Tuesday, September 16, 2025

Hot Fall Fun at SubRosa/Hub

"Let's read and learn together!" Wednesday September 17th, 831 Anarchists, based in Monterey Bay Area, are going to be at SubRosa and invite you to join them. 

The theme for the reading and discussion group is PAGAN ANARCHISM. Come learn together about the theoretical and practical alignments of anarchism and paganism

No prior reading or knowledge required. Free and open to everyone

More details: A big long hand out with passages from the readings will be available at the reading group, and we all read and discuss them together.

6pm at SubRosa - likely in the courtyard outside - 703 Pacific Avenue in downtown Santa Cruz @subrosa_space

Free and open to everyone. And thanks to friends at @oldcapitolbooks for facilitating the group @subrosa_space

- Come to the "Summer Never Folk'd So Hard" show Thursday September 18th at SubRosa - a sad-and-angry folk punk show with…


* Ember Nugent - emo-folk punk singer songwriter from Oakland - @emgobrrr
** Sapien Stardust - singer songwriter folk & folk punk dreamer - @sapienstardust
*** Florez Rain - hard-cordian folk punk from Elkhorn, CA - @florezrain 
**** CJ Lawrence - angry transsexual wielding an acoustic guitar - Oakland via Lawrence, KS - @cjlawrencemusic 
***** Quindara - traipse with no/ise - SC - @bbannedindc

Doors 6:30pm & Music 7pm - 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

- Mutual Aid in Action: Designing Real Projects Together - Saturday September 20th, 2pm - 4pm with Free Skool Santa Cruz

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

Description: This interactive workshop is all about rolling up our sleeves and designing mutual aid projects that we can implement. We'll begin with a quick dive into what mutual aid looks like in action and how groups move from ideas to impact—but most of our time will be spent hands-on, collaboratively shaping project concepts into real plans. Through guided exercises and small-group work designed to give each other constructive input, we'll identify needs, sketch out workflows, identify resources, consider logistics like space and storage, and co-develop simple, low-barrier ways to launch or support mutual aid efforts.

Whether you're starting from scratch, building on an existing idea, or just want to be part of the design process, this session is a chance to co-create practical pathways for mutual support in our communities. Come with your curiosity, your half-formed ideas, and/or your deep readiness to make something happen. People that are experienced with mutual aid and just want to provide helpful input on project ideas are encouraged to attend.

Fun that is not overrated Tuesday September 23rd at SubRosa with…

* Poppyfield - Santa Cruz emo/punk steaming pile - @poppyfieldmusic
* New Here - your queer and sincere pop punk band - PDX based - @newherepdx
*** Yes Ma'am - fuzzy guitars, honest lyrics, and the occasional existential crisis all wrapped in with catchy melodies - @yestothemaam

Doors 7pm & Music 7:30pm - 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

@kaijukill.prod presents… on Wednesday, September 24th - "We've got a mixture of noise from all over the World (the Bay, 831 and Utah to be exact). Playing downtown Santa Cruz at SubRosa with emo, punk, noise" from…

* Sex Ed - 707 electronic screamo - @sex_ed_band
** All Bark - north bay skramz - @allbarknoband
*** Starr 69 - not messing around - from Utah - @starr67ut
**** First Day With Fingers - 831 screamo - @firstdaywithfingers

Doors 6:30pm & Music after that - 10pm // $10 -$15 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

Fall into autumn Thursday September 25th at SubRosa with…

* Yes Ma'am - fuzzy guitars, honest lyrics, and the occasional existential crisis all wrapped in with catchy melodies - @yestothemaam
** Cleena - singing lil gay songs about nature n' friendship n' such - @cleenaband
*** Strawberry Pilgrimage - just a trippy folk rock band on a delicious journey - @strawberrypilgrimage
**** Quindara - traipse with no/ise - SC - @bbannedindc

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

Saturday September 27th - come enter a sublime space of digital sound, refracted across countless emotions! we guarantee you'll have a blast. A SubRosa show featuring expansive experimental electronic acts:

* Spiritual Exit - pacific northwest @spiritual-exit
** e.fem.url - santa cruz @e.fem.url
*** eclipse.xiv - bay area @eclipse.xiv_

7 pm - 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.


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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


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. 

- 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/

- Punks and Queers in Recovery – WEDNESDAY 9/24! Second and Fourth Wednesdays / 7:30 – 9 p.m. with Bxrii - (Free Skool Santa Cruz)
No Gods. No Masters. No Addictions.


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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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