CalArts Events

Located at the Wild Beast; The CalArts Contemporary Vocal Ensemble presents “Bring Me Little Water,” vocal music from a resilient world. It is a moment to connect, to heal, and to recharge

CalArts Percussion Ensemble performs new music by Portuguese composer António Pinho Vargas; Free Improvisation Ensemble discovers new noises and notes in real time.

Tour and talk with the team of WonderWorks, Inc., a full service design and production company specializing in spacecraft and astronaut costume, model, and set fabrication serving the film, theme park, and museum industries. And then visit exhibits of renowned Los Angeles space and science museum Griffith Observatory. Engage with space and storytelling through the lenses of research and production design.

Institute vans depart at 10am

Students premiere their original compositions for guitars, strings and keyboards.

Faculty concert located at the Sharon Disney Lund Theater; featuring Luigi Nono: La lontananza nostalgica utopica futura, Madrigale per più “caminantes” con Gidon Kremer (1988-89), for violon solo and eight-track tape.

World Music Collective is a early celebration of world music at CalArts! This year, we will have live music and dance from Indonesia, West-Africa, Cuba, India, Persia, Japan and many more places. Come to the Gamelan Room (A114) for a phenomenal evening!

How complex is simple, how simple is complex? Sonic Boom performs “simple” rock music by XTC, The Sonics, Maudlin of the Well, Lou Reed, Broadcast, The Stooges, GYBE, Ulrich Krieger, Adrian Clark, Quinn Madison, Apaar Mehra, and Sonic Boom.

Located in MOD Lobby & by D300 gallery entrances; Market features unique, handcrafted creations from CalArts student and alumni artists, as well as local SCV makers—art, crafts, knits, jewelry, clothing, zines, prints, ornaments, pottery... Open to the public to attend. 

Celebrate the end of the semester and the upcoming new year with your CalArts colleagues with food, drinks, music, and more! Honoring CalArtians reaching their 5, 10, 25, and 35 milestones!

Created by the founders of New Theater Hollywood, this new play traces what happens when a collective dream dissolves. Read more...

Experience a live taping of the Voice.

Institute vans depart at 10:45am

Experience a live taping of sitcom Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage.

Institute vans depart at 2pm