2026 Imagining America Gathering Kick-off Event

When: February 4, 4-6pm PST
Where: International House Davis (10 College Park, Davis, CA 95616)

Join us to kick off the 2026 Imagining America National Gathering in Davis, CA with a celebratory welcome reception!

Join Imagining America to celebrate planning towards the 2026 IA National Gathering in Davis, CA! This welcome and kickoff event provides an opportunity to create community around our collective work on public scholarship and artmaking, regional cultural organizing, and institutional change in higher education. Expect to hear from national IA organizers and regional collaborators about the exciting work ahead. We will provide food and drinks; family, friends, and colleagues are welcome!

Organized in partnership with UC Davis from October 23-25, the 2026 IA National Gathering will convene over 500 participants for three days of immersive activities in which to connect, dialogue, learn, and strategize around the ways to build knowledge and inspire collective imagination towards transformative education and action.

Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life (IA) is a national consortium, based at UC Davis, that brings together artists, organizers, students, scholars, designers, and community leaders to imagine, study, and enact a more just and liberatory ‘America’ and world. There is perhaps no more important time than now to do this collective imagining. This will also be IA’s final gathering with UC Davis before moving to a new host campus in 2027! Join us in celebrating this special region.