And new events added all the time so this list isn’t complete! (Info from SubRosa IG which is updated often!)
* Poppyfield - santa cruz emo/punk - @poppyfieldmusic
** Non-binary Girlfriend - angry indie out of pdx - @nonbinarygirlfriend
*** Femme Cell - dyke rock from pdx - @femmecellpdx
**** Melody Caudill - santa cruz songwriter - @melodycaudill
Doors 6pm & Music 7pm - 10pm // $10 at door - notaflof!* // all-ages // dry space // safe(r) space // anti-capitalist space // respect the space and each other! // *no one turned away for lack of funds
Location: SubRosa, 703 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA
Description: Ever wanted to zoom around sequences in a chromosome? Curious about how normal people can interact with sequencing research? This workshop will walk you through how to use the UCSC Genome Browser, a free, interactive web portal of data that can be explored to learn about genes and also make art! Make a group collage of genomics graphics!
Materials: Students are encouraged to bring a laptop or tablet that can access wifi, to allow them to follow along. However, this is not required.
Community care note: Masks not required but encouraged.
We will be starting the event showing the first episode of Videos From the Trash Dimension (a queer anarchic film collective) and then we open the floor up to whoever wants to screen.
< Bring your movie that’s less than 10 minutes on a flash drive or harddrive and we will show it! NO LINKS!
< The event is totally free and first come first served. Bring your friends, and meet local filmmakers!
< Screening starts at 7pm, and will end around 9pm. If you are screening, please come by 6:45 to transfer your files!
< Depending on the turnout, we plan to do this every third Thursday, so help build the local diy film community!
< Contact: E-mail - openscreensc@protonmail.com AND Signal Group - https://signal.group/#CjQKIFUwu-N_tj10Hwu05SdQsFOy5Ic6M_D2PC1ZmrQa7ywvEhCbFtWnE1SbZb_gpPqT3RF4
Doors 6:45pm & Screening 7pm - 9pm-ish // absolutely free! // all-ages // dry space // safe(r) space // anti-capitalist space // respect the space and each other!
LINE UP:
@falling_bombs.sc
@cuttinguptheelephant
@dearsomeone831
- From @liviacharman - this Saturday September 19th at @subrosa_space my brother @strawberry_hands is coming all the way from Philly to play songs from his stunning new record “A Jazz Blessing for the Animal”
And my favorite poet @ephrodite_ will read to us and I'll sing too... Ikkyu Lovers West Coast Summit 2026! Join us.
Doors & Music // $10 at door - notaflof!* // all-ages // dry space // safe(r) space // anti-capitalist space // respect the space and each other! // *no one turned away for lack of funds
Ongoing at SubRosa!!!
- Goth Denny's (aka Post-Punk IHOP aka New Wave Jeffrey's aka Folk Punk Bea's Koffee Kup)
- AND Open Hours, Tuesdays, 3:30pm - 5:30pm, repeats weekly
Come hangout with friendly folk and most likely eat fresh waffles or something tasty at Goth Denny's aka Post-Punk IHOP aka New Wave Jeffrey's aka Folk Punk Bea's Koffee Kup Open Hours at SubRosa.
- Please join us Tuesdays at SubRosa to talk about accountability and community care at the Consent Cafe!
Please join us for this weekly gathering at SubRosa to talk about engaging with conflict, accountability and community care. This is an ongoing open forum discussion where we create space for engaging with difficult realities around engaging with conflict, consent, DV, & sexual assault. No experience necessary, pop in for one or come for them all.
6:30pm - 8pm // Free! // all-ages // dry space // safe(r) space // anti-capitalist space // respect the space and each other
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- And check out Fábrica Open Hours - repeats weekly (SubRosa’s neighbor at the Hub Community Center) - note: sometimes hours fluctuate a little so check online calendar at website for the latest info.
Saturdays, 2pm - 5pm
Sundays, 3pm - 6pm
Mondays, 12pm - 3pm
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. https://thefabricaworkshop.org/
- And from the Bike Church - 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. http://bikechurch.santacruzhub.org/ |
Wednesday: CLOSED!
Thursday: 12 pm - 5 pm
Friday: 12 pm - 5 pm
Saturday: 12 pm - 5 pm
Sunday: 12 pm - 5 pm
Summer/Autumn session of Free Skool Santa Cruz happening 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. Happening from August 1st to the Autumn Equinox on September 22nd. More info about FSSC https://freeskoolsantacruz.org/
Some events above are also part of the FSSC project and lots, although not all are at the Hub/SubRosa - check description for location information.
The Dyed Style: Surface Design with Natural Dyes – Sunday, September 20th / 1 p.m. – 5 p.m. with Vicki (onyourleft2@gmail.com)
Location: enrollment limited – sign up at https://meadowhawkcolor.works or contact teacher at onyourleft2@gmail.com. Directions to private location will be sent one week before the class.
Description: “The Dyed Style” refers to a historic process for creating patterns on cloth by painting or printing with thickened mordants and then dyeing with natural plant dyes.
Materials: Fabric will be provided, students can bring natural fiber (cotton, linen, hemp, wool, silk, etc) fabric items to dye.
Community care note: Will be outside
And from a kindred project Santa Cruz Guerilla Drive-In: Friday September 25th - for the kids (of all ages)! - Wolfwalkers + Frederick Back animated shorts.
The animated films of Frédéric Back (1924–2013) are tales of creation and destruction, rendering the epic and the eternal in gentle, impressionist pencil strokes with deep environmental themes, and luminous poetic storytelling. Back knew the beauty of the world was the most important gift to children, and the most fragile.
MYSTERY WASTELAND LOCATION: to be announced (in plenty of time).
PLUS thrilling short films, an intermission, great company and a guaranteed good time!
BRING blankets, pillows, anything you need to be comfortable in foldy metal chairs indoors, friends, snacks to share. Donations to support the project are more than welcome - and notaflof* so not expected!. (*no one turned away for lack of funds).
SANTA CRUZ GUERILLA DRIVE-IN is an outdoor movie theatre under the stars that springs up in the fields and industrial wastelands. Beyond showing great free movies and bringing a broad community together, part of our mission is helping reclaim public space and transforming our urban environment. Find out more at website - https://www.guerilladrivein.org/
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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, 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. Let’s create together the world(s) we want to live in now. http://www.subrosaproject.org/
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.
