Mondavi Center

{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Use American English|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox venue | name = Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts | nickname = Mondavi Center | native_name = | native_name_lang = | fullname = | former_names = | logo_image = | logo_caption = | image = UC Davis Mondavi Center.jpg | image_size = 250px | image_alt = | caption = | pushpin_map = | pushpin_mapsize = | pushpin_map_caption = | pushpin_label_position = | address = | location = Unincorporated Yolo County adjacent to Davis, California | coordinates = {{Coord|38.53443|-121.74883|type:landmark_region:US-CA|display=inline,title}} | type = Performing arts center | event = | broke_ground = | built = | opened = {{Start date|2002|10|03}} | renovated = | expanded = | closed = | demolished = | owner = University of California, Davis | operator = | cost = | architect = Boora Architects | capacity = Jackson Hall: 1,801<br>Vanderhoef Studio Theater: 250 | tenants = | embedded = | website = {{URL|http://www.mondaviarts.org}} | public_transit = }}

thumb|Mondavi Center, interior view The '''Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts''' is a performing arts venue located on the UC Davis campus in unincorporated Yolo County, California. It is named for arts patron and vineyard operator Robert Mondavi, who donated US$10 million to help with the building costs, and who also helped finance The Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science on the same campus.

Mondavi Center opened on October 3, 2002, for the [https://web.archive.org/web/20071203023421/http://hector.ucdavis.edu/ucdso/ UC Davis Symphony Orchestra] and today serves as a venue for musical concerts, theater, dance, lecturers and other entertainers.<ref name="DCN">{{cite web | author=DCN and Yolo County Library | year=2003 | title=Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts | url=http://www.dcn.davis.ca.us/YoloLINK/programs/pMondavCenterPerfor-6632.html | work=The Davis Community Network | accessdate=18 September 2006 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060928155923/http://www.dcn.davis.ca.us/YoloLINK/programs/pMondavCenterPerfor-6632.html | archive-date=28 September 2006 | url-status=dead }}</ref> The façade is a large glass-panelled lobby that is surrounded by sandstone that also lines the interior walls.

==Performance and other facilities== The facilities include: *'''Jackson Hall''', named for university professor William T. Jackson and philanthropist Barbara K. Jackson, who donated $5 million to the project in memory of her late husband. It seats 1,801. *'''Vanderhoef Studio Theatre''', named after former university Chancellor Larry N. Vanderhoef. It seats 250.

==Architecture and design== The facility was designed by Boora Architects of Portland, Oregon as a box within a box in order to insulate the hall from the sound of the nearby freeway and train tracks. The center also features moveable panels that can adjust the acoustics of the main hall and an orchestra shell on air casters.

Many green construction techniques were used to further the university's commitment to the environment and sustainable construction methods.<ref name="AR">{{cite web |author=BOORA Architects |title=Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts |url=http://archrecord.construction.com/projects/bts/archives/perform/03_mondavi/overview.asp |accessdate=22 June 2010 }}</ref>

==Discovery of burial sites during construction== During the initial construction of the Mondavi Center in 1999 and 2000, the archaeological remnants of a Patwin village and 13 graves were uncovered. The remains were estimated to date from between 700 and 1200 A.D.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Rockwell |first1=Susanne |title=Second Patwin burial site found |url=https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/second-patwin-burial-site-found |website=University of California, Davis |date=June 16, 2000}}</ref> In response, the Ad Hoc Committee to Honor the Patwin and Native Americans was formed with Native American Studies professors, students, staff, and Patwin elder Edward "Bill" Wright. In November 2011, the Native American Contemplative Garden was created near the Mondavi Center to commemorate the Patwin people and their history.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Hernández-Ávila |first1=Inés |title=Remembering Patwin Elder, Edward ‘Bill’ Wright |url=https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/remembering-patwin-elder-edward-bill-wright |website=University of California, Davis |date=October 5, 2021}}</ref> In September 2019, a granite plaque honoring the burial sites disturbed by construction was erected outside the entrance of the Mondavi Center titled “Voices, Drums, Whistles. Sing, Dance, Remember.”<ref>{{cite web |last1=Jones |first1=Dave |title=Sing and Dance — Remember the Patwin |url=https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/sing-dance-remember-patwin |website=University of California, Davis |date=October 1, 2019}}</ref>

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==External links== * [http://www.mondaviarts.org/ Mondavi Center official website] * Mondavi Center on the Davis Wiki * [http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/Content?oid=oid%3A13353 Article about the Center] * [http://robertmondaviinstitute.ucdavis.edu/ The Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science] * [http://www.boora.com Boora Architects website]

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