SubRosa – a community space

SubRosa Open Mic – a benefit for this all-volunteer radical space

December 8, 2009 · Leave a Comment

SubRosa-Open-Mic-Flier-2.png

Subrosa Open Mic – Thu 8pm – Performance Music Poetry
$3-7 at the door – 703 Pacific Ave Santa Cruz

This Thursday, Ellie hosts SubRosa Open Mic, a taste of old skool Santa Cruz.

Years ago, the long-gone performance art space What Is Art? held down the
north end of Pacific Ave.  This might give you a flavor of What Is Art? as well as
something of the SubRosa Open Mic:
http://www.santacruzart.net/2009/10/flashback-what-is-art.html

Now, SubRosa holds down the other end of Pacific. This is one way to
support art in Santa Cruz as well as this all-volunteer radical space.

→ Leave a CommentCategories: Uncategorized

Wish List for the Anarchist Library

December 2, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Hey, we like presents too.

Something amazing is happening at SubRosa. New BOOKSHELVES!

Maybe that doesn’t sound so amazing to you, but for those of us who maintain the Anarchist Library it’s really exciting. And more shelves means more room for books. You can help us expand the Anarchist Library by checking out our wishlist over on that corporate book website that shall remain nameless, and then heading out to your local bookstore to buy the books, and bringing them into SubRosa for the library. Or maybe you already have a copy of one of these books sitting around gathering dust. Bring into the Anarchist Library and share it with everyone.

Another way to support the Anarchist Library is to RETURN THE BOOKS YOU HAVE BORROWED in a reasonable time frame. We don’t like to send out lots of emails and make lots of phone calls asking for these books back. But the fact is that we have a lot of great books in the library, and we make those books available to everyone, but the library only works if those books get brought back once in a while. Try not to keep books for more than a month.

Thanks for helping us improve the Anarchist Library! And a very special thanks to the little elves who made the beautiful new bookshelves!

→ Leave a CommentCategories: Uncategorized
Tagged:

Wed, Nov. 25 at 7pm: UC Berkeley Occupation Arrestees Speak at SubRosa

November 24, 2009 · Leave a Comment

On Wednesday, Nov. 25 at 7pm, Doug “G” and Rene Buonarroti will speak at SubRosa about the current occupation movement that captured national headlines this month. Protestors at UCSC, UC Berkeley, UCLA, UC Davis and UC Irvine occupied buildings last week in response to the UC Regents decision to raise tuition by 32%.

Doug “G” and Rene Buonarroti are two non-students who were arrested by UC Berkeley police during the occupation of Wheeler Hall. They will be reading a text they have prepared on the revolt and discuss the actions at UC Berkeley. Donations go to cover their legal costs. Please come out!

→ Leave a CommentCategories: Uncategorized

November 17, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Santa Cruz Guerilla Drive-In and SubRosa Present

http://www.mediaunbound.com/blog-files/down_by_law.jpg

Down by Law

Friday November 20th 8pm
at SubRosa (inside if cold and outside if warm)
703 Pacific Ave. (downtown)

Down by Law is a 1986 black-and-white independent film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch with Tom Waits, John Lurie, and Roberto Benigni.The film centers on the arrest, incarceration, and escape from jail of three men. It discards jailbreak film conventions by focusing on the interaction between the convicts rather than on the mechanics of the escape. A key element in the film is Robby Müller’s slow-moving camerawork, which captures the architecture of New Orleans and the Louisiana bayou to which the cellmates escape.

Plus fabulous subversive shorts!

SANTA CRUZ GUERILLA DRIVE-IN is an outdoor movie theatre under the stars and inside that springs up unexpectedly in the fields and industrial wastelands. Beyond showing great movies and bringing a broad community together, part of our mission is to help reclaim public space and break down alienation in this urban environment. www.guerilladrivein.org

→ Leave a CommentCategories: Events

Open Mic Every Thursday

November 17, 2009 · Leave a Comment

One of the last remaining Open Mics in this allegedly pro-art town, the SubRosa Open Mic is often standing room only.  A weekly open mic at Santa Cruz newest community space and anarchist infoshop. An opportunity to connect with friends and showcase the incredible creative talent in our community. Music, poetry, and performance. From the mundane to the jaw-droppingly inspirational.

Donations directly benefit this community-supported space.  Signups for performance at 7:30 fill up quickly. Bring your creativity and artistic genius.

→ Leave a CommentCategories: Art · Events
Tagged: ,

Live Music at SubRosa, Wed, Nov 4 at 7pm

November 3, 2009 · Leave a Comment

SubRosa Nov 4th

→ Leave a CommentCategories: Uncategorized

Upcoming Art Show: Russell Brutsche

October 16, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Wigwams by Russell Brutsche
Wigwams by Russell Brutsche

In November, we welcome the acrylic on canvas work of Russell Brutsche to SubRosa’s walls.   Santa Cruz artist Russell Brutsche loves socio-cultural ironies.  Works such as those in his recent show “Unlawful Gatherings” make painfully apt juxtapositions that expose the social injustice of our everyday world.

One of his images shows Jesus of Nazareth chasing away very contemporary money changers from the temple, only to be descended upon by a heavily armed SWAT team. Another shows the Nativity taking place in what might be considered a modern-day manger, under the Highway 1 overpass at the San Lorenzo River.  Other paintings prominently feature images of treesits, hobo campfires, and trains.

Brutsche has been painting since early childhood, later studying under Eric Oback, Robert Freimark (student of Henri Matisse) and Sam Richardson, graduating with scholarship honors in 1968.  He has been in numerous one-person and group shows throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, and in Colorado, Arizona and Japan.  Brutsche currently participates each October in Santa Cruz Open Studios, and other shows throughout the year.

“I’ve been impatient with the art world,” said Brutsche. “Artists really have a responsibility to speak out against social injustice. Instead, artists have become small businessmen. I know if I would leave out some of that social commentary, the likelihood would be a lot greater that my work would be hanging over someone’s couch.”

The Art of Russell Brutsche
Opening Reception
Friday November 6th 5pm
SubRosa, 703 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

→ Leave a CommentCategories: Uncategorized

Benefit for PedX: BREAD & ROSES Fri Oct 16th 7:30

October 12, 2009 · Leave a Comment

SubRosa and Guerilla Drive-In Present

Bread and Roses

A benefit for Ped X friends, whose office
was broken into 4 times in 2 months

Friday October 16th at 7:30
in the SubRosa courtyard, 703 Pacific Ave.
$5-$10 donation (no one turned away)

Bread and Roses is a drama about the plight of seemingly invisible office cleaners in contemporary L.A. who often earn as little as $6 a day without benefits.The film opens as Maya, a young Mexican woman, is reuniting with her older sisterRosa in L.A. after a harrowing cross-border journey. Rosa sets her sister up first with a job as a barmaid, which Maya soon quits after getting repeatedly harassed,and then as a janitor. When her boss demands one month’s salary as “commission,”Maya happens upon Sam Shapiro, a muckraking lawyer and union agitator.This film is remarkable for its prescience — it was shown a month after a massive janitor’s strike ground L.A.’s business community to a halt.

BRING blankets, pillows, friends, drink, & snacks to share

This showing is a collaboration between some Guerilla Drive-In folks and some SubRosa folks to show support for our neighbors and friends in a tangible way.  While offers of condolences are meaningful, we also want to put active energy into material support as well.  Here is a way you can also offer support,so come on out, tell your friends and kick down some cash! The Computer Kitchen was also broken into, and so send them some love as well!
SANTA CRUZ GUERILLA DRIVE-IN is an outdoor movie theatre under the stars that springs up unexpectedly in the fields and industrial wastelands. Beyond showing great movies and bringing a broad community together, part of our mission is to help reclaim public space and break down this urban environment. www.guerilladrivein.org

→ Leave a CommentCategories: Uncategorized

Art Opening: The Dark Night of DIY Ragdolls and Monsters

September 23, 2009 · Leave a Comment

October 2009:  The Santa Cruz Anarchist Doll-Making Collective
The Dark Night of DIY Ragdolls and Monsters

The Gaping Maw

The Gaping Maw

On Friday, October 2nd, at 5pm, SubRosa is excited to introduce the recent work of the Santa Cruz Anarchist Doll-Making Collective.  The show entitled The Dark Night of DIY Ragdolls and Monsters features the work of a dozen artists working individually and collaboratively to create homemade and recombined dolls and monsters.

Gray Man by Wes Modes

Gray Man

The original Dark Night arose out of a series of Free Skool Santa Cruz workshops on doll- and monster-making. Artists built dolls and monsters by hand out of scraps from their workshops, items gathered at the city dump, and materials scavenged from Bargain Barn.  During a series of Dark Nights, artists drank tea, made dolls, and stayed up all night sewing and watching dark doll movies from filmmakers the Brothers Quay, Jan Svankmajer,and Henry Selick.

Peering into the mad workshop of mad doll creators I saw feverish hands working away, some delightfully creepy movie playing on an old tv set, doll parts and needles strewn about the cutting floor, Frankenstein doll creations coming alive!

Historically, dolls are some of the oldest discovered toys, the earliest found in Egyptian tombs dating back to 3000 B.C.E.  Dolls depicted humans, animals, and imaginary creatures and have been made of every conceivable material: bisque, celluloid, china, clay, cloth, corn husks, paper, plastic, polymer clay, porcelain, resin, rubber, vinyl, wax, wood, bone, ivory, papier-mâché, and leather.

Join us for an opening show and reception on this Dark Night.

Art Opening: The Dark Night of DIY Ragdolls and Monsters
Friday, October 2nd, at 5pm
SubRosa, 703 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

S. McSprocket

S. McSprocket

→ Leave a CommentCategories: Art · Events

First Friday Art Opening: Michael Orick and Tom Calderone

August 27, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Septemeber 2009:  Michael Orick and Tom Calderone
Recent Collages

michael001sm

On Friday, September 4th, at 5pm, SubRosa is excited to welcome collage artists Michael Orick and Tom Calderon.  Calderon and Orick have been hosting a weekly gathering of artists for more than three years, creating a wide variety of collage art.  Each, in distinct stylistic approaches to life and art, will be presenting pieces created at Collage Night,  and viewable on the walls of SubRosa and at CollageNight.com.

Orick applies values and guides meanderings with his jaunty approach to dismantling social interaction.  His claims of art for art’s sake, is couched in a literary tradition of blanched intellectualism mixed with pale understandings of things: things such as color and time, silly similies and woman’s underwear.  His past is yesterday’s now.  Orick is gliding gracefully, with limbs akimbo.

Calderon, with his understanding of politics and religion, attempts to create visions of the reality behind the accepted spectacle.  His imagery is savage and calm, shockingly beautiful and sadly real, steeped in water like a fine tea, flavored something excellent.

Collage, considered by some the premier postmodern art form, has remained as fresh as local produce, and a clear link to the time before Nike and Coca-Cola.  Weilding their exacto-knives and glue sticks, collagenight provacateurs Calderon and Orick, hope to push the agenda of dreamers everywhere.

Art Opening: Michael Orick and Tom Calderone
Friday, September 4th, at 5pm
SubRosa, 703 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

Orick applies values and guides meanderings with his jaunty approach to dismantling social interaction.  His claims of art for art’s sake, is couched in a literary tradition of blanched intellectualism mixed with pale understandings of things: things such as color and time, silly similies and woman’s underwear.  His past is yesterday’s now.  Orick is gliding gracefully, with limbs akimbo. Calderon, with his understanding of politics and religion, attempts to create visions of the reality behind the accepted spectacle.  His imagery is savage and calm, shockingly beautiful and sadly real, steeped in water like a fine tea, flavored something excellent.

→ Leave a CommentCategories: Art · Events