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World Arts Festival 2024
Celebrate the diversity and richness of our community at this year’s World Arts Festival! On Sunday June 23rd from 1-5PM, Tannery World Dance & Cultural Center offers free family-friendly performances outdoors at the Tannery Arts Center. The festival includes dance and music performances by new and beloved Santa Cruz and Bay Area artists, including White Hawk Indian Council, Antara Asthaayi Dance, Raizes do Brasil Capoeira, Senderos, and more. Artisans and vendors will be selling traditional crafts and wares, with food and beverages from Areparia831 and My Mom’s Mole.
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“Today” Anniversary Edition Book Launch
June 8, 5-7pm at Mr Toots Coffee House in Capitola. Local Capitola resident and author, Russell Rogers is launching his Anniversary Edition book called Today. There are 5 books in the series. Each book represents one year in the first five years of a child’s life. Each page is colorful, large easy reading words, filled with everyday outside activities and great for the first time reader. The message is simple, encouraging families to get outside and do activities together. These books can be enjoyed by the entire family. The Today book series is a great gift idea, a book to be enjoyed by first time parents, young families, grand parents,…
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Spring Art Market at Tannery Arts Center
Join us for a vibrant celebration of art, music, and community at the Spring Art Market! Hosted by the Arts Council Santa Cruz County, this free family-friendly event features an array of local artisans and makers showcasing their unique creations. Explore captivating artworks, enjoy live music performances, indulge in delicious food from food trucks, and engage in fun children’s activities. With something for everyone, the Spring Art Market promises a memorable experience for all. Don’t miss out!
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HIKE4PEACE
We are excited to bring back this all family fun Saturday event at the Tara Redwood School Campus in the forest of Land of Medicine Buddha, Soquel . Hike4Peace is Tara Redwood School’s annual HIKE-A-THON fundraiser and Arts & Crafts Fair . Pledge a student hiker (or yourself) onto one or all of the 8 Verses trails and enjoy an afternoon of music, raffles and games. Meet and greet Tara Redwood School faculty and partake in one or all of the Tara Redwood School creative arts. This is a fundraiser, funding will support Tara Redwood School’s scholarship program and classroom development. Also 10% of the proceeds go to a charity…
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The SLV Music & Art Festival
The 3rd annual SLV Music & Art Festival is an outdoor, community event that features performances by: SLVHS choir and bands, SLVMS bands, SLV Nature Academy Band, SLVE and BCE 5th grade bands, and the SLV Community Band! There is an art show and sale (by donation) put on by the SLVHS Art Department! There will be multiple food trucks and also silent and live auctions that support the SLV Music Boosters. Please come and celebrate community while supporting our growing student musicians and artists!
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Magic Show
Enter the spring RAFFLE FOR A FREE WEEK OF CAMP & experience a typical day squeezed into two hours – great for 1st timers to get comfortable or returners to share camp with friends new to Kennolyn. The first hour is filled with staff introductions, songs, and a camp tour. The second hour is a MAGIC SHOW & games for kids. Drop-ins are welcome and RSVPs are appreciated.
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Gateway School Tour
Visit us on one of our monthly Tuesday tours. Hang with our kindergarteners on Kindy Island, see what’s growing in our Life Lab outdoor classroom, join our middle schoolers for a science experiment, and see first hand the unique benefits of a K – 8 education.
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Gateway School Tour
Visit Gateway on one of our monthly Tuesday tours. Hang with our kindergarteners on Kindy Island, see what’s growing in our Life Lab outdoor classroom, join our middle schoolers for a science experiment, and see first hand the unique benefits of a K-8 education.
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Mushroom Market
It’s mushroom season! Join local fungiphiles at the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History for a mushroom market just in time for the Holidays. Pick-up mushroom themed gifts for yourself or your loved ones while exploring local mushrooms and engaging in family-friendly activities during this FREE event. Free admission to the Museum all day! Mushroom ID station with the Fungus Federation of Santa Cruz (bring your mushrooms!) Fungus forward food from Areperia 831 Mushroom products from Far West Fungi Santa Cruz Local artists including Alessandra Chapman, Sarah Brothers Bot, and The Fabrica …and more! Saturday, December 9, 2023 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tyrrell Park, 1305 E. Cliff Dr., Santa…
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Black History Month
by Jeanette Prather Other Resources & Ideas to Celebrate Black History Month “To Know My Name: A Chronological History of African Americans in Santa Cruz County,” by Phil Reader and available online for free from the Santa Cruz Public Library (history.santacruzpl.org/omeka/files/original/1612eddc50044cc672a5c7c756332b60.pdf) NationalToday.com/black-history-month BlackLivesMatter.com According to the United States Census Bureau, what is now officially National African American History Month (often referred to as Black History Month), didn’t originate as a month but rather a week. “American historian Carter G. Woodson established Black History Week (then called ‘Negro History Week’) nearly a century ago, [with] the event first celebrated during the second week of February 1926, selected because it coincides with…
