EventOctober 15 - 25, 2015
From Oct. 15-25, Los Angeles Performance Practice and the Bootleg Theater present the third annual Live Arts Exchange (LAX) Festival, a performance series featuring local artists, including many former and current…
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Oscar-winning documentarian Davis Guggenheim used a team of CalArts animators for his latest live-action feature, He Named Me Malala, an intimate portrait of activist Malala Yousafzai. In 2012, 15-year-old Malala was shot in the head…
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EventOctober 17 - November 14, 2015
Filmmaker, installation artist and CalArts’ faculty Maureen Selwood’s first solo artist exhibition, Sounding the Note of A, opens this weekend at Rosamund Felsen Gallery in Los Angeles. The show features…
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The noted singer-songwriter, composer and CalArts alumna Julia Shammas Holter (Music/IM MFA 09) returned to campus on Sept. 28 as a visiting lecturer in the VoiceArts Forum. Students packed The Wild Beast for the…
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EventOctober 16, 2015
The Aesthetics & Politics program’s WHAP! lecture series continues on Oct. 16 at 8 pm at the West Hollywood Public Library with Re-Assembling Tijuana, a panel discussion that features architect/professor Rene Peralta, author/professor…
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EventOctober 17, 2015
On Oct. 17, CalArts pays tribute Charlie Haden, founder of the Jazz Studies Program and educator and mentor of more than 32 years at The Herb Alpert School of Music at…
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Editor’s note: On occasion, 24700 includes guest posts from students to provide first-person accounts of their artistic endeavors and adventures. Such is the case for School of Film/Video student Eliane Lima (MFA 17), who…
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Above: Quique Rivera’s ‘Así de grandes son las ideas.’ Artist and filmmaker Quique Rivera’s (Film/Video MFA 14) short film, “Así de grandes son las ideas,” was recently nominated for a Latin…
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Above: Trailer for ‘The Temptation of St. Antony.’ By Luke Martin The 2015 LA Stage Alliance Ovation Awards nominees were recently announced, highlighting the vibrancy of the Los Angeles theater community. The only…
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EventOctober 7, 2015
Armen Avanessian, a noted Berlin-based writer and philosopher, serves as this year’s visiting faculty member for the Aesthetics & Politics (A&P) program at CalArts. Traditionally, A&P visiting faculty are scholars and/or artists…
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