Buy tickets now! Many MJC tickets are now available for charged events in the Performing & Media Arts Center online and at the Auditorium Box Office (no service fees) 209.575.6776 and in person Tuesdays through Fridays from noon to 5 p.m.
MARCH
Through 3/26 Photo Exhibit, Voluntary Surrender: Scenes From Abandoned Homes ~ Art Gallery ~An exhibition of photography by Douglas Smith - MJC Art Gallery Hours: Monday - Friday 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
3/16 Canceled this week only Science Colloquium...Science That Matters
3/16 Softball ~ MJC vs. Sacramento City College College, 3 p.m., East Campus Softball Field
3/18 A Candidates Forum & Debate, 6:30 p.m., Forum 110 ~ presented by the MJC Republicans Club ~ free
3/18 Civic Engagement Film and Lecture Series presents Flow: For the Love of Water, 7 p.m., Forum 101, East Campus, free. From both local and global perspectives, this documentary examines the harsh realities behind the mounting water crisis. Learn how politics, pollution and human rights are intertwined in this important issue that affects every being on Earth. With water drying up around the world and the future of human lives at stake, the film urges a call to arms before more of our most precious natural resource evaporates.
3/18 Baseball ~ MJC vs. American River College, 2:30 p.m., East Campus Baseball Field
3/19 Swimming Men's & Women's ~ MJC vs. Diablo Valley College Dual Meet, 12:30 p.m., East Campus Pools
3/19 - 3/28 Noises Off, March 19, 20 25, 26, 27 at 7:30 p.m. and March 21 & 28 at 2 p.m., Auditorium of the Performing and Media Arts Center, $10 general / $8 students, staff, seniors. This hilarious farce by Michael Frayn is set in a play within a play. Comedy ensues as the off-stage chaos affects the on-stage performances. Buy tickets online! or call or come to the MJC Box Office (no service fees) 209-575-6776 Tuesday through Friday noon to 5 p.m.
3/20 Baseball ~ MJC vs. Santa Rosa College, 1 p.m., East Campus Baseball Field
3/23 Tennis, Men's and Women's ~ MJC vs Cosumnes River College, 1 p.m., East Campus Tennis Courts
3/23 Men's Golf ~ Big-8 Tournament #9, 1 p.m., Spring Creek Country Club
3/23 Science Colloquium...Science That Matters ~ 2:20 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., East Campus Science 213 ~ "Costa Rica Ecology Adventures" with Rick Reid, Costa Rica Resort
3/23 Baseball ~ MJC vs. Diablo Valley College, 2:30 p.m., East Campus Baseball Field
3/23 Softball ~ MJC vs. San Joaquin Delta College, 3 p.m., East Campus Softball Field
3/25 7:30 p.m. Student Preview Night, 3/26 & 27 7:30 p.m., and 3/28 at 2 p.m. "Trial by Jury"by Gilbert & Sullivan, directed by Musical Theatre Students, Music Recital Hall ~ $3 Student Preview Night, $8 General, $5 Student
3/26 Tennis, Men's and Women's ~ MJC vs College of the Sequoias College, 1 p.m., East Campus Tennis Courts
3/26 MAPS presents "Nuclear Proliferation in a Hi-Tech World," 7:30 p.m., Forum 110, MJC East Campus, free. Dr. John Field examines several of the remaining technology barriers to the development of nuclear weapons in the context of the current global nonproliferation regime. The event is intended for all ages 12 years and older.
3/27 26th Annual Hispanic Education Conference, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., Media & Performing Arts Center, East Campus ~ For more information please visit www.mjc.edu/HEC
3/27 Agricultural Field Day, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., East and West Campuses
3/27 MJC International Club Dinner, 6 p.m., Emanuel Lutheran Church ~ 575-6012
3/29 Tennis, Men's and Women's ~ MJC vs Sierra College, CANCELLED
3/30 Science Colloquium...Science That Matters~ 2:20 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., East Campus Science 213 ~ "How does Science Work: J. Harlan Bretz and the Glacial Missoula Floods" with Richard Anderson, Ph.D., MJC Biologist Emeritus
3/30 Softball ~ MJC vs. Santa Rosa Junior College, 2 p.m., DH, East Campus Softball Field
3/31 Author Dakota Hunter(aka Jerry Morris) will talk about writing and will read his children's book "A Dog Names Kitty: Who Am I" ~ 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. & Noon to 4 p.m., Student Center Fireside Lounge, East Campus
3/31 Job Faire ~ presented by the MJC Career Development and Transfer Center, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Student Center, East Campus ~ Free and open to all MJC students ~ Meet face to face with area employers ~ Students are urged to bring updated resumes and encouraged to "dress to impress" potential employers. www.mjc.edu/jobsforstudents or call 209.575.6239
3/31 Spring Electronic Music Concert, 7:30 p.m., Music Recital Hall, free ~ Features MJC student composers performing original electronic music compositions in concert.
3/31 An Evening with Benjamin Verdery, Classical Guitarist/Composer, 7:30 p.m., Auditorium of the Performing and Media Arts Center, $12 general / $10 students and seniors. Classical Guitar magazine has called Benjamin Verdery "one of the classical guitar world's most foremost personalities." Verdery is an American original. The New York Times calls him "iconoclastic and inventive." His recording of Some Towns and Cities won the 1992 Guitar Player Magazine Best Classical Recording. For more information on Mr. Verdery visit: http://www.benjaminverdery.com/ Tickets are available at the MJC Auditorium Box Office Tuesday through Friday from noon to 5 p.m. or by calling 575-6776 during those hours. Tickets are also offered online at mjc.tix.com.
4/1 Civic Engagement Project Postponed ~ New date TBA
4/3 MJC Ag Annual Plant Sale ~ Beginning at 8 a.m.!
4/3 Great Valley Museum Spring Open House and Native Plant Sale, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tour the museum displays and participate in special activities ~ 1100 Stoddard Ave.
4/5 French Movie Night presentation of The First Day of the Rest of Your Life (Le Premier Jour du Reste de Ta Vie), 6:30 p.m., Forum 110, French with English subtitles, free admission. Marie-Jeanne and Robert have three children: Albert, Raphaël and Fleur. A portrait of their family is sketched out through five key days that take place over 12 years. Five days that are more important then any others, and after which nothing will ever be the same again.
4/5 Jazz Concert, 7:30 p.m., Auditorium of the Performing and Media Arts Center, free. Studies in Blues: a program featuring the MJC Jazz Ensemble.
4/5 French Movie Night presentation, (film TBA), Forum 101, 6:30 p.m., French with English subtitles, free.
4/6 Science Colloquium...Science That Matters ~ 2:20 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., East Campus Science 213 ~ "Monitored Natural Attenuation and Risk-Based Closure of a Leaking Underground Storage Tank (LUST) Contamination Site" with John P. Lane, PG, Lee & Pierce, Inc.
4/6 Softball ~ MJC vs. Sierra College, 2 p.m., DH, East Campus Softball Field
4/7 ASMJC Vendor Fair, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m., East Campus Quad (moved into Student Center if it rains,) free. Local businesses and organizations distribute information regarding their services. For more information: 575-6700.
4/6 Baseball ~ MJC vs. Sierra College, 2:30 p.m., East Campus Baseball Field
4/8 MJC Marketing Class as "Prestige Worldwide" presents Drive to the Future, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m., Quad on East Campus. The event will showcase Chevrolet vehicles, and will feature free food, games and prize giveaways. Open to the campus and community. No admission charged!
4/8 Baseball ~ MJC vs. San Joaquin Delta College, 2:30 p.m., East Campus Baseball Field
4/8 Faculty Tenure Recognition, 3 p.m., Student Center Lounge
4/8 Wind and Percussion Recital, 7:30 p.m., Music Recital Hall, Free ~ Percussion ensemble with woodwind and brass chamber music
4/9 33rd Annual Celebration of the Humanities, 6 p.m. Auditorium of the Performing and Media Arts Center, free. The winners of this student competition will be announced for categories in writing, art, speech and the performing arts. The awards ceremony is free, open to the public and is followed by a reception. The Celebration of the Humanities Art Exhibition will be held April 7-16 in the MJC Art Gallery and admission is free.
4/9 Elementary and Piano Enrichment Class Recital, 7:30 p.m., Music Recital Hall, Free ~ student performance
4/10 An Evening with Kay Ryan, Poet Laureate of the United States, 7:30 p.m., Auditorium of the Performing and Media Arts Center located on the College Ave. East Campus. Ticket prices are $12 general and $10 for students & seniors ~ A special wine and hors d'oeuvre reception with Ms. Ryan and VIP seating is also offered at $50 - For reception tickets, please call 575-6866 or 575-6776. In 2008, Kay Ryan was appointed the sixteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry. Her poems and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Yale Review, Paris Review, among other journals and anthologies. She was named to the "It List" by Entertainment Weekly and one of her poems has been permanently installed at New York's Central Park Zoo. Her work has been selected four times for the Best American Poetry and was included in the Best of the Best American Poetry 1988-1997. About her work, J.D. McClatchy has said, "Her poems are compact, exhilarating, strange affairs, like Erik Satie miniatures or Joseph Cornell boxes. She is an anomaly in today's literary culture: as intense and elliptical as Dickinson, as buoyant and rueful as Frost." Buy tickets now or buy directly from the MJC Box Office Tuesdays through Fridays from noon to 5 p.m. or by calling 209-575-6776.
4/11 Duo Violin Recital featuring Dr. Calvin Lee and Mark Jordan, 2 p.m., Music Recital Hall ~ Dr. Calvin Lee is a local physician and a YouTube symphony winner. Tickets are available at the MJC Auditorium Box Office Tuesday through Friday from noon to 5 p.m. or by calling 575-6776 during those hours. Tickets are also offered online at mjc.tix.com.
4/12 MJC Symphonic Band Concert, 7:30 p.m., Auditorium of the Performing and Media Arts Center, free - with donations gratefully accepted. A Journey Through Time: a program highlighting wind band classics as well as contemporary literature from the band repertoire.
4/12 Beginning Voice Recital, 7:30 p.m., Music Recital Hall, free - A recital by beginning students
4/13 Science Colloquium...Science That Matters ~ 2:20 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., East Campus Science 213 ~ "Why the Confusion About Global Climate Change?" with David Simons, Ph.D., LLL (Retired)
4/13 MJC Community Orchestra Concert: From the Baroque to the Ball Game, 7:30 p.m., Auditorium of the Performing and Media Arts Center, $3 general, $1 students, staff, seniors ~ Featuring Ernie Bucio & Joe Caddell, Trumpets ~ The MJC Community Orchestra celebrates the baroque era and baseball with a concert of two trumpets by Antonio Vivaldi and Take Me Out to the Ball Game by Von Titzer. Conductor Anne Martin will also lead the orchestra in works by great German, Italian, Russian and American composers. The concert will conclude with film music from Star Wars with special appearances by the 501st Legion.
4/14 Earth Day Celebration, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. on the East Campus Quad, free. The MJC Civic Engagement's Project Green Committee has planned an Earth Day celebration to heighten environmental awareness and educate students, staff, and the greater community on green and sustainable practices. The event will be informative and interactive, including displays, information tables and demonstrations and is open to the public. For more information please contact Elizabeth McInnes at 209-575-6299.
4/14 Ground Breaking Ceremony for new Student Services Building, 2:30 p.m., East Campus, free!
4/14, 15, 16 Choreographer's Showcase directed by Lori Bryhni, 7:30 p.m., Cabaret West, El Capitan Building, West Campus, $10 General, $8 Student, Staff, Seniors ~ An evening of student choreography highlighting all genres of dance styles
4/14 Community Concert Band, 7:30 p.m., Auditorium of the Performing and Media Arts Center, free - with donations gratefully accepted. Romantic Rendezvous: a program featuring favorite composers from the Romantic Era and many others.
4/15 Tea Party ~ Hosted by the MJC Republicans Club ~ 4 to 7 p.m. East Campus Quad, free, open to the public
4/15 The Civic Engagement Film and Lecture Series presents Food, Inc., 7 p.m., Forum 101, East Campus, free. Drawing on Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation and Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma, director Robert Kenner's documentary explores the food industry's detrimental effects on our health and environment. Kenner spotlights the men and women who are working to reform an industry rife with monopolies, questionable interpretations of laws and subsidies, political ties and rising rates of E. coli outbreaks.
4/15 Baseball ~ MJC vs. Cosumnes River College, 2:30 p.m., East Campus Baseball Field
4/16 33rd Annual New Music Concert, 7:30 p.m., Auditorium of the Performing and Media Arts Center, free. The concert features student composers and winners from the 33rd Annual Celebration of the Humanities contest. Local composers and faculty composers are also featured.
4/16 String Recital,7:30 p.m., Music Recital Hall, free. This recital features the student of Anne Martin with works by Albeniz, Back, Faure, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Schumann, and Smith.
4/16 MJC and the American Guild of Organist's Spring Recital, 7:30 p.m., Immanuel Christian Church, 517 Orange Ave., Ripon, CA ~ Members of the MJC Organ Program and the AGO will perform works by J.S. Bach , Paul Manz and others on the Immanuel - Recital designed for all ages! Free
4/16 Celebrate MJC Athletics Wine and Gourmet Food Tasting, 6 - 9 p.m., MJC Gymnasium, $35. Attendees will enjoy premium varietal wines and sample dishes from local restaurants and have the opportunity to bid on a variety of silent auction items - gift baskets, gift certificates, art, wine and sports memorabilia! Sponsored by the MJC Foundation, this fundraiser benefits the 21 sports teams in the MJC Pirates Athletics Program. Tickets are available in advance and at the door.
4/16 MAPS presents "Water Processes in the Sierra Nevada," 7:30 p.m., Forum 110, MJC East Campus, free. Ryan Lucas will discuss how scientists use satellite and ground-based sensors to understand the processes that control the Sierra Nevada snowpack and, therefore, our water supply. The event is intended for all ages 12 years and older.
4/17 Softball ~ MJC vs. American River College, 12 p.m., DH, East Campus Softball Field
4/17 Baseball ~ MJC vs. Sacramento City College, 1 p.m., East Campus Baseball Field
4/17 Shirley Woodward Festival of Young Pianists, 3 p.m., Auditorium of the Performing and Media Arts Center, free. The festival features students from local piano teachers from the Music Teachers Association of California Stanislaus County branch. Students have the opportunity to play pieces on the nine foot Steinway Concert Grand piano on stage.
4/18 12th Annual Native American Powwow, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. on the Quad, East Campus, free. (Rain location is the Mary Stuart Rogers Student Center on West Campus.) The intertribal Powwow features Native American singing, dancing and drumming. Arts, crafts, jewelry and food will be for sale.
4/19 Intermediate and Advance Fall Voice Recital, 7:30 p.m., Music Recital Hall, free
4/20 Science Colloquium...Science That Matters ~ 2:20 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., East Campus Science 213 ~ " The Biology of Sexual Orientation" with Bobby Hutchison, MJC Behavioral Scientist
4/20 Nisei Project Symposium, 6 p.m. Reception, 7 p.m. Panel Discussion, Location TBA ~ MJC has a statewide search for former Japanese American student whose studies were forcibly suspended in 1942 when Executive Order 9066 was issued ~ These students will be recognized during the April 30 MJC Commencement Ceremony ~ 575-6090
4/23 Baseball ~ MJC vs. American River College, 2:30 p.m., East Campus Baseball Field
4/23 A Choral and Vocal Extravaganza!, 7:30 p.m., Auditorium of the Performing and Media Arts Center, $5 general / $4 students, staff & seniors. This concert features MJC's Concert Choir, Chamber Singers and also includes soloists from MJC's vocal music majors.
4/29 Baseball ~ MJC vs. Santa Rosa College, 2:30 p.m., East Campus Baseball Field
4/29 Masterworks Choir Spring Concert,7:30 p.m., Auditorium of the Performing and Media Arts Center ~ $5 general/$4 students, staff & seniors. The Masterworks Chorus will be performing Beethoven's Mass in C Major with the MJC Orchestra. The Chorus will also perform choral and solo excerpts from the Johann Strauss Operetta, Die Fledermaus.
4/30 Graduation Luncheon, 12 noon, Mary Stuart Rogers Student Learning Center, West Campus, advance tickets $10
4/30 MJC Commencement Ceremony, 6 p.m., Stadium, East Campus, free
5/4 Technical Education Graduation, 10 a.m., Mary Stuart Rogers Student Learning Center, West Campus
5/4 Nurse Pinning Ceremony, 6:30 p.m., Auditorium, Performing and Media Arts Center
5/14 - 5/23 New Play Fest 2010, May 14, 15, 21, 22 at 7:30 p.m. and May 16 & 23 at 2 p.m., Little Theatre of the Performing and Media Arts Center, $10 general / $8 students and seniors. New Play Fest 2010 is a production of world premiers written by students in the MJC Drama Department's playwriting class. Produced by Michael Lynch with direction by theatre students, these short one-act plays showcase a variety of themes and genres. Plays contain some adult language and situations.
5/23 Docs Play the Pops, 2 p.m., Main Auditorium, $12 General, $10 Student/Seniors ~ Local health care professionals (doctors, nurses, techs and so on) perform both classical and contemporary music to thrill the audience and raise scholarship funds for the music student at MJC ~ Presented by Friends of Music. Tickets are available at the MJC Auditorium Box Office Tuesday through Friday from noon to 5 p.m. or by calling 575-6776 during those hours. Tickets are also offered online at mjc.tix.com.
5/31 Memorial Day Holiday - Campus Closed
6/7 First Day of Summer Classes
6/17, 6/18, 6/19 Hip Hop Dance Concert, 7:30 p.m., Auditorium of the Performing and Media Arts Center, $10 general / $8 students & seniors. Hip Hop Dance Extravaganza, dancers from MJC and the community join in an evening of Hip Hop Dance at its best!
7/5 Independence Day Observance - Campus Closed
7/15 (Thursday) Summer Sonata ~ please mark your calendar ~ 6 p.m. Hors d'oeuvres, 7 p.m. dinner and program ~ Location: Gallo Center for the Arts ~ MJC Foundation 575-6080
8/14 Summer Semester Classes End
