Name: Rules Are Not Neutral: Play As Sense-Making, Acts Of Resistance, And Imagining Otherwise
Start: 2026-08-20T12:00:00-07:00
End: 2026-08-20T17:00:00-07:00
Location: Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery

August 2026
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August 13 – September 19 ReView

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

Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery August 13-September 19, 2026 Opening celebration and Artist Talk Saturday, August 15, 2-4:30 p.m Light refreshments will be served. Summer Gallery Hours: Thursday-Saturday, 1-5pm ReView: […]
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August 14 – September 20 ReView

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

Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery August 13-September 19, 2026 Opening celebration and Artist Talk Saturday, August 15, 2-4:30 p.m Light refreshments will be served. Summer Gallery Hours: Thursday-Saturday, 1-5pm ReView: […]
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August 15 – September 21 ReView

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

Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery August 13-September 19, 2026 Opening celebration and Artist Talk Saturday, August 15, 2-4:30 p.m Light refreshments will be served. Summer Gallery Hours: Thursday-Saturday, 1-5pm ReView: […]
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August 16 – September 22 ReView

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

Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery August 13-September 19, 2026 Opening celebration and Artist Talk Saturday, August 15, 2-4:30 p.m Light refreshments will be served. Summer Gallery Hours: Thursday-Saturday, 1-5pm ReView: […]
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August 17 – September 23 ReView

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

Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery August 13-September 19, 2026 Opening celebration and Artist Talk Saturday, August 15, 2-4:30 p.m Light refreshments will be served. Summer Gallery Hours: Thursday-Saturday, 1-5pm ReView: […]
Nikolakakis, M. (ECE) – Learned Gridless Representations of Cone Beam Computed Tomography Scans

August 17 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm

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

Hybrid Event

Medical image representation has long been dominated by voxel-grid matrices. While their inherent structure and order work efficiently for various linear transformations and provide a seamless visualization method on monitors, […]
Condon, C. (BMEB) – Genomic conflict across scales

August 17 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Biomedical Sciences Building 575 McLaughlin Drive

Genomes are often viewed as cooperative systems in which genes work together to support organismal function. Yet genetic elements can also act in ways that favor their own transmission or […]
Build better chips

August 17 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm

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

Join us for an interactive discussion on current industry trends, emerging skills, and career opportunities, and learn how our Silicon Chip Design & Semiconductor Engineering courses are designed to help professionals build […]
Nina Simon – My Sister Is Going To Kill Me

August 17 @ 7:00 pm

Bookshop Santa Cruz

What’s a family vacation without a little murder? Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes New York Times bestselling author Nina Simon (Mother-Daughter Murder Night) back to the store for a reading and […]
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August 18 – September 24 ReView

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

Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery August 13-September 19, 2026 Opening celebration and Artist Talk Saturday, August 15, 2-4:30 p.m Light refreshments will be served. Summer Gallery Hours: Thursday-Saturday, 1-5pm ReView: […]
Gutie, J. (SciCAM) – SORh: Hyperbolic Relaxation Methods For Elliptic Problems In Computational Fluid Dynamics

August 18 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am

Virtual Event

This thesis explores iterative methods for solving elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs), which are used in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to model a wide range of physical phenomena. The primary […]
HireUC Alumni Career Summit – Irvine

August 18 @ 10:00 am – 2:00 pm

UCI Student Center, Pacifica Ballroom 311 W. Peltason Drive, Irvine, United States

Ready to explore new career opportunities? Join fellow UC alumni from across all 10 UC campuses at the HireUC Alumni Career Summit – Irvine, where you’ll have the opportunity to […]
Note Taking and Reading Strategies

August 18 @ 2:00 pm – 2:45 pm Successful Slug Workshops

Virtual Event

In this workshop, you will: Learn reading and note-taking methods and why they work to help you learn. The Successful Slug Workshop series, hosted by Learning Support Services Peer Coaches, are […]
All UC Alumni in STEM: Orange County Mixer

August 18 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

The Commons at UCI Research Park 5301 California Ave, Irvine, United States

Join UC alumni from all ten campuses working and driving innovation in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) for an exclusive networking reception. Expand your professional network, […]

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August 19 – September 25 ReView

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

Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery August 13-September 19, 2026 Opening celebration and Artist Talk Saturday, August 15, 2-4:30 p.m Light refreshments will be served. Summer Gallery Hours: Thursday-Saturday, 1-5pm ReView: […]
Wellness in Action: Heart Healthy Cooking: Small Changes with Big Impacts Workshop

August 19 @ 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm Wellness in Action

Wednesday, August 5, 12:00 PM -12:30 PM Register for the Zoom link. Learn the key nutrition principles that support cardiovascular health and discover practical cooking strategies that fit into a […]
Engineering Teaching Community (Faculty)

August 19 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Engineering Teaching Community (Faculty)

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

This quarter, make time for you, for reflection, and for community!
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August 20 – September 26 ReView

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

Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery August 13-September 19, 2026 Opening celebration and Artist Talk Saturday, August 15, 2-4:30 p.m Light refreshments will be served. Summer Gallery Hours: Thursday-Saturday, 1-5pm ReView: […]
HireUC Alumni Career Summit – San Francisco

August 20 @ 10:00 am – 2:00 pm

South San Francisco Conference Center 255 S Airport Blvd, South San Francisco, United States

Ready to explore new career opportunities? Join fellow UC alumni from across all 10 UC campuses at the HireUC Alumni Career Summit – San Francisco, where you’ll have the opportunity to connect directly with 75+ employers actively recruiting UC talent. This complimentary, expo-style event brings together accomplished job seekers and employers representing a wide range […]

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Rules Are Not Neutral: Play As Sense-Making, Acts Of Resistance, And Imagining Otherwise

August 20 @ 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm Rules Are Not Neutral: Play As Sense-Making, Acts Of Resistance, And Imagining Otherwise

Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery 11 Cowell Service Rd, Santa Cruz, CA

This exhibition brings together a range of analog games – including board, card, role-playing, and other participatory works – that engage social and political realities in different ways. The works span widely circulated commercial games to independently produced projects, one-of-a-kind artworks by artists, faculty, alumni, and students, and materials drawn from UC Santa Cruz Special […]

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August 2026