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Rigo 23: Autonomous Space Program @ REDCAT
Opening Reception
Saturday, April 21 | 6–9pm
Gallery Hours
Tuesdays - Sundays | noon - 6pm or intermission
REDCAT: Initiated by San Francisco-based artist Rigo 23, Autonomous Space Program is an interdisciplinary collaboration with weavers, seamstresses, painters, carpenters, and cultural activists from Southern Chiapas, Mexico. Read more
CultureHub ARTALK presents Scott Hutchinson and Richard Whitney: a two-part series 'Seeing by Building Simple Electronics' & 'Capturing a Story'
Seeing by Building Simple Electronics
Thursday, May 3, 2012
6:00pm – 8:00pm
CalArts, XBOX (Main Gallery Conference Room)
This workshop is the first of a two-part series and students are recommended to attend both dates. Interested students please RSVP at annie@culturehub.org.
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, ART, PHOTOGRAPHY, GRAPHIC DESIGN: As designers we work to refine our ability to see and to communicate visually. Regardless of our level of visual literacy, we filter out the vast majority of the visual information coming to us. This workshop uses simple electronics and sensor systems to capture some of those moments we are otherwise blind to with a camera and a small computer built for artists and designers called an “Arduino.”
In this session the agenda is:
Introductions and Inspiration (30 min)
- Others working with sensing systems to reveal hidden worlds
- Detailed electronics build and testing
Workshop setting up sensor systems (60 min)
- Using partially pre-set up arduinos, supplied electronics and diagrams, students will complete the systems, using flexible switch based trigger systems to capture brief moments.
Project scope (30 min)
Presented by CalArts Office of International Relations and CultureHub.
Capturing a Story
Thursday, May 24, 2012
6:00pm – 8:00pm
XBOX (Main Gallery Conference Room)
This workshop is the second of a two-part series and students are recommended to attend both dates. Interested students please RSVP at annie@culturehub.org.
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, ART, PHOTOGRAPHY, GRAPHIC DESIGN: Explore the creativity of building switches, delays and set ups to capture an intended story. In this workshop based second session students refine their systems and do real time capturing to build the imagery, story and information graphics.
*No previous electronics experience is required but some camera knowledge is helpful. Basic electronics and basic coding is also helpful but again not required. One of the goals of the workshop is to introduce designers to electronics as a tool to add to their design process. Students need to bring a digital camera that can be put on bulb or long exposure mode. Tripods are optional and useful.
Presented by CalArts Office of International Relations and CultureHub.
Scott Hutchinson, designer, is the program director of the Visual Arts at UCLA Extension where he oversees the design, studio, photography, art history and user experience programs. He has an MFA from UCLA's Design Media Arts program and specializes in usability, branding, social media and web development. Scott is also the user experience and strategic advisor for the UCLA Volunteer Center, and the producer of TEDxUCLA. Scott has been on the board of the nation design group AIGA Los Angeles under three presidents, and is currently on the AIGA National Design Educators Committee. A recent and related talk around electronics for Cal Poly San Louis Obispo can be seen on the blog boingboing.
Richard “Dick” Whitney has worked for NASA, created UIs for Samsung, built a multitouch table for Schlumberger, and headed the R&D group at Idealab. He has experience in interactive art, solar tech, 3D printing, tangible user interfaces, energy storage, thermal atrial fibrillation reversion, low-cost CNC, health monitoring, DFM/DFA, and more. Dick holds a S.M. from the MIT Media Lab and a B.S. from Johns Hopkins in biomedical engineering, and helped found Syyn Labs.
CalArts Animation Show @ Westfield Valencia Town Center
Westfield Valencia Town Center
Space 135 Gallery
Directions
FILM/VIDEO / INSTITUTE / COMMUNITY: View firsthand the future of animation arts, brought to you by the brightest talents in CalArts' world-renowned Program in Character Animation. Presented by the City of Santa Clarita, Westfield Town Center, and CalArts.
Arcane Collective: 'Cold Dream Colour' @ REDCAT
REDCAT: Leading Los Angeles choreographer Oguri collaborates with Dublin-based choreographers Morleigh Steinberg and Liz Roche in this acclaimed international co-production featuring a beautifully haunting score by U2 guitarist The Edge and Paul Chavez of Feltlike, partly inspired by the rich and ethereal work of Irish artist Louis le Brocquy. Read more
New Day at 40: A Community's Celebration @ REDCAT
REDCAT: REDCAT marks the 40th anniversary of New Day Films, which welcomed the work of filmmakers—both men and women—who were challenging the political status quo in terms of gender, social and racial inequality. Today, New Day Films counts about 120 members, whose films have won Academy Awards, Emmys, and premiered at major film festivals. Read more
Sandra Bernhard: 'Sandrology' @ REDCAT
REDCAT: The wry and sometimes wicked Sandra Bernhard mixes outrageous humor, cutting satire and fiercely energetic musical numbers in an all-new production that takes its name from Bernhard's appearances as a "pop culture anthropologist" on Bravo TV, but there are no censors and nothing is sacred when Berhard takes the stage to journey through the worlds of contemporary culture, politics and celebrity. Read more
Past Events
GR1D, An Installation
CalArts, Main Entrance
MUSIC: GR1D is an interactive light display with forty low-density pixels. Opening to the general public on April 1st, 2012, GR1D will be situated outside the main entrance to CalArts in an area of the building's unique waffle-pattern ceilings; it will be later be permanently installed in B214, the Machine Lab. Each pixel, a three-by-three foot ceiling well, is lighted by a networked RGB light. The CalArts community is invited to interact with the installation, in real-time, on their iOS or Android devices. GR1D will be on display until graduation on May 18th, 2012. GR1D is supported by the Office of the Provost, The Herb Alpert School of Music, The Music Technology program, and the Information Technology department.
More information: http://dimitridiakopoulos.com/grid
'Margery and Me'
'Purgatory In Ingolstadt'
CalArts, E400
THEATER: A story of youth trapped in a closed society, Purgatory In Ingolstadt, by Marieluise Fleisser and directed by Marina McClure, depicts a world dominated by church order and traditional gender roles. Bereft of stable mentoring, the students bully, spy, embrace, and reject each other in rapid succession. Purgatory In Ingolstadt centers on two outsiders, Roelle and Olga. Each tries to escape the confines of their society—one with public delusions of grandeur, the other by allying herself with men who may help her. For more details go to purgatoryiningolstadt.wordpress.com.
Please note: The performance on Thursday, April 26 is a preview.
transit
CalArts, Stevenson Blanche
ART: A photography show with live music on 5/3/12.
Art School Gallery Exhibitions
D300 Gallery: Photo Foundation
D301 Gallery: Photo Foundation
L-Shape Gallery: Louise O'Donnell BFA
Main Gallery Perimeter: Mykel Pryharski BFA
A402 Gallery: Joseph Holliday BFA
Lime Gallery: Lauren Halsey BFA
Mint Gallery: "Organology of the MOON" Eugene Moon BFA
The Herb Alpert School of Music Visiting Artist: Loop2.3.4
CalArts, A300
MUSIC: The Percussion program presents visiting artist Loop2.3.4, as part of the Percussion Workshop class.
Adventures of Galen and Grace
CalArts, C-Block Hallway
THEATER: A one-woman show.
Structuring Strategies: 'Bush Mama'
CalArts, Bijou Theater
FILM/VIDEO
Bush Mama
(1975, USA, 16mm, b/w, 97 min.)
Inspired after having seen a Black woman in Chicago evicted in winter, Haile Gerima developed Bush Mama as his UCLA thesis film. He blends narrative fiction, documentary, surrealism and political modernism in his unflinching story about a pregnant welfare recipient in Watts. Featuring the magnetic Barbara O. Jones as Dorothy, Bush Mama is an unrelenting and powerfully moving look at the realities of inner city poverty and systemic disenfranchisement of African Americans.
The film explores the different forces that act on Dorothy in her daily dealings with the welfare office and social workers as she is subjected to the oppressive cacophony of state-sponsored terrorism against the poor. Motivated by the incarceration of her partner T.C. (Johnny Weathers) and the protection of her daughter and unborn child, Dorothy undergoes an ideological transformation from apathy and passivity to empowered action. Ultimately uplifting, the film chronicles Dorothy’s awakening political consciousness and her assumption of her own self-worth.
With Bush Mama, Gerima presents an unflinching critique of the surveillance state and unchecked police power. The film opens with actual footage of the LAPD harassing Gerima and his crew during the shooting. —Allyson Nadia Field (UCLA)
Producer: Haile Gerima. Screenwriter: Haile Gerima. Cinematographer: Charles Burnett, Roderick Young. Editor: Haile Gerima. Cast: Barbara-O (Barbara O. Jones), Johnny Weathers, Susan Williams, Cora Lee Day.
The screening will be followed by a Q & A with Haile Gerima and is open to the entire Institute.
Transparent Cities @ REDCAT
REDCAT: Madison Brookshire (video), April Guthrie (cello), Michael Pisaro (sound), and Cassia Streb (viola) layer sound and image field recordings combined with music—both recorded and performed live—to reveal patterns that emerge during the course of a single day in this vivid portrait of Los Angeles. Read more
CalArts Office of International Relations and CultureHub present Esther K. Chae, award winning actor/writer “Ae-ri in Otherland: my fantastical and strange journey in the arts and entertainment”
CalArts, XBOX
(Main Gallery Conference Room)
CalArts students of all disciplines are welcome to attend. Interested students are free to drop in the workshop but are encouraged to RSVP at annie@culturehub.org to ensure space.
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, THEATER: Esther Kyung-ju Chae (한국명 채경주) will share her personal stories of where she came from and how she got to her current professional life as an artist working across multiple mediums. She is a Hollywood actress in tv shows/commercials/films/voice overs, a stage actor and playwright of solo performance “So the Arrow Flies,” and cultural provocateur who challenges notions and ideas of what it means to be an Asian American female artist through her leadership and educational work. She created a play called “Ae-ri in Otherland” that features Korean percussion music sa-mul-nol-i and characters from both Korean folktales and Alice in Wonderland. She has always identified herself with Alice/Ae-ri and now presenting her telepresence seminar through this state-of-the-art technology for students world wide, she is indeed living her childhood dream through the looking glass.
This workshop will be conducted in both Korean and English, connecting with students from The Seoul Institute of the Arts via Telepresence. The workshop can be viewed live at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/seoularts-atec and will be interactive with virtual students and audience members via Esther Chae’s Facebook page @ http://www.facebook.com/EstherKChae. Please log on for feedback or questions during the session.
Esther K. Chae is an award-winning actor/writer based in Los Angeles and New York. Her artistic work has been seen and heard in the US, Korea, Ireland, Australia, Russia, Italy and Nigeria. Her numerous credits as a performer include TV shows NCIS, Law and Order: Criminal Intent, 24, The Shield, Night Stalker; theatre stages such as Yale Repertory Theater, La Mama, Mark Taper Forum/ Kirk Douglas Theater, P.S. 122 and Harvard/A.R.T.
Chae's performances have been lauded as "talented" (Variety), "engaging" (Hollywood Reporter) - and "the willowy actress [with] subtle physicality" (LA Times). Her life in Hollywood has been featured in a Korean Broadcasting Station (KBS) documentary.
She conceived and wrote her solo performance So the Arrow Flies, about a North Korean spy and the FBI Agent who hunts her down. It has been was invited to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival ("a powerful and compelling script... fascinatingly gripping" - ThreeWeeks Magazine), Ars Nova Theater Festival (NY), World Women's Forum (Seoul), TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) conference of which she is an inaugural fellow, CUNY's Martin Segal Theater and NYU's Performance Studies. Her script and developmental research for So the Arrow Flies is currently on display at the Library of Congress for Asian Pacific American Heritage Month in D.C. Her absurd puppet play Ddan da ddan!!! about a Super Woman sock puppet imprisoned in a kryptonite cell by the Purple Squid-heads will be featured this fall at the inaugural TimeWave Festival, a new, cutting-edge international festival fusing art and technology.
Chae graduated from the Yale School of Drama with an MFA in Acting, the University of Michigan with an MA in Theater Studies, and Korea University.
www.estherchae.com * Esther K. Chae @Facebook & YouTube * Twitter.com/Chaeful
Guitars@CalArts
CalArts, The Wild Beast
MUSIC: Acoustic guitars playing traditional and original pieces and improvisations, from classical to blues to jazz to rock and beyond.
School of Film/Video 2012 Showcase @ REDCAT
REDCAT: Each year the CalArts School of Film/Video presents a juried selection of four special screenings that feature new short and feature-length films by students in its Experimental Animation, Film and Video and Film Directing programs.
Wednesday, May 2, 8:00pm
Longform Screening focuses on works from the Program in Film and Video and Film Directing Program
Thursday, May 3, 8:00pm
Student work from our Program in Experimental Animation
Friday, May 4, 8:00pm
Short works from students in the Film Directing Program
Saturday, May 5, 7:00pm
Short works from students in the Program in Film and Video
All programs are free. Reservations strongly encouraged.
Interface
CalArts, Roy O. Disney Music Hall
MUSIC: An end-of-year showcase of works performed with the help of new and inventive electronic musical interfaces.
New Works Festival: Managers Gone Wild
CalArts, Cafeteria
THEATER: The managers of the School of Theater perform a Bollywood version of Grease, including three dance pieces and pre-recorded dialogue.
New Works Festival: Light Speed Fighter Jocks: 01
CalArts, Coffeehouse Theater
THEATER: A multimedia narrative about a group competing to be the first entity to break the speed of light.
The Herb Alpert School of Music Visiting Artist: Pete Lockett
CalArts, B236
MUSIC: The World Percussion program presents visiting artist Pete Lockett, as part of the Tala class.
Paul Brach Visiting Artist Lecture Series Presents Megan & Murray McMillan
Paul Brach Visiting Artist Lecture Series Presents
Megan & Murray McMillan
At CalArts, Room F200
6.00pm
'Time Arrives, Empties Itself and Moves On'
CalArts, Coffeehouse Theater
CRITICAL STUDIES: Thesis readings by MFA2 writing students Chelsea Trescott, Oscar Moralde and Seth Blake.
Critical Studies MFA Writing Program Final Thesis Reading: Seth Blake, Oscar Moralde, Chelsea Leigh Trescott
CalArts, Butler Building 4 - The Cube
CRITICAL STUDIES
SETH BLAKE “many a smale maketh a grate”
OSCAR MORALDE is a writer, filmmaker, and critic whose current projects investigate the intersection of the literary and the cinematic. His work has been featured in Slant Magazine and The Hypermodern, and while he may not be an Academy Award-nominated screenwriter, he has been insulted by one.
CHELSEA LEIGH TRESCOTT’s narratives issue from travel and displacement and the alienating effect of being looked at; her exactitude is of a phenomenological kind. The central dilemma is always an internal one, a longing for oneself, for home and the privilege of a child—naïveté, perseverance, and will.
Next Dance Concert
CalArts, Sharon Disney Lund Dance Theater
DANCE: Now in its fourth season, the resident ensemble of The Sharon Disney Lund School of Dance at CalArts, brings two memorable evenings of innovative new dance to the Sharon Disney Lund Dance Theater and REDCAT. Co-directed this year by choreographers Stephan Koplowitz and Laurence Blake, The Next Dance Company draws together the school's most expert performers and choreographers—all members of the 2012 graduating class. This year’s concert will include choreography by New-York based guest artist Darrell Grand Moultrie, faculty member Laurence Blake, MFA students Anne Moore and Cherise Richards, and BFA students.
Laura Jean presents: A Feast of Folk & Forage
CalArts, A300
MUSIC: A mid-residency recital that focuses on the many facets of folk influence.
The Herb Alpert School of Music Visiting Artist: Pete Lockett
CalArts, B200
MUSIC: The World Percussion program presents visiting artist Pete Lockett, as part of the World Percussion Careers class.
The Herb Alpert School of Music Visiting Artist: Ric Alviso
CalArts, Roy O. Disney Music Hall
MUSIC: The World Music program presents visiting artist Ric Alviso, as part of the "Lecture/Demonstration on the Shona Mbira" class.
West Hollywood Lecture Series: 'Constructing the Future'
West Hollywood Library, City Council Chambers
Ric Abramson established his office, Workplays studio*architecture, in 2003. A former Fulbright scholar in Italy and Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome, he divides his time between professional practice, academic research, and community involvement. His practice focuses on creative land use strategies, urban housing typologies, hybrid programs, residential hillsides and urban infill. He teaches at the USC School of Architecture.
Norman Klein is a cultural critic, and both an urban and media historian, as well as a novelist. His books include The History of Forgetting: Los Angeles and the Erasure of Memory, Seven Minutes: The Life and Death of the American Animated Cartoon, the data/cinematic novel, Bleeding Through: Layers of Los Angeles, 1920-86 (DVD-ROM with book) and The Vatican to Vegas: The History of Special Effects.
John D’Amico attended CalArts in the early 80’s and went on to study business, architecture, and urban design. He returned to CalArts as a mid-career professional in the architecture and construction industry. Like the NASA Galileo Missions that use the gravity of the inner planets to gain enough velocity for their long trips to the outer planets, John returned to CalArts to help catapult himself into the future. He is now a West Hollywood councilmember.
World Music and Dance Festival: Music Under the Stars: Indian and Mexican Ensembles
CalArts, The Wild Beast
MUSIC: East welcomes West in a concert of exciting new compositions performed by the CalArts Student Indian Ensemble under the direction of Aashish Khan. The second half of the concert features new Mexican music influenced by indigenous Spanish, African and Arabic cultures. Though Mexico is incredibly diverse, (63 languages are spoken), one pulsating rhythm is present at every social event: the cumbia. Enjoy a festive evening as students bring their innovative new works to life.
For more information, please call 661.253.7816.
Puppet Cabaret (Circus Bezerkus)
CalArts, Graduation Courtyard
THEATER: Puppet Cabaret is a student-run interdisciplinary event featuring puppet & object performances and films/videos/animations presented cabaret-style by students of varying métiers at CalArts. In addition to performances, a crafts table will be available.
REDCAT International Children's Film Festival
REDCAT: The 7th Annual REDCAT International Children’s Film Festival makes a most welcome return with two full weekends of exhilarating short-film programs, showcasing work from around the globe—including Brazil, Colombia, Israel, Iran, Japan, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Taiwan and Vietnam—to raise the curtain on a world of celluloid wonder. Read more
New Works Festival: 'In the Flesh'
CalArts, Coffeehouse Theater
THEATER / DANCE: Two complete dance works featuring Boyle Heights and FLESH.
World Music and Dance Festival: World Rhythms with Pete Lockett, as part of the Wild Beast Concert Series
CalArts, The Wild Beast
MUSIC: World Rhythms with Pete Lockett offers an evening with the CalArts World Percussion Ensemble. Visiting artist Pete Lockett (when you see James Bond running through a Vietnamese marketplace, knocking all the vegetable stands over, you’re hearing Pete in the background) is featured along with Hands On’Semble, plus special guests. CalArts was one of the first schools in the country to offer programs in World Music performance—and this event is a special part of the Herb Alpert School of Music’s annual World Music Festival. Read more
For more information, please call 661.253.7816.
The Wild Beast Concert Series
The Spring season is presented in partnership with Levitt Pavilions
- Free outdoor music concert
- Open lawn seating in the S. Mark Taper Foundation Courtyard
- Families and picnics encouraged
Motion Study for Automatic Piano
CalArts, MOD Lobby
MUSIC: Two dancers perform with an automatic piano.
Musical Improv
CalArts, Coffeehouse Theater
THEATER: Improvised songs and theater collide for an evening of good times.
Regan's Story: Viva Lolita
CalArts, Hallway between Main Gallery and Stevenson Blanche
ART: Wall works created using screen shots from The Exorcist that have been collaged and painted over, along with several Glade PlugIns that will be installed in electrical outlets.
World Music and Dance Festival: Javanese Music & Dance
CalArts
7 pm: The Wild Beast
9 pm: Roy O. Disney Music Hall
MUSIC: This evening concert of traditional and new Javanese music and dance features the Court Dance of Yogyakarta and Mangkunegaran Palace of Central Java. The Javanese Gamelan Orchestra Kyai Doro Dasih (Venerable Dream Come True) performs under the direction of Pak Djoko Walujo and Nanik Wenten (Dance Director).
Through the support of the Consulate General of the Republic of Indonesia in Los Angeles, a visiting gamelan with musicians and dancers from Institut Seni Indonesia (ISI) in Surakarta, directed by Slamet Suparno and Rahayu Supanggah, perform a rich dance program drawn from the diverse regions of Java. Photography and painting from ISI Surakarta will be displayed at The Wild Beast pavilion during the concert. And after the music and dance—please join us in CalArts’ Roy O. Disney Music Hall for a special performance of a Balinese shadow play, Wayang Kulit, accompanied by still more live music.
For more information, please call 661.253.7816.
Next Words Series: The Mountain Bar
The Mountain Bar, Los Angeles
CRITICAL STUDIES: The 2012 Graduating class of the MFA Writing Program at CalArts presents Next Words, an LA-based reading series of innovative new work by emerging writers. Have a drink, buy a book and check out the latest writing to come out of CalArts!
The Mountain Bar
473 Gin Ling Way Los Angeles, CA 90012
New Works Festival: Bete Noire
CalArts, Coffeehouse Theater
THEATER: A dance-theater & multimedia performance on the theme of fear.
Bugbot Prophesies
CalArts, Wave Cave (hall at top of ROD stairs)
MUSIC: Sound installation
Art School Gallery Exhibitions
D300 Gallery: POINT AT IT MFA Graphic Design Exhitbition
D301 Gallery: If____, Then ____. BFA Graphic Design Exhibition
L-Shape Gallery: Art Foundation
Main Gallery Perimeter: Art Foundation
A402 Gallery: Art Foundation
Lime Gallery: Art and Technology MFA Group Exhibition
Mint Gallery: Art and Technology MFA Group Exhibition
Noon Jazz Concert with Charles Levin Ensemble
CalArts, Main Gallery
MUSIC: One hour concert of jazz tunes.
New Works Festival: Dozje Brown Dance Concert
CalArts, E407
THEATER: Dance concert with live music, singing and acting!
Interpolation: Noise in Space
CalArts, C113
INTEGRATED MEDIA / MUSIC: Interpolation: Noise in Space is an audio-visual performance, featuring AGB—a collaboration between multi-media artists Kameron Christopher and Jon He.
Chamber Music Concert
CalArts, Roy O. Disney Music Hall
MUSIC: Concert of chamber music performed by students and faculty.
Cine Povera: Mexican Experiments in 16MM @ REDCAT
REDCAT: As an echo to the Arte Povera movement, Cine Povera showcases work from Mexico by filmmakers who persist in working in 16mm with the most modest resources. Not consumed with the medium’s illusions, this eclectic selection of handcrafted shorts reveals the passion, craft and ingenuity of artists who adhere to the ethos of honest effort. Read more
New Works Festival: Statues of Us
CalArts, E400
THEATER: An interdisciplinary performance and video piece.
Structuring Strategies: CalArts Faculty Adele Horne presents her brand new documentary 'Maintenance'
CalArts Bijou Theater
FILM/VIDEO
Maintenance
91 minutes, 2012, HD
Cleaning house is one of the most private things we do in our homes, other than sex and arguments. We often feel shameful about clutter and dirt, so there is something particularly intimate about the act of cleaning it up. Although the product of a clean home is socially valued, the work required to achieve it is not. House cleaning exists on the shadow side of the economy, on the margins or outside of paid employment. It is an additional, uncounted form of labor that enables our roles as paid workers and consumers. This film invites viewers to meditate on the ongoing maintenance work that makes other, more highly valued, work possible.
MAINTENANCE is constructed as a series of fifteen portraits of people cleaning house. In most cases, they are cleaning their own homes. The film’s subjects represent a wide cross-section of the population of Los Angeles. In one or more fixed, long-duration shots, the film observes each person engaged in cleaning. We hear the ambient scrubbing, sweeping, and sloshing of their labor, and sometimes other sounds: their conversations with family members or friends who are working alongside them, or the music they listen to as they work. At the end of each person’s portrait, the ambient sound continues, and the image is replaced on screen by text in which the person reflects on their memories, feelings, or practices regarding cleaning.
Adele Horne's films and videos have screened at the Museum of Modern Art's Documentary Fortnight, the Rotterdam International Film Festival, the Flaherty Film Seminar, Images Festival, Courtisane Festival, Antimatter Film Festival, Los Angeles FilmForum, Athens International Film Festival, FLEX Festival, Anthology Film Archive, Pacific Film Archive, San Francisco Cinematheque, Film Arts Foundation, PDX Film Festival, Morelia International Film Festival, Nashville Film Festival, Chicago Underground Film Festival, the Mix Festival, Women in the Director's Chair, and Mad Cat Women's Film and Video Festival. Her feature-length documentary The Tailenders was broadcast nationally on POV and won Film Independent's "Axium Truer than Fiction Award" in the 2007 Spirit Awards.
Her films have been reviewed in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal, Velvet Light Trap, Millenium Film Journal, and many scholarly journals.
Adele received an M.F.A. from the University of California, San Diego, and a B.A. from Williams College.
CalArts Entertainment Group: Don Cheadle @ REDCAT
REDCAT: CalArts Entertainment Group presents an intimate conversation with actor Don Cheadle (BFA Acting ’86) who has continued to challenge audiences with compelling performances in film and television, earning him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor for his performance in Hotel Rwanda, a Best Supporting Actor Award from the Los Angeles Film Critics for Devil in a Blue Dress and a Best Supporting Actor BAFTA nomination for Crash. Read more and ticket information
Misty
CalArts, F100
THEATER/DANCE: Installation performance featuring dancers, live music and 4D performance including water.
'Noisy People' Film Screening
CalArts, The Wild Beast
MUSIC: Screening of Noisy People, a feature-length documentary about improvisational music in the San Francisco Bay area.
Nicholas Baker's Mid-Residency Recital
CalArts, A300
MUSIC: BFA mid-residency multi-focus percussion concert, featuring Even Oceans, and covers.
New Works Festival: Parallel
CalArts, F100
THEATER: A 30-minute live theater performance with a film projected behind it.
New Works Festival: The Walls
CalArts, C105
THEATER: A small scale production of The Walls, with 3 actors, a block, a door and party balloons.
CultureHub ARTALK presents Ajay Kapur: '21st Century Raga: Digitizing North Indian Music'
CalArts, XBOX
(Main Gallery Conference Room)
CalArts students of all disciplines are welcome to attend. Interested students are free to drop in but are encouraged to RSVP at annie@culturehub.org to ensure space.
Watch the video Man vs. Machine: Duet for ESitar and Robotics by KarmetiK below:
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, MUSIC TECHNOLOGY: This presentation describes methods for digitizing, analyzing, preserving and extending North Indian Classical Music. Custom built controllers, influenced by the Human Computer Interaction (HCI) Community, serve as new interfaces to gather musical gestures from a performing artist. Modified tabla, dholak, and sitar will be described. Experiments using Wearable sensors to capture ancillary gestures of a human performer will also be discussed. A brief history through the world of Musical Robotics will be followed by an introduction to the MahaDeviBot, a 12-armed solenoid-based drummer used to accompany a live sitar player. Presentation is full of video examples showing evolution of the body of work in the laboratory to the live performance stage.
Ajay Kapur is director of the program in Music Technology (MTIID) at the California Institute of the Arts and lecturer of Sonic Arts at the New Zealand School of Music. Ajay is also the founder of KarmetiK, an international group of artists and engineers seeking to question and redefine the boundaries between music, the visual arts, and technology.
www.ajaykapur.com
www.karmetik.com
Presented by CalArts Office of International Relations and CultureHub ARTALK.
www.culturehub.org
Body Cluster Publication Launch Party - MFA Writing
CalArts, Butler Building #4 - Cube
CRITICAL STUDIES: Presentation of readings of the Body Cluster Publication [Cell] created from classes run in the fall of 2011. Books will be distributed and contributors will read from their work, with a reception to follow.
Music and Image Concert
CalArts, Roy O. Disney Music Hall
MUSIC: Students present sound and image works in an immersive environment using multiple video projections, quad audio, and midi controlled lights.
Galatea
CalArts, Butler Building 2
THEATER: Writing for Performance thesis workshop.
Feeling lonely? Can't connect? Tired of getting shot down by THOSE girls?
Then come join the exciting, enticing, exotic, erotic world of iDolls! [and the men who love them.]
Come see couples on the brink, personified objects, and objectified people. Humans just looking for connection. Oh, and the mysterious Sandman.
You'll laugh! You'll cry! You'll go "eww that's kinda creepy..."
Music for Woodwinds & Friends
CalArts, The Wild Beast
MUSIC: Concert of chamber music written by students in the Writing for Woodwinds class taught by Bill Powell.
School of Film/Video 2012 Showcase: Character Animation Producer's Show @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Samuel Goldwyn Theater
8949 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills
FILM/VIDEO: Reservations are required. Please contact characteranimation@calarts.edu or call 661.253.7818.
JUNK: A Graduation Concert by Taylor Brizendine
CalArts, Roy O. Disney Music Hall
MUSIC: Music by Taylor Brizendine, and featuring Greg Uhlmann, Ryan Parrish and Rimpau.
Hillary Kapan's Class Projects Exhibition
CalArts, A404
FILM/VIDEO: Installation with projection.
choreography as a liminal space
CalArts, IM room and hallway outside of C108
INTEGRATED MEDIA: The Integrated Media Sound as Object class presents their final project: choreography as a liminal space.
'The Bad Sounds Get Homeless'
CalArts, E197
THEATER: This one-act play reading of an original play, written by Richie Dagger Salazar, focuses on a family indulged with wealth who slowly realize the traps of material possessions.
Paul Brach Visiting Artist Lecture Series Presents Hirsch Perlman
Paul Brach Visiting Artist Lecture Series Presents
Hirsch Perlman
At CalArts Room F200
7.00pm
'People Like Us'
CalArts, E197
THEATER: One-act play.
Critical Studies MFA Writing Program Final Thesis Reading: Zoe Etkin, Tiffanie Hoang, Lan Pham
CalArts, Butler Building 4 - The Cube
CRITICAL STUDIES
ZOE ETKIN is a poet and educator who earned her BA in Creative Writing from the College of Santa Fe. She is one of CalArts’ Beutner Scholars and her work appears or is forthcoming in Burning Word, Poetry South, Glyph, and Deep South Magazine.
TIFFANIE HOANG is the eldest child in her immediate family. She writes poetry and lives in Los Angeles.
LAN PHAM would love to come back as a ghost. As such, she writes assorted horrors.
Claire's Grad Recital!!!!!!! — CANCELED
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED.
Eat This!! Zine Release Party
CalArts, L-Shape Gallery
ART: Zines (publications) created in the Eat this!! class will be distributed, along with ice cream tastes invented through "Scoop" ice cream parlor in Hollywood.
'HADHAD'
CalArts, Lulu May von Hagen Courtyard
FILLM/VIDEO: Movie screening of HADHAD (42 min.)
In this movie actors are considered to be agents of exchange, communicators of a dialogue that proposes a debate concerning humans, technology and the future. The deterministic promise of evolutionary narratives is plugged into a genre structure that undermines the existence of a grand destination while turning the discriminatory use of rational language into a real object to be feared.
Andrea Young: DMA1 Concert
CalArts, Roy O. Disney Music Hall
MUSIC: Andrea Young performs original compositions for voice, electronics and strings, alongside works by Kurtàg, Webern and Miller. Performers include Hil Jaeger, Vicki Ray, Stefan Kac, Pat Moran, Maryclare Brzytwa, Molly McLaughlin and Christin Hablewitz.
Graphic Design Mo'Show (motion show)
CalArts, Bijou Theater
ART: Screening of end-of-year Graphic Design motion works.
Motion Graphics Show
The Motion Graphics Show
Bijou Theater
10:00pm-12:00am
Works for Large Ensemble
CalArts, A300
MUSIC: Andrew Rowan's MFA mid-residency recital featuring six works for 20 musicians.
Music Technology Exhibition
CalArts
6-8 pm: Lobby of the Herb Alpert School of Music at CalArts
8-10 pm: Roy O. Disney Music Hall
MUSIC: Digital Arts open showcase of new technology designed by CalArts students. Highlighting new student and faculty projects made over this last academic year, the Expo’s exhibitions and demonstrations run from 6 pm to 8 pm in the lobby of the Herb Alpert School of Music at CalArts. Permanent Visiting Artist Perry R. Cook, founder of the Princeton University Sound Lab, will perform as part of the concert held in CalArts’ Roy O. Disney Theater from 8 pm to 10 pm. Admission is free. Read more
'Rummage Dig'
CalArts, Area outside of Theater school
THEATER: Rummage Dig, by Aleshea Harris, is a one-act play about the complex relationship between two sisters sorting through their deceased aunt's "inheritance."
Ivan Carames Bohigas: MFA-2 Performer-Composer Graduation Recital
CalArts, The Wild Beast
MUSIC: Bulerías Apócrifas for Flamenco dancer with orchestra, Conference of Birds free jazz ensemble and more great collaborations.
The Next Dance Company @ REDCAT
REDCAT: Now in its fourth season, the resident ensemble of The Sharon Disney Lund School of Dance at CalArts brings innovative and memorable new dance to REDCAT. The performances include choreophgraphy by New York-based guest artist Darrell Grand Moultrie and faculty member Laurence Blake. Read more
Asian Invasion
CalArts, Main Gallery
MUSIC: Electronic music concert performed by Tomio Ueda and Youngmin Joo.
New Works Festival: Petite/Chka
CalArts, F100
THEATER: Movement piece.
-30- Charles Levin
CalArts, Roy O. Disney Music Hall
MUSIC: MFA graduation recital - jazz, drums, satire, sheltie. Music by David Johnson, Paul Nagel, Charles Levin, Enrico Pieranunzi and John Steinmetz.
Experimental Music Workshop
CalArts, The Wild Beast
MUSIC: Performance of pieces by Alex Avery, Matthew Clough-Hunter, Devin DiSanto, Max Foreman, Chaz Underriner, Zac Ezrin, Robert Gordon, Travis Kane and Aidan Reynolds.
House is Open (New Works Festival)
CalArts, Modular Theater
THEATER: An electro-acoustic opera musical performance.
Trigger Fest
CalArts, Roy O. Disney Music Hall
MUSIC: Students in Trigger: The Electronic Percussionist showcase new works for live electronics and interactive video.
Berlin Apokalypse! Drag Ball 2012
CalArts, E400
THEATER: A performance spectacular in the vaudeville/variety show vein, featuring drag/musical/dance performances culminating in a celebratory dance piece.
Etienne Rivera: MFA World Percussion Graduation Recital
CalArts, Roy O. Disney Music Hall
MUSIC: Recital by Etienne Rivera, performing solo and with groups, featuring music from Puerto Rico, India, Brazil and Persia.
Orchestra Concert: '3 Cultures'
CalArts, The Wild Beast, Open Door (weather permitting)
MUSIC: Concert of three works: Iván Carames' Flamenco, Mike Pisaro's In the Field, and Henry Cowell's Persian set.
Critical Studies MFA Writing Program Final Thesis Reading Graduating Class Showcase @ REDCAT
REDCAT: The graduating class of the Critical Studies MFA Writing Program present their Final Thesis Reading at REDCAT. Read more
The Herb Alpert School of Music Visiting Artist: novi_sad (aka Thanasis Kaproulias)
CalArts, Roy O. Disney Music Hall
MUSIC: The Composition program presents visiting artist novi_sad (aka Thanasis Kaproulias), as part of the Concert of Electronic Music class, featuring noise and electronic music from Greece.
Wurm Hole: The Dreaming
CalArts, F100 & F100A, Fire Valley, Butler Building 5, Parking Lot #3, Soccer Field
THEATER: A brief scavenger hunt, concluding with an installation/performance piece featuring music, art, theater, dance and lighting.
School of Film/Video 2012 Showcase: Bijou Festival
CalArts, Bijou Theater
FILM/VIDEO: Student works from all School of Film/Video programs.
Art School Gallery Exhibitions
D300 Gallery: POINT AT IT MFA Graphic Design Exhitbition
D301 Gallery: If____, Then ____. BFA Graphic Design Exhibition
L-Shape Gallery: Art Pilots Exhibition
Main Gallery Perimeter: Theater Portfolio Event
A402 Gallery: Art Post Foundation
Lime Gallery: Art Post Foundation
Mint Gallery: Art Post Foundation
The Herb Alpert School of Music Visiting Artist: novi_sad (aka Thanasis Kaproulias)
CalArts, B305
MUSIC: The Composition program presents a lecture by visiting artist novi_sad (aka Thanasis Kaproulias).
The Herb Alpert School of Music Visiting Artist: John Fonville
CalArts, B312
MUSIC: The Flute program presents visiting artist John Fonville, as part of the Tuning Workshop Masterclass.
Improvisation Ensemble
CalArts, Roy O. Disney Music Hall
MUSIC: The Improvisation Ensemble presents a performance featuring both small and large ensemble improvisations, as well as new compositions created by students.
Roundtable Discussion with Photographer Howard L. Bingham
F200 from 6-9 pm
ART: The Photography and Media Program welcomes photographer Howard L. Bingham to CalArts for a roundtable discussion.
Alessandra Barrett: BFA Graduation Recital
CalArts, The Wild Beast
MUSIC: A night of solo and chamber music for viola, featuring works by Bach, Brahms, Walton, Vieuxtemps and Ravel.
I'll be whatever I wanna do - Sean Woodman
CalArts, A300
MUSIC: A graduation Multi-Focus Percussion recital featuring music from traditional Balkan to Bach.
The Herb Alpert School of Music Visiting Artist: LeRoy (The Jazzcat) Downs
CalArts, Roy O. Disney Music Hall
MUSIC: The African-American Improv program presents visiting artist LeRoy (The Jazzcat) Downs, as part of the Visiting Artist Colloquium.
Last Dance Concert
CalArts, Sharon Disney Lund Dance Theater
DANCE: The Sharon Disney Lund School of Dance presents the final concert of the school year, featuring BFA choreography.
Ricky Cheng: BFA Graduation Recital
CalArts, The Wild Beast
MUSIC: Piano recital featuring works by Franz Liszt, F. Chopin, George Crumb, J. Brahms and Khachaturian.
Bach and Baroque
CalArts, Roy O. Disney Music Hall
MUSIC: Concert featuring Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 and Bach and Handel arias.
CalArts Actors Showcase
CalArts, Walt Disney Modular Theater
THEATER: Final showcase performance of the graduating BFA/MFA Actors in the School of Theater. 33 actors, directed by Robert Cucuzza, performed this showcase on stages in NY and LA for industry professionals.
'Time killed the big bang theory' - Thesis preview by Jahcobie Cosom
CalArts, Tatum Lounge/Patio
FILM/VIDEO: Preview of thesis, followed by a talk back.
'How to enter Vaudeville: A tribute to the voice of the city' - Kristen Rea: MFA Graduation Recital
CalArts, The Wild Beast
MUSIC: An evening of variety acts and a lesson in the art of vaudeville entertainment. Don't be a goop, get dolled up and come see our live-wire host and top-notch acts—this one's sure to be a humdinger!
Shades of Tabla - Javad Butah MFA Graduation Recital
CalArts, Roy O. Disney Music Hall
MUSIC: Recital featuring performances by Rina Mehta, Pankaj Mish, Jayanta Banerjee, The Land Trio with Randy Gloss, Sean Lenord and Sean Woodman.
