*** For the duration of this exhibition, all related ticket sales included either a CD or vinyl copy of the record release and benefit the Community Action Board of Santa Cruz County, supporting communities impacted by anti-immigration legislation and homelessness in South County. ***

Join us for a special event as we celebrate the opening of The Day That Never Came / El Día Que with lead artist and 2026 Indexical Artist-in-Residence Rip Florence. Featuring a Q&A with the orators and sound artists that contributed to the work. 

*** For the duration of this exhibition, all related ticket sales included either a CD or vinyl copy of the record release and benefit the Community Action Board of Santa Cruz County, supporting communities impacted by anti-immigration legislation and homelessness in South County. ***

As part of the ongoing exhibition The Day That Never Came / El Día Que, Indexical will host a public housing rights protest banner-making workshop led by artist, educator, and University of California, Santa Cruz lecturer Ann Altstatt of The Fabrica.

*** For the duration of this exhibition, all related ticket sales included either a CD or vinyl copy of the record release and benefit the Community Action Board of Santa Cruz County, supporting communities impacted by anti-immigration legislation and homelessness in South County. ***

*** For the duration of this exhibition, all related ticket sales included either a CD or vinyl copy of the record release and benefit the Community Action Board of Santa Cruz County, supporting communities impacted by anti-immigration legislation and homelessness in South County. ***

As part of the ongoing exhibition The Day That Never Came / El Día Que, artist and organizer Joy Schendledecker presents Common Ground, No Ground, a performative lecture that blends video, song, text, and a zine to explore what enclosure means under conditions of displacement.

The Riverlands of San Lorenzo Park, also known as the Benchlands is a place marked by cycles of erasure and return, carries layered histories: first violently cleared of their original caretakers—the Awaswas-speaking Uypi people, ancestors of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band—then reshaped through missions, ranches, and urban development. In recent decades, the Benchlands became a place where unhoused residents built shelter, relationships, and fragile stability, only to be repeatedly cleared, most recently in 2022, when the encampment was destroyed by police and heavy machinery.

STONE SOUP is a communal gathering around stone, mineral, charcoal, and rubble as active material archives. Through experimental improvisation, artists Dima Mabsout and Tyler Rai, bring their practices together, weaving ritual, story, sound, and soup-making into a collaborative space with members of the Indexical community. Utilizing loop pedals, contact microphones, transducers, and mortar and pestles, the artists transmute lithic matter into a haptic experience of mineral and bodily transformation. The piece takes the form of a 3-part ritual where sediment becomes sound and minerals nourish the bones. A space for digestion, for nourishment, for renewal.

***Soup will served after the performance. We will provide a small number of bowls and utensils, but audiences are encourage to bring their own bowl.**

Join us for a solo performance and talk with Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music Creative Lab commissioned artist Sarah Hennies. In this intimate program, Hennies performs on a set of German cowbells (almglocken), gifted to her by percussionist Michael Ranta from his Cologne shop, Asian Sound. The concert will be followed by a conversation with the artist to discuss her upcoming premiere at the Festival.