Events at SubRosa and around 8/20- 8/25

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Events at SubRosa and around 8/20- 8/25

• Juggle Your Life Away - today! - Tuesdays, August 20 & 27 / 3pm with Eldritch - in the SubRosa courtyard! Part of the 2024 session of @freeskoolsantacruz 

Come and juggle for a couple hours in the SubRosa courtyard! Whether you have never tossed a ball in the air or you can do a basic cascade and want to build your skill set, show up and have fun chasing tennis balls as they inevitably roll under tables and chairs! For beginners I'll offer some instruction. We'll all do our best and have fun together!

Bring your own props if you have em, or we can all share! Masks are optional since it will be outside! Info from SubRosa IG post - https://www.instagram.com/p/C-tNl4WyjWt/ 

• A most spectacular show at SubRosa happening this evening! Tuesday August 20th! With…

* Beautiful Freaks - defiantly genderqueer and untethered to any one style: glam rock flamboyancy, hardcore punk, regional sludgy grunge, metal's intensity, and the melodic sensibility of jazz all find their way into the mix - from Seattle - @beautifulfreaksonline 

** Trixie - like rocks in yer socks and oats in yer ears AKA a Santa Cruz super group! - @trixierocks_ 

*** Kilroi - diy post-gaze from the bay - @kilroi.ca 

7pm // $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/C-wQTWPvNvE/ 

• Thursday August 22nd! A full show with Gingerbee and friends!

More info to come! Check out SubRosa online things (links at bottom of this email) for updates!

• Saturday August 24th! Show up for the show at SubRosa with…

* Half Calf - queer veggie emo - SC/Oakland - @halfcalfca 

** Snook - making music from the bay - @snookmoment

*** Metanoia - alt and pop rock band from the Central Valley - @metanoia_831

**** Youth Lush - "we're that other band from  Watsonville" with a cool secret surprise! - @youthlushofficial 

***** Adam and the Sandlers - first show playing central coast emo - @adamandthesandlers

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!

Flyer by @str.d97  // Info from SubRosa IG post https://www.instagram.com/p/C-3_NEePprg/ 

• Sunday August 25th! From Lima, Peru… 

* La Zorra Zapata - the musical project of the multidisciplinary artist Nuria Zapata. The loopstation plays a crucial role, both in the creative process and in the live performances, where choruses, breaths and gasps are repeated generating rhythmic patterns with a voice as soft as it is disruptive - @lazorrazapata 

Also that evening… 

** Elymar - English and Spanish pop duo 

*** Another May - English/Spanish dream pop band from San Jose - @anothermaysj 

Doors 7pm & Music 7:30pm // $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/C-1csNSpfVn/ 

And not at SubRosa on Saturday! (Go before the show!)…

• This Saturday August 24th - Fundraiser For Gaza - proceeds will go to relief for 2 Palestinian families. 

2pm - 7pm at 137 Camino del Sol, Santa Cruz. $10 - $20 suggested donation. 

Live music // free clothes // art vendors // henna // food (shwarmaji & more) // tattoos // wonderful people // and you!

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/ 

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Free Skool Santa Cruz 2024 session information available now! 

A radically different approach to living and learning, Free Skool Santa Cruz is a grassroots educational project beyond institutional control. It is an opportunity to learn from each other and share what we know, to foster communities of mutual support and autonomy (and a few upcoming FSSC classes listed below & above).

Links to website page with list of classes https://freeskoolsantacruz.wordpress.com/2024-fssc-list-of-classes-so-far/  and google & printable calendar class information – https://freeskoolsantacruz.wordpress.com/free-skool-calendar/ and info at https://www.instagram.com/freeskoolsantacruz 

Current classes/experiences (in addition to ones listed above)… 

• Queer Birding - Saturdays, August 24th and 31st / 9am with Nico Hodgson (phone: 818-431-0966 email: nchodgson17@gmail.com) - part of the 2024 session of Free Skool Santa Cruz

Location: I'll host it at natural bridges for part 1 and younger lagoon reserve/ucsc coastal science campus for part 2

Description: Go birding (aka bird-watching) with some queers! All levels of experience welcome <3

Materials: Required: 1 functional eyeball OR functional ear. Recommended: the rest of your sensory organs, binoculars, bird field guides. if you have extras of the last two, please consider bringing them to share with anyone who may not have them!

Accessibility: We will be walking about 1-2 miles over about 2 hours. All trails/paths we walk on are wheelchair accessible, have dispersed benches, and bathrooms nearby. We will be outside in large, open spaces the entire time so masks aren't required but are always welcome.

• Research Techniques for Anarchists - this Saturday, August 24th / 2 - 3:30pm with (reggie.meisler@gmail.com and 415-846-8097 and @reggiemeisler) - part of the 2024 session of @freeskoolsantacruz

Location: Downtown library community room, 224 Church St, Santa Cruz, CA 95060

Description: Learn some of the tools that are available to us to help investigate what state actors and their nonprofit allies are doing/thinking, monitor the activities of city council, delay projects, and in some cases even stall things out indefinitely. 

Learn how some of these tools work from a member of Santa Cruz Cares who has used them to stop the city from implementing anti-houseless ordinances.

The first section of the class will involve a circle discussion where folks can collectively discuss their own tools and experiences conducting research to utilize in campaigns against the state. 

The second section will feature a workshop on basic public records requests and how to navigate some of the roadblocks that you may encounter.

Materials: A smart phone or laptop that can connect to WiFi would be ideal.

Additional info: Masks required, in-person.

Info from Free Skool IG post - https://www.instagram.com/p/C-5nmGsvVBF/ 

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• And check out Fábrica Open Hours, Mondays, 12 - 3pm and Saturdays, 2pm - 5pm and Sundays,11am - 2pm (except 2nd Sunday of month) // repeats weekly (SubRosa's neighbor at theHub Community Center)

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! 

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

-PedX Courier & Cargo --- http://pedxsc.com/ // https://www.facebook.com/pedxsc/ // https://www.instagram.com/pedalersexpress/ 

-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