24700 McBean Parkway
Valencia, California 91355
661.255.1050
FILM/VIDEO: Filmmaker Paul Vester will introduce and discuss his work as part of the Structuring Strategies series.
MUSIC: Thirty-Six Ghosts is an interdisciplinary work for ten musicians, live video and two Butoh dancers. The piece features works written by Burns, and performances with Vinny Golia, Ulrich Krieger, Randy Gloss and Wadada Leo Smith.
ART:
D300 Gallery: As, Approximately by Alexandra Olson MFA
D301 Gallery: halving the distance by Carlin Wing MFA
Main Gallery: To Avoid This Shipwreck by Meghann McCrory MFA
Main Gallery "in the cube": Tabula-Rasa by Meghann McCrory in collaboration with Ali Prosch and Michiko Yao
A402 Gallery: MFA Thesis by Michael Buitron MFA
Lime Gallery: dependent arising by Kichul Kim MFA
Mint Gallery: Fishing Down Marine Food Webs by Louisa Conrad MFA
MUSIC: Recital featuring solo works on vibraphone and marimba, with music by Stout, Reich and more. Piano phase with guest artist Tim Black.
MUSIC: An evening of Mozart, Brahms, de Falla, Britten, Bolcom and much, much more.
ART:
D300 Gallery: As, Approximately by Alexandra Olson MFA
D301 Gallery: halving the distance by Carlin Wing MFA
Main Gallery: To Avoid This Shipwreck by Meghann McCrory MFA
Main Gallery "in the cube": Tabula-Rasa by Meghann McCrory in collaboration with Ali Prosch and Michiko Yao
A402 Gallery: MFA Thesis by Michael Buitron MFA
Lime Gallery: dependent arising by Kichul Kim MFA
Mint Gallery: Fishing Down Marine Food Webs by Louisa Conrad MFA
ART:
Carola Dertnig is an artist who lives and works in Vienna, Austria. Her work is primarily based in performance. Along with being an artist, she also curates and she has recently made a book that for the first time brings together text and documentation on the history of performance art in Austria. She is teaching at CalArts this semester as visiting faculty in the Photography and Media program.
CAP: CAP Forum Series with Sergio de la Torre
FILM/VIDEO: Installation in animation by Nicole Emmons and Qadriyyah Shamsid-Deen.
MUSIC: A voyage to the moon featuring music (both electronic and not) by students in the Music Technology Program.
REDCAT: Herb Alpert and Lani Hall perform a rare and intimate evening of American and Brasilian jazz featuring a trio of masterful musicians -- Bill Cantos (piano), Michael Shapiro (drums) and Hussain Jiffrey (bass). They play original arrangements from a selection of American standard songs with some spicy Brasilian music in the mix. Alpert’s warm, expressive trumpet lines compliment Hall’s sensual, emotional voice, making this an enchanting evening of sophisticated music for all.
THEATER: At the Coffeehouse Theater with a jazz club vibe, come and enjoy live music, theater performance, dance, film/video and art! Sponsored by the Latino Student Union at CalArts, join us while we explore the themes that unite us all: love, sex and politics!
ART:
D300 Gallery: As, Approximately by Alexandra Olson MFA
D301 Gallery: halving the distance by Carlin Wing MFA
Main Gallery: To Avoid This Shipwreck by Meghann McCrory MFA
Main Gallery "in the cube": Tabula-Rasa by Meghann McCrory in collaboration with Ali Prosch and Michiko Yao
A402 Gallery: MFA Thesis by Michael Buitron MFA
Lime Gallery: dependent arising by Kichul Kim MFA
Mint Gallery: Fishing Down Marine Food Webs by Louisa Conrad MFA
THEATER: At the Coffeehouse Theater with a jazz club vibe, come and enjoy live music, theater performance, dance, film/video and art! Sponsored by the Latino Student Union at CalArts, join us while we explore the themes that unite us all: love, sex and politics!
MUSIC: Recital featuring tabla solo, tabla accompaniment, experimental music reperformances, composition realizations & live acoustic/electronic bands.
REDCAT: Herb Alpert and Lani Hall perform a rare and intimate evening of American and Brasilian jazz featuring a trio of masterful musicians -- Bill Cantos (piano), Michael Shapiro (drums) and Hussain Jiffrey (bass). They play original arrangements from a selection of American standard songs with some spicy Brasilian music in the mix. Alpert’s warm, expressive trumpet lines compliment Hall’s sensual, emotional voice, making this an enchanting evening of sophisticated music for all.
MUSIC: A BFA4 graduation composition recital featuring the music of Plotz!, improvisations with Michael Jon Fink and others, and Tinhorn Justice.
MUSIC: Recital featuring solo piano and chamber music works by Bach, Poulenc, Crumb and Ives.
MUSIC: Student-run music series showcasing graduate and undergraduate composers.
REDCAT: Known for a signature on-edge sound heavy with groove, the New York quintet is driven by the emphatic piano and keyboard work of Andy Milne, who formed the group five years ago to link the essentials of jazz with hip-hop rhythms and funk harmonics. Recipient of a Chamber Music America new works commission and named “rising-star keyboardist” by the readers of Down Beat, the Canadian-born Milne has established himself as one of the most important young artists in jazz today.
MUSIC: Recital featuring original compositions and works by Wayne Shorter, Joe Locke, Fred Hersch and more.
MUSIC: A concert of improvisation featuring all original compositions for different ensembles.
Community: This is a gathering of people who want to learn, share, find support for, act on and engage in dialog about: art for social change, art and social responsibility, strategies for community engagement and social change through the arts, context-based and collaborative artistic practices, presentations by visiting artists, activists and civic leaders, self-empowerment strategies for artists and their communities, alternative or minority histories and practices outside institutional and mainstream venues.
CalArts faculty, students, alumni and special guests perform new compositions by CalArts undergraduate composers.
REDCAT: For the past 15 years, the idiosyncratic Berlin filmmaker Heinz Emigholz has created a series of films documenting the work of certain 20th-century architects for whom he feels a special affinity. What attracts him particularly is the complex organization of interior spaces and the spatial relations between a building and its immediate surroundings.
MUSIC: Ensemble 303 presents a realization of Cornelius Cardew's meisterwerk of graphic proportions, Treatise.
MUSIC: Ensemble 303 presents a realization of Cornelius Cardew's meisterwerk of graphic proportions, Treatise.
FILM/VIDEO: Filmmaker Heinz Emigholz will introduce and discuss his work as part of the Structuring Strategies series.
MUSIC: Students from the Musical Arts Program at the School of Music present an evening of eclectic work, including original songs, original electronics and other compositions, performed by the creators and their collaborators.
FILM/VIDEO: Please come to a slide and cheese gathering to see the brief projected presentations made by each of the students in the interdisciplinary class: ART APPRECIATION: PARIS. Each member of the class will speak about and show images of something that became interesting to them on their recent trip to Paris.
MUSIC: Daymaire ♥, a musical performance by Bob LaDue.
Benjamin Weissman is the author of two books of stories, most recently Headless. Tonight he will be discussing his piece, Music from 1975. He is currently teaching at CalArts this semester as visiting faculty in the Art program.
DANCE: A dance concert about losing someone you love in your life.
General admission: $7. Alumni: $3.
Students, faculty, staff and seniors: $2.
To reserve tickets, call 661.253.7800 or write to tickets@calarts.edu.
MUSIC: Recital featuring new works by Allaire, Cazan and M. Deragon, and performances with Shelly Suminski and Andrew Rosenblum.
THEATER: That Untravelled World is a new play by graduate Writing for Performance student Jane Pickett and directed by visiting guest director Phil Soltanoff. That Untravelled World combines interactive video, lighting and sound effects with high-energy physical ensemble acting to explore "real" physical space versus virtual online space. A late-blooming young woman, Louise, takes another person's discarded image from a photograph to create a cyber alter ego, Lorna Doone, in order to interact with her instant messaging lover, Orpheus, in an online Underworld.
DANCE: A metaphorical dance performance depicting an individual's journey to wholeness and the freeing of her inner child.
General admission: $7. Alumni: $3.
Students, faculty, staff and seniors: $2.
To reserve tickets, call 661.253.7800 or write to tickets@calarts.edu.
REDCAT: Infusing contemporary African dance forms with jolts of high fashion and street culture, the mesmerizing Julie Dossavi presents a collection of solos and duets accompanied by live African percussion, voice and electronics in this Los Angeles premiere. The Benin-born dancer and choreographer draws on sources from electronic dance music and club culture to gymnastics and tribal ritual to shape distinctive works that are modern, ethnic, expressive and abstract—and always alive with a distillation of human experience.
ART:
D300 Gallery: Meaning by Sayre Gomez MFA
D301 Gallery: A Diorama by Mariechen Danz MFA
L-Shape Gallery: Helding Hands by Sam Michel BFA
Main Gallery: Desire and the device by Alexandra Prosch MFA
A402 Gallery: L.A. Killed My Truck by Diana-Sofia Estrada MFA
Lime Gallery: Daniel Pineda MFA
Mint Gallery: the charleston project: proposals for the escape velocity of time by Kimberly (Nikki) Pressley MFA
CAP/Community:
Lunch will be provided and all CalArts students and faculty are invited
1) Learn about what it takes to earn a teaching credential to teach the arts at the elementary and secondary levels
2) Be informed about pre-credential courses you can take now as you earn your BFA or MFA
3) Find out about paid teaching internships and substitute teaching positions
4) Become aware of the differences between teaching in public schools, charter schools and private schools and what kinds of jobs are available
DANCE: A dance concert about losing someone you love in your life.
General admission: $7. Alumni: $3.
Students, faculty, staff and seniors: $2.
To reserve tickets, call 661.253.7800 or write to tickets@calarts.edu.
MUSIC: A recital of original compositions performed by jazz combos comprised of CalArts students.
THEATER: That Untravelled World is a new play by graduate Writing for Performance student Jane Pickett and directed by visiting guest director Phil Soltanoff. That Untravelled World combines interactive video, lighting and sound effects with high-energy physical ensemble acting to explore "real" physical space versus virtual online space. A late-blooming young woman, Louise, takes another person's discarded image from a photograph to create a cyber alter ego, Lorna Doone, in order to interact with her instant messaging lover, Orpheus, in an online Underworld.
DANCE: A metaphorical dance performance depicting an individual's journey to wholeness and the freeing of her inner child.
General admission: $7. Alumni: $3.
Students, faculty, staff and seniors: $2.
To reserve tickets, call 661.253.7800 or write to tickets@calarts.edu.
REDCAT: Infusing contemporary African dance forms with jolts of high fashion and street culture, the mesmerizing Julie Dossavi presents a collection of solos and duets accompanied by live African percussion, voice and electronics in this Los Angeles premiere. The Benin-born dancer and choreographer draws on sources from electronic dance music and club culture to gymnastics and tribal ritual to shape distinctive works that are modern, ethnic, expressive and abstract—and always alive with a distillation of human experience.
MUSIC: Recital featuring works by Smetana, Ravel, Tournier, Bach, Ellsworth and Hovhaness.
THEATER: That Untravelled World is a new play by graduate Writing for Performance student Jane Pickett and directed by visiting guest director Phil Soltanoff. That Untravelled World combines interactive video, lighting and sound effects with high-energy physical ensemble acting to explore "real" physical space versus virtual online space. A late-blooming young woman, Louise, takes another person's discarded image from a photograph to create a cyber alter ego, Lorna Doone, in order to interact with her instant messaging lover, Orpheus, in an online Underworld.
DANCE: A dance concert about losing someone you love in your life.
General admission: $7. Alumni: $3.
Students, faculty, staff and seniors: $2.
To reserve tickets, call 661.253.7800 or write to tickets@calarts.edu.
MUSIC: Recital featuring music by Debussy and Poulenc for oboe, harp and piano. Improvisation and original compositions for oboe, voice, guitar and other instruments.
DANCE: A metaphorical dance performance depicting an individual's journey to wholeness and the freeing of her inner child.
General admission: $7. Alumni: $3.
Students, faculty, staff and seniors: $2.
To reserve tickets, call 661.253.7800 or write to tickets@calarts.edu.
REDCAT: Infusing contemporary African dance forms with jolts of high fashion and street culture, the mesmerizing Julie Dossavi presents a collection of solos and duets accompanied by live African percussion, voice and electronics in this Los Angeles premiere. The Benin-born dancer and choreographer draws on sources from electronic dance music and club culture to gymnastics and tribal ritual to shape distinctive works that are modern, ethnic, expressive and abstract—and always alive with a distillation of human experience.
ART:
Current MFA students in the School of Art's Art, Photography and the Integrated Media programs at California Institute of the Arts are pleased to announce the annual Graduate Open Studios Day. For one afternoon, Sunday, April 13 from 2:00 to 7:00 p.m., approximately 60 graduate students will open their workspaces to the public. Visitors are invited to take an inside look at the diverse projects undertaken at CalArts--where students test the limits of their mediums and explore definitions of contemporary art making.
MUSIC: Recital featuring free improv, Indian music and guitalimba with special guests.
REDCAT: Infusing contemporary African dance forms with jolts of high fashion and street culture, the mesmerizing Julie Dossavi presents a collection of solos and duets accompanied by live African percussion, voice and electronics in this Los Angeles premiere. The Benin-born dancer and choreographer draws on sources from electronic dance music and club culture to gymnastics and tribal ritual to shape distinctive works that are modern, ethnic, expressive and abstract—and always alive with a distillation of human experience.
CAP: Participants in the CAP Saturday Music Program, along with their CalArts School of Music student instructors, will perform in a free concert in the CalArts Main Gallery. The program will include classical, jazz, vocal ensemble and world percussion pieces among others. This CAP program offers master classes for up to one hundred elementary, middle and high school students. Classes include theory, composition, vocal ensemble, percussion, chamber ensemble, jazz ensemble, and more.
CRITICAL STUDIES: MFA Writing students read from new work.
MUSIC: Recital featuring works for oboe by Bach and Bozza, North Indian music and Klezmer for oboe.
MUSIC: The CalArts New Century Players and special guests, under the direction of David Rosenboom, perform new works by CalArts graduate composers.
MUSIC: Guest lecturer Helmut Lachenmann on his thoughts and music. All interested CalArts students and faculty are invited to attend this special event.
Provost Nancy Uscher invites members of the CalArts community to attend a discussion and feedback session, focusing on WASC and other important CalArts issues. Coffee service will be provided.
FILM/VIDEO: Filmmaker Jon Reiss will introduce and discuss his work as part of the Structuring Strategies series.
MUSIC: Recital featuring solo bass and chamber ensembles.
THEATER: Written by Ernst Toller and translated by Alan Raphael Pearlman, Hoppla, We're Alive explores the fate of Karl Thomas, a revolutionary of 1918-19 who, after eight years in a mental institution, is released into a totally changed world in which he can establish no point of contact.
General admission: $7. Aumni: $3.
Students, faculty, staff and seniors: $2.
To reserve tickets, call 661.253.7800 or write to tickets@calarts.edu.
THEATER: That Untravelled World is a new play by graduate Writing for Performance student Jane Pickett and directed by visiting guest director Phil Soltanoff. That Untravelled World combines interactive video, lighting and sound effects with high-energy physical ensemble acting to explore "real" physical space versus virtual online space. A late-blooming young woman, Louise, takes another person's discarded image from a photograph to create a cyber alter ego, Lorna Doone, in order to interact with her instant messaging lover, Orpheus, in an online Underworld.
REDCAT: Innovative Los Angeles writers and CalArts faculty members Steve Erickson, Douglas Kearney, Janet Sarbanes and Christine Wertheim read selections from their acclaimed work. Erickson is the celebrated author of seven novels and two books about American politics and popular culture, including the new novel Zeroville. Kearney was named notable new American poet by the Poetry Society of America last year. His most recent publication is a collection of poetry entitled Fear, Some. Sarbanes is the author of Army of One, a collection of short stories.
THEATER: That Untravelled World is a new play by graduate Writing for Performance student Jane Pickett and directed by visiting guest director Phil Soltanoff. That Untravelled World combines interactive video, lighting and sound effects with high-energy physical ensemble acting to explore "real" physical space versus virtual online space. A late-blooming young woman, Louise, takes another person's discarded image from a photograph to create a cyber alter ego, Lorna Doone, in order to interact with her instant messaging lover, Orpheus, in an online Underworld.
MUSIC: Recital featuring original music for Axis Trio, Ensemble Pakistan and The
B.E.G.G.E.R Collective.
THEATER: Written by Ernst Toller and translated by Alan Raphael Pearlman, Hoppla, We're Alive explores the fate of Karl Thomas, a revolutionary of 1918-19 who, after eight years in a mental institution, is released into a totally changed world in which he can establish no point of contact.
General admission: $7. Aumni: $3.
Students, faculty, staff and seniors: $2.
To reserve tickets, call 661.253.7800 or write to tickets@calarts.edu.
ART:
Lecia Dole-Recio is an LA-based artist who shows at Richard Telles Fine Art and has shown at MOCA and the 2004 Whitney Biennial, among numerous other sites. She is currently teaching at CalArts as a Visiting Artist in the Art Program.
Her work can be found at the following links:
http://tellesfineart.com/dolerecio.html#
http://www.briansholis.com/insearch/archives/2004/03/lecia_dolerecio.htm...
ART:
D300 Gallery: Pick Up the Pieces by Liz Glynn MFA
D301 Gallery: Maybe Let's Try to Paddle to the Middle by Betsy Hunt MFA
L-Shape Gallery: Courtney Bubeck BFA
Main Gallery: S H O J O H O L I C by Michiko Yao MFA
A402 Gallery: Eileen Levinson MFA
Lime Gallery: Degrees of Articulation: Student Poster Series by Adam Feldmeth BFA
Mint Gallery: Fragmented on the Night Sea of Eternity by Kara Tanaka MFA
Main Floor Hallway: Dissent by Morvarid Moini-Yekta BFA
THEATER: That Untravelled World is a new play by graduate Writing for Performance student Jane Pickett and directed by visiting guest director Phil Soltanoff. That Untravelled World combines interactive video, lighting and sound effects with high-energy physical ensemble acting to explore "real" physical space versus virtual online space. A late-blooming young woman, Louise, takes another person's discarded image from a photograph to create a cyber alter ego, Lorna Doone, in order to interact with her instant messaging lover, Orpheus, in an online Underworld.
MUSIC: Music by John Hastings, Casey Anderson, Matt Hettich, Jae Hong Park & others.
THEATER: Written by Ernst Toller and translated by Alan Raphael Pearlman, Hoppla, We're Alive explores the fate of Karl Thomas, a revolutionary of 1918-19 who, after eight years in a mental institution, is released into a totally changed world in which he can establish no point of contact.
General admission: $7. Aumni: $3.
Students, faculty, staff and seniors: $2.
To reserve tickets, call 661.253.7800 or write to tickets@calarts.edu
MUSIC: An evening of pre-colonial and post-structuralist gestures.
ART:
Lecia Dole-Recio is an LA-based artist who shows at Richard Telles Fine Art and has shown at MOCA and the 2004 Whitney Biennial, among numerous other sites. She is currently teaching at CalArts as a Visiting Artist in the Art Program.
Her work can be found at the following links:
http://tellesfineart.com/dolerecio.html#
http://www.briansholis.com/insearch/archives/2004/03/lecia_dolerecio.htm...
ART:
D300 Gallery: Pick Up the Pieces by Liz Glynn MFA
D301 Gallery: Maybe Let's Try to Paddle to the Middle by Betsy Hunt MFA
L-Shape Gallery: Courtney Bubeck BFA
Main Gallery: S H O J O H O L I C by Michiko Yao MFA
A402 Gallery: Eileen Levinson MFA
Lime Gallery: Degrees of Articulation: Student Poster Series by Adam Feldmeth BFA
Mint Gallery: Fragmented on the Night Sea of Eternity by Kara Tanaka MFA
Main Floor Hallway: Dissent by Morvarid Moini-Yekta BFA
MUSIC: Student vocalists and pianists receiving scholarship assistance from the Dumont Foundation perform a selection of chamber and new music works.
THEATER: Written by Ernst Toller and translated by Alan Raphael Pearlman, Hoppla, We're Alive explores the fate of Karl Thomas, a revolutionary of 1918-19 who, after eight years in a mental institution, is released into a totally changed world in which he can establish no point of contact.
General admission: $7. Aumni: $3.
Students, faculty, staff and seniors: $2.
To reserve tickets, call 661.253.7800 or write to tickets@calarts.edu.
THEATER: That Untravelled World is a new play by graduate Writing for Performance student Jane Pickett and directed by visiting guest director Phil Soltanoff. That Untravelled World combines interactive video, lighting and sound effects with high-energy physical ensemble acting to explore "real" physical space versus virtual online space. A late-blooming young woman, Louise, takes another person's discarded image from a photograph to create a cyber alter ego, Lorna Doone, in order to interact with her instant messaging lover, Orpheus, in an online Underworld.
MUSIC: Performer/composer Andrew Tholl presents a concert of music by himself and others.
REDCAT: A quartet of Angeleno composer-performers pays homage to the city’s beloved dirty old man of poetry, Charles Bukowski, with a night of music performance and poetry based on some of his most incendiary writings. Performing under the direction of Joanne Gordon (Love Bukowski, Short Hairs and Long Shots), Martin Herman, Art Jarvinen, Amy Knoles and Marc Lowenstein dare the audience to feel as passionately as Bukowski did throughout his life and work.
MUSIC: Kerstin Fuchs, from Berlin, performs recent vocal music by Petros Ovsepyan, Kunsu Shim, Carlo Inderhees, Antoine Beuger and Michael Pisaro, with accompaniment by CalArts alumni Mark So (piano), Adam Overton (electronics) and Christa Graf (violin).
MUSIC: Piano recital featuring CalArts Chamber Music Improvisors.
THEATER: Written by Ernst Toller and translated by Alan Raphael Pearlman, Hoppla, We're Alive explores the fate of Karl Thomas, a revolutionary of 1918-19 who, after eight years in a mental institution, is released into a totally changed world in which he can establish no point of contact.
General admission: $7. Aumni: $3.
Students, faculty, staff and seniors: $2.
To reserve tickets, call 661.253.7800 or write to tickets@calarts.edu.
MUSIC: Recital featuring Jacqui Bobak, Mark Menzies and Timur Bekbosunov performing pieces by Chinary Ung, Michael Finnissy, Anton Webern and more.
REDCAT: The Los Angeles-based gamelan Kyai Doro Dasih (The Honorable Dream Come True) presents two performances of exquisite Javanese court music and dance and wayang kulit purwa—an ancient form of shadow puppet play. Directed by Djoko Walujo, Nanik Wenten and special guest artist B.R.M. Bambang Irawan, the ensemble also features the distinguished guest dancers Eko Supriyanto and Lina Bambang Irawan.
MUSIC: Recital featuring original works: film, paintings, composition and improvisation.
REDCAT: The Los Angeles-based gamelan Kyai Doro Dasih (The Honorable Dream Come True) presents two performances of exquisite Javanese court music and dance and wayang kulit purwa—an ancient form of shadow puppet play. Directed by Djoko Walujo, Nanik Wenten and special guest artist B.R.M. Bambang Irawan, the ensemble also features the distinguished guest dancers Eko Supriyanto and Lina Bambang Irawan.
MUSIC: Recital of original compositions featuring performances of violin and voice.
MUSIC: Recital featuring chamber music and performances of works by J.S. Bach, Couperin, Takemitsu, Piazzolla, Dutilleux and Ferneyhough.
MUSIC: The EAR Unit performs music of graduate composers.
REDCAT: Carolee Schneemann has never ceased to cross mediums and boundaries to make work that resonates with raw poetic power. From her collaged war or diary films and provocative performances to her photos, paintings and installations, Schneemann’s varied and distinctly feminist creations deconstruct our ingrained preconceptions and everyday assumptions. In words, images and actions, her art is deeply personal, sharply critical, intensely expressive, and always innovative. In person: Carolee Schneemann
Part of the Jack H. Skirball Screening Series
Provost Nancy Uscher invites members of the CalArts community to join her for a discussion of the current state of the CalArts Strategic Plan. Coffee service will be provided.