HOMECOMING WEEKEND
OCTOBER 10 – 12, 2014
California: Captured on Canvas (Exhibition)
Date and Time:
Friday 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Saturday 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Sunday 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Location:
Bancroft Library Gallery
Event Description:
Showcasing paintings from The Bancroft Library’s collections, this striking exhibition captures California both as a vast landscape of mountains, ocean, and forests and as an intimate place that is home to different inhabitants in different ways. See selections from the Robert B. Honeyman, Jr. Collection of Early Californian and Western American Pictorial Material, including scenes of Yosemite and the Gold Rush. View the work of renowned artists such as William Keith and Thomas Hill, as well as less familiar paintings that have never been displayed in Bancroft. Of special note is a large painting by Charles Grant of the Great White Fleet entering the Golden Gate on May 5, 1908, which has held a place of honor in University Librarian Tom Leonard’s office for years.
California: Captured on Canvas (Gallery Talks)
Date and Time:
Friday 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Saturday 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Saturday 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Location:
Bancroft Library Gallery
Event Description:
An informative tour of California: Captured on Canvas led by Jack von Euw, Exhibition Curator.
West Coast Cocktails: An Oral History
Date and Time:
Friday 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Location:
Maude Fife Room, 3rd Floor, Wheeler Hall
Event Description:
Many of the bartenders mixing Mai Tais in California’s famous tiki bars of the 1930s and ’40s were Asian, but racism kept them hidden away in the kitchen. Similarly, it was illegal as recently as the 1970s for a woman to tend bar in California, unless she was related to the owner. These are just two fascinating issues that are being explored through an oral history project on West Coast cocktail culture, from libations lore of the 1880s to today’s “garden to glass” movement, in which bartenders are shopping alongside chefs for local, seasonal ingredients. Hear interview clips of those who know — or are making — cocktail history, and explore social and cultural themes you may have never realized intersect in a cocktail glass.
Gourmet Ghettos: Modern Food Rituals (Exhibition)
Date and Time:
Friday 11:00 am – 4:00 pm
Saturday 11:00 am – 4:00 pm
Sunday 11:00 am – 4:00 pm
Location:
Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life
Event Description:
For thousands of years, food rituals have been essential to constructing and maintaining Jewish identities throughout the diaspora, but the significance of these rituals might be more pervasive than we think. Visit the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life to explore the broader links among food, ritual, identity, and activism that inform Jewish life.