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From our previous newsletters ….

Connect with the Earth, Dance with the Clay with Alicia Rodriguez

Join the director and teacher of Taller Guaguarey (Clay Arts Center) in Cayey, Puerto Rico, for an informal conversation about her work, the center, and the vital role it plays in a community impacted by U.S. colonial policies and the climate crisis. Read more
Native American Boarding School Healing CoalitionHealing, Prayer, Action

Saturday • June 7• 9:30-11 AMOnline • Free A few weeks ago, the US federal government withdrew all the funding that had been designated to investigate the federal Native American boarding schools. The devastating impacts (such as ongoing grief for missing, murdered, and disappeared children, inter-generational trauma, addiction, suicide + stolen land, language, culture, and identity) Read more
Black Lives Matter Mural Repaint

Join the SC Equity Collab to process the world we have and help create the world we want. Stay tuned for details for the BLM Mural repaint. Read more
UC Santa Cruz POWWOW

Sunday • May 18 • 11 AM – 6 PM • wheelchair accessible Kaiser Permanente Arena • 140 Front St • Santa Cruz • Free • Hosted by the American Indian Resource Center • The UCSC Powwow 2025 will be a unique opportunity for UCSC and greater community to engage and celebrate Native American/Indigenous culture, song and dance. Read more
Museum of Art and History’s London Nelson Legacy Initiative

Three Dates and Locations in May: Monday, May 5 • Thursday, May 8 • Friday, May 9 • The Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History has scheduled a series of events honoring and celebrating the life of London Nelson, an early resident of Santa Cruz, as part of its London Nelson Legacy Initiative. Nelson… Read more
The Humanities Institute at UCSC presents the 2025 Deep Read: James by Percival Everett

Sunday • May 4 • 4 PM • Wheelchair accessible • UCSC Quarry Amphitheater • Santa Cruz • Free • Winner of the 2024 National Book Award, James is a reimagining of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Everett’s novel is a fugitive slave narrative told from the perspective of Twain’s enslaved character as he fights for freedom and dignity in an undignified world. Everett will… Read more