Happenings at SubRosa/Hub

- A really special show Wednesday August 20 - SubRosa collective member and creative powerhouse @iveneverbeenhereb4 is moving northward (we'll miss you!) and evening also includes other friends from near and far, at SubRosa with…

* Half Calf - 2 piece what are we?-core queer emo based in oakland - @halfcalfca
** Who Brought Opie - DIY based out of Corvallis - @whobroughtopie
*** I've Never Been Here Before - Bay Area digiskramz doll - @iveneverbeenhereb4
**** Kilroi (solo) - Bay Area DIY - @kilroi.ca
***** Pighati - experimental queer indie music and art dedicated to honor love and heartache, through the power of empathy - Santa Cruz - @pighati__

6pm - 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

- Fuck Fast Fashion! Fix your Fit! Thursday August 21st and Thursday September 4th / 3:30 - 5:30 p.m. with Jae Wilde (they/them) ( @wildeflower_sc & jaestitch.com & jaesews612@gmail.com ) - Free Skool Santa Cruz

Location: SubRosa courtyard, 703 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA

Description: Please bring a simple sewing kit- needle, thread, pins, and scissors. If you have fabric scissors at home, that's great! If you don't already have any of these materials, go to Harts Fabric or Beverly's, they'll set you up. If you have a specific garment or item that needs mending, bring that, too, and we can discuss how to spruce it up.

Note: class size limited to 10. RSVP at jaesews612@gmail.com to reserve a spot!

- A show to show up for Thursday August 21st at SubRosa where Sacramento and Santa Cruz converge (including a dose of San Jose) with…

* Quinkana - Sacramento diy noise rock - @quinkanafrfr
** For Kino - San Jose shoegaze - @hiforkino
*** Dick Bertelli - real dance music/sad boi prog - Sacramento - @dickbertelli
**** Vetch - local math emo - @vetch____
***** Senescence - not just fuzzy but also loud - @senescence4u

6pm - 10pm // $ 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

Another wonderful show brought to you in part by the indomitable @kaijukill.prod

- Enjoy late-summer fun show at SubRosa and bounce around this Friday August 22nd with…

* Youth Lush - catchy rocking' from Watsonville - @youthlushofficial
** Amazon Crimes - 2-piece heavy indie band based in the Central Valley - @amazoncrimesband
*** Intica - alt/pop music pushing boundaries and creating a sound uniquely their own - @inticavibes
**** Poppyfield - Santa Cruz punk/emo excretions - @poppyfieldmusic

Doors 6:30pm & 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

- Introduction to Ecological Psychology - Part 2: Saturday August 23rd, Part 1: Saturday September 6th, Part 2: Saturday September 13th / 3 - 4:30 p.m. with Lilli Specter (lilli.specter@viridis.edu) - Free Skool Santa Cruz

Location: SubRosa, 703 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA

Description: This course explores the dynamic interplay between ecological processes and our psychological experience. By examining five core ecological principles, students will gain insight into how these same patterns shape human narratives, emotions, behaviors, and relationships. Ecopsychology invites us to move beyond the isolated self and into a deeper, more relational understanding of our place within the living world. Through this lens, we engage with both the beauty and the complexity of life on Earth—psychologically, ecologically, and ethically.

Accessibility: outside, masks not required, accessible to all.

- What Can We Learn From the Rojava Revolution – Tuesday August 26th / 6 p.m. with Rojava Solidarity Santa Cruz (Instagram @rojavasc1) - Free Skool Santa Cruz

Location: SubRosa, 703 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA

Description: It's been 13 years since the Rojava Revolution began in Northern Syria, yet it remains largely unknown due to censorship. We will provide a brief history and background on this struggle, which aims to build a decentralized society rooted in democracy, feminism, and communal life. Concrete examples of women's freedom, restorative justice, and critical reflection will be provided. With this foundation we invite discussion on what we can learn from Rojava and how we might apply those lessons in our own communities. Organized by Rojava Solidarity Santa Cruz, founded in 2018.

Accessibility: Masks preferred, class may be held outside depending on weather.

- Ska punk night! That's right! Do the skankin' horse Saturday August 30th at SubRosa with…

* What's Good- 4th wave ska-punk - @whats_good831
** Day Labor - Bay Area ska band - @day_labor_ska
*** Rock Shed Rangers - ska-punk from SC/Prunedale - @rock_shed_rangers

6pm - 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

And new events added all the time so this list isn't complete!

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, 3:30–5:30pm, repeats weekly 

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 · 1:30–3:30pm, 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.

-@—<>—@-

- 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

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.

- Sat-Sun hours are 2:30-5:30pm. 

- normal hours still Monday, Thursday and Friday 12pm - 5pm 

- FLINTA* 5pm 8pm on Tuesdays (Femme, Lesbian, Intersex, Non-binary, Trans, Agender, and *other genders beyond the binary)

- Justin Valone Memorial Youth Hours (21 and under) Wednesday from 2-6pm. 

Thanks for your support! Happy summer. http://bikechurch.santacruzhub.org 

- Plenty of Free Skool classes at SubRosa and around right now! 

About Free Skool Santa Cruz - 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 based on mutual support and autonomy (do-it-yourself-together!). https://freeskoolsantacruz.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 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/ 

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. 

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 

SubRosa/Hub happenings!

- Collage Night! This evening! Tuesday August 12th! 6pm at SubRosa

Come hang out and collage! Supplies will be provided but if you're looking to get rid of some magazines you can bring those to share. Cut and create together!

6pm - 9pm // totally free // all-ages // dry space // safe(r) space // anti-capitalist space // respect the space and each other!

- Handspinning (an introduction) – Wednesday August 13th / 4 – 6 p.m. with Marlene Burgess (instagram @marlene.muscaria and email – marlene.muscaria@gmail.com) - part of the 2025 Free Skool Santa Cruz session 

Location: SubRosa, 703 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA 

Description: An introductory class in how to spin yarn on a drop spindle, as well as some history of spinning and textile work. Spindles and wool will be provided.

Accessibility: Masks are recommended, and I will be masking.

-  Identity and Knowledge: Intro to Feminist Epistemology 1 – Wednesday August 13th / 6:30 – 9 p.m. with Minh-Tu (minhtuv9@gmail.com) part of the 2025 Free Skool Santa Cruz session 

Location: SubRosa courtyard, 703 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA

Description: My class introduces the idea that you are a philosopher in virtue of living! I am here to provide space and some guidance on how to conceptualize and understand these experiences. In particular, this class will go over why philosophy is important and how our identity (or lived experience) shapes the knowledge we encounter, believe, value, and disseminate. This is an important tenant within feminist philosophy, and so this course could also be seen as a short introductory course to feminist epistemology.

Materials: I have a course syllabus that has access to all readings via Dropbox and supplementary readings! If anyone wants the readings beforehand or the syllabus, please provide an email for me to send stuff - contact at minhtuv9@gmail.com

Accessibility: The space is accessible and plans to be outdoors! Masks are encouraged but not mandatory, I will have a few available!

-  Punks and Queers in Recovery – Second and Fourth Wednesdays / 7:30 – 9 p.m. with Bxrii - next Wednesday August 13th! - part of the 2025 Free Skool Santa Cruz Session

Location: project space at Hub (next to the Bike Church) – 703 Pacific Ave (downtown Santa Cruz) – enter on Spruce St (at community center where SubRosa is located)

Description: No Gods. No Masters. No Addictions.

This is a space for folks who are ready to face the compulsive behaviors that are throwing off balance and creating toxicity in our lives—whether you're just starting, in the middle of the journey, or have been working on it for a while.

THIS IS NOT AA.

This is about open conversations, sharing our struggles, and supporting each other through the process of healing and growth. While we focus on breaking free from compulsive behaviors, it's not just about alcohol or drugs. If you're tackling any compulsive behavior—be it work, food, gaming, or anything else—we're here for you.

You don't have to have it all figured out or be "sober" to join. We're here to share tools, skills, and approaches that have worked for us in the hope that they'll work for you too. Let's build a supportive community where we can grow together.

- Stop the Bleed – Managing life-threatening bleeding – Thursday, August 14th and Thursday September 11th / 6 – 8 p.m. with Alicia – alicia@outerlandsmedics.com; IG: @outerlandsmedics (these are individual events, not a series) - part of the 2025 Free Skool Santa Cruz session

Location: SubRosa, 703 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA

Description: Uncontrolled bleeding is the leading cause of preventable death after a traumatic accident. This 2 hour class will teach you the lifesaving skills of direct pressure, wound packing, and tourniquet application. This course will provide visual aids, live demonstrations from a professional, and hands on practice using tourniquets and wound packing training tools that empower you to be an immediate responder in an emergency.

No experience is required and all materials will be provided. Please bring a notebook, pencil, and layers/snacks to keep yourself comfortable.

Masking not required, but please wear a mask if desired and do not come if you are feeling sick. If you have any accommodation requests please send an email to Alicia beforehand.

Alicia is a local Wilderness EMT who regularly teaches first aid for backcountry and austere environments.

- Stuff cream cheese in your ears Friday August 15th and get to SubRosa to experience…

* Blowupdoll - SoCal anger ruckus on tour! - @allbl0wnup
** I've Never Been Here Before - Bay Area digiskramz doll - @iveneverbeenhereb4
*** Dorsette - 4 piece whatever with noisy poppy alternative rock - Moraga, CA - @dorsette_
**** Sex Ed - 707 electronic screamo - @sex_ed_band

Doors 6:30pm & 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 fund

- Introduction to Ecological Psychology - Part 1: Saturday August 16th, Part 2: Saturday August 23rd, Part 1: Saturday September 6th, Part 2: Saturday September 13th / 3 - 4:30 p.m. with Lilli Specter (lilli.specter@viridis.edu) - part of the 2025 Free Skool Santa Cruz session 

Location: SubRosa, 703 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA

Description: This course explores the dynamic interplay between ecological processes and our psychological experience. By examining five core ecological principles, students will gain insight into how these same patterns shape human narratives, emotions, behaviors, and relationships. Ecopsychology invites us to move beyond the isolated self and into a deeper, more relational understanding of our place within the living world. Through this lens, we engage with both the beauty and the complexity of life on Earth—psychologically, ecologically, and ethically.

Accessibility: outside, masks not required, accessible to all.

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, 3:30–5:30pm, repeats weekly (although not today-Tuesday 8/13)

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 · 1:30–3:30pm, 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.

-@—<>—@-

- 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

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.

It's summer tradition for the Bike Church to be understaffed. Because of limited mechanics and availability, we will have limited weekend hours until further notice, we will continue to update here whenever we are back into our 12-5pm swing, but for now our Sat-Sun hours are 2:30-5:30pm. Thanks for supporting us, and maybe consider dropping us some bubbly water to drink on shift haha. We have our normal hours still Monday, Thursday and Friday 12pm - 5pm). FLINTA 5-8 on Tuesday and Youth Hours (21 and under) Wednesday from 2-6pm. Thanks for your support! Happy summer. http://bikechurch.santacruzhub.org 

- Plenty of Free Skool classes at SubRosa and around right now! 

About Free Skool Santa Cruz - 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 based on mutual support and autonomy (do-it-yourself-together!). https://freeskoolsantacruz.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 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/ 

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. 

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 

Summer full on at SubRosa & the Hub & more info here!

- August already! And summer still swinging at SubRosa THIS EVENING! Tuesday August 5th with…

* Visual Learner - on tour from Mpls, MN! With powerful melodic punk - @visual.learner_mpls 
** Broken Strings - Soquel stroller & Capitola crooner
*** Don't Ask - catchy Oakland lifers back from a tour of Japan - @that.band.don't.ask

Doors 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

-Palestine Film Screening + mutual aid fundraiser for Mohammad family in Gaza - Wednesday August 6th, 6pm at SubRosa, 703 Pacific Ave

Nuseirat 274: The Hostages Massacre (a documentary by Al Jazeera) - "The film reveals new details about one of the bloodiest massacres perpetrated by the Israeli occupation forces during its war on Gaza, which resulted in the deaths of 274 Palestinians and the injury of 814 others in a single day."

From the graphic - "Please join us for a community film screening of Nuseirat 274 and mutual aid fundraiser for dear friends Yazan and Ayham Mohammad."

Masks strongly recommended and will be provided at the door.

6pm // donation 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

- SANTA CRUZ TRANS POTLUCK - Saturday August 9th, 12pm - 3pm at SubRosa (703 Pacific Ave in downtown Santa Cruz). Trans ppl!!! Bring ur friends!

* Make Trans Friends
* Share Food
* Build Community

Community announcements at 2pm. This can include things like board game nights or dinners, more formal planned events, or a milestone you feel like sharing with the community!

This is a dry space (no alcohol) - Masks encouraged (available at SubRosa). Send feedback or suggestions to: sctranspotluck@proton.me 

- Saturday August 9th show up for a gathering of local bands and give far flung NYC band a great welcoming at SubRosa with…

* Parasite - 831 salad bowl style hardcore - Salinas - @parasite.hc
** Silk - emoviolence - NYC - @hello.silkyy
*** Odder - shoegazing while screaming - Salinas - @odder831
**** Culprit - San Jose hardcore - @culprit.sj
***** Slab - 831 hardcore - @slab.hc

Doors 6pm & Music 7pm - 10pm // $12 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 // Brought to you in part by @saladbowlstylepresents

- Tianguis Realmente Gratuito. Todo es gratis. Really Really Free Market - this Sunday! 8/10- 11am - 2pm. At SubRosa - 703 Pacific Ave. No money. No trades. Everything is free.

Please wear a mask for community care.

This gathering is not about the "stuff" we give and take, but more about how we can freely give and receive from each other. This is a form of anti-capitalist mutual aid where everyone is invited to participate and share care.

¡Todo gratis! No intercambio de dinero, no negocios, no trueques. Trae lo que gustes, toma lo que necesites. Este mercado gratuito es basado en una economía de regalar.

Note: we begin accepting donations at 10:30am and stop at 1pm. If you bring large items and/or significant amounts of stuff please help us at the end (2pm) by taking away anything that might be leftover. Please bring usable things only

- Monday August 11th loud fun with a dose of weird at SubRosa with…

* Spoilman - rare alternative/grunge band from Japan influenced by US grunge and post-hardcore - @spoilman_jpn
** Trixie - locals still rockin' and won't stop - @trixierocks_
*** Placeholder - fushionviolence - @placeholder_ca_
**** Mush - heavy locals - @mush.sc

6:30pm - 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 // Brought to you in part by @kaijukill.prod

- Collage Night! Tuesday August 12th! 6pm at SubRosa.

Come hang out and collage! Supplies will be provided but if you're looking to get rid of some magazines you can bring those to share.

6pm - 9pm // totally free // all-ages // dry space // safe(r) space // anti-capitalist space // respect the space and each other!

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, 3:30–5:30pm, repeats weekly 

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 · 1:30–3:30pm, 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.

-@—<>—@-

- 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

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.

It's summer tradition for the Bike Church to be understaffed. Because of limited mechanics and availability, we will have limited weekend hours until further notice, we will continue to update here whenever we are back into our 12-5pm swing, but for now our Sat-Sun hours are 2:30-5:30pm. Thanks for supporting us, and maybe consider dropping us some bubbly water to drink on shift haha. We have our normal hours still Monday, Thursday and Friday 12pm - 5pm). FLINTA 5-8 on Tuesday and Youth Hours (21 and under) Wednesday from 2-6pm. Thanks for your support! Happy summer. http://bikechurch.santacruzhub.org 

And from the Bike Church! Intro to Bikes - Every Second Sunday (upcoming August 10th, September 14th etc / 10 - 11:30 a.m. with Bike Church Mechanics (thebikechurch@gmail.com)

Location: The Bike Church, 703 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz, CA (enter your n Spruce St) - @thebikechurch

Description: Come learn about basic bike mechanics and maintenance! We will go over the fundamental systems of a bicycle (e.g., wheels, drive train, brakes) and practice basic repairs. Facilitators will tailor the session based on the interests of who shows up, so bring questions, or even better, your bike!

Accessibility: Wheelchair accessible, mask optional, workshop offered outside.

- Plenty of Free Skool classes at SubRosa and around right now! 

About Free Skool Santa Cruz - 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 based on mutual support and autonomy (do-it-yourself-together!). https://freeskoolsantacruz.org/

—@@@@@—

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/ 

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. 

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 

More SubRosa updates! And more!

More SubRosa updates! And more!

- A reminder the deadline approaches! Join us for part 2 of the Free Skool Santa Cruz 2025 session by offering a class or activity! Submission window is open and closes at the Thursday July 17th deadline! 

Follow this link to submit your class proposal! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScMwZ0i-GjyNEUZIK_iymvj0_E3r109SviNMPL0-XC2KSuPaw/viewform

Our calendar kicked off on May Day/Beltane on Thursday May 1st and goes until the Autumn Equinox on Monday September 22nd. Remember, the deadline to submit your class is Thursday July 17th – contribute a class for the rest of the session (Friday July 25th until Autumn Equinox on Monday September 22nd).

Free Skool Santa Cruz is a grassroots educational project that provides an opportunity for us all to learn from each other and share what we know, to foster communities of mutual support and autonomy (do-it-yourself-together).

We look forward to receiving your class proposals and enjoying and learning/experiencing together in the time to come!

***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!).

- Stop the Bleed – Managing life-threatening bleeding – Tuesday, July 15th and Thursday, August 14th (these are individual events, not a series) / 6 – 8 p.m. with Alicia – alicia@outerlandsmedics.com; IG: @outerlandsmedics 

Location: SubRosa, 703 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA

Description: Uncontrolled bleeding is the leading cause of preventable death after a traumatic accident. This 2 hour class will teach you the lifesaving skills of direct pressure, wound packing, and tourniquet application. This course will provide visual aids, live demonstrations from a professional, and hands on practice using tourniquets and wound packing training tools that empower you to be an immediate responder in an emergency.

No experience is required and all materials will be provided. Please bring a notebook, pencil, and layers/snacks to keep yourself comfortable.

Masking not required, but please wear a mask if desired and do not come if you are feeling sick. If you have any accommodation requests please send an email to Alicia beforehand.

Alicia is a local Wilderness EMT who regularly teaches first aid for backcountry and austere environments.

- Live from the SubRosa courtyard Wednesday, July 16th with acoustic performances by…

* Auggie Eve - mixed indígenx singer/songwriter/filmmaker/ artist - SC - @auggieeve
** Just Dandy - Indie/emo/poppunk/rock band from Santa Cruz - @justdandyofficial
*** Fry'd - experimental cinematic slow songs - PDX - @frydpdx
**** Just Nick - anti-folk punk - Oakland - @nwuebben
***** Quindara - traipse with no/ise - SC - @bbannedindc

6:30pm - 9:45pm // $10 at door - notaflof!* // all-ages // dry space // safe(r) space // anti-capitalist space // respect the space and each other! // 

brought to you in part by @kaijukill.prod // *no one turned away for lack of funds

- A show unlike any other before and never to be replicated even by the most advanced and insidious technology. Only happening Friday July 18th at SubRosa with…

* An Apparition - 916 ghost-core - @an_apparition_
** Lav Andula - industrial dance music from Reno - @lav__andula
*** Ick - loud smelly 2-piece punk from Modesto - @ick.official
**** Jordan Blankenship- sound art & noise from Modesto - @jordanblankenship
***** I've Never Been Here Before - noisy post-local adroit musical auteur - @iveneverbeenhereb4

6pm - 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

- Sunday 7/20 from 2:30-5pm - Got broken shoes? Our popular shoe repair class is happening again! At the Fábrica with Free Skool Santa Cruz

Join shoemaker and Fábrica collective member Elijah Dalley in a workshop on how to repair, reconstruct, and repurpose your old sneakers to keep them on your feet! More info about other classes https://freeskoolsantacruz.org/

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, 3:30–5:30pm, repeats weekly 

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 · 1:30–3:30pm, 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.

- From the Bike Church - JULY SHOP HOURS UPDATE

*mon/thurs/fri - 12-5pm
*sat/sun - 2:30-5:30pm
*tues (FLINTA) - 6-8pm
*wed (youth) - 2-6pm

We apologize for the changes in summer hours and will keep you posted with any future changes!!! & thank you for the constant support :) we appreciate you!

The Bike Church is a community bicycle shop and tool collective where people can learn to repair their bicycles with the help of knowledgeable mechanics. We offer sliding scale services and affordable used and new parts. As a collectively run organization, we are committed to honoring the contribution of individuals while recognizing the importance of collaboration.

And the Bike Church is part of the Hub Community Center at 703 Pacific Ave in downtown Santa Cruz - a constellation of projects that support skill-sharing, appropriate re/use of resources, and interconnected, creative communities - since 1994! 

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SubRosa is a collectively run anarchist community space - a place to meet people, share resources and ideas, challenge our assumptions and act on our passions. Let's create together the world(s) we want to live in now. 

http://www.subrosaproject.org/ 

https://www.facebook.com/subrosaproject 

https://instagram.com/subrosa_space 

And SubRosa is part of the Hub Community Center at 703 Pacific Ave in downtown Santa Cruz - a constellation of projects that support skill-sharing, appropriate re/use of resources, and interconnected, creative communities - since 1994! http://www.santacruzhub.org

On 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.