Installations combining light, sound and digital culture — some featuring audience interaction, some leaning more toward performance art — come to the museum and its downtown Santa Cruz surroundings. “You absolutely need to be open for adventure,” the MAH’s director says.
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Ambitious Sea Walls Santa Cruz mural project ‘going to change the town forever’
Beginning Monday, artists from Santa Cruz and around the world will create a series of unique murals — each themed on the ocean, specifically the threats facing marine life from climate change — that stretches from the Westside to Capitola.
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BOLO Best Bets: The Del Mar is back, and Kuumbwa, Jewel Theatre and Capitola Art & Wine with it
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‘Wonderful little reunion’: Jewel Theatre set to return with musicals, mysteries, romance and comedy
The COVID shutdown hit right as Santa Cruz’s Jewel Theatre was about to launch a production, and everyone will pick up more or less where they left off when a six-show season kicks off at the Colligan Theater on Sept. 15.
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Watsonville Film Fest celebrates Mexican music, honors farmworkers with free live show at the Plaza
The Watsonville Film Festival will hold a free concert in honor of local farmworkers later this month and the lineup includes North Bay headliners “Los Cenzontles,” who also have a special connection to a film being screened at the festival.
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BOLO Best Bets: Patti Smith, Padma Lakshmi, First Friday galore and Bacon & Bloody Mary Fest
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‘As cathartic as possible’: Santa Cruz Symphony set to return with robust new season
Starting out with Samuel Barber’s “Adagio for Strings” and getting ever larger in scale, Daniel Stewart and the Santa Cruz Symphony are planning a splashy return after the longest layoff in the organization’s history.
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Big Basin before and after CZU, through one local filmmaker’s eyes
The stark, straightforward “Big Basin Will Never Be The Same” uses side-by-side film of Eric Parson’s favorite trail run in Big Basin, one side shot before the 2020 blaze and one after, to sound an alarm about what our forests are facing.
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BOLO Best Bets: Final weekend for Shakespeare and comedy fest, plus live music and … reptiles?
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‘The sound of explosions’: One year after CZU, the echoes of loss reverberate for the many still recovering
Since the fires, Cyndy Haskey has seldomly visited this nearly three-acre lot where her home once stood in the Braemoor neighborhood of Bonny Doon. There is almost nothing here to visit. And even if there were, the memories and associations are just too strong.