CalArts Events

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

Prepare for common questions posed in job/other career interview scenarios, and be ready to ask pertinent questions of your own. Learn nuanced approaches for in-person, phone, and virtual interviews.

Project Week is HASOM’s semesterly week-long program dedicated to exploration, collaboration, and creative growth. The semester’s project week is featuring visiting artist DoYeon Kim!

Come watch Dimitri Chamblas “Ulysse Marion” performance at REDCAT!

Institute vans depart at 6:15pm

October is recognized nationally as Domestic Violence Awareness Month (DVAM)—a dedicated time to honor survivors, promote healthy relationship dynamics, and unite our community against intimate partner violence. Student Affairs and the School of Film/Video invite you to explore how creative expression can serve as a powerful form of resistance against injustice.

Syd Olsberg and Natalia Aris are back co-hosting another fanfiction workshop! Join them to discuss fanfiction ethics, censorship, explicit content and maybe even write some of your own. 

One of the founders of Second City ETC, and its training program in Chicago, guest director Jeff Michalski works with CalArts actors to create a brand new sketch show! Together we’ll laugh (perhaps sometimes through tears) at the issues of our times - like the manosphere, and the rise of AI (dun dun duuuuuuun!)

The CHANEL Center for Artists and Technology’s Speaker Series brings international figures from across artistic disciplines, industries, and institutions to discuss the role of technological research in their work. The inaugural event brings together two long-time collaborators with wide-ranging experience in how emerging technology can enable creativity and artistic experimentation.

Los Angeles is a playground for arts and culture, and Grand Avenue is its epicenter. Grand Ave Arts: All Access invites all to explore, be curious, pop in, and choose their own adventures. 

The Center for Discursive Inquiry welcomes Joel White to present for our series At the Conjuncture: Art and the Imagination, our first seminar of 2026-27: Testing the Thermoinformatic Limits of Artificial Judgment.

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...

Visiting Artist Steph “Stevie” Richards joins for the Jazz Forum class!

Experimental Animation Visiting Artists series presents Roy Del Espacio!

If you think the Beast is wild wait until Train Wreck unleashes a set of songs to get it howling, moaning, screaming, sweating and growling. Train Wreck is Bob Clendenen & Charlie Arredondo with a special guest appearance by Justin Scheid.

The Writing Now Series presents Sarah Wang, writer and editor based in New York and writing faculty of Barnard College! Read more...