Previous Happenings

From our previous newsletters ….

Musical Soulmates: “You’re My Everything”

Friday • Feb 14 • 8 PM • Wheelchair accessible • Ticketed event Museum of Art and History • 704 Front St • Santa Cruz n addition to a delightful evening of soulful music and small delicacies, this performance of Musical Soulmates is amplifying awareness about Santa Cruz Black, a local organization dedicated to Black initiatives through community engagement.… Read more
Dystopian Tropes from an Indigenous Perspective with author Waubgeshig Rice

Tuesday • Feb 11 • 4 PM • ONLINESponsored by the Santa Cruz Public Libraries You’re invited to a riveting online conversation with journalist and bestselling author Waubgeshig Rice to chat about his newest book Moon of the Turning Leaves, the hotly anticipated sequel to the bestselling novel Moon of the Crusted Snow. His new book… Read more
Online: Black History Month

Feb 1 – 28 • Daily Newsletter • FREE Celebrate Black history and the future through a short daily newsletter series in February.The theme for 2025 is African Americans and Labor, focusing on the various and profound ways that work and working of all kinds – free and unfree– have shaped our country. We’ll be highlighting… Read more
Institute of the Arts and Sciences: Levester Williams – Our Bedrock

January 31 – April 20, 2025 • Tues – Sun • 12 – 5 • FREE100 Panetta Ave • Santa Cruz • Wheelchair accessible First West Coast Solo Exhibit Our Bedrock includes sculpture, installation, performance and video, as well as photographs by legendary jazz bassist and photographer Milt Hinton, the exhibition traces the foundational nature of Black… Read more
Institute of the Arts and Sciences: Mia Eve Rollow and Caleb Duarte – EDELO

January 31 – April 20, 2025 • Tues – Sun • 12 – 5 • FREE100 Panetta Ave • Santa Cruz • Wheelchair accessible First Survey Exhibition of these artists EDELO brings together new and existing works emerging from their collaborative and individual 15-year explorations into the roles art can play in radical modes of… Read more
SURJ Santa Cruz County Sync Up!

SURJ Santa Cruz County invites you to join us on Thursday, January 23 from 7-8pm for an online Sync Up meeting. Read more