CalArts Events

GRAMMY-nominated orchestral collective Wild Up presents Arthur Russell’s minimalist disco masterwork 24 to 24 Music as part of the To the Fullest festival. Read more...

Please join the School of Art community for our annual open studios.

The CalArts School of Film/Video presents four nights of special screenings featuring new films by BFA and MFA students in its programs—a diverse collection of bold, innovative cinematic works. Read more...

Meet the next generation of dance artists at this year’s CalArts Spring Dance program. Read more...

This program presents a glimpse into the wild and varied work of the graduating class of CalArts’ MFA Creative Writing Program, featuring the incredible range of experimentation that characterizes the literary accomplishment of students in the program. Read more...

Earthly Movements for Bodies Eternal presents a selection of animated and new media works that connect bodies and movement to the natural environment. Read more...

Opening Reception: May 22 at 7 PM

Hande Sever (Art MFA ‘18) explores cultural and political archives by excavating texts and images that shape historical narratives. Read more...

Opening Reception: May 22 at 7 PM

Abigail Raphael Collins uses video installation and experimental nonfiction to listen to what is considered unspeakable. Read more...

On a night with a sudden electricity outage in Beirut, artist Tania El Khoury and her husband, historian Ziad Abu-Rish, promised each other to research the history of power outages in Lebanon. Read more...

PARTCH Ensemble—the Grammy Award-winning ensemble specializing in the music of the iconoclastic composer Harry Partch—presents a triple bill of premieres performed on Partch’s extraordinary instruments. Read more...

Annie Dorsen considers how the proliferation of artificial intelligence in our daily lives feels unprecedented and asks: "Have we been here before?" Each evening of this performance, the predictive text model GPT-4 generates speculative versions of the lost final play of Aeschylus' Prometheia trilogy...