Diversity, Mother Earth and UC Davis and its staff are the focus of a number of campus celebrations scheduled during the next two months.

The calendar lists these cultural celebrations: Soaring to New Heights, Native American Culture Days, Asian Pacific Culture Week, Black Family Week and La Raza Cultural Days. Also planned is the annual Danzantes del Alma de UC Davis folklorico dance show.

The schedule also includes Disability Pride Week and Intersex Awareness Week, as well as the Whole Earth Festival.

And don't forget the university's annual Picnic Day and TGFS, or Thank Goodness for Staff.

Soaring to New Heights, an all-encompassing diversity event, is scheduled from 11:15 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. April 11 in Freeborn Hall. The program includes display tables, multicultural music and an international buffet. Organizers said the program will feature the presentation of the annual Diversity and Principles of Community Achievement Recognition Awards, and Disability Pride Awards.

Eklectica, described as an "internationally flavored acoustic string band," is scheduled to perform. The band emphasizes music from Brazil and Portugal, including samba, bossa nova, choro and fado.

Tickets are $4 each and must be purchased by Tuesday; no tickets will be sold at the door. The Soaring to New Heights Web site, poccr.ucdavis.edu/soaring, includes a list of people to contact for tickets.

Here is a schedule of the other celebrations, their highlights and contact details:

• April 8 — Folklorico dancing by Danzantes del Alma, a student troupe, 7:30 p.m., Freeborn Hall. Tickets: university box office, (530) 752-1915, or tickets.com.
• April 10-14 — Disability Pride Week. 752-3184, TTY 752-6833 or dpw.ucdavis.edu.
• April 10-14 — Native American Culture Days, with a sunrise ceremony (6 a.m. April 10 at the Putah Creek Lodge firepit), Native Youth Conference, speakers and films. Organizers said UC Davis' Patwin heritage will be honored during a panel discussion from noon to 1:30 p.m. April 13 at the C.N. Gorman Museum in Hart Hall. A performing arts showcase, "Day of Native Unity: Dance, Beats and Sounds," is scheduled from 7 to 10:30 p.m. April 13 at the Coffee House. There will be no powwow this year. 752-2027 or http://spac.ucdavis.edu/nacd.htm.
• April 22 — Picnic Day, including a parade and universitywide open house. picnicday.ucdavis.edu.
• April 24-28 — Asian Pacific Culture Week, "Get Your Fix: APCW 2006." Programs include "Civil Rights and Asian-Americans: Japanese-American Internment, McCarthyism and the Patriot Act." Another asks "Why Are Hapas So Hot?" and includes a presentation of Chasing Daybreak, a documentary on a road trip across America by five multiracial 20-somethings, 7-9 p.m. April 24, Memorial Union II. Asian Pacific Culture Night, a talent show, is scheduled from 7 to 10 p.m. April 28 in Freeborn Hall. 752-2027 or spac.ucdavis.edu/apcw/htm.
• April 24-28 — Intersex Awareness Week. 752-2452 or lgbtrc.ucdavis.edu/?p=61.
• May 1-6 — La Raza Cultural Days, "Una Voz Sin Fronteras — Celebrando Las Culturas de las Americas" (One Voice Without Borders — Celebrating the Cultures of the Americas). Programs include "Undocumented People's Rights," 6-8 p.m. May 2, MU II, and "Latin Dancing 101: Samba," 8-9:30 p.m. May 2, MU II. La Gran Tardeada, set for May 6, is a daylong event featuring a children's fair, health fair, games, entertainment, arts and crafts vendors and traditional foods). 752-2027 or spac.ucdavis.edu/lrcd.htm.
• May 10 — TGFS Picnic, Shields Grove. 752-0988 or staff.ucdavis.edu/tgfs/index_html.
• May 12-14 — Whole Earth Festival. 752-2569 or wef.ucdavis.edu.
• May 15-20 — Black Family Week, "BLACK: Building Legacies and Cultivating Knowledge." Spoken-word artists and dance performances, plus lectures and workshops, including one on home ownership. Also, a play by the Black Repertory Theater Group. Black Family Day, set for May 20, is an all-day festival featuring art exhibits, food vendors, live performances, wine tasting, health fair, children's fair, fashion show and "Gospel Extravaganza." 752-2027 or spac.ucdavis.edu/bfw.htm.