CalArts Events

Emilia Yang is a Central American artist, memory organizer, and researcher. Her creative practice utilizes expanded forms of media to create community- based feminist, anti-racist, and transformative justice memory projects and futures.

School of Music is hosting is this the land i wish death to find me, an evening of music shaped by place and resonance for prepared/modified brass instruments and guitars, featuring SOM Faculty Nicholas Deyoe and Mattie Barbier.

Visiting Artist Emilia Yang will lead Summoning Community, a workshop exploring how activists across the Americas and beyond have used kites as symbols of memory, liberation, and justice.

The School of Film/Video is pleased to screen three Agnès Varda’s classics: Uncle Yanco (1967), Black Panthers (1968), Mur Murs (1981) in the Bijou Theater to kick off Winter Session. The film will be presented by Lisa Block, Line Producer for Agnès Varda. 

OPEN TO THE INSTITUTE

School of Critical Studies’ MA Aesthetics and Politics program is hosting an Urban Anti-Tour of the Santa Monica Pier and Beyond Baroque on Jan. 22 at 12 pm at the Santa Monica Pier, as well as a number of additional events and talks.

The School of Film/Video is pleased to announce the screening of The Climb, directed by film faculty Justin Hogan, written by School of Theater alum Shawnee Badger (BFA Theater ‘25).

Gatherings from the Sonic Environment, a conversation with Ruben Olguin, Chad Hamil, and Michael Ned Holte.

The School of Film/Video is pleased to screen Agnès Varda’s One Sings, the Other Doesn’t (1977) to kick off Winter Session. The film will be presented by CalArts faculty Gary Mairs.

OPEN TO THE INSTITUTE

KATHA: The Charioteer’s Code is a visceral multimedia dance-theatre event where ancient Indian myths collide with urgent modern ethics.

Annual Campus Blood Drive!  We invite students, faculty, and staff to donate blood and make a meaningful difference.

Exhibition: 2/18-3/1, 12 PM-6 PM

Multimedia artist Matana Roberts presents an immersive sound and image installation shaped by cyclical forms, mediated space, tonal atmospheres, and layered visual fields. Read more...

Soaring vocal artist Carmina Escobar presents Our Voice Is Not at the End of Anything, a spiral-structured opera in gesture and sound that reimagines voice as force, friction, and breath. Read more...

Guillermo E. Brown presents a triptych of performative strategies, playing with and about time inside a maximalist, roulette-like approach. Read more...

GRAMMY-nominated orchestral collective Wild Up presents The Odes, an evening that traces a living lineage of experimentation—from the Baroque’s theatrical excess to modernist innovation and contemporary music’s daring invention. Read more...

In this unhinged solo performance, self-proclaimed “experimental clown artist” Alex Tatarsky ushers audiences through an absurdist hellscape of the mind. Read more...