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SUMMARY:Closing Celebration: Our Bedrock and EDELO
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the closing celebration for Levester Williams: Our Bedrock and Mia Eve Rollow and Caleb Duarte: EDELO. Artist performances\, curator-led tours\, and other activities will take place throughout the afternoon. \n\n\n\nThis event is free and open to the public. \n\n\n\nAbout the exhibitions: \n\n\n\nLevester Williams: Our BedrockOur Bedrock is the first West Coast solo show of Philadelphia-based artist Levester Williams. Including sculpture\, installation\, performance and video\, as well as photographs by legendary jazz bassist and photographer Milt Hinton\, the exhibition traces the foundational nature of Black struggles in the United States. \n\n\n\nThe exhibition centers on the histories that emerge through William’s research into Cockeysville Marble\, mined in Baltimore County\, Maryland. This marble was used to make the columns of the U.S. Capitol Building and the Washington Monument in Washington D.C.\, as well as the Washington Monument in Baltimore. It also has been used to create the steps and landing (the “stoops”) of many of Baltimore’s residences. In William’s work\, this history is poetically woven together with the history of struggles for Black Liberation through reference to Billie Holiday. In the musician’s autobiography\, Lady Sings the Blues\, Holiday references her job cleaning these marble stoops of white families in Baltimore. In William’s practice\, the creative assembly of reworked marble\, Hinton’s photographs\, Holiday’s autobiography\, Blues music\, and Black performance reveals Black Struggle– and Black creativity– to be the bedrock of the nation. This counters notions of power which imagine it as held only by the state. Instead\, in William’s careful masonry\, Black art\, music\, and movements provide the building blocks for a new world.   \n\n\n\nMia Eve Rollow and Caleb Duarte: EDELOThe first survey exhibition of artists Mia Eve Rollow and Caleb Duarte\, EDELO brings together new and existing works emerging from their collaborative and individual fifteen-year explorations into the roles art can play in radical modes of community building and social\, political\, and economic change.  \n\n\n\nEDELO features video\, sculpture\, installation\, and performance works\, many of which have never before seen in an art institutional context\, which together show the trajectory of  the artists’ collaborative practice since 2009. That year\, Rollow and Duarte repurposed the abandoned United Nations building in San Cristóbal de las Casa\, Chiapas\, Mexico\, renaming it EDELO (En Donde Era La ONU/ Where the United Nations Used to Be). The building had been abandoned by the UN after displaced indigenous community members occupied its offices. Inspired by the 1994 indigenous Zapatista uprising\, which used art as a tool to demand immediate and drastic social and economic change\, Rollow and Duarte collaborated with members of the community to reimagine the building as an intercultural artist residency\, experimental art laboratory\, and safe house.  \n\n\n\nArtworks in EDELO reflect on that experience and the continued practices by Rollow and Duarte to work in collaboration with diverse communities\, creating radical spaces and artworks that confront the failed institutional responses to social and political oppression.
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/curators-tour-of-our-bedrock-and-edelo/
LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250508T183000
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SUMMARY:The Strike: Film Screening and Q&A with Directors and Survivors
DESCRIPTION:Join us at UC Santa Cruz Communications Studio C for a screening of award-winning feature documentary film The Strike\, which tells the story of the people who endured decades of solitary confinement in California’s notorious supermax Pelican Bay State Prison. Against all odds\, they launched the largest hunger strike in U.S. history and forced the prison to reduce its use of mass-scale solitary confinement.Following the film\, there will be a panel with the film directors and solitary survivors. \n\n\n\n*Parking will be available in Core West. Find more parking information on the TAPS website. \n\n\n\nAbout the Film: \n\n\n\nAmidst the redwood trees on the California-Oregon border sits one of the most infamous prisons in US history. Pelican Bay is a labyrinthine construction of solid cement blocks – a supermax prison – opened in 1989 and designed specifically for mass-scale solitary confinement. For decades\, it held men alone in tiny cells indefinitely. Then one day in 2013\, 30\,000 prisoners went on hunger strike. \n\n\n\nTHE STRIKE weaves together\, thread-by-thread\, a half century of personal and criminal justice history into a single\, compelling narrative around the drama of the 2013 hunger strike to end indefinite isolation. Grounded in testimonies from the hunger strikers themselves\, the film details how the protest was conceived from a whisper inside the halls of Pelican Bay to a colossal feat across California prisons. With unprecedented access to state prison officials and never-before-seen footage from inside Pelican Bay\, THE STRIKE reveals the panic that gripped the highest echelons of state government. \n\n\n\nTold through the stories of the men who bore the brunt of this practice\, THE STRIKE goes
beyond making a case against solitary confinement; it illuminates the power of organizing and prisoner-led resistance\, and in doing so\, flips the true-crime genre on its head.
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/the-strike-film-screening-and-qa-with-directors-and-survivors/
LOCATION:UC Santa Cruz  Communications Building\, Studio C\, 620 Baskin Circle\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Opening Celebration: Weather and the Whale
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate the opening of the major new art and science exhibition Weather and the Whale\, the culmination of a two-year collaboration between the Institute of the Arts and Sciences and the Friedlaender Lab at UC Santa Cruz. \n\n\n\nCombining art and science to deepen understanding about climate change and perhaps spur collective action\, Weather and the Whale features immersive displays of data and research and newly commissioned artworks delving into the human and non human experiences of living in times of crisis. Visitors will be able to explore original research about the impacts on whales and other large marine mammals of environmental toxins\, sea ice retreat\, and other threats\, including what is happening in Monterey Bay. Video installations\, sculptures\, photography\, and other artworks will provide novel and experiential ways of seeing and understanding the rapidly changing world. \n\n\n\nRefreshments will be provided. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists:\n\n\n\nCarolina Caycedo\, Sharon Daniel\, Ashley Hunt\, Courtney Leonard\, John Jota Leoñas\, Libia Posada\, Mia Eve Rollow\, Christine Howard Sandoval\, Suné Woods and Whale Liberation Front (Imani Jacqueline Brown\, Cory Diane\, and Peter J. Bowling)Weather and the Whale is curated by Ari Friedlaender\, Alex Moore and Rachel Nelson with curatorial assistance provided by Mirra-Margarita Ianeva and LuLing Osofsky. Illustrations by Stephen Alford \n\n\n\nThis exhibition is organized as part of An Aesthetics of Resilience and funded by a University of California Office of the President California Climate Action Seed Grant\, with additional support from the Coha Nowark Art + Science Fund.
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/opening-celebration-weather-and-the-whale/
LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:First Friday: IAS Afterhours
DESCRIPTION:Join us for First Friday at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences (100 Panetta Ave\, Santa Cruz\, CA) and enjoy an after-hours viewing of Weather and the Whale\, the culmination of a two-year collaboration between the Institute of the Arts and Sciences and the Friedlaender Lab at UC Santa Cruz. \n\n\n\nCombining art and science to deepen understanding about climate change and perhaps spur collective action\, Weather and the Whale features immersive displays of data and research and newly commissioned artworks delving into the human and non-human experiences of living in times of crisis.Visitors will be able to explore original research about the impacts on whales and other large marine mammals of environmental toxins\, sea ice retreat\, and other threats\, including what is happening in Monterey Bay. Video installations\, sculptures\, photography\, and other artworks will provide novel and experiential ways of seeing and understanding the rapidly changing world. \n\n\n\nAdmission is always free. \n\n\n\nThe Institute of the Arts and Sciences is pleased to participate in Santa Cruz’s First Friday Art Tour. \n\n\n\nImage: Mia Eve Rollow\, Moontide Divination\, 2025. 16 min\, 3-channel video
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/fri-june-6-2025-first-friday/
LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250718T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250718T190000
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SUMMARY:Book Launch and Signing: Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Friday\, July 18 for a book talk and signing with author Emile Suotonye DeWeaver to celebrate the release of his first book titled Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine: Reform\, White Supremacy and an Abolitionist Future. \n\n\n\nDeWeaver during his twenty-one years in prison\, DeWeaver covertly organized to pass legislation impacting juveniles in California’s criminal legal system; was a culture writer for Easy Street Magazine; and co-founded Prison Renaissance\, an organization centering incarcerated voices and incarcerated leadership. DeWeaver draws on these experiences to interrogate the central premise of reform efforts\, including prisoner rehabilitation programs\, arguing that they demand self-abnegation\, entrench white supremacy\, and ignore the role of structural oppression. \n\n\n\n“Incarceration helped me to develop as an artist only in the regard that the more deeply you are oppressed\,” writes DeWeaver\, “the more clearly you see the mechanisms of oppression and how they function without all of the window dressing.” \n\n\n\nThis event is organized as part of Visualizing Abolition\, an initiative designed to promote creative research to inspire social transformation and the end of incarceration.
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/booklaunch/
LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Visualizing Abolition
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250722T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250722T143000
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SUMMARY:Artist Tour with Christine Howard Sandoval
DESCRIPTION:Join us on the afternoon of Tuesday July 22\, for a special artist-led walk through of Weather and the Whale with artist Christine Howard Sandoval. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHoward Sandoval will discuss her works in the exhibition\, Fourth Person Singular\, 2025\, and The First Color is Red\, 2025. Both artworks were newly commissioned as part of the Coha Nowark Art + Science Residency and An Aesthetics of Resilience. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChristine Howard Sandoval is a multidisciplinary artist who questions the boundaries of representation\, access\, and habitation\, where what is held in the land and what is held within state sponsored archives negotiate shared spaces of meaning. Howard Sandoval’s work has exhibited nationally and internationally including: The 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennial (Seoul\, S. Korea)\, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de la Universidad de São Paulo (Brazil)\, The Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver\, BC)\, Oregon Contemporary (Portland\, OR)\, The Museum of Capitalism (Oakland\, CA)\, Designtransfer\, Universität der Künste Berlin (Berlin\, Germany)\, El Museo Del Barrio (New York\, NY)\, and Socrates Sculpture Park (Queens\, NY). Howard Sandoval’s work has been the subject of solo museum exhibitions at the ICA San Diego (2021) and Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College (2019)\, during which time she was the Mellon Artist in Residence at Colorado College. Howard Sandoval has been awarded numerous residencies including: UBC Okanagan\, Indigenous Art Intensive program (Kelowna\, BC)\, ICA San Diego (Encinitas\, CA)\, Santa Fe Art Institute (Santa Fe\, NM)\, Triangle Arts Association (New York\, NY). Howard Sandoval is represented in the permanent collections of the Hammer Museum\, The San Jose Museum of Art\, The San Diego Museum of Art\, and Forge Projects (NY)\, and is represented by parrasch heijnen (LA). She currently lives in the unceded territories of the Squamish\, Tsleil-Waututh\, and Musqueam First Nations and is an Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Art in at Emily Carr University (Vancouver\, BC). Howard Sandoval is an enrolled member of the Chalon Nation in Bakersfield\, CA.
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/artist-tour-with-christine-howard-sandoval/
CATEGORIES:Art + Science
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250726T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250726T150000
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SUMMARY:Art for All Family Day
DESCRIPTION:Bring the whole family! Enjoy activities organized by the youth participants of Art for All\, the IAS teen summer program\, and view the current exhibition\, Weather & the Whale. All materials will be provided for activities. \n\n\n\nFree and open to all. \n\n\n\nThe IAS Galleries will be open from 12-5 p.m.\, with activities taking place between 12-3 p.m.
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/youth-led-family-day/
LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art + Science
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250801T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250801T190000
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SUMMARY:First Friday: IAS After Hours
DESCRIPTION:Join us for First Friday at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences (100 Panetta Ave\, Santa Cruz\, CA) and enjoy an after-hours viewing of Weather and the Whale\, the culmination of a two-year collaboration between the Institute of the Arts and Sciences and the Friedlaender Lab at UC Santa Cruz. \n\n\n\nCombining art and science to deepen understanding about climate change and environmental threats\, Weather and the Whale features immersive displays of ocean science research and newly commissioned artworks delving into the human and non-human experiences of living in times of crisis. \n\n\n\nAdmission is always free. \n\n\n\nThe Institute of the Arts and Sciences is pleased to participate in Santa Cruz’s First Friday Art Tour. \n\n\n\nImage: View from the exhibition opening\, photo by Daris Jaspar\, @CultureSaving
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/first-friday-ias-after-hours/
LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art + Science
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250905T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250905T190000
DTSTAMP:20260407T223855
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SUMMARY:September First Friday: IAS After Hours
DESCRIPTION:Join us September 5th\, 2025 at the IAS for First Friday and enjoy an after-hours viewing of Weather and the Whale. \n\n\n\nWeather and the Whale\, a two-year collaboration between the Institute of the Arts and Sciences and the Friedlaender Bio-Telemetry and Behavioral Ecology Laboratory at UC Santa Cruz\, features immersive displays of data and research and newly commissioned artworks delving into the human and non human experiences of living in times of crisis. \n\n\n\nAdmission is always free. \n\n\n\nImage: View from the exhibition opening\, photo by Daris Jaspar\, @CultureSaving
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/first-friday-ias-after-hours-2/
LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251003T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251003T190000
DTSTAMP:20260407T223855
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SUMMARY:Student-Led First Friday Craft Night
DESCRIPTION:Welcome back Santa Cruz students! \n\n\n\nJoin us on October 3rd\, 2025 at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences for a student led craft night. Explore your connection to the environment through art! Students will be hosting a stamp making and collage workshop inspired by the symbolism of the whale.  \n\n\n\nWeather and the Whale features immersive displays of ocean science research and newly commissioned artworks delving into the human and non-human experiences of living in times of crisis. \n\n\n\nEnjoy refreshments\, a student-led tour\, and an after-hours viewing of Weather and the Whale. \n\n\n\nAdmission is always free. \n\n\n\nAll materials will be provided. \n\n\n\nThe Institute of the Arts and Sciences is pleased to participate in Santa Cruz’s First Friday Art Tour. 
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/student-led-october-first-friday/
CATEGORIES:Art + Science
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251009T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251009T190000
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SUMMARY:Exhibition Celebration: Deep in The Eye and The Belly
DESCRIPTION:Join the IAS and the Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery to celebrate the opening of Sam Williams: Deep in The Eye and The Belly. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDeep in The Eye and The Belly is an installation of film\, sculpture\, specimens\, and photographs which together probe the violent histories of preserving and displaying whale bodies while also envisioning a future of multispecies flourishing. \n\n\n\nEnjoy refreshments and an after-hours viewing of the exhibitions. This event is free and open to the public. 
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/exhibition-celebration-deep-in-the-eye-and-the-belly/
LOCATION:Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery\, 1156 High St\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95064\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art + Science
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251022T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251022T193000
DTSTAMP:20260407T223855
CREATED:20250926T212722Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251020T222937Z
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SUMMARY:Intersections of Climate Change Lecture: Dr José Marin Jarrin
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the first in our Intersection of Climate Change lecture series\, with Dr. José R. Marin Jarrin. \n\n\n\nDr Marin Jarrin is the principal investigator for “Improving climate change resilience by increasing capacity for Northern California Tribal fisheries\,” a partnership with Blue Lake Rancheria\, California Department of Fish and Wildlife\, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration\, Resighini Rancheria\, Tolowa Dee-Ni’ Nation\, Trinidad Rancheria\, and Wiyot Tribe. The main objective of the project is to improve the climate resilience of Tribally-selected\, culturally-important marine and estuarine fisheries species of the far Northern California coast.
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/intersections-of-climate-change-lecture-jose-marin-jarrin/
LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251101T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251101T150000
DTSTAMP:20260407T223855
CREATED:20250923T220330Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250923T220331Z
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SUMMARY:Recorrido en español del Weather and the Whale
DESCRIPTION:Júntense con Hayley Sanchez para un recorrido en español del Weather and the Whale. \n\n\n\nWeather and the Whale es un gran proyecto de exhibición presentando pantallas inmersivas de estudios científicos originales y nuevas comisiones de arte contemporáneo. Trabajando con las intersecciones de arte y ciencia para conectar a la gente con los impactos del cambio climático\, este proyecto trae artistas en colaboración con ecologistas marinos del Friedlaender Lab de UC Santa Cruz. \n\n\n\nEste recorrido y admisión a la galería es gratuito y abierto para todos. \n\n\n\nGratis
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/recorrido-en-espanol-del-weather-and-the-whale/
LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251106T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251106T193000
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SUMMARY:Deep in The Eye and The Belly: A Conversation on Community & Survival
DESCRIPTION:Join us in DARC 108 for a conversation with Sam Williams\, Nicole Seymour\, and micha cardenas focusing on the questions of community\, survival\, and climate change raised by Williams’ multi-chapter\, speculative film\, Deep in The Eye and The Belly. \n\n\n\nPanelists: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSam Williams is an artist with a practice that intertwines moving-image\, collage\, choreography\, sound and writing. His ongoing research focuses on multispecies entanglements\, ecological systems\, bodies-as-worlds and folk mythologies and how they propose possibilities for present and future ways of non-human-centric living. Sam is based in London\, where he has been a resident of Somerset House Studios since 2019. He received his MA in Sculpture/Moving Image from the Royal College of Art (2016) and in 2021 was part of the Wysing Arts Centre Syllabus VI alternative education program. Sam has shown work at institutions including Chisenhale Gallery\, Arnolfini\, Siobhan Davies Dance\, Somerset House and Studio Voltaire (UK)\, Atletika (LT); She Will (NO); Röda Sten Konsthall (SE); Kino Arsenal\, Akademie der Kunst\, Tanzhalle Wisenberg and B3 Biennale (DE) and in Autumn 2025 will have a solo exhibition in Santa Cruz\, California. Sam has been artist in residence at Rupert (LT)\, PRAKSIS (NO)\, Hospitalfield (UK) and JOYA (ES). His work has been supported by Arts Council England and The Elephant Trust and in 2017 he received the Stuart Croft Foundation prize for Moving Image. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNicole Seymour works at the intersection of environmental studies\, queer theory\, and affect studies. Her most recent books are Glitter\, a public-facing cultural and environmental history of that substance (Bloomsbury’s Object Lessons series)\, and Bad Environmentalism\, which shows how artists and activists have employed playful modes to combat the gloom-and-doomism of mainstream environmentalism (University of Minnesota Press). She is currently Professor of English and Grad Advisor for Environmental Studies at Cal State Fullerton and is working on a new book project about the right-wing appropriation of camp aesthetics. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nmicha cárdenas\, PhD\, is an artist\, author and Professor of Critical Race & Ethnic Studies and Performance\, Play & Design\, at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, where she directs the Critical Realities Studio. Her book Poetic Operations\, Duke University Press (2022)\, proposes algorithmic analysis to develop a trans of color poetics. Poetic Operations was the co-winner of the Gloria Anzaldúa Book Prize in 2022 from the National Women’s Studies Association. cárdenas’s co-authored books The Transreal: Political Aesthetics of Crossing Realities (2012) and Trans Desire / Affective Cyborgs (2010) were published by Atropos Press. She is a first generation Colombian American.
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/panel-discussion-deep-in-the-eye-and-the-belly/
LOCATION:Digital Arts Research Center (DARC)\, 407 McHenry Rd\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Art + Science
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251107T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251107T190000
DTSTAMP:20260407T223855
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SUMMARY:First Friday: Letter Writing Night in collaboration with UCSC's Community Herb Garden
DESCRIPTION:Join us this Friday\, November 7 at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences for a student led letter writing night. Students will have the chance to attend student led tours\, respond to letters\, drink tea from leaves harvested from the community herb garden\, and enjoy free pastries. \n\n\n\nMaterials will be provided  \n\n\n\nFree!
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/first-friday-letter-writing-night-in-collaboration-with-ucscs-community-herb-garden/
LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251109T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251109T150000
DTSTAMP:20260407T223855
CREATED:20251018T003052Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251104T230039Z
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SUMMARY:Scientist-led Tour of Weather & the Whale
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a tour of Weather and the Whale by contributing scientists Dr. Natalia Botero-Acosta and Chloe Lew. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNATALIA BOTERO-ACOSTA\, PhD\, is an affiliated researcher with the Colombian Antarctic Program (PAC). Currently\, she is the General Director of Macuáticos Colombia Foundation\, a non-profit organization that monitors humpback whales in the Gulf of Tribugá on Colombia’s Pacific coast. Her research looks at the behavioral ecology\, habitat use\, and social structure of humpback whales. At UC Santa Cruz\, Botero-Acosta has conducted ground-breaking research on humpback whale population dynamics and demographics in Monterey Bay\, the northern Colombian Pacific and the Antarctic Peninsula. She holds a BS in biology from the University of Antioquia and an MA/PhD from the Brain and Behavior program at the University of Southern Mississippi. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCHLOE LEW is a PhD student in the Bio-telemetry and Behavioral Ecology lab at UC Santa Cruz and a research technician with the non-profit California Ocean Alliance. Her graduate research uses passive acoustic monitoring to analyze the soundscapes of Kotzebue Sound\, Alaska\, grounded in the understanding that sound is vital for marine mammals to perform essential life tasks. Working in collaboration with the Native Village of Kotzebue\, Lew integrates Indigenous knowledge with Western scientific methods to study the call behavior\, acoustic ecology\, seasonal movement patterns\, and habitat use of Arctic marine mammals. The results of this work will inform local marine mammal conservation efforts.
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/scientist-led-tour-of-weather-the-whale/
LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251116T020000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251116T040000
DTSTAMP:20260407T223855
CREATED:20251110T232540Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251110T233607Z
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SUMMARY:Visions From Within Exhibition Opening
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate the opening of Visions From Within\, a new exhibition of art from people currently and formerly incarcerated in California. Meet the artists\, some of whom will be at the event and some who will call in from their facilities. Enjoy music by local DJs\, and eat free food by Teresa’s Tacos. \n\n\n\nFREE and open to the public.
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/visions-from-within-exhibition-opening/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Barrios Unidos\, 1817 Soquel Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95062\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251205T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251205T190000
DTSTAMP:20260407T223855
CREATED:20251201T220619Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251201T222622Z
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SUMMARY:First Friday Alumni Event
DESCRIPTION:Join fellow Banana Stugs past and present on First Friday at the IAS. This alumni-focused event will feature immersive art and science exhibition tours led by current students as well as refreshments\, crafts\, and other entertainment.  \n\n\n\nTours of Weather and the Whale\, currently on view at the IAS\, will be offered at 5:30 and 6:30 pm. \n\n\n\nFirst Friday is FREE and open to the public.
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/first-friday-alumni-event/
LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260119T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260119T193000
DTSTAMP:20260407T223855
CREATED:20251210T183017Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251217T194458Z
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SUMMARY:How Long is Long Enough\, Screening and Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Quntos Wilson and Layla Roberts were sentenced to life without parole in 1995 at the ages of 18 and 19 for a robbery in which no one was physically harmed and a mere $301 was stolen. Now approaching 50\, they have each become remarkable artists and mentors behind the prison bars of Louisiana State Penitentiary (Angola).  \n\n\n\nJoin us for a screening of How Long is Long Enough: The Excessive Sentencing of Quntos & Layla\, a short documentary created by Natalie Decena\, Sarina Bozorgnia\, Veler Brown\, and Aiden Olivier from UC Santa Cruz with support from Michael Ademaro from Georgetown Law School as part of the Making an Exoneree initiative.  \n\n\n\nIn addition to the documentary screening\, the event will include a conversation with Quntos Wilson and Layla Roberts\, letter-writing\, and collaborative art making.
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/how-long-is-long-enough-screening-and-conversation/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Barrios Unidos\, 1817 Soquel Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95062\, United States
CATEGORIES:Visualizing Abolition
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260124T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260124T164500
DTSTAMP:20260407T223855
CREATED:20251208T182721Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260113T211131Z
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SUMMARY:Like Water: A Participatory Walk from the Edge of the City to the Sea
DESCRIPTION:On Saturday January 24th\, 2026\, join the IAS for a participatory walk led by artist A. Laurie Palmer\, in collaboration with Cid Pearlman and Ilia Dolgov. Presented alongside Weather and the Whale\, this event will start at the intersection of Delaware Avenue and Natural Bridges Drive\, two blocks west of the IAS Galleries. \n\n\n\nWater is always in contact\, always touching\, something – air\, earth\, rock\, plant\, fur\, skin\, sand – this is part of its chemistry\, its solvency\, and its ability for modeling deep relation. Water is both collective and molecular\, moving in synchrony and composed of individual parts eager to bond with the world and with each other. \n\n\n\nInspired by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson\, Bruce Lee\, and the Hong Kong protestors in 2011\, we will practice moving together as a body of water through this particular stretch of land\, as a way to enter deep relation with its human and more-than-human histories\, and to consider its potential futures in the context of human-caused climate change. We will experiment in feeling the power of fluid forms of collective action and the intimacy of thoughtful listening and observation as tools for countering the brutality and militarism of the current moment. \n\n\n\nHow might a collective experiment in moving “like water” help us to discover surprising ways to relate with a place\, a social and environmental context\, and a particular historical moment? As one friend said\, there is nothing “like” water\, but as Leanne Betasamosake Simpson has so beautifully described\, so much to learn from and with it. \n\n\n\nParticipants are urged to come at the beginning and to stay for the entire walk\, but also welcome to join or leave at different points.   \n\n\n\n2:00 pm. Meet at Natural Bridges Road and Delaware Avenue  \n\n\n\n2:45 pm. Antonelli pond walkway entrance on Delaware  \n\n\n\n3:15 pm. Homeless Garden Project\, Shaffer Road \n\n\n\n3:45 pm. Parking lot at entrance to Coastal Campus \n\n\n\n4:15 pm Younger Lagoon overlook \n\n\n\n4:30 pm Beach at Younger Lagoon \n\n\n\nYou are invited to bring a stone to carry with you to return to the sea. Please also wear comfortable shows\, dress for the weather\, and bring water. \n\n\n\nThis walk will be fully accessible except for one short unpaved section at the east end of Antonelli Pond for which we will provide an alternate paved route. At the end of the walk\, a technically accessible\, but possibly slippery\, trail (depending on the weather) meanders down hill to the beach at Younger Lagoon. Participants are welcome to stay at the Lagoon overlook\, or go down to the water’s level in the company of a guide. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA. Laurie Palmer is an artist\, writer\, and teacher. Her place-based\, research-oriented artworkstake form as sculpture\, public projects\, and artist books\, and she collaborates on strategic actionsthat employ imagination and art in the context of social and environmental justice. Her mostrecent book\, The Lichen Museum (2023) explores lichens’ role as an anti-capitalist companionand climate change survivor. She taught in the Sculpture Department at the School of the ArtInstitute of Chicago for 20 years\, and 10 years in the Art Department at the University ofCalifornia\, Santa Cruz\, where she helped her colleagues build the Environmental Art and SocialPractice MFA program. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCid Pearlman is a choreographer working in the field of visual art and contemporary performance. For many years Pearlman presented her work primarily in theaters\, including ODC Theater\, Joyce SoHo\, Kanuti Gildi SAAL (Estonia)\, the Getty Center\, Stockholm City Hall\, Theatre Artaud and the Museum of Contemporary Art/San Diego. Her recent projects are more likely to take place outside\, or in galleries and public art spaces\, as a way to directly address issues of access\, community\, audience experience. Inspired by the resilience\, fragility\, and resourcefulness of the human body\, Pearlman makes dances about how we negotiate being together in a complex world. Among other honors she is the recipient of the 2021 Rydell Visual Arts Fellowship\, a Fulbright Award from the US Department of State\, and has been twice awarded a Djerassi Resident Artist Fellowship.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIlia Dolgov is a plant-grower\, artist\, and writer. Born in 1984 in Voronezh\, Russia\, he left the country in 2022 in response to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and now lives in Santa Cruz\, California\, on the unceded land of the Awaswas-speaking Uypi Tribe. \n\n\n\nIlia holds a Master of Fine Art degree in Environmental Art and Social Practice from University of California Santa Cruz\, a B.A. and M.A. in Psychology from Voronezh State University\, and a New Artistic Strategies certificate from the Moscow Institute of Contemporary Art. \n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is presented as part of An Aesthetics of Resilience\, a collaborative research initiative of the Institute of the Arts and Sciences and the Friedlaender Lab at UC Santa Cruz. The project brings scientists\, artists\, humanists\, and activists together to examine multiple experiences of vulnerability in the face of climate change and is supported by a University of California Office of the President California Climate Action Seed Grant\, with additional support from the Coha Nowark Art + Science Fund.
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/like-water-a-participatory-walk-from-the-ias-to-younger-lagoon-in-3-movements/
LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art + Science
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260125T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260125T193000
DTSTAMP:20260407T223855
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SUMMARY:Queering Movement: Stories Embodied
DESCRIPTION:The IAS\, BBQueer Fest\, and Motion Pacific invite you to attend “Queering Movement: Stories Embodied\,” an evening celebrating short films by local Black\, brown and queer artists and dancers. The screening and Q&A with filmmakers and participants showcases the interplay of activism\, movement\, and performance. Social hour to follow! Light snacks and (non-alcoholic) refreshments will be provided. Films are in English\, with English subtitles. moss time\, crip time includes audio description as voice over. \n\n\n\nMasks encouraged and provided. Please stay home if you are sick or have been recently exposed to a major contagious illness! \n\n\n\nFilms: \n\n\n\nmoss time\, crip time (Cynthia Ling Lee.) \n\n\n\nTaste her Fruit\, Bless the Whore (Diana Mulan Zhu) \n\n\n\nLiberating Movement: Black\, Brown & Queer All Over (Helen Aldana & Megan Martinez Goltz) \n\n\n\nOrganized with: \n\n\n\nBBQueer Fest\, Motion Pacific and the Institute of the Arts and Sciences  \n\n\n\nPlease RSVP here
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/queering-movement-stories-embodied/
LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screenings
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260129T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260129T193000
DTSTAMP:20260407T223855
CREATED:20251218T231224Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260114T201206Z
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SUMMARY:Pesticide Impacts In and Around Monterey Bay
DESCRIPTION:One of the research projects currently on display as part of Weather and the Whale documents for the first time the presence of pesticide-derived toxins within sea otters\, California sea lions\, and humpback whales in Monterey Bay. Join us for a conversation with Yanely Martinez\,  Katherine Gabriel-Cox\, Adam Scow and Logan Pallin about the short and long-term health impacts of pesticide use for local communities on land as well as in the ocean. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Logan Pallin\, a Post Doctoral researcher with the Institute of the Arts and Sciences (IAS) and Ocean Sciences at UC Santa Cruz\, is an ecophysiologist with a primary interest in understanding how wild populations alter their physiology and demography as a response to changes in their environment. To address these questions\, Logan collects minimally invasive tissue samples (e.g.\, blood/skin) and then uses molecular and endocrinological markers to answer specific questions about population health and growth. He works on multiple species of large marine predators worldwide and continuously advocates for ethical animal research and effective conservation and policy. Most of Logan’s work is focused along the Antarctic Peninsula and the coast of California. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYanely Martinez is an organizer for the Monterey and Santa Cruz regions\, empowering local Safe Ag Safe Schools members for climate change solutions and pesticide reform while developing the next generation of leaders. The daughter of farm workers from the Salinas Valley\, Martinez served on the Greenfield City Council from 2016-2024 and is a proud mother of four. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAdam Scow is a Public-Interest Advocate\, Violinist\, and Music Teacher. Adam has helped win environmental campaigns in the Monterey Bay region including the efforts to ban fracking in Santa Cruz\, Monterey\, and San Benito Counties. He is a co-founder of the Campaign for Organic & Regenerative Agriculture\, a grassroots group working to transition agricultural fields away from toxic pesticides to organic in the Watsonville area. He has served on the boards of Regeneracion Pajaro Valley Climate Action\, Watsonville Wetlands Watch\, and the Sierra Club. He previously served as a Board Trustee for the Pajaro Valley Unified School District\, where he helped win one the largest salary increases for teachers and staff in the history of the district and protected vital arts and music programs.    \n\n\n\nAs a violinist Adam performs with the Santa Cruz Symphony and is the founder of Mariachi Libertad. Adam teaches both orchestra and mariachi through the award-winning El Sistema program in Watsonville. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Katie Gabriel-Cox is an OBGyn physician serving Santa Cruz county for 17 years. She is a volunteer and board member for the Center for Farmworker Families. She is also a wife and proud mom to 4 young men. She currently serves as the Director of Obstetrics\, Midwifery and Gynecology at Salud Para La Gente. She is a board member of the Pajaro Valley Healthcare District and on the board of Hospice of Santa Cruz County.  She is deeply committed to uplifiting and supporting the farmworker community with kindness and advocacy.  \n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is presented as part of An Aesthetics of Resilience\, a collaborative research initiative of the Institute of the Arts and Sciences and the Friedlaender Lab at UC Santa Cruz. The project brings scientists\, artists\, humanists\, and activists together to examine multiple experiences of vulnerability in the face of climate change and is supported by a University of California Office of the President California Climate Action Seed Grant\, with additional support from the Coha Nowark Art + Science Fund.
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/pesticide-impacts-in-and-around-monterey-bay/
LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art + Science
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260205T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260205T193000
DTSTAMP:20260407T223855
CREATED:20251208T212415Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260106T212811Z
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SUMMARY:Climate Justice and the Moss Landing Battery Fire
DESCRIPTION:On January 16th\, 2025\, a fire started at the world’s largest Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) in Moss Landing\, 20 miles from UC Santa Cruz. The fire burned for at least two days\, creating a plume of smoke that drifted above the nearby estuary of Elkhorn Slough and the surrounding agricultural fields. \n\n\n\nWhat were the impacts of this fire on the local ecosystem and communities? What can be learned about energy storage safety? And what is (or should be) the role of BESS technologies in moves towards a just transition? Join us for a panel discussion with marine geologist Dr Ivano Aiello and environmental studies scholars Dr. J. Mijin Cha and Dr. Dustin Mulvaney focused on the climate justice issues raised by the Moss Landing BESS fire. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Ivano Aiello is a marine geologist and Chair of Moss Landing Marine Laboratories\, part of San José State University. He earned his Ph.D. in Sedimentology from the University of Bologna and conducted postdoctoral research at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. Dr. Aiello’s research focuses on marine sediments\, silica diagenesis\, and the geological and chemical processes that shape both deep-sea and coastal environments. He has sailed on multiple international ocean-drilling expeditions (IODP) investigating subseafloor life and hydrothermal systems and has led studies on coastal sediment dynamics and environmental change in the Monterey Bay region. At MLML\, he directs projects that integrate marine geology\, geochemistry\, and mapping technologies to understand how natural processes and industrial impacts affect seafloor and wetland ecosystems. His work bridges field observation\, laboratory analysis\, and data-driven environmental monitoring.  \n\n\n\nFollowing the Moss Landing battery fire in January 2025\, Aiello and his team documented several-fold increase in soil concentrations of battery-derived metals (nickel\, cobalt\, and manganese) relative to pre-fire baseline levels in Elkhorn Slough wetlands\, this study provides the first evidence of toxic metal fallout caused by a fire at one of the world’s largest battery energy storage systems. His findings point to an urgent need for baseline environmental monitoring before future energy storage projects break ground. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJ. Mijin Cha is an assistant professor of environmental studies at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. She is also a fellow at Cornell University’s Climate Jobs Institute\, a faculty advisory board member for the UCSC Center for Labor and Community\, and a fellow at the Climate and Community Institute. Her book\, “A Just Transition for All: Workers and Communities for a Carbon-Free Future\,” was published by MIT Press in Dec. 2024. Dr. Cha is on the board of Greenpeace Fund and a member of the California Bar. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDustin Mulvaney is a Professor in the School of Policy\, Planning\, and Environmental Studies at San José State University (SJSU). He is a Fellow with the Payne Institute for Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines\, and also a Fellow with the Climate + Community Institute. His research includes work on just transitions\, solar energy commodity chains\, natural resource development\, and circular economy. He is author of Solar Power: Innovation\, Sustainability\, Environmental Justice published by the University California Press in 2019 and Sustainable Energy Transitions: Socio-Ecological Dimensions of Decarbonization with Palgrave-MacMillan in 2020\, and Energy\, Society\, and the Environment: A Critical Perspective\, that will be out with Wiley-Blackwell in 2026. Dustin’s areas of expertise and research are on land use change\, life cycle assessment\, recycling & waste\, and the environmental justice impacts of energy technologies\, supply chains\, and infrastructures\, with extensive emphasis on the life cycle impacts of solar photovoltaics and lithium-ion batteries. Find more about that research here:  www.dustinmulvaney.com  \n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is presented as part of An Aesthetics of Resilience\, a collaborative research initiative of the Institute of the Arts and Sciences and the Friedlaender Lab at UC Santa Cruz. The project brings scientists\, artists\, humanists\, and activists together to examine multiple experiences of vulnerability in the face of climate change and is supported by a University of California Office of the President California Climate Action Seed Grant\, with additional support from the Coha Nowark Art + Science Fund. \n\n\n\nImage: Fire at Moss Landing Battery Energy Storage System (BESS)\, 2025. Photo by Mike Tataki
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/climate-justice-and-the-moss-landing-battery-fire/
LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art + Science
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260206T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260206T200000
DTSTAMP:20260407T223855
CREATED:20251219T230735Z
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SUMMARY:Lunar New Year First Friday
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the Year of the Horse on Friday\, February 6\, at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences for a night of student-led craft activities and (beginner-friendly) mahjong play hosted by the Santa Cruz Mahjong Club. Craft materials and light refreshments will be provided at this family friendly event. \n\n\n\nPhoto by Mickey Ta.
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/lunar-new-year-first-friday/
LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260211T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260211T193000
DTSTAMP:20260407T223855
CREATED:20251216T200553Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260106T212733Z
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SUMMARY:The California Firefighter Cancer Research Study with Dr. Shehnaz Hussain and Fire Captain Jamie Gabriel
DESCRIPTION:Cancer is the leading cause of death among California firefighters\, yet the precise determinants as well as their mechanisms of action are poorly understood\, and effective preventive interventions remain elusive. The California Firefighter Cancer Research Study (CAFF-CRS) is a large\, well-characterized\, longitudinal cohort of firefighters across California established in 2024 to advance knowledge on understudied cancer risk factors in firefighters. CAFF-CRS uses a community-based participatory research framework and is collaboratively led by an academic/fire service partnership. Dr Shehnaz Hussain and Captain Jamie Gabriel of LA County Fire will present initial observations and discuss implications for firefighter health.  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShehnaz Hussain\, PhD\, is a Professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of California (UC) Davis School of Medicine. She serves as Associate Director for Population Sciences and Director of the Office of Population Health at the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. Hussain’s research stems from a long-standing interest in the intersection of infections and cancer. As a molecular epidemiologist\, she brings together a mindset for maximizing public health impact and scientific curiosity to orchestrate research in cancer etiology\, pathogenesis\, chemoprevention\, and early detection. A common thread of her ongoing research is the identification of biomarkers that relate to\, or modulate\, the immune response including serum immune markers\, intestinal microbiome\, immunogenic microbial components and metabolites\, and environmental toxins. Currently\, she is utilizing this immunoepidemiology lens to lead investigations of the disease continuum from metabolic associated fatty liver disease to liver cancer. Most recently\, she has catalyzed a multidisciplinary research program focused on the carcinogenic impacts of wildfires. Dr. Hussain completed an Sc.M. in Epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins University\, and Ph.D. in Epidemiology from the University of Washington\, Seattle. She subsequently completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden\, and a second fellowship at the University of California\, Los Angeles. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJamie Gabriel is a Fire Captain with the Los Angeles County Fire Department\, where she serves in operational leadership roles including emergency response\, safety oversight\, and coordinating in-service training for all fire personnel. Her work is grounded in protecting firefighter health and safety\, with a particular focus on occupational exposures and long-term health outcomes. Her research interests broadly focus on firefighter cancer risk\, integrating occupational and environmental exposures with lifestyle and psychosocial factors such as sleep\, diet\, physical activity\, and mental health. Drawing on 18 years of frontline fire service experience\, she contributes to cancer research efforts aimed at reducing cancer burden among fire service personnel through advancement of departmental policies that support cancer prevention\, risk reduction\, and improvements in modifiable risk factors. Jamie recently completed a Master of Science in Physician Assistant Studies\, expanding her clinical training and strengthening her ability to bridge public safety\, clinical medicine\, and occupational health research. \n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is presented as part of An Aesthetics of Resilience\, a collaborative research initiative of the Institute of the Arts and Sciences and the Friedlaender Lab at UC Santa Cruz. The project brings scientists\, artists\, humanists\, and activists together to examine multiple experiences of vulnerability in the face of climate change and is supported by a University of California Office of the President California Climate Action Seed Grant\, with additional support from the Coha Nowark Art + Science Fund. \n\n\n\nImage: Still from Ashley Hunt’s Kaleidoscope\, 2025\, featured in Weather and the Whale.
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/firefighter-cancer-research-study-with-dr-shehnaz-hussain/
LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art + Science
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260226T193000
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SUMMARY:Electroacoustic Performance and Artist Talk with the Whale Liberation Front
DESCRIPTION:Whale Liberation Front members Peter Johnson Bowling and Cory Diane will perform a live\, electro-acoustic piece in relationship to their installation Untitled\, or\, They’ve been singing since the gulf was born. This piece is rooted in their long term sonic practices in solidarity with the Gulf Whale and broader Gulf of Mexico ecosystems. Utilizing zither\, synthesizers\, voice\, water\, and rare Gulf recordings\, this performance will imagine a sonic reclamation of waters monopolized by sounds of oil extraction\, centering Gulf Whale song in an immersive\, evolving\, spatialized soundscape. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPeter Johnson Bowling (left) is a multi-instrumentalist improviser\, composer\, music producer\, sound designer\, arranger\, music technologist\, & collaborator based in New Orleans. Bowling works primarily in live music performance\, group/collaborative devising\, and experimental live composing\, in addition to scoring and sound design. His interests include live electroacoustic music\, multichannel spatial speaker compositions/installations\, electronic improvisation\, and multidisciplinary collaboration. \n\n\n\nCory Diane (right) is a composer\, performer\, researcher\, and sound artist based in New Orleans. Much of their practice explores sound and vibration as ways of knowing\, connecting climate justice\, marine science\, gravitational wave astronomy\, and lived experience. Their long-term practice\, “Reverie\,” engages the soundscape of the Gulf of Mexico in relation to and in solidarity with Gulf Whales. Their broader work spans chamber orchestral composition\, installation\, creative technology\, and electroacoustic performance. An active collaborator\, they are a member of Wit’s End Brass Band and New Orleans Musicians for Palestine\, performing regularly throughout New Orleans. \n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is presented as part of An Aesthetics of Resilience\, a collaborative research initiative of the Institute of the Arts and Sciences and the Friedlaender Lab at UC Santa Cruz. The project brings scientists\, artists\, humanists\, and activists together to examine multiple experiences of vulnerability in the face of climate change and is supported by a University of California Office of the President California Climate Action Seed Grant\, with additional support from the Coha Nowark Art + Science Fund.
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/performance-and-artist-talk-with-the-whale-liberation-front/
LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art + Science
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260304T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260304T193000
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SUMMARY:Unexpected Returns: The Historic Entanglements of Fire\, Settlement\, and Stewardship in the Santa Cruz Mountains
DESCRIPTION:Wildfires are an increasing feature of contemporary life in California. Media and scientific accounts tell us that we are in a new age of “megafires”. What combination of human settlement\, land use and climate change propels these fires? What drives people to make their homes in increasingly flammable landscapes\, and with what effect? In this event Miriam Greenberg and Andrew Matthews present the findings of UCSC researchers who have spent three years studying the ecological\, social\, and political economic processes that have set the stage for contemporary wildfires\, in what has become known as the “Wildland Urban Interface” (WUI).  \n\n\n\nCome and learn about the deeper histories of indigenous burning\, settler ranching\, fire suppression\, extractive industries and urbanization that have produced fire prone landscapes in the Santa Cruz Mountains. We will share new maps of logging-fueled 19th century megafires; historical photographs of early twentieth century orchards and vineyards planted in the burn scar; and oral accounts of how fire and ranching cleared the land for subsequent waves of rural homebuilding and population growth. Further we explore how today\, in the context of climate change\, and as WUI growth draws more people into the beauty of rural living and possibility of affordable housing\, it builds upon these land use legacies to spark the return and increasing destructiveness of megafire.  Yet\, we also are learning from these histories\, and the recent experience of the 2020 CZU Fire\, to reshape our relationship with fire\, plants\, land\, and housing. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMiriam Greenberg is Professor of Sociology at the University of California Santa Cruz\, and co-director of the Center for Critical Urban and Environmental Studies. She holds a PhD in Sociology from the City University of New York Graduate Center\, and is the author of Branding New York:  How a City in Crisis was Sold to the World (Routledge\, 2008); Crisis Cities: Disaster and Redevelopment in New York and New Orleans (Oxford\, 2014)\, co-authored with Kevin Fox Gotham; and The City is the Factory: New Solidarities and Spatial Tactics in an Urban Age\, co-edited with Penny Lewis (Cornell\, 2017).  She has also undertaken engaged\, public-facing research projects exploring urban and environmental justice issues in California\, including the Critical Sustainabilities project\, which can be found at: https://critical-sustainabilities.ucsc.edu/\, and (with Steve McKay) the project No Place Like Home\, on the experience of the affordable housing crisis in Santa Cruz County\, which can be found at: http://noplacelikehomeucsc.org/. \n\n\n\nShe is currently P.I. on the project WUI Research for Resilience:  Addressing California’s Climate\, Conservation\, and Housing Crisis\, which is part of the UCOP Climate Action Research Initiative.  A recent publication in PNAS lays out the conceptual framework for this project: “Relational geographies of urban unsustainability: The entanglement of California’s housing crisis with WUI growth and climate change.”(2024). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAndrew Mathews is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. He holds a joint Ph.D. in forestry and anthropology from Yale University. He has studied relationships between people\, plants\, and landscape in Mexico\, Italy\, and California. His interests range from ethnoecology\, STS\, political ecology\, and environmental history\, in publications on Indigenous forest management in Mexico (Instituting Nature\, MIT Press\, 2011)\, to environmental humanities\, human plant relations\, historical ecology\, and landscape ethnography\, in Italian landscapes (Trees are Shape Shifters Yale\, 2022). He is now studing the relationship between fire\, grazing\, and the political geomorphology of landscapes in California and in Italy.  \n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is presented as part of An Aesthetics of Resilience\, a collaborative research initiative of the Institute of the Arts and Sciences and the Friedlaender Lab at UC Santa Cruz. The project brings scientists\, artists\, humanists\, and activists together to examine multiple experiences of vulnerability in the face of climate change and is supported by a University of California Office of the President California Climate Action Seed Grant\, with additional support from the Coha Nowark Art + Science Fund. \n\n\n\nImage by Raty Syka.
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/unexpected-returns-the-historic-entanglements-of-fire-settlement-and-stewardship-in-the-santa-cruz-mountains/
LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art + Science
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260306T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260306T190000
DTSTAMP:20260407T223855
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SUMMARY:Weather and the Whale Book Launch and Closing Party
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate the release of the Weather and the Whale catalog with an after-hours viewing of the exhibition and a conversation with three of the exhibition collaborators and catalog contributors:  Guillermo Delgado-P\, Kailani Polzak and Zac Zimmer.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDistributed by University of Minnesota Press\, Weather and the Whale is an exciting interdisciplinary catalog combining artworks\, critical and creative texts\, and new scientific research about whales and other marine mammals to both sound a warning of the irreversible consequences of the collapsing climate and offer alternative possibilities for living during these challenging times.  \n\n\n\nArtists: Imani Jacqueline Brown\, Carolina Caycedo\, Sharon Daniel\, Yolande Harris\, Christine Howard Sandoval\, Ashley Hunt\, Courtney Leonard\, John Jota Leaños\, Libia Posada\, Mia Eve Rollow\, Whale Liberation Front\, Sam Williams\, Suné Woods. \n\n\n\nScientists: Natalia Botero-Acosta\, Chloe Lew\, Logan Pallin. \n\n\n\nOther contributors: Guillermo Delgado-P.\, Cory Diane\, Mirra-Margarita Ianeva\, LuLing Osofsky\, Kailani Polzak\, Şebnem Susam-Saraeva\, Zac Zimmer. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKailani Polzak (Assistant Professor in the History of Art and Visual Culture) is an art historian who focuses on European visual culture in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries with particular attention to histories of science\, aesthetic philosophy\, race\, colonialism\, and intercultural contact in Oceania. Her current book project\, Difference Over Distance: Visualizing Contact between Europe and Oceania\, examines the graphic and printed works created in relation to so-called “Voyages of Discovery” conducted by Britain\, France\, and Russia in Aotearoa New Zealand\, Australia\, and Hawaiʻi in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and traces how these pictures were mobilized in arguments about the origins of human difference in Europe and the United States. Her research and publications also emphasize the methodological questions raised by writing about and curating colonial histories from multiple perspectives. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGuillermo Delgado-P is an anthropologist\, Quechua linguist\, and cultural journalist. He taught in the Anthropology and LALS Departments. As a Latin Americanist his research focuses on Indigeneities and Andean biome relationalities with special attention to the anthropogenic detritus of extractivism in underground and surface mining (think e.g. of lithium\, rare earths). His most recent article “Genomics\, Indigeneity\, Bio-Prospecting\,” is in L. Lorusso and R.G. Winther\, (Eds.)  Remapping Race in a Global Context (2022) \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nZac Zimmer (Associate Professor of Literature) is an interdisciplinary scholar of literature\, culture and technology in the hemispheric Americas. His book First Contact: Speculative Visions of the Conquest of the Americas is forthcoming with Northwestern University Press. In addition to his current research on the infrastructure of technosystems\, he co-facilitates the Ethics & Astrobiology reading group\, part of UCSC’s Astrobiology Initiative. In the Literature department\, he teaches classes on Latin American literature\, science fiction\, ethics & technology\, and the poetics of California infrastructure. 
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/weather-and-the-whale-book-launch-and-closing-party/
LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art + Science
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260308T203000
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SUMMARY:The Cigarette Surfboard
DESCRIPTION:Join Banana Slug alumni filmmaker Ben Judkins (Kresge ’17\, film and digital media) and “ciggy board” creator Taylor Lane for a screening of their award-winning documentary\, The Cigarette Surfboard (runtime 93 minutes) followed by an audience Q&A. This event is taking place at Media Theater M110\, 453 Kerr Road on UC Santa Cruz campus and light refreshments will be provided. \n\n\n\nABOUT THE FILM \n\n\n\nAfter a young designer realizes that a surfboard – which he crafted from thousands of littered cigarette butts picked up off California beaches – could captivate the eyes of millions across the globe\, he decides to use it as the impetus to do something more. The Cigarette Surfboards become a platform to spark ocean stewardship and the symbol of a campaign to hold Big Tobacco accountable for their toxic\, plastic waste. Surfing is the medium\, but the message is universal. \n\n\n\nSmall decisions and actions\, like littering a cigarette butt\, cumulatively can have a large impact\, for better or for worse. This immersive documentary provides viewers an up close experience of the ocean through surfers’ eyes\, to amplify a message of urgency and possibility regarding the ocean’s well being. As our ocean faces mounting threats\, and surfing continues to grow\, we as surfers have a responsibility to protect it. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRaised in Northern California\, at age eight\, Ben Judkins found an old camcorder and discovered the medium to explore and create. After years of videotaping friends skateboarding and surfing\, Ben landed at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, majoring in Film & Digital Media. His senior film “Marshall” earned the Dean’s Award\, and also won “Best Locally-Produced Work” at the 2017 Santa Cruz Film Festival. Ben is an avid surfer who believes in the power of visual storytelling to move people to action. The Cigarette Surfboard documentary is an opportunity to inspire a generation of surfers to be stewards of the sea. \n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is presented in collaboration with the California Coastal Commission‘s Whale Tail Grant.
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/the-cigarette-surfboard/
LOCATION:Media Theater M110\, 453 Kerr Road\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95064\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art + Science
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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
DESCRIPTION:Join us for light refreshments and to celebrate the openings of our three new exhibitions. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRedwoods Rasanblaj: Origins and Disentanglements by Gina Athena Ulysse is a multisited public art project and series of creative gatherings and offerings at the Institute for Arts and Sciences and across sites at UC Santa Cruz and Santa Cruz. The exhibition builds on a large-scale installation at the Dakar Biennale (2024) and marks a decade since Gina Athena Ulysse’s call for rasanblaj. This decolonial organizing principle takes its meaning from a Haitian creole term translated as the assembly\, compilation\, enlisting and regrouping of ideas\, things\, people\, and spirits. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn Libia Posada’s first solo exhibition in the United States\, Everything is Going Right\, new and existing artworks from the Colombia-based artist and medical doctor emerge within a vernacular and aesthetic of disease and infection\, symptoms and treatments. With maps made of medical gauze\, prison uniforms sewn with delicate surgical thread\, and crutches blooming with plastic flowers\, the exhibition renders bodily the current conditions in which everything seems to be going wrong and moving right. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPoet and visual artist Ronaldo V. Wilson’s multimedia exhibition poetically and viscerally explores modes of blurring verbal and nonverbal languages to push against the boundaries of perception where notions of race and identity take shape. Emerging at the intersections of Black poetics\, performance and art\, the works in There Are No Words\, But Melodies move between freestyling (improvised voice/rap/lectures)\, drawings\, song\, writing\, and video in a kind of dance—a melodic and embodied critical resistance to oppression and lived realities of pain\, exile\, and loss. Critical histories and experiences of death\, life\, blood\, family memory\, and psychic loss are navigated in form and composition.
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/celebration-of-spring-exhibitions/
CATEGORIES:Exhibition opening,Visualizing Abolition
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