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Weekender: De Forest Whimsy at the Manetti Shrem; Last Chance for Many Exhibitions

Karen Michele Nikos-Rose — June 18, 2026 - 9:55am

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Arts and Humanities Grads Celebrate, Receive Awards; Mural Created in Library

Karen Michele Nikos-Rose — June 11, 2026 - 10:17am

Arts and Humanities grads celebrated as exhibition opens

Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Mary Croughan with arts graduate students Rafael Bertacini, Levi Keatts

Unexpected Art: Wine Tasting as Art — Movie and Library Archives Event

Karen Michele Nikos-Rose — June 08, 2026 - 1:29pm

At a recent event at UC Davis Shields Library, I learned a little about wine tasting as art and a lot about the “Judgment of Paris.” I knew little about either before this. This event was held on the first floor of the library in room 167, one of multiple weekly events that the library hosts in classrooms throughout the quarter.

Weekender: Grad Exhibition Grand Opening; Classic Piano at Mondavi

Karen Michele Nikos-Rose — June 04, 2026 - 9:29am

Grad exhibition Thursday will showcase health, technology, art, design

Show on exhibition June 4 through through June 20; prizes given Thursday, Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, UC Davis

Weekender: Choirs, Bands, Comedian, and More

Karen Michele Nikos-Rose — May 28, 2026 - 10:59am

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UC Davis Choirs and Symphony Orchestra perform Rosephanye Powell’s ‘The Cry of Jeremiah’ at Mondavi Center this weekend

Nicolás Dosman conducts the UC Davis choir (Carol Kepler/photo)

UC Davis Basement Gallery Showcases Student Work

Karen Michele Nikos-Rose — May 19, 2026 - 10:29am

Weekender: See ‘Relative Motion’ in Dance; Hear Music in May

Karen Michele Nikos-Rose — May 14, 2026 - 9:35am

UC Davis Dance explores ‘Relative Motion’ in spring dance performances this weekend and next

Performances are May 14, 15, 21 and 22 at 7 p.m. and May 16 and 23 at 2 p.m., Wright Hall, UC Davis

“Relative Motion,” the UC Davis 2026 Spring Dance Concert, showcases new works by student choreographers. The Department of Theatre and Dance is presenting the concert starting on Thursday, May 14 and runs for two weekends in the Main Theatre, Wright Hall.

Weekender: Noon Concert Features Major Works; Book Talks; Get Tickets for May Concerts

Karen Michele Nikos-Rose — May 07, 2026 - 10:53am

Noon concert features music of Haydn, Schubert, Mozart

This week's Shinkoskey Noon Concert features George Hayes, violin; István Polonyi, viola; Susan Lamb Cook, cello; Sandra McPherson, clarinet; and Hrabba Atladottir, violin performing Joseph Haydn's String Trio in G Major, Franz Schubert's "Allegro" from String Trio in B-Flat Major, D. 471 and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Clarinet Quintet in A Major. Thursday, May 7 at 12:05 p.m. in the Ann E. Pitzer Center. Free and open to all.

'The Mother Road' Exhibition at Library Celebrates Route 66

Karen Michele Nikos-Rose — May 05, 2026 - 1:28pm

To commemorate the centennial of America’s most famous highway, Route 66, the Archives and Special Collections Department is joining statewide celebrations with a two‑case exhibition of select materials from its collections in Shields Library. “Celebrating 100 Years of the Mother Road: Route 66” is located in the lobby, next to the main stairwell.

Although Route 66 was officially decommissioned in 1985, much of the roadway still remains and endures in the popular imagination as a symbol of adventure and road trips across the desert in the American West.

In Library Exhibition, View 'The Past in Practice: Interpreting the Ancient World'

Karen Michele Nikos-Rose — May 04, 2026 - 9:21am

The Past in Practice: Interpreting the Ancient World is on view on the first floor of the UC Davis Shields Library until the end of the quarter. Entering the library, past the left hallway beside the courtyard, on the first left wall near the stairs, the pieces hang elegantly.