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Concluding its three-year run, El Acercamiento/The Approach brings together Cuban and American artists in a series of collaborative events across Havana, Los Angeles and Miami. Students from Havana’s Instituto Superior de Arte and San Alejandro and California Institute of the Arts...

The project explores the histories and visions of unincorporated enclaves of East Rancho Dominguez, Florence-Firestone, Lennox, and Ladera Heights/View Park/Windsor Hills.   Artists from California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) used creative community engagement and the power of...

Performance event: “Reframing the House of Dust: Activations” at CalArts, March 23; “Reframing the House of Dust: A Symposium” at REDCAT, March 24

3^rd Annual Neighboring Scenes Festival to showcase Latin American Cinema, including new work by Juan Pablo González.

An Academy Award for Disney PIXAR's Coco or DreamWorks Animation's The Boss Baby will mark the 11th time a film directed by alumni of CalArts's legendary animation programs received an Oscar for Best Animated Feature.   Last year, Zootopia, co-directed...

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED. NEW DATES TBA. Young will read from his work at CalArts on February 15 at 7:00 pm and at REDCAT on February 16 at 8:30 pm. Young, the director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, has published ten collections of poetry. His new book,...

Fresh from its world premiere at the Public Theater’s Under the Radar Festival, The Hendrix Project takes audiences to Jimi Hendrix and the Band of Gypsys’ legendary concert on New Year’s Eve 1969 at the Fillmore East Auditorium. The Hendrix Project was created in Performing...