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SUMMARY:Astrophysics: The Largest Unknowns and the Biggest Challenges
DESCRIPTION:UCSC Professor Alexie Leauthaud will discuss her groundbreaking work understanding the past and future of our universe. \nIn this exciting public lecture\, Professor Alexie Leauthaud will discuss some of the largest challenges and unknowns in Astrophysics. She will present the latest results on the nature of our universe\, including groundbreaking and prize-winning new results on the nature of dark energy. Leauthaud will discuss our current understanding of the basic ingredients of our Universe and will explain why recent results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Collaboration (DESI) collaboration made international headline news earlier this year. \nShe will speculate on what this might mean for the future of our Universe. Professor Leauthaud will discuss other top challenges facing the profession\, including political headwinds\, recent attacks on science and funding\, and will also explain why astronomers are increasingly becoming involved in the fight against climate change. She will discuss her own journey in recognizing the predicament of life on this blue planet will conclude with a big picture view of the challenges that lie ahead. \nThe Mandel Lecture is free and open to the public. Arrive early\, seating is limited. Register at this link to reserve your seat; registration will be also available at the door. \nThis public talk is presented by the UCSC Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics and UC Observatories\, and presented as part of the Mandel Lecture series\, which promotes public awareness of and appreciate for astronomy. We seek your help and support in keeping these lecture going. For more information on giving\, please visit https://astronomy.ucsc.edu/give/. \nFor more information or for disability-related needs\, please email ccarreir@ucsc.edu.
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LOCATION:Rio Theater\, 1205 Soquel Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, 95062\, United States
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SUMMARY:Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour\, Santa Cruz
DESCRIPTION:For the 35th year\, UC Santa Cruz Adventure Rec is thrilled to bring the Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour to Santa Cruz! Each November\, the Banff Festival in Canada showcases the year’s most breathtaking\, inspiring adventure films—and we’re bringing the very best of them to the Rio Theatre\, February 27\, 28\, & March 1\, 2026. \nEach night features completely different films. Join us for one\, two or all three nights! \nPURCHASE TICKETS HERE. \nYour ticket purchases help Adventure Rec raise over $20\,000 to reduce students’ Rec trip costs by up to 50%. Thank you! \n \nThe Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival is one of the largest and most prestigious mountain festivals in the world! Hot on the heels of the Festival that is held every fall in beautiful Banff\, Alberta\, the Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour hits the road. With stops planned in over 600 communities and more than 40 countries across the globe\, the Banff World Tour celebrates amazing achievements in outdoor storytelling and filmmaking worldwide. \nFrom the over 400 entries submitted into the Festival each year\, award-winners and audience favorites are among the films that are carefully selected to play in theaters around the world. \nTraveling to remote vistas\, analyzing topical environmental issues\, and bringing audiences up-close and personal with adrenaline-packed action sports the 2025/26 World Tour is an exhilarating and provocative exploration of the mountain world. \nFor more information contact Adventure Rec (adventurerec@ucsc.edu; 831-459-2806). \nThank you to our local sponsors!… \n\nAllterra Solar\nLand Trust of Santa Cruz County\nKZSC 88.1\nPacific Edge Climbing Gym\nGood Times\nWoodstock’s Pizza
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/banff-mountain-film-festival-world-tour-santa-cruz/2026-03-01/
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SUMMARY:Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour\, Santa Cruz
DESCRIPTION:For the 35th year\, UC Santa Cruz Adventure Rec is thrilled to bring the Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour to Santa Cruz! Each November\, the Banff Festival in Canada showcases the year’s most breathtaking\, inspiring adventure films—and we’re bringing the very best of them to the Rio Theatre\, February 27\, 28\, & March 1\, 2026. \nEach night features completely different films. Join us for one\, two or all three nights! \nPURCHASE TICKETS HERE. \nYour ticket purchases help Adventure Rec raise over $20\,000 to reduce students’ Rec trip costs by up to 50%. Thank you! \n \nThe Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival is one of the largest and most prestigious mountain festivals in the world! Hot on the heels of the Festival that is held every fall in beautiful Banff\, Alberta\, the Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour hits the road. With stops planned in over 600 communities and more than 40 countries across the globe\, the Banff World Tour celebrates amazing achievements in outdoor storytelling and filmmaking worldwide. \nFrom the over 400 entries submitted into the Festival each year\, award-winners and audience favorites are among the films that are carefully selected to play in theaters around the world. \nTraveling to remote vistas\, analyzing topical environmental issues\, and bringing audiences up-close and personal with adrenaline-packed action sports the 2025/26 World Tour is an exhilarating and provocative exploration of the mountain world. \nFor more information contact Adventure Rec (adventurerec@ucsc.edu; 831-459-2806). \nThank you to our local sponsors!… \n\nAllterra Solar\nLand Trust of Santa Cruz County\nKZSC 88.1\nPacific Edge Climbing Gym\nGood Times\nWoodstock’s Pizza
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/banff-mountain-film-festival-world-tour-santa-cruz/2026-02-28/
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SUMMARY:Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour\, Santa Cruz
DESCRIPTION:For the 35th year\, UC Santa Cruz Adventure Rec is thrilled to bring the Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour to Santa Cruz! Each November\, the Banff Festival in Canada showcases the year’s most breathtaking\, inspiring adventure films—and we’re bringing the very best of them to the Rio Theatre\, February 27\, 28\, & March 1\, 2026. \nEach night features completely different films. Join us for one\, two or all three nights! \nPURCHASE TICKETS HERE. \nYour ticket purchases help Adventure Rec raise over $20\,000 to reduce students’ Rec trip costs by up to 50%. Thank you! \n \nThe Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival is one of the largest and most prestigious mountain festivals in the world! Hot on the heels of the Festival that is held every fall in beautiful Banff\, Alberta\, the Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour hits the road. With stops planned in over 600 communities and more than 40 countries across the globe\, the Banff World Tour celebrates amazing achievements in outdoor storytelling and filmmaking worldwide. \nFrom the over 400 entries submitted into the Festival each year\, award-winners and audience favorites are among the films that are carefully selected to play in theaters around the world. \nTraveling to remote vistas\, analyzing topical environmental issues\, and bringing audiences up-close and personal with adrenaline-packed action sports the 2025/26 World Tour is an exhilarating and provocative exploration of the mountain world. \nFor more information contact Adventure Rec (adventurerec@ucsc.edu; 831-459-2806). \nThank you to our local sponsors!… \n\nAllterra Solar\nLand Trust of Santa Cruz County\nKZSC 88.1\nPacific Edge Climbing Gym\nGood Times\nWoodstock’s Pizza
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/banff-mountain-film-festival-world-tour-santa-cruz/2026-02-27/
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SUMMARY:George Saunders - Vigil
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes George Saunders\, recipient of the 2025 National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters\, for a discussion about his wise\, playful\, electric novel Vigil\, which takes place at the bedside of an oil company CEO in the twilight hours of his life as he is ferried from this world into the next. \n \nNot for the first time\, Jill “Doll” Blaine finds herself hurtling toward earth\, reconstituting as she falls\, right down to her favorite black pumps. She plummets towards her newest charge\, yet another soul she must usher into the afterlife\, and lands headfirst in the circular drive of his ornate mansion. She has performed this sacred duty 343 times since her own death. Her charges\, as a rule\, have been greatly comforted in their final moments. But this charge\, she soon discovers\, isn’t like the others: the powerful K. J. Boone will not be consoled\, because he has nothing to regret. He lived a big\, bold life\, and the world is better for it. Isn’t it? \nVigil transports us\, careening\, through the wild final evening of an epic\, complicated life. Crowds of people and animals—worldly and otherworldly\, alive and dead—arrive\, clamoring for a reckoning. Birds swarm the dying man’s room\, a black calf grazes on the love seat\, a man from a distant\, drought-ravaged village materializes\, two oil-business cronies from decades past show up with chilling plans for Boone’s postdeath future. \nGeorge Saunders is the author of thirteen books\, including the novel Lincoln in the Bardo\, which won the Man Booker Prize\, and five collections of stories\, including Tenth of December\, which was a finalist for the National Book Award\, and the recent collection Liberation Day (selected by former President Obama as one of his ten favorite books of 2022). Three of Saunders’s books—Pastoralia\, Tenth of December\, and Lincoln in the Bardo—were chosen for The New York Times’s list of the 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. Saunders hosts the popular Story Club on Substack\, which grew out of his book on the Russian short story\, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain. In 2013\, he was named one of the world’s 100 Most Influential People by Time. He teaches in the creative writing program at Syracuse University. \n\nThis event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/george-saunders-vigil/
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Alice Waters
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz and The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz are delighted to welcome award-winning chef and food activist Alice Waters for a discussion about A School Lunch Revolution\, “A blueprint for the ways in which we should feed our kids organic foods\, both at home and at school.” (Epicurious) \nIn this wonderful\, multigenerational cookbook for adults and children alike\, Waters champions an empowered relationship between students and organic food\, offering delicious recipes that will nourish future generations—and ourselves—from the inside out. \n \nAll tickets include a donation to the Edible Schoolyard Project and Life Lab. \nAlice Waters is a chef and the founder/owner of Chez Panisse in Berkeley\, California. She has won numerous awards\, including the National Humanities Medal\, the French Legion of Honor Medal\, the Cavaliere of the Italian Republic\, the Julia Child Award\, and three James Beard Awards. As vice president of Slow Food International and founder of the Edible Schoolyard Project\, she has helped bring food awareness to people of all ages all over the world. \nMore information at Bookshop Santa Cruz – An Evening with Alice Waters
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/an-evening-with-alice-waters/
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