CAP 2009-2010 Class Schedule

For further information about these programs please contact CAP at 661 222.2708. 
 
CAP After School Programs
All CAP After-School programs are free. No previous experience is required and registration is open to students ages 13 to 19, with the exception of the media arts programs for middle school students (ages 10 to 14). Register on the first day of class. Parent’s/Guardian’s signature will be required on the participant’s registration form, standard release form, and medical release form. Attendance at all sessions is required.

Art-in-the-Park Music Program
This 20-week music program features small group and individualized music instruction for teenagers ages 13 to 19. The program culminates with public performances in April at Art-in-the-Park, REDCAT, and other community performance venues. CAP/Art in the Park youth participants please register here.

Dates: October 5–December 11, 2009 & January 11–April 16, 2010
Time: Mondays through Fridays, 4:00–7:00pm
Partner Contact: Berta Sosa, Director
Location: Art-in-the-Park, 5568 Via Marisol, Los Angeles, CA 90042
Tel: 323 259.0861
www.artinthepark.us

 
Banning's Landing Community Center/Sony Pictures Media Arts Program (SPMAP)
This thirty-week media arts program is held twice a week, after-school for middle school students (ages 10 to 14). The workshops cover drawing, painting, animation and media arts. The students learn drawing and painting techniques, drawing from the model, how to animate, how to put together an art portfolio and how to create artwork on computers. The program culminates in a public exhibition and screening of the artwork produced by the students. This program is part of the Sony Pictures Media Arts Program, a partnership among the CalArts Community Arts Partnership, the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, and Sony Pictures Entertainment. CAP/SPMAP Bannings youth participants please register here.

Dates: October 5–December 16, 2009 & January 20–June 16, 2010
Time: Mondays and Wednesdays, 4:00–7:00pm
CAP Instructors: CalArts School of Film/Video alumnus Manuel Cuchilla and CaArts student instructors
Partner Contact: Lee Sweet, Director
Location: Banning's Landing Community Center, 100 W. Water Street, Wilmington, CA 90744
Tel: 310 522.2015
www.wilmington-chamber.com/banlnct.htm

 
CalArts Digital Media Program
This 30 week class includes discussions and hands-on conceptual projects using Adobe Creative Suite software, scanners and digital cameras. Working individually or collaborating in small groups, students will design the posters applying personal statements, political comments, or cultural narratives as content. Detailed discussions, films, books and hands-on conceptual projects will be developed to produce a series of large format color posters. Upon completion, the large posters will be color printed on a wide format inkjet printer using special media. The work will be exhibited at CalArts. CAP/CalArts Digital Media youth participants please register here.

Dates: October 6–December 8, 2009 & February 9–May 25, 2010
Time: Tuesdays, 4:30–7:00pm
CAP Instructors: CalArts School of Art faculty Shelley Stepp and student instructors
Contact: CAP Office
Location: CalArts Mac Lab, 24700 McBean Parkway, Valencia, CA 91355
Tel: 661 222.2708

 
CalArts Saturday Music Program
This program offers twenty weeks of master classes for up to one hundred middle and high school students. Classes include theory, composition, sound recording and engineering, vocal ensemble, percussion, strings ensemble, chamber ensemble, jazz ensemble, and more. The program culminates with semester-end recitals performed in the CalArts Main Gallery. CAP/Saturday Music Program youth participants please register here.

Dates: October 3–December 12, 2009 & January 23–April 10, 2010
Time: Saturdays, 1:00–5:00pm
CAP Faculty Advisor: Herb Alpert School of Music at CalArts faculty Susan Allen
CAP Program Coordinator: Herb Alpert School of Music at CalArts alumnus Drew Jorgensen
CAP Instructors: Herb Alpert School of Music at CalArts students
Contact: CAP Office
Location: Herb Alpert School of Music at CalArts, Rehearsal Rooms, 24700 McBean Parkway, Valencia, CA 91355
Tel: 661 291.3037

Center for the Arts Eagle Rock/Sony Pictures Media Arts Program (SPMAP)
This thirty-week media arts program is held twice a week, after-school for middle school students (ages 10 to 14). The workshops cover drawing, painting, animation and media arts. The students learn drawing and painting techniques, drawing from the model, how to animate, how to put together an art portfolio and how to create artwork on computers. The program culminates in a public exhibition and screening of the artwork produced by the students. This program is part of the Sony Pictures Media Arts Program, a partnership among the CalArts Community Arts Partnership, the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, and Sony Pictures Entertainment. CAP/SPMAP Eagle Rock youth participants please register here.

Dates: October 2–December 16, 2009 & January 20–June 16, 2010
Time: Wednesdays and Fridays, 3:30–6:30pm
CAP Instructors: CalArts School of Art faculty Chris Peters, CalArts School of Film/Video alumnus Pouya Afshar and CalArts student instructors
Partner Contact: Julia Salazar, Executive Director
Location: Center for the Arts Eagle Rock, 2225 Colorado Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90041
Tel: 323 226.1617
www.centerartseaglerock.org

Inner-City Arts High School Animation Program
This CAP program begins in October and continues through May. Twenty-four weeks of workshops are held for 20 to 40 high school students. The students learn basic animation techniques, zoetropes, flip books, hand animation, computer animation, and drawing on film. The students’ animated shorts and collaborative film are screened at Inner-City Arts, the REDCAT Theater, CalArts, the Pacific Asia Museum and other venues. CAP/Inner City Arts H.S. Animation youth participants please register here.

Dates: October 3-December 12, 2009  and January 30-May 8, 2010
Time: Saturdays, 10:00am–1:00pm
CAP Instructors: CalArts School of Film/Video faculty Leo Hobaica Jr. and CalArts student instructors
Partner Contact: Beth Tishler, Education Director
Location: Inner-City Arts, 720 Kohler, Los Angeles, CA 90021
Tel: 213 627.9621
www.inner-cityarts.org

Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies (LACPS)/Youth Photography Program
This program provides twelve Saturday workshops during the Spring semester for up to 50 high school students. The course takes place in the state of the art photography facility of the Art School at CalArts. Students are taught a variety of darkroom skills, and computer skills while they focus on creative assignments and work towards a public exhibition. An exhibition of photographs is presented at CalArts and other venues.
*Van pickups available at Franklin, Cleveland, and Lincoln High Schools at 9:00am. CAP/LACPS youth participants please register here.

Dates: February 27–May 8, 2010
Time: Saturdays, 10:00am–4:00pm
CAP Faculty Advisors: CalArts School of Arts faculty members John Bache and Andrew Freeman
CAP Instructors: CalArts School of Art alumnus Lewis Mauk and CalArts student instructors
Contact: CAP Office
Location: CalArts, School of Art Photo Lab (Sublevel), 24700 McBean Parkway, Valencia, CA 91355
Tel: 661 222.2708

Plaza de la Raza/Creative Modern Dance Program
This 18-week program for middle and high school students focuses on modern dance techniques and choreography. Participants create individual original pieces as well as collaborations with the entire class. The dance classes are held once a week in the dance studios at Plaza de la Raza. The dance program students perform in a year-end dance recital at Plaza de la Raza. CAP/Plaza Modern Dance youth participants please register here.

Dates: October 9–December 11, 2009 & January 15–March 12, 2009
Time: Fridays, 4:00–6:00pm
CAP Instructors: CalArts School of Dance faculty Francesca Penzani and CalArts student instructors
Partner Contact: Maria Jimenez-Torres, Education Director
Location: Plaza de la Raza, 3540 North Mission Road, Los Angeles, CA, 90031
Tel: 323 223.2475
www.plazadelaraza.org

Plaza de la Raza/Music Program
This program provides instrumental instruction for up to 100 teenagers in trumpet,  guitar, bass, drumset, voice, piano, songwriting, music theory and composition and several music ensembles, including salsa band. Eighteen weeks of instruction take place at Plaza de la Raza beginning in October and continuing through March. The workshops culminate in a recital at Plaza de la Raza and REDCAT in March. CAP/Plaza Music youth participants please register here.

Dates: October 7–December 12, 2009 & January 14–March 14, 2010
Times: Wednesdays through Fridays, 4:00–8:00pm
CAP Program Coordinator: Herb Alpert School of Music at CalArts alumnus Nicolas Kello
CAP Instructors: Herb Alpert School of Music at CalArts students
Partner Contact: Maria Jimenez-Torres, Education Director
Location: Plaza de la Raza, 3540 North Mission Road, Los Angeles, CA 90031
Tel: 323 223.2475
www.plazadelaraza.org

 
Plaza de la Raza/Puppetry Program
This 18-week puppetry production class gives students an opportunity to collaboratively create a puppet play. Instructors teach workshops in puppet and mask making using a variety of materials including cardboard, cloth, papier-maché, and found objects. Creative writing and visual art are also important components of the class as well as filming and video editing using state-of-the-art digital equipment. All of these elements culminate in public performances in March at Plaza de la Raza and in May at REDCAT. CAP/Plaza Puppetry youth participants please register here.

Dates: October 10–December 5, 2009  & January 9–March 12, 2010
Time: Wednesdays, 5:00-7:00pm and Saturdays, 10:00am–2:00pm
CAP Instructors: CalArts School of Theater alumni Allison Heimstead and Caitlin Lainoff, and CalArts student instructors
Partner Contact: Maria Jimenez-Torres, Education Director
Location: Plaza de la Raza, 3540 North Mission Road, Los Angeles, CA 90031
Tel: 323 223.2475
www.plazadelaraza.org

 
Plaza de la Raza/Youth Theater Program
This program provides approximately 45 high school and junior high school students with thirty weeks of instruction in acting, movement, and voice. Students collaborate with teachers, a composer, and a playwright to create an original piece of theater. Artist specialists such as costume, set and lighting designers will join the process in layers during the course of the work to further collaborate in making a full production. A class in design will be offered as an optional supplement for those who are interested in design and technical aspects of production. Classes are held three evenings per week, beginning in October and continuing through May. Free public performances are held in May at Plaza de la Raza and at the REDCAT Theater in downtown Los Angeles. CAP/Plaza Theater youth participants please register here.

Dates: October 6–December 10, 2009 & January 11–May 31, 2010
Times:
Beginning Theater: Mondays, 6:00–8:00pm
Movement for Theater: Tuesdays, 6:00–8:00pm
Intermediate/Advance: Theater: Thursdays, 6:00–8:00pm
Designing for Theater: Saturdays, 10:00am–12:00pm (offered in the Spring)
CAP Instructors: Former CalArts School of Theater faculty Barbara June Dodge, CalArts School of Theater faculty Marvin Tunney and CalArts student instructors
Partner Contact: Maria Jimenez-Torres, Education Director
Location: Plaza de la Raza, 3540 North Mission Road, Los Angeles, CA 90031
Tel: 323 223.2475
www.plazadelaraza.org

San Fernando Gardens Community Service Center/Sony Pictures Media Arts Program (SPMAP)
This thirty-week media arts program is held twice a week, after-school for middle school students (ages 10 to 14). The workshops cover drawing, painting, animation and media arts. The students learn drawing and painting techniques, drawing from the model, how to animate, how to put together an art portfolio and how to create artwork on computers. The program culminates in a public exhibition and screening of the artwork produced by the students. This program is part of the Sony Pictures Media Arts Program, a partnership among the CalArts Community Arts Partnership, the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, and Sony Pictures Entertainment. CAP/SPMAP San Fernando youth participants please register here.

Dates: October 5–December 15, 2009 &  January 19–June 15, 2010
Time: Mondays and Tuesdays, 4:00–7:00pm
CAP Instructors: CalArts School of Film/Video faculty John Mahoney and Jonny Gomez, and CalArts student instructors
Partner Contact: Ruben Ledesma, Case Manager
Location: San Fernando Gardens Community Service Center, 10896 Lehigh Avenue, Pacoima, CA 91331
Tel: 818 834.9266
www.hacla.org

 
Santa Clarita Valley Boys and Girls Club/Photography Program
This 10-week photography program enrolls up to 40 high school students in the Fall semester. Students work closely with instructors investigating notions of self-expression and community through their photographic work. Presentations about the history and art of photography are offered through-out the semester. The students’ original works are exhibited at CalArts and other venues throughout Los Angeles. CAP/SCVAP Photo youth participants please register here.

Dates: October 5–December 17, 2009
Time: Mondays,  4:00–7:00pm
CAP Faculty Advisors: Calarts School of Arts faculty John Bache and Andrew Freeman
CAP Instructors: CalArts School of Art student instructors
Contact: CAP Office
Location: CalArts, School of Art photo lab (sublevel), 24700 McBean Parkway, Valencia, CA 91355
Tel: 661 222.2708
www.calarts.edu/cap

Santa Clarita Valley Youth Orchestra (SCVYO)
The Santa Clarita Valley Youth Orchestra is the premiere youth orchestra in the Santa Clarita Valley. The organization has three levels of orchestras for elementary through college age students and performs a variety of music from the classical genre. CalArts student instructors play alongside the students as section leaders/mentors. Classes culminate in performances at the College of the Canyons Performing Arts Center.
For audition dates check out the SCVYO website. SCVYO youth participants please register here.

Dates: August 24–Dec. 4, 2009 (Spring dates TBD)
Times: Mondays, 6:00–8:30pm and Saturdays, 11:00am–12:30pm
CAP Faculty Advisor: Herb Alpert School of Music at CalArts faculty Susan Allen
CAP Program Coordinator: Herb Alpert School of Music at CalArts alumnus Drew Jorgensen
CAP Instructors: Herb Alpert School of Music at CalArts students
Partner Contact: Paul Sherman, Orchestra Director
Location: College of the Canyons, 24655  Rockwell Canyon Road, Santa Clarita, CA 91355
Tel: 661 291.3037
www.scvyo.org

Self-Help Graphics & Art/Digital Media Program
This is a 30-week program for teenagers (ages 15 to 18). Students learn computer design applications, printmaking, T-Shirt design, screen printing and digital video production. The program culminates with an exhibition of the work at Self-Help Graphics & Art, at the California Institute of the Arts, as well as with a screening at REDCAT. CAP/Self-Help youth participants please register here.

Dates: October 6–December 15, 2009 and January 12–May 25, 2010
Time: Tuesdays, 4:00–7:00pm
CAP Instructors: CalArts School of Theater alumnus Reggie Coleman and CalArts student instructors
Partner Contact: Evonne Gallardo, Executive Director
Location: Self-Help Graphics & Art, 3802 Cesar Chavez Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90063-1896
Tel: 323 881.6444
www.selfhelpgraphics.com

Watts Towers Arts Center/Piano Program
This 24-week program is an introduction to playing the piano for young people. Students learn the basics of music although all levels of experience are welcomed. The program culminates in a public piano recital held at the Watts Towers Arts Center in the Spring. CAP/Watts Towers Piano youth participants please register here.

Dates: October 3-December 12, 2009 & January 20-May 8, 2010
Time: Wednesdays, 3-4pm and Saturdays, 10am-3pm
CAP Instructor: Herb Alpert School of Music alumn Steve Sodono
Partner Contact: Rosie Lee Hooks, Director
Location: Watts Towers Arts Center, 1727 East 107th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90002
Tel: 213 847.4646
www.trywatts.com/art_center.htm

Watts Towers Arts Center/Sony Pictures Media Arts Program (SPMAP)
This thirty-week media arts program is held twice a week, after-school for middle school students (ages 10 to 14). The workshops cover drawing, painting, animation and media arts. The students learn drawing and painting techniques, drawing from the model, how to animate, how to put together an art portfolio and how to create artwork on computers. The program culminates in a public exhibition and screening of the artwork produced by the students. This program is part of the Sony Pictures Media Arts Program, a partnership among the CalArts Community Arts Partnership, the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, and Sony Pictures Entertainment. CAP/SPMAP Watts youth participants please register here.

Dates: October 3–December 16, 2009 & January 20–June 16, 2010
Time: Wednesdays, 4:00–7:00pm and Saturdays, 11:00am–2:00pm
CAP Instructors: CalArts School of Critical Studies faculty Betty Lee, CalArts School of Film/Video alumnus Pouya Afshar and CalArts student instructors
Partner Contact: Rosie Lee Hooks, Director
Location: Watts Towers Arts Center, 1727 East 107th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90002
Tel: 213 847.4646
www.trywatts.com/art_center.htm

William Reagh Los Angeles Photography Center/Sony Pictures Media Arts Program (SPMAP)
This thirty-week media arts program is held twice a week, after-school for middle school students (ages 10 to 14). The workshops cover drawing, painting, animation and media arts. The students learn drawing and painting techniques, drawing from the model, how to animate, how to put together an art portfolio and how to create artwork on computers. The program culminates in a public exhibition and screening of the artwork produced by the students. This program is part of the Sony Pictures Media Arts Program, a partnership among the CalArts Community Arts Partnership, the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, and Sony Pictures Entertainment. CAP/SPMAP William Reagh youth participants please register here.

Dates: October 3–December 16, 2009 & January 20–June 16, 2010
Time: Wednesdays, 4:00–7:00pm and Saturdays, 11:00am–2:00pm
CAP Instructors: CalArts School of Film/Video alumnus Javier Barboza, and CalArts School of Film/Video faculty Jonny Gomez, and CalArts student instructors
Partner Contact: Ruben Amavizca, Director
Location: William Reagh Los Angeles Photography Center, 2332 West Fourth Street, Los Angeles, CA 90057
Tel: 213 382.8133

CAP In-School Programs

CAP is also engaged in in-school programming in many schools and community centers throughout Los Angeles County. These free arts workshops are available to students in the partner schools and organizations only.

Arroyo Seco Junior High School/Improvisation and Theater Games Program
Arroyo Seco Junior High School is a public middle school that is part of the William S. Hart School District in the Santa Clarita Valley. The school has been recognized as a California Distinguished School and a National Blue Ribbon School. Through this program a team of CalArts School of Theater graduate students goes to the school to teach in Ms. Juliet Fine’s 7th and 8th grade classes in a once-a-week workshop covering theater games and improv exercises. The course ends with a performance of original work in CalArts’ Modular Theater. CAP/Arroyo Seco youth participants please register here.

Dates: September 16–December 2, 2009 and February 3–April 30, 2010
Time: Wednesdays, 9:50–11:40am
CAP Faculty Advisor: Calarts School of Theater faculty Marissa Chibas
CAP Instructors: Calarts School of Theater MFA student Dana Gourrier and CAP student instructors
Partner Contact: Juliet Fine and Sarah Morris, classroom teachers
Location: Arroyo Seco Junior High School, 27171 North Vista Delgado Drive, Valencia, CA 91354
Tel: 661 222.2710
www.hartdistrict.org/aseco

ArtsCOOL Program

The ArtsCOOL Program was developed in 2002 as a partnership between CAP and the Los Angeles Unified School District Arts Education Branch and Educational Options Program. Currently, ArtsCOOL offers programming at 20 Options High Schools in Los Angeles County. These schools each receive 30 weeks of arts programs which meet once-a-week for two hours per class. The classes are taught by teams of CalArts faculty artists, current CalArts students and CalArts alumni who share their expertise in visual arts, writing, film/video, and the performing arts. This program is available only to high school students attending the LAUSD Options High Schools participating in this program.

The schools are located throughout Los Angeles in the San Fernando Valley, South Los Angeles, East Los Angeles, Hollywood, Venice, Pacific Palisades, Carson, Huntington Park, Westchester, and downtown Los Angeles areas. Hundreds of high school students participate in the culminating performances and exhibition held annually at California Institute of the Arts, Plaza de la Raza, REDCAT (The Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater) located in the Walt Disney Concert Hall Complex, and other venues. CAP/ArtsCOOL youth participants please register here.

Continuation high schools currently participating in the CAP/ArtsCOOL Program are:

Central East Los Angeles High School
Del Rey High School
Eagle Tree High School
Amelia Earhart High School
Albert Einstein High School
John Hope High School
Independence High School
Frida Kahlo High School
Miguel Leonis High School
Robert Lewis High School
Jack London High School
Monterey High School
Phoenix High School
Ramona High School
Will Rogers High School
San Antonio High School
Temescal Canyon High School
Henry Thoreau High School
Walt Whitman High School
John Wooden High School

CAP Faculty: CalArts faculty members Marvin Tunney, Beatrice Lawluvi, Darcy Huebler, Steve Brown, Leo Hobaica, Niki Rousso-Schindler, among others, and CalArts alumni Reggie Coleman, Miyo Hernandez Yeko Ladzekpo-Cole, Morena Santos, Pouya Afshar, Chris Armstrong,  Eddie Felix, Juliana Sankaran-Felix, among others, along with CalArts student instructors, and visiting artists Alfred Ortiz and Rose Portillo.

CAP Program Coordinator: CalArts School of Critical Studies faculty and CAP ArtsCOOL Coordinator Betty Lee
Tel: 661 253.7769

Central Los Angeles  High School # 9/Video and Animation Program
This 16-week program takes in the new state-of-the-art Los Angeles Central High School, once-a-week during the spring semester. The course includes learning basic video techniques, lighting, sound, animation, story development and story boarding, and digital editing on state-of-the-art digital equipment. The workshops culminate in screenings of the students’ videos at Los Angeles Central High School, CalArts, at the REDCAT Theater, on the World Wide Web and other venues. CAP/ Central Los Angeles High School #9 youth participants please register here.

Dates: January 19–May 2, 2010
Time: Fridays, 3:30–5:30pm
CAP Instructors: CalArts School of Film/Video faculty Steve Brown and CalArts student instructors
Partner Contact: Joan Dooley, Classroom Teacher
Location: Los Angeles Central High School, 450 North Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Tel: 213 217.8600

Franklin High School/Playwriting Program
This two-semester long CAP program is a collaboration among CAP, Franklin High School, and the CalArts School of Theater. Twenty to thirty students in Mr. David Levine’s theater classes participate once-a-week with CalArts student instructors. The students learn theater games, exercises, and work one-on-one with the CalArts graduate students to create original five-minute plays. The plays are all presented at CalArts’ New Works Festival in the Spring, acted by the MFA acting students with the high school playwrights on stage. CAP/Franklin High School youth participants please register here.

Dates: October 9 -December 11, 2009 & January 22-May 7, 2010
Time: Fridays, 1:00–2:00pm
CAP Instructors: CalArts School of Theater MFA student Peter Jensen and CalArts student instructors
CAP Faculty Advisor: CalArts School of Theater faculty Marissa Chibas
Partner Contact: David Levine, Classroom Teacher
Location: Franklin High School, 820 North Avenue 54, Los Angeles, CA 90042
Tel: 323 550.2000

Gertz-Ressler High School/Vocal Program
The vocal program takes place for 10 weeks during the Fall semester and 10 weeks during the Spring semester. This program focuses on classical vocal repertoire as well as contemporary, jazz, and world music traditions. Through a curriculum encompassing many musical idioms, students expand their technical and expressive boundaries with the study of improvisation, extended vocal techniques, and vocal techniques from around the world. The program culminates with a public performance at the high school in the spring. CAP/Gertz Ressler High School youth participants please register here.

Dates: TBD
Times: TBD
CAP Instructors: Herb Alpert School of Music at CalArts alumna Wendy Vazquez and CalArts student instructors
Partner Contact: TBD
Location: Gertz-Ressler High School, 2023 South Union Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90007
Tel: 661 222.2708
www.laalliance.org

Inner-City Arts/Elementary Animation Program
Each semester, CAP brings animation education to an elementary school working with Inner-City Arts in downtown Los Angeles. Approximately 32 fifth graders from LAUSD elementary schools such as Frank del Olmo Elementary School, El Sereno Elementary School, Sierra Park Elementary School and Norwood Elementary School, work twice-a-week with CalArts faculty and student instructors to learn animation techniques and produce an animated short film. The students explore animation through making flipbooks and zoetropes, inventing characters and writing stories, recording voices and sounds, and creating cut-out puppet animation. The completed films are screened in festivals at Inner-City Arts, REDCAT, and other venues.

Dates: September 23-December 9, 2009   
Time: Mondays and Wednesdays, 10:00am-12:00pm
CAP Instructors: CalArts School of Film/Video faculty Leo Hobaica and student instructors
Partner Contact: Beth Tishler, Education Director
Location: Inner-City Arts, 720 Kohler Street, Los Angeles, CA 90021
Tel: 213 627.9621
www.inner-cityarts.org

 
My Friend's Place/Creative Writing Program
This program works with students individually and in groups to create works which express a variety of concerns ranging from individual, social, and political identity to the emotional dynamics of family and interpersonal relationships. Because students at My Friend’s Place are often at particular risk to homelessness and marginalization, their work addresses commonly accepted notions of background, present status, and of the future with uncommon urgency. Students produce poetry, stories, essays, artwork, photography, and video in an expanded notion of the expressive limits of “writing.” The year-long, two semester program culminates in both the publication of an anthology of student work and a public reading at My Friend’s Place.

Dates: October 2–December 11, 2009 & January 22–May 21 2010
Time: Mondays and Fridays, 1:00–3:00pm
CAP Faculty Advisor: CalArts School of Critical Studies faculty Jon Wagner
Partner Contact: Camilla Brannstrom, Special Projects Coordinator
Location: My Friend’s Place, 5850 Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood, CA 90028
Tel:323 908.0011
www.myfriendsplace.com

 
Share the World Program
The CAP Share the World Program, a partnership with the City of Santa Clarita and the six local Santa Clarita School Districts, brings CalArts world music and dance ensembles to provide performances and workshops for students in elementary, middle and high schools throughout the Santa Clarita Valley. The ensembles available range from jazz, Latin jazz, Balinese Gamelan to North and South Indian music, and African music and dance among many other offerings. The program begins in October and continues through May.

Dates: October through May
Partner Contact: Donna Avila, Santa Clarita Valley City, Arts and Events Coordinator
Program Coordinator: Herb Alpert School of Music at CalArts alumnus and CAP Public Programs Coordinator Drew Jorgensen
Tel: 661 291.3037

William S. Hart High School Creative Writing Program
This two-semester, twenty-week writing program is a collaboration among the CalArts Community Arts Partnership (CAP), William S. Hart High School, the CalArts School of Critical Studies and the Los Angeles County Commission on Human Relations. The program involves a group of approximately 75 E.L.L. students from William S. Hart High School  in an intensive creative writing workshop that culminates with readings at CalArts and at William S. Hart High School and with the publication of a collection of the students’ writing. CAP/Hart H.S. youth participants please register here.

Dates: October 5–December 11, 2009 & January 19–April 2, 2010
CAP Faculty Advisor: CalArts School of Critical Studies faculty Mady Schutzman
CAP Instructors: School of Critical Studies MFA students
Partner Contact: Larry Oshodi, Assistant Principal
Location: William S. Hart High School, 24825 Newhall Avenue, Newhall, CA 91321
Tel: 661 259.7575

Watts Towers Arts Center/Jazz and World Music Program
The CAP Jazz and World Music Program with the Watts Towers Arts Center brings free performances and workshops by CalArts music and dance ensembles to high schools in the Watts, South Central Los Angeles, the San Fernando Valley and East Los Angeles areas. The ensembles available range from jazz, Latin jazz, Balinese Gamelan, to North and South Indian music, and African music and dance, among many other offerings. Over two thousand young musicians take part in this program, which includes master classes in specific instruments. The program begins in October and continues through May.

Dates: October through May
Program Coordinator: Herb Alpert School of Music at CalArts alumnus and CAP Public Programs Coordinator Drew Jorgensen
Tel: 661 291.3037

 CAP Summer Arts Program (CAPSA)
*Applications will be available in April 2010

The CAP Summer Arts Program (CAPSA) is a free, three week-long intensive summer arts program for experienced young artists entering grades 10, 11, 12 or graduating high school in June 2010, interested in further exploring their art form, building their artistic skills and deepening their cultural understanding and personal expression in one of five arts disciplines: Creative Writing, Dance, Film/Video, Music, and Visual Arts. This program is led by outstanding artists on faculty at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) and CalArts student instructors who guide students through exciting and creative experimentation in the arts. The program takes place in July and culminates with performances and exhibitions at Inner City Arts.

Dates: July 2010
Times: Mondays through Thursdays, 9:00am–5:00pm
CAP Instructors: Randy Gloss, Darcy Huebler, Anthony McCann, Chris Peters, and Marvin Tunney
CAP Summer Arts Program Coordinator:  Carribean Fragoza
Location: TBD
Tel: 661 253.7715
Find out more about this program here