• The One with the Manes

    The One with the Manes
    Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery Baskin Service Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    “The One With the Manes” 02/19/2026-03/14/2026 is a multimedia exhibition, by Film and Digital Media PhD candidate Yasmine Benabdallah, exploring a shared history between Morocco, Brazil, and Portugal through video installations, photographs, and watercolors. Artist Talk Thursday March 5, 5:00 -6:00 p.m; Closing event Saturday March 14, 2:00-4:00 p.m. — ADMISSION – FREE and open […]

    FREE and open to the public
  • The One with the Manes

    The One with the Manes
    Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery Baskin Service Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    “The One With the Manes” 02/19/2026-03/14/2026 is a multimedia exhibition, by Film and Digital Media PhD candidate Yasmine Benabdallah, exploring a shared history between Morocco, Brazil, and Portugal through video installations, photographs, and watercolors. Artist Talk Thursday March 5, 5:00 -6:00 p.m; Closing event Saturday March 14, 2:00-4:00 p.m. — ADMISSION – FREE and open […]

    FREE and open to the public
  • Free Coffee, Snacks, & Conversation

    Free Coffee, Snacks, & Conversation
    Merrill College Office 641 Merrill Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    Enjoy a cup of coffee, cocoa, or tea, and a breakfast snack with Merrill Provost McGuinness. Stay and chat with him and Poppy the Merrill Chihuahua, or take it go. See you outside of the Merrill College office, across from the Merrill Mailroom.

    Free
  • The One with the Manes

    The One with the Manes
    Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery Baskin Service Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    “The One With the Manes” 02/19/2026-03/14/2026 is a multimedia exhibition, by Film and Digital Media PhD candidate Yasmine Benabdallah, exploring a shared history between Morocco, Brazil, and Portugal through video installations, photographs, and watercolors. Artist Talk Thursday March 5, 5:00 -6:00 p.m; Closing event Saturday March 14, 2:00-4:00 p.m. — ADMISSION – FREE and open […]

    FREE and open to the public
  • A Sacred Witnessing: A Trans Day of Euphoria Event

    Diversity Center 1117 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    Join the Cantu Queer Center and the Diversity Center for an intergenerational Trans Day of Visibility gathering rooted in euphoria, joy, and sacred witnessing. Trans, nonbinary, Two-Spirit, and gender-expansive people of all ages are invited to share their stories, create art, and witness each other’s full humanity in a moment of dangerous hypervisibility and harm […]

  • The One with the Manes

    The One with the Manes
    Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery Baskin Service Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    “The One With the Manes” 02/19/2026-03/14/2026 is a multimedia exhibition, by Film and Digital Media PhD candidate Yasmine Benabdallah, exploring a shared history between Morocco, Brazil, and Portugal through video installations, photographs, and watercolors. Artist Talk Thursday March 5, 5:00 -6:00 p.m; Closing event Saturday March 14, 2:00-4:00 p.m. — ADMISSION – FREE and open […]

    FREE and open to the public
  • Environmental Art & Social Practice: Picking up Shells Amid a Tsunami

    Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery Baskin Service Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    The culminating exhibition of the Environmental Art and Social Practice MFA program at UCSC presents new projects developed through concentrated inquiry over a two-year period and offers a window into the artists unique long-term research projects that expand beyond the gallery space. Picking up Shells Amid a Tsunami 쓰나미가 밀려오는데, 조개나 줍고 있네. The phrase evokes a scene in […]

    FREE and open to the public
  • Spring 2026 Drop in Figure Drawing

    Drop-In Figure Drawing
    Elena Baskin Visual Arts Center Baskin Service Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    Drop-In Draw provides a live model and room monitor. There is no formal lesson and only dry media is allowed (no paints). — ADVISORIES – These events contain mature content and nudity. – Drop-In Draw is subject to the possibility of last-minute cancellation without notification, and sessions are not guaranteed. — ADMISSION – FREE and […]

    FREE and open to the public.
  • The One with the Manes

    The One with the Manes
    Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery Baskin Service Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    “The One With the Manes” 02/19/2026-03/14/2026 is a multimedia exhibition, by Film and Digital Media PhD candidate Yasmine Benabdallah, exploring a shared history between Morocco, Brazil, and Portugal through video installations, photographs, and watercolors. Artist Talk Thursday March 5, 5:00 -6:00 p.m; Closing event Saturday March 14, 2:00-4:00 p.m. — ADMISSION – FREE and open […]

    FREE and open to the public
  • Black on the Block

    Crown Provost House 660 Crown Service Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    Join the African American Resource & Cultural Center every Thursday from 1–2 p.m., at the front of the Ethnic Resource Center for Black on the Block, a weekly tabling and engagement space. Stop by to learn about campus resources, upcoming programs, and ways to get involved. It’s a casual, welcoming space to ask questions, make […]

  • The toughest challenges in advanced IC development

    Silicon Valley Campus 3175 Bowers Avenue, Santa Clara, CA, United States

    Explore the expanding career opportunities in semiconductors The modern economy is powered by silicon and the demand for skilled professionals in semiconductor design and engineering continues to grow. In this live-online discussion with Jignesh Shah, principal STA & CAD engineer and UCSC Extension instructor, we’ll explore how Timing Closure in Silicon IC Design prepares engineers […]

  • Colm Toibin – The News From Dublin

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

    Bookshop Santa Cruz and The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz welcome acclaimed author Colm Tóibín (Long Island, Brooklyn) for a discussion about The News from Dublin, a brilliant collection of nine short stories, many never-before-published, set across Ireland, Spain, and America—about the complexities of family, longing, loss, and love. Celebrated as “his generation’s most […]

  • Oceans of Dissent: Towards a Feminist Commons Workshop

    Humanities 1 Building 420 Hagar Drive, Santa Cruz, CA

    We gather to forge new vernaculars of the geopolitical, to assemble spatial imaginaries of the “oceanic” that refuse rather than relent to the insistent march of capital and empire. To dissent here is an invitation to think more about the messiness and stuckness of our intellectual labors across histories of slavery, indenture, colonialism and more. This event is open to the campus community. Further details about registration to come. With questions email Sadie Lynn at sklynn@ucsc.edu This […]

    Free
  • The One with the Manes

    The One with the Manes
    Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery Baskin Service Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    “The One With the Manes” 02/19/2026-03/14/2026 is a multimedia exhibition, by Film and Digital Media PhD candidate Yasmine Benabdallah, exploring a shared history between Morocco, Brazil, and Portugal through video installations, photographs, and watercolors. Artist Talk Thursday March 5, 5:00 -6:00 p.m; Closing event Saturday March 14, 2:00-4:00 p.m. — ADMISSION – FREE and open […]

    FREE and open to the public
  • UC Santa Cruz Alumni at the Sacramento Kings

    Golden1 Center 500 David J Stern Walk, Sacramento, United States

    Head to a Sacramento Kings game with fellow UC Santa Cruz alumni on Friday, April 3. Sit together, cheer loudly, and connect with Sacramento Slugs at Golden1 Center! Click here to purchase tickets in our section.  

  • First Saturday Tour at the Arboretum

    First Saturday Tour at the Arboretum
    Arboretum 122 Arboretum Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    First Saturday Tours are a wonderful way to introduce yourself to the Arboretum or to deepen your knowledge of the Arboretum’s plant collections. Each tour is a little different depending on the time of year, the interests of the tour guide, and the people who join in. For example, you might learn about the birds […]