The New Roads School in Santa Monica hosts a poetry reading tomorrow night (March 5) to remember the victims of the 2007 Al-Mutanabbi Street Bombing in Baghdad. On March 5…
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Three CalArtians Make HuffPost’s ‘30 Contemporary Black Artists Under 40’
In celebration of Black History Month, The Huffington Post recently selected 30 young African American artists under the age of 40 who “contribute to the ongoing conversation of race and representation…
Continue reading »‘Next Words’ Writing Series Kicks Off at Pop Hop in LA
The MFA Creative Writing class of 2013 presents Next Words, a reading series that introduces new works from CalArts writers to the greater Los Angeles community. Tonight, the series kicks…
Continue reading »First-Ever TEDxCalArts Event Features 16 Talks, Performances at REDCAT
Update 3/6: Since our original post, we learned that Atau Tanaka and Teddy Cruz will not be appearing as previously scheduled. CalArts’ Center for New Performance (CNP) presents the first TEDxCalArts conference…
Continue reading »WHAP! Screening: Mady Schutzman’s ‘Dear Comrade’
The West Hollywood Aesthetics & Politics (WHAP!) series, co-presented by the city of West Hollywood and CalArts’ School of Critical Studies’ Aesthetics and Politics Program, continues its Spring 2013 season tonight…
Continue reading »CalArtian Projects at LA Art Book Fair
Printed Matter’s LA Book Fair runs this weekend (Feb. 1-3) at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. A companion to the New York version held every fall, organizers are expecting representatives…
Continue reading »WHAP! Lecture Series Kicks Off Spring Semester With ‘Political Fictions’
Tonight (Jan. 30), the West Hollywood Aesthetics & Politics (WHAP!) guest lecture series continues its 2012-13 season at the Common Room of the West Hollywood library at 8 pm. The…
Continue reading »MFA Writer’s Story on Bud Light Lime Noticed by ‘The Atlantic’
Tom Dibblee, an MFA 2 student in CalArts’ Creative Writing Program and editor of Trop Magazine, recently wrote a review of William Knoedelseder’s book Bitter Brew: The Rise and Fall…
Continue reading »Roger Guenveur Smith Presents One-Man ‘Rodney King’ Production at CalArts
Tomorrow (Jan. 22) for one night only, celebrated solo performer and former CalArts School of Theater faculty member Roger Guenveur Smith returns to CalArts to present a free performance of…
Continue reading »CalArts Alumni and Faculty Among Creative Capital Grant Winners
Last week, Creative Capital, a national arts philanthropic organization, announced the recipients of its 2013 project grants in the categories of Emerging Fields, Literature and the Performing Arts, with several…
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