Gatherings & Events
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UC CAAN Symposium Planning at Big Creek Reserve
In August 2026, an intimate gathering of UC CAAN artists and faculty came together at Big Creek Reserve to begin shaping the network’s Spring 2028 symposium. The retreat created space for conversation, reflection, and collaborative planning around the symposium’s themes, structure, and site-responsive programming, grounded in the ecological setting of the reserve.
UCSC Arts & Ecology Festival
Creative Resistance
On Earth Day, UC Santa Cruz launched the inaugural Arts & Ecology Festival: Creative Resistance, a campus-wide gathering that refuses to treat climate change as a problem of carbon alone. Instead, it brings together artists, scientists, students, and community partners to engage the deeper conditions of the crisis, and to open space for cultural, political, and imaginative transformations grounded in repair, reciprocity, and collective futures.