EventOctober 14, 2017
On Saturday, Oct. 14, CalArts launches the 2017-18 season of its Wild Beast Concert Series with a performance by two large jazz bands fronted by CalArts alums: The Daniel Rosenboom…
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EventOctober 13, 2017
Although Friday the 13th is a day generally associated with bad luck, CalArts turns the superstition on its ear this Friday (10/13) as the community celebrates the inauguration of its…
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Academy Award-winning director Laura Poitras (My Country, My Country; The Oath; Citizenfour) is in residence at CalArts next week (Oct. 10-13), as a guest of the Program in Film &…
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The California Institute of the Arts’ Sharon Disney Lund School of Dance welcomed Congolese dancer, choreographer and writer Faustin Linyekula to campus on Sept. 29. Taking time from a three-night…
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On Thursday (Oct. 5), in Downtown Los Angeles, the fifth annual Los Angeles Exchange [LAX] Festival will kick off 10 days of contemporary performances by Los Angeles-based artists presented in…
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EventOctober 5 - 7, 2017
CalArts is this year’s host of the Themed Entertainment Association (TEA) SATE conference, being held on campus this week from Oct. 5-6, culminating with a NextGen student event on Oct. 7. SATE (which stands for Storytelling + Architecture + Technology…
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On Wednesday (Oct. 4), theater director Roberta Uno and writer-performer-musician Dahlak Brathwaite will be at CalArts to present and discuss Brathwaite’s current work-in-progress Try/Step/Trip (formerly Spiritrials). Uno and Brathwaite, who worked with…
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EventSeptember 30, 2017
This Saturday (Sept. 30), a handful of CalArtians are performing at The Lost Knight in Los Angeles for the Spare Change Benefit Concert, which supports Black Lives Matters, Planned Parenthood,…
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EventOctober 3, 2017
On Tuesday, Oct. 3, the Los Angeles-based ensemble Panic Duo, with Pasha Tseitlin on violin and Nick Gerpe on piano, are performing pieces by several composers, including Anne LeBaron, longtime faculty…
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Two CalArts alumni—Nijla Mu’min (Film/Video-Creative Writing MFA 13) and Ilana Coleman (Film/Video MFA 17)—were named in this year’s edition of Filmmaker magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film.” Mu’min is…
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