SubRosa - a community space

Rad Dad(s) at SubRosa, Sun. Jan 8th at 5pm

2012-01-06T23:24:00.000-08:00

Rad Dad: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Fatherhood

Join Tomas Moniz, Jeremy Adam Smith, Daniel Yaryan & others

Sunday Jan. 8th at 5pm
at SubRosa, 703 Pacific Ave.

Readings from “Rad Dad: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Fatherhood” which collects the best pieces from Tomas Moniz’s award-winning “Rad Dad” zine and from Jeremy Adam Smith’s blog Daddy Dialectic, two kindred publications that explore parenting as political territory.

Join the “Rad Dad” authors in pushing the conversation around fathering beyond a safe, apolitical place; come create a diverse, multi-faceted space to grapple with the complexity of fathering.

"If buying a gender-neutral pacifier is the most radical thing you've done as a parent, Rad Dad will nudge you back on track." -- SF Weekly.

“[Rad Dad] is sometimes entertaining, sometimes upsetting, but constantly thought-provoking. It will change the way you look at
fatherhood, and change the way you look at fathers as well.” -- Punk Music Guide

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SubRosa is an anarchist community space run by a collective of committed volunteers. We put energy into SubRosa to create a vibrant community space available for events, classes, and meetings, collaborations and organizing, art and creativity, as well as reading and studying. We are working to create a world guided by mutual support, without coercive control.

Go to the SubRosa website for more info http://www.subrosaproject.org/

So Much Going on at SubRosa, Jan. 2nd-8th 2012

2012-01-02T17:13:00.000-08:00

-Monday, Jan. 2nd, 6-7pm- Spanish Conversation, a Free Skool class. We'll pick a topic to discuss each week and speak exclusively in Spanish while we're together. Intermediate to advanced Spanish skills are required.

-Tuesday, Jan. 3rd, 7-10pm- A Show! Pop Punk! High Dive (a queer-positive pop-punk band from Bloomington, Indiana, with Toby Foster, Nick Romy, and Ryan Woods, from defiance, ohio), Songs for Moms (an all-female Bay Area punk trio that formed in the spring of ‘06) and more! Bring money for the touring bands.

-Thursday, Jan. 5th, 8pm- Open Mic, sign-ups 7:30pm- Come express yourself, challenge yourself, challenge the audience. Donation.

-Friday, Jan. 6th, 6-8pm- First Friday Art Opening! A Museum of Natural History, art by Stephen Odell. Bones, feathers, insects, stones, dried flowers and drift wood all have a voice to share. It is this collective, co-creative perception that thrives in a greater communion of direct experience with the natural world and with each other over the technological obsessions that only serve to exalt the ego and self-centeredness. Artist Reception, Snacks, Refreshments, Tea Service and a Reading of "The Other Way to Listen" by Byrd Baylor. Art at SubRosa the month of January.

-Saturday, Jan. 7th, 1pm- Mass Media, a Critical Intro, a Free Skool class.

-Sunday, Jan. 8th, 5pm- Rad Dad Event. “Rad Dad: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Fatherhood” collects the best pieces from Tomas Moniz’s award-winning “Rad Dad” zine and from Jeremy Adam Smith’s blog Daddy Dialectic, two kindred publications explore parenting as political territory.

SubRosa is an anarchist community space run by a collective of committed volunteers. We put energy into SubRosa to create a vibrant community space available for events, classes, and meetings, collaborations and organizing, art and creativity, as well as reading and studying. We are working to create a world guided by mutual support, without coercive control.

Go to the SubRosa website for more info http://www.subrosaproject.org/

The new 2012 Slingshot Organizers are in!

2011-10-20T14:53:00.000-07:00

New 2012 Slingshot Organizers Available

Keep your life organized with these handy pocket sized calendars throughout the coming year. Also makes the perfect solstice present for that special someone who you wish was more on time.

We have the smaller pocket sized organizers for $6.00, and the larger spiral bound organizers for $12.00.

We've got loads of new books!

Our bookshelves are loaded to the brim with new books from AK Press, Ardent Press, Black and Red, and more! Come down and take a look at our new books on the Spanish Civil War, repression of eco-activists, classical anarchist theory, situationism, and more.

Even if you can't make it in, please consider making a donation to SubRosa to help keep us open: subrosaproject.org/support

Love,
The SubRosa Collective

Women and Trans Open Mic! Tonight!

2011-10-20T14:17:00.000-07:00

Tell everyone! Run into the streets and yell, "TONIGHT IS WOMEN AND TRANS OPEN MIC!"

For the last three years, SubRosa has offered a weekly Open Mic to the Santa Cruz Art and Music Community. We are always experimenting with ways to make Open Mic feel more inclusive and draw in a more interesting and diverse group of people to the space. For a year now, we've been hosting a Women & Trans Open Mic on the Third Thursday of each month. The stage is open to everyone, and we ask that performances contextualize the struggle of women and trans folks at these special monthly Open Mics.

Women and Trans Open Mic
8pm Third Thursday
(signup at 7:30pm)
SubRosa Community Space

Even if you can't come, please tell your friends about the event.

703 Pacific Avenue
downtown Santa Cruz

Viva Mexico!- film showing, Tues. Oct. 18th, 7:30pm

2011-10-11T00:29:00.000-07:00

City of Los Angeles, USA. In the heart of the city, undocumented Mexican immigrants are hunted by the police and struggle to earn a living without losing their identity. On the other side of the border, in the mountains of southeastern Mexico, dawn arrives, hidden in mist. It is January 1st, 2006; thousands of indigenous Zapatistas prepare to say farewell to their spokesman Subcomandante Marcos. His mission: to travel across the country for the next six months to learn from the resistance of Mexican men and women who fight for a better Mexico.So begins a journey that plans to reach the border with the United States, at the other end of the country...

From Chiapas to Quintana Roo, from Yucatan to Oaxaca, from Nayarit to Colima, from Michoacan to Guerrero, from the State of Mexico to the heart of the country and the enormous metropolis known as Mexico City, we follow the steps of this journey that traces the face of the "other" Mexico, made up of the humble and simple people, a face much different from the one TV shows us every day. It is a journey that dares to “start building the image of the people we really are.” as expressed by Subcomandante Marcos.

This challenge is not without risks… by uncovering Mexico’s dignified and rebellious face, irrigating the seeds of rebellion and solidarity of an entire country, this journey is a provocation against those who control the country's economy and it's image. What starts as an isolated murmur will become a clamor of hundreds of thousands of voices, ¡Viva Mexico! How will those in power respond?

Bring a donation to support the film makers.

Anarchy in Athens, Friday Oct 7

2011-10-07T13:26:00.000-07:00

6pm this First Friday Art Show at SubRosa

ANARCHY IN ATHENS
Stories, analysis, and a slideshow about anarchism in the birthplace of democracy

Greece in in the midst of a major social upheaval at the hands of ordinary
people. The economic crisis and rising social tensions are leading to an
explosive situation, with anarchists and other radicals at the forefront.
One anarchist and photographer from Santa Cruz spent a month in the
anarchist neighborhood of Athens called Exarchia. Come hear about his
experience with Greece's failing economy, squatted community parks, riots
against capitalism, university occupations, the general assembly model,
and much more about anarchist struggle in Athens.

And for the month of October, SubRosa's walls will be covered in Greek
anarchist posters from the past two years.

Sustainable Cycles Bike Tour, Tues. Oct. 4th at 6pm

2011-10-04T13:27:00.000-07:00

Sustainable Cycles: Bicycle Down the West Coast, Meet Women,
Talk about Menstrual Cups, and Live on $4 a Day

Tuesday Oct. 4th, 6-9pm at SubRosa (703 Pacific Ave).

Two years ago, after graduating from college, Toni and Sarah met at a dance festival in North Carolina and decided to ride bicycles from Albany, NY to Ann Arbor, MI— for the adventure, to see some world, to make connections to people, and to see where we got to without any plans.

So recently we had this idea… to go on another bike trip, with more of a purpose: to bike down the West coast and talk to women that we meet along the way, make woman-to-woman connections and convince them to switch to using a menstrual cup. One-at-a-time spread this information to women who otherwise might never have access to learning about non-disposable menstrual options. It seems to me that the number one way this revolution grows is through personal testimony of friends-to-friends.

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SubRosa is an anarchist community space run by a collective of committed volunteers. We put energy into SubRosa to create a vibrant community space available for events, classes, and meetings, collaborations and organizing, art and creativity, as well as reading and studying. We are working to create a world guided by mutual support, without coercive control.

Go to the SubRosa website for more info http://www.subrosaproject.org/

This Week At SubRosa, Friday September 30th-Friday October 7th

2011-09-30T14:48:00.000-07:00

-Friday Sept. 30: A Show!!!

**James Rabbit, Hermit Convention and French Quarter. invite yer friends! come by after CRITICAL MASS! yeeeeeah! 7pm or whatever. Bring money for donation.

-Tuesday Oct. 4th: Sustainable Cycles: Bicycle Down the West Coast, Meet Women, Talk about Menstrual Cups, and Live on $4 a Day- 6-9pm

**Two years ago, after graduating from college, Toni and Sarah met at a dance festival in North Carolina and decided to ride bicycles from Albany, NY to Ann Arbor, MI— for the adventure, to see some world, to make connections to people, and to see where we got to without any plans.

So recently we had this idea… to go on another bike trip, with more of a purpose: to bike down the West coast and talk to women that we meet along the way, make woman-to-woman connections and convince them to switch to using a menstrual cup. One-at-a-time spread this information to women who otherwise might never have access to learning about non-disposable menstrual options. It seems to me that the number one way this revolution grows is through personal testimony of friends-to-friends.

-Wednesday Oct. 5th: Two happenings

**HUFF meeting 10:30am- 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 such as the "blanket ban": a Santa Cruz City Council law prohibiting homeless mothers and children from covering up with a blanket between the hours of 11 p.m. and 8:30 a.m.

**FoxFire: a feminist discussion group! 6:30--10pm We will be reading a zine. Please join us for reading and discussion of the text. Feel free to bring snacks and such. **This reading group is limited to those folks who identify as women, trans and/or fem.

-Thursday Oct. 6th: two events!

**Police Obsolescence Workgroup (with CopWatch- sccommunitysafety@gmail.com)- 5:30-6:30pm
Working toward a world without police. Some of the efforts of this workgroup include copwatch, know your rights, police accountability, alternatives to calling the police, and education about police, courts, and jails. This is a spinoff workgroup of the larger Community Safety Workgroup. Requirements: Please check out the premises of the group at sccommunitysafety.blogspot.com to ensure that you are down with these before you come. Every Thu. 5:30-6:30pm

**Open Mic- sign ups 7:30pm and begins 8pm
Come express yourself, challenge yourself, challenge the audience. $5-$7 NOTAFLOF

-Friday Oct. 7th: First Friday Art Opening, 6-8pm

**Each month, SubRosa hosts a new artist from the community with emphasis on local emerging artists. SubRosa art openings are part of the First Friday Art Tour and are generally on the first Friday of the month beginning at 6pm

SubRosa Volunteer Opportunities

2011-08-28T13:15:00.000-07:00

SubRosa Community Space is currently accepting applications for volunteer staff positions.

As a staffer, you'd commit to taking a regular shift, participating in collective decision-making about the space, and in time, bottom-lining important tasks.

This is an anarchist community space run by a collective of committed volunteers. We put energy into SubRosa to create a vibrant community space available for events, classes, and meetings, collaborations and organizing, art and creativity, as well as reading and studying.

Commitment: We are looking for people who can commit to taking one shift a week, and making that their own. We'd like it if you can commit to hold down that shift for at least a couple of months. We'll expect you to try to find a sub if you have to miss a shift. And we'll expect you to come to a regular staff meetings.

If you are interested in applying, please email subrosa-staffing@riseup.net For more information about the new staffer process, check out the new staffer page. For more info about how SubRosa works, the nitty-gritty and nuts-and-bolts, check out Recipes for a Successful Infoshop.

About SubRosa
SubRosa is an anarchist and radical space in downtown Santa Cruz for art and radical projects run by a collective of volunteers. It offers books and literature, a lending library, gourmet coffee and teas, regular shows, performances and a weekly open mic, space for numerous Free Skool classes, gallery art by emerging local artists, free computers and wi-fi, and a garden courtyard social space.

Riot Folk with Ryan Harvey and Nomi Wed. July 27th

2011-07-25T10:37:00.000-07:00

Acoustic, blues, and radical folk with

Ryan Harvey and Nomi

Wednesday July 27/ 8-10pm
at SubRosa 703 Pacific Avenue (at Spruce St.)

Donations are suggested

Santa Cruz Indymedia & SubRosa are pleased to present Ryan Harvey from Baltimore, MD, engaging folk singer, incredible story teller, organizer and writer. He will be joined by Nomi, a fabulous folk from the Bay. Don't miss this show.

This event is a Record/CD release tour for Ryan Harvey's new album "Ordinary Heroes"!!

Ryan Harvey, a part of the Riot-Folk Collective, has been writing & performing in social justice activist circles for over 10 years. From intimate basement shows to large rallies, Ryan has been "making folk a threat again" with his songs being a critical analysis of war, oppression and movements of resistance.

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Ryan is touring the United States and Europe this summer to release "Ordinary Heroes", a collaborative album with violinist/journalist/documentarian Michael Fox. The recording, which is dedicated to the life of Howard Zinn, explores contemporary political issues while emphasizing social movements in American history.

The aim of the album, Ryan says "is to spread a hope that's grounded in practicality, a hope that's born from an understanding that things improve when people organize to change them."

Ryan's songs can be downloaded for free at http://www.ryanharveymusic.com/. Songs and info from Riot-Folk members can be found at http://www.riotfolk.org/

Upcoming Artists

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SubRosa is proud to present a staff art show of mixed medium pieces by 8-10 members of the Subrosa collective. Join us in welcoming SubRosa's collective art collection to its own walls for the month of June.

Collectively SubRosa dabbles in a cornucopia of mediums drawing inspiration from the local community, other like-minded projects in lands far and near, and an undying love of anarchist ideals. From queer polyamorous love triangles, to consensus meetings, to cats, to making sauerkraut, to busking on Pacific avenue SubRosa always brings a deliciously earnest amount of love, respect, and optimism to whatever they do. SubRosa is an activist, a loving father, daughter, anarchist, son, cousin, mother, an excellent lover, saboteur, and shape-shifter. SubRosa spends their free time riding bikes, long walks in the forest, sailing Monterey bay, slinging, cracking jokes, playing music, tending the garden, and making yummy food.

On opening night SubRosa will make a special appearance and demonstrate its many talents on stage. There will be singing, dancing, laughing, learning and eating all in one magical night with your friendly local infoshop.

SubRosa Staff Art Show
Selected Works by members of the Subrosa Collective
Artists Reception Friday, June 3rd 6pm
Staff Talent Show at 7pm
SubRosa, 703 Pacific at Spruce St

Friday and Saturday goings-on!

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Friday May 27th at 7pm

A Celebration and Memorial
of the Life and Works of

Howard Zinn

Please join us in commemorating Howard Zinn with reading excerpts of his writings, with sharing the influence he has on our lives, and with thoughts on how we might continue this important work.

Saturday May 28th at 7pm

Indescribable... Indestructible... The Jack Daniels Sessions EP Summer Book Tour 2011!

Join writer and performance artist Elwin Cotman for the west coast launch of his debut short story collection, The Jack Daniels Sessions EP!

Also appearing is writer Kim Vodicka, a performance/sound lyric poet out of New Orleans who will be traveling with her chapbook.

Both are emerging artists, and are also dynamic and experienced performers.

Published by Six Gallery Press, The Jack Daniels Sessions EP is a collection of folktale-based works which address America's complex racial dynamics. Rather than offer mere escape, these stories tackle the often hard lessons of history head-on.

According to Michael S. Begnal, author of Ancestor Worship: "Mr. Cotman's interests are wide-ranging. Punk rock intersects with D.C.'s Dominican community, African-American folktale intersects with Greek myth, Goth teen suburban angst in 1990s Ohio sits side by side with racist atrocity in the pre-Civil Rights South, and magic is going on. Yeah, there's magic in some of these stories, but the real magic is in Cotman's words themselves--stark and deadpan one moment, lushly descriptive the next."

A storyteller in the traditional sense, Cotman has traveled the country, enthralling audiences with his unique mix of fiction, music and song. Having honed his skills in the Washington DC open mic scene, he has gained a reputation as a dynamic mixed-media performer. A former resident of the Cyberpunk Apocalypse Writers Cooperative, Cotman has also been published in The Front Weekly, The Fairfield Review, Outsider Ink and The Dirty Napkin. http://www.lookmanoagent.blogspot.com/

Kim Vodicka began writing when the novelty of nail biting faded (~age 13). Alas, her hard(ly) work(ing) has paid off, as she is currently an MFA in Poetry Candidate at LSU. Kim has been published in Shampoo and Ekleksographia.

Indigenous Resistance Film Series, Wed. May 25th, 7pm

2011-05-23T21:55:00.000-07:00

Indigenous Resistance Film Series

The Santa Cruz Indigenous Solidarity working group is excited to be showing four amazing films this month that highlight the struggles of various Native communities to protect their land and defend their ways of life. After each film we will give a brief update on the continuing work of the communities depicted, and discuss related struggles closer to home that are in need of support. Each film showing will be a fundraiser to support a specific indigenous struggle, and we greatly appreciate any donations you can give.

In The Light of Reverence

Wednesday May 25th, 7pm

SubRosa, 703 Pacific Ave.

Ten years in the making, In the Light of Reverence explores American culture’s relationship to nature in three places considered sacred by native peoples: the Colorado Plateau in the Southwest, Mount Shasta in California, and Devils Tower in Wyoming. Rich in minerals and timber and beloved by recreational users, these “holy lands” exert a spiritual gravity which pulls Native Americans into conflicts with mining companies, New Age practitioners, and rock climbers. Their battles tell a new story of culture clashes in an ancient landscape.

In the Light of Reverence juxtaposes reflections of Hopi, Wintu and Lakota elders on the spiritual meaning of place with views of non-Indians who have their own ideas about how best to use the land. The film captures the spiritual yearning and materialistic frenzy of our time.

http://www.sacredland.org/in-the-light-of-reverence/

Suggested donation $3-5
No one turned away for lack of fund

Indigenous Resistance Film Series- Wednesdays

2011-05-15T19:12:00.000-07:00

Kanehsatake

Wed. May 18th 7pm

A powerful documentary of the 77-day armed stand-off over a burial site in Quebec that propelled native issues at Kanehsatake into the international spotlight.

This film documents the 1990 crisis when Native Americans of the Mohawk Nation blocked access to reserve land which was being appropriated against their will by the white community of Oka, Quebec, Canada. What this film shows is the initial incident and the resulting siege from the Mohawks point of view as an illustration how this is simply a result of resistance to 270 years of European racism pushing them around and leading up to this confrontation.

http://www.nfb.ca/film/kanehsatake_270_years_of_resistance/

SubRosa Open Mic Thursday 7:30pm

2011-05-04T12:06:00.000-07:00

Hey, I'm bottomlining Open Mic for the next four weeks! Come show your support to Open Mic Crew. -Wes

This Thursday join us for...

Subrosa Open Mic - Thu 8pm - Performance Music Poetry - $3-7 at the door
703 Pacific Ave Santa Cruz

Join us for SubRosa's weekly Open Mic, 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.

Donations directly benefit this community-supported space. Signups for performance at 7:30 fill up quickly. Bring your creativity and artistic genius.

Free kitten to the first thousand people through the door.

SubRosa is an all-volunteer donation-supported anarchist and radical space. We have a lending library, books and zines you cannot get anywhere else, performances, shows and open mic in a town with few artist venues, and a place to host numerous free skool classes. There are few better ways to have your hard-earned money support the local community and work directly to make change in the world.

Oppose and Propose! Andrew Cornell, Sunday May 8th at 7pm

2011-05-01T16:09:00.001-07:00

“If we’re going to create a power vacuum, if we’re going to take down a structure or a system, we have to have something ready to go into its place. Because if there is a power vacuum, a counter-revolution will start immediately. We have to have something that puts the system in place that we really want to live in. ”—Betsy Raasch-Gilman, Movement for a New Society

Oppose and Propose!
Lessons from Movement for a New Society
by Andrew Cornell

Reading by author
At SubRosa, Sunday May 8th at 7pm

Where do the strategies, tactics, and lifestyles of contemporary activists come from? Movement for a New Society, a radical pacifist organization active in the 1970s and 1980s, pioneered forms of consensus decision making, communal living, direct action, and self-education now central to antiauthoritarian movements. Brimming with analysis, interviews, and archival documents, Oppose and Propose!: Lessons from Movement for a New Society recovers a missing link in recent radical history, while drawing out crucial lessons on leadership, movement building, counterculture, and prefigurative politics.

MNS served as a crucial organizational link between the movements of the 1960s and the post-Seattle global justice movement. Yet the group’s political innovations created tensions of their own. Members found their commitments to “live the revolution now” often alienated potential allies and distracted them from confronting their opponents, while their distrust of leadership and rigid commitment to cumbersome group processes made it difficult to keep their analysis and strategy cutting-edge. Oppose and Propose! fills an important historical gap, asking where the tactics, strategies, and even ways of living we take for granted today come from. Cornell answers that question in this concise collection of documents, which include an edited transcript of a panel discussion held with former MNS members, an interview with MNS founder George Lakey, and excerpts from two MNS pamphlets, as well as Cornell’s own long monograph on the history and legacy of Movement for a New Society.

About the author: Andrew Cornell is an educator, writer, and organizer living in Brooklyn, New York. He has been involved in labor, global justice, anti-prison, and other movements for over a decade. He teaches classes in labor history, social theory, and urban studies, and is completing a book length study of anarchism in the United States during the 20th century.

Indigenous Resistance Film Series, Wednesdays in May at 7pm

2011-05-01T15:59:00.001-07:00

The first film screening on Wednesday May 4th, at 7pm is a benefit for local herbalists who are going to Black Mesa to participate in the Spring Health Clinic. $3-$5 donation is appreciated.

**A Note from folks from the Red Root Herbal Collective: As you may already be aware, a series of temporary herbal & bodywork clinics have recently been organized at Big Mountain (Black Mesa, Arizona), the first taking place last Spring. In brief, these free, volunteer-run clinics are a way to support the direct needs of residents of Black Mesa who have been resisting coal mining and forced relocation on their ancestral lands for over three decades. Health care services in these areas are minimal and much knowledge of plant and healing traditions is passing away with the older generations.

It is for these reasons that a member of the Big Mountain community proposed the week-long clinics. Herbalists from Santa Cruz previously co-organized clinics in May of 2010 and in November of 2010 in conjunction with the Fall Caravan of Support. There will be another temporary clinic this May 12-18th.

The last two clinics have relied largely on medicines that participating herbalists brought themselves, supplemented by donations. While this worked in the past, this year we are hoping to receive more extensive donations of medicine and/or money to purchase supplies.

Fri. 4/29- GDI & Reel Work present: Cradle Will Rock

2011-04-24T14:38:00.000-07:00

Santa Cruz Guerilla Drive-In &
the Reel Work Film Fest presents:

Cradle Will Rock

The sometimes rocky relationship between art and politics in America in the 1930s -- as well as the gulf between the wealthy and the struggling -- sets the stage for Tim Robbins' ambitious comedy-drama Cradle Will Rock.

Cradle Will Rock (1999) chronicles the process and events that surrounded the production of the original 1937 musical The Cradle Will Rock. Robbins adapts history to create this fictionalized account of the original production, bringing in other stories of the time to produce this commentary on the role of art and power in the 1930s, particularly amidst the struggles of the 1930s labor movement and the corresponding appeal of socialism and communism among many intellectuals and working class people of that time.

Based on true events, Cradle Will Rock relives an exciting and dangerous time in American history, when individual courage prevailed against censorship, and artists risked their livelihood by continuing to perform and paint according to conscience.

Friday April 29th at 8pm

(indoors, unless the weather is nice enough to be outside!)

Always Free!

Santa Cruz Guerilla Drive-In is a movie theatre under the stars that springs up in the fields and industrial wastelands. Beyond showing great movies and bringing a broad community together, part of our mission is to help reclaim public space and transform our urban environment.

Plus thrilling & funny short films, an intermission, great company & a guaranteed good time!

Bring blankets, pillows, anything you need to be comfortable in the great outdoors, friends, snacks to share. Donations to support the project are more than welcome.

www.guerilladrivein.org
www.reelwork.org

Fri. April 15th-Sun. April 17th: A weekend of beautiful possibilities

2011-04-15T09:02:00.000-07:00

A Weekend of Beautiful Possibilities (note: Anarchist Cafe now at SubRosa!)

There are a variety of different events happening this weekend, most at SubRosa. In part, these events are opportunities for us to come together to share food, dance out hearts out, and talk about what's going on in our town. We'll share beautiful possibilities for making our lives more free.

Friday April 15th

-6pm- barbecue (vegan and non-vegan friendly)...bring food for the grill and some food will be provided, but most importantly come on down so we can enjoy each others' company
-7pm- radical puppet show
-8pm- Emergence Theory Dance Party- DJ set of Guilty Pleasures Dance-Pop & Disaster- Electro from Winoona, MN

Saturday April 16th

-1pm- Parkour: Introduction and intermediate practice in moving about an urban landscape in creative ways. Turn the city into your playground! No experience or superpowers required. Meet at Santa Cruz High (415 Walnut Ave.), and after that...
-2pm- ...a game of capture the flag. Meet at the clock tower.
-6pm- Anarchist Cafe- Now at SubRosa. You're invited to an evening of revelry and learning. Anarchist Cafes are a long-standing tradition in Santa Cruz. Come meet and celebrate with people interested in self-sufficiency, resistance and mutual support.

The night's workshops will include:

*Squatting 101: Awesome squats around the world, and their various purposes. The how and why of squatting in urban and natural settings.
*Ecology Beneath Our Feet: A discussion about our relationship to the land and current threats to local ecosystems.
*Solidarity with Indigenous Resistance: A presentation and discussion.
*Race, Gender and Power: Explore your relationship to race, gender and power through reflecting on clips from a provocative film.
*Immigration Enforcement & "Secure Communities": The legal situation for undocumented immigrants in Santa Cruz, and possible ways to help.
*Anarchy 101: WTF does that actually mean anyway?
*Perspectives on the Middle East Uprising: Governments across North Africa are being toppled by leaderless revolutions. Updates and discussion.
*Small Town Anarchist Organizing: Visiting anarchists from Winona, MN will share observations & host conversations on breaking out of subcultures through aboveground organizing
*Food! Vegan, vegetarian, and omnivorous delicacies
*More fun stuff...

Sunday April 17th

-11am- a delicious brunch (vegan and non-vegan friendly) and again bring food to share and also food will be provided, but most of all bring your wonderful self so we can begin the day together.
-1pm- Mutual Support for Anarchist Projects- a discussion
-5pm- Confronting Whiteness (a Free Skool Santa Cruz class)- in this reading group, we will be exploring the social construction of race through Robert Jensen's The Heart of Whiteness. He argues that any system that denies non-whites their full humanity also keeps whites from accessing their own. Anyone interested in confronting race, racism, and white privilege is welcome.

SubRosa is an anarchist community space run by a collective of committed volunteers. We put energy into SubRosa to create a vibrant community space available for events, classes, and meetings, collaborations and organizing, art and creativity, as well as reading and studying. We are working to create a world guided by mutual support, without coercive control.

Street Art Installation: "A Place for White People"

2011-04-13T10:49:00.000-07:00

SubRosa features a new surprise "street art" installation.

Questions of the day:

What can SubRosa do to further challenge racism?
What are you doing to fight the institution of racism in your communities?

Thank you for the food for thought. It the future, it would be swell if you have strong concerns about the project if you come and talk to us about it first before taking direct action.

Tuesday April 5th, discussion on...

2011-04-03T14:04:00.000-07:00

Fighting in the New Terrain: What's Changed Since the 20th Century

Tues. April 5th, 7pm
SubRosa, 703 Pacific Ave.

Drawing on two decades of individual revolt and international struggle, comrades from Crimethinc will discuss previous strategies, review the shifts in our terrain since the 20th century and propose new points of departure for anti-capitalist and anti-authoritarian resistance.

http://www.crimethinc.com/ for more information and to read blog post on this subject.

SubRosa is an anarchist community space run by a collective of committed volunteers. We put energy into SubRosa to create a vibrant community space available for events, classes, and meetings, collaborations and organizing, art and creativity, as well as reading and studying. We are working to create a world guided by mutual support, without coercive control.

Sat. April 2nd at 2:30pm

2011-03-31T09:07:00.000-07:00

“Popular Resistance in Palestine: A history of Hope & Empowerment”
with Dr. Mazin Qumsiyeh

Saturday April 2nd at 2:30pm
at SubRosa, 703 Pacific Ave.

On Saturday, April 2nd, Dr. Mazin Qumsiheh (pictured on right when arrested by Israeli soldiers at Al Walaja in May 2010), a Palestinian author and activist, will speak about militant nonviolence and the Palestinian struggle. Viewpoints will galvanize around the following topic of discussion: "Given the current turmoil in Egypt, the impasse in making progress towards a resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the prominent role that the U.S. government plays in the Middle East region, what should be the priorities of U.S. Middle East policy and why?”

Professor Mazin Qumsiyeh teaches and does research at Bethlehem and Birzeit Universities in Israeli occupied Palestine. He previously served on the faculties of the University of Tennessee, Duke and Yale Universities. Qumsiyeh is president of the Palestinian Center for Rapprochement Between People and coordinator of the Popular Committee against the Wall and Settlements in Beit Sahour. His most acclaimed book is Sharing the Land of Canaan: human rights and the Israeli/Palestinian Struggle.

He published an activism handbook on his website qumsiyeh.org. Qumsiyeh’s main interest is media activism and public education. He also regularly lectures on issues of human rights and international law. His new book Popular Resistance in Palestine reviews Palestinian nonviolent civilian resistance to displacement and occupation dating back to the beginning of the 19th century until today.

The events are sponsored by the Middle East Program of Resource Center for Nonviolence and the Palestine Israel Action Committee.

happenings happening at SubRosa, March 30th-April 3rd

2011-03-29T21:01:00.001-07:00

This Week at SubRosa, March 30th-April 3rd

-Wednesday Mar. 30th: Whow! A Lot Happening!

**Furniture Making- 10am (a Free Skool class)
Creative use of found materials and design techniques will be discussed and demonstrated. Only material availability and motivation will limit us in this class. With Chris.

**Radical Film Night- 7:30pm- Lucio (This month's theme is Crime Pays!)
Lucio is a 2007 documentary. There have been–and are–many anarchists. Quite a few of them have had to commit robberies or manufacture contraband for the cause. A much smaller number have talked strategy with Che or helped Eldridge Cleaver (the leader of the Black Panthers). But there is only one who, in addition to all of the above, put the world’s most powerful bank on the ropes by producing massive amounts of counterfeit Traveler’s Cheques while also not missing a single day at his bricklayer’s job. His name is Lucio Urtubia.

Lucio presently lives in retirement in Paris. During his life, he witnessed–and often participated actively in–some of the most important events of the second half of the 20th century. He experienced the tumult of May ’68 from within, actively supported the Castro regime during its initial stages, and engaged in a whole range of anti-Franco endeavors. However, his biggest “job” took place in the latter part of the 1970s, a time when he was known in the press as “the good bandit” or “the Basque Zorro.” He defrauded the First National Bank (now Citibank) of 3,000 million pesetas in order to finance causes that he supported. Amazingly, his “career” only cost him a few months in prison.

Come watch films with others, eat popcorn (we will bring some, and we encourage you to bring snacks to share as well) and after the screening we can share in a discussion of the films. $2 donation (notaflof)

-Thursday Mar. 31st: Two to-dos

**Community Safety Workgroup- a Free Skool class
"Without police, wouldn't there be chaos?" "What about the bad people?" As anarchists we get asked these legit questions all the time. Don't be fooled by the bland title, this is a project that has the potential to change the world. This is a structured workshop to plan ways to keep our communities safe at all levels. Here are the challenges we'll tackle: new accountability process, community crisis response, cops and alternatives, education, mutual support, solidarity, defense of communities,and making the police obsolete. With this class we jumpstart an ongoing Community Safety Workgroup that will grow beyond free skool. Requirements: Basic familiarity and comfort with the philosophy of anarchism will serve you well here. Be down with basic premises: We want to work collaboratively. We are committed. We are here to act. What we are wanting is possible and desirable. With Wes.

**Open Mic- sign ups 7:30pm and begins 8pm
Come express yourself, challenge yourself, challenge the audience. $5-$7 NOTAFLOF

-Friday April 1st- First Friday Art Opening: Selected Works by Annelise, artist's reception 6-10pm

Annelise draws and paints pictures, makes prints and takes photographs too (see graphic upper right). Her work features lots of ladies and woodland creatures. Artist reception will include art exhibition, appetizers, wine and live musical performances.

-Saturday April 2nd: “Popular Resistance in Palestine: A history of Hope & Empowerment” with Dr. Mazin Qumsiyeh at 2:30pm

Presentation at SubRosa. Professor Mazin Qumsiyeh (pictured above when arrested by Israeli soldiers at Al Walaja in May 2010) teaches and does research at Bethlehem & Birzeit Universities in Israeli occupied Palestine. He previously served on the faculties of the University of Tennessee, Duke and Yale Universities. Qumsiyeh is president of the Palestinian Center for Rapprochement Between People and coordinator of the Popular Committee against the Wall and Settlements in Beit Sahour. His most acclaimed book is “Sharing the Land of Canaan: human rights and the Israeli/Palestinian Struggle.” He published an activism handbook on his web site qumsiyeh.org. Qumsiyeh’s main interest is media activism and public education, having been published in and interviewed in print and on TV and radio extensively (local, national and international) including the Washington Post, New York Times, Boston Globe, CNBC, C-Span, and ABC. He also regularly lectures on issues of human rights and international law. His new book “Popular Resistance in Palestine” reviews Palestinian nonviolent civilian resistance to displacement and occupation dating back to the beginning of the 19th century until today.

-Sunday April 3rd: A weekly women and trans friendly reading group at SubRosa! 2-5pm**

We will be reading a zine every Sunday. Please join us for reading and discussion of the text. Feel free to bring snacks and such. E-mail WTFreading@gmail.com for more info and an upcoming reading list! **This reading group is limited to those folks who identify as women, trans and/or fem.

SubRosa is an anarchist community space run by a collective of committed volunteers. We put energy into SubRosa to create a vibrant community space available for events, classes, and meetings, collaborations and organizing, art and creativity, as well as reading and studying. We are working to create a world guided by mutual support, without coercive control.

Go to the SubRosa website for more info http://www.subrosaproject.org/

Wednesday March 30th Radical Film Night

2011-03-28T23:45:00.000-07:00

Radical Film Night
at SubRosa, 703 Pacific Ave.

Wed. Mar. 30th, 7:30pm

(This month's theme is Crime Pays!)

Lucio

Lucio is a 2007 documentary. There have been–and are–many anarchists. Quite a few of them have had to commit robberies or manufacture contraband for the cause. A much smaller number have talked strategy with Che or helped Eldridge Cleaver (the leader of the Black Panthers). But there is only one who, in addition to all of the above, put the world’s most powerful bank on the ropes by producing massive amounts of counterfeit Traveler’s Cheques while also not missing a single day at his bricklayer’s job. His name is Lucio Urtubia.

Lucio presently lives in retirement in Paris. During his life, he witnessed–and often participated actively in–some of the most important events of the second half of the 20th century. He experienced the tumult of May ’68 from within, actively supported the Castro regime during its initial stages, and engaged in a whole range of anti-Franco endeavors. However, his biggest “job” took place in the latter part of the 1970s, a time when he was known in the press as “the good bandit” or “the Basque Zorro.” He defrauded the First National Bank (now Citibank) of 3,000 million pesetas in order to finance causes that he supported. Amazingly, his “career” only cost him a few months in prison.

Come watch films with others, eat popcorn (we will bring some, and we encourage you to bring snacks to share as well) and after the screening we can share in a discussion of the films. $2 donation (notaflof)

**Also, thanks to Santa Cruz Guerilla Drive-In for equipment support!

Some things to do this week!

2011-03-21T11:23:00.000-07:00

This Week At SubRosa, March 21st-28th

-Monday Mar. 21st: 2 Free Skool classes!

**Heliostat Hackers: Solar Hacking- 10am (a Free Skool class)
Using the sun to light and heat your indoor location. We will discuss the use of and making of a low cost heliostat to turn the ever moving rays of the sun into a stationary more usable beam. With Chris.

**Wireless Health Damage and Smart Meters- 5-7pm (a Free Skool class)
If you don't trust wireless devices, are you a luddite tin foil hat weirdo or just someone with good instincts? New scientific findings of health damage from wireless microwave radiation emitted by cell phones, wifi, and cordless phones are piling up just as PG&E tries to force its powerful wireless equipped 'smart' meters on every home and business in California. But people are fighting back. Learn the facts about EMF and health, how we can resist fascist privacy invading greenwashed power plots, and construct a relocalized energy system that empowers, not oppresses people. Requirements: We ask that cell phones and wifi be turned off for the class, out of respect for those who are electro-sensitive (which is really all of us). With Joshua Hart.

-Wednesday Mar. 23rd: Whow! A Lot Happening!

**Furniture Making- 10am (a Free Skool class)
Creative use of found materials and design techniques will be discussed and demonstrated. Only material availability and motivation will limit us in this class. With Chris.

**Herbs Strategies for Acute and Chronic Sinusitis: 11am-1pm (a Free Skool class)
We'll discuss herbal support for acute and chronic sinusitis. We'll address causes: viruses, allergies, working and living conditions, etc. Dietary, herbal, and lifestyle suggestions will be provided. Requirements: Bring pen and paper for notes. With Red Root Herbal Collective.

**Radical Film Night- 7:30pm- The Sting (This month's theme is Crime Pays!)
The Sting is a 1973 American caper film set in September 1936 that involves a complicated plot by two professional grifters (Paul Newman and Robert Redford) to con a mob boss (Robert Shaw). The story was inspired by real-life con games perpetrated by the brothers Fred and Charley Gondorff. The title phrase refers to the moment when a con artist finishes the "play" and takes the mark's money. If a con game is successful, the mark does not realize they have been "taken" (cheated), at least not until the con artists are long gone.

Come watch films with others, eat popcorn (we will bring some, and we encourage you to bring snacks to share as well) and after the screening we can share in a discussion of the films. $2 donation (notaflof)

-Thursday Mar. 24th: Two to-dos

**Hacktivism 103- 5-7pm (a Free Skool class)
Though much of technology is well-deserving of critique and scrutiny, we work to shape the new world within the context of the old. Through this series of hacktivism workshops, we want to both encourage your interest in technology and provide a way for all of us to exercise our radical politics. If you’ve ever soldered something and enjoyed it, or if you’ve ever learned a programming language and felt brilliant, or if you’ve ever designed something that worked perfectly, we'd like to share more of that with you in an environment where men, women, and trans folks can connect. Requirements: An interest to learn. Some technical savviness and sneakiness. Wtih UBEW.

**Open Mic- sign ups 7:30pm and begins 8pm
Come express yourself, challenge yourself, challenge the audience. $5-$7 NOTAFLOF

-Sunday Mar. 27th: A weekly women and trans friendly reading group at SubRosa! 2-5pm**

Radical Film Night: This Month's Theme is Crime Pays!

2011-03-14T23:39:00.000-07:00

Quick Change
Wed. Mar. 16th at 7:30

Howard Franklin and Bill Murray co-directed this 1990 caper. Grimm (Murray) is sick of life in the rotting Big Apple and decides to pull a bank job to finance his escape. His accomplices include girlfriend Phyllis (Geena Davis) and daffy pal Loomis (Randy Quaid). Dressed as a circus clown, Grimm takes a group of bank employees and customers hostage (including an undercover Phyllis and Loomis). Grimm's escape plan includes using the police, led by the oblivious Chief Rotzinger. The trio pull off their heist but making their escape to the airport proves nearly impossible as they contend with the mob, an anal-retentive city bus driver (Philip Bosco), and each other. The heist itself is comparatively straightforward and easy, but the getaway turns into a nightmare. The relatively simple act of getting to the airport to catch a flight out of the city is complicated by the fact that fate, luck and all of New York City appears to be conspiring against their escape.

Come watch films with others, eat popcorn (we will bring some, and we encourage you to bring snacks to share as well) and after the screening we can share in a discussion of the films. $2 donation (notaflof)

This Wednesday March 9th Radical Film Night: The Usual Suspects

2011-03-07T23:48:00.000-08:00

Radical Film Night at SubRosa
703 Pacific Ave. (at Spruce Street)

March's theme: Crime Pays

The Usual Suspects
Wednesday March 9th at 7:30pm

The Usual Suspects is a 1995 American neo-noir film written by Christopher McQuarrie and directed by Bryan Singer.

The film follows the interrogation of Roger "Verbal" Kint, a small-time con man who is one of only two survivors of a massacre and fire on a ship docked at the Port of Los Angeles. He tells an interrogator a convoluted story about events that led him and four other criminals to the boat, and of a mysterious mob boss known as Keyser Söze who commissioned their work. Using flashback and narration, Kint's story becomes increasingly complex.

Come watch films with others, eat popcorn (as we will bring some, and we encourage you to bring snacks to share as well) and after the screening we can share in a discussion of the films.

SubRosa is an anarchist community space run by a collective of committed volunteers. We put energy into SubRosa to create a vibrant community space available for events, classes, and meetings, collaborations and organizing, art and creativity, as well as reading and studying. We are working to create a world guided by mutual support, without coercive control.

Go to the SubRosa website for more info http://www.subrosaproject.org/

Thanks to the Santa Cruz Guerilla Drive-In for equipment support, and come to the Winter series showing of "Waltz with Bashir" also at SubRosa on Friday March 11th

stuff happening

2011-03-07T09:55:00.000-08:00

This Week At SubRosa, March 7th-13th

-Monday March 7th: a couple Free Skool classes

**Heliostat Hackers- 10am (a Free Skool class)
Heliostat Hackers: Solar Hacking- a Free Skool class
Using the sun to light and heat your indoor location. We will discuss the use of and making of a low cost heliostat to turn the ever moving rays of the sun into a stationary more usable beam. With Chris.
**Dungeons and Dragons Meetup- 5-7pm (a Free Skool class)
Dungeons & Dragons is a game in which people play within an imaginary world together, becoming heroes and going on mythic adventures. D&D doesn't have to be the classic Tolkien world-- it can be funny, desperate, sad, futuristic, deal with large adventures of any type. Moreover, D&D can build friendships, train your imagination, develop your creative problem solving, and build political and spiritual consciousness. D&D can be set in a world of rebellion, Empire, good versus evil - a world much like our own. If you are interested in being part of an ongoing D&D game come by the class, where we will talk about what we want. If you miss the "class," contact us to get involved in the game. With Chrisso.

-Wednesday March 9th: many goings-on!

**Furniture Making- 10am (a Free Skool class)
Creative use of found materials and design techniques will be discussed and demonstrated. Only material availability and motivation will limit us in this class. With Chris.
**Herbal Strategies for Diabetes Prevention (a Free Skool class)
We'll talk about herbal support for prediabetic conditions, otherwise known as Syndrome X or Metabolic Syndrome. About 1/3 of the US population is thought to be prediabetic. We'll cover herbal, dietary and lifestyle suggestions to prevent the development of Type II Diabetes, and discuss societal factors for the prevalence of this condition. Requirements: No requirements. Class will be taught at a beginning/intermediate level. With Red Root Herbal Collective
**Radical Film Night- 7:30pm- This month's theme is Crime Pays!
Come watch films with others, eat popcorn (we will bring some, and we encourage you to bring snacks to share as well) and after the screening we can share in a discussion of the films. $2 donation (notaflof)

-Thursday March 10th: 2 evening events

**Hacktivism 103- 5-7pm (a Free Skool class)
Though much of technology is well-deserving of critique and scrutiny, we work to shape the new world within the context of the old. Through this series of hacktivism workshops, we want to both encourage your interest in technology and provide a way for all of us to exercise our radical politics. If you’ve ever soldered something and enjoyed it, or if you’ve ever learned a programming language and felt brilliant, or if you’ve ever designed something that worked perfectly, we'd like to share more of that with you in an environment where men, women, and trans folks can connect. Requirements: An interest to learn. Some technical savviness and sneakiness. Wtih UBEW.
**Open Mic- sign ups 7:30pm and begins 8pm
Come express yourself, challenge yourself, challenge the audience. $5-$7 NOTAFLOF

-Friday March 11th: 2 evening happenings

**Boat Design- 3-4pm (a Free Skool class)
We will discuss the various design problems of boat building. Requirements: A desire to put out on the Sea. With Robert Blind Bear.
**Santa Cruz Guerilla Drive-In presents: Waltz with Bashir (part of the winter series)- 8pm
Waltz with Bashir is a 2008 Israeli animated documentary film written and directed by Ari Folman. It depicts Folman in search of his lost memories from the 1982 Lebanon War. In 1982, Ari Folman was a 19-year-old infantry soldier in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). In 2006, he meets with a friend from his army service period, who tells him of the nightmares connected to his experiences from the Lebanon War. Folman is surprised to find that he does not remember a thing from that period. Later that night he has a vision from the night of the Sabra and Shatila massacre, the reality of which he is unable to tell. More info at http://www.guerilladrivein.org/

-Sunday March 13th: A weekly women and trans friendly reading group at SubRosa! 2-5pm**

We will be reading a zine every Sunday. Please join us for reading and discussion of the text. Feel free to bring snacks and such. E-mail WTFreading@gmail.com for more info and an upcoming reading list!
**This reading group is limited to those folks who identify as women, trans and/or fem.

So much happening at SubRosa this week!

2011-02-28T14:22:00.000-08:00

This Week At SubRosa, March 1st-6th

-Tuesday March 1st at 7pm: Readings- short stories, poetry and Music!

**Readings by Julian Smuggles, two short stories about depression and being twenty something, as well as releasing a new zine.
**Brenna Coates will be doing spoken word poetry.
**Live music with Caspian from Blackbird Raum with friend, Nick Golden, and Burning Bridges.

-Wednesday March 2nd: many goings-on!

**Furniture Making- 10am (a Free Skool class)
Creative use of found materials and design techniques will be discussed and demonstrated. Only material availability and motivation will limit us in this class. With Chris.
**Community Building Exercises- 5pm-7pm (a Free Skool class)
This class or working group will focus on group exercises that build group solidarity and true, close community-- Trust exercises, group games, and sharing and visioning circles. Students will both experience these exercises first hand with each other, and hopefully leave feeling comfortable facilitating the exercises in the future. Heavily recommended for anyone living communally and/or doing community/political organizing. With Chrisso.
**Beat Boxing/ Mouth Percussion- 6pm (a Free Skool class)
Very fun beat boxing classes with emphasis on world music influences. Very kid friendly. Requirements: Have fun and develop a portable entertainment system. With Kenny.
**Radical Film Night- 7:30pm- This month's theme is Crime Pays!
Come watch films with others, eat popcorn (we will bring some, and we encourage you to bring snacks to share as well) and after the screening we can share in a discussion of the films. $2 donation (notaflof)

-Thursday March 3rd: Open Mic- sign ups 7:30pm and begins 8pm

Come express yourself, challenge yourself, challenge the audience. $5-$7 NOTAFLOF

-Friday March 4th: 2 evening happenings

**Dungeons and Dragons Meetup- 5-7pm (a Free Skool class)
Dungeons & Dragons is a game in which people play within an imaginary world together, becoming heroes and going on mythic adventures. D&D doesn't have to be the classic Tolkien world-- it can be funny, desperate, sad, futuristic, deal with large adventures of any type. Moreover, D&D can build friendships, train your imagination, develop your creative problem solving, and build political and spiritual consciousness. D&D can be set in a world of rebellion, Empire, good versus evil - a world much like our own. If you are interested in being part of an ongoing D&D game come by the class, where we will talk about what we want. If you miss the "class," contact us to get involved in the game. With Chrisso.
**First Friday Art Opening- photography by Kyle Sanders- 6pm-8pm
These images began after I left the cold of the forest to join the working society again, returning to rent a room and share my life with housemates. I moved in intending to make art, but none of the images produced were conceived by this plan. I began to continue a previous interest with human/urban decay and public art, shooting compulsively, trying a variety of lighting and weather. I pursued this idea here locally, as well as San Francisco and Los Angeles.

-Sunday March 6th: A weekly women and trans friendly reading group at SubRosa! 2-5pm**

We will be reading a zine every Sunday. Please join us for reading and discussion of the text. Feel free to bring snacks and such. E-mail WTFreading@gmail.com for more info and an upcoming reading list!
**This reading group is limited to those folks who identify as women, trans and/or fem.

Readings- short stories, poetry and Music!

2011-02-27T20:52:00.000-08:00

Tuesday March 1st at 7pm

Readings by Julian Smuggles, two short stories about depression and being twenty something, as well as releasing a new zine.

Brenna Coates will be doing spoken word poetry.

Live music with Caspian from Blackbird Raum with friend, Nick Golden, and Burning Bridges.

Goings-on at SubRosa, Feb. 23rd-27th

2011-02-22T22:57:00.000-08:00

-Wednesday Feb. 23rd: Radical Film Night- "Exit Through the Gift Shop: A Banksy Film"- 7:30pm

Exit Through the Gift Shop: A Banksy Film is a film directed by Banksy that tells the story of Thierry Guetta, a French immigrant in Los Angeles, and his obsession with street art. The film charts Guetta's constant documenting of his every waking moment on film, from a chance encounter with his cousin, the artist Invader, to his introduction to a host of street artists with a focus on Shepard Fairey and Banksy, whose anonymity is preserved by obscuring his face and altering his voice, to Guetta's eventual fame as a street artist himself.

-Thursday Feb. 24th: Open Mic- sign ups 7:30pm and begins 8pm

Come express yourself, challenge yourself, challenge the audience. $5-$7 NOTAFLOF

-Friday Feb. 25th: Dance Aperitif, 7-10pm

The raddest and earliest dance party in town. All ages/ no drugs or alcohol.

-Saturday Feb. 26th: Free Skool Variety Show Benefit, 7pm

The evening will include super spoken word performances, awesome acoustic guitar, incredible country blues, and more!

And pick up the new Spring Free Skool Calendar!

$5-7 donation at the door, and all the proceeds will go to the cost of printing calendars for the Spring quarter (March-May). No one turned away for lack of funds.

Free Skool Santa Cruz is a completely grassroots effort, a bunch of individuals deciding to act collectively and autonomously to create a skill-sharing network. More than just an opportunity to learn, we see Free Skool as a direct challenge to dominant institutions and hierarchical relationships. More info: http://santacruz.freeskool.org

-Sunday Feb. 27th: A weekly women and trans friendly reading group at SubRosa! 2-5pm**

We will be reading a zine every Sunday. Please join us for reading and discussion of the text. Feel free to bring snacks and such. E-mail WTFreading@gmail.com for more info and an upcoming reading list!

**This reading group is limited to those folks who identify as women, trans and/or fem.

Toronto G20 prisoner update with the Guelph Anarchist Black Cross, Tues. Feb. 22nd, 7pm

2011-02-18T10:44:00.000-08:00

Toronto G20 Prisoner Update
Tuesday February 22nd, 7pm

at SubRosa, 703 Pacific Ave.
(donations requested, no one turned away)

In June 2010, G20 leaders met in Toronto, Ontario. Anarchists were a fierce presence in the streets during the summit. On the first day of the G20, a breakaway march in downtown Toronto left behind a path of shattered glass and torched police cruisers. Eighteen people are charged with organizing resistance to the summit. Some are accused of being part of Southern Ontario Anarchist Resistance (SOAR), as well as other groups.

The Guelph Anarchist Black Cross will be in Santa Cruz to give updates on the G20 legal cases and information on how to support them.

http://guelphprisonersolidarity.wordpress.com

About: The Guelph Anarchist Black Cross Collective is committed to confronting the state, capitalism, colonization, and all forms of exploitation. The function of prisons is inherently codependent with these forces, for neither can exist without the other. We see prison as a daily threat, also manifesting in all aspects of society through surveillance, isolation and repression. We want to contribute to a struggle against prisons, and the world that needs them.

This Week At SubRosa, Feb. 14th-20th

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This Week at SubRosa, February 14th-20th

-Wednesday Feb. 16th: Radical Film Night- "Piece by Piece"- 7:30pm

Piece by Piece documents the history of San Francisco’s controversial graffiti art movement, with a fast-paced journey into the world of San Francisco street art, as seen through the eye of the artists. Chronicling more than 20 years of creation and destruction — honestly, accurately, and critically, the film takes you alongside those who lived in what is arguably one of the most influential youth cultures of our time.

San Francisco’s graffiti style arose in the period from 1983 to 1993. Piece by Piece starts by documenting what laid the groundwork for today’s Bay Area graffiti: “Cholo” writing and the impact of PBS’s 1983 documentary, Style Wars. The film includes not only San Francisco’s graffiti originals, but also commentary from noted New York “writers” such as Seen, Cope 2, and Case 2. It also covers the tragedy of Dream One, a San Francisco graffiti pioneer and a vocal figurehead in Bay Area urban welfare activism.

From 1993 to 2000, San Francisco became an international magnet for ground-breaking graffiti styles yet to be seen in other parts of the world. The film elaborates on what it takes to establish credibility among the graffiti community, featuring classic works from KR and the horses of Reminisce; and documenting the creative expression of these and other “writers.” The film also features well-known graffiti artists such as Grey, Buter, Joro, Norm, and Barry McGee (Twist). review from: http://ishogun.com

-Thursday Feb. 17th: Women & Trans 3rd Thurs. Open Mic- sign ups 7:30pm and begins 8pm

Come express yourself, challenge yourself, challenge the audience. All are welcome to attend but only women & trans identified folks invited to the stage $5-$7 NOTAFLOF

-Friday Feb. 18th: Folk/punk show! 7-10pm,

With the Homeless People (Oakland) & Main St. Mouse (SC) & Shagbark Hickory (SC). A fun evening, dance around and bring some coins in your pockets to donate at the door ($5-NOTAFLOF).

-Sunday Feb. 20th: A weekly women and trans friendly reading group at SubRosa! 2-5pm**

We will be reading a zine every Sunday. Please join us for reading and discussion of the text. Feel free to bring snacks and such. E-mail WTFreading@gmail.com for more info and an upcoming reading list! **This reading group is limited to those folks who identify as women, trans and/or fem.

SubRosa is an anarchist community space run by a collective of committed volunteers. We put energy into SubRosa to create a vibrant community space available for events, classes, and meetings, collaborations and organizing, art and creativity, as well as reading and studying. We are working to create a world guided by mutual support, without coercive control.

2 Graffiti film screenings- Wed. and Fri.

2011-02-07T11:41:00.000-08:00

-Wednesday Feb. 9th: Radical Film Night- "Bomb the System"- 7:30pm

Bomb the System (2002) is a drama film written and directed by Adam Bhala Lough. It revolves around a group of graffiti artists living in New York City who decide to make a mark on the city. Bomb the System was the first major fictional feature film about the subculture of graffiti art since Wild Style was released 1982. Several well-known graffiti artists participated in the making of the film including Lee Quinones, Cope2 and Chino BYI. The film's score and soundtrack were composed by El-P.

-Friday Feb. 11th: Santa Cruz Guerilla Drive-In presents: Bomb It- the international graffiti film, at 8pm

Bomb It is an international graffiti and street art documentary. The film spans 5 continents and features cities such as Cape Town, London, Paris, Amsterdam and Sao Paulo, as the documentary explores the interplay between worldwide graffiti movements, the global proliferation of "Quality of Life" laws, and the fight for control over public space. www.guerilladrivein.org

First Friday Artist: Danielle O'Malley

2011-02-02T08:25:00.000-08:00

February 2011
Selected Works by Danielle O'Malley
February 4th-28th
Artists Reception Friday, February 4th 6-8pm
SubRosa, 703 Pacific at Spruce St

Danielle O’Malley utilizes printmaking, sculpture, narrative and installation to bring her audience into her own underground society. She regurgitates miscellaneous childhood memories to create and describe a society of fictional creatures, their morals, and their relationships to themselves and their world. Homeless houses roam wild and lost, female witches sacrifice pop culture, and her creatures sustain themselves through grotesque black magic, and black markets. This society explores ideas of utopias, dystopias, and the fine line between the two. These mutants attempt to find paradise between the cracks of their nightmarish realities, and vice versa. Themes of innocence and childhood attempt to sugarcoat their misery, while at the same time, emphasizing the terrors of their world. This imaginary world ultimately describes her internal and external conflicts, and her reflection on our generation and our environment.

Radical Film Night, Wed. Feb. 2nd- Style Wars

2011-02-01T11:31:00.000-08:00

Radical Film Night @ SubRosa "Style Wars"- Wed. Feb. 2nd, 7:30pm

"Style Wars" is an early documentary on hip hop culture, made in New York City in 1983 by Tony Silver and Henry Chalfant. The film has an emphasis on graffiti, although breakdancing and rapping are covered to a lesser extent. Style Wars gives a view into the graffiti subculture (as well as urban New York City life in the 1980s), documents the stages of New York City Hip Hop, and posits that its members were a racially and ethnically diverse group of creative young artists, albeit being mostly African-American.

Come watch films with others, eat popcorn (as we will bring some, and we encourage you to bring snacks to share as well).

And after the screening we can share in a discussion as well.
$2 donation NOTAFLOF

Seattle Solidarity Network presentation: Wed. Jan 26th at 5:30pm

2011-01-25T22:20:00.000-08:00

After the presentation stay for the Radical Film Night showing of Land and Freedom- A reflective look at an idealistic young man's involvement in the Spanish Civil War, Land and Freedom combines wartime drama with impassioned political debate. 7:30pm, $2 donation (notaflof)

Anarchists Against the Wall

2011-01-17T19:32:00.000-08:00

Anarchists Against the Wall (in occupied Palestine)

Saturday, January 22, 1pm – 3pm
at SubRosa, 703 Pacific Ave.

Speaker and short film.

Anarchists Against the Wall is a direct action group established
in 2003 in response to the wall Israel is building on Palestinian
land in the Occupied West Bank. The group works in cooperation
with Palestinians in a joint popular struggle against the occupation.

Donations at the door are welcome (notaflof)

awalls.org

2011-01-14T14:03:00.000-08:00

SURGERY S.C.

Friday, January 21st
Reading will start
promptly at 7pm.

Three Bay Area writers
perform their work.

Bambi will read from their newest book, 'MadDog/Lost Puppy', a sexual confessional,a purging of the psyche.

Julian Smuggles (of Santa Cruz's Intergalactic Smugglers) reads his short story, 'The Pinwheel'.

Zack Thiesen performs his work 'Both', a Jungian stage play.

Mingling in between sets guaranteed, minimal technical difficulties promised. Possible mystery guest, or surprise brief musical acoustic set. Spend your Friday night with some South Bay strangers, we swear we won't ask for a place to crash after

bothbooks.com

2011-01-11T13:41:00.000-08:00

Radical Film NightS at SubRosa, 
every Wednesday 7:30pm, $2 donation(notaflof), 703 Pacific Ave.

Come watch films with others, eat popcorn (we will bring some, and we
encourage you to bring snacks to share as well) and after the screening we
can share in a discussion of the films.

January's theme: the Spanish civil war

-Wednesday Jan. 12th: Libertarias- Libertarias is a Spanish historical
drama made in 1996. It was written and directed by Vicente Aranda. In
1936, Maria, a young nun is recruited by Pilar, a militant feminist, into
an anarchist militia following the onset of the Spanish Civil War. Guided
by the older woman, Maria is exposed to the realities of war & revolution,
and comes to question her former, sheltered life.

Upcoming Artists

2011-01-05T02:28:00.000-08:00

January 2011: Adaptations of Affection
Selected Works by Hannah Matzner

Miss Matzner's collection is an exploration of the things we put ourselves through for the people we love. It is a visual and lyrical manifestation of the insanity brought about by desire. It attempts to express all phases of a relationship, from that intoxicating honeymoon to the eventual downfall, all the while maintaining a sense of beauty and appreciation for the experiences had. In other words, this show is the capturing of one artist’s joy and sorrow, all expressed with a tinge of nostalgia.

January 2011: Adaptations of Affection
Selected Works by Hannah Matzner
January 1st-31st
Artists Reception Friday, January 7 6-8pm
SubRosa, 703 Pacific at Spruce St

Hannah Matzner was born on April 8, 1989 in a town occupied more by cows than by people.

Upcoming Artists

2010-10-27T14:16:00.000-07:00

The Making of Amerikans

Restlessness defines the American spirit. Speaking to the “improvised character of American experience, historian and former Librarian of Congress Daniel Boorstin has said, ‘everyone [has] to be prepared to become someone else.”’ Like characters in a Gertrude Stein novel, we are living in the present progressive tense, existing in a continual state of becoming that’s both affirming and altering who we are. Celebrating such indeterminacy, these portraits treat identity as an activity, as something contextually situated, making for a seriously playful meditation on this generation’s selves.

Works Cited
Lapham, Lewis. Hotel America: Scenes in the Lobby of the Fin de Siecle. New York: Verso, 1995. Book.

The Making of Amerikans
Nicky Tiso, Bryan May, Chloe Minervini
November 5th-30th
Artists Reception Friday, November 5th, 6-8pm
SubRosa, 703 Pacific at Spruce St

Nicky Tiso

Nicky Tiso was born and raised in Southern California and graduated from The Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA in June 2010 with a B.A. in Liberal Arts. There, he studied aesthetics and politics primarily through the medium of creative writing. His work has been published in XYZ, and he currently interns with Siglio Press, a new and independent press in Los Angeles dedicated to publishing uncommon works that live at the intersections of art and literature. You may follow his poetic self at nickytiso.blogspot.com.

Bryan May

Bryan May is a California native named after the guitarist of Queen. He’s currently a cat-lover, a late-night guerilla radio DJ, and is a great shoulder to cry on over late night burritos. His work is an intimate and anthemic exploration of West Coast punk/fringe culture from an insider’s perspective. His style is as youthful and exuberant as his subjects; it captures an attitude of resistance in the cross hairs of intoxication, where partying meets protest. Check out his bad website at www.restlesslegs.tk.

Chloe Minervini

Chloe Minervini grew up in Cotati, CA, home of the annual accordion festival. She has an acute love for cats, burritos, and talking about feelings. When she isn’t busy reading the classics, making artisan espresso drinks, playing a wee bit of music or crushing on cuties, she is probably taking pictures that encapsulate her lust for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Free Skool Benefit Concert, Wed, Oct 13th 7PM

2010-10-05T16:01:00.000-07:00

Upcoming Artist

2010-09-24T14:59:00.000-07:00

October 2010: It's the end of the world so what are you afraid of?
Selected Works by Mai Swift

My life consists of thoughts sewn to moments wrapped in context and this is how I live it. Tied to objects and beings, my work evokes fragmented sensations. There is no lie more compelling than a memory and no memory can be more than an elaborate and subtle lie. Truth is too objective to be remembered, but I can reestablish it in sculpted form. I can stuff my hearsay history into solid shapes that are real and true and cannot be denied.

When I started making sculpture, the “realist” human body seemed the paragon of form, function and concept. I saw myself in the beautiful women I wrought from clay, and fantasized that my own body was so easily mutable. By coming to terms with the imperfections inherent in my body, and the often ugly nature of living, these new works reconcile my dissatisfaction with traditional figuration and gender experience.

It's the end of the world so what are you afraid of?
Selected Works by Mai Swift
October 1st-31st
Artists Reception Friday, October 1st, 6-8pm
SubRosa, 703 Pacific at Spruce St

Mai Swift (maimai) is a sculptor currently living in a state of flux. No one can say where Mai will be next or what it is that Mai will be doing there. MaiMai attended Evergreen State College, studied nearly every sculptural medium, and graduated in 2009 with a BA in art. Mai's sculptural work moves seamlessly between ceramic, stone, wood, fabric, fine/industrial metals, found/repurposed objects, and glass.

Zines on Toast! Tuesday, Sept 7 at 7pm

2010-09-05T22:50:00.000-07:00

ZINES ON TOAST TOUR!
At SubRosa
Tuesday, Sept 7 at 7pm

An evening of entertainment and information with zine writers from the UK (Rum Lad, Last Hours, Hey Monkey Riot and Morgenmuffel) on tour with Portland's Alex Wrekk (Brainscan zine and Stolen Sharpie Revolution). Join them for accounts of UK zine culture including stories from Alex's trip to the UK last year, plus tales of the London zine symposium, vegan mass catering, UK social centres, revolution, punk rock, anarchy and more!

Alex Wrekk “Author of the popular how-to guide of zine-making, Stolen Sharpie Revolution, over fifteen years of zine-making under her belt, and the most intimate details of her life photocopied, stapled, and mailed around the world, this is a woman committed to taking her experiences in life and putting them on display in a way that is not for ratings or profit. Rather, she does it for the love of writing, creating, and sharing.” (Feminist Review) www.smallworldbuttons.com

Isy Morgenmuffel “For the past ten years Morgenmuffel comic zine has been documenting the world that Isy inhabits. A world of riots in the city of London, cooking for hundreds of punks, starting housing co-ops, local social centres, or simply hanging out with friends and drinking. Through it all Isy’s love of life, and humour, is at the heart of the stories.” (Last Hours) www.morgenmuffel.co.uk

Edd Baldry, a radical illustrator and editor of Last Hours, and creator of Hey Monkey Riot: “Edd’s perhaps one of the few people drawing autobio comics who actually does interesting stuff, … with an angle on activism which is celebratory rather than polemical, yet also unafraid to point out absurdities.” (Lucid Frenzy) www.eddbaldry.co.uk

Steve Larder “Rum Lad is part comic, part scene report, part diary but all with a subtle positivity that works to remind you that being a punk is fucking awesome.” (Pete Willis) www.stevelarder.co.uk

Tom Fiction of Last Hours magazine and resource for creative resistance. www.lasthours.org.uk
Natalie of Last Hours magazine and organizer of the London Zine Symposium, and annual event now in it’s 6th year. www.londonzinesymposium.org.uk/

FOR MORE INFORMATION: WWW.ZINESONTOAST.ORG

ZINES ON TOAST TOUR!
At SubRosa
Tuesday, Sept 7 at 7pm

September Artist: Justin Angelos - Disaster Information

2010-08-25T04:05:00.000-07:00

September 2010: Disaster Information
Art by Justin Angelos

Flood, tornado, earthquake, job loss, bankruptcy, oil spill, death. Disasters come in all shapes and sizes. We are reminded of this daily.

Culled from abandoned property, roadsides, flea markets, mass media and the debris of passed family members this latest collection of work is a response, escape and even shelter in the wake of life changing events. Attempting to find beauty in discarded objects and breath new life into images long forgotten, a new world emerges from the ruble of the past. Demi-gods, heroes and evil-doers alike inhabit a landscape of shape, color and pattern.

When disaster strikes where will you run for shelter?

Disaster Information
The Art of Justin Angelos
September 1st-30th
Artists Reception Friday, 3rd, 5:30-8pm
SubRosa, 703 Pacific at Spruce St

Justin Angelos was born in 1971 in Los Angeles, Ca. After spending many years on the road with a job in the tradeshow industry Justin now lives in Santa Cruz, Ca where he is a fulltime stay at home dad and artist.

Life, death, loss and rebirth play a major role in the forming of many of his ideas. Inspired by the current state of our world and the debris man leaves in his wake, Justin’s palette is often made up of found and discarded objects collected in abandoned houses, vacant lots, roadsides and second hand stores. Primitive culture, the animal world and today’s fast paced and disposable society, continue to add fuel to his work.

Our Other Weapon is a Zine! Sat, Aug 28th 7pm

2010-08-21T12:02:00.000-07:00

As a kick start to the ninth annual San Francisco Zine Fest on September 4th and 5th, zinesters Tomas Moniz of Rad Dad Zine, Dani Burlison and Leilani Clark of Petals and Bones Zine - among others - set out on a week-long Northern California zine tour and bring daring, bold and kick-ass words to read, sing or otherwise perform for your pleasure and amusement.

The zinesters invite you to what promises to be a night of laughs and thought-provoking zine-reading.

Sat, Aug. 28th at 7pm
at SubRosa
$5 suggested donation

Conspiracy Tour hits SubRosa, Mon, Aug 16 at 7pm

2010-08-10T11:46:00.000-07:00

Conspiracy Tour 2010 at SubRosa!

The Scott and Carrie Support Committee is excited to be teaming up with the RNC 8 Defense Committee and friends to bring The Conspiracy to Santa Cruz! Featuring presentations about both of these cases and upcoming trials, as well as information on AETA, grand jury resistance, dealing with state repression and more, this will be a roadshow to remember even before you read about it in your FBI file.

Conspiracy Tour
Mon, Aug 16 at 7pm
$5 suggested donation

Tour to Raise Support Has the State Up in Arms

...The State of Minnesota alleges that organizing a convergence space for protesters to have meetings, eat free meals, and check teh interwebs (on computers that an FBI informant helpfully set up!) makes the RNC 8 guilty of conspiracy. The Federal government claims that Scott DeMuth’s writings and associations suggest that he is an anarchist and therefore a domestic terrorist, making him guilty of conspiracy under the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act.

We say organizing resistance to state repression isn’t conspiracy. It’s survival. We say living our lives according to our principles isn’t terrorism. It’s our right. We say we’ll continue organizing no matter how much the state tries to destroy us and our communities.

So if this is conspiracy, we say to you…Join the Conspiracy!

This summer, the Conspiracy Tour is going on a whirlwind, month-long excursion across the continental United States to raise awareness of and solidarity for political activists from Minneapolis, MN who are facing severe state repression. Come join us in raising political support and much-needed legal defense funds for the RNC 8 and Scott DeMuth.

It’s been alleged that the Tour will include a musical puppet show, a scintillating presentation on the charges the activists are facing, and various (some would say nefarious) ways you can join the Conspiracy to support targets of state repression. In addition to the usual perks of joining a conspiracy, co-conspirators will be learning ways to strengthen and protect their communities from future incidences of state repression. You know, just in case.

Come find solidarity, strategizing, resistance, and community that the state could only dream of! This will be a roadshow to remember even before you read about it in your FBI file.

Find out more about the Tour: http://conspiracytour.wordpress.com/.

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

2010-07-30T23:36:00.000-07:00

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

2010-07-28T14:21:00.000-07:00

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

2010-07-19T14:00:00.000-07:00

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

2010-07-14T23:41:00.000-07:00

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

2010-06-30T16:49:00.000-07:00

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

2010-06-26T13:33:00.000-07:00

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

2010-06-20T18:08:00.000-07:00

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

Presentation by NEST, June 25th at 7pm

2010-06-18T16:49:00.000-07:00

NEST, Northwest Ecosystem Survey Team

Friday, June 25th at 7pm

SubRosa Infoshop

NEST is an all-volunteer group of self-organizing, tree-climbing humans. They take on a role as canopy surveyors, who utilize the Northwest Forest Plan’s “Survey and Manage” laws to protect ancient forests threatened by clearcut logging.

NEST formed out of the Fall Creek tree-sit in 1998, when several observant forest defenders noticed paid USFS surveyors walking transect lines and climbing trees. These paid surveyors were seeking the treetop nests of red tree voles. Unfortunately, their abstract survey protocol does not fully account for tree vole habitat, and it is not ideal for finding nests. Under Survey and Manage, each red tree vole nest documented was required to receive a 10-acre surrounding buffer where no logging could occur. Following a little research, the forest defenders realized just what needed to be done to do a much more thorough job, on their own.

Since this time, NEST has found hundreds of Red Tree Vole nests in areas that were slated for logging. Thousands of acres of forest have been saved, as a result of NEST surveys.NEST has surveyed everywhere from the Illinois Valley of Southern Oregon, as far north as the Mt. Hood National Forest, and many sites in between.

The slideshow will present some of the finest photos from the 10 years of NEST's activity and describe how you can get involved.

http://nestcascadia.wordpress.com/

Post-Punk/Indie Show, Wed, June 23rd, 7pm

2010-06-18T08:00:00.000-07:00

Show with Duchampion from the east coast, The Shade from San Diego, and No Jet Left from Santa Cruz. $5 suggested donation for touring bands.

Check out the bands:
Duchamp!
The Shade!
No Jet Left!

Demystifying Anarchy, a panel discussion June 24th 6:30pm

2010-06-17T14:37:00.000-07:00

While this is not a SubRosa event, some Subrosa staff helped organize it and we hope you will plan to attend.

Anarchists are everywhere!

It's true. There are anarchists everywhere and they are definitely in Santa Cruz. But who are they really? What do they actually want? Are they really trying to destroy everything?

We invite you to come find out for yourself at DEMYSTIFYING ANARCHY. Come hear self-identified anarchists speak about why they call themselves anarchists, what anarchy means to them and how they see the world. There will be a time for questions and discussion.

Don't believe the hype. Come find out for yourself.

Demystifying Anarchy
Thursday, June 24th, 6:30pm
Louden Nelson Center, Room 3

The event is free, but donations for the space are welcome.

Demystifying Anarchy is organized by an ad hoc group of Santa Cruz locals from the anarchist community.

Artist Opening: Petal Power - The Art of Louise Chen

2010-06-02T04:55:00.000-07:00

Join us on First Friday when we are excited to offer the work of Louise Chen. Petal Power, Louise Chen’s newest installation of drawings and paintings, evokes rejuvenation, renewal, and refurbishment. From a pile of compost - discarded materials; an apple core, coffee grounds, last night’s pasta - flowers erupt and insist a beautiful contrast between light and dark, between life and death. The ability for nature to renew itself is amazing. Chen’s drawings apply the same attitude towards life and human interactions; transformations, from jealousy to admiration, from break up to break through, from violence to embrace, and our ability to get up tumultuous and steep hills with our own “petal power”.

Petal Power
The Art of Louise Chen
June 1st-30th
Artists Reception Friday, June 4th, 5-8pm
SubRosa, 703 Pacific at Spruce St

Louise Chen is a Los Angeles based artist currently living in Santa Cruz. Her work has been featured in galleries across the United States, including Giant Robot galleries in New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. Her artwork is inspired by botanical and scientific drawings, vintage floral patterns, antiques, the universe, animals, and the people and artists that move around her. Her work plays with positive and personal reflections as well as universalities, sometimes conveying adult hardships through childish fantasies.

A Word About the Reported "Raid"

2010-05-21T10:28:00.000-07:00

Four armed deputies visited SubRosa Wednesday May 19th. SubRosa was closed at the time. They told a neighbor they wanted to talk to SubRosa staff about "worker's comp issues." One of the deputies was an inspector from the Santa Cruz District Attorney's Office.

Beyond this unsuccessful visit, SubRosa has not had any contact with law enforcement. SubRosa was not raided, and our door was not broken. We did not, and do not call the police.

SubRosa is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, and has no paid workers and is an all-volunteer space. SubRosa has a business license to operate in the City Of Santa Cruz. SubRosa is in compliance with all city and county fire codes, zoning requirements, entertainment permits, health codes, workers compensation, and sales tax requirements. No workers comp claims have been filed, nor have we been contacted by the Division of Workers Compensation.

A Statement from SubRosa concerning May Day

2010-05-06T08:28:00.000-07:00

SubRosa was not involved in the events in downtown Santa Cruz on May Day. SubRosa is a community space that offers literature, art, coffee and performances. Like many businesses downtown, SubRosa provides a public bulletin board for people to post fliers. Jimi Haynes is not and has never been a volunteer at SubRosa.

We know it is a terrible feeling to feel under attack, as some of the downtown business owners and employees must feel right now. We care about the suffering of the people who were affected. The fear of violence and attack is something that many of us, especially women, youth, people of color, political dissidents, and poor people, feel on a regular basis in Santa Cruz and the world at large. None of us, especially anarchists, are working for a world dominated by fear. As an anarchist space, we strive to create a venue for the free association of autonomous people working together as equals to create a world without domination through direct action and mutual support.

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The following is not an official statement, but some ideas of ways that individuals can reach out and support other individuals who are being impacted by these events, and also foster more understanding in our community:

Call or visit someone you know has been impacted, just to let them know you care and are thinking about them.

Have nuanced discussions with your friends and neighbors about the atmosphere downtown both before and after May Day, listening to other people's feelings with an open mind.

Speak with someone who is from a different walk of life than you about how these events are affecting them. Maybe ask them what their experiences being downtown are like.

Be careful about repeating things that you do not know are true. Rumor and accusation can be very harmful to people.

Ideas for creating a supportive atmosphere in Santa Cruz

2010-05-06T05:40:00.000-07:00

Thank you for your support so far. This has been, and will continue to be a rough ride.

I know that friends are looking at the accusations in the paper, and they
probably don't gibe with what you've experienced of anarchist projects, if
you've taken a Free Skool class, if you've seen a free community movie with
Guerilla Drive-In, or if you've sat in SubRosa enjoying a performance or a
cup of coffee with a friend. In the world I want to see, people work
together to create community, support each other, solve problems without
domination and reliance on outside authority.

I suspect supportive people are standing on the sidelines hoping to help, but
not knowing where the best places to put their energy are. So I made a list
if it will help. Please don't feel obligated to do any of this unless you
are personally compelled to. Here are things you can do:

Going to SubRosa to support staff. We are trying to make sure that no one staffs alone. While the space has been visited by threatening aggressive people, we have also been visited by curious, open individuals who came to show support. Bring friends.

Write letters in support of people and organizations who are being targeted. Letters might go to nearby projects, landlords or threatened projects, employers of those targeted, letters to the editors, and just other friends in the area.

Call and support people who are going through a lot or working doubletime to help others through the shitstorm, not just people who have become the focus of media, but the people around and supporting them.

If you know someone who was hurt or scared by what happened downtown on May Day, take a moment to express your compassion to them.

Teach anyone you can about the true meaning of anarchism, maybe even expressing this in public forums to further understanding.

Contribute to what might end up being a long and expensive legal defense , redhillsupport.wordpress.com

SC Weekly: Anarchists Aren't Evil

2010-05-06T05:19:00.000-07:00

Check out this Op-Ed piece from the Santa Cruz Weekly!

Statement RE Jimi Haynes

2010-05-04T07:46:00.000-07:00

Jimi Haynes has never staffed nor volunteered at SubRosa. No one in the SubRosa collective recognizes seeing Mr. Haynes in or around the community space.

We note that at first Mr. Haynes volunteered to the police that he saw a flier on SubRosa's public bulletin board. Now Mr. Haynes claims he worked at SubRosa for a year. To be clear, SubRosa has no connection whatsoever to Mr. Haynes.

SubRosa was not involved in the events of May Day. SubRosa is a community space that offers literature, art, and performance. Like many businesses downtown, SubRosa provides a public bulletin board for people to post fliers.

SubRosa under attack for being an anarchist space

2010-05-03T04:53:00.000-07:00

SubRosa needs your support-- and I don't mean financially, this time. We are getting blamed for the May Day dance party that resulted in broken windows in downtown SC. Individuals involved with SubRosa are having their physical well being threatened. People are using what was a huge dance party with a few acts of vandalism as an excuse to attack SubRosa and anyone in any way associated with it. There are accusations that SubRosa organized the May Day event, that the event started at SubRosa and a ton of other things that aren't true. SubRosa had nothing to do with the event, except that there were fliers for it here, as there were allover town and allover the internet.

This is a time for us all to band together, to show support and solidarity with each other in the face of a police state that has always blamed anarchists for everything destructive, while actively trying to prevent people from exercising creativity that would create alternatives to capitalist relations. The people who make this town a fantastic place to be are far more important than the walls and windows of businesses that suck our souls away for their profit.

Most of the accusations leveled at SubRosa are coming from two places (which may actually be the same place). One is Take Back Santa Cruz, a group of white, upper-middle class, vaguely conservative people who wrote an almost completely inaccurate email to its email list conflating every DIY community event in Santa Cruz with the May Day vandalism. The other source of misinformation comes from the ever virulent Santa Cruz Sentinel online forums. There is a lot of inaccurate information posted there, partly due to inaccurate reporting in the Sentinel's article and partly due to a bunch of ignorant jerks who get to write whatever they want without having to sign their name to it. A lot of the comments have been incredibly racist, and incredibly violent, calling for doing injury to SubRosa collective members, and even posting their addresses, or, even more offensively, blaming the vandalism on illegal immigrants, which just shows you the true ignorance of the people posting.

It seems incredibly ironic to me that people who are so appalled by "violence" done to buildings would call for physical harm to be done to real people.

This town does not just belong to the rich, the white, the business owner. It also belongs to the artist, the street musician, the worker, the homeless. It also belongs to the anarchist and the anti-authoritarian. We live in a place where business owners and the police try to control our every move, where you can sit, what you can say, and they give us nothing in return, telling us to move along so that the rich tourists who come to spend money won't have their pure eyes tainted with the sight of our ragged clothes.

The SubRosa collective has created a space that challenges the commercialism and rampant capitalism of downtown Santa Cruz, and we have tried to balance that with setting boundaries towards people who come in to our space to create a safe and welcoming atmosphere for people to share ideas and create friendships and alliances. It isn't easy and we do struggle with maintaining a space that feels positive for us all to be in. But the people who frequent SubRosa do not deserve less respect just because they don't have a lot of money or drive fancy cars.

Let's continue to show solidarity and support for each other and plan community events, because that is what actually makes this town worth living in.

Folk-punk at SubRosa! Sunday, May 2nd at 6:30pm

2010-04-28T05:36:00.000-07:00

Folk-ish show at Subrosa this sunday! featuring two amazing local bands and two amazing touring bands from Canada. Doors at 6:30, show starts at 7 and ends at 10! Five bucks at the door, but, as always, no one turned away.

Featuring:

Nessie and Her Beard

Story

Cud Eastbound

Pale Robin

Rita Hayworth and SubRosa Scavenger List

2010-04-16T10:05:00.000-07:00

I read Stephen King's novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption when I was in high school. Here's how it opens:

There's a guy like me in every state and federal prision in America, I guess - I'm the guy who can get it for you. Tailor-made cigarettes, a bag of reefer, if you're partial to that, a bottle of brandy to celebrate your son or daughter's high school graduation, or almost anything else... within reason, that is.

I was immediately taken with that. I thought about it for years. I wanted to be that guy. Not end up in prison, of course, but the guy who could get stuff, get anything, through barter or trade or scavenging.

And so far, we've done pretty good here. SubRosa Community Space was almost totally put together in 2008 from scavenged, donated, borrowed, and traded materials. It was fun going to the dump to drop off a truck load of construction debris and coming back with an equal volume of useful stuff!

Anyway, here's SubRosa's current scavenging list, the stuff that we need around here:

x redwood 2x6s for decks, tables, and benches
x redwood 1x10 for book shelves
x spoons!
x coffee mugs
x set of small glasses for wine at art shows
x hand and power tools for the space
x old skool rag mop
x track lights (non-halogen)
x metal folding chairs
x electrical conduit
x 6 or 7 foot sturdy ladder
x toilet paper, sugar, or soy milk

We were thinking of having a scavenger hunt for these things. How would that work? Intersting idea.

In the meantime, please keep your eyes peeled. You are welcome to drop stuff off anytime. Just ask staff where to put stuff.

Wed, April 14 at 7pm: Microcosm Post-punk Extravaganza!

2010-04-09T06:37:00.000-07:00

Microcosm Post-punk Extravaganza West Coast '010 Tour

Hey! Microcosm Publishing's multimedia tour is coming down the west coast!
This April the Post-Punk Extravaganza tour will feature traveling vegan chef/author Joshua Ploeg doing a "cooking show" from his book In Search of
the Lost Taste as well as making some interesting vegan snacks for all.
Joe Biel will be showing the Plan-It X Records documentary, If It Ain't
Cheap, It Ain't Punk!, hosting a Q&A on DIY publishing, and setting up a
well-stocked zine/book table. Also, Mia Partlow and Michael Hoerger of the
upcoming Edible Secrets book and the brand-new Curious Case of the
Communist Jell-o Box poster zine will be showing up with a mobile museum
and document library on the fascinating secret history of food and
espionage. Come on out and hang with us! Plus, performances from friends
from Santa Cruz!

Wed. April 14 at 7pm

SubRosa, 703 Pacific Ave.

donation at the door and no one turned away.

Tues, April 6th: Music with San Narciso, Hosannas and Christopher Francis & Son

2010-04-02T03:19:00.000-07:00

Another great show is happening this Tuesday, April 6th at 7pm. Shows at SubRosa are fun: coffee, paletas, good music and friends! Totally worth the trip to the south end of Pacific.

The last time HOSANNAS came to town, they were CHURCH. Now, after threat of lawsuit from a similarly-named band, an injustice comparable to the inevitable "Back to the Future" remake starring Shia LeBeef, they are HOSANNAS. Likewise, the last time HOSANNAS came to town, they played at The Church. Now, they're playing at SubRosa, with Olympians CHRISTOPHER FRANCIS & SON, and locals SAN NARCISO.

I can adapt if you can.
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CHRISTOPHER FRANCIS & SON (Olympia, WA)
http://www.myspace.com/sonsongs

HOSANNAS (Portland, OR)
http://www.myspace.com/songforcecrystal

SAN NARCISO (Santa Cruz, CA)
http://www.myspace.com/sannarciso

April at SubRosa!

2010-04-01T03:11:00.000-07:00

It’s Spring! Yay! Spring brings a lot of things to Santa Cruz: flowers, allergies, sunshine, warm days, tourists...

Sunny skies mean more SubRosa Work Days! We’ve got bookshelves to finish, decks to build and tons of general improvement projects to do. You can help! There is a list of things we need in a post below. Maybe you can help us find some of them.

We have been really excited about the vast amounts of events that have been happening around here. We had Peter Gederloos speak about the Spanish Squatting Movement in Barcelona; Elouise Brown talked about her struggle to stop the construction of a coal burning power plant in the Four Corners region of Arizona; plus we’ve had lots of great shows like the return of the Hail Seizures, who played our grand opening back in November 2007.

Maybe you have an event you’d like to plan. We can make that happen. The EVENTS page of our website has new, updated information with nearly everything you need to know about having an event at SubRosa.

Now is a great time to peruse our selection of books and zines for sale. The Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair happened in March, and we brought back tons of exciting books, so come check them out.

We also now have a Zine Exchange box, hanging out over by the A-Library. The idea here is that people can share zines that they’ve made or are important to them by leaving them in the box so that new people can pick them up. Check it out!

Remember, we stay open because people like you give us small or large amounts of money. To help keep us open, donate here!

April's Artist: Trenton Rembert

2010-03-28T12:51:00.000-07:00

On Friday, April 2, SubRosa will welcome the art of Trenton Rembert to its walls. Trenton's art is a unique intersection of seemingly opposed elements. The viewer is greeted by gritty and chaotic fields punctuated by enigmatic figures.

This mixture of realism and abstraction creates a contrast that exposes the subjectivity of living, exploring how emotions, fears and beliefs mold the way we perceive the world. Themes such as dreams, weather, death, the seasons, and apocalypse constructed from hair, leaves, trash, and other found objects juxtaposed with painted elements further suggest the question: what is real, what is created?

Trenton calls his process "a mixture of spontaneity and careful planning. I enjoy the discipline of realism and the expressiveness and freedom of gesture. It's a kind of controlled accident or action-reaction." His process allows him to accumulate layer after layer of acrylic washes mixed with raw materials, such as dirt or ground plants and wood, to build color and texture. The end product is somewhere between painting and collage.

Trenton's works create a haunting feeling of loneliness and desperation, but also of magic and wonder. His work is influenced by the landscapes that Trenton has lived in: the Sierras of his childhood, the Santa Cruz redwoods he now calls home. Rather than landscapes, his pieces capture portraits both of the places Trenton has lived and the isolation of modern existence.

Trenton Rembert at SubRosa
April 1st-30th
Artists Reception Friday, April 2, 6-8pm
SubRosa: A Community Space, 703 Pacific at Spruce St

It's Spring! Time for scavenging!

2010-03-24T04:33:00.001-07:00

Hey, Friends.

It's spring! Sunshine! Clear skies. Here at SubRosa folks are emerging from their winter cocoon, and there's a bustle of activities around the space. People feels active and smiley and social.

This brings to mind two synchronous possibilities: 1) You may be doing a little spring cleaning, and 2) SubRosa staff will be putting some extra love into the space in a series of spring workdays. Perhaps we can provide a little mutual support.

Here is our scavenge list, things we find we are needing around the space.

Redwood 2x6s to repair and complete the decks
Redwood 1x10s to make more book shelves
Metal chairs, particularly folding chairs (but not the ones with pads that will get soggy in the rain) for outside
Track Lights, standard non-halogen style, for inside
Aluminum electrical conduit (EMT) to redo some wiring in the yard
A deadbolt lock for a door keyed on both sides
Old skool rag mop
Tools for the space so we won't have to always borrow people's personal tools
Big chunks of broken concrete
Cash money to buy stuff we can't scavenge

Can you look in your garage or backlot or squat to see if you might have a few things on this list?

Thanks.

Wes & David
SubRosa Staffers

SubRosa Scavenge List

2010-03-24T04:33:00.000-07:00

Here is our scavenge list, things we find we are needing around the space.

Redwood 2x6s to repair and complete the decks
Redwood 1x10s to make more book shelves
Metal chairs, particularly folding chairs (but not the ones with pads that will get soggy in the rain) for outside
Track Lights, standard non-halogen style, for inside
Aluminum electrical conduit (EMT) to redo some wiring in the yard
A deadbolt lock for a door keyed on both sides
Old skool rag mop
Tools for the space so we won't have to always borrow people's personal tools
Big chunks of broken concrete
Cash money to buy stuff we can't scavenge

Can you look in your garage or backlot or squat to see if you might have a few things on this list?

Thanks.

Wes & David
SubRosa Staffers

Doodá Desert Rock Power Plant Film and Speaker

2010-03-17T05:55:00.000-07:00

DOODÁ (Absolutely No) DESERT ROCK POWER PLANT!
Resistance to energy development on indigenous land

Monday March 22nd
7pm, $5-10 donation

SubRosa, 703 Pacific Ave
downtown Santa Cruz

As part of a California-wide March tour, Elouise Brown will be speaking and showing films at the Subrosa Cafe in downtown Santa Cruz on the evening of Monday, March 22nd.

Elouise Brown is a Diné (Navajo) traditionalist and president of the Doodá Desert Rock committee. She will speak about dangers posed by the coal industry, the exploitation of indigenous land by energy companies, and the ongoing struggle to prevent the Desert Rock plant from ever existing.

Several short films will be screened:
Making a Stand at Desert Rock- by Klee Benally (8:00)
Killing Coal: Four Corners in the Crosshairs (7:10)
Our Native Roots – Inside the Dooda Desert Rock Camp

BACKGROUND
Since December of 2006, the community of Chaco Rio in the Navajo Nation (SW of Farmington, New Mexico) has been blockading entry to the site of a proposed 1,500 megawatt coal fired power plant. Desert Rock would be the third coal plant within a 20-mile radius in a region already suffering from extreme levels of toxic emissions.

Other Santa Cruz/Watsonville area presentations:
Elouise will also be doing a 12:00 noon presentation at Cabrillo College on Tuesday the 23rd, and a 7:00pm presentation at the Brown Berets office in downtown Watsonville, also on the 23rd.

For more information and tour details, visit:
http://doodadesertrock.com/
For booking inquiries: scsolidarity [at] riseup.net

"We believe economic development must not come at the expense of the health of our children, the air we breathe, our sacred land and water, and our way of life. As children of Mother Earth and Father Sky, we are honored and obligated to protect and preserve the natural state of Harmony and Beauty."
- Elouise Brown

"As long as I'm alive this power plant is not going to happen."
-Elouise Brown

http://doodadesertrock.com/

SubRosa Speaking Event

2010-03-15T08:10:00.000-07:00

During a speaking event at SubRosa featuring Greek and Barcelona Anarchists, and Peter Gelderloos, author of How Nonviolence Protects the State

Squatting Movement in Barcelona, Thurs. Mar. 11, 5-7pm

2010-03-08T03:48:00.000-08:00

A presentation by Peter G., anarchist living in Spain and author of How Nonviolence Protects the State

The squatting movement as part of an anarchist struggle in Barcelona: an analysis of how the Barcelona squatting movement furthers the local anarchist struggle and how it hinders it.
A Presentation on Squatting Movement
in Barcelona by Peter G.
Thursday March 11th
5-7pm, donation at door
SubRosa, 703 Pacific Ave.

**With a possible additional presentation by anarchist from Greece, on the book We Are An Image from the Future: the Greek Revolts of December 2008

SubRosa Weekly Open Mic immediately follows.

Art Opening: Dark Hyphy Mist - The Art of Swampdonkey

2010-03-01T05:55:00.000-08:00

In March, please join us as we offer the unusual work of Swampdonkey.

"We don't know much about Swampy other than he/she was raised by a young pack of African wild dogs that escaped from the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans in 1983. Swampy dabbled in southern human cults during the mid 90's until he/she found themselves on a northbound Norfolk Southern junk train headed full speed into the dark hyphy mist."

Dark Hyphy Mist
The Art of Swampdonkey
Opening Reception
Friday March 5th 5pm
SubRosa, 703 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

Anti-Olympic Reportback, Wed, March 3rd, 7pm

2010-02-23T05:16:00.000-08:00

From February 10-15, anarchists, native warriors, radicals, and pissed off locals converged in Vancouver to disrupt the capitalist spectacle known as the Olympics. Thousands marched through the streets in opposition to the Games, with some participants blocking roads, attacking the buildings of corporate Olympic sponsors, and fighting with the police. This was the culmination of years of community and international organizing against the Games. Come hear some firsthand experience from a local independent journalist who travelled to British Columbia to cover the action. Join us at SubRosa from 7pm to 9pm on Wed, March 3rd for a night of photos, videos, and stories. This event is free.

Anarchism & Fiction / EF! Roadshow

2010-01-12T04:39:00.000-08:00

Anarchism & Fiction: A Mythmakers & Lawbreakers Book Talk

Wednesday 6pm @ SubRosa

A brief and arguably entertaining evening with Margaret Killjoy, editor of Mythmakers & Lawbreakers: Anarchist Writers on Fiction, a collection of fourteen original interviews with anarchist authors in the world of fiction (including Alan Moore! Ursula K. Le Guin! Derrick Jensen! Cristy Road! Starhawk! CrimethInc! and more!), published this Fall by our pals at AK Press. Discuss the role of storytelling in the anarchist movement -- Learn about novelist assassins, post-colonial african squatters, writers who fought in revolutions and went on to write childrens’ stories! Find out what Tolkien, Camus, Orwell, and Kafka have to say about anarchism! Don't miss it!

~ TOGETHER WITH ~

Earth First! Roadshow

Wednesday 6pm @ SubRosa

The first annual Earth First! California Roadshow will be traveling through the state this month to build connections between bioregions and different ecological resistance groups, and to promote the upcoming Organizers' Conference and Winter Rendezvous in Santa Barbara. About a dozen events are scheduled from January 12th to 24th, including stops in Santa Cruz (Jan. 13), Santa Rosa (Jan. 15) and Fresno (Jan. 20), to feature skillshares, music and information about ecology-based resistance to hierarchical power structures.

STAR WARS TRILOGY Jan 15th, 6:00pm

2010-01-11T09:06:00.000-08:00

Santa Cruz Guerilla Drive-In Presents

Star Wars Trilogy

Star Wars

The Empire Strikes Back

Return of the Jedi

Friday January 15th, 6:00pm
SubRosa, 703 Pacific Ave
Downtown Santa Cruz

Please note the early time! Come in costume!

STAR WARS. What more can we say? The three good ones, before George Lucas turned into a corporate droid. Come in costume so you can prove you are the bigger geek than anyone else. Bring your Star Wars action figures for the participatory shadow puppet show.

PLUS fantastic shorts, a shadow puppet show, and a star wars disco dance party.

BRING pillows, blankets, Star Wars action figures, and snacks to share. Donations are greatly appreciated and directly support the project.

SANTA CRUZ GUERILLA DRIVE-IN is an outdoor movie theater under the stars that springs up in the fields and industrial wastelands. Beyond showing great movies and bringing a broad community together, part of our mission is helping reclaim public space and transforming our urban environment.

BREAKING NEWS, updated summer schedule, discussion, do-it-yourself, email list, the works at

www.guerilladrivein.org

SubRosa Open Mic - a benefit for this all-volunteer radical space

2009-12-08T05:53:00.000-08:00

Subrosa Open Mic - Thu 8pm - Performance Music Poetry
$3-7 at the door - 703 Pacific Ave Santa Cruz

This Thursday, Ellie hosts SubRosa Open Mic, a taste of old skool Santa Cruz.

Years ago, the long-gone performance art space What Is Art? held down the
north end of Pacific Ave. This might give you a flavor of What Is Art? as well as
something of the SubRosa Open Mic:
http://www.santacruzart.net/2009/10/flashback-what-is-art.html

Now, SubRosa holds down the other end of Pacific. This is one way to
support art in Santa Cruz as well as this all-volunteer radical space.

Wish List for the Anarchist Library

2009-12-02T04:17:00.000-08:00

Hey, we like presents too.

Something amazing is happening at SubRosa. New BOOKSHELVES!

Maybe that doesn't sound so amazing to you, but for those of us who maintain the Anarchist Library it's really exciting. And more shelves means more room for books. You can help us expand the Anarchist Library by checking out our wishlist over on that corporate book website that shall remain nameless, and then heading out to your local bookstore to buy the books, and bringing them into SubRosa for the library. Or maybe you already have a copy of one of these books sitting around gathering dust. Bring into the Anarchist Library and share it with everyone.

Another way to support the Anarchist Library is to RETURN THE BOOKS YOU HAVE BORROWED in a reasonable time frame. We don't like to send out lots of emails and make lots of phone calls asking for these books back. But the fact is that we have a lot of great books in the library, and we make those books available to everyone, but the library only works if those books get brought back once in a while. Try not to keep books for more than a month.

Thanks for helping us improve the Anarchist Library! And a very special thanks to the little elves who made the beautiful new bookshelves!

Wed, Nov. 25 at 7pm: UC Berkeley Occupation Arrestees Speak at SubRosa

2009-11-24T15:41:00.000-08:00

On Wednesday, Nov. 25 at 7pm, Doug "G" and Rene Buonarroti will speak at SubRosa about the current occupation movement that captured national headlines this month. Protestors at UCSC, UC Berkeley, UCLA, UC Davis and UC Irvine occupied buildings last week in response to the UC Regents decision to raise tuition by 32%.

Doug "G" and Rene Buonarroti are two non-students who were arrested by UC Berkeley police during the occupation of Wheeler Hall. They will be reading a text they have prepared on the revolt and discuss the actions at UC Berkeley. Donations go to cover their legal costs. Please come out!

2009-11-17T04:17:00.000-08:00

Santa Cruz Guerilla Drive-In and SubRosa Present

Down by Law

Friday November 20th 8pm
at SubRosa (inside if cold and outside if warm)
703 Pacific Ave. (downtown)

Down by Law is a 1986 black-and-white independent film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch with Tom Waits, John Lurie, and Roberto Benigni.The film centers on the arrest, incarceration, and escape from jail of three men. It discards jailbreak film conventions by focusing on the interaction between the convicts rather than on the mechanics of the escape. A key element in the film is Robby Müller's slow-moving camerawork, which captures the architecture of New Orleans and the Louisiana bayou to which the cellmates escape.

Plus fabulous subversive shorts!

SANTA CRUZ GUERILLA DRIVE-IN is an outdoor movie theatre under the stars and inside that springs up unexpectedly in the fields and industrial wastelands. Beyond showing great movies and bringing a broad community together, part of our mission is to help reclaim public space and break down alienation in this urban environment. www.guerilladrivein.org

Open Mic Every Thursday

2009-11-17T03:59:00.000-08:00

One of the last remaining Open Mics in this allegedly pro-art town, the SubRosa Open Mic is often standing room only. A weekly open mic at Santa Cruz newest community space and anarchist infoshop. 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.

Donations directly benefit this community-supported space. Signups for performance at 7:30 fill up quickly. Bring your creativity and artistic genius.

Live Music at SubRosa, Wed, Nov 4 at 7pm

2009-11-03T09:08:00.000-08:00

Upcoming Art Show: Russell Brutsche

2009-10-16T11:39:00.000-07:00

: Wigwams by Russell Brutsche

In November, we welcome the acrylic on canvas work of Russell Brutsche to SubRosa's walls. Santa Cruz artist Russell Brutsche loves socio-cultural ironies. Works such as those in his recent show "Unlawful Gatherings" make painfully apt juxtapositions that expose the social injustice of our everyday world.

One of his images shows Jesus of Nazareth chasing away very contemporary money changers from the temple, only to be descended upon by a heavily armed SWAT team. Another shows the Nativity taking place in what might be considered a modern-day manger, under the Highway 1 overpass at the San Lorenzo River. Other paintings prominently feature images of treesits, hobo campfires, and trains.

Brutsche has been painting since early childhood, later studying under Eric Oback, Robert Freimark (student of Henri Matisse) and Sam Richardson, graduating with scholarship honors in 1968. He has been in numerous one-person and group shows throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, and in Colorado, Arizona and Japan. Brutsche currently participates each October in Santa Cruz Open Studios, and other shows throughout the year.

"I've been impatient with the art world," said Brutsche. "Artists really have a responsibility to speak out against social injustice. Instead, artists have become small businessmen. I know if I would leave out some of that social commentary, the likelihood would be a lot greater that my work would be hanging over someone's couch."

The Art of Russell Brutsche
Opening Reception
Friday November 6th 5pm
SubRosa, 703 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

Benefit for PedX: BREAD & ROSES Fri Oct 16th 7:30

2009-10-12T15:04:00.000-07:00

SubRosa and Guerilla Drive-In Present

Bread and Roses

A benefit for Ped X friends, whose office
was broken into 4 times in 2 months

Friday October 16th at 7:30
in the SubRosa courtyard, 703 Pacific Ave.
$5-$10 donation (no one turned away)

Bread and Roses is a drama about the plight of seemingly invisible office cleaners in contemporary L.A. who often earn as little as $6 a day without benefits.The film opens as Maya, a young Mexican woman, is reuniting with her older sisterRosa in L.A. after a harrowing cross-border journey. Rosa sets her sister up first with a job as a barmaid, which Maya soon quits after getting repeatedly harassed,and then as a janitor. When her boss demands one month's salary as "commission,"Maya happens upon Sam Shapiro, a muckraking lawyer and union agitator.This film is remarkable for its prescience -- it was shown a month after a massive janitor's strike ground L.A.'s business community to a halt.

BRING blankets, pillows, friends, drink, & snacks to share

This showing is a collaboration between some Guerilla Drive-In folks and some SubRosa folks to show support for our neighbors and friends in a tangible way. While offers of condolences are meaningful, we also want to put active energy into material support as well. Here is a way you can also offer support,so come on out, tell your friends and kick down some cash! The Computer Kitchen was also broken into, and so send them some love as well!

SANTA CRUZ GUERILLA DRIVE-IN is an outdoor movie theatre under the stars that springs up unexpectedly in the fields and industrial wastelands. Beyond showing great movies and bringing a broad community together, part of our mission is to help reclaim public space and break down this urban environment. www.guerilladrivein.org

Art Opening: The Dark Night of DIY Ragdolls and Monsters

2009-09-23T07:20:00.000-07:00

October 2009: The Santa Cruz Anarchist Doll-Making Collective
The Dark Night of DIY Ragdolls and Monsters

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On Friday, October 2nd, at 5pm, SubRosa is excited to introduce the recent work of the Santa Cruz Anarchist Doll-Making Collective. The show entitled The Dark Night of DIY Ragdolls and Monsters features the work of a dozen artists working individually and collaboratively to create homemade and recombined dolls and monsters.

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The original Dark Night arose out of a series of Free Skool Santa Cruz workshops on doll- and monster-making. Artists built dolls and monsters by hand out of scraps from their workshops, items gathered at the city dump, and materials scavenged from Bargain Barn. During a series of Dark Nights, artists drank tea, made dolls, and stayed up all night sewing and watching dark doll movies from filmmakers the Brothers Quay, Jan Svankmajer,and Henry Selick.

Peering into the mad workshop of mad doll creators I saw feverish hands working away, some delightfully creepy movie playing on an old tv set, doll parts and needles strewn about the cutting floor, Frankenstein doll creations coming alive!

Historically, dolls are some of the oldest discovered toys, the earliest found in Egyptian tombs dating back to 3000 B.C.E. Dolls depicted humans, animals, and imaginary creatures and have been made of every conceivable material: bisque, celluloid, china, clay, cloth, corn husks, paper, plastic, polymer clay, porcelain, resin, rubber, vinyl, wax, wood, bone, ivory, papier-mâché, and leather.

Join us for an opening show and reception on this Dark Night.

Art Opening: The Dark Night of DIY Ragdolls and Monsters
Friday, October 2nd, at 5pm
SubRosa, 703 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

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First Friday Art Opening: Michael Orick and Tom Calderone

2009-08-27T06:14:00.000-07:00

Septemeber 2009: Michael Orick and Tom Calderone
Recent Collages

On Friday, September 4th, at 5pm, SubRosa is excited to welcome collage artists Michael Orick and Tom Calderon. Calderon and Orick have been hosting a weekly gathering of artists for more than three years, creating a wide variety of collage art. Each, in distinct stylistic approaches to life and art, will be presenting pieces created at Collage Night, and viewable on the walls of SubRosa and at CollageNight.com.

Orick applies values and guides meanderings with his jaunty approach to dismantling social interaction. His claims of art for art's sake, is couched in a literary tradition of blanched intellectualism mixed with pale understandings of things: things such as color and time, silly similies and woman's underwear. His past is yesterday's now. Orick is gliding gracefully, with limbs akimbo.

Calderon, with his understanding of politics and religion, attempts to create visions of the reality behind the accepted spectacle. His imagery is savage and calm, shockingly beautiful and sadly real, steeped in water like a fine tea, flavored something excellent.

Collage, considered by some the premier postmodern art form, has remained as fresh as local produce, and a clear link to the time before Nike and Coca-Cola. Weilding their exacto-knives and glue sticks, collagenight provacateurs Calderon and Orick, hope to push the agenda of dreamers everywhere.

Art Opening: Michael Orick and Tom Calderone
Friday, September 4th, at 5pm
SubRosa, 703 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

Orick applies values and guides meanderings with his jaunty approach to dismantling social interaction. His claims of art for art's sake, is couched in a literary tradition of blanched intellectualism mixed with pale understandings of things: things such as color and time, silly similies and woman's underwear. His past is yesterday's now. Orick is gliding gracefully, with limbs akimbo. Calderon, with his understanding of politics and religion, attempts to create visions of the reality behind the accepted spectacle. His imagery is savage and calm, shockingly beautiful and sadly real, steeped in water like a fine tea, flavored something excellent.

Support our friend Jesse James!

2009-08-23T11:50:00.000-07:00

Jesse James Forrey, 27, was one of over 800 people arrested at the RNC protests in the Twin Cities in September 2008. He has spent the past year in Minneapolis waiting for the state to schedule his trial, while maintaining his innocence of this crime. In August 2009, he was found guilty of felony damage to property in the first degree. On September 17, he will return to court to be sentenced.

Jesse is a friend, a brother, a musician and artist, writer and student, teacher and dog lover from Santa Cruz. He spends his time helping raise his friends' children, playing the banjo, taking and offering classes through Free Skool Santa Cruz, and volunteering his time to help create healthy communities. He has continued similar work while in Minneapolis, working with children and supporting other RNC arrestees. The past year has been difficult and Jesse says "not a day, not a single day.... have I not thought about the West Coast, my friends and my family. The struggle inside of me to accept that I can not be with them, the distance and sadness has made this one of the hardest times of my life. And I have done nothing wrong. I am not even accused of hurting anyone, yet my life has been irrevocably altered."

In total, 818 people were arrested during the RNC. Over 100 people, including Jesse, were charged with felonies on the first day of the protest alone. The prosecutor's office is still pursuing charges wherever they can in an attempt to justify the exorbitant amount of money spent on the protection of war-profiteers, power elite and neoconservative bureaucrats. Some RNC protestors are being charged with absurd crimes like "felony conspiracy to incite to riot in the furtherance of terrorism" while others are given additional charges when they pursue fighting their cases in court. For more information on RNC arrests, see RNC Aftermath. In Jesse's case, the judge allowed the prosecutor to bring in an extra witness at the last minute, only to talk about the RNC Welcoming Committee, a organizing group Jesse had no connection with. The judge in Jesse's case has been known for handing out high bail amounts and long jail sentences in order to make an example of political protestors.

We cannot change what has happened, but we can support Jesse and let him know that he is cared about and loved. There are things you can do to help:

Write a letter -- before September 17 asking the judge to not assign jail time. Jesse has already had the past year of his life controlled by the court system as he waited trial call. In this letter please describe your relationship to Jesse, what you know of the changes in his life, whether you consider him to be an asset to the community and anything else you feel is appropriate. This letter should be addressed to The Honorable Judge Paulette K. Flynn, Ramsey County Court. The letter can be sent directly to Jesse’s attorney, Barbara Nimis, 350 River Road, PO Box 50812, Mendota, MN 55150 or you may sent it to Jesse at 3924 Elliot Ave. S. Minneapolis, MN, 55407. You also could email it as an attachment to supportjesse@riseup.net

Sign the support petition-- it will be presented to the judge at Jesse's sentencing. Every small sign of support helps. http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/supportjessejames

Donate money -- Jesse is expected to pay around $18,000 in legal fees and restitution. Because he has been on trial call for the past year in an unfamiliar city, he has been unable to hold a steady job and has very little money. You can donate money through Jesse's website at http://SupportJesseJames.wordpress.com. No amount is too small.

Throw a benefit for Jesse -- holding an event is a great way to raise money for Jesse and also educate people about the RNC and the police state. For help in holding a benefit, contact supportjesse@riseup.net.

"You, too, probably have dreams and wishes and pains that you would like to affect. It is my hope that we can share this with each other, in a way that is enabling and inspiring. I suppose that is what this is about: sharing our lives in an inspiring way. Support.... There are things we can not ignore, and there is so much we have to gain." -- Jesse James Forrey

Click here for more info about Jesse's case.

Weekly Open Mic Thursday

2009-08-20T04:42:00.000-07:00

SubRosa Weekly Open Mic
Thursday 8-10pm
(sign ups at 7:30)

$3-7 donation at the door suggested
no one turned away for lack of funds.

One of the last remaining Open Mics in this allegedly pro-art town, the SubRosa Open Mic is often standing room only. A weekly open mic at Santa Cruz newest community space and anarchist infoshop. 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.

Donations directly benefit this community-supported space. Signups for performance at 7:30 fill up quickly. Bring your creativity and artistic genius.

Lockheed Fire Info and Evacuee Support at SubRosa

2009-08-14T06:38:00.000-07:00

How much is 4000 acres? Seeing it on the map and comparing it to last summer's relatively small Bonny Doon/Martin Rd. fire is staggering. Realizing that the fire is as large as the entirety of Bonny Doon -- or put another way, as large as all ...of Boulder Creek, Brookdale, and Ben Lomond combined -- is mind-blowing.

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It started me thinking how our political ideals play out in real life. As independent or federated communities, how would we deal with such a situation? And why wait for an anarchist utopia? What can we do now to be helpful and support communities that are in need now?

TEMPORARY HOUSING NETWORK FOR FIRE EVACUEES

In that vein, we created a network to help evacuees find housing at SubRosa in downtown Santa Cruz.

Offer Housing: If you have temporary housing -- a spare room, a couch, a backyard in which to pitch a tent -- to offer, come down to SubRosa and list it on the board.

Evacuees: If you are seeking temporary housing, use the housing list at SubRosa to find a place.

We'll be looking at other ways we can help out during the fire, so stay tuned. More info at http://subrosaproject.org

First Friday Opening: Adriane White

2009-08-03T05:11:00.000-07:00

The Art of Adriane White:
Getaway Sticks and Spaghetti Landscapes

On Friday, August 7th, at 5pm, SubRosa is excited to welcome the art of Adriane White to our walls. These paintings portray her myriad feelings on performance art from weekly performances to burlesque to turn of the century stage set design.

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The dozen canvases in this show represent two whimsical series combined. One is of part animals, part humans, who’ve been forced into the show business against their will. The other is of a spaghetti landscape fantasy where meatballs are moons and a lone dancing foot is the star attraction.

Ms. White says, "I have been in the performance arena for a long time whether it be working at a Caberet restaurant, singing in a karaoke competition or performing my own act in a burlesque show. I can't seem to shake it, I suppose, cause here it is haunting me in paint form. Maybe I just need to get it out of my system."

Adriane White is a long time lover of the arts and has dabbled in its many avenues. She’s studied dance and music most of her life and has appeared in over twenty theatrical plays and musicals. After receiving her B.A. in studio art, with an emphasis on photography she undertook some commercial work. Following a freak bike accident which left her injured, she turned to painting to occupy her creative energy.

Art Opening: Adriane White
Friday, August 7th, at 5pm
SubRosa, 703 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

For prints on canvas of these paintings, contact her at HotWaterArt@gmail.com or HotWaterArt.etsy.com.

SubRosa Needs Yer Art

2009-07-15T08:37:00.000-07:00

Hey All,

SubRosa is looking for artists to display their art on our walls. We have an art show the first Friday of every month with a new artist each month. Typically SubRosa shows emerging artists that have less access to public forums who create innovative,thought provoking art and/or art with an anarchist/radical bent that will fit in our cozy space.

See the artists page on the website,
http://subrosaproject.org/p/art.html

cheers,
og jen

Live Music, July 22 8pm

2009-07-15T08:16:00.000-07:00

Tuesday, 8pm! Music with Jessie Williams, Shuge and more...

2009-06-29T08:10:00.000-07:00

Join us Tuesday night for a great acoustic line up.

Jessie Williams -- Rad vegan acoustic folk punk

Shuge -- Anti-civ Acoustic

Coltor Saylor -- Folk Country Rock

Show start at 8pm

$4 at the door, no one turned away for lack of funds

Folk-Punk Music Fun! Wed, June 24! 7pm!

2009-06-21T05:17:00.000-07:00

Folk-Punk Music Fun!

Wednesday night at SubRosa

with

Chicken Little from Nashville

Miguel from Oakland!

Intergalactic Smugglers from Santa Cruz!

Folk Punk Music Night

Wednesday, June 24th at 7pm

SubRosa: A Community Space

703 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA

$5-$10 at the door, no one turned away

2009-06-18T03:51:00.000-07:00

Cloudy Moon Over SubRosa by aj jones, mechanic at the Bike Church and great neighbor.

June's Featured Artist: Deena Brabant

2009-06-02T04:47:00.000-07:00

On Friday, June 5, at 5pm, SubRosa will proudly welcome the art of Deena Brabant to our walls. Deena’s paintings capture subtle moments in time, bringing attention to the challenges of existence in a world of constantly shifting terrain. According to Deena, her portraits “are orientation markers, a way of capturing a moment between where one has been and where one is going.”

Deena describes herself as “fixated on the human form and face, in life and in art: its structure, psyche and hidden secrets. All of this I envision devoid of environment, as if all my subjects could exist in any given space and time. In a material world, I find that what I cling to most when in search of sincerity are the fleeting emotions of myself and others. My figures are snapshots of these transient emotions, a look to remember when the feeling is gone.” Deena’s art will be on display at SubRosa for the month of June. The Artist’s Reception will start at 5pm on Friday, June 5.

SubRosa - a community space

Rad Dad(s) at SubRosa, Sun. Jan 8th at 5pm

So Much Going on at SubRosa, Jan. 2nd-8th 2012

The new 2012 Slingshot Organizers are in!

Women and Trans Open Mic! Tonight!

Viva Mexico!- film showing, Tues. Oct. 18th, 7:30pm

Anarchy in Athens, Friday Oct 7

Sustainable Cycles Bike Tour, Tues. Oct. 4th at 6pm

This Week At SubRosa, Friday September 30th-Friday October 7th

SubRosa Volunteer Opportunities

Riot Folk with Ryan Harvey and Nomi Wed. July 27th

Upcoming Artists

Friday and Saturday goings-on!

Indigenous Resistance Film Series, Wed. May 25th, 7pm

Indigenous Resistance Film Series- Wednesdays

SubRosa Open Mic Thursday 7:30pm

Oppose and Propose! Andrew Cornell, Sunday May 8th at 7pm

Indigenous Resistance Film Series, Wednesdays in May at 7pm

Fri. 4/29- GDI & Reel Work present: Cradle Will Rock

Fri. April 15th-Sun. April 17th: A weekend of beautiful possibilities

Street Art Installation: "A Place for White People"

Tuesday April 5th, discussion on...

Sat. April 2nd at 2:30pm

happenings happening at SubRosa, March 30th-April 3rd

Wednesday March 30th Radical Film Night

Some things to do this week!

Radical Film Night: This Month's Theme is Crime Pays!

This Wednesday March 9th Radical Film Night: The Usual Suspects

stuff happening

So much happening at SubRosa this week!

Readings- short stories, poetry and Music!

Goings-on at SubRosa, Feb. 23rd-27th

Toronto G20 prisoner update with the Guelph Anarchist Black Cross, Tues. Feb. 22nd, 7pm

This Week At SubRosa, Feb. 14th-20th

2 Graffiti film screenings- Wed. and Fri.

First Friday Artist: Danielle O'Malley

February 2011Selected Works by Danielle O'Malley February 4th-28thArtists Reception Friday, February 4th 6-8pmSubRosa, 703 Pacific at Spruce St

Radical Film Night, Wed. Feb. 2nd- Style Wars

Seattle Solidarity Network presentation: Wed. Jan 26th at 5:30pm

Anarchists Against the Wall

Upcoming Artists

Upcoming Artists

Free Skool Benefit Concert, Wed, Oct 13th 7PM

Upcoming Artist

Zines on Toast! Tuesday, Sept 7 at 7pm

September Artist: Justin Angelos - Disaster Information

Our Other Weapon is a Zine! Sat, Aug 28th 7pm

Conspiracy Tour hits SubRosa, Mon, Aug 16 at 7pm

Conspiracy Tour 2010 at SubRosa!

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

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

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

SubRosa Open Mic, Every Thursday 8pm

July Artist, Gabriella Ripley-Phipps - Five Easy Pieces

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

SubRosa Break In

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

Presentation by NEST, June 25th at 7pm

Post-Punk/Indie Show, Wed, June 23rd, 7pm

Demystifying Anarchy, a panel discussion June 24th 6:30pm

Artist Opening: Petal Power - The Art of Louise Chen

A Word About the Reported "Raid"

A Statement from SubRosa concerning May Day

Ideas for creating a supportive atmosphere in Santa Cruz

SC Weekly: Anarchists Aren't Evil

Statement RE Jimi Haynes

SubRosa under attack for being an anarchist space

Folk-punk at SubRosa! Sunday, May 2nd at 6:30pm

Nessie and Her Beard

Story

Cud Eastbound

Pale Robin

Rita Hayworth and SubRosa Scavenger List

Wed, April 14 at 7pm: Microcosm Post-punk Extravaganza!

Microcosm Post-punk Extravaganza West Coast '010 Tour

Tues, April 6th: Music with San Narciso, Hosannas and Christopher Francis & Son

April at SubRosa!

April's Artist: Trenton Rembert

It's Spring! Time for scavenging!

SubRosa Scavenge List

February 2011
Selected Works by Danielle O'Malley
February 4th-28th
Artists Reception Friday, February 4th 6-8pm
SubRosa, 703 Pacific at Spruce St

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

October 2009: The Santa Cruz Anarchist Doll-Making Collective
The Dark Night of DIY Ragdolls and Monsters

Septemeber 2009: Michael Orick and Tom Calderone
Recent Collages

The Art of Adriane White:
Getaway Sticks and Spaghetti Landscapes