Arts & Culture

Mixed Heritage Week coming to UC Davis You may not have been aware of the Mixed Student Union before, but after this year’s Mixed Heritage Week, organizers hope that you’ll know about the work they’re doing. The 11th annual Mixed Heritage Week will take place from March 2 to March 6 and will include a […]

Art extravaganzas this week in Davis MUSIC AND OPEN MICS Mixed Open Mic Night March 3, 6 p.m., free UC Davis Student Community Center This showcase provides a space for mixed identifying and mixed heritage folks to express themselves through the likes of spoken word, music and dance. The event welcomes all identities to attend […]

The art of getting by: theories of general relativity I am passionate about people. There is nothing I care about, nothing I am more interested in, nothing I am more intrigued by than my fellow humans. Humans are amazing, they are beautiful, and the idea that human existence is a weird random occurrence in the […]

The Department of Theatre and Dance premieres their winter production The UC Davis’ Department of Theatre and Dance’s winter production of Woyzeck is set to open on Feb. 26 at 8 p.m. The production will run through March 8 in the main theatre at Wright Hall. The play, written by German dramatist Georg Büncher, tells the […]

Jazz music to be featured at upcoming house show It’s Saturday evening, Feb. 28, 2015. You’ve parked your bike at 217 2nd Street, and you walk past the garden beds, picnic tables, homey-porch and balcony donning a decorative and historic turtle shell. You hear those familiar jazzy beats that you came for resonating deep within […]

It’s the age-old story of the bubble gum-smacking mean girl, the locker-slamming jock and the frumpy girl next door that has turned the teen drama genre into an American classic. The films are countless: Pretty in Pink, Clueless, She’s All That and Mean Girls. The list never ends. Somehow audiences keep coming back to relive […]

UC Davis Asian American Studies reaches a milestone Flashback to winter 1969: UC Davis students formed the Asian American Concern (later called the Asian American Studies committee), which established the first formal contract between Asian American students and the UC Davis administration. Soon after, the first Asian American Studies class, a history course on the […]

Free Javanese Gamelan Gadhon concert today Javanese Gamelan Gadhon, a traditional ensemble of music (an array of instruments played together to make a specific type of sound and feeling) from the island of Java in Indonesia, is set to perform at the Mondavi center on Thursday Feb. 26  at 12:05 p.m. While the island of […]

Former competition winners gather for special reunion concert The artists performing at the Mondavi Center this Friday might be young, but they will definitely not be lacking in talent. On Feb. 27, the Mondavi Center is presenting a special Young Artists Competition All Stars performance. This reunion performance will feature the 2014 Young Artists Competition […]

Your weekly dose of campus fashion This week I spoke with Hannah Kagan-Moore, a graduate student in the art history program. During her undergraduate career at Skidmore College she was involved with costuming for drama productions. “My official title was wardrobe mistress,” Kagan-Moore said. Her knowledge of theatrical dress and art throughout the ages helps […]

Winter comedy show to feature comedians from Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, TBS Drink up and laugh out loud at the Hopped Up Comedy 2.0 show, coming to Davis’ Sudwerk Brewery Dock Store on Feb. 28. The seasonal stand-up comedy show, which will feature comedians from television networks such as Comedy Central, Nickelodeon and TBS, is set […]

Winner predictions for the 87th Academy awards Here at The California Aggie Arts Desk, we are all about the movies, and with the 87th Academy Awards coming up on Sunday, we are here to offer you lovely readers a 2014 year-of-films review, along with our Oscar-winner predictions. Four veteran Aggie Arts writers, as well as […]