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๐ 1117 Soquel Ave.
๐ 11:00 AM โ 12:00 PM ยท FREE
Well-being offering: Guided Mindfulness Group Date: Weekly on Thursdays Time: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Location: The Diversity Center 1117 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz Ages: Adults and teens welcome Cost: FREE Program description: Give your brain a break, and reconnect with the present moment, using guided breathing and mindfulness techniques. All LGBTQ+ people and allies are welcome. If you have questions about this well-being offering, please contact Tara Maxon, Wellbeing Coordinator, at: [email protected] View our Community Agreements for Diversity Center groups.
๐ Wisdom Center of Santa Cruz
๐ 11:00 AM โ 12:15 PM ยท See listing
Qigong acknowledges our inherent infinite wisdom. Through movement and meditation, Tibetan Qigong can rapidly increase and balance the energies in the body, reduce stress and enhance the immune system. One Finger Zen Dynamic Form strengthens the bodyโs natural energy pathways and clears the body of disease to improve and maintain good health. Through nine different movements, this practice was taught to the elite Shaolin monks by the great Indian Saint Bodhidharma. Five Element Stake Qigong is a standing meditation form that purifies and balances the five formative elements: wood, fire, earth, metal and water. It is based on ancient understandings of the universe: Yin/Yang Bagua, Five Element theory, mudras and Dharma. This qigong form allows us to connect with the energy field of the universe and to absorb the energy into our system so that healing can occur on all levels of our being.
๐ La Bahia Hotel & Spa
๐ 11:00 AM ยท $54
A notable new offering for the property, La Bahia has introduced Spa Day Passes, now available via ResortPass (based on availability), granting both travelers and locals access to enjoy the propertyโs serene spa amenities for a restorative escape by the sea.
๐ Santa Cruz Public Libraries
๐ 11:30 AM ยท See listing
Thursday, July 23 2026 10:30am - 12:00pm Join our book club every fourth Thursday to explore great reads and share engaging conversations with fellow book lovers.
๐ Santa Cruz Public Libraries
๐ 11:30 AM ยท See listing
Thursday, July 23 2026 10:30am - 11:30am For ages 0-5
๐ Santa Cruz Public Libraries
๐ 12:00 PM ยท See listing
Thursday, July 23 2026 11:00am - 12:00pm Songs and Stories
๐ UC Santa Cruz
๐ 12:00 PM โ 1:30 PM ยท See listing
Join Career Success for an interactive workshop on Interview Best Practices, followed by Mock Interview Practice! Note: You must Register via Zoom for this event. Once registered, make sure to add the event to your calendar. We will provide captions for the presentation. If you have disability-related needs, please contact the Career Success office at [email protected] as soon as possible. YOU BELONG HERE Programs and services are open to all, consistent with state and federal law, as well as the University of Californiaโs nondiscrimination policies. Every initiativeโwhether a student service, faculty program, or community eventโis designed to be accessible, inclusive, and respectful of all identities. To learn more, please visit UC Nondiscrimination Statement or Nondiscrimination Policy for UC Publications.
๐ UC Santa Cruz
๐ 12:00 PM โ 2:00 PM ยท See listing
Three learners who fail the same level of an educational game the same number of times can be failing in three different ways, and the difference determines what each should do next. Yet the measures a gameโs logs are usually reduced to (completion time, error counts, mastery estimates) render the three identical. This proposal takes one breakdown as its object: failure-to-adapt, the case where the game has repeatedly surfaced evidence that a learnerโs current approach is failing and the learnerโs approach shows no responsive change. The construct is grounded in Winne and Hadwinโs monitor-and-control model of self-regulated learning and defined at the level of the learnerโs plan. To detect it, a plan-recognition engine maintains a continuously updated probability estimate of which strategy the learner is executing across the whole trace; an episode is flagged when that estimate shows no evidence-responsive revision. Because behavior alone cannot settle what broke down, flagged episodes are validated against learnersโ own verbal reports, coded blind, and decomposed into monitoring failure, control failure, or control the trace cannot show. Three studies carry the work: detection and diagnosis on real telemetry from an educational game, including a comparison against the analytics the field already runs; a formative study of what a facilitator (an instructor or teaching assistant running a class play session) must see to judge correctly which learners need attention; and a documented authoring case carrying the detection to a second game. The contribution is knowledge for game-based-learning researchers: a theory-grounded construct, a validated way to detect it from play, and the authoring knowledge to embed that detection in new games. Event Host: Jiahong Li, Ph.D. Student, Computational Media Advisor: Magy Seif El-Nasr Zoom: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/93238603235?pwd=zENRsu82HRj4JYKcMEn9MZibU8kC7F.1 Passcode: 835328
๐ UC Santa Cruz
๐ 12:00 PM โ 1:00 PM ยท See listing
When: Thursday, July 23 Time: 12:00 PM -1:00 PM Where: Register for the Zoom link . The workshop will be recorded, and a link to the recording will be sent out after the first session. Whether youโre walking at lunch, lifting weights after work, training for your first 5K, or simply trying to stay active, what you eat can make a noticeable difference in how you feel, perform, and recover. We will explore the fundamentals of how to nourish your body for fitness without restrictive diets or complicated meal plans. In this workshop, you will learn how to: Time meals and snacks around workouts for sustained energy Build balanced meals using carbohydrates, protein, and healthy fats Avoid common nutrition myths that can hinder progress
๐ Comicopolis
๐ 12:00 PM ยท FREE
It's time to get those crayons sharpened, paints mixed and markers at the ready for our Summer 2026 Pokรฉmon Art Contest for kids 5-12! To join in, create a picture of your favorite Pokรฉmon having a fun moment or striking a cool, dynamic pose. Submissions should be on 8.5 x 11 paper. You can use any medium you like, such as paint, marker, crayon, pencil, etc. No digital art. There will be prizes awarded to two age groups, 5-7 and 8-12. Entries accepted June 1st-July 31st. Winners will be announced on August 6th. BONUS: All participants will receive a free Pokรฉmon:Chaos Rising 11x17 mini-poster (while supplies last) when you hand in your art.
๐ California Coffee
๐ 12:00 PM โ 1:00 PM ยท FREE
Join us Wednesday, May 21st from 12:00 PM- 1:00 PM at California Coffee for an informative and uplifting workshop you won't want tfor suo miss! Our featured guest speaker, Manas S. Kshirsagar, AD, MS a NAMA Board Certified Ayurvedic Doctor with years of experience in holistic wellness and healing, will be presenting "Tools for Stress and Anxiety". With today's fast-paced world and the stress levels many of us are unduring, this workshop will offer valuable insight, practical tools and wellness strategies to help bring more balance, peace and calm into our daily lives. Lunch Special Available: Half Sandwich + Chips just $9.99 California Coffee, 9105 Soquel Dr., Aptos, CA 95003 cacoffeeaptos.com Thank you from myself Sylvia Reyes, and my amazing team for supporting our small business and community events!
๐ Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery
๐ 12:00 PM โ 5:00 PM ยท FREE
This exhibition brings together a range of analog games โ including board, card, role-playing, and other participatory works โ 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 Collections and Archives. In part, the exhibition challenges the persistent assumption that games and play are detached from social and political life. On the contrary, game designers and artists across diverse perspectives and positions have long used play to engage questions of social systems, lived experience, and how power operates. This exhibition does not attempt to represent that full spectrum. Instead, it brings together a particular set of works that foreground how games can make systems visible, intervene in them, and imagine alternatives. All games embody values, whether intentional or not. โ Mary Flanagan , game designer and scholar Across all of these works, games are not only forms of entertainment, though they may be that as well. They are encountered in multiple ways: as objects, as systems, as artworks, and as experiences that unfold unpredictably through interaction. In each case, rules and constraints shape what participants can do. In these different forms, the works stage systems โ such as housing and land ownership, capitalism, race and identity, civil rights and protest, fascism, and colonialism โ in ways that are simplified and easy to see, opening space to recognize similar structures beyond the game. In this sense, the works suggest that rules are not neutral โ they organize experience, distribute power, and produce meaning. Games are the art of agency. โ C. Thi Nguyen , philosopher The exhibition is intentionally dense. This abundance reflects the breadth of ways games operate across contexts, from activism and education to art and everyday life. While it cel
๐ Institute of the Arts and Sciences
๐ 12:00 PM โ 5:00 PM ยท See listing
Visit the IAS, UCSCโs premier art galleries, for our spring exhibitions. On view April 10โAugust 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 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. The IAS Galleries are open Wednesday-Sunday, 12 pm โ 5 pm. Admission is free to the public. Libia Posada: Everything is Going Right Libia Posadaโs first solo exhibition in the United States features installations, sculptures, and drawings meticulously constructed from surgical instruments, gauze bandages, crutches, used books, and domestic picture frames. The new and existing works in the exhibition powerfully stitch together the personal, social, and political disorders and afflictions that currently trouble the world, from the wars that resonate across the globe to the violences of aging in US prisons. Gina Athena Ulysse: A Redwoods Rasanblaj: Origins & Disentanglements The internationally-lauded work of humanities professor Gina Athena Ulysse is on view as a premier Faculty Spotlight Exhibition. The site-specific installation, produced in community from things collected, found, purchased and donated, centers on the Haitian concept of rasanblaj, a form of assembly and collage that transcends the formal use of materials to draw together people, spirits, and ideas. Ronaldo V. Wilson: There Are No Words, But Melodies Collage is both a material practice and a structural interrogation in the Faculty Spotlight Exhibition artworks by literature professor Ronaldo V. Wilson. In video, painting, and installation, layers and folds conceal and reveal, delving into the experience, both bodily and emotive, of living in time
๐ All About Theatre
๐ 1:00 PM โ 7:00 PM ยท $395
A technical training camp for theater at All About Theatre in Santa Cruz, covering skills for behind-the-scenes production.
๐ Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History
๐ 1:00 PM โ 3:00 PM ยท See listing
Step into the MAH's Archives Reading Room during our weekly Open Archives hours. Meet the archivist, see a unique item from the collection on display, and discover where Santa Cruz history is preserved. Please note: Open Archives is an informal drop-in experience, not a time for in-depth research appointments. If you'd like to schedule research time, please contact us in advance by email or phone. We usually pop open the archives every week-though every now and then we take a break. For more information, email [email protected]
๐ Watsonville High School Pool
๐ 1:15 PM โ 2:55 PM ยท See listing
Free swim Thursdays in July at the Watsonville High School Pool in celebration of Parks and Recreation Month. A cool way to enjoy summer.
๐ Santa Cruz Public Libraries
๐ 2:00 PM ยท See listing
Thursday, July 23 2026 1:00pm - 3:00pm Creativity time for teens and tweens at the library!
๐ Far West Fungi
๐ 2:00 PM โ 5:00 PM ยท FREE
Far West Fungiโs Santa Cruz Store & Cafรฉ is launching Myco-Mixers โ Enjoy an afternoon of food, fun, and fungi! Each Myco-Mixer will feature complimentary bites, product samples, and happy hour discounts on cafรฉ favorites. Guests can meet the Far West Fungi team, learn about unique mushroom products, and discover new flavors to take home. Head Far West in Santa Cruz each week to taste house-made tacos, explore featured products, and find your new favorite mushroom treats. Whether youโre a foodie, mushroom enthusiast, or just looking for a fun Thursday outing, Myco-Mixers are the perfect way to experience local one-of-a-kind flavors!
๐ Santa Cruz Public Libraries
๐ 3:00 PM ยท See listing
Thursday, July 23 2026 2:00pm - 4:00pm Play Mahjong with fellow enthusiasts! Beginners welcome with weekly Hong Kong Style lessons. Other styles offered too. Tiles provided or bring your own.
๐ Jack O'Neil Restaurant and Lounge
๐ 3:00 PM โ 6:00 PM ยท See listing
Step back into the golden era of โ70s pop-soul with Mark Van Harenโguitarist, vocalist, and lifelong devotee of the music that made AM radio magic. Raised on Stevie Wonder, Hall & Oates, Al Green, James Taylor, Steely Dan, Bill Withers, Bacharach, and the Beatles, Mark brings that eraโs warmth, melody, and heart to life. His sets blend rich vocals, rhythmic guitar, and harmonically complex arrangements, mixing familiar-but-forgotten favorites like โBaby Come Backโ with soulful deep cuts such as โKnocks Me Off My Feet.โ Every song is chosen for connectionโmusic that feels good, hits deep, and brings audiences together.
๐ Santa Cruz Public Libraries
๐ 4:00 PM ยท See listing
Thursday, July 23 2026 3:00pm - 5:00pm R.E.A.D. is one-on-one reading comprehension instruction for grades 1-12. By appointment only. Please, no drop-ins! To make an appointment, call 831-427-7713
๐ Santa Cruz Public Libraries
๐ 4:00 PM ยท See listing
Thursday, July 23 2026 3:00pm - 5:00pm Bring your decks and get ready to play
๐ Santa Cruz Public Libraries
๐ 4:00 PM ยท See listing
Thursday, July 23 2026 3:00pm - 5:00pm R.E.A.D. is one-on-one reading comprehension instruction for grades 1-12. By appointment only. Please, no drop-ins! To make an appointment, call 831-427-7713
๐ Santa Cruz Public Libraries
๐ 4:00 PM ยท See listing
Thursday, July 23 2026 3:00pm - 5:00pm Learn how to craft, build, and survive in the world of Minecraft.edu.
๐ Santa Cruz Public Libraries
๐ 4:00 PM ยท FREE
Thursday, July 23 2026 3:00pm - 5:00pm R.E.A.D. is one-on-one reading comprehension instruction for grades 1-12. By appointment only. Please, no drop-ins! To make an appointment, call 831-427-7713.
๐ Santa Cruz Public Libraries
๐ 4:00 PM ยท See listing
Thursday, July 23 2026 3:00pm - 5:00pm R.E.A.D. is one-on-one reading comprehension instruction for grades 1-12. By appointment only. Please, no drop-ins! To make an appointment, call 831-427-7713
๐ Santa Cruz Public Libraries
๐ 4:00 PM ยท See listing
Thursday, July 23 2026 3:00pm - 5:00pm Make and explore STEAM possibilities at Felton Branch Library! Age 6+
๐ Freedom Branch Library
๐ 4:30 PM โ 6:30 PM ยท See listing
Are you interested in learning about technology? Visit us during our weekly Tech Cafรฉ program where you have the opportunity to get basic tech-related questions answered and test a new piece of technology. This program will take place on Thursdays from 4:30-6:30pm at the Main Library (unless otherwise indicated). The technology we demo will change each month; here is a list of what technology will be featured: - January (program starts on the 15th): Doodle Pens - February: Makey Makeys (circuit boards) - March: 3D Printer - April: Spheros (programmable robots) - May: Cricut - June: Glowforge - laser cutter (This program will take place at the Freedom Branch) - July: iPad Stop Motion movies - August: Spheros (programmable robots) - September: 3D Printer - October: Doodle Pens - November: Cricut - December: Makey Makeys (circuit boards) Audience: All Ages ยฟLe interesa aprender sobre tecnologรญa? Visรญtanos durante nuestro programa semanal Tech Cafรฉ, donde tendrรกs la oportunidad de obtener respuestas a preguntas bรกsicas relacionadas con la tecnologรญa y probar una nueva tecnologรญa. Este programa se llevarรก a cabo los jueves de 4:30 a 6:30pm en la Biblioteca Principal (a menos que se indique otro horario o lugar). La tecnologรญa que mostraremos cambiarรก cada mes; las tecnologรญas que se presentarรกn: - enero (el programa comienza el dรญa 15): Doodle Pens - febrero: Makey Makeys (placas de circuitos) - marzo: Impresora 3D - abril: Spheros (robots programables) - mayo: Cricut - junio: Glowforge - cortadora lรกser (este programa se llevarรก a cabo en la sucursal Freedom) - julio: iPad Stop Motion (pelรญculas) - agosto: Spheros (robots programables) - septiembre: Impresora 3D - octubre: Doodle Pens - noviembre: Cricut - diciembre: Makey Makeys (placas de circuitos) Audiencia: Para todas las edades
๐ Watsonville Civic Plaza
๐ 4:30 PM โ 6:30 PM ยท See listing
Event date: July 23, 2026 Event Time: 04:30 PM - 06:30 PM Location: 275 Main Street, Suite #100 Watsonville, CA 95076
๐ Main Library - 275 Main Street
๐ 4:30 PM โ 6:30 PM ยท See listing
Learn to create stop-motion movies using iPads at Watsonville Main Library. Part of a weekly Tech Cafe series.