Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (REDCAT) will be kicking off its eighth season on Sept. 16 with projects in both the theater and gallery. International artists of diverse backgrounds and…
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CalArts Art Faculty Member Karen Atkinson to Speak at Local TEDx
Over the last several years, the TED Conference has garnered a reputation for being a new ideas powerhouse. The conference, with its slogan “Ideas Worth Spreading,” features guest speakers from…
Continue reading »NOW Festival 2010: A Photo Essay
The seventh annual New Original Works Festival recently took over the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (REDCAT) in downtown Los Angeles from July 22 through Aug. 7. The festival, which…
Continue reading »Get Out of the Car: A New Film by CalArts Faculty Thom Andersen
Program in Film & Video faculty and former program director Thom Andersen was in Switzerland last week, premiering his new film, Get Out of the Car (2010, 34 min., 16mm)…
Continue reading »CalArts Animator Wins Local Festival Awards
Recent Experimental Animation alumnus Beomsik Shimbe Shim (Film/Video MFA 09) and his film, The Wonder Hospital, have been racking up a slew of festival awards this summer. Among them, two…
Continue reading »Q and A with Choreographer and CalArts Faculty Member Colin Connor
Choreographer Colin Connor, a faculty member of The Sharon Disney Lund School of Dance at CalArts, will be taking a leave of absence this fall to work on three commissions:…
Continue reading »Seen @ CalArts: Audio Destructinators’ Carchestra
Even though school is still out for the summer, current students have access to some of CalArts’ facilities–like the parking lot. On Monday, a band of mostly Calartian composers and…
Continue reading »Breath of Fire Presents Digging Up the Dirt
[nggallery id=81] The world premiere of Cherríe Moraga’s murderous play Digging Up the Dirt opened last week (July 30) at Breath of Fire Latina Theater Ensemble in Santa Ana, Calif….
Continue reading »Seoul Cartoon Festival Screens Early Works of CalArtian Animators
With Toy Story 3 still high on the box office charts, two of the film’s creators, John Lasseter (Film/Video BFA 79) and Andrew Stanton (Film/Video BFA 87), along with 17…
Continue reading »CalArtians’ Works Featured at an Art Festival on an Organic Farm in Austria
An organic farm, Schlossergütl, in the rolling hills just outside Andorf, Austria, is the pastoral setting for Spiel Festival 2010–a wide-ranging array of traditional and experimental art, dance and music…
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