John Lescroart at The Avid Reader
The Avid Reader 617 2nd St.Best-selling local author John Lescroart is back with a new book, The Missing Piece. Join us for an in-person event at The Avid Reader.
Best-selling local author John Lescroart is back with a new book, The Missing Piece. Join us for an in-person event at The Avid Reader.
If bicycling is on your bucket list, join the U.S. Bicycling Hall of Fame and Osher Lifelong Learning for this co-sponsored class. So much has changed in bicycle design to make this fitness and recreation activity accessible for everyone! See electric assist bicycles, learn how to choose a proper bike to suit your physical and […]
Campus Community Book Project: How to be an Anti-Racist Mondavi Center Presenting Program Ibram X. Kendi is one of America’s foremost historians and leading antiracist scholars. In 2020, Time Magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world. He is a National Book Award-winning and #1 New York Times-bestselling author of […]
Join the Pence Gallery for an Artist Talk with Marsha Schindler on Saturday, April 2. For her talk, she will discuss how the installation process is a dialogue between her ideas and the mediums involved. The long evolving process of creating an immersive installation is different than creating individual works for her, and about the […]
Who is ready for an evening with a bestselling author? Reyna Grande will be in-conversation with Rigoberto Gonzalez to discuss her novel A Ballad of Love and Glory. The new novel is a sweeping historical saga that follows a Mexican army nurse and an Irish soldier who must fight for their survival and their love, […]
Born in Rwanda, known as The Land of a Thousand Hills, Faustin Rusanganwa would have never thought he would one day become a refugee from his own country. What begins as a plan to see five countries, turns into a journey that that leads him to over a dozen, eventually ending in Europe. Some […]
Join Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Powers converses with local author Kim Stanley Robinson in Davis, CA.
Join children's author Pamela Adler and her adorable tripod poodle for a morning of book readings and activities!
It’s that time of year for springtime garden tours! The Pence Art Gallery is hosting their annual self-guided tour of 7–10 private gardens in and around Davis on Sunday, May 1, from 12–5 pm. There’s more to the story: on-site plein air paintings, a gallery tour of an artist’s work, even gift bags! Find out […]
Join us during Mother's Day weekend to celebrate local author Maya Sinha and her new novel, The City Mother.
Join us for this event with Lucy Jane Bledsoe to hear about her young adult novel, No Stopping Us Now, an autobiographical account of Title IX and girl's basketball in the 1970's. Date: Saturday, May 21 | 6–7 pm | Free admission
Popular children's author Wendelin Van Draanen will discuss her newest middle grade novel, The Peach Rebellion, set on a peach farm in California's own Central Valley.