Events

May 2026

• Fri 8

  • 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm

    The Annual Maya K. Peterson Memorial Lecture

  • 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm

    Music on the Meadow—April in Santa Cruz

    FREE and open to the public
  • 5:00 pm – 9:00 pm

    Reflections of Us Evening Bazaar – 2nd annual AA/PI/SWANA Heritage Night Market

  • 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm

    UCSC Wind Ensemble

    Free – $12

• Sat 9

  • 9:00 am – 12:00 pm

    Berry U-Pick at the UCSC Farm

  • 10:00 am – 12:00 pm

    Pitch-In! Campus Clean Up Day 2026!

    Free
  • 10:30 am – 12:00 pm

    Younger Lagoon Reserve Tours

    Free
  • 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm

    Spring Exhibitions at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences

  • 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm

    Visualizing Abolition Screening Series: Beyond Access

  • 12:30 pm – 3:00 pm

    Where Cultures Bloom — We Belong here

  • 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm

    ABC Ensemble and This Never Happened—April in Santa Cruz

    FREE and open to the public

• Sun 10

  • 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm

    Spring Exhibitions at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences

  • 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm

    Visualizing Abolition Screening Series: Beyond Access

• Mon 11

  • 8:00 am – 10:00 am

    Hybrid Event

    Johns, M. (CMPM) – Playing Together in a Co-Designed Future: Building Resilience Through Community-Centered Gameful Design

  • 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

    Virtual Event

    Let’s Talk

  • 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

    AM Seminar: Column Subset Selection: Theory, Structure, and Algorithms

  • 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

    Statistics Seminar: Learning under Constraints and Extremes: Methods and Applications in Energy Systems

  • 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm

    What Could UCSC Be By 2050?

  • 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm

    Reyna Grande – Migrant Heart

• Tue 12

  • 10:00 am – 12:00 pm

    Hybrid Event

    Chen, Q. (CSE) – New Approximation and Online Algorithms using Novel Combinatorial Structures