BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Arts Alliance Davis - ECPv6.16.3//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Arts Alliance Davis X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://artsalliancedavis.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Arts Alliance Davis REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20230312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20231105T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20240310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20241103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20250309T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20251102T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241002T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241002T103000 DTSTAMP:20260611T162514 CREATED:20240715T180904Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240715T180904Z UID:13671-1727863200-1727865000@artsalliancedavis.org SUMMARY:Story Time at Avid & Co. DESCRIPTION:Looking for something to do with your kiddo during the week? Join us at Avid & Co. for morning story time! \nEvery Wednesday from 10:00 – 10:30AM one of our incredible story tellers will read picture books to your kiddos. This free event is for kids up to age 8. Children must be supervised by their adult at all times. \n  URL:https://artsalliancedavis.org/event/story-time-at-avid-co-20/ LOCATION:Avid & Co.\, 605 2nd St\, Davis\, CA\, 95616\, United States CATEGORIES:Bring the Kids ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://artsalliancedavis.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/story-time-at-avid-and-co-bw4vlf.tmp_.png ORGANIZER;CN="Avid &%3B Co.":MAILTO:avidandco@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241003T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241003T193000 DTSTAMP:20260611T162514 CREATED:20240921T232703Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240921T232703Z UID:14767-1727980200-1727983800@artsalliancedavis.org SUMMARY:Author Talk: Sasha Abramsky DESCRIPTION:Join us in celebrating the release of local author\, Sasha Abramsky’s latest book: Chaos Comes Calling on Thursday\, October 3rd at 6:30 PM. \nAbout the Author \nSasha Abramsky is a long-time political journalist and author who spent the last thirty years exploring the American political and social justice landscape. CHAOS COMES CALLING is a harrowing tale of how political polarization threatens America’s social fabric\, told through the differing fates of two communities in the throes of ideological and partisan battle. \nAbout the Book \nDonald Trump’s November 2016 electoral victory presaged four years of demagogy\, presidential name-calling\, and – ten months into a pandemic – an incitement to violence that led a mob of thousands to descend on the Capitol in Washington\, DC. Fueled by suspicion\, conspiracy\, and bigotry\, a faction of Americans with extreme beliefs fought to seize control. But the biggest effect of this right-wing wave may not have been on our national politics\, but on the local governments of communities around the country. \nIn CHAOS COMES CALLING\, Abramsky tells the parallel stories of two communities: Shasta County\, CA\, and Sequim\, WA\, where toxic alliances of QAnoners\, anti-vaxxers\, Christian nationalists\, militia supporters\, and other denizens of the far-right have worked to take control of the levers of power. While Sequim ultimately recalibrated in 2021\, returning to a more rational\, less violent baseline\, Shasta County has descended further into a climate of intolerance and toxic divisiveness. \nBy illuminating how the polarization of national politics has seeped into local affairs\, Abramsky vividly captures how extremism upended life in these communities and transformed the country’s politics. He also provides a sobering glimpse of what America’s future may hold if the extremist spiral is not kept in check. URL:https://artsalliancedavis.org/event/author-talk-sasha-abramsky/ LOCATION:The Avid Reader\, 617 2nd St. CATEGORIES:Books & Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://artsalliancedavis.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/sasha-abramsky-rorNVx.tmp_.png ORGANIZER;CN="The Avid Reader":MAILTO:avidreaderbooks@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241005T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241005T193000 DTSTAMP:20260611T162514 CREATED:20240921T232759Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240921T232759Z UID:14774-1728153000-1728156600@artsalliancedavis.org SUMMARY:Author Event: RD Pires DESCRIPTION:Avid Reader is thrilled to host UC Davis alumnus\, R.D. Pires to celebrate the release of his latest book\, Design of Darkness on October 5th at 6:30 PM. \nAbout the Author \nRD Pires has found there’s always a story to tell\, and so he spends his time writing them down. A project is always on his mind\, even when there aren’t enough hours in a day to work on them. His blend of literary writing with genre elements is influenced by his favorite authors\, such as David Mitchell\, Brandon Sanderson\, Madeline Miller\, and Stephen King. His works include Design of Darkness\, the first book in the ongoing The Tides That Reign series\, A Vast\, Untethered Ocean\, the novella In Death Do Flowers Grow\, and the collection of short fiction A Sky Littered With Stories. He lives in California with his husband and daughter. \nAbout the Book \nThe shadow of the great usurper\, King Fogosombre\, has kept the East in darkness for twelve long years. Made paranoid by a foretelling of his downfall\, the king’s indiscriminate violence reaches a new zenith\, leaving twins Arsenio and Mariana orphaned and homeless\, their village burnt to the ground. \nNow\, as the dying embers of their rebellion fade into the night\, the twins make a promise to find aide for their people in foreign lands. To get out from under the king’s reach\, they must venture across the Great Ocean into a world they had only dreamt about through travelers’ stories. From their perilous quest arises a tale of emperors and queens\, marauders and mysticism\, fortitude and forbidden love. \nMeanwhile\, King Fogosombre conducts profane rituals driven by his lust for indomitability. Toiling with malign magic that may yield dire consequences for all the known world\, he seeks a pact with the shadows\, a plan to cement his reign indefinitely: a design of darkness. URL:https://artsalliancedavis.org/event/author-event-rd-pires/ LOCATION:The Avid Reader\, 617 2nd St. CATEGORIES:Books & Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://artsalliancedavis.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/rd-pires-iskn2V.tmp_.png ORGANIZER;CN="The Avid Reader":MAILTO:avidreaderbooks@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241009T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241009T103000 DTSTAMP:20260611T162514 CREATED:20240715T180931Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240715T180931Z UID:13672-1728468000-1728469800@artsalliancedavis.org SUMMARY:Story Time at Avid & Co. DESCRIPTION:Looking for something to do with your kiddo during the week? Join us at Avid & Co. for morning story time! \nEvery Wednesday from 10:00 – 10:30AM one of our incredible story tellers will read picture books to your kiddos. This free event is for kids up to age 8. Children must be supervised by their adult at all times. \n  URL:https://artsalliancedavis.org/event/story-time-at-avid-co-21/ LOCATION:Avid & Co.\, 605 2nd St\, Davis\, CA\, 95616\, United States CATEGORIES:Bring the Kids ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://artsalliancedavis.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/story-time-at-avid-and-co-bw4vlf.tmp_.png ORGANIZER;CN="Avid &%3B Co.":MAILTO:avidandco@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241016T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241016T103000 DTSTAMP:20260611T162514 CREATED:20240718T185904Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240718T185904Z UID:13686-1729072800-1729074600@artsalliancedavis.org SUMMARY:Story Time at Avid & Co. DESCRIPTION:Looking for something to do with your kiddo during the week? Join us at Avid & Co. for morning story time! \nEvery Wednesday from 10:00 – 10:30AM one of our incredible story tellers will read picture books to your kiddos. This free event is for kids up to age 8. Children must be supervised by their adult at all times. \n  URL:https://artsalliancedavis.org/event/story-time-at-avid-co-22/ LOCATION:Avid & Co.\, 605 2nd St\, Davis\, CA\, 95616\, United States CATEGORIES:Bring the Kids ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://artsalliancedavis.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/story-time-at-avid-and-co-bw4vlf.tmp_.png ORGANIZER;CN="Avid &%3B Co.":MAILTO:avidandco@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241022T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241022T190000 DTSTAMP:20260611T162514 CREATED:20240926T120500Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240926T120500Z UID:14902-1729620000-1729623600@artsalliancedavis.org SUMMARY:California Writers Week Historical Fiction Panel DESCRIPTION:FIGHT FOR PROGRESS: READ HISTORICAL FICTION! Come hear three historical fiction novelists discuss how issues such as women’s rights\, religious tolerance\, and anti-discrimination resonate from the past in modern historical fiction. \nWith experience writing in periods and contexts as disparate as war-plagued Europe in the 1480s\, a quirky 1970s circus\, a captive woman in the Trojan War\, a 13 th century BCE Hittite queen\, and the Flying Nightingales of WWII\, this author threesome will entertain you as we take on the past and the ways historical fiction illuminates our current world. \nAbout the Authors \nTim Schooley \nTim Schooley’s first job out of high school was as a circus clown with Ringling Bros.\, Barnum & Bailey Circus. When he discovered he was not that funny\, he went to college at UC Santa Barbara and then law school at UC Berkeley. He spent 35 years as an appellate lawyer\, taught appellate law at UC Davis Law School for 10 years\, and worked first as a “writ attorney” and then as the managing attorney of the California Court of Appeal\, Third Appellate District\, in Sacramento. All along\, he wrote fiction\, but waited until his retirement to publish his debut novel\, The Wool Translator\, which follows a Christian boy and a Muslim girl across religiously fractured Europe of the 1480s. Tim’s forthcoming novel\, The Circus of the Vanishing Elephant\, is based (very loosely) on his employment as a circus clown. Tim lives with his wife in Fair Oaks. His website: www.timschooley.com \nJudith Starkston \nAfter spending too much time reading about and exploring the remains of the ancient worlds of the Greeks and Hittites\, including degrees in classics and a long teaching career\, Judith Starkston figured out what it was all good for. Judith now writes historical fantasy set in the Bronze Age world of Greeks and Hittites. Her five novels bring women to the fore—whether the Trojan War captive Briseis or a remarkable Hittite queen whom history forgot\, even though she ruled over one of the greatest ancient empires. Her website: www.JudithStarkston.com \nLaura Walker \nFormer Sacramento Bee reporter and columnist Laura Jensen Walker is the award- winning author of more than 20 books including Thanks for the Mammogram and the bestselling\, Agatha-nominated Murder Most Sweet. Captivated by the tales of an overlooked group of WWII RAF women—the Flying Nightingales—Air Force veteran Laura knew she had to tell their story in her historical debut\, Death of a Flying Nightingale. You can contact Laura through her website: https://laurajensenwalker.com. URL:https://artsalliancedavis.org/event/california-writers-week-historical-fiction-panel/ LOCATION:The Avid Reader\, 617 2nd St. CATEGORIES:Books & Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://artsalliancedavis.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/historical-fiction-panel-1-ThwpNb.tmp_.png ORGANIZER;CN="The Avid Reader":MAILTO:avidreaderbooks@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241023T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241023T103000 DTSTAMP:20260611T162514 CREATED:20240725T203027Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240725T203027Z UID:13762-1729677600-1729679400@artsalliancedavis.org SUMMARY:Story Time at Avid & Co. DESCRIPTION:Looking for something to do with your kiddo during the week? Join us at Avid & Co. for morning story time! \nEvery Wednesday from 10:00 – 10:30AM one of our incredible story tellers will read picture books to your kiddos. This free event is for kids up to age 8. Children must be supervised by their adult at all times. \n  URL:https://artsalliancedavis.org/event/story-time-at-avid-co-23/ LOCATION:Avid & Co.\, 605 2nd St\, Davis\, CA\, 95616\, United States CATEGORIES:Bring the Kids ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://artsalliancedavis.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/story-time-at-avid-and-co-bw4vlf.tmp_.png ORGANIZER;CN="Avid &%3B Co.":MAILTO:avidandco@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241030T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241030T103000 DTSTAMP:20260611T162514 CREATED:20240801T224804Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240801T224804Z UID:13880-1730282400-1730284200@artsalliancedavis.org SUMMARY:Story Time at Avid & Co. DESCRIPTION:Looking for something to do with your kiddo during the week? Join us at Avid & Co. for morning story time! \nEvery Wednesday from 10:00 – 10:30AM one of our incredible story tellers will read picture books to your kiddos. This free event is for kids up to age 8. Children must be supervised by their adult at all times. \n  URL:https://artsalliancedavis.org/event/story-time-at-avid-co-24/ LOCATION:Avid & Co.\, 605 2nd St\, Davis\, CA\, 95616\, United States CATEGORIES:Bring the Kids ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://artsalliancedavis.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/story-time-at-avid-and-co-bw4vlf.tmp_.png ORGANIZER;CN="Avid &%3B Co.":MAILTO:avidandco@gmail.com END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR