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    2026 Harvest Festival

    UCSC Farm 152 Farm Rd, Santa Cruz, CA

    Connect with community on the campus farm at the annual Harvest Festival! Harvest Fest will have activities for all ages including face painting, flower pressing, pumpkin painting, cider pressing, tractor […]

    Free – $5
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    Carlos Motta: When Time Stands Still

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

    Carlos Motta’s When Time Stands Still, the artist’s second solo show with the IAS, features new and recent installations, videos, and sculptures highlighting the artist’s preoccupation with the historical and aesthetic productions of […]

  • The 2026 Festival of Monsters image is a monstrous banana slug rampaging across a city, like a kaiju.

    Festival of Monsters: A Devilish Discussion

    Festival of Monsters 2026
    Museum of Art & History 705 Front St, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    The Festival of Monsters presents “A Devilish Discussion,” 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 17, 2026, at the Museum of Art and History in Downtown Santa Cruz. Authors Kiersten White (The Fox and the Devil) and Clay McLeod Chapman (Devil Inside) will talk about their latest books, why they write devilish fiction and the horror of it […]

    Free
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    Festival of Monsters: Monstrous Games

    Festival of Monsters 2026
    Game Santa Cruz 1101 Cedar St, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    Join players at Game Santa Cruz for a three free sessions of monster-related board and card games on Saturday, Oct. 17, 2026, as part of the Festival of Monsters, sponsored […]

    Free
  • The 2026 Festival of Monsters image is a monstrous banana slug rampaging across a city, like a kaiju.

    Festival of Monsters: Iván Brandon & guests

    Festival of Monsters 2026
    Atlantis Fantasyworld

    Writer Iván Brandon (Wolverine, Deadpool, Secret Invasion) will join writer Clay Mcleod Chapman (Edge of Venomverse, Creepshow) and other special guests 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 17, 2026, at Atlantis Fantasyworld to both talk about and sign comics as part of the Festival of Monsters, sponsored by the UC Santa Cruz Center for Monster Studies. This event […]

    Free
  • black and white image with "Trans and Queer Fall Mixer: Monster Ball and Drag Show!" Graphic of spider web, squiggle lines, and hands against a window.

    Trans and Queer Fall Mixer

    Porter/Kresge Dining Hall 411 Porter-Kresge Rd, Santa Cruz, CA

    The Trans & Queer Fall Mixer is UCSC’s annual queerlicious welcome event for new and returning students. Hosted by the Lionel Cantú Queer Resource Center, it is a festive night […]

  • Barnstorm Presents: 24-Hour Theater

    Theater Arts B100 Studio Theater 453 Kerr Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    Audiences are invited to attend the grand finale of a 24-Hour Theater process presented by Barnstorm at the Theater Arts Center at UC Santa Cruz.

    Free – $20
  • a person holding another in a rescue carry

    Carlos Motta: When Time Stands Still

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

    Carlos Motta’s When Time Stands Still, the artist’s second solo show with the IAS, features new and recent installations, videos, and sculptures highlighting the artist’s preoccupation with the historical and aesthetic productions of difference and marginalization that shape the present. The selection of artworks in the exhibition explore the unsettling experience of living in a time that seems […]

  • Barry Bowman

    Barry Bowman Celebration of Life

    College Nine and John R. Lewis Dining Hall

    Join us to honor and celebrate the life and legacy of Barry Bowman, Professor Emeritus of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology.

  • Grad Path Week: from Exchange to Graduate Studies

    Classroom Unit Classroom Unit, Santa Cruz, CA, Select a Country:

    International Student Services and Programming is excited to partner with UC Santa Cruz faculty members and graduate departments to highlight Ph.D. and Masters programs to international exchange students interested in returning for graduate school. This is a wonderful opportunity for faculty members to showcase their labs and available research opportunities for international students to pursue […]

  • Headshot of ECE290 speaker, Adam Wang

    ECE 290 Seminar: “Photon Counting CT: How Counting X-Ray Photons Enables a Major Advance in Medical Imaging”

    Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA

    Presented by: Adam Wang, Assistant Professor of Radiology @ Stanford University Description: “Computed tomography (CT) is a mainstay of medical imaging, but its capabilities are constrained by radiation dose and the information captured by conventional x-ray detectors. Photon-counting CT (PCCT) measures individual x-ray photons and their energies, creating new opportunities for high-resolution, low-dose, and quantitative imaging. […]

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    CM Seminar: Professor Jim Whitehead – “Sides Taken: Generative Artists Made by Generative AI”

    Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA

    Welcome to the second Computational Media seminar of the fall quarter. Open to all, class enrollment is not required. Food will be provided. Please join us in-person at E2-280 or via Zoom to learn more about the works of Professor Jim Whitehead: Title: Sides Taken: Generative Artists Made by Generative AI Presenter: Dr. Jim Whitehead, Professor of […]

  • Roman Alcala

    Environmental Studies Seminar Series | North Stars of Emancipation: Navigating Movements and Institutions to Change Food Systems

    Interdisciplinary Sciences Building 7487 Red Hill Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    In person and via Zoom (Meeting ID: 978 5545 8946, Passcode: 454736).  If you are unable to stream the talk live and need to access a recorded version, please contact Stacy Philpott at sphilpot@ucsc.edu. A UC Santa Cruz email address is required to access the recording. Host: Stacy Philpott Speaker: Antonio Roman-Alcala, CSU East Bay […]

  • Headshot of Génesis Lara in black short sleeve shirt

    The Dominican Wake: Contradictions of the Human and Human Rights in the Dominican Republic with Dr. Génesis Lara

    Sovereignty and Solidarity Fall Speaker Series
    Charles E. Merrill Lounge Rutherford House, Santa Cruz, CA

    As a part of the Sovereignty & Solidarity Fall Speaker Series, the Huerta Center is thrilled to host Dr. Génesis Lara from UC-Irvine to speak on topics related to her upcoming book.  The May 1961 assassination of dictator Rafael Trujillo propelled the Dominican Republic into the center stage of Cold War Caribbean geopolitics. This presentation […]

  • Speaker J. Xavier Prochaska, Professor, UC Santa Cruz

    Statistics Seminar: Advancing Science on the Sea and Stars with Modern Statistical Techniques

    Jack Baskin Engineering Baskin Engineering 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA

    Presenter: J. Xavier Prochaska, Professor, UC Santa Cruz Description: I will present two current and challenging research problems from the domains of astrophysics and oceanography which are leveraging standard Bayesian methods. After describing the datasets, scientific goals, and currently methodology, I will welcome a discussion on ways to improve, advance, and/or replace the current approaches. […]