And new events added all the time so this list isn’t complete! (Info from SubRosa IG which is updated often!)
Residents, listeners, collaborators, community come hang this Saturday! With a dj set from our fav resident duo MIMIXOMI - @gossamors & @jem1li_ Also, program updates, share ideas, sign up for a show. Hope to see you :) xoxo, Jetty - @jettyradio
6:30pm - 8:30pm // donations accepted // all-ages // dry space // safe(r) space // anti-capitalist space // respect the space and each other! // *no one turned away for lack of funds
CCG is an experiment in establishing spaces of love and empathy where play and co-creation would affect a poetic transformation of our shared vulnerabilities and concerns- whether personal, social or political- into buds of power and collectivity.
Each session will be self-generative using the personal stories and questions that we bring with us in order to build up the shared play experience.
Also part of the @freeskoolsantacruz 2026 session.
11am - 2pm // totally free! // all-ages // dry space // safe(r) space // anti-capitalist space // respect the space and each other!
This gathering is not about the “stuff” we give and take, but more about how we can freely give and receive from each other. This is a form of anti-capitalist mutual aid where everyone is invited to participate and share care.
¡Todo gratis! No intercambio de dinero, no negocios, no trueques. Trae lo que gustes, toma lo que necesites. Este mercado gratuito es basado en una economía de regalar.
Bring your special items that you don’t use but can’t throw away (ex. clothes, toys, art supplies, instruments, books and zines... your free box). Bring your special talents to offer people (ex. haircuts, message, tarot readings, etc). Please check with us at the welcoming table by the gate, and we’ll help you find a spot.
Note: we begin accepting donations at 10:30am and stop at 1pm. If you bring large items and/or significant amounts of stuff please help us at the end (2pm) by taking away anything that might be leftover. Please bring usable things only. Please wear a mask for community care. Thanks so much!
THURSDAY, JUNE 18TH - COME KICK OFF TOUR WITH US AND THIS BANGER OF A LINEUP see you soon Santa Cruz
Ongoing at SubRosa!!!
- Goth Denny's (aka Post-Punk IHOP aka New Wave Jeffrey's aka Folk Punk Bea's Koffee Kup)
- AND Open Hours, Tuesdays, 3:30pm - 5:30pm, repeats weekly
Come hangout with friendly folk and most likely eat fresh waffles or something tasty at Goth Denny's aka Post-Punk IHOP aka New Wave Jeffrey's aka Folk Punk Bea's Koffee Kup Open Hours at SubRosa.
- Please join us Tuesdays at SubRosa to talk about accountability and community care at the Consent Cafe!
Please join us for this weekly gathering at SubRosa to talk about engaging with conflict, accountability and community care. This is an ongoing open forum discussion where we create space for engaging with difficult realities around engaging with conflict, consent, DV, & sexual assault. No experience necessary, pop in for one or come for them all.
6:30pm - 8pm // Free! // all-ages // dry space // safe(r) space // anti-capitalist space // respect the space and each other!
- HUFF - Homeless United for Friendship and Freedom - meeting
- AND Open Hours, Thursdays · 1pm – 4pm, repeats weekly
HUFF - Homeless United for Friendship and Freedom - HUFF is Santa Cruz's oldest and most stubbornly persistent grassroots homeless advocacy group. We make trouble for the powers that be and fight institutional human rights abuses pertaining to houseless folk.
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Location: 110 Shaffer Road - Head west on Delaware, turn right just before the UCSC Coastal Campus sign and head toward the Homeless Garden Project. Street parking, carpool or alt transportation recommended.
Description: Discuss the biological and social mechanisms, benefits, and potential of compost with Hard Core Compost member Thea and then get our hands dirty by turning a pile! All levels of interest and experience welcome!
Required: Closed toed shoes, sun protection, water.
Recommended: gardening gloves, long pants, snacks
Accessibility: We will be outdoors for the full time on uneven ground, but will not be covering much distance. The second portion of the workshop will consist of optional shoveling, pitchforking, and raking. Bathrooms are not easily accessible from the site.
Community care note: we will be outdoors for the duration of the time so masks are not required
Description: WHO is a distro? YOU are a distro! Or you could be if you take this class and learn about free guerrilla information and supply distribution! we take care of us!!!
Materials: We can bring everything : )
Accessibility: Masked! we will be inside probably.
*** Members of the SubRosa collective are involved in this revived and not entirely new, not all too different version of Free Skool Santa Cruz – a project in mutual aid learning and sharing. And SubRosa/the Hub Community Center is a site of a significant amount of classes (although not all!).
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- And check out Fábrica Open Hours - repeats weekly (SubRosa’s neighbor at the Hub Community Center)
Saturdays, 2pm - 5pm
Sundays, 3pm - 6pm
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Mondays, 12pm - 3pm
Use the link in our IG bio to subscribe to The Fábrica’s newsletter. That way you’ll get event announcements straight to your inbox. From https://www.instagram.com/the_fabrica_
The Fábrica is a community workspace where folks can come to learn and share knowledge about textiles arts. This includes Sewing, Knitting, Quilting, Embroidery, Crochet, and Bookbinding, among other arts. The workshop is operated by volunteers and funded by donations from participants. We have sewing machines as well as generous amounts of fabric, zippers, notions, and the other tools and supplies one needs for most sewing and yarn-based projects. There is no charge to use the shop, but please consider a $5-10 donation to help with our operating costs. https://thefabricaworkshop.org/
- Mending Circle at the Fábrica - Wednesdays, June 3, June 10 & July 1, July 8 from 6pm – 8 pm |
After “Mending in Public Day” last month, some of us hatched a plan to have an ongoing mending circle at the workshop. Join us for the first meeting this coming Wednesday. |
Wednesday: CLOSED!
Thursday: 12 pm - 5 pm
Friday: 12 pm - 5 pm
Saturday: 12 pm - 5 pm
Sunday: 12 pm - 5 pm
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Special announcement about event NOT at the Hub!
“We Are the Best” - Three teenage girls in 1980s Stockholm form a punk band despite having no instruments or musical talent. The movie follows the misfits Bobo, Klara, and the more reserved Hedvig as they navigate adolescence and punk culture, creating music as an outlet for their energy and anger, even when told punk is dead. The film captures the spirit of youthful rebellion and friendship.
URBAN WASTELAND LOCATION: From downtown, head south on Soquel Avenue. At Riverside, by the Royal Taj, turn right. Follow the path down to the sandy area under the bridge.
PLUS thrilling short films, an intermission, great company and a guaranteed good time!
BRING blankets, pillows, anything you need to be comfortable in foldy metal chairs indoors, friends, snacks to share. Donations to support the project are more than welcome.
SANTA CRUZ GUERILLA DRIVE-IN is an outdoor 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 helping reclaim public space and transforming our urban environment. https://www.guerilladrivein.org/
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SubRosa is a collectively run anarchist community space, a place to meet others and challenge our assumptions and act on our passions. We strive to create a vibrant environment for events, classes, meetings, organizing, performance, art, studying and more. SubRosa also offers radical literature, and houses the Anarchist Lending Library. We welcome folks to join us in fostering an environment free from coercion, sexism, queer&homophobia, racism, ableism and other hierarchies. Let’s create together the world(s) we want to live in now. http://www.subrosaproject.org/
SubRosa is part of the Hub Community Center, in downtown Santa Cruz, CA which is the unceded homelands of the Awaswas-speaking Ohlone people known as the Uypi, who stewarded these lands since time immemorial. Centuries of colonial violence led to the removal and displacement of the Uypi. The Amah Mutsun Tribal Band, comprised of the descendants of indigenous people taken to missions Santa Cruz and San Juan Bautista during Spanish colonization of the Central Coast, is today working hard to restore traditional stewardship practices on these lands and heal from historical trauma.
