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The Arboretum opens its gates to the community free of charge the first Tuesday of every month. Come enjoy our gardens and wildlife. Don’t forget to stop by Norrie’s, our wonderful gift shop and plant nursery (Open Tues-Sun 10 am-4 pm). Community Days are popular, please consider carpooling or using alternative transportation. Current Arboretum members and UCSC Students always receive free admission.

Meet Provost Aims and Poppy the Chihuahua outside of the Crown College Office for yummy cookies and conversation. Stay and chat or grab and go.

Wing Chun martial arts classes with instructor Marcus at The 418 Project in Santa Cruz, meeting multiple times per week.

Food, Socializing, and Excellent talks from the PyTorch Ecosystem ​5:30 – 6:30 Food and Socializing ​6:30 – 7:00 Rob Timpe – Using and Debugging Torch.compile ​7:00 – 7:30 Roy Shadmon – EdgeFL and Federated Learning ​7:30 – 8:00 Talk 3 ​Talk 1: ​Using and Debugging Torch.compile ​Torch.compile promises great speedups with a one line change, but can give cryptic error messages when it fails. We’ll describe some common failures and how to fix them, as well as recent efforts to both reduce failures and make the remaining ones easier to debug. Rob Timpe is a software engineer at OpenTeams where he works on the front end of torch.compile (Dynamo). Previously he was an ML engineer working on autonomous aircraft at Xwing, and computer vision at Microsoft. ​Talk 2: ​ EdgeFL and Federated Learning ​EdgeLake coordinates federated learning across distributed sites without moving raw training data to a central location. Each site trains locally, EdgeLake handles the distributed data and coordination layer, and the resulting models are shared across the network and deployed for inference at the edge — creating a continuous path from managing distributed data to training models to running inference, all at the edge. ​Roy Shadmon is a System Architect at AnyLog, where he works on EdgeLake and its applications in federated learning and distributed edge intelligence. He holds a PhD from UC Santa Cruz. ​Other speaker(s) announced soon

A recurring dance class in Santa Cruz. Check with the venue for specific style and level.

Hosted by Local Futures In our next Planet Local Sharing Circle, we’ll be joined by Dave Shaw, founder of the Right Livelihood Center at UC Santa Cruz and Santa Cruz Permaculture . The Center serves as Global Secretariat for the international Right Livelihood College network, which spans eight campuses plus the Global Campus of Human Rights across five continents. California is a place of sharp contradictions: Silicon Valley, Hollywood and industrial agriculture on one hand, and on the other a dense, often invisible landscape of grassroots, local and community-based initiatives. Dave and his team have been working to make that second California visible, mapping localisation efforts across the state and looking for the connections between them. There’s a natural circle here. Helena Norberg-Hodge, who founded Local Futures, is a Right Livelihood Laureate, and the Center is now working alongside Local Futures to build the California localisation movement and to host a Planet Local Summit at UC Santa Cruz April 26-30, 2027. Dave will share what he’s finding: who is doing this work in California, where the energy is, and what he’s learned from running a permaculture education farm of his own. Together we’ll explore what helps local initiatives find each other, sustain themselves, and build the collective power that wider systemic change requires.

Grab a free cup of coffee* and chat with Provost Aims at Coffee with the Provost! Most Wednesdays through the Fall Quarter! 9:00-11:00am Meet us for (free) coffee, tea, breakfast snacks and good conversation outside the Merrill College Office, across from the mailroom. *Fair trade, organic, local women owned Alta Organic Roasting Company

Produce Pop-Up is a twice-weekly organic farmstand open to all members of the UC Santa Cruz community. The program is dedicated to increasing access to fresh, healthy, and affordable organic produce, with offerings sourced from the UCSC Farm and other local organic growers. Academic year hours and locations: Beginning Oct. 2 Wednesdays: 11 a.m. – 3 p.m. at McHenry Library Fridays: 11 a.m. – 3 p.m. at Science and Engineering Library How does it work? Just stop by during open hours to browse and pick up fresh produce! Items are available at low or no cost to support student food access. Stay updated on produce availability and locations by following Produce Pop-Up Instagram . For questions, email [email protected] or visit the Center for Agroecology website .

Join Career Success to chat about what it means to get to know other people in a new setting, and how to develop your conversation skills to build meaningful connections. At the end of this workshop, you will have the strategies to support you in navigating introductions with new people, and will gain confidence in networking. Questions and accommodations, please email [email protected] You Belong Here: The programs and services described here are open to all, consistent with state and federal law, as well as the University of California’s nondiscrimination policies. Every initiative—whether a student service, faculty program, or community event—is designed to be accessible, inclusive, and respectful of all identities. To learn more, please visit UC Nondiscrimination Statement or Nondiscrimination Policy for UC Publications .

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 visual symbolism drawn from textiles, graffiti and community traditions, and, in a series called I.C.E. Scream , large, brightly colored resin sculptures in the shape of melting Mexican paletas (popsicles). As the exhibition title suggests (a phrase widely used in bilingual and bicultural communities), these artworks reflect the artist’s interest in the experience of living between worlds even as violent notions of nationalism and identity pervade. Accompanying the exhibition, Elevar la Cultura , an immersive sculptural installation featuring a twenty-two-foot-tall pyramid built from ice coolers adorned with ancestral textiles, sacred symbols, and mural work will be on view at Santa Cruz Barrios Unidos (1817 Soquel) November 7, 2026- March 7, 2027. As Quiñonez explains, this sculpture epitomizes the contradictions of living—and laboring—as an immigrant in the United States: “Most people see the cooler as a tool for leisure…for barbecues, tailgating, and celebrations. But for immigrant communities, the cooler is a tool and symbol for opportunity and independence. In every major city, you see families and vendors selling fruit, food, and water out of these coolers on the streets and in subway stations. They’re a necessity for survival and a way to start an honest living,” the artist shares. The Institute of Arts and Sciences will be the second venue to successfully present Ni de Aquí, Ni de Allá to the public. First organized by Boston University Art Galleries and curated by Kate Fowle in September of 2025, the exhibition debuted to critical acclaim before gaining national attention after its abrupt removal from

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 violently stuck on repeat. Archetypal figures from art history (a fool, a siren, a witness, a victim) reappear in the current moment as containers of time, bringing the past of imperialism, colonization, and displacement into a present marked by the rise of anti-immigration politics, climate injustice, and other forms of disposability. Some works challenge this violent repetition of time. The clock moves, if gruelingly, in an endurance-based video performance, No One , 2025. For forty-six minutes, the artist undertakes to keep his eyes open, witnessing, withstanding, confronting, and resisting the bombardment of images, both historical and otherwise, that normalize harm. In another video work, Gravity , 2024, performers enact rescue carries, supporting each other until they can’t bear the weight. Together, the artworks act as a proposal about how to rethink time—how to slow time—with a poetic and aesthetic cadence that might counter the numbing reverberations of living in the present. When Time Stands Still is organized as part of Visualizing Abolition, an arts-based initiative that reaches across prison borders to create a future free of prisons. Carlos Motta (b. 1978, Colombia) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work has been shown widely nationally and internationally. Solo exhibitions venues include the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona; Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen; Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH ; Röda Sten Konsthall, Gothenburg, Sweden; Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo; Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM); Tate Modern, London; and

You’re invited to join Global Engagement for the grand opening of its new International Lounge! The International Lounge is a space dedicated to supporting our internationally-minded community including our students, scholars, employees, and more. Our grand opening will feature light refreshments and a look into the new space. Stop on by for a nice treat and learn more about two of Global Engagement’s units: International Student Services and Programming and Global Learning . If you have any questions, please contact [email protected] .

Join the American Indian Resource Center (AIRC) and People of Color Sustainability Collective (PoCSC) for our Fall Open House at the Cardiff House ! We’re opening the doors of the Cardiff House and inviting the campus community to stop by, explore the space, meet our staff and student interns, and learn about the many resources, programs, events, and opportunities available to you throughout the year. Come enjoy food from D’La Colmena, drinks, and desserts while connecting with other campus departments and community members. There will also be fun activities, swag, and opportunities to win raffle prizes! Whether you’re new to UCSC, returning for another year, or simply want to learn more about AIRC, PoCSC, and Cardiff House, we’d love to welcome you. “Come for the food, stay for the community!” You Belong Here: The programs and services described here are open to all, consistent with state and federal law, as well as the University of California’s nondiscrimination policies. Every initiative—whether a student service, faculty program, or community event—is designed to be accessible, inclusive, and respectful of all identities. To learn more, please visit UC Nondiscrimination Statement or Nondiscrimination Policy for UC Publications .

The Cardiff House invites our students to its Open House on Wednesday, October 7th, 2026! The Cardiff House is proud to house the American Indian Resource Center, People of Color Sustainability Collective, and Womxn’s Center. Starting from 3pm, our house will host music, crafts, and free lunch for students to discover new connections and an opportunity to build community! Come explore our resources like the medicine cabinet, food pantry, printing services, and basic needs cart. You can find us at 117 Carriage House Rd, Santa Cruz, near the base of campus by the TAPS office where you’ll find our team ready and excited to familiarize you all with our space and yours.

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, lawyer, and full professor of literature at the Federal University of Bahia, in Brasil. She holds a Ph.D. in Theory and Criticism of Literature and Culture (UFBA) and completed postdoctoral studies in the History of Slavery in Brasil (UFRB). In 2010, she launched the abolitionist project Indocile Bodies and Free Minds: an art-education program for literary writing at the Women’s Prison Complex in Bahia, where she established, together with sentenced women inmates, the Free Minds Library (2012), enabling Sisters inside to access sentence remission through reading. Gina Dent is Professor of Humanities and Faculty Director of the Institute of the Arts & Sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she has won awards for her teaching (Dizikes Faculty Teaching Award), advocacy (Chancellor’s Award for Diversity), and research (Innovator of the Year). Currently, she serves as Principal Investigator and Co-Director for Visualizing Abolition , a multidisciplinary project—involving exhibitions, events, fellowships, and academic programs—addressing the global crisis of incarceration through art and visual culture. Her recent collaborative projects grow out of her decades-long work as a social justice advocate— Abolition. Feminism. Now. (co-authored with Angela Davis, Erica Meiners, and Beth Richie, Haymarket 2022), and Seeing through Stone (exhibition catalog, Marquand 2024). She works with several organizations nationally and internationally, including Columbia University’s Center for Justice and Australia’s Sisters Inside, primarily on justice-related concerns.

Capitola City Council Candidate Forum Join Capitola Cares and the Capitola-Soquel Chamber of Commerce for a community forum featuring candidates for Capitola City Council. Capitola Cares is dedicated to strengthening community engagement and civic participation, while the Capitola-Soquel Chamber has a long history of hosting City Council candidate forums. Together, these organizations are bringing voters a neutral, community-focused opportunity to hear directly from the candidates and learn more about the issues facing Capitola. The forum will be moderated by Jody K. Biehl, Community Voices Editor at Lookout Santa Cruz. Biehl is an award-winning journalist and journalism educator with more than 15 years of experience reporting and editing in the United States and Europe. She is also a professor at UCSC. Candidates will respond to questions covering a broad range of issues facing Capitola. This is an opportunity to hear from the candidates, learn more about their perspectives and priorities, and participate in the civic conversation ahead of the election. Cant join in person? Watch online: https://www.youtube.com/@CTVsantacruz/live Want to submit a question? Email [email protected]

Help shape the future of the Bay Tree Building! Students and staff are invited to stop by a furniture “sit test” open house and share feedback on potential furniture selections for the renovated space. Hosted by MillerKnoll, Pivot, and Jensen Architects, the open house will give members of the campus community an opportunity to try out furniture and provide feedback on appearance, comfort and inclusive design, durability, cleanability, sustainability, and more through a brief digital survey. Plan for approximately 20 minutes to participate. Project representatives will also be available to answer questions and talk about the renovation. The Bay Tree Building renovation remains on track for reopening in September 2027. The reimagined building will bring together a student lounge, well-being center, student resource centers, campus store and market, and administrative offices, creating a vibrant hub for Slug Life and a welcoming gathering place for the campus community. Snacks and beverages will be provided, along with giveaways. Come take a seat and help shape the future of Slug Life! For questions or accommodation requests, contact [email protected] .

Have you ever wondered what really happens to your protocol after you hit submit? Join us for an informal, in-person conversation with IRB members to peel back the curtain on the review process. The event is open to all researchers, students, and staff conducting, planning, or supporting human subjects research. To ensure we address what matters most to you, submit your questions anonymously via our Google Form before 10/5/26. You can also ask questions live during the event. Light snacks will be provided. NOTE VENUE CHANGE: McHenry Library, 2nd Floor Room 2353