A-Infos (en) US, Santa Cruz: Subrosa Anarchist café, bookstore, and performance space opens

Rosa, a new community space in downtown Santa Cruz, today announced its grand 
opening event on Saturday, November 1. The event will include an art show, live 
music, food, and an exciting first look inside this vibrant new social space. 
SubRosa is a non-profit, donation-funded space for art and radical projects run 
by a collective of volunteers from the local anarchist community. ---- Santa 
Cruz, CA – October 27, 2008 – SubRosa, a new community space in downtown Santa 
Cruz, today announced its grand opening event on Saturday, November 1. The event 
will include an art show, live music, food, and an exciting first look inside 
this vibrant new social space. ---- SubRosa is a non-profit, donation-funded 
space for art and radical projects run by a collective of volunteers from the 
local anarchist community.

It offers gourmet JavaBob’s coffee, anarchist books and literature, performance 
and a weekly open mic, gallery art by emerging local artists, and a welcoming 
garden courtyard.

Those looking for a good, strong, inexpensive cup of coffee are in luck. SubRosa 
is a refuge for the nearly extinct $1 cup of coffee served in your own mug. 
Literature for sale includes anti-authoritarian, ecological and anarchist books 
and zines. The space also houses the Anarchist Lending Library, featuring books 
on anarchy, Situationists, history, politics, ecology, indigenous studies, 
feminism and psychology that might not be available in the local library.

SubRosa is located next to the Bike Church, at Pacific Avenue and Spruce Street. 
Volunteers transformed a run-down warehouse space and bleak parking lot on lower 
Pacific into a cozy community and performance space with a large patio 
surrounded by a beautiful garden. Inside and outside, people gather around small 
tables for coffee and conversation, reading, talking, meeting, and enjoying 
performances and art. Free wi-fi and public computers are also available for 
use. A variety of radical community events will be held at SubRosa, including 
monthly art shows, Free Skool classes and a weekly Open Mic on Thursdays at 8pm.

While volunteers are drawn from a broad community of supporters, the SubRosa 
collective is composed of some of the same people who brought Guerilla Drive-In, 
Free Skool, and the Last Night DIY Parade to Santa Cruz. Members of the 
long-extinct performance space What Is Art? are part of the effort. “These are 
people you already know in Santa Cruz,” said Jennifer Charles, a collective 
member, “People involved in local art, politics, community and DIY events for 
years and years.”

The grand opening events will start at 4pm on Saturday, November 1, with an art 
opening for local artists Charlie and Hunter, followed by food and a poetry slam 
at 5:30pm. At 7pm, music will begin with the Hail Seizures, a Collective of 
Dirt, Chin Up, Meriwether and local anarcho-punk string-band street sensation 
Blackbird Raum. There will be a $10 donation for the music, but no one will be 
turned away for lack of funds.

SubRosa: A Community Space is located at 703 Pacific Avenue in downtown Santa 
Cruz. It is open 7 days a week, 8am-1pm and 3pm-8pm. For more information, 
contact: Jennifer Charles, SubRosa Collective, subrosa [at] riseup.net, 
831-430-6791.
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