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SUMMARY:Day of Reflection
DESCRIPTION:Reflect\, Remember\, Reconnect \n On June 1\, everyone in Davis is invited to reflect\, remember and reconnect with each other for the Davis Day of Reflection. The Davis Day of Reflection invites us to mourn our losses together\, to share the many ways we care about and uplift each other\, and to envision ways we can move forward. Join the Davis Reflection Route for as long as you’d like any time that day\, starting and stopping where it’s convenient to you.    \n The Davis community has faced multiple tragedies in recent times\, and we each heal at our own pace. But if there’s one thing the Davis community has learned from the pandemic\, it’s that coming together and supporting each other can help ease our burdens.   \nhttps://reflections.ucdavis.edu/   \n 
URL:https://artsalliancedavis.org/event/day-of-reflection/
LOCATION:Multiple Locations Along the Davis Reflection Route (See event website for more information.)\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community,Featured,Miscellaneous,Outside
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SUMMARY:9th Annual DFS Film Fest
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, June 2 7–9 PM \nJoin the Davis Filmmaking Society for its annual student-run film festival celebrating student films. Admission is free.
URL:https://artsalliancedavis.org/event/9th-annual-dfs-film-fest/
LOCATION:Manetti Shrem Museum (Shrem)\, 254 Old Davis Rd.
CATEGORIES:Featured,Screen
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230609T180000
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SUMMARY:2nd Friday ArtAbout!
DESCRIPTION:**APRIL HOST INFORMATION COMING SOON** \nThis event\, titled 2nd Friday ArtAbout\, is a wonderful celebration of new exhibits\, which are held at various locations throughout downtown Davis. \nPence Gallery\, Logo’s Books and The Artery\, hold their receptions that night as well\, and all venues are listed on a flyer available on the Tuesday before ArtAbout at each venue. At times\, other activities may take place\, such as music\, food and wine\, etc.\, however due to COVID concerns\, food and wine are usually not served. Businesses in the downtown core may also host an artist and participate in this event. \nFor more info\, call Natalie at (530)758-3370\, or email penceartdirector@gmail.com. \nSponsored by the Pence Gallery\, the Davis Downtown Business Association\, and the Artery. Supported\, in part\, by a grant from the City of Davis Arts & Cultural Affairs program.
URL:https://artsalliancedavis.org/event/2nd-friday-artabout-23/
LOCATION:Multiple Venues
CATEGORIES:Art,Bring the Kids,Featured
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SUMMARY:Neighborhood Market
DESCRIPTION:April 7-8\nMay 13-14\nJune 10-11\n\n  \n\n11am–6pm\nLocation: University Mall\, Davis CA\nFollow: neighborhood.market.530\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nlinktr.ee/Neighborhood.market\n\n\nVintage clothing\, records\, jewelry\, funkos & more!
URL:https://artsalliancedavis.org/event/neighborhood-market-9/
LOCATION:University Mall
CATEGORIES:Featured,Shopping
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SUMMARY:Neighborhood Market
DESCRIPTION:May 13-14\nJune 10-11\n11am–6pm\nLocation: University Mall\, Davis CA\nFollow: neighborhood.market.530\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nlinktr.ee/Neighborhood.market\n\n\nVintage clothing\, records\, jewelry\, funkos & more!
URL:https://artsalliancedavis.org/event/neighborhood-market-11/
LOCATION:University Mall
CATEGORIES:Featured,Shopping
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SUMMARY:Neighborhood Market
DESCRIPTION:April 7-8\nMay 13-14\nJune 10-11\n\n  \n\n11am–6pm\nLocation: University Mall\, Davis CA\nFollow: neighborhood.market.530\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nlinktr.ee/Neighborhood.market\n\n\nVintage clothing\, records\, jewelry\, funkos & more!
URL:https://artsalliancedavis.org/event/neighborhood-market-10/
LOCATION:University Mall
CATEGORIES:Featured,Shopping
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SUMMARY:Neighborhood Market
DESCRIPTION:May 13-14\nJune 10-11\n11am–6pm\nLocation: University Mall\, Davis CA\nFollow: neighborhood.market.530\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nlinktr.ee/Neighborhood.market\n\n\nVintage clothing\, records\, jewelry\, funkos & more!
URL:https://artsalliancedavis.org/event/neighborhood-market-12/
LOCATION:University Mall
CATEGORIES:Featured,Shopping
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SUMMARY:Help WARD Save “The Cage”
DESCRIPTION:Woodland Area Roller Derby needs your help! \nWe have been an established women’s sports team and supportive community non-profit organization in Woodland since 2014. Sadly\, the roller rink in woodland closed\, but we were thrilled when the city put up lights for us to use at Ferns Park. We were just informed that the city will be reconditioning the “cage” as we call the old tennis courts. This reconditioning sounds great on paper\, but they have told us we will no longer be able to skate there\, KICKING US OUT OF OUR HOME. \nNot only us but other Roller Sports teams in our area. This is our only open and flat skating area in town! The skate park in Woodland is not suitable to team sports! We aim to bring comradery and empowerment to our community through Roller Derby and want a space for all Roller Sports! \nThere is a meeting planned for June 12th\, and we are asking the community to email the city of Woodland asking WARD to be able to keep the cage. Also the more people who show up to the meeting the more our cause will be heard! WARD will be out there wearing our Orange! \nWe have a petition at Change.org/SaveTheCage your signature would mean the world to us! \n#savethecage \n  \n 
URL:https://artsalliancedavis.org/event/help-ward-save-the-cage/
LOCATION:Ferns Park Woodland\, 750 Southwood Dr\, Woodland\, CA\, 95695\, United States
CATEGORIES:Featured,Fitness,Miscellaneous,Non-Profit,Outside,Sports
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SUMMARY:Food for Thought: Facts & (Science) Fictions\, Sacramento
DESCRIPTION:Esther’s Park\n3408 3rd Ave.\, Sacramento\nJune 23-25\n\n  \nFood for Thought: Facts and (Science) Fictions presents outdoor events addressing the past\, present and future of sustainable agriculture\, with a focus on African American farmers and visionaries. The weekend-long events include screenings of popular films\, servings of imaginative refreshments\, and engaging guests\, with author Natalie Baszile (Queen Sugar) as keynote speaker. Her forthcoming book is We Are Each Other’s Harvest: Celebrating African American Farms\, Land and Legacy. \nAmanda Trager\, founder of Passing Through Projects of which Food for Thought is a part\, is an interdisciplinary visual artist. Her work as a cultural producer (which parallels her 15-year artistic practice with Erik Moskowitz) began with the “Nassau Street Show\,” an art exhibition organized with Jean-Michel Basquiat that occupied fugitive space in a 19th–century Lower Manhattan office building. She is currently a fellow with the Slavery North Initiative at University of Massachusetts\, Amherst. \nFor times and full details\, please visit: dhi.ucdavis.edu \nOrganized by the UC Davis Humanities Institute. Co-sponsored by California Humanities and the Manetti Shrem Museum. \nthe project\n\n\n\nFood for Thought: Facts and (Science) Fictions is a public platform for critical community engagement with topics related to agricultural practices—here on earth\, and in our wider galaxy. Food for Thought will draw general audiences into considering its themes from an array of vantage points by way of exciting and popular narrative films\, weird and delicious snacks and refreshments\, and speakers who know how to employ everyday language while addressing complex issues. The platform is part of the Davis Humanities Institute’s “Cultivation: Food\, Farming\, and Heritage in the Sacramento Valley and Beyond”—a year-long initiative which explores the themes of farmers\, farming\, race\, and ethnic heritage in the Sacramento Valley and beyond. \nThe free\, outdoor events\, which will mostly occur in March 2023 in Sacramento’s historically-Black neighborhood of Oak Park\, will arise from the screenings of two popular American films. The first\, Sounder (1972)\, depicts a Black family’s struggles to avert starvation by farming sugarcane on depleted soil in Depression-era Louisiana\, while grappling with their eldest son’s longings to attend school full-time. The Martian (2015) chronicles an astronaut-botanist’s attempts to stay alive on Mars—where he has accidentally been left behind by his crew mates—through cultivating potatoes inside his vessel’s artificial habitat. \nA near half-century divides the release dates of these films; a century divides their stories. Yet despite sharply different time frames and plot lines\, both films turn on the life-and-death consequences of growing food. Food for Thought will prompt conversations in response to these films with a focus on sustainable farming\, interdependence\, histories of Black farming\, and more. \n\n\n\nthe steps\n\n\n\nWith cash in hand\, we will finalize plans for our guest speakers — all of whom require honorariums\, and some of whom will have travel\, lodging and per diem expenses. We will finalize our plans regarding the exact site or sites where the events will take place. We will secure rental of a high-quality and large LED projector\, with screen and speakers. We will find a means for catering our snacks and refreshments. Finally\, we will begin an outreach campaign with fliers and radio spots. We want to attract a large\, heterogeneous group! These are our main actions and attendant expenses\, with many other smaller ones in the mix. This is an ambitious project with many elements and people involved. \n\n\n\nwhy we’re doing it\n\n\n\nOak Park\, considered Sacramento’s historically Black neighborhood\, is the main location for these events. Food for Thought aims to attract the African Americans living there. But all peoples are welcome and will be encouraged to attend. One of the aims of choosing this location is\, in fact\, to draw non-BIPOC populations into spaces currently and historically considered part of Black Sacramento\, including the African American bookstore\, Underground Books\, and the 40 Acres Art Gallery and Cultural Center\, for the purpose of creating rich conversations within contexts of Black-majority spaces. \nThe platform aims to raise awareness of relationships between farming and racial identity\, and to inculcate pride in achievements of people of color from our past\, including George Washington Carver\, an agricultural scientist and inventor who promoted the efficacy of certain crops and methods to prevent soil depletion\, and Booker T. Whatley\, a pioneer of sustainable agriculture who is credited with developing an early form of the CSA\, or Community-supported agriculture. \nThese food- and farming-oriented programs will foster discussion amongst students and everyday people spanning race\, class\, age\, ethnicity and more. Convivial contexts will support consideration of our past and future in unexpected ways\, through topics that are inherently engaging as well as vitally important—how we eat\, learn\, and stay alive\, as well as how we think about and inhabit outdoor space together. Additionally\, outdoor events inevitably draw passers-by and degrees of spontaneity\, which will be encouraged.
URL:https://artsalliancedavis.org/event/food-for-thought-facts-science-fictions-sacramento/
LOCATION:Esther’s Park\, 3408 3rd Ave.\, Sacramento\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Featured,Festivals
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SUMMARY:Food for Thought: Facts & (Science) Fictions\, Sacramento
DESCRIPTION:Esther’s Park\n3408 3rd Ave.\, Sacramento\nJune 23-25\n\n  \nFood for Thought: Facts and (Science) Fictions presents outdoor events addressing the past\, present and future of sustainable agriculture\, with a focus on African American farmers and visionaries. The weekend-long events include screenings of popular films\, servings of imaginative refreshments\, and engaging guests\, with author Natalie Baszile (Queen Sugar) as keynote speaker. Her forthcoming book is We Are Each Other’s Harvest: Celebrating African American Farms\, Land and Legacy. \nAmanda Trager\, founder of Passing Through Projects of which Food for Thought is a part\, is an interdisciplinary visual artist. Her work as a cultural producer (which parallels her 15-year artistic practice with Erik Moskowitz) began with the “Nassau Street Show\,” an art exhibition organized with Jean-Michel Basquiat that occupied fugitive space in a 19th–century Lower Manhattan office building. She is currently a fellow with the Slavery North Initiative at University of Massachusetts\, Amherst. \nFor times and full details\, please visit: dhi.ucdavis.edu \nOrganized by the UC Davis Humanities Institute. Co-sponsored by California Humanities and the Manetti Shrem Museum. \nthe project\n\n\n\nFood for Thought: Facts and (Science) Fictions is a public platform for critical community engagement with topics related to agricultural practices—here on earth\, and in our wider galaxy. Food for Thought will draw general audiences into considering its themes from an array of vantage points by way of exciting and popular narrative films\, weird and delicious snacks and refreshments\, and speakers who know how to employ everyday language while addressing complex issues. The platform is part of the Davis Humanities Institute’s “Cultivation: Food\, Farming\, and Heritage in the Sacramento Valley and Beyond”—a year-long initiative which explores the themes of farmers\, farming\, race\, and ethnic heritage in the Sacramento Valley and beyond. \nThe free\, outdoor events\, which will mostly occur in March 2023 in Sacramento’s historically-Black neighborhood of Oak Park\, will arise from the screenings of two popular American films. The first\, Sounder (1972)\, depicts a Black family’s struggles to avert starvation by farming sugarcane on depleted soil in Depression-era Louisiana\, while grappling with their eldest son’s longings to attend school full-time. The Martian (2015) chronicles an astronaut-botanist’s attempts to stay alive on Mars—where he has accidentally been left behind by his crew mates—through cultivating potatoes inside his vessel’s artificial habitat. \nA near half-century divides the release dates of these films; a century divides their stories. Yet despite sharply different time frames and plot lines\, both films turn on the life-and-death consequences of growing food. Food for Thought will prompt conversations in response to these films with a focus on sustainable farming\, interdependence\, histories of Black farming\, and more. \n\n\n\nthe steps\n\n\n\nWith cash in hand\, we will finalize plans for our guest speakers — all of whom require honorariums\, and some of whom will have travel\, lodging and per diem expenses. We will finalize our plans regarding the exact site or sites where the events will take place. We will secure rental of a high-quality and large LED projector\, with screen and speakers. We will find a means for catering our snacks and refreshments. Finally\, we will begin an outreach campaign with fliers and radio spots. We want to attract a large\, heterogeneous group! These are our main actions and attendant expenses\, with many other smaller ones in the mix. This is an ambitious project with many elements and people involved. \n\n\n\nwhy we’re doing it\n\n\n\nOak Park\, considered Sacramento’s historically Black neighborhood\, is the main location for these events. Food for Thought aims to attract the African Americans living there. But all peoples are welcome and will be encouraged to attend. One of the aims of choosing this location is\, in fact\, to draw non-BIPOC populations into spaces currently and historically considered part of Black Sacramento\, including the African American bookstore\, Underground Books\, and the 40 Acres Art Gallery and Cultural Center\, for the purpose of creating rich conversations within contexts of Black-majority spaces. \nThe platform aims to raise awareness of relationships between farming and racial identity\, and to inculcate pride in achievements of people of color from our past\, including George Washington Carver\, an agricultural scientist and inventor who promoted the efficacy of certain crops and methods to prevent soil depletion\, and Booker T. Whatley\, a pioneer of sustainable agriculture who is credited with developing an early form of the CSA\, or Community-supported agriculture. \nThese food- and farming-oriented programs will foster discussion amongst students and everyday people spanning race\, class\, age\, ethnicity and more. Convivial contexts will support consideration of our past and future in unexpected ways\, through topics that are inherently engaging as well as vitally important—how we eat\, learn\, and stay alive\, as well as how we think about and inhabit outdoor space together. Additionally\, outdoor events inevitably draw passers-by and degrees of spontaneity\, which will be encouraged.
URL:https://artsalliancedavis.org/event/food-for-thought-facts-science-fictions-sacramento-2/
LOCATION:Esther’s Park\, 3408 3rd Ave.\, Sacramento\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Featured,Festivals
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SUMMARY:Food for Thought: Facts & (Science) Fictions\, Sacramento
DESCRIPTION:Esther’s Park\n3408 3rd Ave.\, Sacramento\nJune 23-25\n\n  \nFood for Thought: Facts and (Science) Fictions presents outdoor events addressing the past\, present and future of sustainable agriculture\, with a focus on African American farmers and visionaries. The weekend-long events include screenings of popular films\, servings of imaginative refreshments\, and engaging guests\, with author Natalie Baszile (Queen Sugar) as keynote speaker. Her forthcoming book is We Are Each Other’s Harvest: Celebrating African American Farms\, Land and Legacy. \nAmanda Trager\, founder of Passing Through Projects of which Food for Thought is a part\, is an interdisciplinary visual artist. Her work as a cultural producer (which parallels her 15-year artistic practice with Erik Moskowitz) began with the “Nassau Street Show\,” an art exhibition organized with Jean-Michel Basquiat that occupied fugitive space in a 19th–century Lower Manhattan office building. She is currently a fellow with the Slavery North Initiative at University of Massachusetts\, Amherst. \nFor times and full details\, please visit: dhi.ucdavis.edu \nOrganized by the UC Davis Humanities Institute. Co-sponsored by California Humanities and the Manetti Shrem Museum. \nthe project\n\n\n\nFood for Thought: Facts and (Science) Fictions is a public platform for critical community engagement with topics related to agricultural practices—here on earth\, and in our wider galaxy. Food for Thought will draw general audiences into considering its themes from an array of vantage points by way of exciting and popular narrative films\, weird and delicious snacks and refreshments\, and speakers who know how to employ everyday language while addressing complex issues. The platform is part of the Davis Humanities Institute’s “Cultivation: Food\, Farming\, and Heritage in the Sacramento Valley and Beyond”—a year-long initiative which explores the themes of farmers\, farming\, race\, and ethnic heritage in the Sacramento Valley and beyond. \nThe free\, outdoor events\, which will mostly occur in March 2023 in Sacramento’s historically-Black neighborhood of Oak Park\, will arise from the screenings of two popular American films. The first\, Sounder (1972)\, depicts a Black family’s struggles to avert starvation by farming sugarcane on depleted soil in Depression-era Louisiana\, while grappling with their eldest son’s longings to attend school full-time. The Martian (2015) chronicles an astronaut-botanist’s attempts to stay alive on Mars—where he has accidentally been left behind by his crew mates—through cultivating potatoes inside his vessel’s artificial habitat. \nA near half-century divides the release dates of these films; a century divides their stories. Yet despite sharply different time frames and plot lines\, both films turn on the life-and-death consequences of growing food. Food for Thought will prompt conversations in response to these films with a focus on sustainable farming\, interdependence\, histories of Black farming\, and more. \n\n\n\nthe steps\n\n\n\nWith cash in hand\, we will finalize plans for our guest speakers — all of whom require honorariums\, and some of whom will have travel\, lodging and per diem expenses. We will finalize our plans regarding the exact site or sites where the events will take place. We will secure rental of a high-quality and large LED projector\, with screen and speakers. We will find a means for catering our snacks and refreshments. Finally\, we will begin an outreach campaign with fliers and radio spots. We want to attract a large\, heterogeneous group! These are our main actions and attendant expenses\, with many other smaller ones in the mix. This is an ambitious project with many elements and people involved. \n\n\n\nwhy we’re doing it\n\n\n\nOak Park\, considered Sacramento’s historically Black neighborhood\, is the main location for these events. Food for Thought aims to attract the African Americans living there. But all peoples are welcome and will be encouraged to attend. One of the aims of choosing this location is\, in fact\, to draw non-BIPOC populations into spaces currently and historically considered part of Black Sacramento\, including the African American bookstore\, Underground Books\, and the 40 Acres Art Gallery and Cultural Center\, for the purpose of creating rich conversations within contexts of Black-majority spaces. \nThe platform aims to raise awareness of relationships between farming and racial identity\, and to inculcate pride in achievements of people of color from our past\, including George Washington Carver\, an agricultural scientist and inventor who promoted the efficacy of certain crops and methods to prevent soil depletion\, and Booker T. Whatley\, a pioneer of sustainable agriculture who is credited with developing an early form of the CSA\, or Community-supported agriculture. \nThese food- and farming-oriented programs will foster discussion amongst students and everyday people spanning race\, class\, age\, ethnicity and more. Convivial contexts will support consideration of our past and future in unexpected ways\, through topics that are inherently engaging as well as vitally important—how we eat\, learn\, and stay alive\, as well as how we think about and inhabit outdoor space together. Additionally\, outdoor events inevitably draw passers-by and degrees of spontaneity\, which will be encouraged.
URL:https://artsalliancedavis.org/event/food-for-thought-facts-science-fictions-sacramento-3/
LOCATION:Esther’s Park\, 3408 3rd Ave.\, Sacramento\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Featured,Festivals
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