Sunday, February 16, 2025

Events at SubRosa and around 2/16 - 3/2

~@@@ SubRosa is a collectively run anarchist community space

let's create together the world(s) we want to live in now @@@~


Events at SubRosa and around 2/16 - 3/2


  • TODAY! A Bake Sale for Gaza Sunday, February 16 featuring baked goods made by professional bakers! 11:30am - 4pm @subrosa_space - 703 Pacific Ave


We will also be selling plants and little thingamabobs! Oooh!!! All proceeds go to @dahnounmutualaid 


Information from SubRosa IG - https://www.instagram.com/p/DF4T48mxprh/ 


  • Wednesday Feb 19th - acoustic singers / writers of songs night at SubRosa, playing warm songs for cool people with all the friends with…


* june - i make sad songs for my sad friends! - @junemakestunes

** sundyed - l.a. slacker rock with a heavy level of self deprecation - @sundyedofficial

*** hana (from gender violence) - acoustic fuckshit idk - @genderviolenceband

**** quindara - acoustic yap - @bbannedindc

***** adam (from mutt) - variable levels of grunk -  @mutt.boys


Doors 6:30pm & music 7pm // $5 at door - notaflof! // all-ages // dry space // safe(r) space // anti-capitalist space // respect the space and each other!


Info from SubRosa IG - https://www.instagram.com/p/DFy9hRsx-p6/


  • DISASTROUS TRANSGENDERISM RELEASE SHOW! Thursday Feb 20th.


DT is a massive comp album for trans charity, namely the @translifeline project, and it's dropping exclusively on bandcamp next Thursday (see 2nd slide)! Pull up to hear some of the incredibly talented folk punk musicians on the album! At SubRosa with…


* Crow Sister - freaky trans doom folk from Oakland - @crowsister_

** Gender Violence - transgender resistance through folk punk - 831 - @genderviolenceband

*** Bayou Oogle Princess - with songs about building love and facing the inner demons from past mistakes and realizing you're more confident and happy than ever - @bayou_oogle_princess

**** Sincerely, Yours - 21 year old travelin' angry sleepy folk punk (soon 22! & info below!) - @sincerelyxyoursx

***** Ember Nugent - alt/folk/singer/writer-of-songs - @emgobrrr

****** Ash Bricky - queer (folk) punx - @ashbricky


6pm // $10 at door - notaflof! // all-ages // dry space // safe(r) space // anti-capitalist space // respect the space and each other!


& come to the birthday bash, bus benefit, and ep release show powered by folk punk with Sincerely, Yours and friends at SubRosa Wednesday Feb 26th!


Info from SubRosa IG post - https: //www.instagram.com/p/DGH-fWmOnvB/ 


  • Shakesqueer at SubRosa presents: Twelfth Night or What You Will - multiple performances! Friday Feb 21st at 7pm AND Saturday February 22nd at 2pm - all at SubRosa!


Shakesqueer is a queer anarchist theater collective in its third year of performances. We are dedicated to building community and keeping it silly.


7pm // free & donations appreciated (notaflof) // all-ages // dry space  // safe(r) space // anti-capitalist space // respect the space and each other!

https://www.instagram.com/p/DF8baemSGRu/ 


  • Bus benefit, birthday bash and ep release show powered by folk punk with Sincerely, Yours and friends Wednesday Feb 26th at SubRosa with…


* Sincerely, Yours - 21 year old travelin' angry sleepy folk punk - @sincerelyxyoursx

** Yours, Forever Yours - Bay Area bedroom skramz - @yoursforeveryours209 

*** Gender Violence - transgender resistance through folk punk - 831 - @genderviolenceband

 **** Yosemite Avenue - emo indie rock kids from Manteca, CA - @yoaveband


6pm // $10 at door - notaflof! // all-ages // dry space // safe(r) space // anti-capitalist space // respect the space and each other!


Info from SubRosa IG - https://www.instagram.com/p/DF_COR1yLmu/ 


  • At the Fábrica (SubRosa's wonderful neighbor at the Hub Community Center) Sunday Mar 2nd - Got broken shoes? 👞 👟🛼👠🥾Join shoemaker Elijah Dalley (www.GhostBoy.design) in a workshop on how to repair, reconstruct, and repurpose your old sneakers to keep them on your feet!


➡️Interest form link: https://forms.gle/7mrGshVzFNSQ46BL7 - and more about the Fábrica below in email. 


  • Worst Year of our Lives Tour: a year without Rosalie - with former SubRosa collective member and a bunch of folk & punks on Sunday Mar 2nd (mark on your calendar!) at SubRosa with…


* Small Void - gay as shit with mostly dirty lace country & craggy tunes & sometimes something else - Kansas City, Missouri - @small_void__

** Ballast Bunny - Music for the restless souls, with tired eyes, and weary bones. 

Built in experience, and forged in steel

From the strings I play to those spinning wheels - Seattle, WA - @ballast.bunny


With support from closer by…


*** Dirty Laundry - dirty busking blues - @dirtylaundrytheband

**** Gender Violence - transgender resistance through folk punk - 831 - @genderviolenceband

***** Florez Rain - accordion powered folk punk from Elkhorn, CA - @florezrain 


Doors 6pm & Music 6:30pm // $10 at door - notaflof! // all-ages // dry space // safe(r) space // anti-capitalist space // respect the space and each other!


Info from SubRosa IG post - https://www.instagram.com/p/DFbWyBOS7rD/ 


Ongoing at SubRosa!!!


  • Goth Denny's aka Post-Punk IHOP aka New Wave Jeffrey's aka Folk Punk Bea's Koffee Kup Open Hours, Tuesdays, 3:30–5:30pm


Come hangout with friendly folk and most likely eat fresh waffles at Goth Denny's aka Post-Punk IHOP aka New Wave Jeffrey's aka Folk Punk Bea's Koffee Kup Open Hours at SubRosa.


  • HUFF - Homeless United for Friendship and Freedom - meeting & Open Hours, Thursdays · 1:30–3:30 PM, Repeats weekly


HUFF - Homeless United for Friendship and Freedom - HUFF is Santa Cruz's oldest and most stubbornly persistent grassroots homeless advocacy group. We make trouble for the powers that be and fight institutional human rights abuses pertaining to houseless folk. http://www.huffsantacruz.org/ 


-@—<>—@-


  • And check out Fábrica Open Hours - repeats weekly (SubRosa's neighbor at the Hub Community Center)


  • Saturdays, 2pm - 5pm  

  • Sundays, 11am - 2pm (except 2nd Sunday of month) 

  • Mondays, 12pm - 3pm


https://thefabricaworkshop.org/ // https://www.facebook.com/thefabrica/ // https://www.instagram.com/the_fabrica_


Description: The Fábrica is a community workspace where folks can come to learn and share knowledge about textiles arts. This includes Sewing, Knitting, Quilting, Embroidery, Crochet, and Bookbinding, among other arts. The workshop is operated by volunteers and funded by donations from participants. We have sewing machines as well as generous amounts of fabric, zippers, notions, and the other tools and supplies one needs for most sewing and yarn-based projects. There is no charge to use the shop, but please consider a $5-10 donation to help with our operating costs. Contact info below.


  • And another neighbor - Bike Church // Open Hours, Thursday - Monday, 12–5pm (Repeats every week) 


About our wonderful neighbor, The Bike Church (enter on Spruce St) - "The Bike Church is a project of the Hub and has been Santa Cruz's only community bike shop since 1998. Our shop functions in a DIY/DIT (Do-It-Together) manner: we provide the tools, space and instruction for individuals to fix their own bike with the guidance of knowledgeable mechanics. We ask for a donation of $5-15 per hour to use the shop--no one is turned away for lack of funds. We provide used and new parts for affordable prices, and have many used bikes for sale. We give away kids bikes for free. Our shop is run by a collective of mechanics and apprentices who are all paid equally. We use consensus meetings to make decisions about the running of the shop." Contact info below.


  • And at the Bike Church - WTF! (women, trans, femme) Bike Days - Every Tuesday / 5 - 8pm with WTF Bike Church mechanics (thebikechurch@gmail.com


Location: The Bike Church, 703 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz (enter on Spruce St)


Description: We will be open to anyone identifying as female, trans, femme, non-binary and gender-queer ❤ if you do not identify as any of the above, come by the shop a different day! 


Local information again 



Call the hotline to report ICE activity or presence, or to receive referral to services. Hotline is staffed 24/7. (831) 239-4289


Llama a la linea para hacer un reporte de actividades o presencia de ICE, o para recibir ayuda en accesar servicios. Contestamos la linea 24/7. (831) 239-4289


Our Mission - to use our bodies, tactics and resources to document, resist and prevent actions by ICE or other regressive forces that would harm our fellow human beings. More info at link https://santacruzrapidresponse.org/ 

<Contact info for our neighbors at The Hub, 703 Pacific Ave>


-The Bike Church --- http://bikechurch.santacruzhub.org // https://www.facebook.com/thebikechurch/ // https://www.instagram.com/thebikechurch/ 

-Hard Core Compost --- https://www.compost.bike // https://www.instagram.com/hardcorecompost/ // www.facebook.com/compost.bike/  

-The Fábrica --- https://thefabricaworkshop.org/ // https://www.facebook.com/thefabrica/ // https://www.instagram.com/the_fabrica_

-Tenant Sanctuary --- https://tenantsanctuary.org // https://www.facebook.com/tenantsanctuary/ // https://instagram.com/tenant_sanctuary_sc  


The Santa Cruz Hub for Sustainable Living includes a constellation of projects that support skill-sharing, appropriate re/use of resources, and interconnected, creative communities - since 1994! http://www.santacruzhub.org // https://www.facebook.com/santacruzhub/ // https://www.instagram.com/santacruzhub/ 


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SubRosa is a collectively run anarchist community space, a place to meet others and challenge our assumptions and act on our passions. We strive to create a vibrant environment for events, classes, meetings, organizing, performance, art, studying and more. SubRosa also offers radical literature for sale, and houses the Anarchist Lending Library. We welcome folks to join us in fostering an environment free from coercion, sexism, queer&homophobia, racism, ableism and other hierarchies.

http://www.subrosaproject.org/ 

https://www.facebook.com/subrosaproject 

https://instagram.com/subrosa_space 


SubRosa is part of the Hub Community Center, in downtown Santa Cruz, CA which is the unceded homelands of the Awaswas-speaking Ohlone people known as the Uypi, who stewarded these lands since time immemorial. Centuries of colonial violence led to the removal and displacement of the Uypi. The Amah Mutsun Tribal Band, comprised of the descendants of indigenous people taken to missions Santa Cruz and San Juan Bautista during Spanish colonization of the Central Coast, is today working hard to restore traditional stewardship practices on these lands and heal from historical trauma. 


Do you want to join SubRosa in solidarity with the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band? 


-Contribute to The Humunya Foundation of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band, a 501 (c) (3) Private Foundation under the Internal Revenue Code. As such, donations made to the Humunya Foundation are tax deductable. The Humunya Foundation was created to fund raise, facilitate Tribal cultural activities and conduct outreach to the public. More information http://amahmutsun.org/foundation 

-Sign up for the Amah Mutsun Land Trust email list for more information and opportunities to get involved. 

-Consider making a monthly  donation to Amah Mutsun Land Trust to support the tribe's Indigenous stewardship and cultural relearning work. 

-Check out  http://www.protectjuristac.org/how-to-help/ to protect Juristac, an Amah Mutsun sacred site threatened by a proposed mining operation in Santa Clara county. Actions include:  Sign the petition to protect Juristac, an Amah Mutsun sacred site threatened by a proposed mining operation in Santa Clara county. 


https://www.amahmutsunlandtrust.org and http://amahmutsun.org and http://www.protectjuristac.org/ and https://instagram.com/protect.juristac 

Friday, February 14, 2025

Events at SubRosa and around 2/14 & days ahead

~@@@ SubRosa is a collectively run anarchist community space

let's create together the world(s) we want to live in now @@@~


Events at SubRosa and around 2/14 & days ahead


  • Shakesqueer at SubRosa presents: Twelfth Night or What You Will - multiple performances! Fridays February 14th and 21st at 7pm AND Saturday February 22nd at 2pm - all at SubRosa!


Shakesqueer is a queer anarchist theater collective in its third year of performances. We are dedicated to building community and keeping it silly.


7pm // free & donations appreciated (notaflof) // all-ages // dry space // safe(r) space // anti-capitalist space // respect the space and each other!


  • Note: Word Is Bond Collective event not happening Saturday - will return next month 


Word Is Bond Collective is coming back to with an expanded series - Reimagining Public safety: Series 2 - a public forum aimed at learning about and designing community rooted solutions to public safety issues. In March at SubRosa.


Word is Bond Collective is a Collective of focused on addressing Social and Systemic issues in Santa Cruz County. 


  • 40831 at SubRosa 2/15 for a "Valentine's Throw Down" so share some love Saturday with…


* Culprit - 40831hc - @culprit.sj 

** Muerte - 831+hc - @muerte.hc 

*** Wink - 831 hardcore punk - @wink.hc

**** Slab - also 831 hardcore - @slab.hc

***** Nostalgia - Bay Area / sc band - @nostalgia.831


6pm // $10 at door - notaflof! // all-ages // dry space // safe(r) space // anti-capitalist space // respect the space and each other!


In part brought to you by Happy Days (@happydays.cali) and Angel Eater (@angel.3ater) 


https://www.instagram.com/p/DF8baemSGRu/ 


  • Wednesday Feb 19th - acoustic singers / writers of songs night at SubRosa, playing warm songs for cool people with all the friends with…


* june - i make sad songs for my sad friends! - @junemakestunes

** sundyed - l.a. slacker rock with a heavy level of self deprecation - @sundyedofficial

*** hana (from gender violence) - acoustic fuckshit idk - @genderviolenceband

**** quindara - acoustic yap - @bbannedindc

***** adam (from mutt) - variable levels of grunk -  @mutt.boys


Doors 6:30pm & music 7pm // $5 at door - notaflof! // all-ages // dry space // safe(r) space // anti-capitalist space // respect the space and each other!


Info from SubRosa IG - https://www.instagram.com/p/DFy9hRsx-p6/ 


  • Worst Year of our Lives Tour: a year without Rosalie - with former SubRosa collective member and a bunch of folk & punks on Sunday Mar 2nd (mark on your calendar!) at SubRosa with…


* Small Void - gay as shit with mostly dirty lace country & craggy tunes & sometimes something else - Kansas City, Missouri - @small_void__

** Ballast Bunny - Music for the restless souls, with tired eyes, and weary bones. 

Built in experience, and forged in steel

From the strings I play to those spinning wheels - Seattle, WA - @ballast.bunny


With support from closer by…


*** Dirty Laundry - dirty busking blues - @dirtylaundrytheband

**** Gender Violence - transgender resistance through folk punk - 831 - @genderviolenceband

***** Florez Rain - accordion powered folk punk from Elkhorn, CA - @florezrain 


Doors 6pm & Music 6:30pm // $10 at door - notaflof! // all-ages // dry space // safe(r) space // anti-capitalist space // respect the space and each other!


Info from SubRosa IG post - https://www.instagram.com/p/DFbWyBOS7rD/ 


Ongoing at SubRosa!!!


  • Goth Denny's aka Post-Punk IHOP aka New Wave Jeffrey's aka Folk Punk Bea's Koffee Kup Open Hours, Tuesdays, 3:30–5:30pm


Come hangout with friendly folk and most likely eat fresh waffles at Goth Denny's aka Post-Punk IHOP aka New Wave Jeffrey's aka Folk Punk Bea's Koffee Kup Open Hours at SubRosa.


  • HUFF - Homeless United for Friendship and Freedom - meeting & Open Hours, Thursdays · 1:30–3:30 PM, Repeats weekly


HUFF - Homeless United for Friendship and Freedom - HUFF is Santa Cruz's oldest and most stubbornly persistent grassroots homeless advocacy group. We make trouble for the powers that be and fight institutional human rights abuses pertaining to houseless folk. http://www.huffsantacruz.org/ 


-@—<>—@-


  • And check out Fábrica Open Hours - repeats weekly (SubRosa's neighbor at the Hub Community Center)


  • Saturdays, 2pm - 5pm  

  • Sundays, 11am - 2pm (except 2nd Sunday of month) 

  • Mondays, 12pm - 3pm


https://thefabricaworkshop.org/ // https://www.facebook.com/thefabrica/ // https://www.instagram.com/the_fabrica_


Description: The Fábrica is a community workspace where folks can come to learn and share knowledge about textiles arts. This includes Sewing, Knitting, Quilting, Embroidery, Crochet, and Bookbinding, among other arts. The workshop is operated by volunteers and funded by donations from participants. We have sewing machines as well as generous amounts of fabric, zippers, notions, and the other tools and supplies one needs for most sewing and yarn-based projects. There is no charge to use the shop, but please consider a $5-10 donation to help with our operating costs. Contact info below.


  • And another neighbor - Bike Church // Open Hours, Thursday - Monday, 12–5pm (Repeats every week) 


About our wonderful neighbor, The Bike Church (enter on Spruce St) - "The Bike Church is a project of the Hub and has been Santa Cruz's only community bike shop since 1998. Our shop functions in a DIY/DIT (Do-It-Together) manner: we provide the tools, space and instruction for individuals to fix their own bike with the guidance of knowledgeable mechanics. We ask for a donation of $5-15 per hour to use the shop--no one is turned away for lack of funds. We provide used and new parts for affordable prices, and have many used bikes for sale. We give away kids bikes for free. Our shop is run by a collective of mechanics and apprentices who are all paid equally. We use consensus meetings to make decisions about the running of the shop." Contact info below.


  • And at the Bike Church - WTF! (women, trans, femme) Bike Days - Every Tuesday / 5 - 8pm with WTF Bike Church mechanics (thebikechurch@gmail.com


Location: The Bike Church, 703 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz (enter on Spruce St)


Description: We will be open to anyone identifying as female, trans, femme, non-binary and gender-queer ❤ if you do not identify as any of the above, come by the shop a different day! 


Local information again 



Call the hotline to report ICE activity or presence, or to receive referral to services. Hotline is staffed 24/7. (831) 239-4289


Llama a la linea para hacer un reporte de actividades o presencia de ICE, o para recibir ayuda en accesar servicios. Contestamos la linea 24/7. (831) 239-4289


Our Mission - to use our bodies, tactics and resources to document, resist and prevent actions by ICE or other regressive forces that would harm our fellow human beings. More info at link https://santacruzrapidresponse.org/ 

<Contact info for our neighbors at The Hub, 703 Pacific Ave>


-The Bike Church --- http://bikechurch.santacruzhub.org // https://www.facebook.com/thebikechurch/ // https://www.instagram.com/thebikechurch/ 

-Hard Core Compost --- https://www.compost.bike // https://www.instagram.com/hardcorecompost/ // www.facebook.com/compost.bike/  

-The Fábrica --- https://thefabricaworkshop.org/ // https://www.facebook.com/thefabrica/ // https://www.instagram.com/the_fabrica_

-Tenant Sanctuary --- https://tenantsanctuary.org // https://www.facebook.com/tenantsanctuary/ // https://instagram.com/tenant_sanctuary_sc  


The Santa Cruz Hub for Sustainable Living includes a constellation of projects that support skill-sharing, appropriate re/use of resources, and interconnected, creative communities - since 1994! http://www.santacruzhub.org // https://www.facebook.com/santacruzhub/ // https://www.instagram.com/santacruzhub/ 


—@@@@@—


SubRosa is a collectively run anarchist community space, a place to meet others and challenge our assumptions and act on our passions. We strive to create a vibrant environment for events, classes, meetings, organizing, performance, art, studying and more. SubRosa also offers radical literature for sale, and houses the Anarchist Lending Library. We welcome folks to join us in fostering an environment free from coercion, sexism, queer&homophobia, racism, ableism and other hierarchies.

http://www.subrosaproject.org/ 

https://www.facebook.com/subrosaproject 

https://instagram.com/subrosa_space 


SubRosa is part of the Hub Community Center, in downtown Santa Cruz, CA which is the unceded homelands of the Awaswas-speaking Ohlone people known as the Uypi, who stewarded these lands since time immemorial. Centuries of colonial violence led to the removal and displacement of the Uypi. The Amah Mutsun Tribal Band, comprised of the descendants of indigenous people taken to missions Santa Cruz and San Juan Bautista during Spanish colonization of the Central Coast, is today working hard to restore traditional stewardship practices on these lands and heal from historical trauma. 


Do you want to join SubRosa in solidarity with the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band? 


-Contribute to The Humunya Foundation of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band, a 501 (c) (3) Private Foundation under the Internal Revenue Code. As such, donations made to the Humunya Foundation are tax deductable. The Humunya Foundation was created to fund raise, facilitate Tribal cultural activities and conduct outreach to the public. More information http://amahmutsun.org/foundation 

-Sign up for the Amah Mutsun Land Trust email list for more information and opportunities to get involved. 

-Consider making a monthly  donation to Amah Mutsun Land Trust to support the tribe's Indigenous stewardship and cultural relearning work. 

-Check out  http://www.protectjuristac.org/how-to-help/ to protect Juristac, an Amah Mutsun sacred site threatened by a proposed mining operation in Santa Clara county. Actions include:  Sign the petition to protect Juristac, an Amah Mutsun sacred site threatened by a proposed mining operation in Santa Clara county. 


https://www.amahmutsunlandtrust.org and http://amahmutsun.org and http://www.protectjuristac.org/ and https://instagram.com/protect.juristac 

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