UC Davis Events Calendar

$10 ticket offer for faculty and staff (limit two tickets per person) for concert by Becca Stevens, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 9, Jackson Hall, Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts. The singer-songwriter “stretches the boundaries of convention with songs that weave together her classical and Appalachian folk music upbringing and her love of the rich rhythms and harmonies of jazz and world music, enhanced by her skill on multiple string instruments.”

Tickets are available as follows from Jan. 16 to Feb. 8:

• Online (promo code is preloaded)
• In person — noon to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday

$10 ticket offer for faculty and staff (limit two tickets per person) for concert by Becca Stevens, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 9, Jackson Hall, Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts. The singer-songwriter “stretches the boundaries of convention with songs that weave together her classical and Appalachian folk music upbringing and her love of the rich rhythms and harmonies of jazz and world music, enhanced by her skill on multiple string instruments.”

Tickets are available as follows from Jan. 16 to Feb. 8:

• Online (promo code is preloaded)
• In person — noon to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday

$10 ticket offer for faculty and staff (limit two tickets per person) for concert by Becca Stevens, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 9, Jackson Hall, Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts. The singer-songwriter “stretches the boundaries of convention with songs that weave together her classical and Appalachian folk music upbringing and her love of the rich rhythms and harmonies of jazz and world music, enhanced by her skill on multiple string instruments.”

Tickets are available as follows from Jan. 16 to Feb. 8:

• Online (promo code is preloaded)
• In person — noon to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday

$10 ticket offer for faculty and staff (limit two tickets per person) for concert by Becca Stevens, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 9, Jackson Hall, Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts. The singer-songwriter “stretches the boundaries of convention with songs that weave together her classical and Appalachian folk music upbringing and her love of the rich rhythms and harmonies of jazz and world music, enhanced by her skill on multiple string instruments.”

Tickets are available as follows from Jan. 16 to Feb. 8:

• Online (promo code is preloaded)
• In person — noon to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday

$10 ticket offer for faculty and staff (limit two tickets per person) for concert by Becca Stevens, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 9, Jackson Hall, Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts. The singer-songwriter “stretches the boundaries of convention with songs that weave together her classical and Appalachian folk music upbringing and her love of the rich rhythms and harmonies of jazz and world music, enhanced by her skill on multiple string instruments.”

Tickets are available as follows from Jan. 16 to Feb. 8:

• Online (promo code is preloaded)
• In person — noon to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday

$10 ticket offer for faculty and staff (limit two tickets per person) for concert by Becca Stevens, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 9, Jackson Hall, Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts. The singer-songwriter “stretches the boundaries of convention with songs that weave together her classical and Appalachian folk music upbringing and her love of the rich rhythms and harmonies of jazz and world music, enhanced by her skill on multiple string instruments.”

Tickets are available as follows from Jan. 16 to Feb. 8:

• Online (promo code is preloaded)
• In person — noon to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday

Nina Totenberg is NPR’s award-winning legal affairs correspondent. She appears on NPR’s critically acclaimed news magazines All Things Considered, Morning Edition, and Weekend Edition, and on NPR podcasts, including The NPR Politics Podcast and its series, The Docket. Totenberg’s Supreme Court and legal coverage has won her every major journalism award in broadcasting.

Totenberg’s book, Dinners with Ruth, is an extraordinary account of two women, Totenberg and the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who paved the way for future generations by tearing down professional and legal barriers. It is also an intimate memoir of the power of friendships as women began to pry open career doors and transform the workplace.

FREE copy of Dinners with Ruth with each ticket purchase. One book per ticket, while supplies last.

$10 ticket offer for faculty and staff (limit two tickets per person) for concert by Becca Stevens, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 9, Jackson Hall, Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts. The singer-songwriter “stretches the boundaries of convention with songs that weave together her classical and Appalachian folk music upbringing and her love of the rich rhythms and harmonies of jazz and world music, enhanced by her skill on multiple string instruments.”

Tickets are available as follows from Jan. 16 to Feb. 8:

• Online (promo code is preloaded)
• In person — noon to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday

$10 ticket offer for faculty and staff (limit two tickets per person) for concert by Becca Stevens, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 9, Jackson Hall, Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts. The singer-songwriter “stretches the boundaries of convention with songs that weave together her classical and Appalachian folk music upbringing and her love of the rich rhythms and harmonies of jazz and world music, enhanced by her skill on multiple string instruments.”

Tickets are available as follows from Jan. 16 to Feb. 8:

• Online (promo code is preloaded)
• In person — noon to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday

Since its inception in 2010, Rising Stars of Opera has featured vocal artistry, stirring arias and a glimpse at the opera stars of tomorrow; and every ticket has been free to the public thanks to Barbara K. Jackson. Rekindling an old tradition, we relaunch Rising Stars of Opera with several singers from the acclaimed San Francisco Opera Center performing a wide range of great arias with full orchestral accompaniment from our own UC Davis Symphony Orchestra. 

This is a free, ticketed event. 

Christian Baldini, director and conductor
with the San Francisco Opera Adler Fellows About the Program Since its inception in 2010, Rising Stars of Opera has featured vocal artistry, stirring arias and a glimpse at the opera stars of tomorrow; and every ticket has been free to the public thanks to Barbara K. Jackson. Rekindling an old tradition, we relaunch Rising Stars of Opera with several singers from the acclaimed San Francisco Opera Center performing a wide range of great arias with full orchestral accompaniment from our own UC Davis Symphony Orchestra.
Program
To be announced.

$10 ticket offer for faculty and staff (limit two tickets per person) for concert by Becca Stevens, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 9, Jackson Hall, Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts. The singer-songwriter “stretches the boundaries of convention with songs that weave together her classical and Appalachian folk music upbringing and her love of the rich rhythms and harmonies of jazz and world music, enhanced by her skill on multiple string instruments.”

Tickets are available as follows from Jan. 16 to Feb. 8:

• Online (promo code is preloaded)
• In person — noon to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday

$10 ticket offer for faculty and staff (limit two tickets per person) for concert by Becca Stevens, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 9, Jackson Hall, Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts. The singer-songwriter “stretches the boundaries of convention with songs that weave together her classical and Appalachian folk music upbringing and her love of the rich rhythms and harmonies of jazz and world music, enhanced by her skill on multiple string instruments.”

Tickets are available as follows from Jan. 16 to Feb. 8:

• Online (promo code is preloaded)
• In person — noon to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday

$10 ticket offer for faculty and staff (limit two tickets per person) for concert by Becca Stevens, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 9, Jackson Hall, Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts. The singer-songwriter “stretches the boundaries of convention with songs that weave together her classical and Appalachian folk music upbringing and her love of the rich rhythms and harmonies of jazz and world music, enhanced by her skill on multiple string instruments.”

Tickets are available as follows from Jan. 16 to Feb. 8:

• Online (promo code is preloaded)
• In person — noon to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday

Becca Stevens stretches the boundaries of convention with songs that weave together her classical and Appalachian folk music upbringing and her love of the rich rhythms and harmonies of jazz and world music, enhanced by her skill on multiple string instruments. 
The North Carolina native and Brooklyn transplant straddles those two worlds, with music that moves in unpredictably fascinating directions. Smart lyrics and funky beats topped with her remarkable vocal gifts are hallmarks of her most recent album, Wonderbloom, a record that Jazz Magazine described as “sophisticated and sensual pop” and  The Mail on Sunday as “Glamorous… semi-electric pop Prince might approve of”.  

Tig Notaro is an Emmy and Grammy nominated stand-up comedian, writer, radio contributor, and actor as well as a favorite on numerous talk shows, including The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, and Ellen. Rolling Stone named her one of the “50 best stand-up comics of all time.” Notaro appears in Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead and Star Trek: Discovery; she wrote and starred in the groundbreaking TV show One Mississippi and released her second HBO special Tig Notaro: Drawn. In 2021, Tig co-directed the feature film Am I OK? with wife, Stephanie Allynne, which debuted at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival and will be available on HBO Max later this year. She hosts the critically acclaimed advice podcast, Don’t Ask Tig as well as co-hosts the ridiculous documentary film podcast Tig and Cheryl: True Story.

Zach Norris is the former Executive Director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, author  of  Defund Fear: Safety Without Policing, Prisons, and Punishment and co-founder of Restore Oakland, a community advocacy and training center based in his hometown. Norris helped build California’s first statewide network for families of incarcerated youth which led the effort to close five youth prisons, passed legislation to enable families to stay in contact with their children, and defeated Prop 6—a destructive and ineffective criminal justice ballot measure. In addition to being a Harvard graduate and NYU-educated attorney, Zach is also a graduate of the Labor Community Strategy Center’s National School for Strategic Organizing in Los Angeles, California.  

This daylong summit brings together leading researchers, scholars and the contemplative community to imagine the future of contemplative science.

The summit comprises three symposiums:

• Embedded Measurement and Remote Technologies, 9 a.m. – noon.
  
• Social Identity and Context, 1 – 3:45 p.m.
  
• Shifting Societal Structures and Priorities, 4 – 6:30 p.m.
   

• sujatha baliga, a Berkeley attorney who was named a 2019 MacArthur Fellow for her work on restorative justice. 
  
• Researchers from UC Davis; California State University, Monterey Bay; McGill University; Princeton University; Reichman University (Israel); Southern Oregon University; Temple University; and University of Miami.

Grammy-nominated artists Alfredo Rodríguez and Pedrito Martinez first worked together on Rodríguez’s 2012 release Invasion Parade. Since that initial recording session, they have had the rare occasion to perform together as a duo, leaving audiences completely mesmerized by their fearless and virtuosic playing. Each artist brings a different approach to the collaboration. Rodríguez was schooled in the rigorous classical conservatories of Havana, and his piano playing is informed as much by Bach and Stravinsky as it is by his Afro Cuban and jazz roots. Percussionist Martinez’s musical training came directly from the streets of the Cayo Hueso neighborhood of Old Havana in which he was raised.

Yamato, one of the premiere Taiko ensembles in Japan, returns to the Mondavi Center celebrating their 30th Anniversary with a new production Hinotori: The Wings of Phoenix. The Wings of Phoenix recognizes the incredible challenges we have faced and, as dawn begins to break in the world, we climb new mountains with determination and confidence. This new show captures all of Yamato’s virtuosity, strength, spirit and sheer endurance. Yamato has given over 3500 performances in 54 countries, bringing their spirit, enthusiasm and abundant joy to over 8 million fans, young and old.