Comunidad Anquari is first noon concert of fall

Thursday, Oct. 3, 12:05 p.m., Recital Hall, Ann E. Pitzer Center, UC Davis

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.

Learn more about the ensemble here.  

ASUCD’s new Moo-vin’ Moo-seum is debuting in Davis this weekend

Friday, Oct. 4, 5-8 p.m., Sunset Fest, UC Davis students only

Saturday, Oct. 5, 9 a.m. to noon at the Davis farmer’s market, for all community members

The new ASUCD’s Moo-vin’ Moo-seum is a public art project which takes place on a renovated Unitrans bus allowing art to be mobile. The Moo-seum’s four primary goals include building community, maintaining sustainability, supporting local artists, and promoting ASUCD. For it’s 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.

“This is more than just an art project - it's a celebration of our community's diversity and creativity.” Jonah Messinger

 Moo-vin' Moo-seum 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 años después

A legendary and powerful voice in Mexican music for more than 40 years, Aida Cuevas is truly the “The Queen of Mariachi.”

We could go on and on about Aida Cuevas and her 47-year storied career. Not only is she known as “The Queen of Mariachi,” but she’s also rightfully earned the titles of “Queen of Ranchera Music,” and “La Voz de México” (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 “Best Mariachi/Ranchero Album” 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.

Get tickets here: Aida Cuevas | Mondavi Center 

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’s 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. 

Find out more here: Screening: Before Volcanos Sing by Clarissa Tossin | The California Studio

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’s residency at UC Davis is through Dec. 31, 2024, at the invitation of CLTC’s co-director Jae Yong Suk.

Research in Design Talk: Jia-Ming Day - UC Davis Arts 

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’s towering Symphony No. 4 as well as violinist Randall Goosby’s interpretation of Barber’s 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’s greatest orchestras right here at home.

Get your tickets for the London Philharmonic and read their digital program here. 

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’s debut album, The Southern Suite, highlights his exceptional skill as a musician, composer, bandleader and storyteller. The music, in Mason’s words, is “a candid celebration of life,” 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.

Tickets are selling fast, get yours here Sean Mason | Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts. 

Coming up

Clarissa Tossin’s 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 UC Davis, will be holding an artist talk at the California Studio this month. Tossin’s 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 Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better Than the Real Thing or from her solo exhibition at Frye Art Museum in Seattle. Make sure to stop by.

Check out her work here. 

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: …for the time being: two meditations for alto saxophone

Joseph Martin: Gofod

James R. Larkins: Better Than One

Find out about Jacob Lane here. 

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 (UC Davis community)

Performance: Friday, Oct. 18, 7:30 p.m., Jackson Hall at the Mondavi Center

No other Portuguese artist since Amália 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.

Get your special discounted tickets at this site. You must capitalize the promotion word.

Outside UC Davis, get tickets here.

Attend the Woodland Opera House’s 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… 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. 

Get tickets here.