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Night of Ideas

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

A global event, taking place simultaneously in more than 100 countries and 22 cities in the United States, Night of Ideas invites thought leaders, activists, performers, authors, and academics to engage the public in discussions around central questions that address major, contemporary global issues. First introduced in the United States in 2015 by the French […]

Free

Seeing through Stone Exhibition Opening Celebration at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences

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

Join us for the Opening Celebration of the multi-sited group exhibition, Seeing through Stone, at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences on April 12, 2024. Seeing through Stone invites viewers to see beyond the current realities of prison, drawing attention to already existing practices of imagining the world otherwise. The exhibition includes more than eighty […]

Explode! Platform Performance at the Seeing through Stone Exhibition Opening Celebration

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

Join us this April 12th for a performance by Explode! Platform, a Brazilian collective founded by Art Department's Assistant Professor Cláudio Bueno and artist João Simões. This performance is free and open to the public and part of the Seeing through Stone exhibition's opening celebration at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences, UC Santa Cruz. […]

Free

Zombaria Practices: exercises with the body and radical imagination.

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

Join us for "Zombaria Practices: exercises with the body and radical imagination.," a special artist-led workshop with Rio de Janeiro-based actress, dancer, choreographer, and educator Vanessa Soares as part of the multi-sited exhibition Seeing through Stone on view at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences. During this dance-related workshop, Soares will guide participants through […]