News and Events

The CalArts World Music and Dance Festival transports musical traditions from around the globe to Southern California.

Teens in CalArts Community Arts Partnership's Theater Program respond to the influx of unaccompanied minors entering the U.S. with the premiere of their work of theater entitled "UAC ETA TBD."

Pulitzer Prize-winning composer roger Reynolds premieres a new work for viola written for CalArts professor of viola and violin, Mark Menzies.

CalArts students create original audiovisual entertainment for a 360-degree viewing environment.

The five bands in Americana Currents, part of California Institute of the Arts’ (CalArts) Wild Beast Concert Series, exemplify a new breed of young American musicians, influenced equally by American roots music and 21st-century sounds.

Black Clock commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Psychedelic Era with  Issue #20.

The Herb Alpert Foundation and California Institute of the Arts will award the 21st Annual Herb Alpert Award in the Arts to five exceptional mid–career artists, presented at a lunch hosted by the Herb Alpert Foundation in Santa Monica on May 1st 2015.

CalArts MFA Creative Writing Program hosts &Now, a biennial literary festival, on CalArts campus.

CalArts student Kozue Matsumoto performs with guest composer and alumna Rita Ueda.

Directed by ASsociate Dean of CalArts School of Theater Nataki Garrett-Meyers, "In the Red and Brown Water" explores decisions of life love and self.