Hello, Fábrica Supporters! We hope you are enjoying this beautiful, foggy Santa Cruz Summer! Read on to learn about upcoming events at the shop, as well as a few other happenings hosted by comrade-organizations: the Renter’s Union screen printing tomorrow, shoe repair on Sunday, and Ann’s artist residency, to name a few!
Summer schedule:
JuLY & August Open Hours:
Saturdays 2pm – 5pm
Sundays 11am – 2pm
Mondays 12pm – 3pm
CLOSED Sunday 8/10 for the Really Really Free Market
Sometimes we need to be closed unexpectedly. Please check the Hours/Calendar page for the most current information.
Upcoming Events:
See the Events page on our website for more information.
Free Skool Class:
At-Home Shoe Repair w/ Elijah Dalley
Sunday, July 20, 2025
2:30 pm – 5 pm
@ The Fábrica, 703 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA
Learn how to perform basic shoe repairs at home to keep your sneakers on your feet. Will go over gluing, painting, and stitching/patching.
July Art Show:
Practice
Friday, July 25, 2025
6 pm – 9 pm
@ The Fábrica, 703 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA
The Fábrica’s July Art Show features drawings by Harper and Maria. Join us for a reception (and activities!) Friday, July 25th, 6-9 PM at the Fábrica. There will be art supplies and objects to draw at the big table, as well as banner sewing outside in the courtyard.
“Maria and Harper started a simple daily drawing practice using everyday household objects — one item, a couple of minutes, with any paper or writing instrument that was around. Drawing soon became a practice of slowing down and looking at things with care. They’ve found it to be a helpful reminder of the power of seeing.”
August Art show:
Louise Leong
Friday, August 8, 2025
6 pm – 9 pm
@ The Fábrica, 703 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA
Join us for an art show and reception with the artists at The Fábrica.
For the month of August we will host work by our friend Louise. More info coming soon.
A Side Note:
Ann is on a Field Trip
WHP Open House
Sunday, July 27 2025
3 pm – 7 pm
@ Winslow House Project, Vallejo, CA
One of our collective members, Ann, is currently an artist in residence at the Winslow House Project in Vallejo. Check out the WHP website or instagram for more info.
And Ann, if you’re seeing this, we miss you! But we hope you’re having the best time! 😭
Collaborations:
Santa Cruz County Renters Union
Every once in awhile, we collaborate with likeminded friends and organizations to create a banner especially for their cause. Recently we hatched a plan to create a banner with the Santa Cruz Community Renters’ Union (SCCRU). When we make a banner in collaboration with another group, we start with a planning session to brainstorm a slogan, create a design, and to pick fabrics. Then we get to work: measuring, sketching, and cutting out letters and designs. The final stage is hosting a larger group to sew all the letters on to the banner. That’s the best part: a time for people to slow down, stitch, chat, and do their part to make the banner. Anyone can participate and prior sewing experience is completely unnecessary! Last week we planned and set up the SCCRU banner with a few of their members. Later this month they will host a banner-sewing with their members to put it all together. In the end, they’ll have a beautiful and meaningful banner that they all helped create.
This coming weekend, SCCRU is hosting their “Tenant Power Zine Launch!” at Little Giant Collective. You can bring a t-shirt to print and get a zine. Bring your housemates and neighbors!
SCCRU’s “Tenant Power Zine Launch!”
Saturday, July 19, 2025
12 – 2 pm
@ Little Giant Collective, 115 River St, Santa Cruz, CA
Miscellanea:
- Our lovely neighbors Subrosa are a small arts venue and meeting space that hosts concerts and classes almost daily.
- Our other neighbors The Bike Church are like the Fábrica for bikes! If you’re new to bike maintenance, check out their monthly “Intro to Bikes” workshop.
- Your Area Rapid Response or YARR is a hotline and community network created “to document, resist and prevent actions by ICE or other oppressive forces that would harm our fellow human beings.” Join their email list or follow them on social media to hear about legal observer and de-escalation trainings or to join the responder network. Save their phone number to report ICE in your community: (831) 439-2389.
- Check out the Free Skool Calendar.
- Our friend Joanne is teaching quilting classes through Cabrillo Extension.
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