This Thanksgiving, gives thanks for the arts in our community. Many of this weekend鈥檚 events were covered in last week鈥檚 Arts Blog, but we link to them again and hope you look forward too to the holiday and other concerts and events on the horizon. The Arts Blog will take Thanksgiving off next Thursday (our normal publishing day), so we preview some concerts you won鈥檛 want to miss when you come back super-stuffed. Don't forget to enjoy Thursday's noon concert featuring a little-known string instrument. Read on.
Karen Nikos-Rose, Arts Blog Editor
The noon concert is the Valencia Baryton Project
Thursday, Nov. 16, Pitzer Center, 12:05 p.m. 鈥 1 p.m., free
Hailing from Valencia, Spain, this trio will perform music written for the baryton, a little-known string instrument. The trio performs music by Franz Joseph Haydn from Austria in the 18th century and music written in the last three years by John Pickup and Steve Zink.
Program
- Franz Joseph Haydn: Baryton Trio No. 67 in G Major
- John Pickup: Prelude 1 (2021)
- Haydn: Baryton Trio No. 113 in D Major
- Haydn: Baryton Trio No. 87 in A Minor
- Steve Zink: The River (2020)
- Haydn: Baryton Trio No. 71 in A Major
Free, a Shinkoskey Noon Concert
Jazz Combos
Otto Lee, director
Tuesday, November 21
5鈥7 p.m., at the Ann E. Pitzer Center
on all 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis concerts.
Light Festival is Saturday, 3 鈥 7 p.m.
The first 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Light Festival 鈥 a free, family-friendly event that combines festivities of both the Asian and Pacific Islander, or AandPI, and Middle Eastern, North African, and South Asian, or MENASA, communities 鈥 will be hosted by the on the East Quad from 3 to 7 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 18.
The Davis campus community can enjoy a variety of food and craft vendors, community activity booths and live performances by student organizations. The community activity booths includes henna and face painting, as well as crafts like origami, diya lamp painting, kite making and lantern decorating. Attendees are encouraged to bring a lawn chair or a picnic blanket to sit on the lawn and enjoy the entertainment, including classical Indian dances, a Hmong fashion show and a Chinese orchestra performance.
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Ongoing exhibitions at 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis
The newly reopened in its bigger, better space in September. The opening exhibition 鈥淐ontemporary California Native Art鈥 includes about 40 works by 20 artists, all members of California tribes. There are more than 2,000 works in the total collection.
The museum is open noon to 5 p.m. on weekends and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, and admission is free.
Closed Monday, Tuesday and University holidays.
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The at 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis features in its fall season internationally acclaimed sculptor Deborah Butterfield, pioneering Chicano activist artist Malaquias Montoya, and abstract painter Ayanah Moor. Visit the for more details and additional programs.
Thanksgiving hours: 11 a.m.鈥6 p.m Nov. 24, and 10 a.m.鈥5 p.m. Nov. 25 and 26. The museum is open through Dec. 17, 2023.
Art Spark
1鈥4 p.m.
Saturdays and Sundays, Carol and Gerry Parker Art Studio
November: Ink, Print, Resist and Repeat: Explore the visual language of protest through poster-making evoked by the printmakers in Malaquias Montoya and the Legacies of a Printed Resistance. 鈥
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Design Museum
Newly acquired garments and textiles from around the globe are featured in the exhibition 鈥淐ultural Crossroads: Recent Acquisitions from the Jo Ann C. Stabb Collection,鈥 open at the 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Design Museum.
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新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis presents gender-bending 鈥楢s You Like It鈥
Wright Hall Main Theatre, 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis campus, Nov. 16, 17, 18, 30 and Dec. 1, 7 p.m.; and Dec. 2, 2 p.m.
By Michael G. French
William Shakespeare鈥檚 comedy 鈥As You Like It鈥 gets a contemporary gender-fluid update by the 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Department of Theatre and Dance. Directed by alumna Josy Miller (Ph.D., performance studies, 鈥15), the classic opens the department鈥檚 2023-2024 season on Nov. 16 in the Main Theatre, Wright Hall.
In the play, ambitious Duke Frederick deposed and banished his brother, the rightful Duke Senior. At an online gaming contest, Rosalind, daughter of the Duke Senior, becomes enamored of the gamer Orlando. But before they can pursue their mutual attraction, Rosalind finds herself banished by her vengeful uncle. Disguising herself as a young man, Rosalind flees to the Forest of Arden for refuge along with her cousin Celia and the court鈥檚 fool Touchstone. Once there, the trio find themselves entangled in a series of rustic romances and misadventures.
Colin Minigan, a doctoral student in music composition at 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis, wrote an original score for the production. The creative team also includes scenic design by Ian Wallace and costume design by Joanne Martin, who both teach in the theatre and dance program.
A pastoral comedy, this production artfully and humorously explores themes of love, gender fluidity, sexuality and injustice.
About tickets
Adult tickets are $15, faculty/staff tickets are $12, and student/senior tickets are $5.
Tickets may be purchased at the 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Ticket Office, located on the north side of Aggie Stadium, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays, by phone 530-752-2471 during the same hours, or .
鈥淎t core, 鈥楢s You Like It鈥 is about joy as a radical act of resilience and resistance in the midst of an unjust world,鈥 said Miller. 鈥淎 story that bravely explores the intersections of love, desire, gender, sexuality and identity, every character experiences a transformation in relationship to these intersections. Whether that is realizing belonging, embracing the fullness and complexity of their identity, or finally recognizing who it is they truly love.鈥
At 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis, Miller directed the world premiere of 鈥调尝翱痴贰/濒辞驳颈肠皑鈥 in 2019 and her own original production of 鈥The Dogs of War鈥 in 2014. Miller was artistic director at Hapgood Theatre Company in Antioch, California, where she directed more than a dozen productions. She also directed at Atmos Theatre Company in San Francisco and the Eugene O鈥橬eill Foundation Theater in Danville, California. Since 2016, Miller has worked as an arts programs specialist for the California Arts Council.
Colin Minigan, a doctoral student in music composition at 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis, wrote an original score for the production. The creative team also includes scenic design by Ian Wallace and costume design by Joanne Martin, who both teach in the theatre and dance program. Assistant Professor Ethan Hollinger designed light and media for the production.
鈥淎s You Like It鈥 runs Nov. 16, 17, 18, 30 and Dec. 1 at 7 p.m. and Dec. 2 at 2 p.m.
Adult tickets are $15, faculty/staff tickets are $12, and student/senior tickets are $5. Tickets may be purchased at the 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Ticket Office, located on the north side of Aggie Stadium, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays, by phone 530-752-2471 during the same hours, or
The Department of Theatre and Dance鈥檚 2023-2024 season includes 鈥淭he Laramie Project鈥 and a workshop of an original hip-hop theatrical musical performance work in winter 2024; an 鈥淥utside the Lines鈥 dance concert and a production of 鈥淥ur Town鈥 will be featured in the spring.
The Department of Theatre and Dance is part of the College of Letters and Science at 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis. For information about other department productions, visit theatredance.ucdavis.edu.
More events at the Mondavi, Woodland and elsewhere can be found in last week鈥檚 Arts Blog.
Coming up
Mark O'Connor's An Appalachian Christmas
Featuring Maggie O鈥機onnor, Saturday, Dec. 2, 7:30 p.m., Jackson Hall, Mondavi Center
Three-time Grammy-winning composer and fiddler Mark O鈥機onnor brings an elegance and earnestness to down-home bluegrass and folk music.
His annual holiday tour draws on his celebrated 2011 album An Appalachian Christmas and features fresh arrangements of Christmas classics, both vocal and instrumental. The spirited performance captures the varied emotions of the season: playfulness, joy, contemplation, gratitude and more. O鈥機onnor鈥檚 touring ensemble includes his wife Maggie O鈥機onnor on fiddle and vocals as well as a variety of guest musicians on each tour.
Alexander String Quartet returns for three concerts 鈥 beginning in December
Music as a Mirror of Our World: Chamber Music at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Dec. 3; February and May, Jackson Hall, Mondavi Center
The Alexander String Quartet and Robert Greenberg look back 100 years to the tumultuous social and political era of the early 20th century 鈥 times not unlike our own 鈥 and explore enduring works of the great music it produced. Programs will include works by Debussy, Ravel, Webern, Schoenberg, Sibelius, and Nielsen. . The quartet appears three times this season at Mondavi, but Dec. 3 is the first appearance.
France 鈥 Dec. 3, 2023
Claude Debussy: String Quartet in G Minor (1893)
Maurice Ravel: String Quartet in F (1903)
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- Karen Nikos-Rose, Arts Blog Editor, kmnikos@ucdavis.edu