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  • May 2026

  • Sat 30

    Rules Are Not Neutral: Play As Sense-Making, Acts Of Resistance, And Imagining Otherwise

    May 30 @ 12:00 pm Rules Are Not Neutral: Play As Sense-Making, Acts Of Resistance, And Imagining Otherwise
    Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery 11 Cowell Service Rd, Santa Cruz, CA

    This exhibition brings together a range of analog games – including board, card, role-playing, and other participatory works – that engage social and political realities in different ways. The works span widely circulated commercial games to independently produced projects, one-of-a-kind artworks by artists, faculty, alumni, and students, and materials drawn from UC Santa Cruz Special […]

    Free
  • Sat 30

    Arts Staff Live!

    May 30 @ 1:00 pm
    Digital Arts Research Center 407 McHenry Rd, Santa Cruz, CA

    UCSC Arts Staff Live! 2

    FREE and open to the public
  • Sat 30
    A vibrant, yellow graffiti-style poster features the bold text "GO BANANAS! CARNIVAL" above a row of six cheerful, cartoonish snails and a stamp celebrating 40 years of Sammy.

    Go Bananas! Carnival

    May 30 @ 2:00 pm
    Upper East Field

    Get ready to turn the field yellow! Presented by the Division of Student Affairs and Success Leadership and Involvement Team Join us for the ultimate end-of-year bash as we celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Banana Slug as our official mascot. We’re transforming the East Field into a high-energy carnival packed with thrills, food, and […]

  • Sat 30

    UCSC French and Japanese Student Performance Evening

    May 30 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm UCSC MEIP XXIII, May 29, 30, and 31st, at 7:00 PM in the Stevenson Event Center-Performances in French, Japanese and Spanish. FREE-ALL WELCOME
    Stevenson Event Center Stevenson Service Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    Students from the French and Japanese programs at UCSC present an evening of theater and music performances.

    Free
  • Sat 30

    Mojada: A Medea in Los Angeles, directed by Kinan Valdez

    May 30 @ 7:30 pm Mojada: A Medea in Los Angeles, directed by Kinan Valdez
    Experimental Theater Theater Arts Center, Santa Cruz, CA

    Blending Euripides’ classic Medea with Mexican folklore, Luis Alfaro examines the tragedy behind America’s immigration system and the destiny of one family caught in its grip.

    Free – $20
  • Sat 30
    Orpheus hero image

    UCSC Opera—Orpheus in the Underworld

    May 30 @ 7:30 pm UCSC Opera—Orpheus in the Underworld
    Music Center Recital Hall 400 McHenry Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    A rollicking and irreverent spoof of the Orpheus myth, Jacques Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld is most famous as the origin of the “gallop infernal”—the music now strongly associated with the can-can dance. This operetta follows the unhappy (and unfaithful) union of Orpheus and Eurydice, as the latter’s love affair with the god of the […]

  • Sat 30

    SOAR— Los Mejicas Grupo Folklórico

    May 30 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm Grupo Folklórico Los Mejicas
    Theater Arts Mainstage 411 Kerr Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    Come enjoy Los Mejicas’ 54th Anniversary Spring Show: Aqui Estamos y No Nos Vamos, Con Amor a Mi Mexico on Friday, May 29th and Saturday, May 30 at the UCSC […]

    TICKETS REQUIRED; General Admission
  • Sun 31
    2 people looking at artwork of a map

    Spring Exhibitions at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences

    May 31 @ 12:00 pm Spring Exhibitions at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences
    Institute of the Arts and Sciences 100 Panetta Ave, Santa Cruz, United States

    Visit the IAS, UCSC’s premier art galleries, for our spring exhibitions. On view April 10–August 16, 2026 are three diverse and interdisciplinary shows: Libia Posada: Everything is Going Right, the first US solo exhibition by the Colombia-based artist and medical doctor; Gina Athena Ulysse: A Redwoods Rasanblaj, a site-specific and immersive exploration of the Haitian […]

  • Sun 31
    film still

    Visualizing Abolition Screening Series: Beyond Access

    May 31 @ 12:00 pm Visualizing Abolition
    Institute of the Arts and Sciences 100 Panetta Ave, Santa Cruz, United States

    On view in the IAS Screening Room is a selection of short films curated by Visualizing Abolition Visiting Faculty Fellow Dr. Pooja Rangan. Prisons deny and censor the access of those trapped inside them—to information, to intimacy, to community, to meaningful work, to nourishment of all kinds, and perhaps most cruelly, to care. This program […]

  • Sun 31

    Mojada: A Medea in Los Angeles, directed by Kinan Valdez

    May 31 @ 2:00 pm Mojada: A Medea in Los Angeles, directed by Kinan Valdez
    Experimental Theater Theater Arts Center, Santa Cruz, CA

    Blending Euripides’ classic Medea with Mexican folklore, Luis Alfaro examines the tragedy behind America’s immigration system and the destiny of one family caught in its grip.

    Free – $20
  • Sun 31
    Lavender Graduation Celebration with three images featuring students wearing Lavender Graduation sashes and an image of the UCSC Sammy Slug Mascot

    Lavender Graduation Celebration

    May 31 @ 2:00 pm
    Colleges Nine and John R. Lewis College Multi-purpose Room 615 College Nine Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    For over 20 years, The Lionel Cantú Queer Resource Center has proudly honored the accomplishments of graduating students at UCSC.  At the annual Lavender Graduation Celebration, graduates of all academic levels and programs are celebrated in a uniquely queer way. Graduating students receive a lavender or rainbow stole in addition to enjoying refreshments, music, and […]

  • Sun 31
    Orpheus hero image

    UCSC Opera—Orpheus in the Underworld

    May 31 @ 3:00 pm UCSC Opera—Orpheus in the Underworld
    Music Center Recital Hall 400 McHenry Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    A rollicking and irreverent spoof of the Orpheus myth, Jacques Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld is most famous as the origin of the “gallop infernal”—the music now strongly associated with the can-can dance. This operetta follows the unhappy (and unfaithful) union of Orpheus and Eurydice, as the latter’s love affair with the god of the […]

  • Sun 31

    The Deep Read – A Conversation with Merlin Sheldrake

    May 31 @ 4:00 pm
    Upper Quarry Amphitheater 15 McLaughlin Drive, Santa Cruz, CA

    Join us for a free, public conversation with British mycologist and author, Merlin Sheldrake, at UC Santa Cruz’s Quarry Amphitheater on May 31, 2026. He’ll discuss his New York Times bestseller, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make our Worlds, Change our Minds, and Shape our Futures with Associate Professor of History Benjamin Breen and the Deep Read community. […]

  • June 2026

  • Mon 1
    Sung-mo Steve Kang

    ECE 290 Seminar: Memristors for a brain-scale neuromorphic chip

    June 1 @ 10:40 am – 11:45 am
    Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA

    Presenter: Sung-Mo “Steve” Kang, Distinguished Professor Emeritus and Research Professor, UC Santa Cruz   Description: Recently, applications of artificial intelligence (AI) have far outpaced Moore’s law in chip development, thus […]

  • Mon 1

    Rules Are Not Neutral: Play As Sense-Making, Acts Of Resistance, And Imagining Otherwise

    June 1 @ 12:00 pm Rules Are Not Neutral: Play As Sense-Making, Acts Of Resistance, And Imagining Otherwise
    Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery 11 Cowell Service Rd, Santa Cruz, CA

    This exhibition brings together a range of analog games – including board, card, role-playing, and other participatory works – that engage social and political realities in different ways. The works span widely circulated commercial games to independently produced projects, one-of-a-kind artworks by artists, faculty, alumni, and students, and materials drawn from UC Santa Cruz Special […]

    Free
  • Mon 1

    CM Seminar – Alex Olwal, “Human-Centered Augmentation: Interacting with Matter, Humans, and Machines”

    June 1 @ 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
    Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA

    Presented by: Alex Olwal Description: “In this talk, I will share my perspectives on the evolution and future of human-centered augmentation, through the lens of two decades of research and […]

  • Mon 1
    river and green mountains

    Seminar Series | What you may not know about groundwater management in California with Ruth Langridge

    June 1 @ 1:25 pm – 2:30 pm
    Interdisciplinary Sciences Building 7487 Red Hill Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    Host: ENVS Personnel Committee Groundwater is a critical source of California’s water supply. Many basins in critical overdraft are now being managed under the 2015 Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) […]

  • Mon 1
    Photo of speaker, Denis Titov

    AM Seminar: Using Math and Experiments to Study the Control of Cell Metabolism

    June 1 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
    Jack Baskin Engineering Baskin Engineering 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA

    Presenter: Denis Titov, Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley Description: Cells run thousands of chemical reactions simultaneously, and these reactions must be precisely controlled—like a thermostat that prevents overheating. When […]

  • Mon 1
    Seminar speaker Deqian Kong

    Statistics Seminar: From Random Walks to Planning-Ready World Models: A Normative Model of Place Cells

    June 1 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
    Jack Baskin Engineering Baskin Engineering 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA

    Presenter: Deqian Kong, PhD student, UCLA Description: How does the hippocampus turn experience into a cognitive map that is not just a passive record of space but a representation ready […]

  • Mon 1

    International Grad End-of-Year Celebration

    June 1 @ 4:00 pm
    Graduate Student Commons 420 Hagar Drive, Santa Cruz, CA

    What a remarkable year it has been for our international graduate community! To celebrate your hard work and achievements, ISSP and the International Grad Peer Mentors invite you to join us for one final gathering before the academic year concludes. Stop by to enjoy a catered lunch from Fusion Fare, connect with fellow peers, and unwind […]

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