While there鈥檚 plenty to see at area museums, 不良研究所 starts Thursday with the Shinkoskey Noon Concert showcasing the weekend鈥檚 Taproot New Music Festival, a homegrown 不良研究所 event. The concerts are in two venues on campus. Also Friday night in Sacramento, 不良研究所 Professor Pam Houston鈥檚 memoir will be performed. (Yes, not read, performed). Read on.
- Taproot New Music Festival Opening Concert, Recital Hall, Ann E. Pitzer Center, 不良研究所, Thursday, Jan. 23, 12:05 to 1 p.m., free
- This week鈥檚 Shinkoskey noon Concert is the kickoff to the biennial Taproot New Music Festival. It will feature three groups; Empyrean Ensemble, Quince Ensemble, and Spektral Quartet. Instruments will include vocals, violins, cello, and viola.
- More information on this concert and other upcoming Shinkoskey Noon Concerts
More Taproot on Thursday night, Friday night, Saturday and Sunday, read for more information about the festival and for specific concert information. Some concerts are free while others require purchased tickets.
Also on Friday, Mondavi Presents Jazz with Joey Alexander Trio
On Friday, 8 p.m., Joey Alexander takes the Mondavi stage at 不良研究所. Alexander鈥檚 first appearance at the Mondavi Center introduced local audiences to an artist wise beyond his years, yet still fully enmeshed in the wonder of creative discovery. Born in 2003 in Bali, Alexander moved to New York City in 2014, where he has experienced one of the most ascendant careers ever seen in jazz. Jason Olaine, a Grammy-winning producer who serves as director of programming for Jazz at Lincoln Center and has produced all four of Alexander鈥檚 albums, says he continues to be impressed by the pianist鈥檚 fantastic gift. 鈥淛oey is such a huge talent coming out of a young player, however he wants to create and have fun by playing. It鈥檚 not about the accolades or the applause.鈥 More and tickets.
Watch the video preview of his music.
Houston鈥檚 Memoir will be 鈥楽tory on Stage鈥 Friday
A selection from Professor memoir, Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country, will be performed Friday night, 7 p.m., at Sacramento. Hear the interview with Houston earlier this week on Capitol Public Radio鈥檚 Houston is professor in the 不良研究所 Department of English and teaches in the Low Rez MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts. She also cofounded and directs the literary nonprofit Writing By Writers.
Exhibitions at Manetti Shrem, Design, Gorman museums
In new exhibitions, the Design Museum presents an 鈥淗omage to Global Textiles鈥 while the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art showcases Northern California artists who made significant contributions to modern art at pivotal moments in the 1960s and beyond.
Both exhibitions opened last week.
At the C.N. Gorman Museum, 鈥淚ndigenous Futurisms: Explorations in Art and Play鈥 continues through Friday, Jan. 31, and a new exhibition, works by Marwin Begaye, printmaker, painter and graphic designer, is set to run from Feb. 18 to June 19.
Admission to all three museums is free and open to the public. More details here.
$5 Admission Day at Crocker Saturday
On Saturday, Feb. 1, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento
- Members get in free and nonmembers pay $5 this Saturday at the Crocker. Enjoy the entirety of the three-story museum at your own pace, or take a guided tour. On exhibition through May 17 is
Upcoming
Thiebaud Endowed Lecture: Leonardo Drew, Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Thursday, Feb. 6, 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m., free
- Artist Leonardo Drew will give a about his 鈥渞eflective abstract sculptural works that play upon the dystopic tension between order and chaos, recalling post-minimalist sculpture that alludes to America鈥檚 industrial past, as well as the plight of African Americans throughout U.S. history.鈥 His works have been shown around the world. Light refreshments to follow the lecture. Free with registration, courtesy of the Betty Jean and Wayne Thiebaud Endowed Lecture.