Open Mic Night
Open Mic Night
MELON BALL. Watermelon Music’s free monthly open mic. Share your talents with a supportive, encouraging audience. Doors open and sign-ups begin at 5:30p. 6p—8p. Free
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
MELON BALL. Watermelon Music’s free monthly open mic. Share your talents with a supportive, encouraging audience. Doors open and sign-ups begin at 5:30p. 6p—8p. Free
JOHN NATSOULAS CENTER FOR THE ARTS. First & third Thursdays. Each reading contains two featured poets followed by an open mic. 7p. Free
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
JOHN NATSOULAS CENTER FOR THE ARTS. First & third Thursdays. Each reading contains two featured poets followed by an open mic. 7p. Free
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
JOHN NATSOULAS CENTER FOR THE ARTS. First & third Thursdays. Each reading contains two featured poets followed by an open mic. 7p. Free
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