Get Out: Dance in Strange Places, Get Green, Buy Vinyl, Smoke Green, Warriors Play Off

FRIDAY APRIL 19

What: Santa Cruz Warriors Versus Austin Toros Second Playoff Game in best of three series.

Where: Kaiser Permanente Arena

When: 6:30 p.m.

Tickets: $18-$35. Buy here.

Why: There are still tickets at good prices for your Santa Cruz Warriors, whose playoff game starts at 7 p.m. at Kaiser Permanente Arena. This isn't just a good time; it's history. You can tell your grandkids you saw the Warriors first season.

What: Dance Week takes to strange places

When: noon, 7p.m. and 8 p.m.

Where: Post Office, Abbott Square and the back of the Del Mar Theater.

Cost: FREE

Why: Dance breaks through the walls, off the stage and into the community. There are performances all week long. 

12:00 p.m. The Deltiologists
Downtown Post Office at 850 Front St. Santa Cruz

7:00 p.m. Santa Cruz Tango
The Breezeway between Abbott Square and Pacific Ave, Downtown Santa Cruz

8:00 p.m. Project 52
Backside of the Del Mar Theater, Downtown Santa Cruz

What: Earth Day Eve

Where: Museum of Art & History

When: 5-9 p.m. (with kids happy hour 3:30-5 p.m.)

What: Learn more about local environmental issues with Save Upper Campus, Save our Shores, the City of Santa Cruz Public Works and the Santa Cruz Natural History Museum. Connect with nature through music in a community drumming session in Abbott Square from 5:30-6:45PM or through movement with drop in yoga classes in the sculpture garden with DiviniTree Yoga from 5:30-7:30 p.m.

SATURDAY APRIL 20

What: EARTH DAY CELEBRATION

Where: San Lorenzo Park

When: 11 a.m.-4 p.m.

Cost: Free

Why: The free event will host over 100 educational and green retail booths and features live music from local bands Coffee Zombie Collective and SambaDá. 

Kids activities include a rock climbing wall, face painting, tumbling gymnastics area and arts and crafts booths, all for free! You can browse the electric vehicle showcase or take a test drive,  and enjoy delicious food, and the organic wine garden and learn from composting workshops.

Help clean up the San Lorenzo River between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m.  Check in at the Save Our Shores booth. Bring your own gloves and bucket if you have them.  The solar powered festival stage, sponsored by Sandbar Solar, will feature live music and a recycled fashion show scheduled throughout the day. A full schedule of events is available at www.ecocruz.org.

What: Record Store Day

Where: Streetlights

When: 11 a.m.- 7 p.m.; 11 a.m.-10 p.m.

Cost: The best money you will spend

Why: This is the yearly celebration of vinyl records where artists make special collectable disks for fans to buy one day a year. There are hundreds of special items. See the list here.

What: 4/20 Celebration at UCSC

Cost: Free, in a sense

When: Whenever, dude

What: A lot of people congregate on the UCSC campus to celebrate smoking weed. Will it be as big on a day when it isn't an excuse to cut class? Warning: A lot of Santa Cruz Police will be posted on the roads leading up to campus to look for bad and weed smoking drivers.

What: More Free Dance Performances

Cost: Free

Who, Where, Why:

11:00 a.m. Rhythm Nexus
In front of Zachary’s Restaurant 819 Pacific Ave, Downtown Santa Cruz

11:00 a.m. Mary Winslow School of Dance
Westside Farmer’s Market, Santa Cruz

4:00 p.m. Dance in Rhythm Salon
Atrium of the MAH 705 Front St., Downtown Santa Cruz

5:00 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. Test Bunny
Location TBA (Check our Facebook page for updates)

7:00 p.m. Deltiologists
Downtown Post Office at 850 Front St., Downtown Santa Cruz

SUNDAY APRIL 21

What: Even More Dance

Where, When, Why:

11:00 a.m. The Deltiologists
Downtown Post Office at 850 Front St,. Santa Cruz

1:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. Dance of Brazil
Harbor Beach in front of Crow’s Nest Restaurant, Santa Cruz

2:00 p.m. Awkward, At Best, Productions
Entry of the Santa Cruz Municipal Wharf, Santa Cruz

2:00 p.m. Jeanette Bent and Angelica Sartori
Stop Sign at the corner of Pacific and Cooper, Downtown Santa Cruz