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Festival of Monsters: Academic Conference

Festival of Monsters 2026
Courtyard by Marriott Santa Cruz 313 Riverside Ave, Santa Cruz

The 2026 Festival of Monsters Academic Conference (Oct. 14-18, 2026) explores how monsters and language intertwine with panels on monsters and communication, cursed texts, monster poetry and more. Monster-related games will be played. Comics writer Iván Brandon and bioethicist author Rosemarie Garland Thomson  are scheduled to give the keynote talks. The academic conference will take […]

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Carlos Motta: When Time Stands Still

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Institute of the Arts and Sciences 100 Panetta Ave, Santa Cruz

Carlos Motta’s When Time Stands Still, the artist’s second solo show with the IAS, features new and recent installations, videos, and sculptures highlighting the artist’s preoccupation with the historical and aesthetic productions of difference and marginalization that shape the present. The selection of artworks in the exhibition explore the unsettling experience of living in a time that seems […]

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Victor ‘Marka27’ Quiñonez: Ni de Aquí, Ni de Allá

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Institute of the Arts and Sciences 100 Panetta Ave, Santa Cruz

Organized in partnership with the Center for Art and Advocacy, located in Brooklyn, New York, Ni de Aquí, Ni de Allá (Not From Here, Not From There) by multidisciplinary artist Victor ‘Marka27’ Quiñonez features a wide range of artworks  that issue a bold declaration of dual belonging, including altars, an elaborately immersive botanica, paintings referencing […]