STEPHENS DAVIS BRANCH LIBRARY. Award-winning early literacy program for toddlers (ages 2-3) & their grown-ups. It combines music, movement, rhymes & books to help young children develop language skills, social & emotional skills, general knowledge about the world & a love of learning. 11a–11:30a. Free
SENSORY THEATER, ROBERT MONDAVI INSTITUTE. Just in time for Valentine's Day, taste various chocolates & learn how to best pair them with wine. Thalia Hohenthal & Rebecca Kuehn from Guittard Chocolate Company will join Gus Zhu, the first Chinese national Master of Wine, as they guide attendees to find their preferred pairings. Reception with wine & hors d'oeuvres to follow. Limited seating. 6p–7:30p. $25
INTERNATIONAL HOUSE. Ney, a professor of Philosophy & Philosophy Graduate Advisor at UC Davis discusses her book, World in the Wave Function: A Metaphysics for Quantum Physics (2021). Her research focuses primarily on fundamentality, the unity of science & the interpretation of quantum theories. 5:30p wine & cheese reception; 6p–7p book chat. Free
Come for stories and songs every second and fourth Thursday @10:30a. For children ages 3–6. Weather permitting.
MANETTI SHREM MUSEUM. Art historians and curators Bridget Cooks and Nana Adusei-Poku discuss art, museums and demands for change in the age of Black Lives Matter with museum educator Stacey Shelnut-Hendrick. They consider the complexities of rethinking art history and museum practices through the lens of Blackness and explore how artists are imagining worlds of Black freedom. 4:30p–6p. Free
PENCE GALLERY. Now in its 9th season of pairing authors and actors, Stories brings new life to the experience of hearing literature aloud. Abrams is the author of The Joy of Cannabis & two novels. She is a developmental editor & photographer & teaches writing at UC Berkeley. Martha Omiyo Kight, a returning Stories on Stage Davis actor, will read an excerpt from Abrams’ novel, Meadowlark. Lin is the author of The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu, which won the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction & was a finalist for the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Award. He lives in Davis, where he is pursuing a PhD in English. Larry Lew will read an excerpt from Lin’s novel. Doors open 7p, Event 7:30p. Free
STEPHENS DAVIS BRANCH LIBRARY. Award-winning early literacy program for toddlers (ages 2-3) & their grown-ups. It combines music, movement, rhymes & books to help young children develop language skills, social & emotional skills, general knowledge about the world & a love of learning. 11a–11:30a. Free
MANETTI SHREM MUSEUM. Alemani is the artistic director of the 2022 Venice Biennial. Since 2011, she has been the Donald R. Mullen, Jr. Director & Chief Curator of High Line Art, the public art program presented by the High Line in New York City. During the past 10 years, Alemani has commissioned &d produced ambitious artworks for public spaces by artists Barbara Kruger, Zoe Leonard, Faith Ringgold, Ed Ruscha, Nari Ward & Adrián Villar Rojas, among others. Alemani is the winter quarter spotlight artist-in-residence in The California Studio. 4:30p–6p. Free
MANETTI SHREM MUSEUM. Reid has written many books of poems, for both adults & children & for most of the 1990s he was poetry editor at the London publishing house of Faber & Faber. Among his works are A Scattering, which addressed the loss of his first wife & was named Costa Book of the Year for 2009 & The Song of Lunch, a narrative poem which became the screenplay for a BBC2 film starring Alan Rickman & Emma Thompson. His new collection Toys/Tricks/Traps will be appear in April this year, and his edition of Seamus Heaney’s correspondence in October. 4:30p. Free
JOHN NATSULAS GALLERY. The Poetry Night Reading Series is excited to feature Robert Thomas and Beverly Burch. 7—9p.
QUAKER MEETING HOUSE. Craig McNamara will discuss his memoir, Because Our Fathers Lied, a heartfelt reflection on his relationship with his controversial father, Robert McNamara, who as Secretary of Defense under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, was the architect of the Vietnam War. 7—9p.
JOHN NATSOULAS CENTER FOR THE ARTS. First & third Thursdays. Each reading contains two featured poets followed by an open mic. 7p. Free
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