Tuesday, August 11, 2026

At SubRosa and Hub Community Center mid-August

And new events added all the time so this list isn’t complete! (Info from SubRosa IG which is updated often!) https://www.instagram.com/subrosa_space

- SubRosa presents: Accessibility Chronic Illness Disability (A.C.I.D.) Group Community Circle - this Wednesday 4pm - 7:30pm

Peer support & Open Hours for folks interested in/affected by Accessibility, Chronic Illness, and Disability.

Masks STRONGLY encouraged // dry space // safe(r) space // anti-capitalist space // respect the space and each other!

Extreme States Care Group – Every 3rd Saturday of each month / 3:30pm – 5:30pm with Rebecca & Baerie (grigly@proton.me)

Location: Hub Office, 703 Pacific Ave. Enter on Spruce Street near the Bike Church (address where SubRosa is located - strong SubRosa ties so info here).

Description: Our goal is creating a greater network of peer advocacy and education for people experiencing and supporting extreme emotional states. All are welcome. 

Community care note: Making preferred.

- Coming up this Sunday August 16th at SubRosa - turn an otherwise quiet mid-August Sunday into an energizing shared experience with…

On tour from Portland: 

* The Intima - beautiful guitar whorls and percussive violin - a tight melange of post-punk chaos with sharp rhythms, prescient lyrics, and a collaborative compositional approach to conjure forth a sound that manages to be explosive yet detailed, experimental yet propulsive and melodic - @intima

And local artists:

** Rip Florence - weirdo artist and lov’r of counter-hegemony - Oakland y Santa Cruz - @rip.florence 

*** This Never Happened - composer & performer - Santa Cruz - @rod_barriga

7pm - 10pm // $7 at the 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 

  • AND Open Hours, Thursdays · 1pm – 4pm, (back August 20)

SubRosa also has Open Hours during this time. Check out a book from the Anarchist Library, peruse our zine offerings or meet a friend (or make a friend).

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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


From mulberrymending - Very excited to be apart of these upcoming mending circles at The Fábrica!  6-8pm on Wednesday August 12th. Bring a mending project & learn different mending methods! 

You’re also welcome to join with any hand-stitching project (knitting, crochet, embroidery, etc.)

*** Use the link in IG bio to subscribe to The Fábrica’s newsletter. That way you’ll get event announcements straight to your inbox. From 
https://www.instagram.com/the_fabrica_

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/

Monday: 12 pm - 5pm
TuesdayCLOSED!
Wednesday:  CLOSED!
Thursday: 12 pm - 5 pm
Friday: 12 pm - 5 pm
Saturday: 12 pm - 5 pm 
Sunday: 12 pm - 5 pms

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 - the below is elsewhere!

– Anti-Fascist Running Club! – Wednesday, August 12th, Wednesday August 19th, Wednesday, August 26th / 7pm – 8pm with Elle! (clawgalleryunsold@proton.me

Location: Entrance of Arana Gulch – Agnes Street at Mentel Avenue

Description: A fascist worked out today – did you? Come and run/jog/sprint for an hour or so with friends. Water and fun tunes will be provided.  Not a structured class but more of an informal meetup. 

Community care note: It will be outside, wearing comfy clothes and running shoes is encouraged. Masking not required.

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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. 

Sunday, July 26, 2026

At SubRosa and Hub Community Center late-July

And new events added all the time so this list isn’t complete! (Info from SubRosa IG which is updated often!) https://www.instagram.com/subrosa_space

Monday, July 27th, come early for the line dance lessons and then enjoy a folk rock hoedown at SubRosa with...

* Bovine - ATX folk rock americana @___bovine___
** Miriam Hacksaw - queer Malayali-American fiddler and banjoist from New Orleans @miriamhacksaw
*** Towse - folk pop fairy @towselikehouse
**** Gay Eldest Daughter - queer folk from the central coast @gayeldestdaughter
***** Big Tractor - honkytonk folk punk @bigtractormusic

Doors/Dance lesson - 5:30pm & Music - 6:00pm // $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

Tuesday, July 28th, get ready for an awesome evening of folk music with...

* Miriam Hacksaw - queer Malayali-American fiddler and banjoist from New Orleans @miriamhacksaw
** Hannah Mayree - banjoist activating and co-creating with the Black Banjo Reclamation Project @hannah_mayree
*** Song-Ha
**** Gay Eldest Daughter - folk music from Santa Cruz as queer as her banjo is long @gayeldestdaughter

Doors - 6:00pm & Music - 7:00pm // $10-15 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

- Whatchadoin Thursday July 30th? - how about going to a show at SubRosa with…

* CASINO YOUTH
** BEAUTIFUL FREAKS
*** NOTHING OVER SILENCE
**** UTILITY CARD

7pm - 10pm // $15 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 

  • AND Open Hours, Thursdays · 1pm – 4pm, (paused for now)

SubRosa also has Open Hours during this time. Check out a book from the Anarchist Library, peruse our zine offerings or meet a friend (or make a friend).
  • IMPORTANT NEWS! Deadline to submit a class is tomorrow for Free Skool Santa Cruz - Join us for the 2026 Free Skool Santa Cruz Summer/Autumn session by offering a class or activity! (Members of the SubRosa collective are involved in this revived and not entirely new, not all too different version of Free Skool Santa Cruz  – a project in mutual aid learning and sharing. And SubRosa/the Hub is a site of a significant amount of classes (although not all!).

What skills would you like to share? What types of classes would help grow more vibrant, self-reliant and mutually supportive communities?


Our Summer/Autumn session goes from August 1st to Autumn Equinox (September 22nd). The deadline to submit your class is noon on Monday July 27th. Class proposal form at link - https://forms.gle/iRQzp5w1EPG1bUJS9  - And more info at https://freeskoolsantacruz.org/ 


We look forward to enjoying and learning/experiencing together in the time to come.


     -Free Skool Santa Cruz collective members


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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


From mulberrymending - Very excited to be apart of these upcoming mending circles at The Fábrica!  6-8pm on Wednesday July 29th. Bring a mending project & learn different mending methods!

*** Use the link in IG bio to subscribe to The Fábrica’s newsletter. That way you’ll get event announcements straight to your inbox. From 
https://www.instagram.com/the_fabrica_

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.


Monday: 12 pm - 5pm
TuesdayCLOSED!
Wednesday:  CLOSED!
Thursday: 12 pm - 5 pm
Friday: 12 pm - 5 pm
Saturday: 12 pm - 5 pm 
Sunday: 12 pm - 5 pms

Not at SubRosa - Friday July 31st at sunset under the Soquel Ave bridge on the sandy bank of the river - all are invited to the second screening of the 2026 Santa Cruz Guerilla Drive-In season! 

“Summer Wars” - In this 2009 animated film, a rogue AI threatens to take over and dismantle OZ: a virtual reality world that the entire real world heavily depends on. When the threat becomes existential for humanity, a family bands together to combat the AI but it takes the support of an entire populace to fight back. 

SAME URBAN WASTELAND LOCATION: From downtown, head south on Soquel Avenue. At Riverside, by the Royal Taj, turn right. Follow the path down to the sandy area under the bridge. 

Note: Let’s take care of the spot and pack-it-in-pack-it-out. When the film is over please be respectful of the neighbors when leaving and use library voices.

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  


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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.

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