Thurs: A Show! / Fri: Another Show +! / Sat: Really Really Free Market & A Show & More!!! / Yeah!

-Thursday May 23rd, 8pm: Long Sought Rest // Bysuss // Rats with Wings

     Join us for a very special night of many flavors of folk!

*Long Sought Rest - stompy spooky folk punk crew hailing from Olympia! https://longsoughtrest.bandcamp.com
**Byssus - Acoustic epics for the interspecies webs of survival. New music by burl wood and taylore (formally of Inle Elni) https://byssusmusic.bandcamp.com/releases
***Rats With Wings! - members of Blackbird Raum and Stonecrowe -- Sacred slow core folk ♥

8pm // $7 donation (notaflof) // https://www.facebook.com/events/1244934212341316/

-Friday May 24th, 8pm: Eve's Peach / Scorpio Moon / Hullahbaloo / 'Still' Music Video Screening and SHOW

It's the 'Still' music video premiere with live performances by:

*Eve's Peach -- https://evespeach.bandcamp.com/
**Scorpio Moon https://scorpiomoonband.com/
***Hullahbaloo

Eve's Peach has another music video?! (Waiting On The Sun - https://vimeo.com/323386069 in case you missed it). You're not dreaming, this is REAL LIFE! Let's watch it together for the first time and then SEE THEM PLAY! and SEE MORE BANDS PLAY!! Wow, I'm so excited, can you tell?

Show starts at 8pm // $5-$7 donation for the space // https://www.facebook.com/events/403058906944385/

-Saturday May 25th: 3 events!
     12 - 3pm: Really Really Free Market

Really Really Free Market! No money. No trades. Everything is free. This market is based on a gift-economy... capitalism NO! ... and the part of the intention of this happening is that we all have something to share with each other... that we can freely give, without monetizing our offerings to each other. That we can give and take and give and that this isn't about keeping score or an account of flows back and forth. We have so much to offer each other, and it can be a joy to see someone be excited about something we are giving away too.

So come to the Really Really Free Market to give away your old stuff and/or get new-to-you stuff. Bring food to share. Bring your special items that you don't use but can't throw away (ex. clothes, toys, art supplies, instruments, books and zines...your free box). Bring your special talents to offer people (ex. haircuts, message, reiki...). Come and take what you can use and say thanks! We will have folks to check in with as you arrive. First come first served, space may be limited. Don't be late and be sure to check in with the organizers when you get there. If you bring things, you are expected to take away whatever is left at the end of the market. https://www.facebook.com/events/325244684816265/

     6pm: SCHC - Earth Down // Exit Strategy / Infirmary / Field Of Flames

SCHC Brings You

*Earth Down https://earthdownhc.bandcamp.com
**Field Of Flames https://fieldofflames.bandcamp.com
***Infirmary (Ep Release) https://infirmary408.bandcamp.com
****Extinguish https://extinguish.bandcamp.com
*****Exit Strategy https://exitstrategyhc.bandcamp.com/releases
******Lead Dream https://leaddream.bandcamp.com/releases
*******Doomsday https://doomsdaycahc.bandcamp.com/releases

$10 (notaflof) // https://www.facebook.com/events/2299161547010603/

     10pm: Briana Marela / Wizard Apprentice / late show at SubRosa

Cactus Bloom Collective presents

*BRIANA MARELA (On Tour) Oakland synth-based ethereal pop -- https://brianamarela.bandcamp.com/
**WIZARD APPRENTICE (On Tour) Oakland multi-media electronic music -- https://wizardapprentice.bandcamp.com/

7$ // All Ages // Safe(r) Space // No Alcohol No Drugs // https://www.facebook.com/events/874242026261717/

Fri: A Show // Sat: Really Really Free Market & Another Show // Sun: Yet Another Show

-Friday, May 10th, 7pm: Vouna//Gabriel Saloman//Melpomene
*VOUNA (Cascadian Funeral Doom from Olympia) https://vouna.bandcamp.com
**Melpomene (Shantel of Illudium & Medicine Moon) https://illudium.bandcamp.com/releases
***Gabriel Saloman (Dark Ambient Drone from Santa Cruz) https://gabrielsaloman.bandcamp.com

VOUNA conjures a singular Cascadian Funeral Doom atmosphere that is unlike anything that has existed before. Their self-titled LP will be released by Artemisia Records November 2018. https://vouna.bandcamp.com

All music was composed and all instruments performed by frontwoman Yianna Bekris (previously of Vradiazei, Eigenlicht, and Sadhaka). The music was inspired and influenced by Finnish funeral doom, English masters My Dying Bride, Eastern European black metal, and Greek folk music.

The album was recorded entirely at the Wolves in the Throne Room studio, Owl Lodge, which is located at the edge of an ancient forest in Olympia, WA. Razor sharp tremolo picked guitars cut through the heart like a knife. Mournfully sung vocals and cinematic melodies are combined with crushing doom drums, while layers of primitive 90s digital synths create a lush and rugged soundscape.

-Saturday May 11th, 2 happenings!!!
     

noon-3pm: Really Really Free Market

Really Really Free Market! No money. No trades. Everything is free. This market is based on a gift-economy... capitalism NO! But come to the really really free market to give away your old stuff and/or get new-to-you stuff. Bring food to share. Bring your special items that you don't use but can't throw away (ex. clothes, toys, art supplies, instruments, books and zines...your free box). Bring your special talents to offer people (ex. haircuts, message, reiki...). Come and take what you can use and say thanks! We will have folks to check in with as you arrive. First come first served, space may be limited. Don't be late and be sure to check in with the organizers when you get there. If you bring things, you are expected to take away whatever is left at the end of the market. Note: We are shifting to 2nd and 4th Saturdays. https://www.facebook.com/events/662467710875294/

     7pm: The Root Beer Floats/ Alek & The Bar Cats/ BB Sinclair/ Jake Foley

*The Root Beer Floats- https://therootbeerfloats.bandcamp.com/
**Alek Barkats Music- https://wolfbagel.bandcamp.com/releases
***BB Sinclair- https://bbsinclair.bandcamp.com/
****Jake Foley- https://mugwort1.bandcamp.com/track/no-point

$7 donation (notaflof) / 7-10pm / all ages / safer space / https://www.facebook.com/events/836733270029743/

-Sunday, May 12th, 6:30pm: SCHC- Give You Nothing / Blaming You / Static Age /Randy Savages

SCHC PRESENTS

*Give You Nothing (Santa Cruz punk rock/melodic hardcore) https://giveyounothing.bandcamp.com/
**Blaming You (Bay Area punk rock. Members of Tuning) https://weareblamingyou.bandcamp.com/
***Static Age (San Jose punk rock) https://www.facebook.com/staticage408/
****The Randy Savages (Santa Cruz wrestling themed punk rock) https://therandysavages.bandcamp.com/

6:30pm // $5 (no one turned away due to lack of funds) // Respect the venue. No drinking. No drugs. No fighting. // https://www.facebook.com/events/516223278781824/

AND REMINDER ABOUT REGULAR OPEN HOURS 

(Come on by and have some coffee, check-out a book or strike up a conversation)

Mondays, 1 - 4pm // Wednesdays, 10:30am - 2pm // Fridays, 9am - 12pm // 

& open for events & meetings

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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, homophobia, racism, and other hierarchies.

SubRosa is in downtown Santa Cruz, CA which is unceded land of the Awaswas-speaking Ohlone people.

http://www.subrosaproject.org/ and https://www.facebook.com/subrosaproject and https://www.instagram.com/subrosa_sc/

And SubRosa is part of a larger community center called The Hub.  Check out the Hub's facebook, website & instagram for info regarding other Hub projects!  https://www.facebook.com/santacruzhub/ and http://www.santacruzhub.org and https://www.instagram.com/santacruzhub/ (newly added!)

Tues: *[Rad-qpoc-Poetryetc]* // Thurs: A Show // Fri: Another Show // Sat: Really Really Free Market & A Show? // Sun: Yet Another Show

-Tuesday, May 7th, 7pm:  Kvetch&Chisme 001: Samuel Ace, Angel Dominguez, Kirstin Wagner 

Samuel Ace is a trans and genderqueer poet and sound artist. He is the author of several books, including Our Weather O­ur Sea (Black Radish Books, 2019) and Meet Me There: Normal Sex & Home in three days. Don't wash. (Belladonna* Germinal Texts, 2019). He is the recipient of the Astraea Lesbian Writers Fund Award in Poetry and the Firecracker Alternative Book Award, as well as a two-time finalist for both the Lambda Literary Award and the National Poetry Series. His work has been widely anthologized and has appeared in or is forthcoming from Poetry, Aufgabe, Fence, The Atlas Review, Black Clock, Mandorla, Versal, The Collagist, Posit, Vinyl, Troubling the Line: Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics, Best American Experimental Poetry, and many other publications. He teaches poetry and creative writing at Mount Holyoke College and divides his time between western Massachusetts and Tucson, Arizona.

Kirstin Wagner is a writer, teacher, and PhD candidate in the UCSC Literature Department. Her research concerns inherited trauma in families organizing around domestic violence. Her creative work is published/forthcoming in Genealogy, Bombay Gin Literary Journal, Gesture Literary Journal, Something on Paper, and Amerarcana. She has taught creative writing at Naropa University, Indiana University, UC-Santa Cruz, and in the Boulder public school system. You can find her hiding fairies in the redwoods, writing at the beach at 3am, or eating pizza anywhere, anytime.

Angel Dominguez is a Latinx poet and artist of Yucatec Mayan descent, born in Hollywood, and raised in Van Nuys, CA by his immigrant family. He's the author of Desgraciado (Econo Textual Objects, 2017), and Black Lavender Milk (Timeless Infinite Light, 2015). His work can be found in Brooklyn Magazine, Dreginald, Entropy, Queen Mobs, The Tiny, The Wanderer, and elsewhere in print or on the internet. He's currently working on a book of poems, as well as the follow-up to Black Lavender Milk, Rose Sun Water forthcoming from The Operating System, in 2020.

by donation // https://www.facebook.com/events/569991073499124/

-Thursday, May 9th, 7pm:  Sue and the Namies/Wet Spot/Crocodile Tearz/TBA

*Sue and the and the Namies are a surf rock/ no wave group from Arcata, California that are bringing every delight and delicacy the great pacific garbage patch has to offer, directly to your ears, minds, and hearts. You can find their tunes here https://sueandthenamies.bandcamp.com/album/songs-from-the-great-pacific-garbage-patch 

**Wet Spot are a garage rock band on tour with Sue and The Namies https://wetspot.bandcamp.com/ 

***Crocodile Tearz is a new local Santa Cruz duo group consisting of Rip Florence and Ethan Pezzolo. Their sounds could potentially be described as emotional mod podge twee inspired by laughable traumatic daily happenings. 

****potentially there will be another band :)

All Ages // 7 $ no one turned away for a lack of funds // sober space // https://www.facebook.com/events/383160985618668/

-Friday, May 10th, 7pm:  Vouna//Gabriel Saloman//Melpomene

*VOUNA (Cascadian Funeral Doom from Olympia) https://vouna.bandcamp.com

**Melpomene (Shantel of Illudium & Medicine Moon) https://illudium.bandcamp.com/releases

***Gabriel Saloman (Dark Ambient Drone from Santa Cruz) https://gabrielsaloman.bandcamp.com

***********

VOUNA conjures a singular Cascadian Funeral Doom atmosphere that is unlike anything that has existed before.  Their self-titled LP will be released by Artemisia Records November 2018.  https://vouna.bandcamp.com 

All music was composed and all instruments performed by frontwoman Yianna Bekris (previously of Vradiazei, Eigenlicht, and Sadhaka).  The music was inspired and influenced by Finnish funeral doom, English masters My Dying Bride, Eastern European black metal, and Greek folk music.    

The album was recorded entirely at the Wolves in the Throne Room studio, Owl Lodge, which is located at the edge of an ancient forest in Olympia, WA.  Razor sharp tremolo picked guitars cut through the heart like a knife. Mournfully sung vocals and cinematic melodies are combined with crushing doom drums, while layers of primitive 90s digital synths create a lush and rugged soundscape.   

-Saturday May 11th, 2 happenings!!!

        noon-3pm:  Really Really Free Market

Really Really Free Market! No money. No trades. Everything is free. This market is based on a gift-economy... capitalism NO! But come to the really really free market to give away your old stuff and/or get new-to-you stuff. Bring food to share.  Bring your special items that you don't use but can't throw away (ex. clothes, toys, art supplies, instruments, books and zines...your free box).  Bring your special talents to offer people (ex. haircuts, message, reiki...).  Come and take what you can use and say thanks!  We will have folks to check in with as you arrive.  First come first served, space may be limited. Don't be late and be sure to check in with the organizers when you get there. If you bring things, you are expected to take away whatever is left at the end of the market.   Note: We are shifting to 2nd and 4th Saturdays.  https://www.facebook.com/events/662467710875294/

        7pm:  A Show?  Not sure of the details.

-Sunday, May 12th, 6:30pm: SCHC- Give You Nothing / Blaming You / Static Age /Randy Savages

SCHC PRESENTS

*Give You Nothing (Santa Cruz punk rock/melodic hardcore) https://giveyounothing.bandcamp.com/ 

**Blaming You (Bay Area punk rock. Members of Tuning) https://weareblamingyou.bandcamp.com/ 

***Static Age (San Jose punk rock) https://www.facebook.com/staticage408/ 

****The Randy Savages (Santa Cruz wrestling themed punk rock) https://therandysavages.bandcamp.com/  

6:30pm // $5 (no one turned away due to lack of funds) // Respect the venue. No drinking. No drugs. No fighting. // https://www.facebook.com/events/516223278781824/

AND REMINDER ABOUT REGULAR OPEN HOURS 

(Come on by and have some coffee, check-out a book or strike up a conversation)

Mondays, 1 - 4pm  // Wednesdays, 10:30am - 2pm  // Fridays, 9am - 12pm  // 

& open for events & meetings

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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, homophobia, racism, and other hierarchies.

SubRosa is in downtown Santa Cruz, CA which is unceded land of the Awaswas-speaking Ohlone people.

http://www.subrosaproject.org/ and https://www.facebook.com/subrosaproject and https://www.instagram.com/subrosa_sc/

And SubRosa is part of a larger community center called The Hub.  Check out the Hub's facebook, website & instagram for info regarding other Hub projects!  https://www.facebook.com/santacruzhub/ and http://www.santacruzhub.org and https://www.instagram.com/santacruzhub/ (newly added!)

[SubRosa @-`-,-- ] Wed: May Day/ Beltane // Fri: First Friday Art Opening // Sat: Byssus album release show with friends!!!

-Join us Wednesday, May 1st 4pm at the Community Orchard (by the skate park) for a May Day/Beltane Celebration ---> with a procession to the Hub/ The Fábrica/SubRosa🌱🌱🌸🌼🌷🌿🌻🌷🌻🌱🌸🌸🌼🌷🌻🌷🌸🌼🌷🌷🌿🌿

After gathering at the Orchard, there will be a procession along the levee to the Hub/The Fábrica/SubRosa. Flora and Fauna costumes and noise makers encouraged. Bring food to share.  

At The Hub/The Fábrica/SubRosa there will be music and food and a May Pole Dance and more!!!

And here's some listening for you to enjoy... The Incomplete, True, Authentic and Wonderful History of May Day – by Peter Linebaugh https://resonanceaudiodistro.org/2017/04/24/history-of-may-day-audiozine/ (This essay tells a story of the two sides of May Day: the red and the green. From Maypoles to the Haymarket martyrs.) AND The Witch's Child https://resonanceaudiodistro.org/2018/04/14/the-witchs-child-audiozine-2/ ("This is how they destroyed our roots. And this is why, on May Day, we tell stories. Stories of our lives, of our struggles, of the future we want, of a past we invent because we no longer remember it.")

-Friday, May 3rd, 6pm: First Friday Art Opening, Underdog // Ry Essi AND Animal Masks at the Fábrica

Ry Essi opens up the SubRosa space on First Friday. Arrive to catch vivid glimpses through Essi's photography of the complex and lush experience that is queer love on the west coast.

Come to this soft opening and wonder at the blessings/beauty of the queer experience documented right here in our community.   https://www.facebook.com/events/381367519377483/

And check out the art show at The Fábrica (through the connecting door from SubRosa to the Fábrica) May Day Animal Masks "May Day is both a traditional springtime festival and an international day of honoring workers. Come celebrate the deep connection between the beauty and bounty of the season and the many kinds of work we do to survive and thrive! These anonymous found folk-art animal masks embody the magic and transformative potential of the season." from https://firstfridaysantacruz.com/event/the-fabrica-the-hub-may-day-animal-masks/?fbclid=IwAR0Mv7qs6AbyDnnct4bqfDd3o2LOsDu0WOSKC4rTELPvAiCW1rYemFnejN4

-Saturday, May 4th, 8pm: Byssus --- album release! and... Kite Hands Glowing // Of The West // Meadow Singers

Under the new moon starlit salty sky Byssus will be releasing their new album into the world. 

*BYSSUS Acoustic epics for the interspecies webs of survival // New music by burl wood and taylore (formally of Inle Elni) https://byssusmusic.bandcamp.com/releases 

**KITE HANDS GLOWING Melodies and Poetry of Nadia Lucia  https://kitehandsglowing.bandcamp.com/album/lucia 

***OF THE WEST Folk Wanderings With Wesley Somers https://www.facebook.com/ofthewest/ 

****MEADOW SINGERS Songs of Longing, Songs of Transformation  (Mathew Harmon, formerly of Matador and Majk)

8pm // $10 donation (notaflof) // https://www.facebook.com/events/258558754936099/ 

AND REMINDER ABOUT REGULAR OPEN HOURS 

(Come on by and have some coffee, check-out a book or strike up a conversation)

Mondays, 1 - 4pm  // Wednesdays, 10:30am - 2pm  // Fridays, 9am - 12pm  // 

& open for events & meetings

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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, homophobia, racism, and other hierarchies.

SubRosa is in downtown Santa Cruz, CA which is unceded land of the Awaswas-speaking Ohlone people.

http://www.subrosaproject.org/ and https://www.facebook.com/subrosaproject and https://www.instagram.com/subrosa_sc/

And SubRosa is part of a larger community center called The Hub.  Check out the Hub's facebook, website & instagram for info regarding other Hub projects!  https://www.facebook.com/santacruzhub/ and http://www.santacruzhub.org and https://www.instagram.com/santacruzhub/ (newly added!)

Sun: Collage Salon // Tues: A Show! // and more!!!

-Sunday, April 21st, 12:30-4pm: Collage Salon Sunday!

Whitney (+T) & Randy are back for another Collage Salon Sunday! w/ Special guest Bernardita of The Radical Zine

All materials provided + any you bring to share! Pay What You Can donations appreciated. NTAFLOF // https://www.facebook.com/events/2286152281660101/

-Tuesday, April 23rd, 7pm: Bernie and the Wolf, TIME, BB Sinclair, Eve's Peach

A dreamy night full of dreamy friends.

*BB Sinclair (local dream-pop) https://bbsinclair.bandcamp.com/ 

**Bernie and the Wolf (Chicago indie pop-rock) https://bernieandthewolf.bandcamp.com/ 

***TIME (Florida experimental synth-pop/noise/interpretive dance) https://timeiam.bandcamp.com/ 

****Eve's Peach (local blue razz pop-rock) https://evespeach.bandcamp.com/ 

Show starts at 7 PM // $7 notaflof // https://www.facebook.com/events/1649552238481884/

And In Early May... 

Saturday, May 4th, 8pm: Byssus --- album release! 

and... Kite Hands Glowing // Of The West // Meadow Singers

Under the new moon starlit salty sky Byssus will be releasing their new album into the world.

*BYSSUS Acoustic epics for the interspecies webs of survival // New music by burl wood and taylore (formally of Inle Elni) https://byssusmusic.bandcamp.com/releases 

**KITE HANDS GLOWING Melodies and Poetry of Nadia Lucia  https://kitehandsglowing.bandcamp.com/album/lucia 

***OF THE WEST Folk Wanderings With Wesley Somers https://www.facebook.com/ofthewest/ 

****MEADOW SINGERS Songs of Longing, Songs of Transformation  (Mathew Harmon, formerly of Matador and Majk)

8pm // $10 donation (notaflof) // https://www.facebook.com/events/258558754936099/ 

And happening Wednesday May 1st at the Hub!!!

(brought to you by the Fábrica with help from SubRosa and the Community Orchard)

May Day! Join us Wednesday, May 1st🌱🌱🌸🌼🌷🌿🌻🌷🌻🌱🌸🌸🌼🌷🌻🌷🌸🌼🌷🌷🌿🌿 4pm at the Community Orchard (by the skate park)🚲There will be a procession along the levee to the HUB/The Fábrica. 🦝🦌🦊🦉🐖🦢 Flora and Fauna costumes encouraged. 🎀🎏🧶🧵⚫️⚪️🔵🔴🔶 Maypole dance. 🥖🌽🍎🎂🍉🍞🍇🥗🧀🥧 Bring food to share.👒

AND REMINDER ABOUT REGULAR OPEN HOURS 

(Come on by and have some coffee, check-out a book or strike up a conversation)

Wednesdays, 10:30am - 2pm // Fridays, 9am - 12pm  // Mondays, 1 - 4pm

& open for events & meetings

(and open on some Thursday afternoons)

 

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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, homophobia, racism, and other hierarchies.

SubRosa is in downtown Santa Cruz, CA which is unceded land of the Awaswas-speaking Ohlone people.

 

http://www.subrosaproject.org/ and https://www.facebook.com/subrosaproject and https://www.instagram.com/subrosa_sc/

 

And SubRosa is part of a larger community center called The Hub.  Check out the Hub's facebook, website & instagram for info regarding other Hub projects!  https://www.facebook.com/santacruzhub/ and http://www.santacruzhub.org and https://www.instagram.com/santacruzhub/ (newly added!)