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Calling Street Performers for Busker Fest series!
Busker Fest October 2015
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FortyThree PR Celebrates the Big 10
Public Relations firm celebrates 10 years based in Santa Cruz with wide impact in the consumer tech industry.
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Choose Santa Cruz Pop-Up Market
Celebrating the launch of the Choose Santa Cruz brand.
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Graffiti Abatement Team to the Rescue
56,752 square feet of graffiti was cleaned last year through the Graffiti Abatement Program.
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Santa Cruz City Arts Site Launches
The City of Santa Cruz is pleased to announce the launch of our new City Arts website: SantaCruzCityArts.com.
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What Ebb & Flow River Arts Festival Showed Us
The Ebb & Flow River Arts Project is a way to change the way people think about the San Lorenzo River and about Santa Cruz.
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How Ebb & Flow Inspired a Movement
The Ebb & Flow River Arts Project started out as an event – and became a movement. It was a grand experiment on what it would be like to truly share leadership when tackling a shared community challenge. It showed me, more than anything else I’ve been involved in, that the arts have the power to inspire cross-sector conversations, spark activism, build relationships, bridge communities, and improve lives.
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We Asked for Your Two Cents
In early June, our adventurous Arts Commission asked people to ‘give us their two cents’ regarding what kind of public art they want to see more of in Santa Cruz. Using pennies that we provided
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Civic Auditorium Renovation Project: A Vision for the Future
2015 marks the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium’s 75th anniversary and the 25th anniversary of Cabrillo Festival’s move downtown to our permanent home. How apropos that with these auspicious milestones we’re able to unveil an ambitious new vision for the future of this iconic gathering place. With the committed support of the Civic Renovation Leadership Team, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Santa Cruz City Council, and the Parks and Recreation Department, great strides have been made in planning for a much-hoped-for renovation of the Civic Auditorium as a performing arts and cultural center for our community.
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Imagine Santa Cruz without the Arts
I’d like to ask you to take just a moment and imagine Santa Cruz without all of the following things: Live performances by local musicians on stages and on the street, the First Friday Art Tour, live theater like Shakespeare Santa Cruz and the Jewell Theater, Open Studios, all the different types of dance performances (again both on stages and in the street), the murals that decorate our walls in dozens of locations throughout the city, the poetry and spoken word performances, all the various sculptures that enliven Pacific Avenue and West Cliff Drive, all the visual arts and performing arts classes and film and creative writing classes in all of our local educational institutions.
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Interview with James Aschbacher
My inspiration for the piece was the conic places in Santa Cruz. The first half of the piece includes the Santa Cruz mountains, then there is an image of the Roaring Camp Train, the town clock in downtown Santa Cruz, and the old Cooper house.
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Home/Work
Home/Work a new downtown business featuring new and vintage goods for the Home and Office.