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WINTER QUARTER'S MUSICAL TURN: More music is coming your way this quarter at these music department events:

-- Concert Band and Wind Ensemble -- Connections: A World of Song and Dance, including works by Ives, Mendelssohn, Rachmaninov and Hokoyama.

Abbreviated program: 7:30 p.m. Feb. 27, Recital Hall, California State University, Sacramento, in the CSUS Festivity of Bands, also featuring the CSUS Wind Ensemble and the Davis High School Symphonic Band. Tickets: (916) 278-4323 or tickets.com, or at the door (cash only).

Full program: 7 p.m. March 12, Jackson Hall, Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts. This program includes the Davis Joint Unified School District 6-9 Honor Bands. Tickets available through the Mondavi Center box office: (530) 754-2787 or (866) 754-2787, or .

-- Early Music and Baroque ensembles -- 8 p.m. March 1, St. Martin's Episcopal Church, 640 Hawthorne Lane, Davis. 17th-century German string music by Biber, Rosenmüller and Schmelzer, along with Italian vocal-instrumental works by Monteverdi and Rovetta. Suggested donations at the door: $12 for adults, and $6 for students and children.

-- University Chorus, Alumni Chorus, Chamber Singers and Symphony Orchestra -- 8 p.m. March 9, Jackson Hall, Mondavi Center. Pärt: Cantate Domino, Missa Sillabica and The Beatitudes; and Brahms: German Requiem, with Tamara Matthews, soprano, and David Arnold, baritone. Tickets: Mondavi Center box office.

-- Gospel Choir -- 7 p.m. March 13, Freeborn Hall. Program information was not available by press time. Tickets: Mondavi Center box office.

PROFESSORS ENHANCE CINEMA EXHIBIT: Shields Library announced two faculty presentations to go with a winter quarter exhibit, The Many Faces of Latin American Cinema, just inside the library's front door.

-- Feb. 26 -- Sergio de la Mora (Chicana/o Studies Program), "Isela Vega: Una Mujer Descarada -- Mexican Sexploitation Meets Art Cinema"; and Michael Lazzara (Spanish and Portuguese), "Guzmán's Allende."

-- March 12 -- Robert McKee Irwin, "Latin American Golden Age Film: Mexico's Role in Shaping a Hemispheric Consciousness"; and Ana Peluffo, "Gender and Ethnicity in Lucrecia Martel's La Ciénaga." Both presenters are from the Department of Spanish and Portuguese.

The programs, with light refreshments, are set to begin at 5:15 p.m. in the 2nd-Floor Library Instruction Room.

DAVIS FEMINIST FILM FESTIVAL: The third annual Davis Feminist Film Festival challenges borders on the map and in the mind, says the coordinator, Jaleen Francois. The festival, presented by ºÙºÙÊÓƵ' Gender and Global Issues, a subgroup of the Women and Gender Studies Program, is scheduled for Feb. 28 and 29 at the Veterans Memorial Theatre, 14th and B streets.

The lineup includes Alma, about a teenage girl unaware of her status as an illegal immigrant; and Milk, a bouncy and artistic interpretation of a new mother's feeling that her breast milk could save the world.

Presale prices: $10 per night or $15 for both nights for students, and $15 or $25 for others. More information, including ticket outlets: (530) 752-8205 or .

CROSS CULTURAL CENTER'S FREE CONCERT: The Cross Cultural Center, celebrating its 15th anniversary, announced a concert featuring music of the Middle East, Africa, South Asia and the United States, at 7 p.m. March 4 in the Mondavi Center's Studio Theatre.

The program: Eliyahu Sills, a master of the Middle Eastern reed flute known as the ney, and the Indian bamboo flute the bansuri, performing with the group Qadim; and singer-songwriter Meklit Hadero performing with the ensemble Nefasha Ayer.

The concert is free, but tickets must be reserved through the Mondavi Center box office.

ARE YOU READY, MY SISTER? The Cambridge-Mass.-based Underground Railway Theater is scheduled to present Are You Ready, My Sister? — about escaped slave Harriet Tubman, known as "the Moses of her people" — in six school matinees March 5, 6 and 7 in the Mondavi Center's Studio Theatre. The production is recommended for grades 6 to 12.

Educators and others interested in purchasing tickets should call (530) 754-4689.