Thursday, Feb. 4, 12:05 p.m. to 1 p.m.,
Worlds collide as UC Davis graduate students in music and the creative writing program come together to bring us a performance. This concert will showcase collaborative works among five creative writing MFA students and four doctoral students in music composition and theory. The noon concert will also include music, theatre and dance students performing, as well as music faculty. The prerecorded concert will be shown on the Department of Music Youtube channel and available for viewing after its premiere today at 12:05 p.m to 1 p.m, today. This is the third year of the collaboration. Originally scheduled for spring 2020, the concert was delayed due to COVID-19 restrictions.
Flight of the cabbage white butterfly
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This cabbage white butterfly takes flight in the fall. UC Davis distinguished professor Art Shapiro spotted his first of the year on Jan. 16 on the UC Davis campus.
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Shapiro spotted a cabbage white butterfly,
Pieris rapae, at 1:55 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 16, on the UCD campus, just south of the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, at 254 Old Davis Road.
“At 1:55 p.m., I saw a male rapae flying a linear path along the edge of the waste ground between campus parking lot 1 and the railroad track, heading east,” he wrote in an email. “It stopped to nectar at a large Raphanus (wild radish) plant. That was directly south of the Manetti-Shrem Art Museum. I did not have a net and, there being no contest requiring a voucher, I did not care. It was 72F and clear with a trace of NE wind. I kept going. This is the earliest rapae since i.16.16 (Jan. 16, 2016).
Davis native’s comedy to be presented by UC Davis and Bike City Theatre Company
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Briandaniel Oglesby is the author of the comedy “Small Steps,” being presented virtually Jan. 21 to 23.
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Growing sick of the gay dating scene, a man volunteers to go to Mars in the comedy “Small Steps,” written by Davis native Briandaniel Oglesby. The play is being presented by “Catalyst: A Theatre Think Tank” through the UC Davis department of theater and dance in collaboration with Bike City Theatre Company. Free virtual performances will be streamed at 6 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Jan. 21-23.
UC Davis Creative Writing Series begins new year
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Collaborators for the “New Words and Music” concert are, from left: top row, Anna Tuchin, Kate Campbell, Mangai Arumugam, Jennifer Soong and Jordan Dahlen; and bottom row, Orkun Akyol, Trey Makler, Emily Joy Sullivan, Daniel Godsil and Sawyer Elms.
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Program includes award-winning authors, faculty readings and interdisciplinary student works
The UC Davis Creative Writing Series kicks off 2021 with readings by acclaimed visiting writers Jess Arndt and Carmen Maria Machado, a collaboration between music and writing students and a showcase of new works by faculty members. All events are at 4:30 p.m., free and accessible on Zoom unless otherwise noted.