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Concerts (indoors and out) and Tuolumne River photo show

The Mondavi Center launches its new season with concerts this Thursday and Friday (Sept. 18 and 19), each preceded by a free performance in the Corin Courtyard.

The fall quarter also includes music, theater and dance from our academic  departments, a reading event by creative writing faculty, and exhibitions at the C.N. Gorman Museum, Design Museum and Nelson Gallery.

The Buehler Alumni Center also has an exhibition space 鈥 where, as of this week, you can see "Lessons from the Tuolumne," comprising photos tfrom center for Watershed Sciences field trips along the Tuolumne River.

Elsewhere, two swag外流 artists 鈥 a professor and a lecturer 鈥 are showing their works in San Francisco and Sacramento.

Mondavi Center

Thursday, Sept. 18 鈥 Mitsura Brasilera Samba Dance Company, 6:30 p.m. (free, in Corin Courtyard); Caetano Veolo, Brazilian guitarist-singer, part of the Tropic谩lia movement, 8 p.m. ( for concert in Jackson Hall, ).

Friday, Sept. 19 鈥 Element Brass Band, 6:30 p.m. (free, in Corin Courtyard); jazz patriarch Ellis Marsalis Jr. (piano) and son Delfeayo (trombone), billed as 鈥淭he Last Southern Gentlemen,鈥 8 p.m. ( for concert in Jackson Hall, ).

Exhibitions

鈥 Lessons from the Tuolumne 鈥 Dedicated to Campus Recreation and Unions鈥 , which has been arranging and guiding trips for a rivers class since 1983 when the class originated in the Department of Geology.

More recently, the Center for Watershed Sciences has offered the class as a capstone course called "Ecogeomorphology.鈥

鈥淪tudents take the pieces of environmental science that they learned in the introductory courses and apply them holistically to a watershed, so they see 鈥 usually for the first time 鈥 how they all fit together,鈥 reads part of the description for Lessons from the Tuolumne.

鈥淭he Center for Watershed Sciences dedicates this photo gallery to ... Outdoor Adventures, one of the largest university-run mountain recreation programs in the country. The program鈥檚 whitewater rafting and kayaking trips and guide training have inspired many students to become scholars, researchers and professionals in water sciences.鈥

Through mid-October, . Hours: 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday.

鈥 Annabeth Rosen 鈥 Art professor (she holds the Robert Arneson Chair in Ceramic Sculpture), , 14 Geary St., San Francisco. Through Oct. 7.

Rosen鈥檚 works 鈥渢ake on fundamental principles of ceramics, addressing the rawest elements of its magic and alchemy,  moving clay and minerals into shapes and heating the forms to transform into objects with a shiny crust,鈥 according to the gallery.

Rosen joins Dean Smith, who creates oil and wax paintings, in this two-person exhibition.

鈥 Bryce Vinokurov 鈥 Lecturer in the art department, in a solo exhibition at the , 1114 21st St., Suite B, Sacramento, Oct. 9-Nov. 1. The show, Tel Aviv: Urban Landscapes, comprises paintings and collages that explore the beauty in the power lines, water heaters and satellite dishes as well as the Israeli city鈥檚 palm trees and parks. A major focus of the work is the Bauhaus buildings that comprise much of the older parts of the city. Preview and reception, 6-8 p.m. Oct. 9; opening reception, 6-9 p.m. Oct. 11.


 

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