CalArts’ literary journal Black Clock joins Electric Literature in publishing a major new work of fiction by Rick Moody via Twitter on Black Clock’s Twitter feed: @BlackClockmag.
Rick Moody’s “Some Contemporary Characters”–the first story written expressly for Twitter by a major literary author–will be tweeted over the course of three days beginning [...]
Value Blind from Tahnee Gehm.
Tahnee Gehm (Film/Video BFA 12), a CalArts character animation student, has a film currently being featured in the Nickelodeon Animation Festival 2009. Her black-and-white short, “Value Blind,” serves as a visual metaphor for how people should be more open-minded. It features two characters who get into a paint fight.
Festival winners will [...]
Earlier this fall (September 26), Princeton University hosted the conference Women in Theater: Issues for the 21st Century. Alice Tuan, head of the Writing for Performance program at CalArts, sent us her thoughts on the conference, the state of playwriting and opportunities for women:
The generous Professor Jill Dolan has invited me to speak on [...]
The latest edition of Black Clock, CalArts’ literary journal, will hit bookstores on Black Friday (Nov. 27). The biannual magazine, edited by Steve Erickson, novelist, critic and member of CalArts MFA Writing Program faculty, is dedicated to fiction, poetry and creative essays that explore the “frontier territory of constructive anarchy.”
The upcoming issue (No. 11) features [...]
A major retrospective of artist-director Tim Burton (Film/Video 79) opened yesterday at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, featuring more than 700 examples of sketchbooks, concept art, drawings, paintings, photographs and a selection of his amateur films. To date, Tim Burton is MOMA’s most comprehensive monographic exhibition dedicated to a filmmaker.
During the course [...]
The LA Phil’s three-week West Coast Left Coast music festival–which celebrates the spirit of “California’s creative rebels”–begins this weekend. Curated by Creative Chair John Adams and Music Director Gustavo Dudamel, the festival explores the vast numbers of musical genres and styles that flourish on the West Coast, particularly in California.
The festival officially opens on Saturday [...]
On Friday (Nov. 20) Machine Project in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles hosts the short musical comedy The Island of Florida: A Foundation Myth, written and starring John Hogan (Art MFA 06) and his electro-prog band Ponce De Leon.
Earlier versions of the production were performed at CalArts as Hogan’s thesis project and at [...]
Last Saturday night (Nov. 14) CalArts’ Alumni Association honored several individuals who have made significant contributions to the lives of CalArts alumni and the greater arts community at the Institute’s annual Founders Ball.
As we noted in an earlier post, the honorees were: John Bergamo, former faculty in the Herb Alpert School of Music; [...]
Arias with a Twist is a surrealist revue starring drag artist (and Billie Holiday vocal ringer) Joey Arias–the former Mistress of Seduction in the Las Vegas Cirque du Soleil show Zumanity–and puppeteer Basil Twist. The show, which got rave reviews in New York, begins its four-week stint at REDCAT tonight with a sold-out performance.
From The [...]
“Rehearse in your shoes. Get the right shoes for the production.” (Your back and feet will thank you for it later.)
That was just one of the bits of advice offered by acting great Annette Bening to CalArts’ School of Theater students and faculty at an all-school meeting last Friday in the Coffeehouse Theater on campus.
Bening [...]
