Monday, May 4, 2026

At SubRosa & Hub Community Center May 5th to mid-May-ish

Spring tour all the way from Vancouver with Worrywart at SubRosa Wednesday May 6th! A wonderful Wednesday evening with…


* Worrywart - alternative anxiety art punk from Vancouver - @bigsillyworrywart
** Poppyfield - Santa Cruz emo/punk shit - @poppyfieldmusic
*** Yes Ma’am - fuzzy guitars, honest lyrics, and the occasional existential crisis all wrapped in with catchy melodies - @yesmaammusic 

Doors 6:30pm & Music 7pm // $5 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

- From ucsc_communityed instagram - Community Ed presents: !!THE REVIVAL!! Lessons from the encampment - Friday May 8th at SubRosa.

Pull up, it's gonna be awesome, learn about the 2024 UCSC encampment for Gaza.

- If you were involved TALK about it!
- If you wern't involved learn about it!
- What was awesome?
- What was not great?
- Who should come: EVERYBODY!!!!!!

5:30pm -7pm // free! // all-ages // dry space // safe(r) space // anti-capitalist space // respect the space and each other!

- Saturday May 9th a quieter show with big impact at SubRosa with…

* The Star Family Singers - Pacific Northwest songwriting duo who write music about the mystical powers of love and friendship, while living in a 2003 Toyota Highlander and touring the DIY circuit, eating gas station hot dogs, exploring their craft and pursuing the effervescent mystery of music itself with slowcore-indie-folk that incorporates intimate, intricate harmonies - no IG so come experience in person!
** Village of Spaces - experimental folk from down the street (especially if you live in Santa Cruz) -
*** Kite Hands Glowing - a project of Nadia Lucia's melodies on the piano, on a guitar and through singing, is grateful to share herself through music for audiences, and finds that her performance is ever-evolving - SC -

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

- 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

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/ 

- Grass Identification - Tuesday, May 5th / 1:30pm - Walking along levee, meet on street corner outside SubRosa, 703 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz

- Consent Cafe - Tuesday, May 5th (& every Tuesday ) / 6:30pm - 8pm at SubRosa, 703 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz

- Trash into Fashion DIY - Friday, May 8th & 22nd / 12pm - 4pm at SubRosa, 703 Pacific Avenue, SC

- Queer/Sober DnD Group BuildingSaturday, May 9th / 11 am - Location: TBA (email for more info Seancrossno@gmail.com)

- Anti Institution First Aid + Street Medic Training - Saturday, May 9th / 12 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. in the SubRosa courtyard, 703 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA

- 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

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!).

EXCITING NEWS AND NEW PROJECT AT SubRosa! The first installment in our SubRosa: Live Sets & Sessions series has been released and comes from Santa Cruz folk musician and critter of the clawhammer, Gay Eldest Daughter, who showed up to SubRosa to play her longneck banjo across nine solo acoustic tracks. 100% of proceeds from this album go to fund SubRosa’s continued operation. Help support radical DIY spaces!

Seven songs are solo versions of original works which recently released in their full, bedroom-recorded glory on March 6th, 2026 as part of her album, “Taller Than The Redwoods”, while the other two are traditional labor songs of which she has done her own musical arrangements.

The album is available for pay what you want digitally as well as pay what you want plus shipping on CD through SubRosa’s Bandcamp. (You can also always stop by SubRosa to grab a CD directly). 

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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

The following is not at the Hub but still interesting community info with a lot of Hub connections! 

Further update on The Santa Cruz Guerilla Drive-In. We are still developing a late-Spring / Summer / early-Autumn schedule and looking for suitable locations. More information to come! 

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

Begun in 2002 with over 200 showings and more than 15 locations, always free! (last scheduled series of screenings 2010-11 Winter series - then sporadic individual screenings, often at SubRosa: a community space, but not always specifically part of GDI - although always with GDI tech-support!). 

Hooray! We look forward to seeing you under the stars around town enjoying films and sharing space together.

- the Santa Cruz Guerilla Drive-In collective - https://www.guerilladrivein.org/ and our new IG https://www.instagram.com/sc_gdi


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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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