Events from February 28 to March 6
This year’s spring production from the CAP/Plaza de la Raza Youth Theater Program is a new drama written by Culture Clash member Herbert Siguenza and staged with a cast of 45 high school students
NICKELODEON FAMILY FUN DAY
Nickelodeon programming showcases the most watched and loved of children's programs, and at this year's Nick Family Fun Day, attendees will have the opportunity to meet the costumed characters of Nickelodeon and Nick Jr. favorites--SpongeBob, Patrick, Dora and Diego--and receive giveaways.
HIGHLIGHTS FROM CINEMAGIC, BELFAST
On the occasion of its 20th anniversary, Northern Ireland's award-winning Cinemagic International Film & Television Festival for Young People hosts four feature-length live action films—each one a festival favorite.
Though Australian-born Don Levy taught and inspired generations of filmmakers and artists, his own underground masterpiece Herostratus remained largely out of public view. Now, more than 40 years after the psychedelic shock Levy delivered to a British film industry steeped in kitchen-sink realism. In this coruscating work, Michael Gothard astonishes as the eponymous young poet who hires a PR firm to turn his planned suicide into a media spectacle.
New Silk Roads (NSR) is a multi-faceted urban research project that explores the nascent urban conditions emerging in rapidly expanding and transforming Asian cities and regions.
For millennia, the relationship between reason and emotion and the nature of creativity have remained a mystery. Internationally renowned neuroscientist Antonio Damasio, founding director of USC’s Brain and Creativity Institute, visits REDCAT to speak about what we now know about the emotions and the conscious mind, particularly as both relate to creativity and the arts.
The genre-bending festival from the CalArts Center for Experiments in Art, Information and Technology returns with two concerts that each run from abstract reveries to flat-out sonic raucousness. The first night features John Wiese, founding member of the concrète grindcore band Sissy Spacek, Peruvian-born avant-garde turntablist Maria Chavez, and composer Marcus Schmickler, of Pluramon pop fame. The second night of the fest continues with electronics and laptop interpenetrations by Better Than Future, a multimedia performance by Steve Roden, and a smashing finale courtesy of Bloody Claws, aka Carla Bozulich.
Now in its fifth year, this audience favorite offers a treasure trove of cinematic delights for filmgoers of all ages. Two weekend programs bring wondrous animation, exhilarating live action, rarely shown classics, and highlights from Cinemagic Belfast. The festival also includes a very special Nickelodeon Family Fun Day.
