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The Strike: Film Screening and Q&A with Directors and Survivors

UC Santa Cruz Communications Building, Studio C 620 Baskin Circle, Santa Cruz, California, United States

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 […]

Opening Celebration: Weather and the Whale

Institute of the Arts and Sciences 100 Panetta Avenue, Santa Cruz, California, United States

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. Combining art and science to deepen understanding about climate change and perhaps spur collective action, […]

Book Launch: Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine

Institute of the Arts and Sciences 100 Panetta Avenue, Santa Cruz, California, United States

By Emile Suotonye DeWeaver June 20 2025 at 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm Join us on Friday, June 20th for a book talk and signing with author Emile Suotonye DeWeaver, for the release of his first book titled Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine: Reform, White Supremacy and an Abolitionist Future. DeWeaver during his twenty-one […]