The Mondavi Center launches its new season with concerts this Thursday and Friday (Sept. 18 and 19), each preceded by a free performance in the Corin Courtyard.

The fall quarter also includes music, theater and dance from our academic  departments, a reading event by creative writing faculty, and exhibitions at the C.N. Gorman Museum, Design Museum and Nelson Gallery. Read more in this preview.

The Buehler Alumni Center also has an exhibition space — where, as of this week, you can see "Lessons from the Tuolumne," comprising photos tfrom center for Watershed Sciences field trips along the Tuolumne River.

Elsewhere, two UC Davis artists — a professor and a lecturer — are showing their works in San Francisco and Sacramento.

Mondavi Center

Thursday, Sept. 18 — Mitsura Brasilera Samba Dance Company, 6:30 p.m. (free, in Corin Courtyard); Caetano Veolo, Brazilian guitarist-singer, part of the Tropicália movement, 8 p.m. (tickets required for concert in Jackson Hall, Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts).

Friday, Sept. 19 — Element Brass Band, 6:30 p.m. (free, in Corin Courtyard); jazz patriarch Ellis Marsalis Jr. (piano) and son Delfeayo (trombone), billed as “The Last Southern Gentlemen,” 8 p.m. (tickets required for concert in Jackson Hall, Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts).

Check out all the Free Concerts in the Corin Courtyard!

Exhibitions

• Lessons from the Tuolumne — Dedicated to Campus Recreation and Unions’ Outdoor Adventures, which has been arranging and guiding trips for a rivers class since 1983 when the class originated in the Department of Geology.

More recently, the Center for Watershed Sciences has offered the class as a capstone course called "Ecogeomorphology.”

“Students take the pieces of environmental science that they learned in the introductory courses and apply them holistically to a watershed, so they see – usually for the first time — how they all fit together,” reads part of the description for Lessons from the Tuolumne.

“The Center for Watershed Sciences dedicates this photo gallery to ... Outdoor Adventures, one of the largest university-run mountain recreation programs in the country. The program’s whitewater rafting and kayaking trips and guide training have inspired many students to become scholars, researchers and professionals in water sciences.”

Through mid-October, Buehler Alumni Center. Hours: 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday.

• Annabeth Rosen — Art professor (she holds the Robert Arneson Chair in Ceramic Sculpture), Gallery Paule Anglim, 14 Geary St., San Francisco. Through Oct. 7.

Rosen’s works “take on fundamental principles of ceramics, addressing the rawest elements of its magic and alchemy,  moving clay and minerals into shapes and heating the forms to transform into objects with a shiny crust,” according to the gallery.

Rosen joins Dean Smith, who creates oil and wax paintings, in this two-person exhibition.

• Bryce Vinokurov — Lecturer in the art department, in a solo exhibition at the Alex Bult Gallery, 1114 21st St., Suite B, Sacramento, Oct. 9-Nov. 1. The show, Tel Aviv: Urban Landscapes, comprises paintings and collages that explore the beauty in the power lines, water heaters and satellite dishes as well as the Israeli city’s palm trees and parks. A major focus of the work is the Bauhaus buildings that comprise much of the older parts of the city. Preview and reception, 6-8 p.m. Oct. 9; opening reception, 6-9 p.m. Oct. 11.

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