Tuesday, June 16, 2026

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


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

- Join us for the Santa Cruz stop of The PNW roadshow for the Prairieland cases!! @dfwsupportcommittee - 6:30PM, Wednesday June 17th!

The Prairieland cases are a landmark legal struggle and now ongoing prisoner support effort. They stem from the prosecution of 19 individuals accused of attending or supporting a noise demonstration showing solidarity with people detained by ICE in July 2025.

What we will discuss includes:
-details of the cases
- what is ongoing (updates on sentencing, more trials, and support)
- what legal/prosecutorial and repressive consequences could our movements see
- experienced consequences of snitching and cooperation
- prisoner support information
- how anarchists can support the local community

Free event-Bring $ to donate directly to the dfw support committee or trial support kitchen if you have some to throw

6:30pm // free and donations accepted - 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

- Garage Spiders TOUR STOP #1 in SANTA CRUZ with @ash_puddle @adamandthesandlers @poppyfieldmusic

THURSDAY, JUNE 18TH - COME KICK OFF TOUR WITH US AND THIS BANGER OF A LINEUP see you soon Santa Cruz

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

- From @scum.sc - new and old friends rolling through Friday June 19~~ *°*°☆****

in no particular order:

* Shin Chida - experimental tape musician - Japan, on tour - @burriedmachine
** Scot Jeneric - composer and conceptual artist - Portland, on tour - @scot_jenerik
*** Mike Meanstreetz - LA based improviser whose non-traditional craft seeds new genres via drums/percussion, tape/electronics, and nylon string guitar - on tour - @mmzblast
**** Isaac Sherman - musician and composer based in Los Angeles, CA, engaging with an array of analog and digital synthesizers, samplers, guitars and vocals, his music blends elements of experimental pop, kosmische, minimalism, ambient music and experimental jazz - on tour - @isaacalpertsherman
***** Leshy - an interdisciplinary sound artist and educator whose practice often involves objects, ceramics, and electroacoustics, building unruly playable systems to explore precarities in perception, memory, and time - Santa Cruz based pre-tour! - @l__eshy
****** +DJs TBD

5pm - 10pm // $15 at the 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

- Saturday June 20th on the cusp of the longest day of the year come revel in the moment with…

* Big Sierra - sounds from San Luis Obispo - @big.sierra
** Frecks - a writer of bedroom dream pop from Portland - @frecks
*** Madi Gaines - with music that sits somewhere between shoegaze and indie rock, with a bit of grit and girl rage mixed in - @madigaines
**** Yellowcat - folk rock from Santa Cruz - @yellowcat_band

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

- The antidote for a fever dream come alive Monday June 22nd at SubRosa with…

* Holy Locust - five piece acoustic folk band, seamlessly blending the raw energy and ideals of punk music with refined folk traditions from around the world, carrying with them the folk tradition of resistance and equality - @holy.locust
** Healers - post-punk band from Oakland - @healersoakland
*** Baby Buggy - you’ll know when you know!
**** Sunburnt Bones - sunbleached and broken hearted folk punk out of Oakland - @sunburntbones

7pm - 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

- Join us Wednesday June 24, 6-8pm at SubRosa for The Art of Building a Future - a café for discussion and practice for creating the future we want to live in, now! Hosted by @rojavasc1

Bring your thoughts and experience and enjoy some light refreshments. Will be held in the courtyard weather permitting. COVID precautions encouraged.

6pm - 8pm // totally free! // all-ages // dry space // safe(r) space // anti-capitalist space // respect the space and each other!

- Open mics are back at SubRosa! This month’s open mic will be Thursday, June 25th, 7pm to sign up. Bring songs, poems, or whatever you please, and be prepared for a delightful evening sharing our creativity.

Future open mics will be happening on the fourth Thursday of each month, with the exception of July’s, which will occur on July 16th.

Sign-Ups 7pm & Performances 7:30pm // $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 @kaijukill.prod - FRIDAY, JUNE 26TH - TELL EM TO BRING OUT THE WHOLE OCEAN and hangout with…

@citrusjr.band
@itsbugstomp
@sailorsetsail_band
@slowblink.band

6:30pm - 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

- Wanna cook less, eat more, make friends and build community? Learn how to start a dinner co-op. No preparation required - Saturday June 27th, noon - 1:30pm in the SubRosa courtyard. Part of the Free Skool 2026 summer session and at SubRosa.

Join Leedy, Izzy and and Nico for an interactive workshop on how to start your own dinner co-op. Life will never be the same! Or something like that.

Workshop will be outdoors, wheelchair accessible, masks optional. RSVP optional but encouraged. Come one come all come ready to eat some veggie chili hang out learn some stuff meet new people and maybe leave ready to make something cool happen. Dm @lee.78 on signal with any Qs.

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).

- Extreme States Care Group - every 3rd Saturday at the Hub (community center where SubRosa is located) - Saturday June 20th

Meet in space next to the Bike Church (enter on Spruce St) - 703 Pacific Ave 

Our goal is creating a greater network of peer advocacy and education for people experiencing and supporting extreme emotional states.


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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/ - many classes at SubRosa and listed above!

*** 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 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/


- 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. http://bikechurch.santacruzhub.org/

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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Special announcement about event NOT at the Hub!


A REMINDER! All are invited to the first screening of the Santa Cruz Guerilla Drive-In 2026 season! Back after an extended hiatus! Friday June 26th - gather a bit before dusk to watch… 

“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. 

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