Monday, March 23, 2026

At SubRosa & Hub Community Center Mid-March to Early-April

At SubRosa & Hub Community Center 

Mid-March to Early-April


- Tuesday is the most boring day of the week BUT not Tuesday March 24th! Come to SubRosa and be invigorated with…

* Bluebell House - fairemo from Seattle - @bluebell_house_music 
** Who Brought Opie - indtweemo which sounds like gibberish but is a genre - PDX - @whobroughtopie  
*** Half Calf - 2-piece what are we?-core queer emo based in oakland - @halfcalfca
**** Lucy Atlast - psychedelic avant-pop - Riverside - @lucy_atlast
***** Udjat - electro punk - Riverside - @__udjat__

Doors 6pm & Music 6:30pm // $10 at door - notaflof!* // all-ages // dry space // safe(r) space // anti-capitalist space // respect the space and each other! // *no one turned away for lack of funds

Another one coming up quick brought to you by @scum_sc Thursday March 26th with an unique evening of experimental/experiential music at SubRosa with…

* Wilson Shook/Kevin Corcoran/Aine Nakamura Trio - An improvising trio since 2023, Wilson Shook, Kevin Corcoran, and Aine Nakamura create a atmosphere of heightened concentration, restraint, and purposeful recontextualization of sounds, affects, and relationships with each other and with a particular moment in the world. There is an oblique lyricism, and a non-programmatic ritual intensity to the work, which evokes Butoh, Deep Listening, Artaud's Theater of Cruelty, and a sort of animist ecomusicology - #wilsonshook & @orcora & @ainenaka

** Arrington de Dionyso/Sandy Ewen Duo - An experimental guitarist, artist and architect based in Brooklyn NY, Sandy Ewen's guitar playing is centered around found objects and extended techniques. She performs solo and in many diverse musical and multimedia collaborations. Arrington de Dionyso conjures Utopic Spaces with multiphonic vocal work & minimalist instrumentation. It's shamanic seance meets rock and roll ecstasy - @sandyewen & @arringtondedionyso

*** Secret Handshake - Secret Handshake are leshy and james mossa. they explore materials and objects through electroacoustic and spatial interventions - @l__eshy & @88.jm_

7pm - 10pm // $10 at door - notaflof!* // all-ages // dry space // safe(r) space // anti-capitalist space // respect the space and each other! // * no one turned away for lack of funds

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

- Tour kick off show for Riff Mama, Saturday March 28th at SubRosa. Let's give them a wonderful send off! Plus there's more! Also with…

* Riff Mama - funky alternative psych-rock from Pacifica, CA - @riff.mama
** Red 40 - heinous swaggular Santa Cruz bussdown - @red40.sc
*** Yorn's Apostles - Heavy-Groovy-Trippy-Punk-Rock from Stinson Beach, CA - @yornsapostles
**** Apricot Court - Santa Cruz/PG punk rock - @apricotcourt.band

Doors 6pm & Music 7pm // $10 at door - notaflof!* // all-ages // dry space // safe(r) space // anti-capitalist space // respect the space and each other! // *no one turned away for lack of funds

- Join People's Aid for a community potluck! Sunday March 29th from 6pm - 9pm at @subrosa_space!

Bring a dish and friends or simply come to share a meal in community. Great space if you've been wanting to get involved in mutual aid but haven't known where to get connected. We can't wait to see you all feel free to dm @peoples_aid_sc with any questions!

(Dry space and masks are encouraged for when not eating thank you!) 

6pm // free // all-ages // dry space // safe(r) space // anti-capitalist space // respect the space and each other!

- Wednesday April 1st - don't be a fool and miss this really real show at SubRosa with…

* MISFIRE - San Diego shoegaze - @misfirebandsd
** Veto - San Diego alternative rock - @vetobnd
*** Raue - a paradox of ineffability - @rauemusic 
**** Splendor - Santa Cruz shoegaze - @splendor.sc
***** Senescence - emotional noisy gays from Santa Cruz - @senescence4u 

6pm - 10pm // $15 at door - notaflof!* // all-ages // dry space // safe(r) space // anti-capitalist space // respect the space and each other! // *no one turned away for lack of funds

- No fluff - here's the info! Saturday April 4th at SubRosa with…

* Doom Scroll - acoustic and aggressive, melodic punk/crust wave with complex instrumentation and layers of harmonies knitted from decades of music appreciation and performance - Loveland, CO - @doomscrollband
** Florez Rain - accordion powered folk punk from the Elkhorn Slough - @florezrain 
*** Sunburnt Bones - sunbleached and broken hearted folk punk from Oakland - @sunburntbones

Doors - 6:30pm & Music - 7:30pm // $15 at door - notaflof!* // all-ages // dry space // safe(r) space // anti-capitalist space // respect the space and each other! // *no one turned away for lack of funds

Sunday April 5th - why not go to SubRosa for this scintillating show with…

* Poppyfield - Santa Cruz emo/punk shit - @poppyfieldmusic
** Simple Shapes - PDX alternative rock - @simpleshapesband
*** Mandate of Heaven - Santa Cruz indie rock with a little punk and a bit of Midwest emo (one of us is from there so it's authentic) - @mandateofheaven.sc
**** Adam's Rib - music for all yer bones - @wyattramos2001

Doors 6pm & Music 7pm // $10 at door - notaflof!* // all-ages // dry space // safe(r) space // anti-capitalist space // respect the space and each other! // *no one turned away for lack of funds

And new events added all the time so this list isn't complete! (Info from SubRosa IG which is updated often!


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!

A weekly SubRosa open hours gathering called the Consent Cafe where we want to create a space for engaging with difficult realities around consent. Snacks and hot bevvies will be provided.

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.

SubRosa also has Open Hours during this time. Check out a book from the Anarchist Library, peruse our zine offerings or meet a friend (or make a friend).

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At the Hub Community Center 

in the office project space


- Eating & Body Image Group - every 1st & 3rd Wednesday evening / 6pm - 7:30pm.

Are you "weird with food?" Have you struggled with diet culture? Are you in recovery for an eating disorder and want to be in community with similar folks? Join our abolitionist-focused eating & body image group this Wednesday! DM us for accessibility info & questions! 

Location: project space at Hub (next to the Bike Church) – 703 Pacific Ave in downtown Santa Cruz – enter on Spruce St (the Hub Community Center is where @subrosa_space is also located)

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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 

  • Mondays, 12pm - 3pm


The Fábrica is a community workspace where folks can come to learn and share knowledge about textiles arts. This includes Sewing, Knitting, Quilting, Embroidery, Crochet, and Bookbinding, among other arts. The workshop is operated by volunteers and funded by donations from participants. We have sewing machines as well as generous amounts of fabric, zippers, notions, and the other tools and supplies one needs for most sewing and yarn-based projects. There is no charge to use the shop, but please consider a $5-10 donation to help with our operating costs. https://thefabricaworkshop.org/


- And from the Bike Church - a project of the Hub and has been Santa Cruz's only community bike shop since 1998. Our shop functions in a DIY/DIT (Do-It-Together) manner.

Monday: 12 pm - 5pm
TuesdayCLOSED!
Wednesday: 2 pm - 6 pm Justin Valone Memorial Youth Hours (On Temporary Hiatus) 
Thursday: 12 pm - 5 pm
Friday: 12 pm - 5 pm
Saturday: 12 pm - 5 pm (10am - 12am = F.L.I.N.T.A.* formerly W.T.F.)
Sunday: 12 pm - 5 pm

* Femme, Lesbian, Intersex, Non-binary, Trans, Agender, and *other genders beyond the binary (FLINTA*) shops hours now every SATURDAY 10am - 12pm at The Bike Church

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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. 

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