Focus on Film

The Mondavi Center’s winter-spring Graphic Novel film series concludes April 19 with Persepolis, directed by Vincent Parannaud and Marjane Satrapi (2007), rated PG-13, 96 minutes. This is the English version of the beautifully animated French film about growing up in prerevolutionary and revolutionary Iran, with voicings by Sean Penn and Gena Rowlands. Starting time is 6 p.m. in the Vanderhoef Studio Theatre. Admission: adults $10, students $5.

Prized Writing event

The Prized Writing Student Author event is scheduled for April 22, with the authors due to read and discuss their work from the University Writing Program’s anthology. The event is set to begin at 4 p.m. in 126 Voorhies Hall.

The University Writing Program also announced another installment in the Conversations With Writers Series, an April 23 program with Michael Krasny and Maggie Sokolik, co-authors of Sound Ideas, a reader that acknowledges a wide variety of linguistic backgrounds in today’s college classrooms. The event is scheduled to begin at 4 p.m. in the King Lounge in the Memorial Union.

ARTfriends bus trip

Nelson ARTfriends is taking sign-ups for a bus trip to see the sculpture park at Oliver Ranch in Geyserville, Sonoma County. The outing is scheduled for May 22.

The cost, including lunch, is $100 for members, $125 for nonmembers, and $75 for students (limit five students). Reservations are due by May 10 to Katrina Wong, (530) 752-8500 or kliwong@ucdavis.edu.

Baroque Ensemble

The Department of Music ushers in May with concert by the Baroque Ensemble at 3 p.m. May 1 in the Rumsey Rancheria Grand Lobby, Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts. Tickets: $12 general admission, $6 students and children, available from the Mondavi Center box office, (530) 754-2787 or (866) 754-2787, or mondaviarts.org.