Bookshop Santa Cruz: Shakespeare in the Park Season Preview

Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz

Have booked your out-of-town vacation during the time when you would watch Shakespeare outdoors with coastal redwoods all around you?  Not to fear! You can get a sneak peek at the entire season for free, so you won’t feel like you will be missing a thing!  Join Santa Cruz Shakespeare’s Artistic Director, Charles Pasternak, for a sneak peek at their 2024 Season: Generations that runs July 13th–September 29th.  The 2024 Summer Festival will feature four productions including As You Like It and Hamlet by William Shakespeare, The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde, and The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams.  This season’s Fringe Series will include the 2001 Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama, Proof by David Auburn, and two staged readings. 

Free

Bookshop Santa Cruz: Indian American Cooking

Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz

Khushbu Shah, former restaurant editor at Food & Wine magazine will be celebrating the debut of her cookbook, Amrikan. Head to downtown Santa Cruz to meet her and find emotion and food that demand your attention.

Free

Bookshop Santa Cruz: Elizabeth Acevedo

Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz

Elizabeth has a talent for performance, so her appearance in Downtown Santa Cruz for the paperback release of her bestselling novel, Family Lore, is bound to be entertaining! The story, if it is not already on your shelf, is of one Dominican American family told through the voices of its women.

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Bookshop Santa Cruz: Frederik G. Pferdt

Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz

Frederik G. Pferdt, renowned global thought leader and Google’s first Chief Innovation Evangelist, will discuss What’s Next Is Now: How to Live Future Ready. Pferdt introduces a forward-thinking mind-state that will help you navigate ambiguity and uncertainty with intention, transform problems and challenges into profound opportunities, and create exactly the future you want to see.

Free

Bookshop Santa Cruz: More Than 80 Women Over 80

Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz

Local contributors to the stories, poems, essays and more that were compiled by Dena Taylor and Wilma Marcus Chandler in When a Woman Tells the Truth, are inviting you to join in the celebration!  Hear some of the honesty, wisdom and humor that was on from the sadness, grief, adventure, romance, and activism that will be the greatest souvenir to bring home from Santa Cruz.

Free

Bookshop Santa Cruz: Meet the Grinch

Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz

The Grinch is back and ready to prove to the residents of Who-ville that he’s changed. This heartwarming sequel is written and illustrated in the style of Dr. Seuss’s beloved holiday classic How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The new book storytime reading is free and available to the public. If you and 4 others would like to take a photo with the Grinch himself, you can purchase tickets to the photo line on the day of the event or through the link below. Purchasing tickets to the photo line includes your own copy of the new book!