Clubs and Organizations
Want to create a new club/organization on campus? Visit the Student Activities Office (D206a). If you have any questions, please call Student Activities at 661-253-3047.
Acting for Animators
Using the Meisner Technique—which focuses on external reactions rather than internal emotions to ignite creative instinct—this club offers a detailed understanding of behavior and emotion.
CalArts Anime Club
Watch and discuss Japanese animation. For more information, email animeclub@alum.calarts.edu.
CalArts Comedy
The club aims to foster a community for anyone with an interest in expressing themselves through humor or those who simply want to unwind from school.
CalArts Eye
An uncensored, multi-métier publication, CalArts Eye is created, composed, and constructed by students and for students. Alumni are also welcome to send in work. To send submissions or ask questions, email eye@alum.calarts.edu.
The Collective
Functioning as a gathering and a summoning, artists of the African Diaspora collaborate across disciplines to discover the polyvocal, radical depths of Black expression and thought. Through the creation of programming and events that take place throughout CalArts, the Collective strives to sustain multifocal conversations by choosing to speak back and re-vision. For more information, email thecollective@alum.calarts.edu.
Contact Improv Club
Provides a forum and "playground' for sharing tools in weight sharing, real-time decision making, and listening with the body.
Combo Club
A space where anyone from CalArts can come together and learn a new style/genre of dance each week.
Film Tonight
Each Friday night in A115, the club screens movies its members are excited by and feel people should see. Meets every Friday at 10pm in A115.
Game Makers
Leading CalArts into a brave new era of video game production.
Hardware Hacking Club
The club’s mission is to modify, hack or circuit bend various electronic devices in the pursuit of art. For more information, email hardwarehackers@alum.calarts.edu.
HeArt Christian Fellowship
A time and space for fellowship within the gospel of Jesus Christ, members build and encourage each other's faith and use multimedia to bring hope. For more information, email heart@alum.calarts.edu.
Hip Hop Club
Gives students a chance to expand their dance training and experience the culture. For more information, email hiphopclub@alum.calarts.edu
Masterpeace
Aims to inspire everyone to use their talent and energy for building peace and togetherness. For more information, email masterpeace@alum.calarts.edu. Visit Masterpeace on Facebook
Materials Collective
Develops campus-wide solutions to minimize single use materials, reduce the waste of reusable materials, and enable responsible disposal.
Mi Gente – Latin Student Union
A collective to provide support, encouragement, and critique toward our art practices and communities. For more information, email migente@alum.calarts.edu.
Queer Arts Collective (QAC)
Aims to sensitize the CalArts community on diverse, sexual, gender and non-normative identities/narratives. Along with forming a safe and friendly peer group including students, administrators, faculty and staff, we organize exhibitions, film screenings, lectures and artist shows. For more information, email qac@alum.calarts.edu. QAC Tumblr.
radioKCIA
Provides the CalArts community with a unique outlet for creative sharing through vibrant content and thought-provoking radio programming. For more information, email kcia@alum.calarts.edu.
Soccer Club
Play soccer. Have fun. Exercise. For more information, email soccerclub@alum.calarts.edu.
Tap Club
Brings culture and community to to tap through the fundamentals of rhythm.