The Dirt

FREE Tummy Time Class
2026-03-03 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Davis Parent Nursery School (8th Street), 426 West 8th Street, Davis, CA, 95616, United States
Come join our free Tummy Time Class, every Tuesday from 1:00-2:00pm at Davis Parent Nursery School. The goal of this meetup is to provide a space for parents with newborns to connect with other parents from the community. Moms, Dads, and all caretakers welcome. Siblings are not able to join at this time. We are here to support YOU and your baby! No pre-registration needed, simply show up. Led by our wonderful teacher, Annie Ramirez.

This program will be ongoing through the school year, except for school breaks.

Big Bands
2026-03-03 17:00 - 18:15 | Recital Hall, Ann E. Pitzer Center, Hutchison Dr. & Cushing Way, Davis, CA, 95616, United States
Otto Lee, director and UC Davis lecturer in music

Guitar Circle
2026-03-03 17:00 - 19:00 | Watermelon Music, 1970 Lake Blvd., Suite 1
Every Tuesday at the Watermelon Music building. All ages and experience levels welcome!
This guitar circle is FREE, but we do suggest making a donation to help support The Friends of Watermelon Music and their mission to enrich lives of the community through music.

Drawing Club
2026-03-03 17:00 - 22:00 | Dunloe Brewing, 1606 Olive Dr, Davis, 95616, United States
Every Tuesday from 5-10pm at Dunloe Brewing’s – The Local, creative people of all levels are invited to participate in Drawing Club. Grab a cold drink and surround yourself with other people who want to draw. You can bring your own materials, or work from the variety of materials that we provide from the free art supply pantry.

Sthira (Effort) & Sukha (Ease) Yoga
2026-03-03 17:30 - 18:30 | Davis Shambhala Meditation Center, 133 D Street, Suite H, upstairs, Davis, CA, 95616, United States
Sthira (Effort) & Sukha (Ease) Yoga
Davis Shambhala Meditation Center
Tuesdays, 5:30—6:30 PM, $15

This yoga practice with Beth focuses on alignment, strength & length, balance, effort & ease, and movement with breath.

Knitting & Crochet Circle
2026-03-03 17:30 - 19:00 | Mary L. Stephens Davis Branch Library, 315 East 14th Street, Davis, CA, 95616, United States
Do you enjoy knitting and crocheting? If so, join us on Tuesdays, from 5:30 pm-7 pm. Bring a project to work on and visit with your neighbors.
No reservation required. Sponsored by the Friends of the Davis Public Library. Connect with us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/yolocountylibrary.org.

Fleet Feet Run Crew
2026-03-03 18:00 - 19:00 | Fleet Feet Davis, 615 2nd St, Davis, CA, 95616
Fleet Feet Run Crew
A 3-mile walk or run with Davis’s neighborhood run club. Connect with other walkers and runners in Davis, in a no-runner-left-behind format with different routes every week. Plus, get a free shirt at your first run!
Every Tuesday, 6pm Come join us it’s free.

Davis Makerspace & Clothing Repair Cafe
2026-03-03 18:00 - 20:00 | Mary L. Stephens Davis Branch Library, 315 East 14th Street, Davis, CA, 95616, United States
Davis Makerspace is a community workspace for makers and builders, designers and inventors. A small assortment of tools will be available for use and staff or volunteers will be on hand to provide some assistance. Supervised children are welcome. Participants must provide a signed liability waiver (available on site). Mondays & Tuesdays, 6p—8p; Thursdays, 9:30a—11:30a, Fridays, 3p—5p.

Live Jazz: Jim Frink Trio
2026-03-03 19:30 - 22:30 | Root of Happiness Kava Bar
Jim Frink is an active drummer and educator based in Davis. The jazz trio plays improvisational music, ranging from standards, to modern jazz, to balkan folk and beyond.
This event takes place every 1st and 3rd Tuesday of the month – 7:30-10:30pm

UpENDing Parkinson's at Rocknasium
2026-03-04 10:00 - 11:30 | Rocknasium the Climbing Gym, 720 Olive Drive, Suite S, Davis, 95616, United States
UpENDing Parkinson’s at Rocknasium
Wednesdays, 10-11:30 AM
Rocknasium is hosting UpENDing Parkinson’s, a non-profit that provides guided rock climbing to those living with Parkinson’s. Entrance is free, and rental gear is $10. Those interested may register as a climber here.

Village Homes: A Radical Plan
2026-03-04 12:00 - 16:00, 2026-03-05 12:00 - 16:00, 2026-03-06 12:00 - 16:00 | UC Davis Design Museum, Cruess Hall, #124, Davis, 95616, United States
“Village Homes: A Radical Plan” celebrates the 50th anniversary of an innovative west Davis neighborhood community. Curated by Professor Timothy McNeil and guest curator Adrienne McGraw, the installation showcases the vision, concepts, and development behind the project and its goals. This ground-breaking exhibition will feature original objects, archival photographs, plans and drawings, a part-built section of a typical 1970s house in Village Homes recreating a living space and demonstrating the passive solar features, and an interactive three-dimensional site plan of the neighborhood’s unique landscape. Other highlights include a 30-minute documentary film about the community.

Davis Genealogy Club Library Hours
2026-03-04 13:00 - 15:30 | Davis Senior Center, 646 A St, Davis, CA, 95616, United States
Library Hours: Wednesdays, 1 – 3:30 p.m. (excluding holidays)
This group assists and maintains the Senior Center’s extensive Genealogy Library, and in addition, hosts monthly lectures and meetings. During library hours, members are available to assist you with accessing research materials. Computer access is also available in the library for research purposes.

Davis Farmers Market
2026-03-04 15:00 - 18:00 | Central Park
Year-round at Central Park in downtown Davis, thousands gather each week to shop for what is grown, raised, and made locally at our markets. We are dedicated to bringing farmers right to your table, so we stay open rain or shine.
Walk rows of stalls lined with an array of fruits and vegetables, including certified organic produce, choice meats, chicken, seafood, wine, local eggs and honey. Choose from a variety of fresh-baked goods, plants, flowers and gifts. Enjoy a picnic from one of our many food stands, made from market ingredients.
See the vendor list here: https://www.davisfarmersmarket.org/our-sellers/
Farmers Market Hours
Central Park: Saturdays 8a–1p (year-round), and Wednesdays 3p–6p (October through April); 4p–8p (May through September)
UC Davis – North Quad: Wednesdays 10a–1:30p (fall and spring quarters)
Sutter Davis Hospital: Thursdays 10a–1p (May through September)
Sutter Medical Center, Sacramento: Thursdays 2:30p–5:30p

“Art History and Climate Change”: 2026 Templeton Colloquium in Art History
2026-03-04 16:00 - 18:00 | MANETTI SHREM
by: Michael French, UC Davis College of Letters & Science

The intersection between climate change and art history opens new pathways for understanding how visual and material culture mediates human relationships to the natural world. The 2026 Templeton Colloquium in Art History at UC Davis — “Art History and Climate Change” —- examines how historical and contemporary depictions of nature illuminate aesthetic practices, register environmental knowledge, and respond to ecological stress.

The colloquium will be held at the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art on Friday, March 6 at 4 p.m. with a reception to follow. The event is free and open to the public.

This year’s event has been organized and moderated by John F. López, Associate Professor of Art History, Architecture of the Ancient Americas, Latin America, and Europe, and History of Urbanism, Cartography, and the Environment, UC Davis.

“Far from being a luxury of elite culture, art history is an essential tool for imagining alternative ecological futures,” said López

This year’s speakers — Alan C. Braddock, Ralph H. Wark Professor of Art History, Environmental Humanities and American Studies. William and Mary; and Andrew Patrizio, Professor of Scottish Visual Culture, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh, — examine how art history is key for understanding and addressing climate change.

In “Art and the Climate of Industrial Meat,” Braddock examines an emerging body of creative work by artists who have begun to direct attention at the meat industry as an agent of climate violence using diverse media, historical references, and other aesthetic strategies. In “Looking for Love in Chaos Terrains,” Patrizio draws on a small set of contemporary art practices that speak to the theme of global climate change: Ilana Halperin’s Chaos Terrain (2023); Hanna Tuulikki’s Love (Warbler Remix) (2025) and Elizabeth Ogilvie’s Out of Ice (2014-).

Co-sponsored by the Department of Art and Art History and the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, the colloquium is made possible through an endowment established by Alan Templeton (B.A., art history and psychology, ‘82). The Templeton Colloquium brings distinguished speakers to campus for a conversation on vital debates and topics in art history for both scholars and a general audience.

The Department of Art and Art History is part of the College of Letters and Science at UC Davis.

Mantra Meditation
2026-03-04 18:00 - 19:30 | Davis Community Church (DCC), 412 C Street, Davis, CA, 95616, United States
Let your worries melt away. Mantras are ancient healing sounds that takes the mind off of the stress of modern day life, and gives us real rest.

We will practice 3 simple techniques that you can continue to practice at home on your own. This includes deep breathing, a technique using beads (Japa meditation), and music (Kirtan).

We will be in the Fireside Room (C Street entrance). Free/ Donations accepted.

Pub Quiz (Trivia) hosted by Dr. Andy
2026-03-04 19:00 - 21:00 | Sudwerk Brewing Co., 2001 2nd St, Davis, CA, 95618, United States
Sudwerk Trivia is a free, first come-first serve, all-ages event.
Join us for a fun-filled evening of brain-teasing questions and friendly competition at Sudwerk’s Pub Quiz every Wednesday from 7-9pm! Put your knowledge to the test and gather your friends for a night of laughter and excitement.
Location: 2001 2nd Street, Davis, CA 95618
You do not have to be 21+ to participate in trivia. There is no drink minimum.

"Women of Yolo County in Action" event
2026-03-05 08:00 - 10:30 | Woodland Community College, 2300 E Gibson Rd., Woodland, CA, 95776
Celebrating Women’s History Month , the Chicana/o Studies program at Woodland Community College is proud to announce the “Past and Present: Women Civically Engaged” panel and the “Women of Yolo County in Action” exhibit recognizing the Legacy and contributions of women for the betterment of our communities.

Davis Makerspace & Clothing Repair Cafe
2026-03-05 09:30 - 11:30 | Mary L. Stephens Davis Branch Library, 315 East 14th Street, Davis, CA, 95616, United States
Davis Makerspace is a community workspace for makers and builders, designers and inventors. A small assortment of tools will be available for use and staff or volunteers will be on hand to provide some assistance. Supervised children are welcome. Participants must provide a signed liability waiver (available on site). Mondays & Tuesdays, 6p—8p; Thursdays, 9:30a—11:30a; Fridays, 3p—5p.

BlackBox Ensemble: Thursday Concert
2026-03-05 12:05 - 13:00 | Recital Hall, Ann E. Pitzer Center, Hutchison Dr. & Cushing Way, Davis, CA, 95616, United States
About BlackBox Ensemble
Named as “ambitious” by TimeOut and The New Yorker, the NYC-based BlackBox Ensemble is a collective of contemporary music performers dedicated to exploring the wide-ranging world of the music of our time. Their 2025–26 season includes a return to The Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art, debuts at National Sawdust and Bowerbird, and residencies at Penn State, George Washington University, UC Davis, San Francisco State University, Williams College and a year-long appointment as Ensemble in Residence with University of Richmond, and more.
Their name, BlackBox, comes from the many meanings the term holds. In theatre, a black box is a bare, flexible space — four dark walls that can transform into anything, creating an environment ripe for bold experimentation and intimate connection. In science and technology, a black box is a system with known inputs and outputs, but the mystery of what happens inside makes it compelling. For us, we believe music, as a cultural medium, lives in that same space — enacting an ambiguous but vital relationship between artistic expression and social life, where sound, expression, and human experience collide in ways that can’t always be explained, but always resonate. Guided by the spirit of the theatrical black box, we create programs that invite risk, innovation, and connection, presenting contemporary classical music in ways that feel fresh, human, and alive.
Their 2024–25 season included concerts at home in New York and around the country, including a thrilling run of our Speculative Listening program at Bang On A Can Long Play Festival, The Whitney Museum, and Chatham PS21 curated by Eastman scholar Isaac Jean-François, as well as performances at Southern Exposure Series at the University of South Carolina, Timucua Arts Foundation, and residencies at the University of Chicago, University of Florida, and University of Central Florida.
Their 2023–24 season included touring engagements in Washington, DC, Florida, Michigan, and throughout the Northeast as well as residencies at University of Florida, University of Michigan, NYU, and the Kaufman Music Center’s Special Music School. The season opened with The Sound of Space Between Us, a site-specific, outdoor music and dance performance at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts conceived by our flutist Annie Nikunen. We also presented the live premiere of Borrowed Landscape, a radio play by German playwright duo tauchgold with music by Dai Fujikura, at the Noguchi Museum, in a program that also features music by Anna Thorvaldsdottir, inti figgis-vizueta, and Toru Takemistu. We reprised our performance of Borrowed Landscape at the Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art as part of a two-concert series. In addition, we celebrated our 5-year anniversary with our inaugural BlackBox Festival, including our debut at Roulette Intermedium.

Line Dance Class at Davis Odd Fellows
2026-03-05 15:00 - 16:30 | Davis Odd Fellows
Absolute beginner to high beginner dances on Thursdays. Free & open to the public. Donations accepted.

Self Defense Class
2026-03-05 18:00 - 19:00 | Davis Arts Center, 1919 F St, Davis, 95616, United States
This is a safe, inclusive opportunity to learn self defense from a dedicated group of martial arts practitioners at the Davis Arts Center. If you have ever felt like you would like to learn a little more about how to defend yourself and your loved ones, and would like to get a little fitness training too, please join us! No experience necessary, start any time. We ask for a $10 donation per class, but you can pay whatever you can.

Virtual Artist Talk with Ember de Boer
2026-03-05 18:00 - 20:00 | Online via Zoom
Impression//Path is a solo show featuring work by Sacramento Artist, Ember de Boer. Join us for this virtual artist talk to meet Ember and hear more about her artwork featured at Gallery 625!
All are welcome to join this event which is free and open to the public. For more information and to RSVP, please visit: https://yoloarts.org/gallery-625/
In de Boer’s exhibition, translucent acrylic and resin are used to extend the experience of water as a light shimmer on the gallery walls. Water is vital for life, and vital to our region. Featured artworks represent the rich history of our region through the narrative of water use and flooding. These works highlight the vital choices that lie ahead and the challenges that face us as we decide the future of water in our region.
Impression//Path is on view at Gallery 625 from February 2 through March 17, 2026.
Gallery 625 is located at 625 Court Street in Woodland, in Yolo County’s Erwin Meier Administration building and is open Monday – Friday 8 a.m.- 5 p.m. For information or to purchase artwork, contact YoloArts by calling or texting 530-309-6464 or emailing ya@yoloarts.org.

Astronomy on Tap Davis
2026-03-05 18:00 - 20:00 | Sudwerk Brewing Co 2001 2nd Street Davis, CA 95618, 2001 2nd Street, Davis, CA, 95618, United States
Our next Astronomy on Tap will be Thursday March 5th, 6-8pm at Sudwerk
We have our two speakers:
Tucker Jones will talk about early galaxies observed with the James Webb Space Telescope
Emily Silich will speak about what happens when clusters of galaxies collide.
As always we will also have astronomy in the news, trivia, and a raffle. Free and open to all ages, come down to Sudwerk on March 5th!

Lotería Night at International House Davis
2026-03-05 18:00 - 20:00 | International House (I-House), 10 College Pk.
Join us for Lotería Night at I-House, a fun and culturally rooted community event featuring the traditional Mexican game of Lotería. This interactive evening invites participants to learn about the history, imagery, and cultural significance of the game while connecting with others through play and storytelling. Guided by members of the Chicanx Latinx Collegiate Association of UC Davis, participants will engage in multiple rounds of Lotería, with prizes awarded each round. Snacks and beverages will be available for purchase, with water and tea provided for free.
Presale Tickets:
$10 I-House Members & Students
$15 General Admission
Designed for first-time players and longtime fans alike, Lotería Night offers a welcoming and inclusive space to learn, play, and build community while supporting I-House programs. No prior experience is required!

The Drowsy Chaperone
2026-03-05 19:00 - 21:00 | Main Theatre, UC Davis, 1 Hutchinson Dr., Davis, C, 95616, United States
Winner of Tony Awards for Best Book and Best Original Score, “The Drowsy Chaperone” is a loving send-up of the Golden Age of the Broadway musical. As the show opens, a lonely man plays his favorite cast recording, “The Drowsy Chaperone,” a 1928 musical. He tells the audience about the musical, which comes to life in his sparse apartment. The plot features two lovers on the eve of their wedding, a bumbling best man, a desperate theatre producer, a scatterbrained hostess, two gangsters posing as pastry chefs, an egotistical Don Juan and an intoxicated chaperone: combining to create madcap delight.

adults: $22, faculty/staff: $18, youth/seniors: $12 and UC Davis students: $8

Davis Odd Fellows Thursday Live!
2026-03-05 19:30 - 21:00 | Odd Fellows Hall (Odd Fellows), 415 2nd St., Davis, CA, 95616, United States
Davis Odd Fellows Thursday Live! on March 5th is a pre–St. Paddy’s Day show with acoustic Celtic Rock duo, Caliban. The Thursday Live! concert series is donation only with all donations going to the musicians. Please donate generously.
This Euro-Celtic Acoustic duo features Lief Sorbye and Jon Berger both from the Celtic Rock band, Tempest. Caliban presents a delightful, eclectic blend of music on fiddle, mandola, mando-guitar, and accordion, filling a set with spirited dance-tunes and spellbinding ballads.

On a Clear Day...New landscape paintings by Phil Gross
2026-03-06 - 2026-03-30 | The Artery, 207 G Street, Davis, CA
Right where we live’ is the subject of Phil Gross’s art show, ‘On a clear day…’.
Gross’s oil paintings of northern California from aerial and ground perspectives can best be described as idealistic realism. Through a rearrangement of the objects along with a deliberate balancing act of colors, his compositions invite you to take a deeper look at the places you already know. “I want you to have an overwhelming feeling that with the next step you will suddenly be right in the painting, breathing in the lusciousness of our latitude.”
Reception: Friday March 13 6-9 pm

Friends of the Library Sale
2026-03-06 10:00 - 2026-03-08 19:00 | Mary L. Stephens Davis Branch Library, 315 East 14th Street, Davis, CA, 95616, United States
MARY L. STEPHENS LIBRARY. The Friends of the Library book sale is a 3-day sale starting on the first Friday of the month. On Sunday, fill a bag for $10. Hours vary each day. 10a—7p.
