The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is one of the most prestigious arts festivals in the world, showcasing theater, comedy, dance, physical theater, musicals, operas, music, and more. At Sundown, a theater…
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Black Clock #12 Tackles Sports
CalArts isn’t generally thought of as a sports powerhouse (although the football team remains undefeated!*) but the latest issue of Black Clock (#12) takes on the subject of athletics and…
Continue reading »Black Clock Blog Launch Party this Weekend
The Black Clock literary journal hosts a reading and reception in Los Angeles on Sunday night (May 16) to celebrate the recent launch of its blog. The online companion to…
Continue reading »[out of nothing] Issue 3: Mono no aware
The most-recent issue of the electronic publication [out of nothing] features a number of visual, auditory and text-based works by a number of artists, including several CalArts faculty members and…
Continue reading »Fire at the End of the Rainbow: A Collection of Short Stories by CalArts Grad Shawn Vandor
Last month, the David Kordansky Gallery in Los Angeles held a book launch and reading for the 2010 releases for Sand Paper Press, which includes Fire at the End of…
Continue reading »Citizen Divas on Women, Art and Social Justice at MOCA on Saturday
To celebrate the upcoming International Women’s Day, Christine Wertheim, chair of the MFA Writing Program at CalArts, and Nancy Buchanan, a faculty member of CalArts’ School of Film/Video, have organized…
Continue reading »Poet Douglas Kearney Reads from The Black Automaton in LA this Weekend
[Click on the poem above to read Douglas Kearney’s ‘The Black Automaton in Tag: Refugee.‘] Douglas Kearney, a faculty member of CalArts’ School of Critical Studies, is one of those…
Continue reading »Aesthetics and Politics Visiting Lecturer Brent Edwards on Jazz and History
Brent Hayes Edwards, a professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, visits CalArts tonight to discuss his latest work and research in the lecture on…
Continue reading »Stand Up for Haiti: CalArts Critical Studies Faculty in Fundraiser on Saturday
A group of Los Angeles musicians and writers, including CalArts School of Critical Studies faculty Tisa Bryant, Jen Hofer, Douglas Kearney and Maggie Nelson, are organizing a benefit this Saturday…
Continue reading »You’ve Probably Read This Before from the School of Critical Studies
On Sunday (Dec. 13), a dozen writers will read their works that have been included in You’ve Probably Read This Before–a new Alumni Anthology from CalArts’ Writing Program. The event…
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