Tuesday, September 30, 2025

An Active October at SubRosa/Hub!

Land is Life open mic and show with vendors and food - a fundraiser for Filipino environmental justice organizations - Wednesday October 1st, 6pm - 10pm at SubRosa.

Amidst worsening climate disaster and plunder, filipinos face the brunt of these conditions with mass flooding and intensifying typhoons. Environmental Justice Organizations and Land Defenders work tirelessly to ensure care for their community and uplift the voices of those affected and their right to sovereignty! 

This October marks National Peasant Month & to uplift those most affected by this climate crisis and support organizations fighting for environmental justice, consider coming through to the Land is Life Open Mic + Market Fundraiser

There will be vendors (tarot readings / prints & clothes / food with @kasamakusina / @inopokes discounted booking) open mic sign up, and orgs tabling - Resist US Led War Santa Cruz - @resistusledwarsc, Women & Queers Against Tyranny & Capitalism - @waqatac, Anakbayan Santa Cruz - @anakabayansc. If you're interested in getting involved DM @resistusledwarsc

Performances by…

Quindara - @bbannedindc
Flo Glo - @digitalglx

6pm - 10pm // $5 - $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

- EP release show for Nostalgia's "When Will You Come Back?" - come celebrate Thursday October 2nd at SubRosa with…

* Nostalgia - East Bay/Santa Cruz, ca
Est. 2024 - @isitjustnostalgia
** MXBXP - meat down from Marina, CA - @mxbxp_831
*** Slab - 831 hardcore - @slab.hc
**** Paperface - east bay alternative - @_paperface
***** Sleeper Agent - Santa Cruz shoegazers - @sleeperagent.sc

Doors 6pm & Music 6:30pm - 10pm // $7 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

- Friday October 3rd, 7pm - 10pm ~ music/reading at 8 pm ~ 
SCUM x Fábrica x SubRosa present: Matt Baldwin's "How to Play Guitar" + fabric/collage works by clare bathum - 
703 Pacific Ave, in downtown Santa Cruz

This First Friday, clare bathum's fiber works and digital collages will be on display, along with a special reading and performance from Matt Baldwin, on tour from Los Angeles with his new book/collected zines "How to Play Guitar". @l__eshy and friends will be spinning tunes throughout the evening. Read more about the artists below.

clare bathum is a fiber artist, digital/physical collager, and texture enthusiast based in the santa cruz mountains. their practice revolves around multi-sensory explorations of texture and non-verbal communication/relation through slow observation, study, and crafting. this has manifested into a growing collection of hand-stitched fabric pieces and digital collages. @_mudsucker

Matt Baldwin is a writer, musician, and psychotherapist trained in psychedelic psychotherapy (CIIS 2017 & Field Trip 2022). He has released numerous records and tapes (Leaving Records), is a frequent collaborator, and is the author of the acclaimed zine series, "How to Play Guitar". @baldwin_unlimited

Free & donations for traveling musicians appreciated - 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

S.C.U.M. (Santa Cruz Underground Music) is a collectivized effort towards performance and skill-share across experimental art spaces and mediums. @scum.events

- SANTA CRUZ TRANS POTLUCK - Saturday October 4th, 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

A propulsive evening Saturday October 4th at SubRosa, so get bouncing and bouyant with…

* Los Jumping Beans - fusion of punk/rock and alternative with more than 10 years presence in their local music scene - Tijuana - @losjumpingbeans
** Slutzville - married punk rockers from the hills of Northern California! We are a two piece and no we don't need a bassist - @slutzvilleofficial
*** Rock Shed Rangers - ska-punk from SC/Prunedale - @rock_shed_rangers

Doors 6:30pm & Music after that - 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

- At SubRosa Thursday October 9th - a member of LLegó la Hora de los Pueblos from México is coming with a member of the Nacional Indigenous Congress of México to present a collaborative book about education and the process of autonomy of indigenous communities in the territory. Presentors: Rocio Moreno, Inés Durán Matute and Libertad Huerta.

"Saberes Para Otros Mundos Posibles" (Knowledges For Other Possible Worlds) is a collective reflection on the importance, challenges, and problems of opening education to different tasks and knowledge, of using it to promote horizontal and fair ways of relating to each other, of shaping it to defend territories and lives, of transgressing it to mutually recognize each other in a world in agony and of transforming it to create other possible worlds.

How can we fight apathy, fear, hopelessness? How can we offer possibilities of life -and not death- to future generations?

The book can be downloaded for free via this link: https://catedraalonso-ciesas.udg.mx/content/saberes-para-otros-mundos-posibles

6pm at SubRosa - 703 Pacific Ave in downtown Santa Cruz // free! // all-ages // dry space // safe(r) space // anti-capitalist space // respect the space and each other!

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.


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- And check out Fábrica Open Hours - repeats weekly (SubRosa's neighbor at the Hub Community Center)


  • Saturdays, 2pm - 5pm  

  • Sundays,  3pm - 6pm *Closed first Sunday of each month for the La Peña Alegria (BIPOC event at SubRosa)

  • 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. 

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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.

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 

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