SubRosa Community Space

08/25/2026

Hard Core Compost

We're hosting a class all about compost at our new Riverside Gardens site! Come join us on August 26th at 6:30pm! See you there 🐜🪱🌱

08/25/2026

Santa Cruz Guerilla Drive-In

A reminder!: Friday August 28th at sunset under the Soquel Avenue bridge on the sandy bank of the river: all are invited to the third screening of the 2026 Santa Cruz Guerilla Drive-In season!!

Imagine a first-contact movie where the stakes aren't about surviving a war, but surviving our own instinct to destroy what we don't understand. _Arrival_ (adapted from Ted Chiang's "Story of Your Life") is a masterclass in intellectual sci-fi. Instead of lasers, Dr. Louise Banks uses grammar and syntax to save the world. It’s a quiet, visually stunning, and emotionally devastating masterpiece that proves language might just be the most powerful tool we have. If you haven't seen it yet, prepare to look at time and memory completely differently.

URBAN WASTELAND LOCATION (ACTUALLY ALONG THE RIVER MORE LIKE AN OASIS): from downtown, head south on Soquel Avenue. At Riverside, by the Royal Taj, turn right. Follow the path down to the Sandy area under the bridge.

NOTE: let's take care of the spot and pack it in pack it out. When the film is over please be respectful of the neighbors when leaving and use library voices.

PLUS thrilling short films, an intermission, great company, and a guaranteed good time!

BRING blankets, pillows, anything you need to be comfortable (consider a low folding chair that does not block others from seeing the screen), friends, snacks, snacks to share. Donations to support the project are more than welcome but no one turned away for lack of funds (NOTAFLOF for real!).

SANTA CRUZ GUERILLA DRIVE-IN is an outdoor movie theater under the stars that springs up in the fields and industrial wastelands. Beyond showing great free movies and bring a broad community together, part of our mission is helping reclaim public space and transforming our urban environment

08/03/2026

Free Skool Santa Cruz

A radically different approach to living and learning, Free Skool Santa Cruz is a grassroots educational project beyond institutional control. It is an opportunity to learn from each other and shar…

08/03/2026

Free Skool Santa Cruz

SANTA CRUZ FREE SKOOL Summer/Autumn 2026 session is now live! Check the calendar for classes!!!

https://freeskoolsantacruz.org/2026-free-skool-santa-cruz-spring-summer-session/ (including new session information)

A radically different approach to living and learning, Free Skool Santa Cruz is a grassroots educational project beyond institutional control. It is an opportunity to learn from each other and share what we know, to foster communities of mutual support and autonomy.

We look forward to enjoying and learning/experiencing together in the time to come.

-Free Skool Santa Cruz collective members

*** Members of the SubRosa collective are involved in this revived and not entirely new, not all too different version of Free Skool Santa Cruz – a project in mutual aid learning and sharing. And SubRosa/the Hub Community Center is a site of a significant amount of classes (although not all!).

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08/03/2026

Santa Cruz Guerilla Drive-In

07/26/2026

Free Skool Santa Cruz

And we're back! Join us for our second round of Free Skool Santa Cruz 2026 by offering a class or activity. A radically different approach to living and learning, Free Skool Santa Cruz is a grassroots educational project beyond institutional control; it is an opportunity to learn from each other, sh...

07/25/2026

Santa Cruz Guerilla Drive-In

Friday July 31st at sunset under the Soquel Ave bridge on the sandy bank of the river - all are invited to the second screening of the 2026 Santa Cruz Guerilla Drive-In season!

“Summer Wars” - In this 2009 animated film, a rogue AI threatens to take over and dismantle OZ: a virtual reality world that the entire real world heavily depends on. When the threat becomes existential for humanity, a family bands together to combat the AI but it takes the support of an entire populace to fight back.

SAME URBAN WASTELAND LOCATION: From downtown, head south on Soquel Avenue. At Riverside, by the Royal Taj, turn right. Follow the path down to the sandy area under the bridge.

Note: Let’s take care of the spot and pack-it-in-pack-it-out. When the film is over please be respectful of the neighbors when leaving and use library voices.

PLUS thrilling short films, an intermission, great company and a guaranteed good time!

BRING blankets, pillows, anything you need to be comfortable in foldy metal chairs indoors, friends, snacks to share. Donations to support the project are more than welcome - and notaflof* so not expected!. (*no one turned away for lack of funds).

SANTA CRUZ GUERILLA DRIVE-IN is an outdoor movie theatre under the stars that springs up in the fields and industrial wastelands. Beyond showing great free movies and bringing a broad community together, part of our mission is helping reclaim public space and transforming our urban environment. Find out more at website https://www.guerilladrivein.org/

Info from https://www.instagram.com/p/DbM-qp_v2Jy/