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Weekender: Flute Concerts, AI in Art, Free Film in Davis

Mondavi Gets New Director, Manetti Shrem Museum Awards Given

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Miho Hazama is in concert at Mondavi this weekend. (Courtesy photo)

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Meghan Bennett, on flute, in noon concert and featured talk Thursday

Meghan Bennett, flute, with Shinae Kim, piano, Thursday Nov. 2

12:05鈥1 p.m., Ann E. Pitzer Center, a Shinkoskey Noon Concert

Program for noon concert:

  • Antonio Vivaldi: Flute Concerto in D Major (鈥淚l Gardellino / The Goldfinch鈥)
  • with 嘿嘿视频 flute students
  • William Grant Still: Songs for Flute and Piano
  • Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber: Passacaglia in G Minor from the 鈥淩osary Sonatas鈥
  • Alfredo Casella: Barcarola et Scherzo
  • Francis Poulenc: Sonate pour fl没te et piano
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Meghan Bennett (courtesy photo)

Talk: 鈥淔used: Pop Ideas + Classical Sounds鈥 with flutist

Thursday, Nov. 2, 4 to 5:30 p.m., Ann E. Pitzer Center, 嘿嘿视频

Artistry is elusive and defies definition. Still, the presence of artistry is unmistakable. Artists fuse high-level craftsmanship with humanity and honesty. This process of connecting one鈥檚 craft with one鈥檚 inner self differs greatly depending on the artist; however, honesty and vulnerability remain a constant in the process. By viewing documentaries and interviews featuring Nina Simone, Ella Fitzgerald, Beyonc茅, Lady Gaga, C茅line Dion, Quincy Jones and Audra McDonald, we take a relevant and creative look into the connections between music, thought, feeling and society, and examine the meaning of the word 鈥渁rtist.鈥 Delving into the personal perspective of varied popular artists will serve as the impetus for self-reflection regarding our individual, deliberate participation in both the world of arts and the world at large.

 

Miho Hazama & m_unit all weekend, St Martin in the Fields Thursday at Mondavi

Thursday, Nov. 2 鈥 Saturday, Nov. 4, 2023, Vanderhoef Studio Theatre, 7:30 p.m., Mondavi Center

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Named among 顿辞飞苍产别补迟鈥檚 鈥25 for the Future,鈥 Tokyo-born Miho Hazama is one of the most promising and talented composers/arrangers of her generation.

Hazama is the chief conductor of the Danish Radio Big Band and a permanent guest conductor of the Metropole Orkest and has composed and arranged work for jazz luminaries like Joshua Redman, Stefon Harris and Gil Goldstein. m_unit, her 13-piece New York-based jazz chamber orchestra, plays a unique brand of music that is bold, swinging, beguilingly melodic and, most importantly of all, accessible to jazz lovers and newcomers alike.

This event runs an hour and 15 minutes with no intermission.

Following multiple sold-out Jackson Hall performances of the full orchestra, the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields returns with its renowned Chamber Ensemble.

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(Courtesy photo)

Founded in 1967, the Ensemble is drawn from the principal players of the orchestra and plays in multiple configurations under Academy Director/Leader Tomo Keller. The rich program includes Britten鈥檚 lustrous arrangement of a 17th century Purcell piece, the beguiling Nielsen quintet Serenata in vano, a rare, haunting piece by Irish composer Ferguson capped off by Beethoven鈥檚 Septet.

Run Time: 1 hour and 25 minutes plus a 20 minute intermission.

Program List

Chacony in G Minor, Z. 730

Free Film Screening at Veterans Memorial Theatre

Thursday, Nov. 2, 6:30 to 9 p.m. at Veterans Memorial Theatre, Davis, 213 E. 14th Street

The City of Davis Arts & Cultural Affairs and 嘿嘿视频 Global Affairs is holding a free screening of the award-winning film FROM HERE, a documentary illustrating the struggles of immigration and belonging.

Photo of young woman in black sweatshirt

(Courtesy photo)

Doors open at 6:30 p.m. for a pre-film reception. The film is 90 minutes, followed by a question-and-answer session with Director Christina Antonakos-Wallace and two of the film鈥檚 protagonists. Refreshments will be served. 

Organizers request an. 

Filmed over a decade in two of the world鈥檚 largest immigration cities 鈥 New York and Berlin 鈥 the sensitive and nuanced documentary captures the journeys of four young people caught in the crosshairs of immigration debates. The film is a coming-of-age portrait of people working through migration, citizenship and growing nationalism on both sides of the Atlantic. The documentary seeks to define what it means to 鈥渂elong鈥 as immigrants.  

As the United States and Europe grapple with rising nationalism and movements against increasing diversity, 鈥淔ROM HERE鈥 offers a fresh perspective on the issues of immigration and belonging, organizers said.

See the trailer below.

Creating art with artificial intelligence explored in talk Friday

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Nettrice Gaskins (Courtesy photo)

Digital artist and educator , a pioneer in the use of artificial intelligence in artmaking, will give a talk 鈥淭heory, Content and Style for the AI Revolution鈥 for the Alberini Family Speaker Series in Design in the 嘿嘿视频 Department of Design. Her free talk takes place Nov. 3 at 4:30 p.m. at the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art.

AI AM I? at Crocker Museum, Sacramento

In 2022, generative artificial intelligence, a broad category of AI capable of producing content like text and imagery, became the subject of intense public discourse, but these developments were many years in the making. Over time, a handful of artists identified the incredible potential of AI in the arts, and developed fluency creating with it. In the process, they became critical translators for otherwise inscrutable technologies, embodying Marshall McLuhan鈥檚 assertion that art operates as a 鈥淒istant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.鈥

Across his work with robots, software, and algorithms, artist Alexander Reben has established himself as a leading translator, developing a practice based on investigations in what he calls 鈥渉uman-machine symbiosis鈥 since 2012. on the Crocker's website.

  • A livestream is available by registering in advance via
    arts.ucdavis.edu/alberinilivestream

In her presentation Gaskins will explain her methods, motivations and cultural critiques through her art. Her work centers on African Americans, Afrofuturism, and STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) education for historically marginalized communities.

鈥淲here traditional artists would wield a paint brush, or camera, the 21st century affords artists tools from artificial intelligence to 2D imaging and 3D modeling to virtual reality, enabling them to create in innovative and novel ways,鈥 said Gaskins. 鈥淎dvancing technologies have dared artists to take new risks and art has responded in kind. My work explores human imagination and software algorithms to produce visuals that open new possibilities for creative expression.鈥

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Manetti Shrem celebrates art champions

Four people in formal wear at event
Chancellor Gary S. May with artist and alumna Deborah Butterfield (鈥71, M.F.A. 鈥73), museum founding donor Maria Manetti Shrem and arts and civic leader and founding Advisory Board member Clint Reilly near Butterfield鈥檚 1980s-era mud and stick sculptures. Butterfield and Reilly received the Margrit Mondavi Arts Medallion at the Oct. 21 fall gala. (Drew Altizer Photography)

The Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art celebrated artists, gifts of art and champions of the 嘿嘿视频 arts legacy at its annual fall gala on Oct. 21. Artist Deborah Butterfield and arts philanthropist and founding board member Clint Reilly received the Margrit Mondavi Arts Medallion honoring their contributions to creativity and leadership in the arts. Founding Director Rachel Teagle praised Butterfield as she cited the late Margrit Mondavi鈥檚 special relationship with artists.

鈥淢argrit recognized that artists possess a special alchemy, and tonight we honor that magic. Deborah Butterfield is a singular voice, and her impact straddles many worlds,鈥 Teagle said of the 嘿嘿视频 alumna and sculptor, who studied with first-generation faculty artists Robert Arneson and William T. Wiley in the 1970s.

In awarding the second medallion, Teagle cited Reilly鈥檚 impact as a founding member of the museum鈥檚 Advisory Board. 鈥淐lint Reilly is a true believer who paved the way for the Manetti Shrem Museum to preserve and perpetuate a distinctly Californian legacy, and he was instrumental in assuring that our purpose would be expansive and future oriented,鈥 she said. 

Gifts of art added to the generosity of the evening, with two new additions to the Fine Arts Collection on view. Teagle announced that Buffalo, a painting by Oakland artist Robert Colescott, had been purchased for the museum by Advisory Board member and alumnus John Wasson and Gina Wasson. And Gloria Marchant, whose family lent their Butterfield sculpture for the artist鈥檚 current exhibition, has gifted it to the museum. Butterfield had given the family this special driftwood and seaweed 鈥済ift horse鈥 as a symbol of her friendship with Marchant and Marchant鈥檚 late husband, Roy De Forest.

In a nod to 嘿嘿视频鈥 agricultural roots and the current exhibition Deborah Butterfield: P.S. These are not horses, the honorees and Manetti Shrem arrived in horse-drawn carriages driven by the campus鈥 Draft Horse Driving Club members, and Olive of the 嘿嘿视频 Horse Barn.

Mondavi selects new director

Jeremy Ganter has been selected as the new executive director of the Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts, University of California, Davis, Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Mary Croughan announced today. His first day in the role is Wednesday, Nov. 1.

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Jeremy Ganter
 

 

Ganter, the associate executive director and the director of programming at the Mondavi Center, has served as interim executive director since Sept. 1 following the retirement of Don Roth.

鈥淥ver Jeremy鈥檚 tenure at the Mondavi Center, he has played a significant role in its transformation from an ambitious startup to a renowned leader in the performing arts,鈥 Croughan said. 鈥淗e firmly believes the center serves a vital role in bringing together members of our campus and surrounding community through diverse and innovative programming, and he is committed to its continuing development as a cultural hub. We are beyond fortunate to have Jeremy at the helm of the Mondavi Center and I look forward to seeing his very creative and collaborative vision unfold.鈥

Ganter joined the Mondavi Center as its artistic administrator in 2001 and was promoted to his current role in 2006. He has been integral to the development and implementation of the center鈥檚 now nationally acclaimed presenting program and has demonstrated a commitment to interdisciplinarity, jazz, modern dance, cultural expression, and developing young talent. Read the full story.


Free Film Screening at Veterans Memorial Theatre

Thursday, Nov. 2, 6:30 to 9 p.m. at Veterans Memorial Theatre, Davis, 213 E. 14th Street

The City of Davis Arts & Cultural Affairs and 嘿嘿视频 Global Affairs is holding a free screening of the award-winning film FROM HERE, a documentary illustrating the struggles of immigration and belonging.

Photo of young woman in black sweatshirt

(Courtesy photo)

Doors open at 6:30 p.m. for a pre-film reception. The film is 90 minutes, followed by a question-and-answer session with Director Christina Antonakos-Wallace and two of the film鈥檚 protagonists. Refreshments will be served. 

Organizers request an. 

Filmed over a decade in two of the world鈥檚 largest immigration cities 鈥 New York and Berlin 鈥 the sensitive and nuanced documentary captures the journeys of four young people caught in the crosshairs of immigration debates. The film is a coming-of-age portrait of people working through migration, citizenship and growing nationalism on both sides of the Atlantic. The documentary seeks to define what it means to 鈥渂elong鈥 as immigrants.  

As the United States and Europe grapple with rising nationalism and movements against increasing diversity, 鈥淔ROM HERE鈥 offers a fresh perspective on the issues of immigration and belonging, organizers said.

See the trailer below.

Dancer Misty Copeland headlines symposium Sunday

The American Ballet Theatre principal dancer Misty Copeland will headline a public symposium on women, philanthropy and mentorship on Nov. 5 at 1 p.m. at the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts, University of California, Davis.

Ballerina Misty Copeland  perrforms San Lake on stage in white leotard and tutu, leg and ams extended

American Ballet Theatre principal dancer Misty Copeland during a performance of "Swan Lake." (Gene Schiavone)

The event will feature a one-on-one conversation with the activist and bestselling author, who is the first Black woman principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre. Three notable 嘿嘿视频 alumnae will also participate in a panel discussion: Kimberly S. Budil, director of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; Victoria Coleman, director of winemaking at the Caves at Soda Canyon; and Rinki Sethi, vice president and chief information security officer at BILL, a financial operations platform for small and midsize businesses.

The event is sponsored by Women & Philanthropy at 嘿嘿视频, a group that aims to ignite connections and nurture curiosity, and will also feature the announcement of the 2023 Women & Philanthropy Impact Award winner.

The award honors a 嘿嘿视频 faculty or staff member for contributions to the advancement of women, exemplary leadership, and significant impact on local and global university communities. It comes with a $25,000 prize to be directed to the 嘿嘿视频 fund of the winner鈥檚 choice.

This is the second annual Wisdom of Women symposium, following last year鈥檚 sold-out event with philanthropist, podcaster and bestselling author Glennon Doyle.

Read the full story.

 

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