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Arts & Humanities annual graduate exhibition shows multidisciplinary work
June 8, 11 a.m. 鈥 June 26, 6 p.m., Manetti Shrem Museum of Art
This year鈥檚 Arts and Humanities Graduate Exhibition, running June 9 鈥 25 at the , features student work from across the College of Letters and Science. Thirty graduate students from history, performance studies, English, design, art history and art studio will present their research exploring the pressing issues of our time, including environmental destruction, racism and immigration, while offering both practical and idealistic ways of thinking about and solving problems, or engaging with personal experiences, memory and aesthetic practices.
About the Grad Exhibit
At the opening reception June 8 from 6 to 9 p.m., winners of the LeShelle & Gary May Art Purchase Prize, the Keister & Allen Art Purchase Prize, and Savageau Award in the Department of Design will be announced.
The following day, on Friday, June 9, art history students will present their theses in the from 2:30 鈥 5:30 p.m. at the Manetti Shrem Museum.
At the opening reception June 8 from 6 to 9 p.m., winners of the LeShelle & Gary May Art Purchase Prize, the Keister & Allen Art Purchase Prize, and Savageau Award in the Department of Design will be announced.
The following day, on Friday, June 9, art history students will present their theses in the from 2:30 鈥 5:30 p.m. at the Manetti Shrem Museum.
Find more information about the exhibition and participating students .
'Open, Stay' theatre production at Mondavi
June 8, 9, 7 鈥 8 p.m., June 10, 2 鈥 3 p.m., Vanderhoef Studio Theatre
The Department of Theatre and Dance will present Open, Stay, a new musical, through June 10 in the Vanderhoef Studio Theatre, Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts.
Open, Stay鈥痠s a vibrant contemporary musical that explores鈥痳omance in all forms 鈥 from thrilling first encounters to bittersweet goodbyes. The musical is a collection of ten moments of connection 鈥 beginnings, endings and in-betweens, as well as the moments that come long after we part ways. It is an exploration of how we love and how we lose one another, all connected by the need that brings us together 鈥 the need for each other.
The production was developed with gender neutrality in mind. The performance encourages casts of different gender expressions and the entire company has been formed through gender-blind casting.
Featuring music and lyrics by Anna DeNoia and arranged/orchestrated by Joshua Villa,鈥痶he show masterfully weaves together musical genres to create an evening of laughter, romantic resilience and lessons learned. Open, Stay will be directed by Broadway veteran Mindy Cooper with music direction by Graham Sobelman.鈥
Listen to excerpts from on the show鈥檚 website.
Adult tickets are $15, faculty/staff tickets are $12 and student/senior tickets are $5. Tickets are available at the Mondavi Center Ticket Office in person or by calling 530-754-2787 between noon and 5 p.m., Tuesday through Friday. Tickets are also available online .
At Pitzer this weekend
Student Chamber Ensembles
June 8, 12:05 p.m. - 2:30 p.m., Recital Hall, Ann E. Pitzer Center, a Shinkoskey Noon Concert, free
The program includes NY Counterpoint for 11 Clarinets and other works.
Pusaka Sunda celebrates Henry Spiller鈥檚 Career
June 10, 2 鈥 4 p.m., Recital Hall, Ann E. Pitzer Center, free
Pusaka Sunda, directed by Burhan Sukarma, will present a concert of Sundanese music and dance from West Java, Indonesia, featuring guest performers Ani Sukmawati, Rina Oesman, and Yusdiana. The concert marks the retirement of Professor of Music who has taught at 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis since 2005, including directing 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis鈥檚 Gamelan ensemble for much of that time. Spiller鈥檚 teaching and research focus on the performing arts of West Java. Pusaka Sunda鈥檚 performance will feature several of Spiller鈥檚 most influential teachers and consultants, including Undang Sumarna (新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Santa Cruz), Burhan Sukarma (Pusaka Sunda), and guest artist Yusdiana (with whom Spiller studied during Fulbright research in West Java, 1998鈥99).
Choruses of 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis: 'Full Circle' at Mondavi
June 8, 7 鈥 8 p.m., Jackson Hall, Mondavi Center,
The program includes Song of Hope, Price: Resignation conducted by undergraduate music major Natalie Laurie, The Chambered Nautilus for Chorus and Orchestra, Trad. / Arr. Will the Circle Be Unbroken, O virtus sapientie, Chorale from Jesu, meine Freude, BWV 227 and The Road Home.
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WHAT DEATH DOES: Time, Scale and Anonymity at Verge
June 10 - Sept. 17, opening reception June 10, 5 鈥 8 p.m., lecture July 22, 2 p.m., Verge Center for the Arts, 625 S St., Sacramento 95811
What death does: What Death Does, 18x24,鈥 Stephen Kaltenbach (Courtesy, Verge)
Verge Center for the Arts announces its second solo exhibition by Stephen Kaltenbach, an alum of 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis and a recent exhibitor at the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art.
This show brings together several different bodies of work and modes of making from Kaltenbach鈥檚 more than 55-year career. The exhibition will focus on his career-long interest in time and scale. The centerpiece of the show is What Death Does, a stage set of a furnished living room. Throughout the run of the exhibition, simulated rain falls into the room. Decay sets in at an accelerated pace with the aid of manufactured precipitation. Geological time becomes heightened and condensed into theatrical entropy. Deep time becomes visible through human perception.
The show also brings together a group of works exploring time and scale in a much different manner. Throughout the late 1960鈥檚, Kaltenbach used strategies of anonymity, aliases, and tactical lies to create works that slowly spread as historians, curators, viewers, and students unearthed them and tied the work back to his practice. The exhibition will include work by Kaltenbach鈥檚 aliases Es Que and Clyde Dillon. It will also feature work from his anonymous Artforum micro manifestos and lies that circulated through the readership of the Village Voice and Arts magazine.
Kaltenbach鈥檚 divergent strategies put the viewer in a precarious position. They will be confronted by an ever changing visceral sculptural work while simultaneously being asked to engage with weightless unmeasurable works that have not yet come fully into focus. We as viewers are stretched between the physical and the cerebral and are asked to create a strategy to hold room for both.
Kaltenbach graduated with a bachelor's degree from 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis in 1966, followed by a master of arts degree in 1967. His work has been exhibited at the 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Manetti Shrem Museum of Art.
Coming Up
Mythology Meets Rock in Woodland
June 16 鈥 25, Fridays at 7:30 p.m., Saturdays and Sundays at 2:00 p.m., Woodland Opera House, 340 Second Street, Woodland
Tom and Meg Stallard present a Young Adult Performers production, The Lightning Thief, The Percy Jackson Musical.
This energetic musical follows Percy Jackson, a 12-year-old boy who newly discovers that he is a demigod. As the half-blood son of a Greek god, Percy has powers he can鈥檛 control, a destiny he doesn鈥檛 want, and a mythology textbook鈥檚 worth of monsters on his trail. When Zeus鈥檚 master lightning bolt is stolen and Percy becomes the prime suspect, he has to find and return the bolt to prove his innocence and prevent a war of the gods. From the best-selling book and with an original rock score, this show is fast paced and an exciting adventure for all! PG 鈥 language and battle scenes.
The Lightning Thief, The Percy Jackson Musical is a Young Adult Performers production with a cast between the ages of 14 and 24 years old. The show is directed and choreographed by Erik Catalan, and music direction by Jia-Min Rosendale.
Performances are set for Fridays at 7:30 p.m., Saturdays and Sundays at 2:00 p.m. All seating is reserved, ticket prices are $20 for Adults, $18 Seniors (62+), and $10 for Children 17 and under. Balcony pricing is Adults at $12 and Children at $7. Flex pass specials and group rates are available.
Purchase tickets online at and at the Box Office (530) 666-9617. Located at 340 Second Street, Box Office hours are: Tuesday 鈥 Friday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.
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