Urban Adventuring
A city skyline says different things to different people. To an urban adventurer, it is the siren on the rocks beckoning “Climb me.”…
Wes Modes
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Comic Artists’ Collective
Collective Project: A regular informal gathering of comic artists, in which artists illustrated their own personal stories, radical history, imagined futures, or experimental expressions….
Land of Lost Socks
Where do all those lost socks go? Sock-eating driers? Alien abduction? Runaway socks hitting the road and living on the streets?…
Blackmail
You lookin for something? A special something? Maybe you lookin to send somebody a message? Just tell me, what you need done. But, if anyone asks, I don’t know you….
Message in a Bottle
Toss a message in a bottle into the surf of the Internet sea. Eventually, it may wash up in the form of E-mail on someone’s personal beach….
Dumpster Diver
You’re going diving! Dumpster diving! It’s like give-away day at the Thrift Center. It’s like Sunday evening curb-side after the yard sales give it up. It’s like, well… it’s just like rummaging around in the trash behind the junk store. …
What the Hell’s Going on Downtown Day
Blabbermouth the Mime, the street corner soapbox preacher, tiny tiny orchestra, and a half dozen other performers committed to bewildering downtown shoppers…
Spy Soiree
Come in formal wear, with a cover name. Enjoy yourself. Complete your mission. Try not to get killed….
Gamelan Anak Swarasanti
Gamelan Anak Swarasanti, an award-winning Balinese gamelan orchestra performing professionally throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond in a wide variety of settings….
Kecak Monkey Chant
Kecak is a form of vocal percussion and dance originating in Bali, Indonesia, and inspired by traditional gamelan, performed by a circle of dozens and even hundreds of performers chanting in…
An Evening of Extraordinary Proportions
A spectacular & historic evening of unusual proportions. A costume benefit featuring an elegant three-course dinner, a silent auction, stimulating music, and an Exhibition Prizefighting Match between Nikola Tesla and Tom Edison.
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What Is Art?
What Is Art? was a tiny, 50-person-capacity venue run by a collective of people from the Santa Cruz art and music scene. …
Million Clown March
Some 80 normally jolly clowns, supported by the buzz of a dozen kazoos, sought to make their plight public and turn the fortunes of clowndom toward a brighter future….
Adventure Club
Adventure Club is post-apocalyptic revolutionary logistics training. Think of Adventure Club as radical skill-share, ranges from rather tame to semi-hardcore direct action. …
Brazen Squaredance
A sporadic Santa Cruz event, in which scores of squaredancers take over public space, moving to increasingly brazen locations…
Santa Cruz Community Safety Workgroup
A Community Workgroup: “Without police, wouldn’t there be chaos?” and “What about the bad people?” We get asked these legitimate questions all the time. It’s time we began to wrestle with some possible answers….
Blue Light Safety Project
A Community Project: The Blue Light Safety Project is a Santa Cruz local community effort to provide temporary safe spaces for people who are feeling unsafe….
Police Obsolescence Workgroup
An ongoing workgroup working toward a world without police. Some of the efforts of this workgroup include CopWatch, know your rights, police accountability, alternatives to calling the police, and education about police, courts, and jails….
Santa Cruz Art List
Collective Project: A forum for announcing non-institutional art events, meetings and projects, ideas and news. A website and email list, to keep in touch, to announce art events, and to document our work….
Demystifying Anarchy
Demystifying Anarchy featured a panel of self-identified anarchists who spoke about what anarchy means to them and how they see the world. …
North American Free Skool Conference
The first ever North American Free Skool Conference, an amazing opportunity for free skools from all over to get together, exchange ideas, and make ambitious plans….