This week, we are folding two weekends into one Arts Blog as we prepare to deliver news about the upcoming Picnic Day events, which will be featured separately. Our first 澳门六合彩资料库 Davis Picnic Day story features the ever-popular fashion show and attractions available at the Manetti Shrem Museum. Watch for that on the 澳门六合彩资料库 Davis Arts Blog. The annual 澳门六合彩资料库 Davis Picnic Day is Saturday, April 23. Happy spring! Karen Nikos, Arts Blog editor
Duo Axis: works by graduate student composers
Thursday, April 7, 12:05鈥1 p.m., Recital Hall, Ann E. Pitzer Center, Free, a Shinkoskey Noon Concert
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Duo Axis (Zach Sheets, flute, and Wei-Han Wu, piano) frequently collaborate with composers to create new works and foster a spirit of innovation and reciprocity. In this, their first of two programs while in residence at 澳门六合彩资料库 Davis they present a set of world premieres by graduate student composers at 澳门六合彩资料库 Davis.
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Duo Axis: 'Duo@50'
Friday, April 8, 7鈥8:15 p.m.F
Recital Hall, Ann E. Pitzer Center,
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The 澳门六合彩资料库 Davis Department of Theatre and Dance will present two newly developed works in April.
Playwright and director Janey Pintar explores the intriguing character of Ophelia from William Shakespeare鈥檚 Hamlet in her M.F.A. project
About the Playwright
Janey Pintar is an actor, director, and educator of the theatre arts with a background in movement including Suzuki. She received an associate of arts degree in Theatre: Technical Production from American River College, bachelor's degrees in Dramatic Art and Communication from 澳门六合彩资料库 Davis, and and MA in Drama from San Francisco State University. Janey is also a graduate of American Conservatory Theater鈥檚 Summer Training Congress. Her interests include the exploration of movement systems and multicultural theatre practices.
Once a woman misused by Hamlet in the classic tragedy, who is Ophelia today? What would Shakespeare鈥檚 Ophelia do if she was given another chance at life? The Ophelias: Badass Voices, a play with movement, explores fictional and nonfictional Ophelias who succeed in opposing life鈥檚 challenges, and uplifts the courageous, determined, intelligent and badass voices in our world. Content warning: contains adult language.
Pintar is an actor, director and educator of the theatre arts with a background in movement. The cast features two rotating casts of undergraduate students.
Performances are April 13 and 14 at 7 p.m. and April 15 and 16 at 8 p.m. at the Wyatt Pavilion Theatre. The production is free and open to all.
Later in April, the department will present , a series of devised short solo performances about the movement from isolation to being-with-others (and back again) during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Directed by Granada Artist-in-Residence Christine Hamel, Alone/Together will be drawn from the story of each undergraduate student performer鈥檚 life (including everyday narrative storytelling, dialogue and read texts) as well as 鈥渇ound鈥 text (such as poetry, self-scripted spoken word and song). The performance will utilize the interplay between found and constructed texts as a platform for innovation and as an artistic response to one鈥檚 sense of self in relation to others at this complex moment in time.
Hamel, an actor, voice specialist, director and scholar, has worked on and off Broadway and in regional theatre, including the Huntington Theatre Company, Boston; Olney Theatre Center, Olney, Maryland; Actors鈥 Shakespeare Project, Charlestown, Massachusetts; and others. She currently serves as head of the B.F.A. Acting Program at Boston University.
The show will be performed in the Wright Hall Arena Theatre on April 28-30. The performances are free and begin at 8 p.m.
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-Michael French, Theatre and Dance
Californians for the Arts Webinar Series: The Arts Work to Build Community Prosperity & Resilience
Friday, April 8, 2022, 12鈥1:30 p.m., Free
From cultural districts to arts-led disaster response, to artists serving as civic leaders, this conversation will examine how the arts work to reimagine and rebuild the social and physical infrastructure of our communities and what policy and funding mechanisms are needed to sustain and grow culture-centered civic collaboration.
A panel of leaders and innovators from around the state will explore a number of questions: Can cultural districts act as a mechanism for community building and cultural placekeeping? As our communities face crises from pandemics to wildfires and earthquakes, what role can artists and arts organizations play in disaster preparedness? With a historic infrastructure package passed, how can the arts access the funding coming to our communities and how can we be better integrated into community planning and development. And what is the role of a cultural strategist in public policy?
With this conversation, Californians for the Arts hopes to identify what is next for creative placemaking/placekeeping and what is required to further embed the creative workforce into the design, creation and success of our communities.
Panelists include Roberto Bedoya, Cultural Affairs Manager, City of Oakland; Vanessa Whang, Senior Program Consultant, Cultural Strategists-in-Government; Matthew Kowal, Majestic Collaborations, The Art of Mass Gathering; Mikey Goralnik, Community Design and Development Planner, County of Mariposa ; and Scott Oshima, Director of Community Arts, Japanese American Cultural & Community Center.
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Brass Quintet for noon concert
April 14, 12:05鈥1 p.m., Recital Hall, Ann E. Pitzer Center, Free, a Shinkoskey Noon Concert
Performers include Colin Mathewson, trumpet; Steve Roach, trumpet; Dr. Jon Anderson, horn (B.A. electrical engineering 鈥07); Adam Brover, euphonium; and tuba and 澳门六合彩资料库 Davis lecturer in music (B.A. music 鈥07).
The program includes Song of Hope and Anonymous: Die Bankelsangerlieder.
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Beatriz Cortez: Teaching Artist in Residence at The California Studio
Thursday, April 14, 4:30鈥6 p.m., Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art
Beatriz Cortez is a cultural and literary critic, as well as a visual artist. Her work explores simultaneity and the experience of life in different temporalities. A native of El Salvador, Cortez is interested in memory and loss in the aftermath of war and migration, and in relation to imagining possible futures.
Cortez has received the Artadia Los Angeles Award (2020), the inaugural Frieze Arto LIFEWTR Sculpture Prize (2019), and a grant from the Foundation of Contemporary Arts (2019), among others. She has had solo exhibitions at Craft Contemporary Museum, Los Angeles (2019) and Clockshop, Los Angeles (2018). Her 鈥淐hultun El Semillero鈥 is currently on view at the Smithsonian鈥檚 show in the Art + Industries Building until July 6, 2022.
Cortez received an M.F.A. in Art from the California Institute of the Arts and a doctoral degree in Literature and Cultural Studies from Arizona State University. She teaches in the Department of Central American and Transborder Studies at California State University, Northridge.
Ashwini Bhat & Forrest Gander: Ritual Encounters
Friday, April 15, 10 a.m., Vanderhoef Studio Theatre, Free
In Ritual Encounters the Vanderhoef Studio Theatre is reconfigured as a kind of temple that celebrates the secular, sacred environment of Mount Tamalpais. Visitors to this installation are invited to circle in a ritual walk ceramic monuments and biomorphic sculptures that are ringed by dirt mandalas that are themselves edged with hems (hymns) of words. Through immersion in video, sculpture, poetry, and the clockwise movement of their own bodies through the exhibition, viewers can experience (or recall) their own link to the non-human world, and to reevaluate the ground they stand upon, both physically and ethically.
Ritual Encounters is the work of artists Ashwini Bhat and Forrest Gander. Bhat鈥檚 background is in literature and classical Indian dance, but she now works at the intersection of sculpture, ceramics, installation and performance. Gander is a writer and translator of poets from Spain, Latin America and Japan. His recent work includes the Pulitzer Prize-winning Be With.
Program Notes: the new will be used this year for most program notes. You can access the notes in both web and mobile app versions .
This performance is being presented as part of (Science, Humanities and Arts: Process and Engagement), an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded program in which 澳门六合彩资料库 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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