4th Monday of the Month • Next Meeting February 23rd • 5:30-7:30 PM • Free•
Branciforte Library • 230 Gault St. • Santa Cruz• wheelchair accessible • Join us to actively build an anti-racist culture by understanding and dismantling white supremacy as it exists in ourselves and our culture.
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Cultivating Care
4th Monday of the Month • Next Meeting February 23rd • 5:30-7:30 PM • Free•
Branciforte Library • 230 Gault St. • Santa Cruz• wheelchair accessible • Join us to actively build an anti-racist culture by understanding and dismantling white supremacy as it exists in ourselves and our culture.
Community Film Screening: The Mask You Live In (Scotts Valley)
Monday • Feb 23 • Doors open 5pm • 6pm to 8:30 PM • CineLux Scotts Valley Café & Lounge • Join a free community screening of documentary The Mask You Live In (IMDB), exploring the challenges boys and young men face in staying true to themselves while navigating society’s narrow expectations of masculinity.
Enter the New Year of the Fire Horse: Honoring Chinese American Legacies
Saturday • Feb 21 • 3 pm – 5 pm PM • Doors open 2:30 PM • Free
Resource Center for Nonviolence & ONLINE • 612 Ocean Street • Santa Cruz • Explore Chinese-American legacy with Stanford Professor Gordon H. Chang, Flex Kids Culture founder Rui Li, and developer George Ow, Jr.
DreamGirls: A Musical
Friday, Feb 20 – Sunday, Mar 1 • Pay what you like
UCSC Theater Arts Center Mainstage • Doors open 30 minutes prior to start •
Move into the spotlight with Dreamgirls, the electrifying musical sensation that brings the soul, sparkle, and spirit of Motown to the stage.
Black History Month Film Series – every Thursday in February
Local DJ and community builder Father Taj is hosting the 4th Black History Month Film Series beginning at 6:30 pm every Thursday in February at the 418 Project.
Film Screening: The Eternal Song
Wednesday • February 11 • Doors at 6:30 PM • Screening at: 7:15 PM • Free
Merrill Cultural Center • UCSC • The first in a 12-film documentary series, The Eternal Song is a cinematic journey through timeless lands and Indigenous cultures.
Redistribute Wealth: Watsonville Law Center (WLC)
Each month SURJ Santa Cruz County suggests a local organization that is doing excellent work strengthening racial and economic justice in our county.
Read this Op-Ed: Let’s decriminalize mental illness: Santa Cruz doesn’t need a mental health jail
Lookout recently published an op-ed written by a couple of members of our Care Not Cages group, responding to a recent Lookout interview with Sheriff Clark where he floated an idea to build a mental health jail. We know that jail is not treatment, and incarceration only deepens trauma and mental illness. From the article’sContinue reading “Read this Op-Ed: Let’s decriminalize mental illness: Santa Cruz doesn’t need a mental health jail”
42nd Annual UCSC MLK Convocation
Tuesday • January 27 • 5:30 PM • Doors open 5 PM • FreeSanta Cruz Civic Auditorium • 307 Church St • Santa Cruz This annual convocation celebrates the life and dream of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with presentations about equality, freedom, justice, and opportunity. This year we welcome legendary reggae percussionist, Larry McDonald. Larry McDonald is a legendary Jamaican percussionist whose life andContinue reading “42nd Annual UCSC MLK Convocation”
Showing Up for Racial Justice-Santa Cruz County, CA 