Week of Events
Monday, October 5, 2026
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Tuesday, October 6, 2026
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Wednesday, October 7, 2026
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October 7, 2026Engineering Teaching Community (Faculty)
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Featured October 7, 2026Featured Carlos Motta: When Time Stands Still
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Featured October 7, 2026Featured Victor ‘Marka27’ Quiñonez: Ni de Aquí, Ni de Allá
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October 7, 2026Under the Mantle of an Idocile Dream: Film Screening and Conversation with Denise Carrascosa and Gina Dent
Engineering Teaching Community (Faculty)
This quarter, make time for you, for reflection, and for community!
Carlos Motta: When Time Stands Still
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 […]
Victor ‘Marka27’ Quiñonez: Ni de Aquí, Ni de Allá
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 […]
Under the Mantle of an Idocile Dream: Film Screening and Conversation with Denise Carrascosa and Gina Dent
The Institute of the Arts and Sciences invites you to a screening of the video-performance Under the Mantle of an Idocile Dream (Bruna Castro, Brasil, 2026), followed by a conversation between Denise Carrascosa and Gina Dent around the historical, political and spiritual relations between Afro-Brazilian ancestrality, visual arts and abolition feminism in Brazil. Denise Carrascosa is a writer, […]
Thursday, October 8, 2026
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Featured October 8, 2026Featured Carlos Motta: When Time Stands Still
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Featured October 8, 2026Featured Victor ‘Marka27’ Quiñonez: Ni de Aquí, Ni de Allá
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October 8, 2026Celebrating Agroecology: A book talk with Author Bruce H. Jennings
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October 8, 2026Afrobeats Nite at the IAS
Carlos Motta: When Time Stands Still
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 […]
Victor ‘Marka27’ Quiñonez: Ni de Aquí, Ni de Allá
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 […]
Celebrating Agroecology: A book talk with Author Bruce H. Jennings
Join us for a conversation with Author Bruce H. Jennings about his new book, Revolutionary Science: The Struggle for Agroecology in the Americas. About the book As the climate crisis becomes more urgent and issues of social inequality intensify, Revolutionary Science: The Struggle for Agroecology in the Americas shows how agroecology offers hope rooted in a deeper understanding […]
Afrobeats Nite at the IAS
Join us for a night of dancing, joy, and community organized by Afrobeats Nite Santa Cruz featuring DJ Mai Girl and DJ Monk Earl. In addition to music, there will be vendors, food trucks, and late night showings of the exhibitions Victor “Marka27” Quiñonez: Ni de Aquí, Ni de Allá and Carlos Motta: When Time Stands Still. […]
Friday, October 9, 2026
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Hybrid EventOctober 9, 2026AI Frontier Summit – Intelligence at Scale: Agents, Physical AI & Chips #SFTechWeek
AI Frontier Summit – Intelligence at Scale: Agents, Physical AI & Chips #SFTechWeek
AI Frontier Summit 2026 brings together AI founders, researchers, investors, and industry leaders to examine how the next generation of intelligent systems is being built—from autonomous agents and physical AI […]
Saturday, October 10, 2026
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October 10, 2026Santa Cruz Maker Studios at the Seymour Center
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October 10, 2026Seymour Center’s Seaside Storytime
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Featured October 10, 2026Featured Carlos Motta: When Time Stands Still
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Featured October 10, 2026Featured Victor ‘Marka27’ Quiñonez: Ni de Aquí, Ni de Allá
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October 10, 2026Indian Classical Music—Nishat Khan, sitar, and Nitin Mitta, tabla
Santa Cruz Maker Studios at the Seymour Center
Check out Santa Cruz Maker Studios at the Seymour Center. Hands-on Activities include: Build and test a seawall Make a wooden sea creature Ocean-themed 3D kits Create felt ocean ornamentsActivities […]
Seymour Center’s Seaside Storytime
Get ready to set sail on a storybook adventure! 📚 ✨ It’s the ultimate weekend treat to spark big imaginations, foster a love for nature, and nurture the next generation […]
Carlos Motta: When Time Stands Still
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 […]
Victor ‘Marka27’ Quiñonez: Ni de Aquí, Ni de Allá
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 […]
Indian Classical Music—Nishat Khan, sitar, and Nitin Mitta, tabla
Indian classical concert with Nishat Khan on sitar and Nitin Mitta on tabla at UCSC Music Recital Hall
Sunday, October 11, 2026
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Featured October 11, 2026Featured Carlos Motta: When Time Stands Still
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Featured October 11, 2026Featured Victor ‘Marka27’ Quiñonez: Ni de Aquí, Ni de Allá
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October 11, 2026Min Jin Lee – American Hagwon
Carlos Motta: When Time Stands Still
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 […]
Victor ‘Marka27’ Quiñonez: Ni de Aquí, Ni de Allá
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 […]
Min Jin Lee – American Hagwon
Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Min Jin Lee, the National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Pachinko, who returns with American Hagwon—a breathtaking contemporary epic, by turns […]