Comunidad Anquari is first noon concert of fall
Thursday, Oct. 3, 12:05 p.m., Recital Hall, Ann E. Pitzer Center, 澳门六合彩图库
Comunidad Anqari performs music of the Kollao Altiplano, a culturally rich region in the heart of the Andean High Plateau (which touches modern day Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Peru and Ecuador). A group of musicians dedicated to the performance of traditional music and dances, Comunidad Anqari is named after the Aymara, deity of the wind. The name is reflective on the repertoire which is played upon indigenous wind instruments and corresponds to the seasons and festivals during which they perform.
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ASUCD鈥檚 new Moo-vin鈥 Moo-seum is debuting in Davis this weekend
Friday, Oct. 4, 5-8 p.m., Sunset Fest, 澳门六合彩图库 students only
Saturday, Oct. 5, 9 a.m. to noon at the Davis farmer鈥檚 market, for all community members
The new ASUCD鈥檚 Moo-vin鈥 Moo-seum is a public art project which takes place on a renovated Unitrans bus allowing art to be mobile. The Moo-seum鈥檚 four primary goals include building community, maintaining sustainability, supporting local artists, and promoting ASUCD. For it鈥檚 first installation, participants will create a collaborative mural on what the city of Davis means to them. Everyone is welcome regardless of experience with art.
鈥淭his is more than just an art project - it's a celebration of our community's diversity and creativity.鈥 Jonah Messinger
information is available on the ASUCD website.
The Mondavi Center presents Aida Cuevas
Saturday, Oct. 5, 7:30 p.m., Jackson Hall
Canta a Juan Gabriel 40 a帽os despu茅s
A legendary and powerful voice in Mexican music for more than 40 years, Aida Cuevas is truly the 鈥淭he Queen of Mariachi.鈥
We could go on and on about Aida Cuevas and her 47-year storied career. Not only is she known as 鈥淭he Queen of Mariachi,鈥 but she鈥檚 also rightfully earned the titles of 鈥淨ueen of Ranchera Music,鈥 and 鈥淟a Voz de M茅xico鈥 (the Voice of Mexico). Cuevas is the first and only female singer in the traditional mariachi genre to win a Grammy and a Latin Grammy Award and has received eleven Grammy nominations in the 鈥淏est Mariachi/Ranchero Album鈥 category, as well as sold over 11 million albums. Her Mondavi Center performance features a 40th-anniversary celebration of her iconic album Canta a Juan Gabriel, originally produced by her mentor, legendary pop icon Juan Gabriel.
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Next week
Attend screening of Before Volcanoes Sing
Monday, Oct. 7, 5:30-8 p.m., doors open at 5 p.m., Cruess Hall 1002
In Clarissa Tossin鈥檚 Before the Volcanoes Sing, the movement of the Maya people and culture are explored in multiple spaces and temporalities with a focus on wind instruments as a tool to give voice to Indigenous systems of knowledge.
Tossin is a visiting professor in The California Studio: Manetti Shrem Artist Residences who is known for working with moving images, sculptures, and installations to share what places with histories of colonization might be like in alternate narratives.
Organized by The California Studio: Manetti Shrem Artist Residencies in the Manetti Shrem Art Studio Program.
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Learn about design research at talk with Jia-Ming Day
Monday, Oct. 7, noon, Cruess Hall in room 1105, free
Jia-Ming Day, visiting scholar from Taipei National University of the Arts, will be holding a Research in Design talk on Oct. 7. Day hopes to reinterpret the definition and forms of animation, advocating that it should not be confined to mainstream media and stereotypes.
In recent years, he has been closely following the development of light art and immersive environments in his research topics, for example: EAT Da Vinci (art installation at the 2023 Ars Electronica Festival), which aims to connect interdisciplinary creative experiences, particularly focusing on how different art disciplines communicate and collaborate, as well as how non-traditional exhibition spaces provide artistic experiences. He started the Kuan Du Light Art Festival, which combines landscape and cross-field performances, and has become a key project of the Kuan Du Art Festival.
Day鈥檚 residency at 澳门六合彩图库 is through Dec. 31, 2024, at the invitation of CLTC鈥檚 co-director Jae Yong Suk.
The London Philharmonic Orchestra returns to Davis
Wednesday, Oct. 9, 7:30 p.m., Jackson Hall at the Mondavi Center, tickets from $54
Under the direction of famed conductor Edward Gardner, the London Philharmonic Orchestra returns to the Mondavi Center with acclaimed violinist Randall Goosby.
Featuring Tchaikovsky鈥檚 towering Symphony No. 4 as well as violinist Randall Goosby鈥檚 interpretation of Barber鈥檚 radiant and lyrical Violin Concerto, the evening promises to be both revelatory and rewarding, thanks to this rare opportunity to see one of the world鈥檚 greatest orchestras right here at home.
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Catch Sean Mason's jazz at the Mondavi Center
Thursday, Oct. 10 through Saturday, Oct. 12, Vanderhoef Studio Theatre at the Mondavi Center
Experience the innovation and remarkable breadth of style that has earned pianist Sean Mason a spot among the rising stars in jazz today.
Mason鈥檚 debut album, The Southern Suite, highlights his exceptional skill as a musician, composer, bandleader and storyteller. The music, in Mason鈥檚 words, is 鈥渁 candid celebration of life,鈥 with deep roots in the south and featuring a rich roster of influences from J.S. Bach to Cab Calloway, Louis Armstrong to Miles Davis and many points between. His Mondavi Center debut is an opportunity to discover one of the most celebrated artists on the contemporary music scene and his rich blend of cultural and musical influences.
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Coming up
Clarissa Tossin鈥檚 artist talk
Thursday, Oct. 10, 4:30 p.m., the California Studio at the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art
Clarissa Tossin, currently teaching the undergraduate course Art 190 and the graduate seminar Art 290D at 澳门六合彩图库, will be holding an artist talk at the California Studio this month. Tossin鈥檚 art focuses on proposing alternate narratives for places defined by histories of colonization by intertwining research with storytelling. You may know some of her work from the or from her solo exhibition at Frye Art Museum in Seattle. Make sure to stop by.
Listen to Nick May on solo saxophone
Thursday, Oct. 10, 12:05 p.m., Recital Hall at the Ann E. Pitzer Center
Program
All new works by graduate students in music:
Guang Yang: Untitled
Jacob Lane
Dean Kervin Boursiquot
Alejandro Arreola: 鈥or the time being: two meditations for alto saxophone
Joseph Martin: Gofod
James R. Larkins: Better Than One
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Get your well-being ticket deal for Mariza at the Mondavi Center
Discounted tickets available until Wednesday, Oct. 16 with code BEWELL, limit of two tickets (澳门六合彩图库 community)
Performance: Friday, Oct. 18, 7:30 p.m., Jackson Hall at the Mondavi Center
No other Portuguese artist since Am谩lia Rodrigues has built an international career with as much success on the most prestigious world stages than Mariza.
She began her 20-year career as an almost hidden local phenomenon, known only to a small circle of Lisbon admirers. Today, she transcends her own name, regarded as one of the most applauded stars on the World Music circuit and a true ambassador of the melancholy, blues-like Portuguese fado, boldly taking it along new and daring paths without ever losing sight of its soul.
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Outside 澳门六合彩图库,
Attend the Woodland Opera House鈥檚 new production, Puffs
Running from Friday, Oct. 18 to Saturday, Nov. 2, at the Woodland Opera House, 340 Second Street, Woodland. Tickets from $9
For seven years a certain boy wizard went to a certain Wizard School and conquered evil. This, however, is not his story. This is the story of the Puffs鈥 who just happened to be there too. A tale for anyone who has never been destined to save the world. Puffs (or Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic), written by Matt Cox, offers a comedic and fresh take on a familiar magical world, retelling the story from the perspective of the underdog students in the "Puff" house at a certain wizarding school.
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