CAP: This year’s spring production from the CAP/Plaza de la Raza Youth Theater Program is a new drama written by Culture Clash member Herbert Siguenza and staged with a cast of 45 high school-age CAP participants. A play inspired by El Soldado Razo –the classic work by Luis Valdez that was first performed in 1971 in connection with the Chicano Moratorium antiwar movement—Private Eddie U.S.A. takes a hard look at the impact of the war in Iraq as mourners at a funeral enact scenes from a fallen soldier’s life.
Plaza de la Raza is located at 3540 North Mission Road in Los Angeles. These performances are free and open to the public. Reservations are advised. For reservations please call Plaza de la Raza at (323) 223-2475.

CAP: This year’s spring production from the CAP/Plaza de la Raza Youth Theater Program is a new drama written by Culture Clash member Herbert Siguenza and staged with a cast of 45 high school-age CAP participants. A play inspired by El Soldado Razo –the classic work by Luis Valdez that was first performed in 1971 in connection with the Chicano Moratorium antiwar movement—Private Eddie U.S.A. takes a hard look at the impact of the war in Iraq as mourners at a funeral enact scenes from a fallen soldier’s life.
Plaza de la Raza is located at 3540 North Mission Road in Los Angeles. These performances are free and open to the public. Reservations are advised. For reservations please call Plaza de la Raza at (323) 223-2475.

CAP: The Santa Clarita Valley Youth Orchestra is one the few orchestral music programs available in the Los Angeles area that trains students to perform masterpieces from all periods of the orchestral and chamber music repertoire. Through a partnership with CAP, CalArts School of Music students have been coaching SCVYO sectionals and will be performing with the students. The program will include works by Haydn, Schubert and the world premiere of a new commissioned work by School of Music student and CAP Music Instructor Derrick Spiva Jr.
The Santa Clarita Performing Arts Center at College of the Canyons is located at 26455 Rockwell Canyon Road in Santa Clarita, CA 91355.
For tickets please contact the College of the Canyons Performing Arts Center’s Box Office at (661) 362-5304.

CAP: This year’s spring production from the CAP/Plaza de la Raza Youth Theater Program is a new drama written by Culture Clash member Herbert Siguenza and staged with a cast of 45 high school students. Inspired by El Soldado Razo—the classic work by Luis Valdez that was first performed in 1971 in connection with the Chicano Moratorium antiwar movement—Private Eddie U.S.A. takes a hard look at the impact of the war in Iraq as mourners at a funeral enact scenes from a fallen soldier’s life.
These performances are free and open to the public and will take place at the REDCAT Theater located at 631 West 2nd Street in downtown Los Angeles. For reservations please call the REDCAT’s Box Office at (213) 237-2800.

CAP: This year’s spring production from the CAP/Plaza de la Raza Youth Theater Program is a new drama written by Culture Clash member Herbert Siguenza and staged with a cast of 45 high school students. Inspired by El Soldado Razo—the classic work by Luis Valdez that was first performed in 1971 in connection with the Chicano Moratorium antiwar movement—Private Eddie U.S.A. takes a hard look at the impact of the war in Iraq as mourners at a funeral enact scenes from a fallen soldier’s life.
These performances are free and open to the public and will take place at the REDCAT Theater located at 631 West 2nd Street in downtown Los Angeles. For reservations please call the REDCAT’s Box Office at (213) 237-2800.

CAP: This free screening features original short videos and animated films created by students participating in the ArtsCOOL program at Del Rey, Jack London, Phoenix, Will Rogers and Walt Whitman high schools. The ArtsCOOL Program was developed in 2002 as a partnership between the CalArts Community Arts Partnership (CAP) program and the Los Angeles Unified School District Arts Education Branch and Educational Options Program. The options schools participating in this program each receive 30 weeks of arts programs taught by teams of CalArts faculty artists, student artists and alumni artists who share their expertise with up to 40 students in each school. The schools are located throughout Los Angeles in the San Fernando Valley, South Los Angeles, East Los Angeles, Hollywood, Venice, Pacific Palisades, Huntington Park, Westchester, and downtown Los Angeles. For further information please contact CAP’s ArtsCOOL Coordinator Betty Lee at bettylee@calarts.edu.
This screening will take place at the REDCAT Theater located at 631 West 2nd Street in downtown Los Angeles.
For reservations please call the REDCAT’s Box Office at (213) 237-2800. This event is free and open to the public.

CAP: The Sony Pictures Media Arts Program is CAP's after-school program for middle school students who learn drawing, animation, and new media and create original films each year at Banning's Landing Community Center in Wilmington, Center for the Arts Eagle Rock in Eagle Rock, San Fernando Gardens Community Service Center in Pacoima, Watts Towers Arts Center in Watts, and at the William Reagh Los Angeles Photography Center near MacArthur Park in Los Angeles. SPMAP is a partnership among the CalArts Community Arts Partnership (CAP), the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, and Sony Pictures Entertainment. The screening will showcase the animated work conceived, edited and directed by the CAP/SPMAP participants.
This screening is free and open to the public and will take place at the CalArts REDCAT Theater located at 631 West 2nd Street in Downtown Los Angeles. For reservations please call the REDCAT’s Box Office at (213) 237-2800.

CAP: This two-day event will feature an exhibition of artwork by high school students who participated in CAP’s ArtsCOOL Program with Los Angeles Unified School District Option Schools. The exhibition will take place in CalArts Galleries D300 and D301. The event will also feature performances, readings, and dance and music ensemble performances by student participants in the ArtsCOOL program. The gallery exhibition will include works by students from Central East Los Angeles, Independence, Lewis, Monterey, San Antonio, Thoreau and Wooden high schools. Students from Eagle Tree, Amelia Earhart, Einstein, Hope, Jefferson, Leonis, Ramona, Temescal and Wooden high schools will present performances.
The ArtsCOOL Program was developed in 2002 as a partnership between the CalArts Community Arts Partnership (CAP) program and the Los Angeles Unified School District Arts Education Branch and Educational Options Program. These options schools participating in this program each receive 30 weeks of arts programs taught by teams of CalArts faculty artists, student artists and alumni artists who share their expertise with up to 40 students in each school. The schools are located throughout Los Angeles in the San Fernando Valley, South Los Angeles, East Los Angeles, Hollywood, Venice, Pacific Palisades, Huntington Park, Westchester, and downtown Los Angeles.
This event is free and open to the public. For further information please contact CAP’s ArtsCOOL Coordinator Betty Lee at bettylee@calarts.edu. This event will take place at CalArts located at 24700 McBean Parkway, Valencia, CA 91355.