The Day That Never Came

*** For the duration of this exhibition, all related ticket sales included either a CD or vinyl copy of the record release and benefit the Community Action Board of Santa Cruz County, supporting communities impacted by anti-immigration legislation and homelessness in South County. ***

Join us for a special event as we celebrate the opening of The Day That Never Came / El Día Que with lead artist and 2026 Indexical Artist-in-Residence Rip Florence. Featuring a Q&A with the orators and sound artists that contributed to the work. 

*** For the duration of this exhibition, all related ticket sales included either a CD or vinyl copy of the record release and benefit the Community Action Board of Santa Cruz County, supporting communities impacted by anti-immigration legislation and homelessness in South County. ***

As part of the ongoing exhibition The Day That Never Came / El Día Que, Indexical will host a public housing rights protest banner-making workshop led by artist, educator, and University of California, Santa Cruz lecturer Ann Altstatt of The Fabrica.

*** For the duration of this exhibition, all related ticket sales included either a CD or vinyl copy of the record release and benefit the Community Action Board of Santa Cruz County, supporting communities impacted by anti-immigration legislation and homelessness in South County. ***

*** For the duration of this exhibition, all related ticket sales included either a CD or vinyl copy of the record release and benefit the Community Action Board of Santa Cruz County, supporting communities impacted by anti-immigration legislation and homelessness in South County. ***

As part of the ongoing exhibition The Day That Never Came / El Día Que, artist and organizer Joy Schendledecker presents Common Ground, No Ground, a performative lecture that blends video, song, text, and a zine to explore what enclosure means under conditions of displacement.

The Riverlands of San Lorenzo Park, also known as the Benchlands is a place marked by cycles of erasure and return, carries layered histories: first violently cleared of their original caretakers—the Awaswas-speaking Uypi people, ancestors of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band—then reshaped through missions, ranches, and urban development. In recent decades, the Benchlands became a place where unhoused residents built shelter, relationships, and fragile stability, only to be repeatedly cleared, most recently in 2022, when the encampment was destroyed by police and heavy machinery.