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Weekender: Mondavi Season Opens With Rock and Jazz; 1st Noon Concert includes Music from Johannes Brahms

Karen Michele Nikos-Rose — October 02, 2025 - 10:37am

Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts opens Thursday with Talking Heads film and talk

The ɫ��ɫ, Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts this 2025-26 season includes a diverse array of artists, from classical, to jazz, to global and everything in between for music. Performers include rising stars and old favorites, and plenty of dance. There’s ample family entertainment too, as well as prominent speakers.

Photography Exhibition Documenting the Lives of California Farmworkers Opens at ɫ��ɫ

Karen Michele Nikos-Rose — September 11, 2025 - 1:25pm

A traveling exhibition of nearly 90 works by labor photographer and journalist David Bacon opens on Saturday, Sept. 13, at the ɫ��ɫ. Organized by the ɫ��ɫ Labor and Community Center in partnership with the artist, the exhibition shines a light on the experiences, strength and resilience of farmworkers in Northern California.

Weekender: New Exhibitions at Library; Museums in Region

Karen Michele Nikos-Rose — September 11, 2025 - 9:26am

Editor's note: One can tell fall is coming by how many art events have started on campus and in the area. Don't miss out. Read more below. The Weekender is published each Thursday during the school year to help you plan your weekend.

Manetti Shrem Museum fall 2025 exhibitions explore the borderlands; environmental justice

On view through Nov. 29, 2025; Opening Celebration Sept. 28, 2-5 p.m.

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

Jamie Sara Gelfond — May 01, 2025 - 9:17am

Grammy Award Winner Howard Levy merges the harmonica with unexpected genres

Thursday, May 1, 12:05 p.m., Recital Hall at Ann E. Pitzer Center

Beaulieu Vineyard Donates Historic Archives to ɫ��ɫ Library

Julia Ann Easley — February 11, 2025 - 7:00am

More than 60,000 pieces of archival material, including photographs, ledger books and other media make up a new library collection established in the name of Beaulieu Vineyard, or BV, at the ɫ��ɫ.

Postcards from the Edge (of Davis) and Cookbooks through the Ages at Library

Jamie Sara Gelfond — January 07, 2025 - 2:12pm

Shields Library at ɫ��ɫ has incorporated two new exhibits onto its main floor, allowing students, faculty and staff to take a break to learn about the history of Davis through postcards as well as how cultures preserve their histories through cooking. If you want to have a peek at how life was like before social media and recipe web sites, have a look. It's worth a visit.

New Artwork in Library Courtyard Commemorates Jewish Resistance During World War II

Karen Michele Nikos-Rose — September 09, 2024 - 9:19am

Alumnus Jeffrey Berger ’74 and his wife Sheri Berger have donated a major piece of public art to ɫ��ɫ. “Ghetto Wall,” an original sculpture by the prominent California artist and educator Ruth Cozen Snyder, was installed on Aug. 24 in the courtyard of Peter J. Shields Library, at the heart of the Davis campus.

Lunchable: View the Eggheads Inside the Cool Library

Karen Michele Nikos-Rose — July 11, 2024 - 4:01am

In this summer heat, there's a cooler way to "take at tour" of the Eggheads at a ɫ��ɫ Libary Exhibition.

ɫ��ɫ Honors Eggheads, Art Heritage Today

Karen Michele Nikos-Rose — April 04, 2024 - 3:15pm

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The ɫ��ɫ, honored The Egghead Series of sculptures and by extension its arts heritage in special events today marking the 30th anniversary year of the last Egghead installations on campus.

Plug-in Electric Vehicles Archive to Be Housed at ɫ��ɫ Library

Julia Ann Easley — September 27, 2023 - 10:00am

During National Drive Electric Week, the ɫ��ɫ, today (Sept. 27) announced that it has begun to build a Plug-in Electric Vehicles Archive. It will be housed at the ɫ��ɫ Library’s Archives and Special Collections with support from the ɫ��ɫ Electric Vehicle Research Center.