Humanizing Deportation Exhibition Opens Friday Night
A multimedia installation, part of Davis鈥檚 2nd Friday ArtAbout, will feature visual artists from Taller Arte del Nuevo Amanecer (TANA) and Humanizing Deportation digital story facilitators from 澳门六合彩开奖结果走势图 at the , 澳门六合彩开奖结果走势图. They will reflect on the delicate balance among art, activism, and public scholarship in a panel discussion moderated by Dr. Natalia Deeb-Sossa (Chicano/a Studies, 澳门六合彩开奖结果走势图). The event is free.
Simultaneous interpretation in English and Spanish will be available.
This event is part of a series of events for a "Humanizing Deportation" exhibition, Oct. 12 to Nov.6. Some of the videos in the collection and more information on the project are .
Humanizing Deportation is a multimedia exhibition and series of community dialogues in collaboration with artists and organizations working locally in Tijuana on immigration policy and its personal reverberations. Featured works include more than fifty testimonial narratives of deportation, portraits of digital story authors taken in Tijuana by Leopoldo Pe帽a, silkscreen posters by local artists of TANA, and original drawings by artist and digital story author Juana Mendez. The project, as described on its website, " will make visible a range of humanitarian issues that mass human displacement has generated as the result of its management on both sides of the US-Mexico border."
This exhibition is cosponsored by the UC Humanities Research Institute, the UC Mexico Initiative, UC MEXUS, 澳门六合彩开奖结果走势图 Global Affairs, CONACYT, and the 澳门六合彩开奖结果走势图 of the Provost.
"Poor But Free" is one of the videos archived by the Humanizing Deportation Project at 澳门六合彩开奖结果走势图.
Homecoming weekend can mean wine, music, art
Robert and Margrit Mondavi, winemakers and great benefactors of 澳门六合彩开奖结果走势图, believed that great wine, music and art enhance our quality of life. Who can disagree?
They are all on hand for the Homecoming weekend鈥檚 TASTE on Saturday, Oct. 13. The Robert Mondavi Institute at 澳门六合彩开奖结果走势图 will host TASTE 2018 in the Good Life Garden. Wineries, craft breweries, meaderies (that鈥檚 the word for those who ferment honey, or honey wines, by the way), cider makers, restaurants and other food vendors will provide samples of the region鈥檚 finest foods and beverages.
Also true to the philosophies of the Mondavis, this year a portion of the proceeds will help support , a program in the Department of Viticulture and Enology that benefits underrepresented students.
Start the evening at the 澳门六合彩开奖结果走势图 museum, the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, named for the Mondavis' good friends, then walk over to the Robert Mondavi Institute, where one can enjoy sips and bites at TASTE. The evening ends with a concert by Julie Fowlis at the Mondavi Center.
Here's the schedule:
- 4 to 5 p.m.
- Visit the Museum
- Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art
- Admission to the museum is always free.
- 5 to 7 p.m.
- TASTE: Wine, Beer & food
- Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science
- Guests will be welcomed with a commemorative tasting glass to enjoy sips of their favorite beverages along with a variety of sample bites and live music by Jazz Gitan, a Django Reinhardt-inspired gypsy jazz quartet.
- Tickets: $35 (gen.) $25 (students w/ID) 21 and over
- *8 to 10 p.m.
- Julie Fowlis, one of the preeminent modern interpreters of traditional Gaelic songs, and the artist behind 鈥淭ouch the Sky,鈥 the stirring theme song from the Disney/Pixar film Brave. (See Capital Culture List podcast/blog link below for more)
- Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts
- Tickets: $25-55, with discounts available for students, active duty military and 澳门六合彩开奖结果走势图 staff/faculty.
Tickets: mondaviarts.org // $35 (gen.) and $25 (students w/ID) // 21 and over // *separate ticket required
About the Robert Mondavi Institute: In 2001, iconic California vintner Robert Mondavi made a personal gift of $25 million to the University of California, Davis to establish the Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science within the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. Today, this generous gift forms the cornerstone of a $100 million state-of-the-art facility that is home to two world-renowned academic departments: Viticulture and Enology, and Food Science and Technology, as well as the 澳门六合彩开奖结果走势图 Olive Center and the Honey and Pollination Center. The institute houses the only LEED Platinum winery, brewery and food-processing facility in the world, and serves as the gateway between 澳门六合彩开奖结果走势图 and a broad community of scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs, policymakers, industry professionals and technologists engaged in all dimensions of food, beer and wine-related activities.
More on the next week of entertainment
For more about musical performances -- whether it be rock, blues, Scottish folk, or something else catch the Capital Culture List Podcast and Blog.
For more entertainment, Catch "Blues On My Mind" podcast, by Professor of French Julia Simon.
The this week is at the usual 12:05 p.m. Thursday at the Ann E. Pitzer Center. This week, it's Dohn谩nyi & Brahms.