CalArts MFA Writing Program hosts a number of renowned authors this semester for its Visiting Artist Series, beginning Thursday at 7:30 pm with Canadian writer Gail Scott in Butler Building…
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Motel Rooms Become Mini-Concert Halls for Pacific Standard Time Event
This Sunday (Jan. 29), the Society for the Activation of Social Space Through Art and Sound (SASSAS) transforms the Welcome Inn motel—located in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Eagle Rock—…
Continue reading »Video: Excerpts from wild Up’s Ornithology
As previously posted, experimental classical/contemporary group wild Up presented a show of bird-themed pieces, Ornithology, in the two-story studio space of the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena on Jan. 14. Performing to a…
Continue reading »Korean Artists In Residency at CalArts
[nggallery id=”227″] Earlier this month, 20 upper-level undergraduate students from Hongik University, a prestigious visual/design university in Seoul, South Korea, arrived in California for the first Intensive Winter Program at CalArts. …
Continue reading »TCG’s ‘I am Theater’ Video Project Features CalArts Theater Faculty Chi-wang Yang
Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national American theater organization that fosters communication among professional, community and university theaters, is in the midst of its 50th anniversary celebration. In July 2011,…
Continue reading »Guest Artist Rachel Rosenthal Presents My Brazil at CalArts
Video: A compilation of some of Rachel Rosenthal’s performances Legendary interdisciplinary artist and performer Rachel Rosenthal visits CalArts for a special performance of My Brazil tonight (Jan. 18) at 7…
Continue reading »Jazz Legends to Perform in Rare Collaboration at CalArts
This Saturday (Jan. 21), two jazz greats, drummer Albert “Tootie” Heath and pianist Art Lande, come together in a rare performance at CalArts. The musicians join CalArtian jazz faculty and…
Continue reading »Alumna’s American Sign Language Poetry Documentary Screens in NYC
Dancer, filmmaker and teacher Judy Lieff’s (Film/Video & Dance MFA 92) latest project, Deaf Jam, has its New York City premiere this week. The documentary—about a New York City deaf…
Continue reading »The Experimental Impulse Closes at REDCAT
As Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A., 1945–1980, the Getty’s region-wide series of exhibitions, screenings, performances and other programs presented throughout greater Los Angeles over the past six months, winds…
Continue reading »Roger Guenveur Smith Channels Abolitionist Leader in Frederick Douglass Now
Renown actor and CalArts faculty member Roger Guenveur Smith embodies one of America’s great social reformers in the solo show Frederick Douglass Now, presented at CalArts on Tuesday (Jan. 17)…
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