See: http://www.redcat.org/exhibition/brinkmanship-park-chan-kyong-and-sean-s...

THEATER: CalArts’ absorbing production of Henry V is a brash and visceral interpretation of William Shakespeare’s historical play.  Directed by Head of BFA Acting Mary Lou Rosato, Henry V weaves the tale of young Henry as he ascends the throne of England after a series of bitter civil wars have left the English populace dissatisfied and skeptical of authority.  In addition to winning his people’s confidence, Henry must overcome the stain left on his character by an adolescence spent in the company of thieves and drunkards.  In an attempt to encourage national pride, Henry lays claim to parts of France, spurring an insulting message from the Dauphin of France.  Offended, Henry gathers an army and invades France, determined to claim not only his birthright, but also the hand of the French princess, Catherine.

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THEATER: Adrienne Kennedy's June and Jean in Concert, directed by Nataki Garrett, explores the past and present relationship between twins June and Jean. Through the sisters' fractured memories of growing up in the South, June and Jean explore their family relationships.

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See: http://www.redcat.org/event/2010-RICFF-01 ($)

ART:

D300 Gallery:  My Mother, Myself  by Vivian Joyner MFA

D301 Gallery: This Does Not Belong to You by Sage Paisner MFA

L-Shape Gallery: Ramak Fazel MFA

Main Gallery: Encounters by Marisa Sciabarrasi MFA

A402 Gallery: Thank you for the Sweaters, Grandma Great by Christine Regan BFA

Lime Gallery: Nuance, Nuisance and Blood Before Water by Lindsay Tunkl BFA

Mint Gallery: A City Upon a Hill by Tomas Mickiewicz-Seidita BFA

Stevenson Blanche Gallery: Virtually Monumental by Jon Merritt BFA

MUSIC: Concert featuring student performances of chamber music.

See: http://www.redcat.org/event/don-levy ($)

FILM/VIDEO: Experimental and documentary filmmaker and CalArts faculty Adele Horne will be screening her work, including her newest piece And Again which is work in progress.

Adele Horne makes documentary, essayistic, and experimental films and videos. Her film The Tailenders was broadcast nationally on the PBS program P.O.V. in July 2006 and won Film Independent’s “Axium Truer than Fiction Award” in the 2007 Spirit Awards.

Horne's film and videos have been shown at the Museum of Modern Art's Documentary Fortnight, the Rotterdam International Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Morelia International Film Festival, Athens International Film Festival, San Francisco International Film Festival, Images Festival, Flaherty Film Seminar, Anthology Film Archive, Pacific Film Archive, San Francisco Cinematheque, Los Angeles FilmForum, PDX 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, among other venues.

MUSIC: A piano concert featuring works by Granados, Garuta, Bach and more.

See: http://www.redcat.org/event/kyong-park ($)

MUSIC: Recital featuring the works of James Brandon Lewis, John Coltrane and others. Great music, great time, great musicians.

MUSIC: BFA graduation piano recital featuring works by Brahms, Griffes, Poulenc, de Falla, Ešenvalds and Saint Saëns, with guests Breanna Sinclaire, Sydne Sullivan and an orchestra of peers led by Drake Peterson.

See: http://www.redcat.org/event/antonio-damasio ($)

ART:

Adam Michaels of project projects

Thursday / March 4, 2010 / 7:30P
Location: E11 (Photography Dept.)

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Adam Michaels is co-founder and principal of Project Projects, a studio in New York focusing on design for art and architectural clients. The studio also produces independent curatorial and publishing projects. Recently, Project Projects was selected as Finalists in the 2009 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Awards.

Adam Michaels studied graphic design at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, and worked at design studios in Los Angeles and Minneapolis before becoming the Associate Art Director of Architecture magazine in New York. In 2002, he began his own studio, also collaborating with David Reinfurt's studio O-R-G Inc. He has lectured at the Walker Art Center and has been a critic at Columbia GSAPP, Parsons School of Design, Princeton University School of Architecture, and Yale School of Art. He edits the Inventory Books series for Princeton Architectural Press, self-publishes books and music recordings, and teaches in the graduate graphic design program at the RISD.

Art:

ART: Once described as "the most famous American Indian since Sitting Bull
and Crazy Horse" by the LA Times, and pop-rendered by Warhol himself,
Means has been a part of public demonstrations, activist interventions
and performances, and continues to be a controversial figure in
American politics, art, and culture. Means is also a printmaker and
painter, most famously known for his lithograph series titled "Indian
Killers" (2004). In an act of "political performance" part satire-part
political statement, Means ran for office as V.P. to Larry Flynt in
1984. In Hollywood, his was the voice of Chief Powhatan in Disney's
Pocahontas (1995) and he acted in Natural Born Killers (1994) and Last
of the Mohicans (1992). Most recently, he starred in "Palestine, New
Mexico,"  a work by Richard Montoya of Culture Clash which premiered
in LA last month.

Some of his most famous actions include the occupations of Alcatraz,
Mount Rushmore, and Plymouth Rock, which he painted red, all in the
1970s. Means joined “The Longest Walk” in 1978 to protest anti-Indian
legislation including the forced sterilization of Indian women, which
led to the passing of a resolution to protect Indian rights. As a
leader of AIM (American Indian Movement) and one of the frontmen
during the 71-day armed occupation of the sacred ground at Wounded
Knee in 1973, Russell has fought for indigenous people and human
rights across the globe. Today, he continues to be at the forefront of
the struggle for the sovereignity of the Lakota Nation against the
State's inflitration.

MUSIC: A tenor recital featuring works by Schumann, de Falla, Contreras, and selected arias.

See: http://www.redcat.org/event/ceait-festival-1 ($)

MUSIC: An evening of music by Bach, Brahms and Dimitrov!

COMMUNITY / INSTITUTE / FILM/VIDEO: Organized by Nancy Buchanan, Christine Wertheim and students from CalArts ID 517. For further information: buchanan@calarts.edu, wertheim@calarts.edu. This event is free of charge and open to the public.

This symposium focuses on social, geographical and conceptual arenas where the power of women to speak on behalf of themselves and their peers is strongly, radically asserted through works of art and activism.

12.00-12.30 - Introduction by artist Andrea Bowers

12.30- 2.30 - Lourdes Portillo will discuss the making of her film, Senorita Extraviada, Missing Young Woman, a documentary examining the mystery of the hundreds of young women murdered in Juarez, Mexico.

+ Claudia Bernardi will talk about a collaborative mural, Tapestry of History, which she organized with Guatemalan survivors of the massacres that took place during the long attacks on indigenous villagers. These women came from Chajul, Nebaj, Chimaltenango, Ixil, Ixcan and Rabinal to share their stories.

3.00- 5.00 - Andrea Liss, Art Historian/Cultural Theorist and author of Feminist Art and the Maternal will discuss the radical mother-artists featured in her book.

+ Activist Margaret Prescod will discuss the work of  grassroots women in her presentation, Women, Haiti and the Struggle for Democracy.

There will be additional short presentations by the organizers.

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Andrea Bowers is a Los Angeles artist whose work focuses primarily on direct action and non-violent civil disobedience enacted though the lives of women. Working mainly in video, drawing and bookmaking, her work explores the intersections between art and archival processes, and between aesthetics and political protest.

Claudia Bernardi is an internationally renowned artist who works in the fields of human rights and social justice. She has witnessed monstrous human tragedies, yet speaks of these horrors in ways that communicate the persistence of hope, undeniable integrity, and necessary remembrance. In 2004, Bernardi was awarded grants to support her project to create an Art School/ Open Studio in Perquin, a rural community in El Salvador.

Andrea Liss is The Contemporary Art Historian and Cultural Theorist at California State University, San Marcos, where her teaching focuses on feminist art and theory, photographic theory and representations of memory and history. In addition to Feminist Art and the Maternal (2009) she has published Trespassing through Shadows: Memory, Photography and the Holocaust (1998).

Lourdes Portillo is a Mexico-born, San Francisco-based filmmaker whose work examines issues pertaining to Latino and Latin American culture, society and politics through a richly varied range of forms, from investigative documentary to satirical video-film collage, often combining the personal and the political in a radical, idiosyncratic way. Over three decades, she has completed more than a dozen films, including Las Madres: The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo (1986), La Ofrenda: The Days of the Dead (1988), The Devil Never Sleeps (1994) and Señorita Extraviada (2001), that have received awards around the world.

Margaret Prescod, a community activist for women's rights and against racism for three decades, hosts the morning show “Sojourner Truth” on KPFK Radio.  An immigrant from Barbados in the Caribbean, Margaret spearheads work in support of grassroots people in Haiti. The author of “Black Women: Bringing It All Back Home,” Margaret co-coordinates the Global Women's Strike (GWS) in the US under the anti-war theme "Invest in Caring not Killing.” Margaret led the lobby efforts that won the UN decision that governments should measure and value women's unwaged work, and works in support of mothers' right to welfare and of mothers' reuniting with children unjustly taken by officials who confuse poverty with neglect.  

MUSIC: Archie Carey's MFA bassoon recital with music by J.S. Bach, Gubaidulina, Vivaldi, Cage, Archie Carey, and improvisation to video.

MUSIC: A recital featuring piano, harp, vocal and chamber music performed by CalArts faculty, students and alumni.

MUSIC: Improvised music, fun and compositions by Andrew Conrad. Featuring Kate Conklin, Vinny Golia, Brandon Sherman, Colin Woodford, Steve Blum, Mike Lockwood and What's A Chord Fo(u)r?

MUSIC: A concert of Balinese ceremonial music with Gong Burat Wangi, featuring special guest I Made Lasmawan, and a solo masked dance-drama performed by I Nyoman Wenten.

MUSIC: Jazz recital

ART:

D300 Gallery: Three Movements by Rasmus Roehling MFA

D301 Gallery: Way of Sorrows by Keith Knittel MFA

L-Shape Gallery: Carl Pomposelli MFA

Main Gallery: Simone Montemurno MFA

A402 Gallery: Walk Thru Walls by Travis Diehl MFA

Lime Gallery: Your Scratch Disk is Almost Full by Valerie Green MFA

Mint Gallery: Thoughts on Miniature by Kean O'Brien MFA

Stevenson Blanche Gallery: When the Chips are Down People Eat People by Jack Heard

ART:

Christian Schwartz
Monday, March 8
7PM, F200

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Christian Schwartz was born in 1977 and grew up in a small town in New Hampshire. He graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in 1999 with a degree in Communication Design, and then spent 3 months as the in-house type designer at MetaDesign Berlin. He joined Font Bureau as a member of the full-time design staff in 2000. Christian founded Orange Italic with Chicago-based designer Dino Sanchez at the end of 2000, and left Font Bureau in August 2001 to work as an independent designer in the New York area, where he often collaborates with Font Bureau co-founder Roger Black.

In addition to his series for Font Bureau, Christian has designed commercial fonts for Emigre, FontShop, and House Industries (including the popular Neutraface family) as well as proprietary designs for corporations and publications. His work has been honored by the New York Type Directors club and the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum.

CRITICAL STUDIES: Every year, March 8th is celebrated around the world as International Women's Day. We have planned a 24-hour program of information and fun as an occasion to review how far women have come in their struggle for equality, peace and development. It is also an opportunity to unite, network and mobilize for meaningful change. Please join us to start off the ceremony in the Main Gallery at noon.

MUSIC: Concert featuring new works by CalArts Graduate Composers, performed by the New Century Players under the direction of David Rosenboom.

FILM/VIDEO: Award-winning independent filmmaker Lourdes Portillo will introduce and discuss her film Señorita Extraviada (Missing Young Woman, 2001).

Lourdes Portillo is a Mexico-born, San Francisco-based filmmaker whose work examines issues pertaining to Latino and Latin American culture, society and politics through a richly varied range of forms, from investigative documentary to satirical video-film collage, often combining the personal and the political in a radical, idiosyncratic way.

“Señorita Extraviada is a haunting investigation into an unspeakable crime wave amid the disorders and corruption of one of the biggest border towns in the world.” – PBS

CRITICAL STUDIES: Moten’s lecture, “Jurisgenerative Grammar: /ForAlto_, / For Black Studies” examines Anthony Braxton and the figure of the black student. It serves as an appendix to “The External World (When a Stranger Appears),” a recent paper regarding Hannah Arendt’s later work. Moten works at the intersection of black studies, performance studies, poetry and critical theory. He is author of Arkansas, In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition, I ran from it but was still in it., Hughson’s Tavern, and B Jenkins.

MUSIC: An evening of pieces that incorporate improvisation.

THEATER: California Institute of the Arts School of Theater presents director Lily Whitsitt's production of Adam & Eve by Mikhail Bulgakov. Adam and Eve imagines a city on the verge of apocalypse. Bulgakov wrote the play in 1931, on the brink of World War II, in a terror-stricken Communist Soviet Union, with state-imposed atheism. Bulgakov illuminates the humor and horror of human folly through the absurd battle between Capitalist and Communist ideologies. This sci-fi, Biblical-inspired adventure follows a handful of survivors, as they struggle to rebuild civilization amongst the ruins, and maintain sanity in the process. The only protection is a mysterious apparatus, a new scientific invention that protects humans from chemical gas, but even this technology may not save them from themselves.

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THEATER: Scripted theatrical production involving three actors, with minimal set, sound and lights. Three performances of the play will be performed--one on each night.

MUSIC: Colin Woodford's BFA graduation jazz drum recital.

MUSIC: Miroslav's Blues Band, faculty ensemble, performs old blues tunes with vocals and a horn section.

ART:

 Sally Stein is an art historian whose field is the history of photography with particular interest in American photography of the New Deal era. Feminist issues and methodology consistently inform her efforts toward an interdiciplinary critical perspective. 

Stein, recently retired from the faculty of UC Irvine, is an independent scholar who continues to research and write about twentieth-century photography and its relation to broader question of culture, politics and society. Her most recent book on German émigré artist and photographer John Gutmann was published by Yale University to accompany the Gutmann retrospective that opened at the Center for Creative Photography in October 2009.

MUSIC: Guitars of all sorts playing music of all sorts.

MUSIC: Works by CalArts composers presented in a casual, student-run atmosphere.

MUSIC: An evening filled with the music of Kenny G. and other commercial artists. Come and enjoy some body rocking music.

DANCE: MFA-2 thesis concert for the School of Dance.

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MUSIC: Music faculty members Clay Chaplin and Ulrich Krieger will be sonifying the CalArts pool, using hydrophones, underwater speakers, scuba gear and various electronics.

MUSIC: Recital of jazz guitar.

FILM/VIDEO: A group show of films created by students of CalArts Film & Video department.

MUSIC: Recital featuring voice and piano.

MUSIC: A 9-hour overnight concert of experimental music suitable for both the conscious and unconscious mind.

MUSIC: World music fusions including Persian, Indian, Cuban, African and more, presented by Aaron Chavez & friends.

MUSIC: A concert of exciting and original music.

MUSIC: A night of ska, funk and electronica.

MUSIC: Midnight ragas performed completely unplugged with live sitars, Indian slide guitar and tabla.

MUSIC: Death-Bop, Super Bastard and (possibly) more!

MUSIC: Concert of California music featuring music of Ingram Marshall, David Rosenboom, Matt Sargent, James Tenney and more.

MUSIC: A new project of epic proportions: The CalArts Jazz Orchestra will perform original compositions and arrangements by its members, as well as works by Thad Jones, Sammy Nestico, Maria Schneider and Ray Brown.

ART:

D300 Gallery: ELEMENTARZ / THE PRIMER by  Karolina Karlic MFA

D301 Gallery: RAPE-SCAPES: A Deconstruction by Carrie Rebecca Armellino MFA

L-Shape Gallery: Kiah Cohen BFA

Main Gallery: Mette Hersoug MFA

A402 Gallery:  Andrew Fairweather BFA

Lime Gallery: Nicole Malinowski BFA

Mint Gallery: Tahoe, 2010 by Amanda Ribas BFA

Stevenson Blanche Gallery: Jessica Castillo BFA /Christopher Ruiz BFA

MUSIC: Guitars of all sorts playing music of all sorts.

MUSIC: Concert featuring student ensembles performing new original compositions.

MUSIC: Recital featuring original compositions including a microtonal piano piece.

MUSIC: Come join us for performances of renowned composer Chinary Ung and protégé Sean Heim, including a world premiere.

MUSIC: Acoustic performance featuring violin, bass and harp.

MUSIC: Original compositions for a wide variety of ensembles; a culmination of my time at CalArts.

MUSIC: Trombonist Kevin Austin in his public debut (he's finally leaving Palmdale).

MUSIC: Greg hits things: an evening of marimba, Steve Reich, hand drumming, David Johnson, improvisation, Jessica, and the Mohawk.

MUSIC: An evening of music, dance and video, featuring brass, strings, winds and harp. Works by LeBaron, Ligeti and more.

See: http://www.redcat.org/event/rosanna-gamsonworld-wide ($)

ART:

Matthew Brannon

Utilizing the aesthetics of graphic art, Matthew Brannon’s work explores the gulf between social ideals and personal crisis. Using screen printing as form of analogue reproduction, Brannon’s images carry both the suggestion of mass replication and aura of original artworks. Directly challenging the void between language and actuality, Brannon often combines text and image to illustrate the potential for dysfunction. In Police Officer Giving Up, Brannon juxtaposes a neutral symbol of a houseplant with a statement of desperation. Exuding the inadequate sentiment of greeting cards, Brannon offers decoration as a feeble mask for emotional depletion.

See: http://www.redcat.org/event/ross-lipman ($)