Events from March 1 to March 31
A Los Angeles premiere screening celebrates American composer, artist, writer and activist Lou Harrison (1917–2003), who forged a new course for 20th-century music with hauntingly beautiful pieces using western, eastern, and custom-made instruments inspired by Javanese gamelan and...
With a wide range of piercingly personal perspectives, this screening of experimental films made by queer and non-queer artists explores a markedly different outlook about sex work. Be they strippers, hustlers, rent boys, go-go dancers, escorts, whores, pro-dommes, pornographers or rough trade, they do it for the money. Yet, unlike...
The CalArts Center for New Performance presents the first TEDxCalArts conference. Created and curated with TED’s “Ideas Worth Spreading” mission in mind, TEDxCalArts is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience centered on investigations...
With six feature-length films and more than 70 shorts, Alpert Award recipient Kevin Jerome Everson has explored the multiple facets of African American life via a variety of formal approaches. Whether through his signature long shots, collage of archival sources or the re-enactment of fictional material that echoes the lives...
Political and social theorists Jean L. Cohen and Andrew Arato deliver lectures that critically examine the permanence of political theology in contemporary thought and institutions, in particular those associated with the legacy of Carl Schmitt. Together, these influential thinkers address the fact that positive reliance...
Outfest Fusion LGBT People of Color Film Festival brings together a diverse population in a shared cultural experience. The festival features 30 short and feature-length films from around the world that reflect a wide array of LGBT stories, as well as panel discussions, special events and parties...
An evening of free-swinging improvisation performed by the Grammy-nominated Kim Richmond Concert Jazz Orchestra combines the sounds of large ensemble jazz with symphonic colors and textures. Led by saxophone soloist Kim Richmond, the 24-piece orchestra—featuring expansive instrumentation that includes...
Celebrating the vitality of L.A.’s next-generation artists making work for the stage, REDCAT's Studio Series offers adventurous audiences six intriguing new works and works-in-progress in dance, theater, music and multimedia performance. This edition of Studio was curated with guest curators Jesus Reyes and Melanie Rios Glaser, and features works by Mecca Vazie Andrews/MOVEMENT movement, Milka Djordjevich, Federico Llach/Now Hear Ensemble, Alan Nakagawa, Justin Streichman and Wilderness.
