﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Santa Cruz Area Chamber of Commerce Events Newswire</title><link>http://www.santacruzchamber.org</link><description>News related to Santa Cruz Area Chamber of Commerce</description><copyright>(c) 2026, Santa Cruz Area Chamber of Commerce All Rights Reserved.</copyright><ttl>5</ttl><item><title>Blind Tiger Open Mic 3/11/2020 8:30 PM - 12/30/2020 10:30 PM</title><description>Every Wednesday, Blind Tiger Open Mic brings together stand-up comics, magicians, and improv and sketch artists in a fast-paced three hour show!

All the action takes place on the lobby stage in the "Petri Dish Cafe" at the Lab with snacks, locally-made craft beer, cider, soda, and kombucha on tap--plus wine and non-alcoholic bottled beverages.

It's casual, it's fun, it's Blind Tiger.

Sign-ups at 8:00PM
Show starts 8:30PM
Appropriate for ages 16+
Rush tickets just $5 at the door!</description><link>https://web.santacruzchamber.org/events/eventdetail.aspx?EventID=4204</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2020 11:15:48 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Blind Tiger Open Mic 3/12/2020 7:30 PM - 12/31/2020 9:00 PM</title><description>DNA's Comedy Lab Presents: The Sloth Storytelling Show, a new 90-minute weekly program with music, games, and storytime for adults. Join your friends at the Lab on Thursdays and follow the Sloth on Facebook.

Storytellers are given a weekly theme around which to entertain, soothe, challenge, and find common ground with us, in a way that only a story can. The audience is invited to kick back in the Petri Dish Cafe &amp; Bar in the Lab Lobby with a craft brew and a bag of popcorn—blankies and binkies are optional.
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$10 rush tickets available at the door
Petri Dish Cafe &amp; Bar in the Lobby opens approximately 45min prior to event start
Show is 90 min and recommended for ages 16+</description><link>https://web.santacruzchamber.org/events/eventdetail.aspx?EventID=4205</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2020 11:15:59 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>2020 Forks, Corks &amp; Kegs Santa Cruz 8/1/2020 3:00 PM - 8/1/2020 7:00 PM</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="text-align:center"&gt;&lt;a href="https://sites.google.com/view/forkscorksandkegsofsantacruz/forks-corks-kegs" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="234" src="https://i.ibb.co/rxFQVYm/screenshot.jpg" width="969" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font size="6"&gt;&lt;font color="#dd0101"&gt;2nd Annual Forks, Corks &amp;amp; Kegs Festival&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:16px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"&gt;Join us at the 2&lt;sup&gt;nd&lt;/sup&gt; Annual Forks, Corks &amp;amp; Kegs Festival on Saturday, August 1&lt;sup&gt;st&lt;/sup&gt;&amp;nbsp;from 3pm-7pm for a fabulous day of fine wine, craft beer, delicious food, photobooth experience and live music! Each attendee will receive unlimited tastings and a commemorative wine glass.&amp;nbsp; The festival will be at the Kaiser Permanente Arena located in downtown Santa Cruz.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:16px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Date:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; Saturday, August 1, 2020&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Time:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; 3:00pm - 7:00pm&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Location:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;140 Front St.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"&gt;, Santa Cruz 95060&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="text-align:center"&gt;&lt;a href="https://sites.google.com/view/forkscorksandkegsofsantacruz/forks-corks-kegs" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="http://web.santacruzchamber.org/External/WCPages/WCWebContent/WebContentPage.aspx?ContentID=4519" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="text-align:center"&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.ticketmaster.com/forks-corks-kegs-festival-tickets/artist/1965500" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img alt="Picture" src="http://www.santacruzchamber.org/uploads/5/5/5/1/55516451/button-purchase_orig.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
</description><link>https://web.santacruzchamber.org/events/eventdetail.aspx?EventID=4206</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2020 15:51:52 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Santa Cruz Co-Ed Leads Club 8/4/2020 1:00 PM - 8/4/2020 2:15 PM</title><description>Welcome to the Santa Cruz Co-Ed Chapter of Leads Club! The Purpose of Ali Lassen’s Leads Club is to assist you in getting good business referrals that will expand your business success. Leads Club is dedicated to maximizing the use of your time and resources to get good business referrals. To accomplish this goal, Leads Club uses a method of spaced, timed, repetition of information. We are not a social club. We are a business dedicated to your business .

This group meets every Tuesday in Santa Cruz from 1:00 to 2:15pm. Meetings are currently held at David Lyng Real Estate at 1041 41st Avenue Santa Cruz, CA 95062.

You are welcome to attend up to 2 meetings to see how our networking system works. Please bring business cards and be prepared to promote your business service or product with a 30-second promotional during our meeting. Please RSVP if you would like to attend a meeting.

If you decide to join the group officially, you will be granted access to our private Facebook group to participate in discussions and see other information intended for group members only.

Joining the Santa Cruz Co-Ed Chapter of Leads Club is simple. If our Leads Club has an opening in your business category, you can request an application from our leadership team. On the application you will be asked to provide three references along with one-time payment of $127 and either a $188 Semi-Annual Membership or save $27 when you pay an Annual Membership of $349.

You may contact the group organizer, Gina Carling, if you have any questions.

We are actively seeking members in the following categories:

Auto-Repair

Beauty-Hair Care

Beauty - Personal Stylists/Wardrobe

Business Services - Business Coach

Business Services - HR Consultant

Computer Services - Repair

Computer Services - Networking

Contractor-Electrical (Licensed)

Contractor - General (Licensed)

Contractor-Handyman

Contractor-Plumbing (Licensed)

Design-Events-Planner

Fashion-Fashion Consultant

Florist

Food Services-Personal Chef

Food Services-Restaurant

Health &amp; Wellness-Nutrition

Landscaping-Design

Marketing-Printing/Copies</description><link>https://web.santacruzchamber.org/events/eventdetail.aspx?EventID=4176</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2020 11:14:09 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Santa Cruz Co-Ed Leads Club 8/11/2020 1:00 PM - 8/11/2020 2:15 PM</title><description>Welcome to the Santa Cruz Co-Ed Chapter of Leads Club! The Purpose of Ali Lassen’s Leads Club is to assist you in getting good business referrals that will expand your business success. Leads Club is dedicated to maximizing the use of your time and resources to get good business referrals. To accomplish this goal, Leads Club uses a method of spaced, timed, repetition of information. We are not a social club. We are a business dedicated to your business .

This group meets every Tuesday in Santa Cruz from 1:00 to 2:15pm. Meetings are currently held at David Lyng Real Estate at 1041 41st Avenue Santa Cruz, CA 95062.

You are welcome to attend up to 2 meetings to see how our networking system works. Please bring business cards and be prepared to promote your business service or product with a 30-second promotional during our meeting. Please RSVP if you would like to attend a meeting.

If you decide to join the group officially, you will be granted access to our private Facebook group to participate in discussions and see other information intended for group members only.

Joining the Santa Cruz Co-Ed Chapter of Leads Club is simple. If our Leads Club has an opening in your business category, you can request an application from our leadership team. On the application you will be asked to provide three references along with one-time payment of $127 and either a $188 Semi-Annual Membership or save $27 when you pay an Annual Membership of $349.

You may contact the group organizer, Gina Carling, if you have any questions.

We are actively seeking members in the following categories:

Auto-Repair

Beauty-Hair Care

Beauty - Personal Stylists/Wardrobe

Business Services - Business Coach

Business Services - HR Consultant

Computer Services - Repair

Computer Services - Networking

Contractor-Electrical (Licensed)

Contractor - General (Licensed)

Contractor-Handyman

Contractor-Plumbing (Licensed)

Design-Events-Planner

Fashion-Fashion Consultant

Florist

Food Services-Personal Chef

Food Services-Restaurant

Health &amp; Wellness-Nutrition

Landscaping-Design

Marketing-Printing/Copies</description><link>https://web.santacruzchamber.org/events/eventdetail.aspx?EventID=4177</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2020 11:14:18 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Stress is a Laughing Matter at DNA's Virtual Comedy Lab 8/14/2020 7:00 PM - 8/14/2020 </title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:14px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Co-Hosted by &lt;a href="http://www.santacruzchamber.org"&gt;Santa Cruz County Chamber&lt;/a&gt; &amp;amp; &lt;a href="http://dnascomedylab.com/" target="_blank"&gt;DNA&amp;#39;s Comedy Lab&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:14px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Join us for a happy hour comedy event where you&amp;#39;ll not only be entertained, but you&amp;#39;ll learn how you can intentionally use comedy &amp;amp; humor to decrease your stress during these challenging times! With a mix of side-splitting humor &amp;amp; actionable strategies for reducing stress, it&amp;#39;s the perfect event to gather your remote teams &amp;amp; colleagues for a morale boosting get together to end the week!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:14px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" id="_x0000_i1025" src="https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1tNkcKbEqJsdtC5hxnItOO05b7GBcxGU0" style="float:left" width="130" /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Paul Osincup &lt;/strong&gt;is a&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://www.paulosincup.com/"&gt;Speaker and Humor Strategist&lt;/a&gt; who uses his experience in stand-up and improv comedy to help organizations create happier, healthier, and more connected places to work. Paul&amp;rsquo;s global mission for workplace happiness has provided him the opportunity to work with hundreds of organizations including Nasdaq, Cisco, and the Harvard Kennedy School of Leadership. He&amp;rsquo;s a content creator for Happify, an app that provides evidence-based solutions for emotional health and well-being for over 4 million users. Paul is also a certified Stress Mastery Educator with the American Institute of Stress, and a training partner with the international work culture consultancy, &amp;ldquo;Delivering Happiness.&amp;rdquo; His TEDx Talk: &amp;ldquo;Leading with Laughter, the Power of Humor in Leadership&amp;rdquo; is used in corporate and collegiate leadership courses around the world and he is the President of the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://www.aath.org/"&gt;Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor&lt;/a&gt;, an international organization dedicated to the study and application of humor to enhance health and human performance. Paul&amp;rsquo;s work has been highlighted in Forbes, on Sirius XM Radio, and on his mom&amp;rsquo;s refrigerator.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:14px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="https://SantaCruzCACOC.wliinc23.com/External/WCPages/WCWebContent/webcontentpage.aspx?ContentId=4640" style="float:left" width="150" /&gt;Emily Van Dyke &lt;/strong&gt;is a new mom with old vices. Emily delivers sharp wit, silly commentary and a heavy dose of honesty. Emily has opened for Colin Quinn and Judah Friedlander, she performs at SF Sketchfest and is a local favorite in the Bay Area.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:14px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="https://SantaCruzCACOC.wliinc23.com/External/WCPages/WCWebContent/webcontentpage.aspx?ContentId=4641" style="float:left" width="150" /&gt;DNA &lt;/strong&gt;is an award-winning producer of festivals and events throughout California. Pre-COVID he produced the Santa Cruz Comedy Festival, The Chico Comedy Festival and co-produced Comedy Day in Golden Gate Park. &lt;a href="https://dnascomedylab.com/" target="_blank"&gt;DNA&amp;#39;s Comedy Lab &lt;/a&gt;was opened in the beginning of 2019 and had almost 300 productions in its first year, becoming a cultural hub of Santa Cruz. DNA has also written numerous cover stories for Good Times newspaper, as well as many other media outlets, and has appeared on NPR&amp;#39;s Snap Judgement.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style="text-align:center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://dnascomedylab.com/"&gt;&lt;img alt="" height="117" src="https://SantaCruzCACOC.wliinc23.com/External/WCPages/WCWebContent/webcontentpage.aspx?ContentId=4642" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
</description><link>https://web.santacruzchamber.org/events/eventdetail.aspx?EventID=4217</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2020 14:13:21 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Santa Cruz Co-Ed Leads Club 8/18/2020 1:00 PM - 8/18/2020 2:15 PM</title><description>Welcome to the Santa Cruz Co-Ed Chapter of Leads Club! The Purpose of Ali Lassen’s Leads Club is to assist you in getting good business referrals that will expand your business success. Leads Club is dedicated to maximizing the use of your time and resources to get good business referrals. To accomplish this goal, Leads Club uses a method of spaced, timed, repetition of information. We are not a social club. We are a business dedicated to your business .

This group meets every Tuesday in Santa Cruz from 1:00 to 2:15pm. Meetings are currently held at David Lyng Real Estate at 1041 41st Avenue Santa Cruz, CA 95062.

You are welcome to attend up to 2 meetings to see how our networking system works. Please bring business cards and be prepared to promote your business service or product with a 30-second promotional during our meeting. Please RSVP if you would like to attend a meeting.

If you decide to join the group officially, you will be granted access to our private Facebook group to participate in discussions and see other information intended for group members only.

Joining the Santa Cruz Co-Ed Chapter of Leads Club is simple. If our Leads Club has an opening in your business category, you can request an application from our leadership team. On the application you will be asked to provide three references along with one-time payment of $127 and either a $188 Semi-Annual Membership or save $27 when you pay an Annual Membership of $349.

You may contact the group organizer, Gina Carling, if you have any questions.

We are actively seeking members in the following categories:

Auto-Repair

Beauty-Hair Care

Beauty - Personal Stylists/Wardrobe

Business Services - Business Coach

Business Services - HR Consultant

Computer Services - Repair

Computer Services - Networking

Contractor-Electrical (Licensed)

Contractor - General (Licensed)

Contractor-Handyman

Contractor-Plumbing (Licensed)

Design-Events-Planner

Fashion-Fashion Consultant

Florist

Food Services-Personal Chef

Food Services-Restaurant

Health &amp; Wellness-Nutrition

Landscaping-Design

Marketing-Printing/Copies</description><link>https://web.santacruzchamber.org/events/eventdetail.aspx?EventID=4178</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:09 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Santa Cruz Co-Ed Leads Club 8/25/2020 1:00 PM - 8/25/2020 2:15 PM</title><description>Welcome to the Santa Cruz Co-Ed Chapter of Leads Club! The Purpose of Ali Lassen’s Leads Club is to assist you in getting good business referrals that will expand your business success. Leads Club is dedicated to maximizing the use of your time and resources to get good business referrals. To accomplish this goal, Leads Club uses a method of spaced, timed, repetition of information. We are not a social club. We are a business dedicated to your business .

This group meets every Tuesday in Santa Cruz from 1:00 to 2:15pm. Meetings are currently held at David Lyng Real Estate at 1041 41st Avenue Santa Cruz, CA 95062.

You are welcome to attend up to 2 meetings to see how our networking system works. Please bring business cards and be prepared to promote your business service or product with a 30-second promotional during our meeting. Please RSVP if you would like to attend a meeting.

If you decide to join the group officially, you will be granted access to our private Facebook group to participate in discussions and see other information intended for group members only.

Joining the Santa Cruz Co-Ed Chapter of Leads Club is simple. If our Leads Club has an opening in your business category, you can request an application from our leadership team. On the application you will be asked to provide three references along with one-time payment of $127 and either a $188 Semi-Annual Membership or save $27 when you pay an Annual Membership of $349.

You may contact the group organizer, Gina Carling, if you have any questions.

We are actively seeking members in the following categories:

Auto-Repair

Beauty-Hair Care

Beauty - Personal Stylists/Wardrobe

Business Services - Business Coach

Business Services - HR Consultant

Computer Services - Repair

Computer Services - Networking

Contractor-Electrical (Licensed)

Contractor - General (Licensed)

Contractor-Handyman

Contractor-Plumbing (Licensed)

Design-Events-Planner

Fashion-Fashion Consultant

Florist

Food Services-Personal Chef

Food Services-Restaurant

Health &amp; Wellness-Nutrition

Landscaping-Design

Marketing-Printing/Copies</description><link>https://web.santacruzchamber.org/events/eventdetail.aspx?EventID=4179</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:17:39 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>