION – Attend in person at the Music Center Recital Hall at UC Santa Cruz – UCSC Affiliates only – Open seating (no ticket required). – Doors are scheduled to open 30 minutes prior to event start […]
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Creative Technologies—Digital Spaces: From Practice to Praxis
The inaugural class of Creative Technologies presents, Digital Spaces: From Practice to Praxis, a digital art exhibition hosted in New Art City. This digital showcase highlights the culmination of the […]
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UCSC Jazz Combos
Music Center Recital Hall 400 McHenry Road, Santa Cruz, CAUCSC Jazz Combos present a spring quarter concert
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52nd Annual Print Sale—a two-day event
Elena Baskin Visual Arts Center Baskin Service Road, Santa Cruz, CAThe 52nd anniversary of the UCSC Print Sale runs in conjunction with the Art Department’s Spring Open Studios. Hundreds of original prints will be for sale in a variety of media at this two-day event, including: Woodcuts Lithographs Etchings Photo-based prints Screen prints And more! All proceeds benefit art students: 80% of proceeds go to […]
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