Some Things Should Not Move, composed by Anne LeBaron, a faculty member of The Herb Alpert School of Music at CalArts, has its world premiere tomorrow night (March 2) at…
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First-Ever TEDxCalArts Event Features 16 Talks, Performances at REDCAT
Update 3/6: Since our original post, we learned that Atau Tanaka and Teddy Cruz will not be appearing as previously scheduled. CalArts’ Center for New Performance (CNP) presents the first TEDxCalArts conference…
Continue reading »Actor and Advocate Geena Davis Talks Gender Equality in Media at CalArts
Women are still so woefully underrepresented in films and television shows that—at the current rate—it would take nearly 700 years(!) to achieve parity. That was just one of the jaw-dropping…
Continue reading »Taking A Stand: Faculty Nina Menkes V-Day Film Supports End to Violence Against Women
STRIKE AND RISE/Video for V-Day, by Nina Menkes from Nina Menkes on Vimeo. On Feb. 18, CalArts School of Film/Video faculty member Nina Menkes‘ short film, Strike and Rise, will…
Continue reading »Jazz Faculty Charlie Haden Accepts Lifetime Achievement Award at the Grammys
During this past weekend’s Grammy festivities, Charlie Haden—bassist and longtime faculty member of The Herb Alpert School of Music at CalArts—was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award by The Recording…
Continue reading »Alexander Mackendrick: Remembering a Pioneering Director and Founding Dean of CalArts School of Film/Video
[nggallery id=336] – by Michael Rogers/Special to 24700 CalArts alumni, faculty, current students and film history buffs filled the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (REDCAT) on the evening of Feb….
Continue reading »Single Wing Turquoise Bird Liquid Light Show Installation Opens in Oregon
Opening today (Feb. 8) through April 28, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art in Eugene, Ore., presents, Invisible Writing, a 47-minute installation drawn from improvised live visual performances by the pioneering…
Continue reading »Director Janie Geiser’s Production Clouded Sulphur Premieres in Chinatown
This Friday (Feb. 8) marks the premiere of School of Theater faculty Janie Geiser‘s production Clouded Sulphur (death is a knot undone) at Automata in Chinatown’s Arts District. An Obie-Award winning director and a…
Continue reading »Animation ‘Ambassador’ Maureen Furniss Embarks on Thailand Tour
Character and Experimental Animation faculty member Maureen Furniss is traveling throughout Thailand this week as an “animation ambassador” on behalf of the U.S. Embassy Bangkok’s Speakers Program. She’s been lecturing…
Continue reading »CalArtian Projects at LA Art Book Fair
Printed Matter’s LA Book Fair runs this weekend (Feb. 1-3) at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. A companion to the New York version held every fall, organizers are expecting representatives…
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