After two years of virtual Picnic Day, the annual 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis event (picnic lunch optional) takes place Saturday, April 23. Bring a blanket and sit to enjoy the parade, then move on to all the arts you can handle. We feature the highlights. There's plenty of other activity too. See the story and full schedule of Picnic Day here. See arts highlights below.
Manetti Shrem offers shade activities, art in the AC; Design Museum open
Stop by the Manetti Shrem Museum on Picnic Day for art viewing and art making! Gather under the Grand Canopy for games and creative activities in the shade. Make a colorful composition of your own or bring a sketch to life with flipbook animation. Head inside to cool off and experience From Moment to Movement: Picturing Protest in the Kramlich Collection, and the final few weeks of Mary Heilmann: Squaring Davis and William T. Wiley and the Slant Step: All On the Line.
The museum is Free for All!
Arboretum art and design 鈥 a festival of color
See the story in the Arts Blog about what Design students have built in the arboretum. On view through Sunday. The Design Museum is open, too. See that separate story here.
Picnic Day: 'Musical Expedition' offered
10:30 a.m. 鈥 noon
Meet-the-Instruments, 10:30 a.m.
Come meet samba and mariachi musicians! Get to know them and their instruments, and then watch them perform!
Mariachi Performance, 10:30 a.m.
Mariachi 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis, directed by Tito Talamentes, a 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis lecturer in music, performs in the many traditions, among them including S贸n Jalisciense, Canci贸n Ranchera, Corrido, and some contemporary styles.
Samba Performance, 11:15 a.m.
Samba School at 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis, directed by Brian Rice, a 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis lecturer in music, performs in the traditional music of Carnaval!
Jazz Combo Performance, 12:45 p.m.
One of 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis鈥檚 student jazz combos will perform selections from the Great American Songbook.
Percussion & 鈥楢ll That Jazz,' at Recital Hall
, Noon-1:30 p.m.
Percussion Ensemble, Noon
新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis percussion students directed by Chris Froh, a 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis lecturer in music, will demonstrate the versatility of the modern percussion ensemble repertoire.
Soundlab Experience, 12 鈥 2 p.m.
Michael Seth Orland and Jacqueline Chew, Pianos
April 21, 12:05 鈥 1 p.m.
Recital Hall, Ann E. Pitzer Center, Free, a Shinkoskey Noon Concert
a 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis lecturer in music, and Jacqueline Chew, both longtime collaborators, will present two-piano music by and
Program to be announced. See more .
Arboretum Art and Design
See the story in the Arts Blog about what Design students have built in the arboretum. On view through Sunday.
More this week: Oscar Strasnoy, composer: A Valente Lecture, Thursday
April 21, 4 鈥 5:30 p.m.
Room 266, Everson Hall
Oscar Strasnoy is a French-Argentine composer, conductor and pianist. He has composed twelve stage works, including operas performed at Spoleto, Rome, Paris (Op茅ra Comique, Th茅芒tre du Ch芒telet), Hamburg, Bordeaux, Aix-en-Provence Festival, Teatro Col贸n of Buenos Aires), Berlin State Opera; a live-accompanied silent film score for Anthony Asquith鈥檚 Underground which premiered at the Louvre in 2004 and was subsequently played at the Cine Dor茅 in Madrid, the Mozarteum Argentino, Kyoto, and Tokyo) and a secular cantata, Hochzeitsvorbereitungen (mit B und K). He has also composed several pieces of chamber, vocal, and orchestral music, including his song cycle Six Songs for the Unquiet Traveller, which premiered in 2004 performed by the Nash Ensemble and Ann Murray in a concert to inaugurate the newly refurbished Wigmore Hall in London. Strasnoy鈥檚 works are primarily published by Universal Edition (Vienna) Chant du Monde (Paris) and Billaudot (Paris). His opera Midea is published by Ricordi (Milan).
新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Symphony Orchestra: 'Effects and Dances'
Thursday, April 21, 8 鈥 9 p.m.
Jackson Hall, Mondavi Center,
See the full Arts Blog story published here.
In its 鈥淓ffects and Dances鈥 program, Christian Baldini and the 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Symphony Orchestra bring two thrilling orchestral pieces to the Mondavi Center in a short program starting at 8 p.m.
Find a direct link to the livestream .
Earth Day/Week/Month: Sketch Crawl
鈥 Free, with all materials provided. Noon-1:30 p.m. Friday, April 22, meet at the 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Earth and Physical Sciences Building.
Baroque Orchestras of 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis and Davis High School
Sunday, April 24, 3 鈥 5 p.m.
Recital Hall, Ann E. Pitzer Center,
The program includes Orchestral Suite, Chaconne from King Arthur, The Fencing School, Chaconne, Sinfonia, Chaconne, and Concerto a quattro.
Find a direct link to the livestream .
PUSH / PULL by Nick Shepard at The Garage on the Grove
Through May 14
PUSH / PULL is artist Nick Shepard鈥檚 imposing rework of the Garage鈥檚 interior, and the next level in his exploration of the relationship between photographic images and the physical spaces in which they are viewed. Visitors immediately find themselves, not in a light and airy gallery, but in a narrow passageway of obscured sightlines and controlled movement, pressed close to the walls and pushed forward into the shadows.
Abstract photographs born of the Garage rafters and in-process installation materials are hung either too close to the viewer or too far, and sometimes are partially revealed or just out of sight. Their rich color shifts and striking shallow depth of field comfort with a pleasing, velvety texture, while challenging visitors to piece together a sense of the whole from mere fragments.
TGTG is pleased to present PUSH / PULL in conjunction with .
There will be an artist reception on Saturday, May 14, 7 鈥 10 p.m. Open viewings include Thursday, April 21, 6 鈥 8 p.m., Saturday, April 30, 2 鈥 4 p.m., and Wednesday, May 4, 6 鈥 8 pm.
Artists and co-founded TGTG in 2018 to add to and participate in the Sac art scene, and to create a new space for artists and the public to engage with experimental projects grounded in a contemporary art framework. They are located at 2287 Grove Ave., Sacramento.
Madagascar: A Musical Adventure, in Woodland
Friday, April 22 鈥 Sunday, May 8, 2022. Shows on Friday at 7:30 p.m., Saturday & Sunday at 2 p.m.
Woodland Opera House, 340 Second St., Woodland
Coming to the Historic Woodland Opera House is a show that鈥檚 jam packed with fun for the whole family! Presented by Jennifer Goldman and Amy Thu Tran is the Theatre For Families production of Madagascar: A Musical Adventure. Based on the 2005 smash DreamWorks animated motion picture, Madagascar, you鈥檒l see all of the familiar characters from the movie come alive on stage.
The story line follows all of your favorite 鈥渃rack-a-lackin鈥欌 friends as they escape from their home in New York鈥檚 Central Park Zoo and find themselves on an unexpected journey to the madcap world of King Julien鈥檚 Madagascar. Alex the lion (Shane Burrows) is the king of the urban jungle. He and his best friends 鈥 Marty the zebra (Erik Catalan), Melman the giraffe (Collin Robinson-Burmester), and Gloria the hippo (Marie Campbell) 鈥&苍产蝉辫;have spent their whole lives in blissful captivity before an admiring public and with regular meals. Marty lets his curiosity get the better of him though and makes his escape!
Reserved Seating Tickets: $16 Adults, $14 Seniors (62+), and $8 Children under 17. Balcony Seating Tickets: $10 Adults and $5 Children 17 and under. Purchase tickets online at or by phone / in person at the Woodland Opera House box office (340 Second Street, Woodland / (530) 666-9617). Box office hours are Tuesday 鈥 Friday, 10 a.m. 鈥 1 p.m. & 2 鈥 5 p.m., and two hours prior to each performance.
COVID Policy effective March 1, 2022: In accordance with the updated indoor mask requirements from the State of California and Yolo County, masks are no longer required in the Woodland Opera House facilities.
Davis Art Call
The City of Davis invites qualified artists or collaborative teams to submit a Request for Qualifications to design and create a new piece of public art that will enhance a neighborhood park improvement project in the N Street Park.
Complete information and instructions to apply can be found at or by contacting City of Davis Arts and Culture Manager Rachel Hartsough at 530-747-5640 or rhartsough@cityofdavis.org.
Interested applicants wishing to respond to this RFQ must apply by Friday, June 3 at 5 pm.
Coming up next week
'Voices of Spring:' Students from the Voice Studio of Jonathan Nadel
April 26, 12 鈥 1:30 p.m.
Recital Hall, Ann E. Pitzer Center, Free
Karen Rosenak, piano
Selections will include art songs and arias such as 鈥漇aper vorreste,鈥 鈥滾鈥檌nvitation au voyage,鈥 鈥滿y one and only love,鈥 鈥滵as Veilchen,鈥 and others.
Find a direct link to the livestream .鈥
Ann Hamilton and Michael Mercil: spotlight artist in residence at The California Studio
April 28, 4:30 鈥 6 p.m.
Anne E. Pitzer Center
In 2005, with Ann Hamilton, Mercil began The Living Culture Initiative, a project integrating their art practices within the core research framework of Ohio State University 鈥&苍产蝉辫;a public land-grant college dedicated to teaching the 鈥渕echanical, agricultural and liberal arts.鈥 In 2006, Mercil planted The Beanfield as an agri/cultural experiment with the Wexner Center for the Arts, and the Social Responsibility Initiative in the College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. Because good farmers rotate crops, in 2008, Mercil converted The Beanfield into The Virtual Pasture (2008 鈥 2011) where he has proposed installing a green energy park and carbon storage bank called, Wind|Farm.
Find more information .
Media Resources
Media contact: Karen Nikos-Rose, Arts Blog Editor, kmnikos@ucdavis.edu