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SUMMARY:Nina Simon - My Sister Is Going To Kill Me
DESCRIPTION:What’s a family vacation without a little murder?\n\n\nBookshop Santa Cruz welcomes New York Times bestselling author Nina Simon (Mother-Daughter Murder Night) back to the store for a reading and signing of My Sister Is Going to Kill Me\, another fun\, family-centered whodunnit about two sisters who work together to find a killer as they raft down the rapids of the Grand Canyon. \n \nNina Simon writes crime fiction about strong women. She is the author of the New York Times-bestseller Mother-Daughter Murder Night\, which was a Reese’s Book Club pick\, a Golden Poppy Award winner\, and a “best of 2023” selection for Amazon\, Barnes & Noble\, CrimeReads\, and Library Journal. Before turning to fiction\, Nina wore many hats: NASA engineer\, slam poet\, game designer\, museum director\, and nonprofit CEO. Her work on community participation in museums\, libraries\, parks\, and theaters has been featured in the Wall Street Journal\, the New York Times\, NPR\, and the TEDx stage. Born and raised in Los Angeles\, Nina now lives off-the-grid in the Santa Cruz Mountains with her family. More information can be found on her website\, ninaksimon.com. \nMore information at: Bookshop Santa Cruz – Nina Simon \n\nCo-sponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.
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SUMMARY:Weekend With Shakespeare
DESCRIPTION:Dig deeply into this season’s Shakespeare productions with a special weekend of lectures\, discussions and hands-on activities. In partnership with UCSC’s Shakespeare Workshop and The Humanities Institute\, this is a wonderful opportunity to learn more about each play during the day and then enjoy the production that same evening. \nThis year\, Weekend with Shakespeare will be held at the Audrey Stanley Grove in DeLaveaga Park on August 8th (Much Ado About Nothing) and August 9th (Macbeth). \nAdmission is free to all\, but seating is limited. Please register below to reserve your seats. \n \nSchedule for Weekend with Shakespeare \nSaturday\, 8/8 – Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare \n\n11:00 a.m. – Welcome (Sean Keilen\, UCSC)\n11:15 a.m. – Actor Panel (Charles Pasternak and members of the company\, SCS)\n12:15 p.m. – Boxed lunch (courtesy of Shakespeare Workshop)\n1:00 p.m. – Visiting Scholar (Eli Simon\, UC Irvine)\n2:00 – End of program\n\nSunday\, 8/9 – Macbeth by William Shakespeare \n\n1:00 a.m. – Welcome (Sean Keilen\, UCSC)\n11:15 a.m. – Actor Panel (Charles Pasternak and members of the company\, SCS)\n12:15 p.m. – Boxed lunch (courtesy of Shakespeare Workshop)\n1:00 p.m. – Visiting Scholar (Eli Simon\, UC Irvine)\n2:00 – End of program\n\nSean Keilen is Professor of Literature and UC Santa Cruz\, the founder of Shakespeare Workshop\, and Head of Dramaturgy at Santa Cruz Shakespeare. \nCharles Pasternak is Artistic Director at Santa Cruz Shakespeare\, before which served as Artistic Director of The Porters of Hellsgate Theatre Co in Los Angeles for over fifteen years. He has had a wide-ranging career as an actor and director at theatres across this country including American Players Theatre\, Alabama Shakespeare Festival\, The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey\, The Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles\, three seasons with The Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis and four with Shakespeare Santa Cruz. \nEli Simon is a Chancellor’s Professor of Drama at UC Irvine\, where he has served as chair and head of acting. He is the founding artistic director and managing producer of the New Swan Shakespeare Festival\, UCI’s professional summer theater in residence\, which presents two of Shakespeare’s plays in rotating repertory each summer. Designed and built on campus\, the intimate 135-seat New Swan Theater has become a celebrated Orange County cultural destination\, winning acclaim from audiences\, critics and the community. In 2017\, the Los Angeles Times/Daily Pilot named New Swan the premier theater company in Orange County. Simon also co-directs the New Swan Shakespeare Center\, a UCI research initiative supporting scholarly and public engagement with Shakespeare.
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/weekend-with-shakespeare-2/
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SUMMARY:Weekend with Shakespeare
DESCRIPTION:Dig deeply into this season’s Shakespeare productions with a special weekend of lectures\, discussions and hands-on activities. In partnership with UCSC’s Shakespeare Workshop and The Humanities Institute\, this is a wonderful opportunity to learn more about each play during the day and then enjoy the production that same evening. \nThis year\, Weekend with Shakespeare will be held at the Audrey Stanley Grove in DeLaveaga Park on August 8th (Much Ado About Nothing) and August 9th (Macbeth). \nAdmission is free to all\, but seating is limited. Please register below to reserve your seats. \n \nSchedule for Weekend with Shakespeare \nSaturday\, 8/8 – Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare \n\n11:00 a.m. – Welcome (Sean Keilen\, UCSC)\n11:15 a.m. – Actor Panel (Charles Pasternak and members of the company\, SCS)\n12:15 p.m. – Boxed lunch (courtesy of Shakespeare Workshop)\n1:00 p.m. – Visiting Scholar (Eli Simon\, UC Irvine)\n2:00 – End of program\n\nSunday\, 8/9 – Macbeth by William Shakespeare \n\n1:00 a.m. – Welcome (Sean Keilen\, UCSC)\n11:15 a.m. – Actor Panel (Charles Pasternak and members of the company\, SCS)\n12:15 p.m. – Boxed lunch (courtesy of Shakespeare Workshop)\n1:00 p.m. – Visiting Scholar (Eli Simon\, UC Irvine)\n2:00 – End of program\n\nSean Keilen is Professor of Literature and UC Santa Cruz\, the founder of Shakespeare Workshop\, and Head of Dramaturgy at Santa Cruz Shakespeare. \nCharles Pasternak is Artistic Director at Santa Cruz Shakespeare\, before which served as Artistic Director of The Porters of Hellsgate Theatre Co in Los Angeles for over fifteen years. He has had a wide-ranging career as an actor and director at theatres across this country including American Players Theatre\, Alabama Shakespeare Festival\, The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey\, The Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles\, three seasons with The Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis and four with Shakespeare Santa Cruz. \nEli Simon is a Chancellor’s Professor of Drama at UC Irvine\, where he has served as chair and head of acting. He is the founding artistic director and managing producer of the New Swan Shakespeare Festival\, UCI’s professional summer theater in residence\, which presents two of Shakespeare’s plays in rotating repertory each summer. Designed and built on campus\, the intimate 135-seat New Swan Theater has become a celebrated Orange County cultural destination\, winning acclaim from audiences\, critics and the community. In 2017\, the Los Angeles Times/Daily Pilot named New Swan the premier theater company in Orange County. Simon also co-directs the New Swan Shakespeare Center\, a UCI research initiative supporting scholarly and public engagement with Shakespeare.
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/weekend-with-shakespeare/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260726T010000
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SUMMARY:Cabrillo Festival 2026 - Opening Night
DESCRIPTION:“We the Dreamers is both an invitation and a responsibility”; says Music Director Cristian Măcelaru. “At this historic moment\, we are asking how music can help us imagine a more expansive ‘we’—one that listens deeply\, embraces complexity\, and dares to hope. These works remind us that dreaming is essential to shaping a more just and connected future.” \nThe Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music presents its 64th season\, We the Dreamers\, running July 26 through August 9\, 2026. Framed by the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence\, this transformative season asks one of the most resonant civic questions of our time: Who is the “we” of America—and who are “we” still becoming? The answers unfold across four world premiere Festival Commissions\, eight West Coast premieres\, and two U.S. premieres\, brought to life by a dynamic global roster of over 20 composers and an extraordinary array of guest artists. \nHighlights include the second-ever performance and West Coast premiere of Philip Glass’s Symphony No. 15 Lincoln\, which draws on Lincoln’s urgent reverence for the Constitution and his prescient warnings against internal division\, alongside an appearance by Former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove and new works by Clarice Assad\, Vivian Fung\, Sarah Hennies\, and Pedro Emanuel Pereira—together offering a compelling portrait of our contemporary moment through the lens of history\, civic reckoning\, and global perspective. \nFor more information: Cabrillo Festival 2026
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/cabrillo-festival-2026-opening-night/
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SUMMARY:Ocean Vuong - The Emperor of Gladness
DESCRIPTION:The hardest thing in the world is to live only once…\n\n\n\nBookshop Santa Cruz and The Humanities Institute are pleased to welcome critically acclaimed author and staff favorite Ocean Vuong (Time Is a Mother\, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous) for an event celebrating the paperback release of The Emperor of Gladness\, Vuong’s bighearted novel about chosen family\, unexpected friendship\, and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive. Vuong will be in conversation with UC Santa Cruz Professor Ronaldo V. Wilson. \n \nFollowing the cycles of history\, memory\, and time\, The Emperor of Gladness shows the profound ways in which love\, labor\, and loneliness form the bedrock of American life. At its heart is a brave epic about what it means to exist on the fringes of society and to reckon with the wounds that haunt our collective soul. Hallmarks of Ocean Vuong’s writing—formal innovation\, syntactic dexterity\, and the ability to twin grit with grace through tenderness—are on full display in this story of loss\, hope\, and how far we would go to possess one of life’s most fleeting mercies: a second chance. \nOcean Vuong is the author of the critically acclaimed poetry collections Night Sky with Exit Wounds and Time Is a Mother\, as well as the New York Times bestselling novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous. A recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship and the American Book Award\, he was born in Saigon\, Vietnam\, and currently splits his time between western Massachusetts and New York City. The Emperor of Gladness is his latest novel. \nMore information at: Bookshop Santa Cruz – Ocean Vuong \n\nCo-Sponsored by The Humanities Institute
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/ocean-vuong-the-emperor-of-gladness/
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SUMMARY:Santa Cruz Shakespeare Opening Night
DESCRIPTION:Tickets are now on sale for Santa Cruz Shakespeare’s 2026 Season\, featuring Much Ado About Nothing and Macbeth. Co-sponsored by the Humanities Institute. \nThe 2026 season runs from July 16 – August 30. \nMuch Ado About Nothing is one of Shakespeare’s wittiest and most beloved comedies. Of all the couples in Shakespeare\, perhaps none is more widely loved than Beatrice and Benedick. Their battle of wits\, their antagonism turned to eroticism\, their history. Before the play begins\, they already seem to define each other. The audience\, like the other characters in the play\, wait with excitement as their wits clash\, and eventually\, as their love blossoms. \n \nMacbeth by William Shakespeare’s is one of the greatest plays ever written. Its central couple\, ironically\, is one of Shakespeare’s happiest. At least at the beginning. Macbeth explores what we become when our second half is ripped away. A powerful unit\, wildly in love with each other\, the Macbeths follow the insinuations of the witches – the famous weird sisters – and commit murder in the name of their shared ambition: the throne of Scotland. But even with their goal achieved\, Macbeth’s paranoia and guilt lead him further down the road of blood. The central unit tears apart under the shadow of its deeds. Who are these two without each other? Slowly and surely\, the play shows us society’s ruin in the form of its leading pair. \nSanta Cruz Shakespeare’s production of Macbeth stars Dan Donohue in the title role and Paige Lindsey White as Lady Macbeth.
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/santa-cruz-shakespeare-opening-night/
LOCATION:The Audrey Stanley Grove in Delaveaga Park\, 501 Upper Park Rd\, Santa Cruz\, 95065\, United States
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SUMMARY:Homer’s The Odyssey Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Homer’s Odyssey is becoming a major motion picture. Whether you like movies or not\, this is a great excuse to read this millennia-old story about a salty war hero who just wants to go home. Join us on June 24th and July 1 to discuss the Odyssey with UC Santa Cruz Ancient Studies faculty Anne Kreps and Martin Devecka where we’ll discuss the wild world of Odysseus and what this epic can teach us about talking to strangers\, lying\, and picking a good disguise. \n \nPlease register above to attend one or more of the webinars on June 24th and July 1st! \nThis program will be using the The Odyssey\, Emily Wilson 2018 edition and will cover Books 1-12 on June 24th and Books 13-24 on July 1st. \nMartin Devecka\, Associate Professor\, Ancient Studies & Literature \nAs a cultural historian\, Devecka writes on topics in ancient literature and society that range from robots to ruins. He is currently finishing a book manuscript on animal citizenship in the Roman Empire. \nAnne Kreps\, Associate Professor\, Ancient Studies & History \nAs a historian of the ancient Near East\, Kreps studies heresies\, Gnosticism\, and the politics of sacred texts. Her current work examines the Dead Sea Scrolls within New Religious Movements in the United States. \nThis event is presented by The Humanities Institute and the UC Santa Cruz Ancient Studies Program. Co-sponsored by Bookshop Santa Cruz.
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/homers-the-odyssey-reading-group-2/
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SUMMARY:Homer’s The Odyssey Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Homer’s Odyssey is becoming a major motion picture. Whether you like movies or not\, this is a great excuse to read this millennia-old story about a salty war hero who just wants to go home. Join us on June 24th and July 1 to discuss the Odyssey with UC Santa Cruz Ancient Studies faculty Anne Kreps and Martin Devecka where we’ll discuss the wild world of Odysseus and what this epic can teach us about talking to strangers\, lying\, and picking a good disguise. This event is co-sponsored by Bookshop Santa Cruz. \n \nPlease register above to attend one or more of the webinars on June 24th and July 1st! \nThis program will be using the The Odyssey\, Emily Wilson 2018 edition and will cover Books 1-12 on June 24th and Books 13-24 on July 1st. \nMartin Devecka\, Associate Professor\, Ancient Studies & Literature \nAs a cultural historian\, Devecka writes on topics in ancient literature and society that range from robots to ruins. He is currently finishing a book manuscript on animal citizenship in the Roman Empire. \nAnne Kreps\, Associate Professor\, Ancient Studies & History \nAs a historian of the ancient Near East\, Kreps studies heresies\, Gnosticism\, and the politics of sacred texts. Her current work examines the Dead Sea Scrolls within New Religious Movements in the United States. \nThis event is presented by The Humanities Institute and the UC Santa Cruz Ancient Studies Program. Co-sponsored by Bookshop Santa Cruz.
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/homers-the-odyssey-reading-group/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260623T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260623T200000
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SUMMARY:Daniel Mason - Country People
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Pulitzer Prize finalist Daniel Mason (North Woods) for a reading and signing of his new novel Country People—a rollicking\, lyrical year in the life of a family as they strike out into the unknown (aka Vermont)\, leaving all of the comforts of home behind. \nMiles Krzelewski is a devoted husband\, a doting father beloved for his outlandish bedtime stories\, and the proud owner of a truffle-hunting dog in a land with no truffles. He is also a bit lost\, twelve years late with his PhD on Russian folktales and increasingly haunted by a sense that he’s become a disappointment to his family. So when his wife\, Kate\, accepts a visiting professorship at a prestigious college in the faraway forests of Vermont\, he decides that this will be the year to finally move forward with his life. Joyous\, absurd\, and life-affirming\, Country People is a luminous exploration of marriage and parenthood\, the nature of belief and the power of stories\, and the ways in which we find connection in an increasingly fragmented world. \n \nDaniel Mason is the author of The Piano Tuner\, The Winter Soldier\, A Registry of My Passage upon the Earth—a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize—and North Woods\, a New York Times and Washington Post Top Ten Book of 2023 and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His work has been translated into twenty-eight languages\, adapted for opera and the stage\, and awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship\, the Joyce Carol Oates Prize\, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. He is an associate professor in the Stanford University department of psychiatry. \nMore information at: Bookshop Santa Cruz – Daniel Mason \n\nCo-sponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/daniel-mason-country-people/
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SUMMARY:Ruth Ozeki – The Typing Lady
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop welcomes Booker Prize finalist Ruth Ozeki (A Tale for the Time Being)\, who will share her spellbinding story collection The Typing Lady: And Other Fictions about the lives we almost lived\, the people we can’t quite forget\, and the stories that shape us long after the last page is turned. Ozeki will be in conversation with Karen Joy Fowler at this event. \nIn this spirited and emotionally resonant collection\, award-winning novelist Ruth Ozeki turns her singular gaze to the short story\, exploring childhood ambition\, youthful desire\, midlife reinvention\, and the unsparing clarity of old age. With her distinctive blend of wit\, warmth\, and deep humanity\, she brings us eleven richly imagined stories of characters standing at life’s thresholds—grappling with faded ideals\, evolving identities\, and the inevitable compromises that shape a life. \n \nRuth Ozeki is a novelist\, filmmaker\, and Zen Buddhist priest. She is the bestselling author of four novels: The Book of Form and Emptiness\, winner of the UK’s 2022 Women’s Prize for Fiction; My Year of Meats; All Over Creation; and A Tale for the Time Being\, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and was a finalist for the 2013 Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her nonfiction work includes a memoir\, The Face: A Time Code\, and the documentary film Halving the Bones. A longtime Buddhist practitioner\, Ruth is affiliated with the Brooklyn Zen Center and the Everyday Zen Foundation. She is a professor emerita of English language and literature at Smith College\, where she was the Grace Jarcho Ross 1933 Professor of Humanities. \nMore information at: Bookshop Santa Cruz – Ruth Ozeki \nCo-sponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/ruth-ozeki-the-typing-lady/
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SUMMARY:The Deep Read – A Conversation with Merlin Sheldrake
DESCRIPTION: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. Together\, we’ll explore the dependence of all life—human\, plant\, animal\, and beyond—on fungal networks and how the resulting interconnections provoke us to reconsider our understanding of existence\, identity\, intelligence\, and more. \n \nEvent Schedule: \n3:00-3:15 pm: Doors Open \n3:15-4:00 pm: Musical performance by Le Jazz Hot Duo \n(Nelsen Hutchison & Paul Mehling) will play acoustic jazz in the style of Django Reinhardt and the Hot Club of France. Expect a mix of Parisian waltzes\, jazz standards\, bossa nova\, and reimagined pop tunes\, all driven by energetic improvisation \n4:00-5:30 pm: Main program \nMerlin Sheldrake will discuss his New York Times bestseller\, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make our Worlds\, Change our Minds\, and Shape our Futures with UC Santa Cruz Associate Professor of History Benjamin Breen and the Deep Read community. We’ll explore the dependence of all life—human\, plant\, animal\, and beyond—on fungal networks and how the resulting interconnections provoke us to reconsider our understanding of existence\, identity\, intelligence\, and more. \n5:30-6:00pm: Book signing \n\nADA & General Public Parking: \nFor our ADA guests\, the ADA accessible parking will be available at the Hahn Student Services/Lot 101. Please follow directional signs that will lead you to this Lot. Disability Van Services will be available to support guests that require transport. An ADA placard will be required to park in this lot. \nGeneral parking is located at the East Remote. Carpooling is highly recommended. Parking will be free and a courtesy shuttle will be available to and from the East Remote to the Quarry Amphithater. Directional signage will be posted starting at the base of campus. \nIt is up to a 20 minute walk to the Quarry Amphitheter from the East Remote Lot. \n\nAdditional Events of Interest: \nEntangled Life Faculty Salon: On May 19\, 2026\, at 6pm\, we will hold a salon-style event at the Hay Barn on campus where a group of Deep Read faculty—Professors Breen\, Gilbert\, and Haraway —will give brief presentations and discuss Entangled Life with moderator Laura Martin and the Deep Read community. Participants can also attend virtually. \nThe Literature and Poetics of Fungi Salon: On May 26\, 2026\, at 6pm\, we will hold a salon at the Hay Barn focused on the literary and poetic influence of fungi and its relation to Entangled Life. The salon will feature Professors Cole\, Hillman\, Palmer\, and Tseng in conversation with moderator Laura Martin and the Deep Read community. Participants can also attend virtually. \n \nThe Deep Read is an annual program of The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz made possible through the generous support of the Helen and Will Webster Foundation. We invite curious minds to think deeply about books and the most pressing issues of our contemporary moment.
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/the-deep-read-a-conversation-with-merlin-sheldrake/
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SUMMARY:Office Hours Under the Sea
DESCRIPTION:Join Ronaldo Wilson and special guests for a site-specific\, endurance performance as part of there are no words\, but melodies. The exhibition emerges at the intersections of Black poetics\, performance\, and visual art toshuttle between verbal and non-verbal forms of language\, rendering the boundaries of identity and meaning slippery. \nDrop in and visit Wilson’s office hours any time between 12pm and 5pm. \nAbout the Artist: \nRonaldo V. Wilson is a poet\, interdisciplinary artist\, academic\, and the author of Narrative of the Life of the Brown Boy and the White Man\, winner of the Cave Canem Prize; Poems of the Black Object\, winner of the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry and the Asian American Literary Award in Poetry; Farther Traveler: Poetry\, Prose\, Other\, and Lucy 72. His latest books are Carmelina: Figures and Virgil Kills: Stories. He is the editor of three special issues of hybrid and experimental work in Interim: A Journal of Poetry and Poetics; and Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora. He has shown work and performed most recently at the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics\, and The Woodberry Poetry Room at Harvard. The recipient of numerous fellowships\, including Cave Canem\, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown\, MacDowell\, and The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation\, Wilson is Professor of Creative Writing and Literature at U.C. Santa Cruz\, where he directs the Creative Writing Program\, and serves on the core faculty of the Creative Critical PhD Program; principal faculty member of CRES (Critical Race and Ethnic Studies); and affiliate faculty member of DANM (Digital Arts and New Media).
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/office-hours-under-the-sea/
LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Ave\, Santa Cruz\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibits,Performances
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SUMMARY:The Deep Read: The Literature and Poetics of Fungi Salon
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a salon-style event at the Hay Barn on campus where we will hold a salon focused on the literary and poetic influence of fungi and its relation to Entangled Life. The salon will feature Professors Hannah Cole (Assistant Professor of Literature at UC Santa Cruz)\, Brenda Hillman (Professor Emerita of Poetry at Saint Mary’s College)\, A. Laurie Palmer (Professor Emerita of Art at UC Santa Cruz)\, and Jennifer Tseng (Associate Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at UC Santa Cruz) in conversation with moderator Laura Martin and the Deep Read community. Participants can also attend virtually. \n \nIn person at the Cowell Ranch Hay Barn. Doors open at 5:30pm. \nEvent Logistics: Bicycling\, carpooling\, ridesharing\, and public transportation are encouraged as parking is limited on campus. If you drive to the event\, please plan to park in UCSC Lot #115 or #116. To reach these lots\, proceed through the main entrance to campus\, continue up the hill from the information kiosk on Coolidge\, then turn right at the Ranch View/Carriage House Road stoplight into the Carriage House/Campus Facilities parking lot. The Hay Barn is a 5-minute walk across the street from the parking lot. There will be directional signage to help you get to the correct parking lot and the Hay Barn entrance. Overflow parking will be available in lot #122. View the campus parking map here. \n\nAdditional Events of Interest: \nEntangled Life Faculty Salon: On May 19\, 2026\, at 6pm\, we will hold a salon-style event at the Hay Barn on campus where a group of Deep Read faculty—Professors Breen\, Gilbert\, and Haraway —will give brief presentations and discuss Entangled Life with moderator Laura Martin and the Deep Read community. Participants can also attend virtually. \nAuthor Event – A Conversation with Merlin Sheldrake:  On May 31\, 2026\, at 4pm\, we will welcome Merlin Sheldrake to the Quarry Amphitheater on campus where he will be in conversation with Associate Professor of History\, Benjamin Breen. This will be an in-person event\, and\, as always\, it will be free and open to the public. \n \nThe Deep Read is an annual program of The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz made possible through the generous support of the Helen and Will Webster Foundation. We invite curious minds to think deeply about books and the most pressing issues of our contemporary moment.
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/the-deep-read-the-literature-and-poetics-of-fungi-salon/
LOCATION:Hay Barn\, 94 Ranch View Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Deep Read: Faculty Salon on Entangled Life
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a salon-style event at the Hay Barn on campus where our participating Deep Read faculty\, Professors Benjamin Breen (History)\, Gregory Gilbert (Environmental Studies)\, and Donna Haraway (History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies) will give brief presentations and discuss Entangled Life with the Deep Read community in a Q&A moderated by Deep Read Faculty Co-Lead\, Laura Martin. Participants can also attend virtually. \n \nIn person at the Cowell Ranch Hay Barn. Doors open at 5:30pm. \nEvent Logistics: Bicycling\, carpooling\, ridesharing\, and public transportation are encouraged as parking is limited on campus. If you drive to the event\, please plan to park in UCSC Lot #115 or #116. To reach these lots\, proceed through the main entrance to campus\, continue up the hill from the information kiosk on Coolidge\, then turn right at the Ranch View/Carriage House Road stoplight into the Carriage House/Campus Facilities parking lot. The Hay Barn is a 5-minute walk across the street from the parking lot. There will be directional signage to help you get to the correct parking lot and the Hay Barn entrance. Overflow parking will be available in lot #122. View the campus parking map here. \n\nAdditional Events of Interest: \nThe Literature and Poetics of Fungi Salon: On May 26\, 2026\, at 6pm\, we will hold a salon at the Hay Barn focused on the literary and poetic influence of fungi and its relation to Entangled Life. The salon will feature Professors Cole\, Hillman\, Palmer\, and Tseng in conversation with moderator Laura Martin and the Deep Read community. Participants can also attend virtually. \nAuthor Event – A Conversation with Merlin Sheldrake:  On May 31\, 2026\, at 4pm\, we will welcome Merlin Sheldrake to the Quarry Amphitheater on campus where he will be in conversation with Associate Professor of History\, Benjamin Breen. This will be an in-person event\, and\, as always\, it will be free and open to the public. \n \nThe Deep Read is an annual program of The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz made possible through the generous support of the Helen and Will Webster Foundation. We invite curious minds to think deeply about books and the most pressing issues of our contemporary moment.
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/the-deep-read-faculty-salon-on-entangled-life/
LOCATION:Hay Barn\, 94 Ranch View Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Privacy’s Defender: Fight Against Digital Surveillance with Cindy Cohn
DESCRIPTION:Privacy’s Defender\nElectronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Executive Director Cindy Cohn’s Journey Inside the Privacy Battles That Shaped Today’s Internet\nCindy Cohn has devoted her life to the fight for digital rights. She’s tangled with federal officials to keep our online conversations secure from the government’s prying eyes\, fought to ensure that you are told when your information has been turned over to the government\, and argued before judges to protect our right to speak and to share science and knowledge on the internet. \nIn Privacy’s Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance (MIT Press)\, Cindy weaves her own personal story with her role as a leading legal voice representing the rights and interests of technology users\, innovators\, whistleblowers\, and researchers during the Crypto Wars of the 1990s\, battles over NSA’s dragnet internet spying revealed in the 2000s\, and the fight against FBI gag orders. \nDuring this national book tour\, Cindy will be at UC Santa Cruz to give a book talk on May 19\, 2026 from 12:00-1:30 pm. \nFree and open to the public with registration.  \nRSVP HERE to attend in-person or on Zoom. \nIn-Person location: UCSC Humanities 1\, Room 210 (map link) \nVirtual: Zoom link will be sent separately \nCindy Cohn is the Executive Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation\, which works to ensure that technology supports freedom\, justice and innovation for all the people of the world. Before becoming Executive Director a decade ago\, Cindy was the organization’s Legal Director from 2000-2015\, and led the organization’s impact litigation work on bringing balance to copyright law\, stopping mass spying and protecting freedom of expression online. She’s won many awards for her work and even more court decisions. \n \nUCSC co-sponsors: \nInstitute for Social Transformation\, The Humanities Institute\, Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas\, The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society and the Banatao Institute (CITRIS)\, and the Security Research Lab.
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/privacys-defender-fight-against-digital-surveillance-with-cindy-cohn/
LOCATION:Humanities 1 Building\, 257 Cowell-Stevenson Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260515T193000
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SUMMARY:CMENA’s Annual Concert Featuring Aza
DESCRIPTION:CMENA is proud to present AZA for our 2026 Spring concert. AZA weaves the rich musical traditions of North Africa’s Tamazight culture with contemporary global influences\, creating a unique and captivating sound. Led by Moroccan-born musician Fattah Abbou\, AZA blends the intricate melodies and dynamic rhythms of styles like Ahwash\, Rwais\, and Gnawa. The band celebrates Amazigh heritage through music\, art\, and education – building bridges between cultures across continents. \n\nPresented by the Center for the Middle East and North Africa
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/cmenas-annual-concert-featuring-aza/
LOCATION:Woodhouse Brewery\, 119 Madrone St.\, Santa Cruz\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260511T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260511T200000
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SUMMARY:Reyna Grande – Migrant Heart
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes award-winning author Reyna Grande (The Distance Between Us) back to the store to celebrate the release of her newest book Migrant Heart: Essays About Things I Can’t Forget—an ambitious memoir in essays that illuminates the hidden cost of the American Dream and the complex journey of healing that follows survival. Grande will be in conversation with Sylvanna Falcón\, Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at UC Santa Cruz. \nMigrant Heart is a powerful testament to Grande’s role as a storyteller and cultural witness. It is an essential\, moving read that continues to expand what we understand about the United States and the complex people who cross and live within its borders. It is a book for anyone seeking to understand the true price of belonging and the enduring power of finding one’s voice. \n \nReyna Grande is an award-winning author\, motivational speaker\, and writing teacher. As a young girl\, she crossed the US-Mexico border to join her family in Los Angeles\, a harrowing journey chronicled in The Distance Between Us\, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. Her other books include the novels A Ballad of Love and Glory\, Across a Hundred Mountains\, and Dancing with Butterflies\, the memoirs Migrant Heart\, The Distance Between Us: Young Readers Edition\, and A Dream Called Home\, and the anthology Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration\, Survival\, and New Beginnings. She lives in Woodland\, California\, with her husband and two children. Visit ReynaGrande.com for more information. \nSylvanna Falcón is a Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at UC Santa Cruz. She is the winner of the 2016 Gloria Anzaldúa Book Prize from the National Women’s Studies Association and of a teaching award from the Division of Social Sciences at UC Santa Cruz. \nMore information at: Bookshop Santa Cruz – Reyna Grande \n\nThis event is cosponsored by Latin American and Latino Studies and The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/reyna-grande-migrant-heart/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz
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SUMMARY:Rasanblaj as Spirit Turn: Gina Athena Ulysse in Conversation with Jennifer González
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a conversation between Gina Athena Ulysse and Jennifer González\, discussing Ulysse’s solo exhibition Redwoods Rasanblaj: Origins & Disentanglements. \nThe internationally-lauded work of humanities professor Gina Athena Ulysse is on view at the IAS as an inaugural Faculty Spotlight Exhibition. The site-specific installation\, produced in community from things collected\, found\, purchased and donated\, centers on the concept developed by the artist of “rasanblaj”\, a form of assembly and collage that transcends the formal use of materials to draw together people\, spirits\, and ideas. \nThe artist will be joined in conversation by noted art theorist and scholar Jennifer González\, professor of history of art and visual culture.
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/rasanblaj-as-spirit-turn-gina-athena-ulysse-in-conversation-with-jennifer-gonzalez/
LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Ave\, Santa Cruz\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibits,Lectures & Presentations
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SUMMARY:Kuumbwa Jazz Presents – Gregorio Uribe
DESCRIPTION:“Colombian artist Gregorio Uribe\, whose blend of contemporary cumbia and timeless charisma has marked him as an artist to watch.” – Billboard \nUribe was recognized by the Colombian government as one of “The 100 Most Successful Colombians Abroad”\, and has received honors from the city of Boston and the state of Massachusetts for his contribution to Latin music. He is currently recording his fourth studio album\, a groundbreaking collection of songs that will take the Colombian accordion to a new level of versatility. This concert date will feature a dynamic combination of solo and band performances.\n\n \nGregorio Uribe is a Latin GRAMMY-nominated Colombian singer-songwriter and accordionist. He graduated from Berklee College of Music and has performed his music at NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert\, Carnegie Hall\, Madison Square Garden\, and the New Orleans Jazz Fest\, among others. He has collaborated with renowned artists such as Rubén Blades\, Carlos Vives\, and Paquito D’Rivera\, as well as with folklore masters Alfredo Gutiérrez\, Carmelo Torres\, and Martina Camargo. \nFor more information: Kuumbwa Jazz – Gregorio Uribe \n\nPresented by the Kuumbwa Jazz Center and Co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/kuumbwa-jazz-presents-gregorio-uribe/
LOCATION:Kuumbwa Jazz Center\, 320-2 Cedar St\, Santa Cruz\, 95060\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260429T173000
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SUMMARY:Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed
DESCRIPTION:Please join us as Quinn Slobodian & Ben Tarnoff discuss their new book\, Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed (April\, 2026). \n \nA Financial Times Most Anticipated Nonfiction Book of the Year • A Kirkus Most Anticipated Nonfiction Book of Spring 2026• A Literary Hub Most Anticipated Book of the Year\n\nA pyrotechnic examination of Elon Musk as a symptom and avatar of our postliberal age \nEveryone’s got an Elon take. He’s a messiah. A menace; a genius; a clown. The verdicts differ\, but they share one theme: they treat him as an individual. Muskism argues otherwise. Elon Musk isn’t a glitch in the system—he is the system. His worldview promises sovereignty through technology: plug in\, power up\, and become self-reliant. But the more you connect\, the more he owns you. \nIf Fordism defined the capitalism of the twentieth century\, Muskism may define the twenty-first. Fordism helped build the welfare state. Musk undoes it. He thrives on dependence while preaching freedom. His cars run on subsidies; his satellites run the battlefield; his social networks train the AI that trains us. Muskism sells itself as the future but entrenches age-old hierarchies. It offers autonomy for some and exclusion for others. It’s pro-natalist but anti-immigrant\, futurist but reactionary. It speaks of humanity but warns against empathy. Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff cut through the hype and the hate to reveal what Musk really represents: a new political economy\, where to be “free” means to serve a Technoking. Muskism isn’t about the man. It’s about the machine that made him—and the world he’s making next. \nQuinn Slobodian is professor of international history at Boston University\, and the author or editor of seven books translated into ten languages including\, Hayek’s Bastards: Race\, Gold\, IQ and the Capitalism of the Far Right\, Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World without Democracy\, and Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism. \nBen Tarnoff is a writer and technologist based in Massachusetts and is the author of Internet for the People and the co-author of Voices from the Valley: Tech Workers Talk About What They Do—And How They Do It. He is a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books\, and has also written for the New York Times\, The New Yorker\, and the New Republic\, among other publications.
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/muskism-a-guide-for-the-perplexed/
LOCATION:Merrill Cultural Center\, 200 McLaughlin Dr\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations
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SUMMARY:Karen Tei Yamashita – Questions 27 & 28
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes acclaimed author Karen Tei Yamashita (I Hotel) to celebrate the launch of her new novel Questions 27 & 28—a masterful polyvocal history of Japanese Americans before\, during\, and after World War II. Yamashita will be in conversation with Alice Yang\, Professor of History and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at UC Santa Cruz. \nIn February 1942\, shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor\, Franklin D. Roosevelt issued an executive order authorizing the secretary of war to remove 120\,000 Japanese Americans from their homes on the West Coast and corral them into inland concentration camps. \n \nQuestions 27 & 28 reaches backward and forward from the time of the questionnaire\, chronicling the individuals who arrived in the US from Japan at the turn of the century\, their children who came of age during war and incarceration\, and their descendants who lived in its aftermath. Yamashita mixes fact with fiction and layers genres from James Bond movies to haiku to oral history\, transfiguring an enormity of archival research into a chorus of stories. With her signature wit and aplomb\, she gives voice to laborers\, artists\, scholars\, informants\, and activists who\, over three generations\, defined an immigrant community. \nKaren Tei Yamashita is the author of nine books\, including I Hotel\, finalist for the National Book Award. Recipient of the National Book Foundation’s 2021 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters\, she is Professor Emerita of literature and creative writing at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. In 2024 Yamashita was inducted as a Literature Fellow in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. \nAlice Yang is Professor of History and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. She received her Ph.D. in history from Stanford University and currently co-directs the Center for the Study of Pacific War Memories. She specializes in memories of the Pacific War\, Asian American history\, race\, gender\, oral history\, historical memory\, and twentieth-century America. Her publications include Historical Memories of the Japanese American Internment and the Struggle for Redress (2007)\, Major Problems in Asian American History (2003\, 2017) and What Did the Internment of Japanese Americans Mean? (2000). Her exhibit\, Never Again is Now: Japanese American Women Activists and the Legacy of Mass Incarceration\, appeared at UC Santa Cruz\, the Watsonville Public Library and the Japanese American Museum of San Jose. She also has served as chair of the UCSC History Department and provost of Stevenson College at UCSC. \nMore information at: Bookshop Santa Cruz – Karen Tei Yamashita \n\nCo-sponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/karen-tei-yamashita-questions-27-28/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz
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SUMMARY:The Tallest Dwarf—film screening and talk with Julie Wyman
DESCRIPTION:UC Santa Cruz affiliates are invited to a screening and discussion with filmmaker Julie Forrest Wyman. The Tallest Dwarf charts the filmmaker’s quest to find her place within the little people (LP) community at a moment when dwarf identity is poised to radically change. Wyman’s work engages issues of embodiment\, body image\, and the possibilities and problematics of media spectatorship—all informed by her experience of living with hypochondroplasia dwarfism. Julie Wyman will be in conversation after the screening with Pooja Rangan (Professor of English and Film and Media Studies at Amherst College and Visiting Scholar of Visualizing Abolition) and Cynthia Ling Lee (Associate Professor of Performance\, Play & Design\, UC Santa Cruz). \nCo-organized/co-sponsored by the Arts Division’s Film & Digital Media Department\,  “Abolition Medicine and Disability Justice“—a collaborative initiative of five UC campuses\, including Riverside\, Irvine\, Los Angeles\, Santa Cruz\, and San Francisco\, to addresses health disparities in institutions and policy—and The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.\n—\nADMISSION\n– Free and open to UC Santa Cruz affiliates only\n– Attend in person at Communications Studio C\n—\nPARKING\n– Parking via UCSC permit or ParkMobile\n– Core West is the lot closest to the event\n—\nABOUT THE FILM\nAs Wyman unpacks the rumors of “partial dwarfism” in her family\, she finds that hers is the last of a body type she has inherited. She joins forces with a group of dwarf artists to confront the legacy of being fetishized and put on display. Together they create films that reclaim a complicated history and speak back to the echoes of eugenics in the newly emerging pharmaceutical interventions that make little people taller. Through its personal and expanding perspective\, the film invites audiences to a new way of seeing.\n—\nABOUT THE FILMMAKER\nJulie Forrest Wyman’s 2012 documentary STRONG! premiered at AFI Silverdocs and was broadcast nationally on PBS’s Emmy award-winning series\, Independent Lens\, where it won the series’ Audience Award. Wyman’s work has been awarded support from Sundance\, Sandbox\, IDA\, SF Film Society\, Points North\, ITVS\, the Creative Capital Foundation\, The Princess Grace Foundation\, California Humanities\, and NEH. She has been a fellow at the UC Davis Feminist Research Institute and a resident of SF Film Society’s Filmhouse\, Siena Art Institute\, Logan Nonfiction and Points North. Her films\, including FatMob (2016)\, Buoyant (2005)\, and A Boy Named Sue (2000)\, have aired on Showtime\, MTV’s LOGO-TV\, and have been exhibited on five continents. She serves as Associate Professor of Cinema and Digital Media at UC Davis.\n—\nDownload and share the event flyer here.\n—\nphotographer credit: Gabriella Garcia-Pardo; image description: A group of six LP (little people) performers regard their paper body cut outs on the wall. \n 
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/film-wyman/
LOCATION:Communications Building\, 7487 Red Hill Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Film Screening,Lectures & Presentations,Screening
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SUMMARY:Aziz Abu Sarah & Maoz Inon – The Future is Peace
DESCRIPTION:Two lifelong peace activists and guides to Israel/Palestine\, both of whom have lost family in the conflict\, take readers on a revealing life-changing journey across this holy\, bloodstained land and discover the mythic\, political\, and personal history that divides but also binds them and their peoples. \nIn The Future Is Peace\, Sarah and Inon take readers on a transformative weeklong journey across a sacred and bloodstained land. Facing competing narratives\, they explore how compassion and unity can pull humanity back from the precipice of blind hatred. Throughout their travels\, they have been constantly asked: In the face of so much loss\, how can we ever find hope? Their answer is always the same. One cannot find hope. We must create it. \n \nAziz Abu Sarah is Co-CEO of InterAct International\, a nonprofit dedicated to Middle East Peace. He is a peacebuilder\, entrepreneur\, National Geographic Explorer\, TED Fellow\, and renowned speaker and trainer on conflict resolution and responsible travel. Aziz is the co-founder of MEJDI Tours\, a travel company on a mission to transform tourism into a global force of citizen diplomacy. He has won numerous awards\, including from the United Nations\, Institute of International Education\, and The Explorers Club. Aziz is consistently named one of the world’s 500 most influential Muslims by the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre in Jordan. He has written opinion pieces for The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, Al-Quds\, and Haaretz. \nMaoz Inon is Co-CEO of InterAct International\, a nonprofit dedicated to Middle East Peace. He is an Israeli peace activist and entrepreneur. He was honored with the prestigious Franco-German Human Rights Prize and the Shared Living Award from Abraham Initiatives. He has spoken on Capitol Hill\, at U.S. universities\, and the European Parliament. He has written pieces for The Washington Post\, Al Jazeera\, Haaretz\, and more. He has founded several peace-focused initiatives within Israel and the Middle East\, including the Jesus Trail\, Fauzi Azar Inn\, and Abraham Hostel & Tour brands. \nDouglas Abrams is a multiple New York Times-bestselling author\, as well as an editor\, literary agent\, and film producer. He is the founder and president of Idea Architects\, a creative book and media agency helping visionaries create a wiser\, healthier\, and more just world. He co-wrote The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World with the Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu which inspired the film MISSION: JOY. Doug served as the interviewer in the film as well as an Executive Producer. As an editor and literary agent\, he has also worked with other Nobel Laureates including Nelson Mandela\, Jody Williams\, and Elizabeth Blackburn and worked with many visionary scientists including Stephen Hawking.
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/aziz-abu-sarah-maoz-inon-the-future-is-peace/
LOCATION:Temple Beth El\, 3055 Porter Gulch Road\, Aptos\, 95003\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260410T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260410T200000
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SUMMARY:Celebration of Spring Exhibitions at the IAS
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate the opening of three new exhibitions at the IAS: \nLibia 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 kreyol conception of rasanblaj; and Ronaldo V. Wilson: There Are No Words\, But Melodies\, a mixed-media exhibition emerging at the intersections of Black poetics\, performance\, and visual art. \nThe artists will be in attendance. The event will also feature music by DJ Monk Earl and empanadas from Fonda Feliz. The exhibitions and opening event are free and open to the public.
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/celebration-of-spring-exhibitions-at-the-ias/
LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Ave\, Santa Cruz\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibits
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260404T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260404T150000
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SUMMARY:Suzanne Simard – When the Forest Breathes
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes bestselling author Suzanne Simard (Finding the Mother Tree)\, a scientist who pioneered the concept of sophisticated communication between trees. Simard will share her highly anticipated new book When the Forest Breathes\, in which she offers a powerful vision for saving our forests based on nature’s deep-rooted cycles of renewal. \n“A masterclass on the inner workings of forests. . . . This is science as an act of love for the world.” —Zoë Schlanger\, author of The Light Eaters \n \nRaised in a family of loggers committed to sensible forest stewardship\, trailblazing ecologist Suzanne Simard has watched as timber companies leave forests at higher risk for wildfires\, water crises\, and plant and animal extinction. But her research has the potential to chart a new course. The forest\, she reveals\, is a symphony of finely honed cycles of regeneration—from mushrooms breaking down logs to dying elder trees passing their genetic knowledge to younger ones—that hold the key to protecting our forests. Working closely with local Indigenous communities\, whose models of responsible forestry have been largely dismissed\, Simard examines how human interventions—particularly destruction of the overstory’s mother trees—endanger new growth and longevity. If we can honor the tools that trees have honed for sharing intergenerational wisdom\, she argues\, we can protect these sacred places for many years to come. \nDr. Suzanne Simard is the New York Times bestselling author of Finding the Mother Tree. She is a Professor of Forest Ecology at the University of British Columbia\, where she leads The Mother Tree Project and co-directs the Belowground Ecosystem Group. Dr. Simard has earned a global reputation for pioneering research on tree connectivity and communication and the productivity\, health\, and biodiversity of forests. Her work has been published widely\, with over 170 scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals\, including Nature\, Ecology\, and Global Biology\, and she has co-authored the book Climate Change and Variability. Her research has been communicated broadly through three TED Talks\, TED Experiences\, as well as articles and interviews in The New Yorker\, National Geographic\, NPR\, CNN\, and many more. She lives with her family in the mountains around Nelson\, British Columbia. \nMore information at: Bookshop Santa Cruz – Suzanne Simard \nThis event is cosponsored by the UC Santa Cruz Arboretum & Botanic Garden and The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/suzanne-simard-when-the-forest-breathes/
LOCATION:Hay Barn\, 94 Ranch View Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260318T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260318T235900
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SUMMARY:Undiscovered Shakespeare: The Two Noble Kinsmen - Episode III
DESCRIPTION:Shakespeare returns to the characters and themes of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in what may have been the last play he had a hand in writing: The Two Noble Kinsmen. This time\, however\, the story of Theseus and Hippolyta\, the disorienting experience of adolescent sexual desire\, and the conflict of duties to sovereigns\, parents\, friends\, and spouses are no laughing matter. It’s over-shadowed by the play’s source text — Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale\, in which chance foils Theseus’s best efforts to create order out of chaos and meaning out of loss — and by Shakespeare’s own experience writing tragedy and tragicomedy. \n \nThomas Luxon is Professor of English\, Emeritus at Dartmouth College\, where he was also the inaugural Cheheyl Professor and Director of the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning. His teaching and scholarship focus on literature of the English Renaissance and Reformation\, with a particular interest in John Milton\, John Bunyan\, John Dryden\, and 17th-century English religion and politics. In his revelatory book\, Single Imperfection: Milton\, Marriage\, and Friendship (Duquesne UP\, 2005)\, Professor Luxon explores the impact of ancient theories of friendship on Milton’s conception of Reformation marriage\, and during the pandemic\, he contributed a lecture about the rivalry of friendship and marriage in Two Noble Kinsmen to Ian Doescher’s Shakespeare 2020 Project. \nUndiscovered Shakespeare is a public arts and humanities series co-produced by Santa Cruz Shakespeare\, UCSC Shakespeare Workshop\, and The Humanities Institute. It brings professional actors and scholars together with the public for a staged reading and discussion of works by Shakespeare that are rarely produced.
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/undiscovered-shakespeare-the-two-noble-kinsmen-episode-iii/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260316T190000
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SUMMARY:Karen Russell - The Antidote
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes bestselling author Karen Russell (Swamplandia!) for a discussion about her latest novel The Antidote\, which will be available in paperback on the night of the event. “The Antidote blends speculative and fantasy elements with rich language and vivid characters in an effort not to escape reality but to comment even more thoughtfully on it. . . . Russell’s lyrical writing dazzles on every page.” —The New York Times \n \nYour RSVP helps us plan for your arrival and keep in touch with any changes. Thank you for registering! \nThe Antidote opens on Black Sunday\, as a historic dust storm ravages the fictional town of Uz\, Nebraska. But Uz is already collapsing—not just under the weight of the Great Depression and the dust bowl drought but beneath its own violent histories. The Antidote follows a “Prairie Witch\,” whose body serves as a bank vault for peoples’ memories and secrets; a Polish wheat farmer who learns how quickly a hoarded blessing can become a curse; his orphan niece\, a basketball star and witch’s apprentice in furious flight from her grief; a voluble scarecrow; and a New Deal photographer whose time-traveling camera threatens to reveal both the town’s secrets and its fate. \nKaren Russell is the author of six books of fiction\, including the New York Times bestsellers Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove. She has received MacArthur and Guggenheim Fellowships and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Born and raised in Miami\, Florida\, she now lives in the Bay Area with her husband\, son\, and daughter. The Antidote\, a national bestseller and a finalist for the National Book Award\, is her second novel. \nThis event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/karen-russell-the-antidote/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260313T190000
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SUMMARY:Questions that Matter - How to Live Long and Prosper: Lessons from a Star Trek Opera
DESCRIPTION:What do we need to live a fulfilling life? This essential question of the humanities feels especially pressing now\, on the precipice of profound changes to our planet\, our bodies\, and our sense of human exceptionality. Join us for a conversation — and a music-and-drama masterclass — about speculative fiction from the Star Trek world\, the myth of Orpheus\, and what the operatic form can teach us about intelligence\, humanity\, and the good life. The evening will feature UC Santa Cruz faculty\, Ben Leeds Carson (Professor of Music)\, Camilla A. Hawthorne (Associate Professor of Sociology)\, and Pranav Anand (THI Faculty Director and Professor of Linguistics)\, along with librettist Perre DiCarlo. \n \nThis event follows the “The Trial of Spock — An Opera Workshop” on March 8th. The opera creators will present five scenes from an opera-in-progress by Ben Leeds Carson\, Perre DiCarlo\, and Lincoln and Lee Taiz. With co-authors John DeLancey\, Camilla Hawthorne\, and Michael Chemers. \nQuestions That Matter is a public humanities series developed by The Humanities Institute and the community of Santa Cruz. It brings together\, in conversation\, two or more UC Santa Cruz scholars with community residents and students to explore questions that matter to all of us.
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/questions-that-matter-how-to-live-long-and-prosper-lessons-from-a-star-trek-opera/
LOCATION:Kuumbwa Jazz Center\, 320-2 Cedar St\, Santa Cruz\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260311T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260311T235900
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SUMMARY:Undiscovered Shakespeare: The Two Noble Kinsmen - Episode II
DESCRIPTION:Shakespeare returns to the characters and themes of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in what may have been the last play he had a hand in writing: The Two Noble Kinsmen. This time\, however\, the story of Theseus and Hippolyta\, the disorienting experience of adolescent sexual desire\, and the conflict of duties to sovereigns\, parents\, friends\, and spouses are no laughing matter. It’s over-shadowed by the play’s source text — Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale\, in which chance foils Theseus’s best efforts to create order out of chaos and meaning out of loss — and by Shakespeare’s own experience writing tragedy and tragicomedy. \n \nThomas Luxon is Professor of English\, Emeritus at Dartmouth College\, where he was also the inaugural Cheheyl Professor and Director of the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning. His teaching and scholarship focus on literature of the English Renaissance and Reformation\, with a particular interest in John Milton\, John Bunyan\, John Dryden\, and 17th-century English religion and politics. In his revelatory book\, Single Imperfection: Milton\, Marriage\, and Friendship (Duquesne UP\, 2005)\, Professor Luxon explores the impact of ancient theories of friendship on Milton’s conception of Reformation marriage\, and during the pandemic\, he contributed a lecture about the rivalry of friendship and marriage in Two Noble Kinsmen to Ian Doescher’s Shakespeare 2020 Project. \nUndiscovered Shakespeare is a public arts and humanities series co-produced by Santa Cruz Shakespeare\, UCSC Shakespeare Workshop\, and The Humanities Institute. It brings professional actors and scholars together with the public for a staged reading and discussion of works by Shakespeare that are rarely produced.
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/undiscovered-shakespeare-the-two-noble-kinsmen-episode-ii/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260308T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260308T180000
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SUMMARY:The Trial of Spock—An Opera Workshop
DESCRIPTION:The creators of The Trial of Spock—An Opera In Three Acts present concert performances of five scenes from an opera-in-progress at the UC Santa Cruz Music Center Recital Hall.  \nCaptain Christopher Pike is gravely injured. Lieutenant Spock is behaving strangely. Charged with protecting Pike in his state of extreme need\,Vulcan Commodore T’or suspects that Lieutenant Spock—once Captain Pike’s science officer—is up to no good. Spock’s Captain\, James T. Kirk\, doesn’t see the trouble until far too late\, and soon Spock holds all of them prisoner aboard a ship destined for the “forbidden planet” Talos IV. He refuses to say a word about their fate—not until his superiors agree to give him his trial. Under oath\, and with strange evidence\, Spock tells the story of Captain Pike’s first visit to Talos IV\, where illusion and artificial experiences plunge Pike and fellow captive Vina into uncharted dimensions of their memories\, and their concepts of self. \nJoin sopranos Nicole Koh\, Sheila Willey\, and Emily Sinclair; tenors Alex Boyer and Nicolas Vasquez-Gerst\, baritones Joseph Calzada and Michael Kuo\, and the Del Sol Quartet\, as they distort the myth of Orpheus\, in order to re-think our presumed relationships to freedom and reality\, and its augmentations. \nMusic by Ben Leeds Carson; libretto by Perre DiCarlo & Ben Leeds Carson and Lincoln & Lee Taiz; with contributions from John de Lancie\, based on teleplays by Gene Roddenberry. \n—\nADMISSION\n– FREE and open to the public\n– Tickets required and available online through Eventbrite\n– Follow the Music Dept on Eventbrite for notices and updates.\n– Doors are scheduled to open 30 minutes prior to event start time.\n– Ticket holders not seated at least 5 minutes before the advertised start time may forfeit their ticket/seat and no refund will be issued.\n—\nPARKING\n– Parking by permit\, ParkMobile\, or $11 cash/credit via the on-site parking attendant\n– Arts Lot #126 is the closest parking lot to the event\n– Visitors with DMV placards or plates may park for free in DMV spaces\, Medical spaces\, or ParkMobile spaces without additional payment\, or in timed zones for longer than the posted time.\n– UCSC affiliates must purchase their permits before arriving at the event in order to receive their discounted UCSC rate. Attendants will only sell the non-affiliate-priced permits.\n– More information provided by UCSC Transportation & Parking Services (TAPS)\n—\nFULL SCHEDULE OF EVENTS\nFri\, March 8\, 4:00 p.m.\, UC Santa Cruz Music Center Recital Hall\nThe Trial of Spock—An Opera Workshop\n—\nFri\, March 13\, 7:00 p.m.\, Kuumbwa Jazz Center\nHow to Live Long and Prosper—Lessons from a Star Trek Opera\n—\nThis program is open to all members of the public consistent with state and federal law. \n  \n 
URL:https://live-events-ucsc.pantheonsite.io/event/trial-of-spock/
LOCATION:Music Center Recital Hall\, 400 McHenry Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Fundraisers,Performances
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