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Events at SubRosa and around 4/2 - 4/10 +
Join us for the 2025 Free Skool Santa Cruz Spring/Summer Session by offering a class or activity!
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!).
What skills would you like to share? What types of classes would help grow more vibrant, self-reliant and mutually supportive communities?
Our calendar kicks off on May Day/Beltane on Thursday May 1st and goes until the Autumn Equinox on Monday September 22nd. The deadline to submit your class is Friday April 18th. And in early August we will request additional class submissions for the rest of the session (until Autumn Equinox on Monday September 22nd). So, if you don't know what you'll offer now, you'll have another opportunity later!
And more info at https://freeskoolsantacruz.org/ Follow this link to class submission form to submit your class proposal by Friday April 18th! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScMwZ0i-GjyNEUZIK_iymvj0_E3r109SviNMPL0-XC2KSuPaw/viewform
A Wednesday like it was a Friday! Wednesday April 2nd at SubRosa with…
* Ivory Daze - with shoegaze, grunge and punk influences - Lincoln, Nebraska - @ivory.daze
** Patina - screamo from Stockton - @patina_209
*** Psychic Hands - garage rock from Watsonville - @psychichandz
**** Yes Ma'am - with some tasty tunes - @yestothemaam
Doors 6pm // $10 at door - notaflof! // all-ages // dry space // safe(r) space // anti-capitalist space // respect the space and each other! // Info from SubRosa IG post - https://www.instagram.com/p/DH5T0JTuG5i/
Hey look! We're having an art show. Join us for an opening reception Friday April 4th 6-9pm. From the Fábrica (SubRosa's neighbor and friends at the Hub Community Center)
Friend of the shop and local artist Olin Borgeson (@olinperborgeson ) will be showing recent work. Come say hello and check out Olin's rad mixed media paintings in gouche and ink on wood, paper, fabric and found objects.
Info from Fábrica IG post - https://www.instagram.com/p/DHwujgMS8QW/
And! Hooray for SubRosa's neighbor and friends! "The Fábrica turns 15 years old on April 1st this year! Join us for a celebration: an open house and a tea party in the garden. Saturday April 5th, 12 - 4pm" - at the Fábrica (703 Pacific Ave in downtown SC)
There will be snacks, tea, music, banner-sewing, screenprinting, and a raffle. Bring a shirt to print!
Buy tickets at the link in our bio or in person at the door. $5-$50 pay what you can. Tickets include a raffle ticket.
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La Fábrica cumple 15 años este abril! Venga a celebrar con nosotros. Habrá una fiesta de té en el jardín.
Sábado 5 de abril, 12 a 4 de la tarde
Habrá comida, bebidas, música, serigrafía, costura de banderas, y una rifa. Trae una camiseta para serigrafía.
Compre boletos con el enlace en nuestra bio, o a la Fábrica en el día del evento. Paga lo que pueda $5-$50. Cada boleto incluye un tíquet para la rifa.
Info from https://www.instagram.com/p/DG3_gQbykIb/
Come dance or cry or scream or everything all at once on Thursday April 10th at SubRosa with…
* Love Letter - SoCal band pouring forth passion - @love_letter_band
** Losing Streak - with 90's grunge and skate punk era influences while blending shoeagaze and emo elements - SF Bay Area - @losing.streakca
*** Buried In April - 4 piece NorCal shoegaze - @buriedinapril
**** Asilomar - 831 alt-rock - @asilomarbandca
***** Grad Nite - Emo Rock Para Rockerxs, Por Rockerxs 831 (Salinas, Santa Cruz, Watsonville) - @gradnite
6pm - 10pm // $10 at door - notaflof! // 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 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. http://www.huffsantacruz.org/
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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
https://thefabricaworkshop.org/
https://www.facebook.com/thefabrica/
https://www.instagram.com/the_fabrica_
Description: 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. Contact info below.
And another neighbor - Bike Church // Open Hours, Thursday - Monday, 12–5pm (Repeats every week)
About our wonderful neighbor, The Bike Church (enter on Spruce St) - "The Bike Church is 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: we provide the tools, space and instruction for individuals to fix their own bike with the guidance of knowledgeable mechanics. We ask for a donation of $5-15 per hour to use the shop--no one is turned away for lack of funds. We provide used and new parts for affordable prices, and have many used bikes for sale. We give away kids bikes for free. Our shop is run by a collective of mechanics and apprentices who are all paid equally. We use consensus meetings to make decisions about the running of the shop." Contact info below.
And at the Bike Church - WTF! (women, trans, femme) Bike Days - Every Tuesday / 5 - 8pm with WTF Bike Church mechanics (thebikechurch@gmail.com)
Location: The Bike Church, 703 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz (enter on Spruce St)
Description: We will be open to anyone identifying as female, trans, femme, non-binary and gender-queer ❤ if you do not identify as any of the above, come by the shop a different day!
<Contact info for our neighbors at The Hub, 703 Pacific Ave>
-The Bike Church --- http://bikechurch.santacruzhub.org // https://www.facebook.com/thebikechurch/ // https://www.instagram.com/thebikechurch/
-Hard Core Compost --- https://www.compost.bike // https://www.instagram.com/hardcorecompost/ // www.facebook.com/compost.bike/
-The Fábrica --- https://thefabricaworkshop.org/ // https://www.facebook.com/thefabrica/ // https://www.instagram.com/the_fabrica_
-Tenant Sanctuary --- https://tenantsanctuary.org // https://www.facebook.com/tenantsanctuary/ // https://instagram.com/tenant_sanctuary_sc
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 // https://www.facebook.com/santacruzhub/ // https://www.instagram.com/santacruzhub/
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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/
https://www.facebook.com/subrosaproject
https://instagram.com/subrosa_space
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.
Do you want to join SubRosa in solidarity with the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band?
-Contribute to The Humunya Foundation of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band, a 501 (c) (3) Private Foundation under the Internal Revenue Code. As such, donations made to the Humunya Foundation are tax deductable. The Humunya Foundation was created to fund raise, facilitate Tribal cultural activities and conduct outreach to the public. More information http://amahmutsun.org/foundation
-Sign up for the Amah Mutsun Land Trust email list for more information and opportunities to get involved.
-Consider making a monthly donation to Amah Mutsun Land Trust to support the tribe's Indigenous stewardship and cultural relearning work.
-Check out http://www.protectjuristac.org/how-to-help/ to protect Juristac, an Amah Mutsun sacred site threatened by a proposed mining operation in Santa Clara county. Actions include: Sign the petition to protect Juristac, an Amah Mutsun sacred site threatened by a proposed mining operation in Santa Clara county.
https://www.amahmutsunlandtrust.org and http://amahmutsun.org and http://www.protectjuristac.org/ and https://instagram.com/protect.juristac
