CalArts Events

Shaping Inheritance brings together all eight Charles Gaines Fellows across four fellowship cohorts for the first time, exploring how contemporary artists inherit—and transform—the systems that shape our lives. 

The LA Writers’ Workshop Play Reading Series presents  brand-new play readings from local playwrights—Bernardo Cubría, Keiko Green, Christina Pumariega, and Erika Sheffer—at REDCAT. This culminates a year-long commission and workshop process with Center Theatre Group (CTG). Read more...

A concert welcoming new and returning students featuring performances by CalArts Faculty. 

Join us for a special double walkthrough at the Skirball Cultural Center featuring two compelling exhibitions led by the artists and curators themselves.

Opening Reception: September 12, 6-8 PM RSVP

Flesh Witness brings together contemporary artists whose work examines global histories and ongoing conditions of militarism across Asia and the Pacific. Read more...

The Ford/Hill Project transforms the Senate testimony of Anita Hill and Christine Blasey Ford into a gripping evening of theater. 
Created by Lee Sunday Evans and Elizabeth Marvel, this Waterwell Production is performed by a cast of luminary LA actors. Read more...

Playing with Fire: An Ecosexual Emergency is a documentary by Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens that imagines the Earth as a lover. When lightning ignites the redwood forest surrounding their home in Boulder Creek, longtime partners Beth and Annie are forced to evacuate and their lives are forever transformed. Read more...

WINDWARD brings to life Fogo Island’s striking geological formations, unique climate, and austere beauty in the latest work by Sharon Lockhart. Filmed on the windswept northern face of the remote island off the coast of Newfoundland, the piece is organized by an unseen, persistent force—the breezes that descend uninterrupted from the Arctic. Read more...

Every order decides what belongs and what is left outside. Order and Its Others listens at the margins through works that organize sound, power, freedom, and collectivity in radically different ways. Read more...

Wild Up presents the world premiere of a newly commissioned work by Shelley Washington for Wild Up musicians and The Collective Orchestra, an open-invitation community ensemble, in The Room Begins to Rise. Read more...

Fractais Tropicais (Tropical Fractals) depicts environmental collapse and a vision of the post-apocalyptic world. Read more...

Angel City Arts returns to REDCAT for its annual Jazz Refractions Festival with a dynamic double bill featuring Fred Frith’s Fremakajo + DoYeon Kim’s Quartet. Read more...

Angel City Arts returns to REDCAT for its annual Jazz Refractions Festival with a dynamic double bill featuring two outstanding artists from Los Angeles in dialogue with the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra. Read more...

Dimitri Chamblas delves into the life stories of two remarkable dancers in Ulysse Marion. Read more...

As Ocean People: Symposium, Screenings, and Performance brings together artists and scholars of various diasporic Asian Pacific Islander identities whose work and scholarship examine the legacies of U.S. militarization and war, forms of Indigenous resistance, and environmentalism in and around the Pacific. Read more...