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Don Roth on the ‘Recovered Voices’ Project

May 16, 2023

Mondavi Center Executive Director Don Roth discusses the “Recovered Voices” project highlighting composers and works derailed by the Nazi regime.

'Taming the Lightning,' an immersive, interactive, environment that blends live performance with digital and tactile elements, opens June 3rd in the Arena Theatre at Wright Hall.

Weekender: Students Exhibit Work in Film, Theatre, Art, Recitals, More

by Jamie Gelfond, News and Media Relations Intern
May 29, 2025

symphony orchestra on stage in darkened theater

Weekender: Hum a Gershwin Tune; Listen to Grammy-award Winning Violinist; Visit Gorman Museum

by Karen Michele Nikos
May 20, 2025

Arts Blog

Dancers on white stage dressed in red costumes

Weekender: Wearable Design; Spring Music; Next Season Mondavi Tickets Go on Sale

by Jamie Gelfond, News and Media Relations Intern
May 15, 2025

The Julia Keefe Indigenous Big Band brings charisma, passion, and purpose to the Jackson Hall stage at the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts this week (Jasz Garrett/ photography).

Weekender: Art, Lectures, Film Explore Structures and Movie Magic

by Jamie Gelfond, News and Media Relations Intern
May 07, 2025

Don't miss the exhibit ‘Community in Bloom’ at Shields Library about the history of the UC Davis arboretum, where a pop-up performance will be happening Wednesday, May 7, from 2-3 p.m. on the Grand Staircase Mezzanine featuring dancers from the Department of Theatre and Dance (courtesy).

Weekender: Student-Created, Curated Art Takes On Davis in Performances, Exhibitions

by Jamie Gelfond, News and Media Relations Intern
May 01, 2025

Two porcelain cast Styrofoam teacups for lecture with Amber Ginsburg and Aaron Hughes (courtesy)

Weekender: Music, New Book, Puppet Master and More

by Jamie Gelfond, News and Media Relations Intern
April 17, 2025

This weekend in Circa's "Opus", 10 acrobats and the Debussy String Quartet celebrate the music of Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich in a work of stunning power, virtuosity and physical poetry (Justin Nicholas/ photography).

Weekender: Spring into Spring Arts

by Jamie Gelfond, News and Media Relations Intern
April 03, 2025

This Sunday at the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts, Yamato's enticing drum performance features over 40 Taiko drums on stage. You’ll become engulfed in the sound of the Taiko, becoming one with the performers. (Courtesy photo)

Weekender: End the Quarter with Exciting Music and Dance

by Jamie Gelfond, News and Media Relations Intern
March 13, 2025

The choruses of UC Davis — the Concert Choir and the Chamber Singers — join to sing the music that Albert J. McNeil (1920–2022) loved and championed with guest conductor Dr. Jan Taylor this weekend.

Weekender: Start Your March with the Arts

by Jamie Gelfond, News and Media Relations Intern
March 06, 2025

UC Davis Art Lecture Series features Torkwase Dyson whose work explores ecology, infrastructure, and architecture this upcoming week. Picture details: Torkwase Dyson, Liquid A Place (Lance Gerber/ photography, Courtesy of the artists and Desert X).

Weekender: The Sun is Out, New Art is In

by Jamie Gelfond, News and Media Relations Intern
February 27, 2025

This year’s Templeton Colloquium, moderated by UC Davis professor of art and architectural history Heghnar Watenpaugh, features a powerful conversation on cultural heritage on Feb. 21. Join two of the most incisive voices in cultural heritage debates at the 2025 Templeton Colloquium to explore the stakes for its protection worldwide. Photo: The Walled Off Hotel in Bethlehem in August 2017. (Hrag Vartanian, Hyperallergic/ courtesy photo)

Weekender: Celebrate Your Love of Art this Valentine's Weekend

by Jamie Gelfond, News and Media Relations Intern
February 13, 2025

The Bereishit Dance Company is known for their contemporary approach to traditional Korean culture with work that beautifully connects the forms and themes of sports and traditional arts. They will perform at Jackson Hall at the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts on Thursday, Feb. 20.

Weekender: Soul Music, Drag and ArtMix Bring Fun to the Arts

by Jamie Gelfond, News and Media Relations Intern
February 06, 2025

Artwork of figures in Native costumes in golds and browns

Weekender: Ruby Neri and Her Art, Thiebaud Endowed Lecture, New Art Coming to Gorman

by Jamie Gelfond, News and Media Relations Intern
January 30, 2025

After a remarkable 44-year tenure, Spring 2025 will bring the retirement of the Alexander String Quartet, following a final, celebratory season. See them on the Jackson Hall stage at the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts on Sunday, Dec. 1.

Weekender: Open Studios, Musics of the World, Photography Contest, and More

by Jamie Gelfond, News and Media Relations Intern
November 21, 2024

Portrait of 123 Andrés who will take the stage at the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts this upcoming Sunday, Nov. 17, at 2 p.m. to bring sensory-friendly bilingual music to Davis. (Photography/ Dario Trevino)

Weekender: Art Jam, Comedy, Book Reading, and More

by Jamie Gelfond, News and Media Relations Intern
November 14, 2024

Press picture from The Devil's Bath, the topic for this year's annual Eugene Lunn Memorial Lecture (Courtesy photograph, Ulrich Seidl Filmproduktion).

The Week Ahead: Two Films, A Memoir and More

by Jamie Gelfond, News and Media Relations Intern
November 12, 2024

Chancellor Gary May attending Unexpected Legends film preview. (Gregory Urquiaga/ UC Davis)

Weekender: Cloud Gate Dance Theatre, String Trio, and More

by Jamie Gelfond, News and Media Relations Intern
November 07, 2024

Standing on top of an illuminated theater stage are two people. To the left, a man in a blue suit smiles and look at his notes while on the right a woman in a dark blue suit is standing and pressing her right hand to her left, honoring the standing ovation she is receiving. The man on the left is Chancellor Gary S. May. The woman on the right is his guest, Brittney Griner. Silhouettes of a standing ovation are present in the bottom of the photo.

Brittney Griner’s Storytelling Shines at Chancellor’s Colloquium

by José Vadi
November 05, 2024

Dateline

Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan at the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts, "13 Tongues" (Photo by Liu Chen-hsiang)

Weekender: Halloween, Sheepmowers, Jazz, and More!

by Jamie Gelfond, News and Media Relations Intern
October 31, 2024

Sonic Horizons showing projection of nature on walls, 2024 (Maral Salehian)

Weekender: Sonic Horizons Immersive Experience Debuts; Día de los Muertos Art at Artery

by Jamie Gelfond, News and Media Relations Intern
October 24, 2024

"Asian futures, without Asians" by artist Astria Suparak showing artist in front of projected image (Courtesy, Mondavi Center)

Weekender: Mondavi Center's Performance and Talk with SFMOMA Curator

by Jamie Gelfond, News and Media Relations Intern
October 17, 2024

picture from Puffs of three people with wands (Courtesy, Woodland Opera House)

Weekender: Visiting Austrian Composer and Musical Theatre Dance Workshop

by Jamie Gelfond, News and Media Relations Intern
October 10, 2024

Photo of Sean Mason

Weekender: Noon Concert is Back; London Phil Coming to Mondavi

by Jamie Gelfond, News and Media Relations Intern
October 03, 2024

Still from Clarissa Tossin’s Mojo’q che b’ixan ri ixkanulab’ / Antes de que los Volcanes Canten / Before the Volcanoes Sing, 2022, color digital video, sound. Image courtesy of the artist and EMPAC / Rensselaer.

Weekender: New Mobile Moo-seum, Movie Screenings, Art Events

by Jamie Gelfond, UC Davis News and Media Relations Intern
September 25, 2024

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