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- Lots of music to enjoy this weekend.
The SHAPE of things to come: all weekend at Mondavi
The 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis program officially known as Science, Humanities and Arts: Process and Engagement is sponsoring the following productions:
'PASSAGE' is Thursday, March 10, 7:30 p.m., 8:30 p.m., Tickets $35 and under, Jackson Hall
Kinetech Arts combines the work of dancers, scientists and digital artists to create innovative and socially responsible performances. Its piece PASSAGE is an immersive experience that explores the relationship between entropy and time through dance, sound and video installations. The perpetual increase of disorder, or entropy, defines the one-way direction of time. PASSAGE embraces the transience and uncertainties of each moment鈥攁nd the infinite future possibilities that are inevitably collapsed into memory as we pass through time.
About SHAPE
These performances are presented as part of (Science, Humanities and Arts: Process and Engagement), an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded program in which 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis students encounter the humanities, arts, and sciences integrated to express and examine the power each holds as a means of responding to our world.
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Dresher Davel Invented Instrument Duo at Mondavi Friday, Saturday
March 11, 7:30 p.m. and March 12, 7:30 p.m., Vanderhoef Studio Theatre
Performing live on a pair of huge invented musical instruments, the duo of acclaimed composer, performer & instrument inventor Paul Dresher and percussionist-extraordinaire Joel Davel consistently generates "an exciting sense of mystery and surprise." (Portland Press Herald)
Playing the 15-foot Quadrachord or the 10-foot Hurdy Grande, and featuring Don Buchla鈥檚 magical Marimba Lumina and Lightning controller, Dresher and Davel create lush textures and rhythmically propulsive grooves that fascinate the ear and the eye. Exploring unique sound-colors amplified by live digital looping, this electro-acoustic duo creates complex sonic layers as rich as a full orchestra.鈥
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The Living Earth Show: 鈥楳usic for Hard Times鈥 with the 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Contemporary Improv Class
Thursday, March 10, 12:05-1 p.m., Free, a Shinkoskey Noon Concert, Recital Hall, Ann E. Pitzer Center
The program includes Music for Hard Times. Commissioned by the Living Earth Show as a sonic resource for those in need of comfort and calm, this work was created remotely by realizing a series of 鈥渃alming strategies鈥 and creating an interconnected work from the results.
Plus 鈥檚 Growing Block, 鈥檚 (B.A. 鈥13) Idioms and Episode 8, and original works by ensemble members including RANT-titude, alla Robert Ashley.
- Proof of COVID vaccination or a negative COVID test will be required at the door. Please take a moment to
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Student Chamber Ensembles and the 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Percussion Ensemble
Student Chamber Ensembles, 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Percussion Ensemble, and the Afrocuban Ensemble
Thursday, March 10, 2-3 p.m., Free, Recital Hall, Ann E. Pitzer Center
Program coordinated by 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis lecturer in music, with the .
director and 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis lecturer in music
- Proof of COVID vaccination or a negative COVID test will be required at the door. Please take a moment to
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Choruses of 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis: 'Chairo/Oscuro'
Friday, March 11, 7 p.m., , Jackson Hall
The program is led by Erik Peregrine, director and 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis lecturer in music.
- Proof of COVID vaccination or a negative COVID test will be required at the door. Please take a moment to read the latest information on attending our events.
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Curating Black Rage and Black Utopias 鈥 Mike Henderson: Before the Fire, 1965-1985
Thursday, March 10, 4 p.m., via Zoom
An exhibition opening January 2023 at the Manetti Shrem Museum, "Mike Henderson: Before the Fire, 1965-1985," will feature paintings and films by the 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis professor emeritus. These works depict scenes of anti-Black violence, heteromasculinity and abject social conditions as well as utopic visions, questions of self-making and formal narrative studies of painting and film. Henderson鈥檚 ambidextrous practice examined and offered new ideas about Black life in the visual languages of protest, Afro-futurism and surrealism. These works, which resolutely challenge the protocols and propriety of art-making in the 20th century, are both formally and politically striking as well as reflective of a past not so far away from our historical present.
Sampada Aranke and Dan Nadel will provide an overview of the exhibition, with an emphasis on their research and collaboration as curators working within a university setting. They will contextualize the exhibition in relation to artistic biography and other relevant exhibitions in similar frames. In all of his work, Henderson gives us ways of imagining the pains and pleasures of Black life that remain relevant and useful to contemporary audiences. Aranke and Nadel will examine how these images necessitate an ethics of looking, a conceptual apparatus that they believe Henderson's practice makes possible. Viewing these works offers a means to understanding our own subjectivity and personhood in relation to the artwork.
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Progressive musical work focuses on Native origins, water, Saturday
Saturday, March 12, 12-1:30 p.m.
新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Arboretum (various locations)
Spend Saturday afternoon in the arboretum and see a progressive journey of musical work performed, with contributions from 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis music and Native American Studies students who will explore California鈥檚 complicated relationship with water, drawing on Native origin stories in which water is an important player. It will be performed in several locations in the 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Arboretum along Putah Creek. Tremble Staves by Din茅/Navajo composer Raven Chacon will be a collaboration among the San Francisco music duo The Living Earth Show; Department of Native American Studies students who have written poems specific to the 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis performance; and several Department of Music student ensembles. Read more about this .
- Free, tickets are not necessary.
- Parking is free on the weekends.
- Please note that this event takes place outdoors and features loud music at times.
- Seating is not provided and audience members will need to walk to each location (each movement is in a different area in the arboretum).
Academy of St Martin in the Fields with Joshua Bell at Mondavi Saturday
Saturday, March 12, 7:30 p.m., Jackson Hall, Mondavi Center
The program features Gioachino Rossini: Overture to The Barber of Seville, Florence Price: Adoration, Antonin Dvo艡谩k: Violin Concerto in A Minor, Op. 53, Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 in A Major, Op. 90 ("Italian").
The Academy of St Martin in the Fields is one of the world鈥檚 finest chamber orchestras, renowned for fresh, brilliant interpretations of the world鈥檚 greatest orchestral music.
Formed by Sir Neville Marriner in 1958 from a group of leading London musicians, the Academy gave its first performance in its namesake church in November 1959. Today the Academy is led by Music Director and virtuoso violinist Joshua Bell, retaining the collegiate spirit and flexibility of the original small, conductor-less ensemble which has become an Academy hallmark.
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Discover how a 1713 Huberman Stradivarius violin, stolen twice in its lifetime, now rests in the care of world famous violinist Joshua Bell. Passed through the hands of thieves, remaining hidden for 50 years, this violin is now played in concert halls worldwide. Read more .
Site-Specific exhibition at Pacsat features alumni, faculty
Through March 26, Pacsat Headquarters, S Street, Sacramento
Many of the Sacramento region鈥檚 most influential artists including 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis professors and alumni are participating in a new site-specific exhibition in Sacramento is bringing together more than 30 artists to explore issues of urban space and community. Coordinates: Ice Pac is a series of temporary installations. Over thirty multi-disciplinary artists, pushing the boundaries of material and concept, transformed this .73-acre lot into immersive installations of vision, scope, and wit.
The lot and structure will be demolished at the end of the exhibition.
Among the contributing artists with 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis connections are Jodi Connelly (M.F.A. art studio, 鈥18), Dan Tran (design, M.F.A., 鈥22), Vincent Pacheco (M.F.A. art studio, 鈥17), Jessica Wimbley (M.F.A. art studio, 鈥05), Chaitra Bangalore (B.A., design), Jiayi Young (professor, design), Anna Davidson (M.F.A. art studio, 鈥16), Billy Krimmel (Ph.D.ecology), Brenda Galvan (B.A. landscape architecture, 鈥18), Caroline Larsen-Bircher (Ph.D. ecology), Haven Kiers (professor, human ecology), Robin Hill (professor, art studio), Muzi Li Rowe (M.F.A. art studio, 鈥17), and Julia Couzens (M.F.A art studio, 鈥90). .
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Coming up
Two exhibitions to open at the Gibson House and property in Woodland
YoloArts will be hosting receptions for the opening of two exhibitions at the Gibson House and Property in Woodland on March 17. The Barn Gallery will feature the group exhibition, After Viola. Inside the Gibson House, Side-by-Side: Historic and Contemporary Ceramics will be unveiled.
Both shows are part of the 2022 National Council on Education for Ceramic Arts (NCECA) annual conference.
After Viola is a group exhibition at The Barn Gallery featuring the artwork of Bay Area artists who have come together to create new works in conversation with the archives of Viola Frey, the renowned California artist known for her colorful, robust, larger-than-life sculptures. The exhibition is in collaboration with the Artists鈥 Legacy Foundation.
After Viola continues at The Barn Gallery through June 11.
Side-by-Side: Historic and Contemporary Ceramics includes artwork from earthenware to porcelain and invites visitors to look at items from the Yolo County Historical Collection through the lens of contemporary artists as they draw inspiration and reframe history through their work.
Side-by-Side: Historic and Contemporary Ceramics continues at the Gibson House through June 24.
The artist reception for both exhibitions will be hosted 5-9 p.m. Thursday, March 17. Music will be performed by jazz guitarist Jon Spivack. Light refreshments and wine will be available.
The Barn Gallery and the Gibson House are located at 512 Gibson Road in Woodland. For more information contact YoloArts at 530-309-6464 or ya@yoloarts.org.
Hindustani Vocal Ensemble of 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis
Thursday, March 17, 1鈥2 p.m.
Recital Hall, Ann E. Pitzer Center
新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Contemporary Improv ClassRita Sahai, director and 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis lecturer in music