Previous Happenings

From our previous newsletters ….

Cultivating Care

4th Monday of the Month • Next Meeting June 22nd • 5:30-7:30 PM • Free• Ocean View Park • 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. Read more
Rally: National Week Against Automated License Plate Readers

Sunday • August 16 • Noon • 701 Ocean St • Santa Cruz Please join Get The Flock Out Santa Cruz County (GTFO) and our partners to kick off the National Week of Action Against ALPRs (Automated License Plate Readers, like Flock’s) in the greater San Francisco Bay Area. This is an honor granted by… Read more
Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music

Sunday • August 9 • 7-9 PM • doors 6:30 PM • Ticketed Event Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium • 307 Church St • wheelchair accessible Rita Dove is an American poet and writer who was the first African American to serve as poet laureate of the United States (1993–95). A trained cellist, Dove often incorporates music themes into… Read more
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Film Screening and Commemoration

Saturday • August 8 • 1:00 PM • Free • wheelchair accessible Resource Center for Nonviolence • 612 Ocean St • Santa Cruz On the 81st anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing the Resource Center for Nonviolence will be showing Collateral Damage, a 35-minute RCNV documentary about our local Hiroshima Peace Memorial located at the Clocktower. This will be followed by paper crane folding and a… Read more
Cultivating Care

4th Monday of the Month • Next Meeting June 22nd • 5:30-7:30 PM • Free• Ocean View Park • 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. Read more
Ocean Vuong – The Emperor of Gladnessin conversation with UCSC Professor Ronoldo V. Wilson

Only Waitlist is available: Bookshop Santa Cruz and The Humanities Institute are pleased to welcome critically acclaimed author and staff favorite Ocean Vuong (Time Is a Mother, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous) for an event celebrating the paperback release of The Emperor of Gladness Read more