Monday, May 11, 2026

At SubRosa and Hub Community Center Mid-May to late-May-ish

- Friday May 15th, get ready for an eclectic evening with…


* Strawberry Pilgrimage - glam rock on a delicious journey - @strawberrypilgrimage
** Crow Sister - trans freak folk from Oakland - @crowsister_ 
*** Cleena - sapphic surfer dreamgirl; bubblegrunge/ska/indie band based in Santa Cruz - @cleenaband
**** Gay Eldest Daughter - queer folk from the central coast - @gayeldestdaughter

Doors - 6:00pm & Music - 7:00pm // $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

05.16.26 - @library1000000 presents LIVE AT SUBROSA - SubRosa compilation/CD release show *** with…

* sailor set sail - california emo - @sailorsetsail_band
** senescence - emotional noisy gays from santa cruz - @senescence4u
*** slowblink - santa cruz napcore - @slowblink.band
**** vetch - local math emo - @vetch____

***CDS SOLD AT SHOW

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

- Tianguis Realmente Gratuito. Todo es gratis. Really Really Free Market - 3rd Sunday!, May 17th, 11am - 2pm. At SubRosa - 703 Pacific Ave. No money. No trades. Everything is free.

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. Thanks so much!

Please wear a mask for community care.

Info about RRFM at SubRosa and in general! https://journal.subrosaproject.org/2022/09/really-really-free-market-info-history.html 

- Folk punking Sunday May 17th at SubRosa (and a superb lineup after a change up) with…

* Quindara - the dog & the deer traipse with no/ise - SC - @bbannedindc
** Fawn!! - tweemo grrrl with a guitar - @xfawnie.deerwomanx
*** Rabbit Shaped Brain - sentimental experimental - bay based - @ribbitsh4p3dbr4in
**** Pighati - bedroom skramz and visual art dedicated to honor love and heartache, through the power of empathy - @pighati__
***** Amanita Supernova - Bay Area alien music - @amanita.supernova

6pm - 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

- Leaping lizards, a jam packed show at SubRosa is going to burst forth Saturday May 23rd! With…

* Nostalgia - east bay/santa cruz emo est. 2024 - @isitjustnostalgia
** Phantoma! - Stockton post hardcore - @phantoma_official
*** Guthook - wizard sludge from the woods of Santa Cruz - @guthook.sc
**** Angoris - esoteric and fantastical black metal from Santa Cruz - @angoris.sc
***** MAPS - post hardcore-math core from San Jose - @maps_408
****** Adam and the Sandlers - @starvingsantacruz employees playing Central Coast Emo - @adamandthesandlers

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

And new events added all the time so this list isn’t complete! (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!

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.

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).

Hooray! Our 2026 spring/summer Free Skool session is happening now! Information about classes - https://freeskoolsantacruz.org/2026-free-skool-santa-cruz-spring-summer-session/ 

- Stop the Bleed: Managing Life-Threatening Bleeding - Wednesday, May 13th and Wednesday, June 10th (2 separate classes) / 6 p.m. - 8 p.m. in the SubRosa courtyard, 703 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA

What is Democratic Modernity? - Thursday, May 14th / 6pm at SubRosa, 703 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA

Anti Institution First Aid + Street Medic Training - Saturday, May 16th and 23rd / 9:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. at SubRosa, 703 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CAñg

Collective Creation Games - every third Sunday 11am - 2pm at SubRosa!

Free Skool Santa Cruz is a grassroots educational project where we can learn from each other and help foster communities of mutual support. Always free!

*** 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 

  • Mondays, 12pm - 3pm


Use the link in our 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/


- 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:  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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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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