Utopia Park and Mumford at SubRosa, Sun. Aug 8 at 6:30pm

We've got a high energy show for you. Utopia Park and Mumford's from Iowa! Playing with Red Coyote from Oakland and Hey Charles from Santa Cruz. Show will end promptly, so don't be late!

Utopia Park from Iowa (http://www.myspace.com/utopiapark2012) (loudish, fastish electronic music)

Mumford's from Iowa (http://www.myspa...ce.com/mumford39s) (high energy weirdo folk band.)

Red Coyote from Oakland (http://www.myspace.com/mosegose)

Hey Charles from Santa Cruz

Sun, Aug 8 at 6:30pm
$5 suggested donation

We love Annah Anti-Palindrome! Friday, July 30, 7pm

Seriously, we love Annah Anti-Palindrome. She has a beautiful voice and she does this cool thing where she creates layered tracks on stage from the noises created by a variety of objects, and sings beautiful songs over the looped tracks. It's like magic.
She'll be joined by some other awesome Bay Area friends: Laura Smoot from the band Maple Rabbit, and Under Kat.
It is going to be a great night of music. Don't miss it!

Bay Area Music
Friday, July 30 at 7pm
SubRosa
$5 suggested donation

Spirits of the Red City at SubRosa, Sun, July 25 at 7pm

Spirits of the Red City, a symphonic folk-influenced band from Minneapolis, is coming back to town on July 25 at 7pm. They'll be joined by the tight harmonic vocals of local band Madrona and the looped bass creations of Hermit Convention. Come for a mellow evening of stunning music.

Spirits of the Red City, Madrona and Hermit Convention

Sunday, July 25 at 7pm

SubRosa

$5 suggested donation

SubRosa Open Mic, Every Thursday 8pm

Subrosa Open Mic - Thu 8pm - Performance Music Poetry - $3-7 at the door

703 Pacific Ave Santa Cruz

A weekly open mic at Santa Cruz' only anarchist and radical community space. An opportunity to connect with friends and showcase the incredible creative talent in our community. Music, poetry, and performance. From the mundane to the jaw-droppingly inspirational. 

July Artist, Gabriella Ripley-Phipps - Five Easy Pieces

July 2010:  Five Easy Pieces:
Archiving Gabriella Ripley-Phipps

After you die, how will you be remembered?  If you were to create an archive, a historical record of your existence, what objects would you choose to be remembered by?  What five items would you start with in building your archive?

In 2009, Gabriella asked ten friends to answer these questions by selecting five objects they considered the most important or essential in communicating who they are.  The guests were invited to a dinner party, thrown by Gabriella, and the items were used in an interactive performance.

Now, Gabriella asks herself the same questions and chooses the first five items of her archive.  July 2010, the walls of SubRosa display a simple and incomplete record of Gabriella's life, in five easy pieces.   Through these items (Road Kill, Human Hair, Family Relics, Trash, Receipts, Ink Drawings), a complex existence is simplified while the viewer is invited to construct a comprehensible narrative.

SubRosa is honored to offer the work of Gabriella Ripley-Phipps.  Please join us for a show and opening reception:

Five Easy Pieces: 
Archiving Gabriella Ripley-Phipps
July 2nd - August 30th
Artist Reception Friday, July 2, 5-8pm
SubRosa: A Community Space, 703 Pacific at Spruce St

Our identities are tied to and mediated by the physical objects we keep around ourselves.  Objects are bought, worn, used, left on shelves, tacked on walls.  Each object says something about us: who we are/were, what we do, even who we want to be.  A part of our selves is placed into each object, but we do not get to choose how those parts are represented. Our objects hint about an exchange, a moment, or a relationship in the material world.  They evidence a certain time in our lives and point to who we were in that instant. And yet although our objects are entirely specific to each of us, they manage to live beyond us. They invite interpretation; they beg to be aligned cohesively within a narrative that is actually always incomplete. Our selves are created when others look upon our objects and imagine what we are like — our archives are merely guide-posts or suggestions, attempts at self expression in good faith.

SubRosa Break In

We had a break-in/burglary in the early hours of Sat, June 26. Someone broke a window, took some stuff from the backroom and the money we had in the register, which didn't really amount to much.

It is a bit of an inconvenience for us, but not anything more than that really. A small portion of the SubRosa collective, who were dealing with the aftermath and cleanup, decided that we do not want to pursue charges against the person who was arrested. We see this as another symptom of capitalism--some people have nothing and feel desperate enough to break in to spaces that also, it turns out this time, have nothing. Crimes against property are driven by poverty and desperation. We have no desire for police in our community and will not be working with them in this case, except to recover our property, which they have in their possession.

The person who broke in also broke the window of our friend and neighbor the Bike Church. Our neighbors at the Bike Church are awesome. As is the Hub for Sustainable Transportation, who we sublease our space from. All of these organizations could use your support.

Folk Punk Show! Sun, June 27, 7pm $5

With Twenty Hands High from Santa Barbara and Hi-Ho, Silver Away! from Palm Desert, and local band Yokefellow.
$5 suggested donation.