UPDATED: Listing of events in migration festival and book project

by Dave Jones
January 24, 2013

Book cover: "The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration"

Here is the schedule for Worlds of Discovery and Loss: The Art of Migration, to be presented Jan. 30 to Feb. 3 by the departments of Studio Art, Music, and Theatre and Dance; the Performance Studies program; the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts; the Davis Humanities Institute and the Department of Sociology. See separate story.

The Campus Community Book Project this year also deals with migration — and information is presented here on a panel discussion (Jan. 31) and the author's visit (Feb. 12).

THE ART OF MIGRATION

WEDNESDAY, JAN. 30

Exhibition opening — Drawing on Migrations, large-scale drawings, and small, related sculptural objects. 6:30-7:45 p.m., Yocha Dehe Grand Lobby, Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts. Free. Through Feb. 28 (open to patrons with tickets for Mondavi Center performances, one hour prior to the performances). More information.

Korean p’ansori — Story-singing (one person with a barrel drum) by Chan E. Park, associate professor of Korean language, literature and performance studies at Ohio State University. 8 p.m., Vanderhoef Studio Theatre, Mondavi Center.

THURSDAY, JAN. 31

Shinkoskey Noon Concert — Calder Quartet, the Rootstock Percussion Trio and Mayumi Hama on marimba. The program includes Lakescape II by composer-in-residence Lei Liang. 12:05 p.m., Yocha Dehe Grand Lobby. Free.

Felix Mendelssohn: Allegro vivace assai from String Quartet No. 6 in F Minor, op. 80 (Calder Quartet).
Liang: Lakescape II (Rootstock Percussion Trio).
Keiko Abe: Galilee Impressions and Voice of Matsuri Drums (Hama).
John MacCallum: aberration (Rootstock Percussion Trio).
Maurice Ravel: Assez vif, Très rythmé from String Quartet (Calder Quartet).

Panel discussion — Art and Migration, moderated by David Kyle, professor of sociology, co-director of the Center of Expertise on Migration and Health, and faculty director of the UC Global Health Institute. 2-4 p.m., Yocha Dehe Grand Lobby. Free.

Maria Elena González, Cuban-American sculptor.
Philip Kan Gotanda, American playwright and filmmaker at UC Berkeley, and a former Granada artist in residence at UC Davis.
Peter Kulchyski, professor, Department of Native Studies, University of Manitoba.
Park, the Korean p’ansori expert from Ohio State University.
W. Anthony Sheppard, musicologist, professor and chair, Department of Music, Williams College.

Migration and Other Projects — Presentations by Master of Fine Arts candidates, with the support of the Institute for Exploration in Theatre, Dance and Performance (a unit of the Department of Theatre and Dance). 8 p.m., Vanderhoef Studio Theatre. Free.

The Migration Project/Le Projet Migration, choreography by Christine Germain in collaboration with Slater Penney, Maria Candelaria and Bobby August Jr. A humorous, evocative and autobiographical piece, exploring immigration, love and bureaucracy. Recipient of the best choreography award at the Montreal Fringe Festival, 2012.
Crawl, choreography by Jarrell Iu-Hui Chua and Bobby August Jr. Investigating the movement and journey we take — both internally and externally — in creating, developing and sharing relationships.
Two scenes from Today I Live, Susan-Jane Harrison's full-length play examining the trauma of displacement and the struggle of an artist grappling with her past. Previously presented as a staged reading at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.

FRIDAY, FEB. 1

Empyrean Ensemble — UC Davis’ ensemble in residence, featuring music by Liang and three Art of Migration fellows. 8 p.m., Vanderhoef Studio Theatre. Preconcert talk, 7 p.m., Yocha Dehe Grand Lobby.

Liang: Aural Hypothesis for Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Cello, Piano and Vibraphone.
David Coll: Black Piet for Clarinet, Violin, Cello and Piano
A.W. Khumalo: ISO(R) for Flute, Cello and Piano.
Kari Besharse: Black Grey Red Orange Grey Blue Grey for Flute, Clarinet, Violin, Cello, Piano and Percussion.

SATURDAY, FEB. 2

Calder Quarter, Program I — Works by Maurice Ravel and Bela Bartók; Liang; and Nicholas Omiccioli, Art of Migration fellow. 8 p.m., Vanderhoef Studio Theatre. Preconcert talk by Liang, 7 p.m.

Ravel: String Quartet in F Major (1903)
Omiccioli: reach (2011)
Liang: Serashi Fragments (2005)
Bartók: String Quartet No. 5 (1934)

Stranger, Beware ... — A night of European cabaret, including torch songs and street ballads made famous by singers and composers such as Edith Piaf, Kurt Weill and Marlene Dietrich. From the Berlin bars to the streets of gay Paris come tales of traveling and searching for home and love. With Bella Merlin, professor, Department of Theatre and Dance, accompanied by Michael Seth Orland, piano. 10:30 p.m., Vanderhoef Studio Theatre. Free.

SUNDAY, FEB. 3

Calder Quartet, Program II — Works by Mendelssohn and three Art of Migration fellows. 2 p.m., Vanderhoef Studio Theatre. Post-concert question-and-answer session with the quartet and Sam Nichols, music lecturer.

Ryan Suleiman: Acqua e Luce (2012)
Tina Tallon: selective (2011-12)
Elliot Cless: stay (2012)
Mendelssohn: String Quartet No. 6 in F Minor, op. 80 (1847)

Symphony Orchestra — Works by György Ligeti and Sergei Prokofiev; Laurie San Martin, associate professor, Department of Music; and Annie Hui-Hsin Hsieh, Art of Migration fellow. 7 p.m., Jackson Hall, Mondavi Center.

Hsieh: Icy Disintegration (Art of Migration Festival Fellow Composer)
San Martin: layover/overlay, a concerto for two marimbas and orchestra (world premiere), featuring marimbists Hama and Chris Froh, lecturer in the Department of Music.
Ligeti: Mysteries of the Macabre, with Nikki Einfeld, soprano.
Prokofiev: Suite No. 2 from Romeo and Juliet.

Tickets required for Korean "p'ansori" (Jan. 30), Empyrean Ensemble (Feb. 1), Calder Quartet, Program I and II (Feb. 2 and 3), and the Symphony Orchestra (Feb. 3). The others are free. Mondavi Center tickets: mondaviarts.org, or (530) 754-2787 or (800) 754-2787.

CAMPUS COMMUNITY BOOK PROJECT

In two panel discussions at the end of January, local African Americans are scheduled to share their experiences in the Great Migration. The panel is the same for both discussions: Jack Jackson, Rosemary Jones, Elaine Patterson and Richard Patterson, with Nicki King as the moderator.

The panel discussions, free and open to the public, will take place in the Performing Arts Theatre Davis High School, 315 W. 14th St. Here are the dates and times:

Wednesday, Jan. 30 — noon-1 p.m.
Thursday, Jan. 31 — 7-8:30 p.m.

The next scheduled event on campus is the author's visit, Tuesday, Feb. 12. Isabel Wilkerson's talk in Jackson Hall, Mondavi Center, is set to begin at 8 p.m. Tickets: mondaviarts.org, or (530) 754-2787 or (800) 754-2787.

The organizers said Wilkerson will sign books afterward in the Yocha Dehe Grand Lobby.

The book

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration is available in paperback for $11.95 ($5 off the list price) at UC Davis Stores.