5th Annual Pleasure Point Street Fair Features 8 Bands, Kids’ Zone and Beer & Wine Garden – a Benefit for Jay Moriarity Foundation.

Pleasure Point will be the focal point for local entertainment as people take to the street to enjoy the fith annual Pleasure Point Street Fair on Saturday, June 24 2017. The event will be held on Portola Drive between 41st and 38th Avenues, Santa Cruz, from 11 am – 5 pm with bike parking available, and admission is free.

A total of eight local bands will perform a variety of styles of music on two stages including Americana, Blues, Rock, Reggae and Surf Music. The kid’s zone will feature crafts and activities from local businesses. In addition, close to 100 vendors will sell arts, crafts, local services, food and beverages. An expanded beer garden will offer New Bohemia Brewing Company’s lagers along with Mimosas and wine provided by the Pleasure Point Business Association.

Ride the Riverwalk at this First Ever Action Sports Expo Along the San Lorenzo River. Free Demo Rides, Food, Live Music & Rock Climbing Wall and more.

Vendors:
Current eBikes
Inboard
Slick
Santa Cruz Warriors
Archer Components
Formula Slug
Zero Motorcycles
Spokesman Bicycles
LIFEAID Beverage Co.
Mobile Climb USA (Rock Wall)

Food sold by:
Ate3one
G’s Tacos#2
The Penny Ice Creamery

Presented by:

Coastal Watershed Council
Santa Cruz Works
Event Santa Cruz

Sponsored by:

City of Santa Cruz Economic Development Office

A celebration of world class, home grown extreme sports innovators and outfitters that fuel themselves on the San Lorenzo River. This drinking water source, critical habitat and downtown greenspace connects summit to sea in Santa Cruz and provides the perfect setting to demo this County’s innovative action sports industry. Ride the riverwalk. Enjoy food and music. And celebrate this river town, a mecca for action sports.

43rd Annual Santa Cruz Pride Parade

SUNDAY, JUNE 4, 2017 AT 11:00 AM

WE ARE INDIVISIBLE!

Cheer on our 2017 Grand Marshals and a wide variety of contingents making up the largest LGBTQ+ Pride parade on the Central Coast. Santa Cruz Pride celebrates the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer/Questioning (LGBTQ) community in Santa Cruz County. In this queer visibility action, members of our Santa Cruz community - organizations, allies, supportive groups, churches, candidates, ensembles, performers, parents, children - will show pride, activism, enthusiasm and love.

Cabrillo College VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS OPEN HOUSE

Popping our Shanty Cherries.

Come out to the West Side for some tasty Kraft Beer and some "brunch"

Monterey Bay Youth Outdoor Day is a totally free event open to the public. Our focus is to get kids interested in the many outdoor activities that are right here in our back yard. With over forty different organizations represented, there is something for everyone!

EXTENDED LUNCH SERVICE as an experiment

Spend the day exploring vehicles of all kinds from dump trucks and diggers to fire trucks and city buses, while also enjoying a variety of Santa Cruz’s best food trucks, a well-stocked beverage garden, a Kid Zone where kids can build, climb, jump and create, and listening to one of Santa Cruz’s best bands, The Joint Chiefs.

10:30-3pm SUNDAY

The Second Annual Santa Cruz Mini Maker Faire is a family-friendly event that celebrates the inventiveness her in the Santa Cruz community. The Mini Maker Faire allows creators and tinkerers to showcase their work to the community, while the public comes to enjoy hands-on, interactive experiences, connect with like-minded people, and to be inspired. Maker Faire supports the ideas of passionate innovation, collaboration and joyful connection with others, and hands-on doing as a way of experiencing the world.

Santa Cruz has a vibrant maker’s scene. The Mini Maker Faire will help makers network with other makers, and provides opportunities for individuals and companies to showcase their innovative nature and new products. If you attend, you’ll be inspired and educated by the amazing and creative makers who live and work in our community.

Maker Faire originated in 2006 in the San Francisco Bay Area as a project of the editors of Make: magazine.  It has since grown into a significant worldwide network of both flagship and independently-produced events.  Read more on Maker Faire history, the Maker Movement, as well as how to start a Maker Faire or a School Maker Faire where you live.

FAMILY NIGHT AND OPEN HOUSE!!!!

Soquel Village Sip & Stroll is a walking wine tasting through Soquel Village. 

11 unique tasting stations, hosted by local businesses and celebrating our fine local wineries. 
From noon - 5:30 enjoy antiquing, shops and restaurants offering specials and raffles throughout the day. 

Food Trucks A Go Go is joining us this year so make room for a special meal by Ate3One!

ate3one and saucey'z lunch truck rotation

ate3one 5200 Soquel Ave Santa Cruz

sauceyz Westridge Drive Watsonville

3rd TUESDAY OF EVERY MONTH

2nd and 4th at WESTRIDGE

1st and 3rd at Soquel Drive

4-8 EVERY TUESDAY at Elkhorn Slough Brewing Co.

1st and 3rd WED @ Soquel

2nd and 4th WED @ Westridge

special 1 year anniversary event and food + beer pairing

EVENT has moved from middle school to HIGH SCHOOL

5-8pm

10% of all SALES go back to SCGES

WATSONVILLE and LOYAL westridge drive people! we will be onsite for our last lunch of the year!

7th Annual Veterans Day Celebration

The fine folks over at Watsonville Community Hospital have extended their arms and are allowing us to be available to meet your lunch needs as well. Items may or may not be available and wait times may be long  

Thank you Doug and all your co-workers

Some of the most creative, healthy and just plain delicious foods in northern California are coming out of Watsonville. That is why this month all our lightning talks are from our local entrepreneurs in the food industry. 

6:00 — Event starts, beer, mingle, vendor samples, and food sales from the Commercial Kitchen Incubator residents

7:00 — The Main Event: Speakers Begin

Scheduled Speakers: 

Edward Fordyce: Artisan Hand Food
Jesus Madrigal: Watsonville Certified Farmers’ Market
Kasia Maslanka Smith: Ate3one
Three students from the Teen Kitchen Project
Ella King: Ella’s at the Airport
Speaker #6 TBA soon
Speaker #7 TBA soon

Vendors include: 

Food Vendors include:
Artisan Hand Food
Teen Kitchen Project
My Mom’s Mole
Yoli’s Adobo
Il Biscotto
The Green Waffle LLC
OhDiplicious
Hidden Fortress Coffee Roasting

Music guest – Doc Davidson

Beer to be sold by Humble Sea Brewing Co.

THANK YOU SPONSORS!
City of Santa Cruz Economic Development Office, ip Society, Mainstream Real Estate Group, NextSpace Santa Cruz, Launch Brigade, Allison Garcia Photography, Santa Cruz Waves, Visit Santa Cruz, JBQAV, Jules Holdsworth Photography, Save Our Shores