[nggallery id=”234″] There’s been a number of performances of avant-garde pioneer John Cage’s music lately for a reason: 2012 marks the composer’s 100th birthday (Sept. 5, to be precise). As…
Continue reading »Steve Erickson Discusses These Dreams of You at the LA Central Library’s ALOUD Series
Earlier this month Europa Editions published Steve Erickson’s ninth novel, These Dreams of You, which takes readers on a journey across two continents, following the Nordhoc family as they search…
Continue reading »Short Films by Brigid McCaffrey and Thorbjorg Jonsdottir Screen at CalArts
This week’s Structuring Strategies film series features short works by Los Angeles-based alumnae filmmakers Brigid McCaffrey (Film/Video MFA 10) and CalArts faculty member Thorbjorg Jonsdottir (Film/Video MFA 09) tonight (Feb….
Continue reading »Two Minutes of John Cage’s Song Books
Last weekend, while much of America was at home watching the Super Bowl, a number of students, faculty and alumni from The Herb Alpert School of Music at CalArts, took…
Continue reading »Acclaimed Dutch Composer Thomas Ankersmit Performs on CalArts’ Serge Synthesizer at REDCAT
Tonight and tomorrow, the 2012 CEAIT Festival CalArts Center for Experiments in Art, Information and Technology), hits the REDCAT stage and features vintage electronics used in conjunction with the latest…
Continue reading »The Collective Presents the I Have a Dream Project at CalArts
On Aug. 28, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and addressed the tens of thousands of people gathered along the Washington Mall,…
Continue reading »CalArts Dancers Present Student Choice / MFA 1 Dance Concert This Week
Tonight and tomorrow night (Feb. 9 and 10), students from The Sharon Disney Lund School of Dance at CalArts present the Student Choice / MFA-1 Dance Concert at the Sharon…
Continue reading »History of Chouinard Art Institute Discussion at REDCAT Tonight
As the Getty Foundation’s citywide Pacific Standard Time initiative continues to celebrate the history of contemporary art in Los Angeles, tonight (Feb. 8th) CalArts President Steven D. Lavine presents a…
Continue reading »Alumnus Minkyu Lee Wins Annie Award for Best Animated Short
The International Animated Film Society’s 39th Annual Annie Awards—the highest awards ceremony in the animation industry—was held last Saturday (Feb. 4) at Royce Hall at UCLA in Los Angeles. Animator and CalArts alumnus…
Continue reading »National Film Board of Canada Animation Studio Presents Shorts at CalArts
Tonight at 7 pm, Canada’s National Film Board (NFB) Animation Studio brings several short films to CalArts’ Bijou Theater for this week’s Structuring Strategies class and film series. The NFB…
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