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SUMMARY:Yolo Juneteenth Celebration
DESCRIPTION:The Yolo Juneteenth Celebration will be held on Sunday June 4\, 2023 from 10am-5pm at the UC Davis Conference Center. A free family event with music\, performances\, raffles\, vendors\, exhibits\, healing spaces\, cultural presentations and free parking. \n  \n 
URL:https://artsalliancedavis.org/event/yolo-juneteenth-celebration/
LOCATION:UC Davis Conference Center\, 550 Alumni Lane\, Davis\, 95616\, United States
CATEGORIES:Festivals
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SUMMARY:Yolo Juneteenth Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate with Yolo County on June 4 for this family friendly FREE celebration of African American FREEDOM!!\n\nEnjoy the vendor fair\, music\, performances\, exhibits\, raffles\, food vendors and information tables. Meet with Black authors\, join a meditation training\, shop and more as we gather in collective healing and jubilation.
URL:https://artsalliancedavis.org/event/yolo-juneteenth-celebration-2/
LOCATION:UC Davis Conference Center\, 550 Alumni Lane\, Davis\, 95616\, United States
CATEGORIES:Festivals
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SUMMARY:Pride Community Fair
DESCRIPTION:After the 9th annual Run/Walk for Equality join us for the LGBTQ+ and ally community celebration and music festival held in the heart of Davis\, CA at Central Park (located on C Street – between 3rd and 5th Streets). \nThe annual Community Fair includes the Pride Music Festival with two amazing stages of entertainment featuring 25 of the best entertainers from around the nation\, and several vendor booths\, exhibits\, cultural presentations\, delicious food booths\, and many of your closest friends! \nThe pride community fair is free and open to everyone with a positive heart and loving mind! \nThe community festival is a safe space for all that attend.  We will have a ZERO TOLERANCE policy for discrimination\, fighting\, illegal activities\, and unauthorized solicitors.  Violators will be escorted out of the festival.
URL:https://artsalliancedavis.org/event/pride-community-fair/
LOCATION:Central Park\, 101 C St\, Davis\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Festivals
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SUMMARY:Drag Story Hour
DESCRIPTION:Join The Avid Reader for Drag Story Hour on Sunday\, June 4\, 2023 at 11am!  This fun event\, filled with stories and activities\, will take place at our Downtown Davis store located at 617 2nd Street\, Davis\, CA. \nFor more information about Drag Story Hour\, please visit their website. \nWhile you’re downtown on June 4\, take advantage of all of the events organized by Davis Pride.  Schedule can be found here. \n  \n 
URL:https://artsalliancedavis.org/event/drag-story-hour-2/
LOCATION:The Avid Reader\, 617 2nd St.
CATEGORIES:Books & Talk,Bring the Kids,Community,Festivals,Stage & Dance
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SUMMARY:Davis Pride Music Festival
DESCRIPTION:THE BEST ENTERTAINMENT\nFOUND IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA!\nThe Davis Pride planning committee is proud to once again feature an amazing line of talent on two stages. \n2023 PERFORMERS\n(Complete timeline will be released on or before May 20\, 2022) \nSYDNEY RANEE\nCHEER SACRAMENTO\nDRAG REVUE\nSACRAMENTO WOMEN’S CHORUS\nSACRAMENTO GAY MEN’S CHORUS\n(HEADLINE ARTIST)\nTAINTED LOVE\nTHE BEST IN 80S LIVE\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA Tainted Love performance is like reliving the 80’s in a way you have never before. They deliver the complete experience: phenomenal songs\, great moves\, iconic video projections\, and seven of the most charismatic and accomplished musicians you’ll ever see. The band will take you back in time while keeping the party going all night long. \nBased out of San Francisco\, Tainted Love headlines coast to coast at major clubs\, ballrooms\, and rock venues. Their nationally celebrated high-energy show has founded a loyal fan base across the country; bringing with them packed houses\, record-breaking ticket sales\, and repeated sell-outs. Tainted Love continuously builds their performance to keep their connected and dedicated fans coming back for more. Audiences of every generation celebrate this band — from 80’s junkies and enthusiasts\, to music fans of all ages. Their growing devotees love to sing and groove along to all the greatest hits of the 80’s. You can’t help but get into the show whether you grew up in the 80’s or you just wish you had.
URL:https://artsalliancedavis.org/event/davis-pride-music-festival/
LOCATION:Central Park\, 101 C St\, Davis\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Festivals
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SUMMARY:Neighborhood Market
DESCRIPTION:Come down to Neighborhood Market and enjoy local crafts maker\, art\, vintage clothes\, and MORE!
URL:https://artsalliancedavis.org/event/neighborhood-market-13/
LOCATION:University Mall
CATEGORIES:Festivals
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SUMMARY:Summer Reading Program Kick-off Festival
DESCRIPTION:Join Yolo County Library\, Yolo County Parks Department\, and Tuleyome for a fun family event! Enjoy the fresh air with an expert-led nature walk. Talk\, sing\, read\, and play at Storytime. Make music together with Cascada de Flores. Learn about wildlife\, conservation groups\, and nearby hiking trails. Sign up for Yolo County Library’s Summer Reading Challenge and receive a FREE “keeper” book! \n  \n 
URL:https://artsalliancedavis.org/event/summer-reading-program-kick-off-festival/
LOCATION:Capay Open Space Park\, 15603 County Road 85\, Capay\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Bring the Kids,Festivals,Music,Outside,Science
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SUMMARY:Barnival\, Sacramento
DESCRIPTION:Step right up and join in the fun at the BARNival! We’re hosting a deliciously imaginative weekend of food and beverage specials at Drake’s: The BARN from June 9th – June 11th. Then on June 10th\, Barnival comes to life with carnival attractions hosted by The Culture Element. We will have carnival games and activities\, stilt walkers\, entertainers\, a petting zoo\, and more! \nTickets for 6.10 are on sale now. \n  \n$25 Ticket Info: \n$25 Ticket is the Full Entertainment Package which allows you to participate in the following: Face Painting\, Sparkle Tattoos\, Balloon Twists\, Carnival Games\, Bounce House\, Hoop Zone\, Petting Zoo (all activities available during both windows mentioned below) \n11a – 2p \n2p – 5p \n  \n$10 Ticket Info: \n$10 Ticket is General Admission\, which allows you to enter the event and enjoy all the entertainers such as aerialists\, stilt walkers and carnival entertainers \n11a – 5p \n  \n*UPGRADES ONSITE TBD*
URL:https://artsalliancedavis.org/event/barnival-sacramento/
LOCATION:Drake’s Brewing Co.\, 985 Riverfront Street West\, Sacramento\, CA\, 95691\, United States
CATEGORIES:Festivals
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SUMMARY:Neighborhood Market
DESCRIPTION:Come down to Neighborhood Market and enjoy local crafts maker\, art\, vintage clothes\, and MORE!
URL:https://artsalliancedavis.org/event/neighborhood-market-14/
LOCATION:University Mall
CATEGORIES: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/
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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