The expo, at the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium May 13-14, will feature vendors displaying everything from hemp hammocks and drawstring pants to hemp beer and food. The parade will take place May 13 on Pacific Avenue. With the dramatic forests of Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park in Felton as a backdrop, May 13 will be devoted to our buddies the bugs. The day includes the chance to build a bug, play bug games, see bug movies, and earn a certificate in bug-ology. The World's Shortest Parade.
Any resident is welcome to walk and to dress any which way.
The Musical Saw Players' Festival. Musicians playing saws, fiddles, harmonicas, and banjos get together July 16 at Roaring Camp, an old logging camp amid a stretch of immense California redwoods in the Santa Cruz Mountains. A preview of the event takes place on Pacific Avenue in Santa Cruz on July 15. There are many more, but we're sorry to report you missed this year's Santa Cruz Fungus Fair. It was held in January, with a variety of fungus feasts.