CalArts Events

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...

Bring picnic blankets, lawn chairs and leashed furry friends for this afternoon of music under the sky. There will also be a silent auction and bake sale to support the youth orchestra. Admission is free but donations are always welcome to keep the music alive.

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...

The third annual Summer Breeze Music Festival is coming to California Institute of the Arts. 

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...