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![Boys and Girls Club Provides Safe Spaces](https://ksqd.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/P1020294-1080x675.jpg)
Boys and Girls Club Provides Safe Spaces
The Boys and Girls Club of Santa Cruz is celebrating 50 years of serving the area's youth with many enriching afterschool and day programs. As the opioid crisis hits ever younger ages, how might programs like these prevent the tragedy of addiction and overdose?...
![Sustainability Now! Sunday, March 19th: A Visit to the SC Museum of Natural History with Marisa Gomez](https://ksqd.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Marisa-Gomez.1.png)
Sustainability Now! Sunday, March 19th: A Visit to the SC Museum of Natural History with Marisa Gomez
A Visit to the SC Museum of Natural History, with Marisa Gomez On Sustainability Now! Sunday, March 19th, 5-6 PM, on KSQD 90.7 FM and KSQD.org SN! Host Ronnie Lipschutz welcomes Marisa Gomez, Community Education and Collaboration Manager at the Santa Cruz Museum of...
![Humanizing technology… one student at a time](https://ksqd.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/KSQDHumanizingTechHeader-1080x675.jpg)
Humanizing technology… one student at a time
UC Santa Cruz's Humanizing Technology Certificate Program for undergraduate students studying engineering and other STEM fields is an innovative educational program that hopes to solve an age-old problem: How do we educate technologists both to create cutting edge...
![Hilary Davidson – Twenty](https://ksqd.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Hilary-Mathilde-scaled-e1679071152390-976x675.jpg)
Hilary Davidson – Twenty
Hilary Davidson joins host Mathilde Rand to discuss filmmaking, live in Santa Cruz, working with youth, and the work on her first feature-length film, Twenty. Contact: nineteen85films@gmail.com Campaign thru 3/18 at seedandspark.com/fund/twenty
![Tannery Arts Center Audio Walking Tour Debut](https://ksqd.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/tannery.jpg)
Tannery Arts Center Audio Walking Tour Debut
The Tannery Arts Center has a storied history. Now, it's been brought to life by a new audio walking tour.
![John Golder shares stories of building solar, sustainable living innovations, and fighting City Hall](https://ksqd.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/John-Golder.jpg)
John Golder shares stories of building solar, sustainable living innovations, and fighting City Hall
John Golder is a local solar inventor, building innovator, retired contractor, former building inspector, survival skills instructor, youth sports advocate, and anti-bureaucrat. He can be contacted at ahoy.capt.jhond@gmail.com
![Alan Ritch – Riprap](https://ksqd.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Riprap-scaled-e1678126970761-1080x675.jpg)
Alan Ritch – Riprap
Alan Ritch rips riprap.
![King of Cimbidiums Andy Easton talks orchids](https://ksqd.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/2011-01-15Picture-00119-1080x675.jpg)
King of Cimbidiums Andy Easton talks orchids
Internationally recognized orchid hybridizer Andy Easton joins Joe Truskot and Steven E. Popp on KSQD's weekly garden show, "In The Garden." Andy was visiting California from his new home in El Retiro, Colombia.
![11th Annual Watsonville Film Festival Kicks Off](https://ksqd.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/FBcover_Website_v2-1080x675.jpg)
11th Annual Watsonville Film Festival Kicks Off
10 days of free films mark the 11th annual Watsonville Film Festival which begins March 3rd. This year the festival is honoring actor Pepe Serna, who has appeared in over 400 television shows and movies. Festival director Consuelo Alba and Pepe Serna talk about...
![Santa Cruz Mayor Fred Keeley](https://ksqd.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Keeley2.jpg)
Santa Cruz Mayor Fred Keeley
Fred Keeley talks about new height limits on large housing developments and the repairs or changes to West Cliff Drive, plus Brown Act violations from the mayors select committee.