Tuesday, September 9, 2025

So much still happening at SubRosa/Hub!

At SubRosa and the Hub (community center where SubRosa is located and shares space with wonderful neighbors)

- Stop the Bleed (Managing life-threatening bleeding) - Thursday, September 11th / 6 - 8 p.m. (these are individual events, not a series) - part of 2025 Free Skool Santa Cruz session 

Description: Uncontrolled bleeding is the leading cause of preventable death after a traumatic accident. This 2 hour class will teach you the lifesaving skills of direct pressure, wound packing, and tourniquet application. This course will provide visual aids, live demonstrations from a professional, and hands on practice using tourniquets and wound packing training tools that empower you to be an immediate responder in an emergency.

No experience is required and all materials will be provided. Please bring a notebook, pencil, and layers/snacks to keep yourself comfortable.

Masking not required, but please wear a mask if desired and do not come if you are feeling sick. If you have any accommodation requests please send an email to Alicia beforehand.

with Alicia - alicia@outerlandsmedics.com; (831) 216-8846; IG: OuterlandsMedics; Alicia is a local Wilderness EMT who regularly teaches first aid for backcountry and austere environments.

- Queer writing circle – Saturday September 13th / 12 – 2 p.m. with Jesse Kathan (Signal: 510-666-5364) - part of Free Skool Santa Cruz 2025 session 

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

Description: Circle will include a quick prompt and one or two longer prompts for fiction, memoir, poetry or whatever. Follow provided prompts or work on your own thing. Opportunities for sharing and positive feedback.

Materials: Notebooks/pens suggested; extras will be available.

Accessibility: Masked encouraged inside building.

It's really real! Accept no artificial cyber-ripoffs and come together Saturday September 13th at SubRosa with…

* Rip Florence - weirdo artist, lov'r of counter~hegemony - SC - @rip.florence 
** e-fem.url - shoegaze/noise/ambient girl making loud music for soft people - @e.fem.url
*** Hunter Colt Paulson - experimental pop music from Oakland - @sloppy_seahorse
**** Dim Wit - sweet and sour ear candy with a soft sad filling - PDX - @dim___wit 

7pm - 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

- This Sunday! Tianguis Realmente Gratuito. Todo es gratis. Really Really Free Market - 9/14 - 11am - 2pm. At SubRosa - 703 Pacific Ave. No money. No trades. Everything is free. ¡Este domingo!

This gathering is not about the "stuff" we give and take, but more about how we can freely give and receive from each other. This is a where everyone is invited to participate and share care.

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, tarot readings, etc). Please check with us at the welcoming table by the gate, and we'll help you find a spot.

¡Todo gratis! No intercambio de dinero, no negocios, no trueques. Trae lo que gustes, toma lo que necesites. Este mercado gratuito es basado en una economĂ­a de regalar.

Note: we begin accepting donations at 10:30am and stop at 1pm. If you bring large items and/or significant amounts of stuff please help us at the end (2pm) by taking away anything that might be leftover. Please bring usable things only. Thanks so much! See tips in story highlights section of @rrfm_sc

Please wear a mask for community care (and we have at welcoming table).

- Collective Creation Games part 2 - Sunday September 14th / 3 - 5 p.m. with Rami Chahine (346-235-9782) - part of 2025 session of @freeskoolsantacruz 

Location: SubRosa courtyard, 703 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA and then going onto Pacific Ave in downtown Santa Cruz 

Description: We will be creating games/participatory experiences using the extensive anarchist library at SubRosa. Or coming up with simple interventions/participatory experiences on Pacific Ave to interact with the crowds regarding pressing topics we care about bringing up to play with. Or a combination of both let's see 🙂

More info: The course will guide participants through a playful process for creating participatory experiences starting from the depth of our embodied experience, memories, pain and political thought. Through games we transform such instigators into thrilling dynamics of being together.


Accessibility: Open to all, refrain from coming if sick

- Monday September 15th - Yiddish Electronica - Chaia coming from NYC blends together archival Yiddish folk songs and electronic music. At SubRosa - 703 Pacific Ave in downtown Santa Cruz.

Also in conversation with Rabbi Chel of TzimTzum Community about their respective works, radical Jewishness, and cultivating anti - zionist spaces. 

Accessibility Info - uneven ground to get inside space but wheelchair accessible, mostly standing event with chairs available, amplified music indoors - earplugs provided, outside courtyard with seating, 2 bathrooms - 1 inside SubRosa and 1 in the courtyard, masks provided but optional.

7pm - 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

- Knots 101 - Tuesday September 16th / 3:30pm with Phoenix - part of 2025 session of @freeskoolsantacruz 

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

Description: Learn the basics of knot tying, with opportunity to practice. Introduction will also include basic terms and further learning/reference material.

Materials: If you have it, bring rope or heavy cordage to practice with. I have a limited amount that I can provide. // Accessibility: Masking recommended.

- 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 // $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. 

Thanks for your support! Happy summer. http://bikechurch.santacruzhub.org 

- Intro to Bikes - Every Second Sunday, and coming up Sunday September 14th / 10 - 11:30 a.m. with Bike Church Mechanics (thebikechurch@gmail.com)

Location: The Bike Church, 703 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz, CA (enter your n Spruce St) - @thebikechurch

Description: Come learn about basic bike mechanics and maintenance! We will go over the fundamental systems of a bicycle (e.g., wheels, drive train, brakes) and practice basic repairs. Facilitators will tailor the session based on the interests of who shows up, so bring questions, or even better, your bike!

Accessibility: Wheelchair accessible, mask optional, workshop offered outside.

- 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 – NOT THIS WEDNESDAY AND YES 9/24! Second and Fourth Wednesdays / 7:30 – 9 p.m. with Bxrii - not happening 9/10 (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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