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  • May 2026

  • Wed 13
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    Carceral Media Ecologies—and How to Break Them

    May 13 @ 9:30 am – 5:00 pm Visualizing Abolition
    Institute of the Arts and Sciences 100 Panetta Ave, Santa Cruz, United States

    Organized by Pooja Rangan, Visiting Scholar, Visualizing Abolition, UCSCm Carceral Media Ecologies—and How to Break Them is the culminating in-person event in a series of conversations examining how contemporary documentary forms participate […]

  • Wed 13
    2 people looking at artwork of a map

    Spring Exhibitions at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences

    May 13 @ 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm Spring Exhibitions at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences
    Institute of the Arts and Sciences 100 Panetta Ave, Santa Cruz, United States

    Visit the IAS, UCSC’s premier art galleries, for our spring exhibitions. On view April 10–August 16, 2026 are three diverse and interdisciplinary shows: Libia Posada: Everything is Going Right, the […]

  • Wed 13
    film still

    Visualizing Abolition Screening Series: Beyond Access

    May 13 @ 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm Visualizing Abolition
    Institute of the Arts and Sciences 100 Panetta Ave, Santa Cruz, United States

    On view in the IAS Screening Room is a selection of short films curated by Visualizing Abolition Visiting Faculty Fellow Dr. Pooja Rangan. Prisons deny and censor the access of […]

  • Wed 13

    Drop-in Figure Drawing

    May 13 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm 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 […]

    FREE and open to the public.
  • Thu 14
    2 people looking at artwork of a map

    Spring Exhibitions at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences

    May 14 @ 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm Spring Exhibitions at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences
    Institute of the Arts and Sciences 100 Panetta Ave, Santa Cruz, United States

    Visit the IAS, UCSC’s premier art galleries, for our spring exhibitions. On view April 10–August 16, 2026 are three diverse and interdisciplinary shows: Libia Posada: Everything is Going Right, the first US solo exhibition by the Colombia-based artist and medical doctor; Gina Athena Ulysse: A Redwoods Rasanblaj, a site-specific and immersive exploration of the Haitian […]

  • Thu 14
    film still

    Visualizing Abolition Screening Series: Beyond Access

    May 14 @ 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm Visualizing Abolition
    Institute of the Arts and Sciences 100 Panetta Ave, Santa Cruz, United States

    On view in the IAS Screening Room is a selection of short films curated by Visualizing Abolition Visiting Faculty Fellow Dr. Pooja Rangan. Prisons deny and censor the access of those trapped inside them—to information, to intimacy, to community, to meaningful work, to nourishment of all kinds, and perhaps most cruelly, to care. This program […]

  • Fri 15

    Flow and Friction Symposium: Media Practices Across Global Asias

    May 15 @ 9:00 am – 6:00 pm
    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 day-long symposium is comprised of four panels with presenters from UC Santa Cruz and universities further afield in the U.S. and abroad. Three of the […]

    FREE and open to UCSC affiliates
  • Fri 15
    2 people looking at artwork of a map

    Spring Exhibitions at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences

    May 15 @ 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm Spring Exhibitions at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences
    Institute of the Arts and Sciences 100 Panetta Ave, Santa Cruz, United States

    Visit the IAS, UCSC’s premier art galleries, for our spring exhibitions. On view April 10–August 16, 2026 are three diverse and interdisciplinary shows: Libia Posada: Everything is Going Right, the first US solo exhibition by the Colombia-based artist and medical doctor; Gina Athena Ulysse: A Redwoods Rasanblaj, a site-specific and immersive exploration of the Haitian […]

  • Fri 15
    woman dancing

    Rasanblé/Rasanblaj: Call & Response

    May 15 @ 5:30 pm
    Institute of the Arts and Sciences 100 Panetta Ave, Santa Cruz, United States

    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 dance response to Ulysse’s art exhibition Redwoods Rasanblaj: Origins & Disentanglements and screen her short film IMAMOU: Hotô to Shore… Agbe | Agwe. Ulysse will read from […]

  • Fri 15

    Who Can I Run To?, by Alyssa Windom—2026 Dharma Grace Creative Writing Award and Theatrical Production

    May 15 @ 7:30 pm Who Can I Run To?, by Alyssa Windom—2026 Dharma Grace Creative Writing Award and Theatrical Production
    Second Stage Second Stage, Santa Cruz, CA

    Through 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.

  • Fri 15

    UCSC Concert Choir

    May 15 @ 7:30 pm
    Music Center Recital Hall 400 McHenry Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    UCSC Concert Choir

    Free – $12
  • Sat 16
    2 people looking at artwork of a map

    Spring Exhibitions at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences

    May 16 @ 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm Spring Exhibitions at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences
    Institute of the Arts and Sciences 100 Panetta Ave, Santa Cruz, United States

    Visit the IAS, UCSC’s premier art galleries, for our spring exhibitions. On view April 10–August 16, 2026 are three diverse and interdisciplinary shows: Libia Posada: Everything is Going Right, the first US solo exhibition by the Colombia-based artist and medical doctor; Gina Athena Ulysse: A Redwoods Rasanblaj, a site-specific and immersive exploration of the Haitian […]

  • Sat 16
    film still

    Visualizing Abolition Screening Series: Beyond Access

    May 16 @ 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm Visualizing Abolition
    Institute of the Arts and Sciences 100 Panetta Ave, Santa Cruz, United States

    On view in the IAS Screening Room is a selection of short films curated by Visualizing Abolition Visiting Faculty Fellow Dr. Pooja Rangan. Prisons deny and censor the access of those trapped inside them—to information, to intimacy, to community, to meaningful work, to nourishment of all kinds, and perhaps most cruelly, to care. This program […]

  • Sat 16
    people looking at art in a red room

    Opening Celebration for Visions from Within: Resilience

    May 16 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Visualizing Abolition
    Santa Cruz Barrios Unidos 1817 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz, United States

    Join us at Santa Cruz Barrios Unidos for the opening celebration of Visions from Within: Resilience. Visions From Within is a continued series of art exhibitions dedicated to uplifting and platforming artists who are currently system impacted. The series is curated by Anthony Alejandrez and Sonny Trujillo, Transitions Fellows for Visualizing Abolition.  

  • Sat 16

    Who Can I Run To?, by Alyssa Windom—2026 Dharma Grace Creative Writing Award and Theatrical Production

    May 16 @ 7:30 pm Who Can I Run To?, by Alyssa Windom—2026 Dharma Grace Creative Writing Award and Theatrical Production
    Second Stage Second Stage, Santa Cruz, CA

    Through 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.

  • Sat 16
    Mariachi ensemble on stage

    La Alegria del Mariachi with guest artist Lupita Infante

    May 16 @ 7:30 pm
    Music Center Recital Hall 400 McHenry Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    UCSC Music Ensemble

    Free – $12
  • Sun 17
    2 people looking at artwork of a map

    Spring Exhibitions at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences

    May 17 @ 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm Spring Exhibitions at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences
    Institute of the Arts and Sciences 100 Panetta Ave, Santa Cruz, United States

    Visit the IAS, UCSC’s premier art galleries, for our spring exhibitions. On view April 10–August 16, 2026 are three diverse and interdisciplinary shows: Libia Posada: Everything is Going Right, the first US solo exhibition by the Colombia-based artist and medical doctor; Gina Athena Ulysse: A Redwoods Rasanblaj, a site-specific and immersive exploration of the Haitian […]

  • Sun 17
    film still

    Visualizing Abolition Screening Series: Beyond Access

    May 17 @ 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm Visualizing Abolition
    Institute of the Arts and Sciences 100 Panetta Ave, Santa Cruz, United States

    On view in the IAS Screening Room is a selection of short films curated by Visualizing Abolition Visiting Faculty Fellow Dr. Pooja Rangan. Prisons deny and censor the access of those trapped inside them—to information, to intimacy, to community, to meaningful work, to nourishment of all kinds, and perhaps most cruelly, to care. This program […]

  • Sun 17

    Who Can I Run To?, by Alyssa Windom—2026 Dharma Grace Creative Writing Award and Theatrical Production

    May 17 @ 2:00 pm Who Can I Run To?, by Alyssa Windom—2026 Dharma Grace Creative Writing Award and Theatrical Production
    Second Stage Second Stage, Santa Cruz, CA

    Through 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.

  • Sun 17
    grad student

    D.M.A. Student Recital—Maisha Lani

    May 17 @ 3:00 pm
    Music Center Recital Hall 400 McHenry Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    Graduate 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 […]

    FREE and open to the public
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