Audience: Graduate Students
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Farm to Fork Benefit Dinner
Join the Center for Agroecology for an evening at the Farm Enjoy a reception and benefit dinner on the UCSC Farm followed by dancing in the Hay Barn! This event will feature music, appetizers, tours, and local wine followed by a four-course, family-style dinner on the farm provided by Feel Good Foods. As the sun…
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Self-Guided Labyrinth Walk
Join your UCSC colleagues in walking the new campus labyrinth located under the Redwood trees in the Baskin Engineering Circle. A labyrinth is different than a maze in that there are no dead-ends or tricks, which allows visitors to move through the path and focus on the present. We invite both those who have experienced…
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45th Annual Dickens Universe featuring ‘The Old Curiosity Shop’
The Dickens Universe is a unique cultural event that brings together scholars, teachers, students, and members of the general public for a week of stimulating discussion and festive social activity on the beautiful Santa Cruz campus of the University of California—all focused on one or two Victorian novels, usually (but not always) one by Charles…
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Festival of Monsters 2025
Exploring the ways monsters and tropes of monstrosity pervade our culture.
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Free Guided Tour of the UCSC Farm
Take a free, guided tour of the 30-acre organic UCSC Farm. Visitors can enjoy touring the organically managed greenhouses, hand-worked garden beds, orchards, row crop fields, and children’s garden, while learning about the history of the site and the basic concepts of organic farming and gardening. Perched on a meadow near the campus entrance, the…
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Arboretum Members – Join us for Early Bird Saturday
We offer special sunrise hours for our members and volunteers on the third Saturday of each month, as weather permits. Opening time is 7 a.m. Please bring your membership card for check-in at the front gate. Early mornings are a wonderful time in our gardens, ideal for photography, birding, and quiet enjoyment of nature. If…
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First Saturday: Free Tour
Around the World in 60-90 Minutes! On the first Saturday of each month, the Arboretum offers a docent or staff-led tour of the Arboretum. Sometimes you will see New Zealand, South Africa, California, and Australia. Sometimes you might see combinations of several gardens or the developing World Conifer Collection or Rare Fruit Garden. Tour length…
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Someone Always Dies (SAD): An Improv Comedy Show
Someone Always Dies (SAD) is UC Santa Cruz’s premier long-form improv team.
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Artist Talk for “Sculptures by Doyle Foreman: A Retrospective”
Join Doyle Foreman for a talk with the artist as part of the Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery’s fall exhibition, Sculptures by Doyle Foreman: A Retrospective, which celebrates the career of metal sculptor and UC Santa Cruz Professor Emeritus Doyle Foreman.