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Reading Buddies
Reading Buddies
STEPHENS BRANCH LIBRARY. Come practice with a reading buddy! UCD students Lela & Vanessa are available Mon & Sat afternoons to help improve reading skills. Ages 5-12. Free
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Connecting the arts, fostering collaboration and building community.
Calendar courtesy of The Dirt.
There are several other great resources for finding arts and culture events, exhibits, performances, and other creative activities in the Davis area:
Davis Enterprise | UC Davis Arts & Entertainment | YoloArts | Visit Yolo
Books & Talks
Calendar of Events
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Jack Gallagher’s Comedy Class
Jack Gallagher’s Comedy Class
ODD FELLOWS HALL. The Odd Fellows Lodge Comedy Club Committee has worked with Jack Gallagher, a professional stand-up comedian to offer seven-week training class which will focus on the writing, development, and presentation of original material. 7p–9p. $400
$400
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Writing Workshop Point of View Master Class
Writing Workshop Point of View Master Class
AVID READER. Local authors Judith Starkston and Tim Schooley will share their tactics for bringing readers deeply into the point of view of their characters, an essential skill for increasing your readers’ emotional response to your words by feeling what your characters feel. Free with purchase of either author’s books from Avid Reader. 6p—8p. Free
Free
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Writers Workshop
Writers Workshop
AVID READER. For fiction writers & aspiring fiction writers, two local novelists—Judith Starkston and Tim Schooley—share their techniques for mastering “point of view.” 6p—8p. Free with the purchase of one of the author’s books from Avid Reader.
Free
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Reading Buddies
Reading Buddies
STEPHENS BRANCH LIBRARY. Come practice with a reading buddy! UCD students Lela & Vanessa are available Mon & Sat afternoons to help improve reading skills. Ages 5-12. Free
1 event,
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Reading Buddies
Reading Buddies
STEPHENS BRANCH LIBRARY. Come practice with a reading buddy! UCD students Lela & Vanessa are available Mon & Sat afternoons to help improve reading skills. Ages 5-12. Free
3 events,
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Poetry Night Reading Series
Poetry Night Reading Series
JOHN NATSOULAS CENTER FOR THE ARTS. First & third Thursdays. Each reading contains two featured poets followed by an open mic. 7p. Free
Free
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Poetry Night Reading Series: Maceo Montoya and León Salvatierra
Poetry Night Reading Series: Maceo Montoya and León Salvatierra
NATSOULAS GALLERY. Maceo Montoya’s first novel, The Scoundrel and the Optimist (Bilingual Review, 2010), was awarded the 2011 International Latino Book Award for Best First Book, and Latino Stories named him one of its “Top Ten New Latino Writers to Watch.” León Salvatierra is a poet from Nicaragua who migrated to the U.S. at the age of 15. He has an MFA in Creative Writing from UC Davis (June 2020) and a Ph.D. in Latin American Literatures with an emphasis on U.S. Latinx literature from UC Berkeley (2014). 7p—9p. Free
Free
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Flyway Nights features Dragonflies
Flyway Nights features Dragonflies
ONLINE. The diversity, life cycle, and leg Use Patterns of Dragonflies—the World’s Most Successful Predators—are on display during this evening’s Flyway Nights, hosted by Yolo Basin Foundation. 7p—8p. Free
Free
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Dancing the Afrofuture Book Event
Dancing the Afrofuture Book Event
UNDERGROUND BOOKS, Sacramento. UC Davis Professor Emerita Dr. Halifu Osumare’s bew memoir Dancing the Afrofuture: Hula Hip-Hop and the Dunham Legacy chronicles her transition from dancer-activist in the San Francisco Bay Area to academic capturing the zeitgeist of hip-hop culture. 6p—7:30p. Free
Free
2 events,
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Reading Buddies
Reading Buddies
STEPHENS BRANCH LIBRARY. Come practice with a reading buddy! UCD students Lela & Vanessa are available Mon & Sat afternoons to help improve reading skills. Ages 5-12. Free
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Stories on Stage Davis: Anara Guard & Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi
Stories on Stage Davis: Anara Guard & Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi
PENCE GALLERY. First, an excerpt from Like A Complete Unknown by Anara Guard will be read by Kellie Raines. Second, two selections from The Book of Kane and Margaret by Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi will be read by Sara Matsui-Colby. Copies of the authors’ books, purchased in partnership with Avid Reader, will be available for purchase and signing. 7:30p—9p. Free, donations accepted
Free
1 event,
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Reading Buddies
Reading Buddies
STEPHENS BRANCH LIBRARY. Come practice with a reading buddy! UCD students Lela & Vanessa are available Mon & Sat afternoons to help improve reading skills. Ages 5-12. Free
2 events,
Storytime in Pioneer Park
Storytime in Pioneer Park
PIONEER PARK. Every 2nd & 4th Thursday for a morning of stories & songs. For ages 3-6. Weather permitting. 11a. Free
Free
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Author Event: Clara Ward
Author Event: Clara Ward
AVID READER. Experience the joy of the sea with author Clara Ward to celebrate the release of their new book: Be the Sea. Ward will be joined in conversation by Betsy Miller. 6:30p—7:30p. Free
Free
2 events,
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Reading Buddies
Reading Buddies
STEPHENS BRANCH LIBRARY. Come practice with a reading buddy! UCD students Lela & Vanessa are available Mon & Sat afternoons to help improve reading skills. Ages 5-12. Free
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Local Author Night
Local Author Night
AVID READER. Join us in celebrating local authors! Meet Dick Holdstock, Elvia Rubald, Michelle Bailey, Larry Greer, and more! 6p—7:30p. Free
Free
1 event,
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Reading Buddies
Reading Buddies
STEPHENS BRANCH LIBRARY. Come practice with a reading buddy! UCD students Lela & Vanessa are available Mon & Sat afternoons to help improve reading skills. Ages 5-12. Free
2 events,
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Poetry Night Reading Series
Poetry Night Reading Series
JOHN NATSOULAS CENTER FOR THE ARTS. First & third Thursdays. Each reading contains two featured poets followed by an open mic. 7p. Free
Free
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Poetry Night Reading Series: Kim Stanley Robinson and Laurie Glover
Poetry Night Reading Series: Kim Stanley Robinson and Laurie Glover
NATSOULAS GALLERY. Kim Stanley Robinson is an American science fiction writer. He is the author of about twenty books, including the internationally bestselling Mars trilogy, and more recently Red Moon, New York 2140, and The Ministry for the Future. Laurie Glover’s poems have appeared in journals such as Terrain, Woman’s Studies, and California Quarterly, and her essays have appeared in journals such as Zyzzyva and Boom. 7p—9p. Free
Free
1 event,
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Reading Buddies
Reading Buddies
STEPHENS BRANCH LIBRARY. Come practice with a reading buddy! UCD students Lela & Vanessa are available Mon & Sat afternoons to help improve reading skills. Ages 5-12. Free
1 event,
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Reading Buddies
Reading Buddies
STEPHENS BRANCH LIBRARY. Come practice with a reading buddy! UCD students Lela & Vanessa are available Mon & Sat afternoons to help improve reading skills. Ages 5-12. Free
2 events,
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The Health Effects of Loneliness and Isolation
The Health Effects of Loneliness and Isolation
Human beings are social creatures with a powerful fundamental need to’ belong.’ Join in an online discussion with Dr. Rebecca Boxer of UC Davis Healthy Aging on this topic. She will share insights, data and recent research on the health and psychological effects of isolation...
Free
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Seeds of Justice & YoloSol Reading Group
Seeds of Justice & YoloSol Reading Group
EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF ST. MARTIN. YoloSol, a cultural arts and ecology collective, & St Martin’s Seeds of Justice program will lead discussion of the book Know We Are Here: Voices of Native California Resistance, edited by Terria Smith, a tribal member of the Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indians. 6:30p—8p. Free
Free
1 event,
Storytime in Pioneer Park
Storytime in Pioneer Park
PIONEER PARK. Every 2nd & 4th Thursday for a morning of stories & songs. For ages 3-6. Weather permitting. 11a. Free
Free
1 event,
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Reading Buddies
Reading Buddies
STEPHENS BRANCH LIBRARY. Come practice with a reading buddy! UCD students Lela & Vanessa are available Mon & Sat afternoons to help improve reading skills. Ages 5-12. Free
1 event,
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Reading Buddies
Reading Buddies
STEPHENS BRANCH LIBRARY. Come practice with a reading buddy! UCD students Lela & Vanessa are available Mon & Sat afternoons to help improve reading skills. Ages 5-12. Free
2 events,
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Poetry Night Reading Series
Poetry Night Reading Series
JOHN NATSOULAS CENTER FOR THE ARTS. First & third Thursdays. Each reading contains two featured poets followed by an open mic. 7p. Free
Free
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Poetry Night Reading Series: Julia B. Levine and Rebecca Foust
Poetry Night Reading Series: Julia B. Levine and Rebecca Foust
NATSOULAS GALLERY. Julia B. Levine’s poetry has won many awards, including a 2021 Nautilus Award for her fifth poetry collection, Ordinary Psalms, (LSU press, 2021), as well as the 2015 Northern California Book Award in Poetry for her fourth collection, Small Disasters Seen in Sunlight, (LSU, 2014). Currently she serves as Poet Laureate of Davis. Rebecca Foust’s fourth book, ONLY (Four Way Books, 2022) earned a starred review in Publishers Weekly and was recently reviewed by Mark Jarmon in The Hudson Review. 7p—9p. Free
Free
2 events,
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Metamorphosis: Public Gathering, Art, Music, and Intergenerational Dialogue
Metamorphosis: Public Gathering, Art, Music, and Intergenerational Dialogue
DAVIS LUTHERAN CHURCH. These events are designed to encourage intergenerational dialogue about who we want to be and how we want to live in the world. These are gatherings where people share art, music, spoken word and guided friendly conversation and beverages and snacks. 2p—5p. Free
Free
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Reading Buddies
Reading Buddies
STEPHENS BRANCH LIBRARY. Come practice with a reading buddy! UCD students Lela & Vanessa are available Mon & Sat afternoons to help improve reading skills. Ages 5-12. Free