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  • Film Screening: The Eternal Song

    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. Read more

  • 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’s… Read more

  • Whole Minds – Creativity & Belonging: an After-School Program for Middle School Kids (Ages 11-14)

    Whole Minds – Creativity & Belonging: an After-School Program for Middle School Kids (Ages 11-14)

    Mondays • 6:00 – 7:00 PM • starting October 12Resource Center for Nonviolence • 612 Ocean St • Santa CruzBy donation (none turned away for lack of funds) • w/c accessible The Institute for Creativity and Belonging will be offering an ongoing after-school program starting October 12 where kids get together to try new things, build confidence, and… Read more

  • 42nd Annual UCSC MLK Convocation

    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 and… Read more

  • Cultivating Care

    Cultivating Care

    4th Monday of the Month • Starts January 26 • 5:30-7:30 PM • Free Aptos Library • 7695 Soquel Drive  • Aptos • 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

  • Listening Partnerships for Building Resilience Training

    Listening Partnerships for Building Resilience Training

    Sunday • January 25 • 2-4 PM • $50 • wheelchair accessibleCRC Office • 614 Ocean Street • Santa Cruz The stresses of living in this society, with its marked inequality and political enmity, can make it hard to continue in our desired roles as peacemakers, bridge-builders, and agents for positive change. How do we deal with anxiety, anger, resentment, and all the… Read more