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13th Annual Santa Cruz Comedy Festival Presented by DNA October 12-17 At Woodhouse: Saturday, October 17th • 6:30 PM 21 Comics • 3 Headliners •…
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The Django Sheridan Collective is a dynamic group of local Santa Cruz college students and musicians performing for free every Sunday at Mariposa Coffeebar in…
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Come to the Second Sunday AVALON VISIONS PSYCHIC and HEALING ARTS FAIR where an array of intuitive professionals is available for your consultation, as well…
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Welcome to Santa Cruz County Open Studios Art Tour! Every year over the first three weekends in October, visitors can discover new artists, experience the…
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Moes Alley presents AC Myles & Band: Stratocaster Masters! Sunday, October 11, 2026Doors: 1pm / Show: 2pm$15 in advance / $20 day of the show21+*…
Sunday's got some wandering built in: start downtown at the Antiques Faire, then swing over to Love Apple Farms for the Pumpkin Patch & Winter Veggies if you've got kids or just like pumpkins. Open Studios Art Tour 2026 is worth a stop if you want to see where local artists actually work. In the evening, settle in at Pono Hawaiian Grill for Kailua Moon, bring cash for the bar and no rush getting there.
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12 upcoming events · Art & Culture · from 2026-10-11 · to 2026-10-11
Dive into the world of weaving and natural color. Learn to work a loom and to draw rich, living color from plants, two ancient, intertwined…
We will be hosting the Open Studios Preview Exhibition, showcasing the work of all the 330+ Santa Cruz County Open Studios Artists who are participating…
What is the difference between using the arts in organizing and political art? This workshop muses on dilemmas of working with exploited, politically activated communities…
SPAM New Media Festival began in 2022 as a grassroots experimental arts platform, bringing together practitioners working on the fringes and frontiers of digital arts…
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…
“Ni de aquí, ni de allá” (“neither from here, nor there”), is a phrase commonly used by bilingual, bicultural communities. In the exhibition the phrase…
Join us for a series of daytime talks with SPAM artists Rohan Chander and Ava Koohbor. Program Ava Koohbor - Four Modes of Sonic Behavior…
Bookshop Santa Cruz and The Humanities Institute welcome Min Jin Lee, the National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Pachinko, who…
In the spring of 1895, Oscar Wilde was the most celebrated playwright in London, An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest were both…
Mountain Community Theater is proud to present Rumors, written by Neil Simon. Directed by MarNae Taylor, this production takes place at Ben Lomond’s historic Park…
Sunday, Oct. 11th, 2:00 PM, SMALL THEATER October Family Matinee, 40th Anniversary!! LABYRINTH (1986, Columbia/Swank, 101 min.) “Through dangers untold, and hardships unnumbered, I have…
What does it cost to think together? Listening, explaining, and trusting take as long as they ever did, but the rest of the world is…
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