Last Night a “do-it-yourself” New Years Eve Tradition

Last Night is a do-it-yourself, decentralized, collective, spontaneous, open, public New Year’s Eve celebration in Santa Cruz, California since 2005. Celebrating what we can do as a community when we work together. Sunset on New Year’s Eve every year starting at Pacific & Spruce (behind Ace Hardware), and ending with a street party at Pacific and Cooper!

Guests: Stacey Falls has been an active participant in the last night DIY parade for 20 years. Though she is not one of the original founders, she has been invested in keeping it going as a wonderful Santa Cruz cultural phenomenon.Stacey is also a teacher at Santa Cruz High School and has lived in Santa Cruz since 2002.

Grant Wilson is a puppet builder, artist-activist & social worker. Has lived in Santa Cruz since 1976 and was active in the First Night parades from 1994 to 2004, & the Last Night DIY Parades for the past 20 years.

Chris Krohn is an active and rabid radio listener and programmer. He currently has a show on KSQD called “Chris Krohn, 80 something I have known.” He is a former mayor of Santa Cruz, and a retired educator. Chris was the internship director for 20 years at UC Santa Cruz in the Department of environmental studies. He has attended more than a half dozen DIY New Year’s events.

https://www.lastnightdiy.org/