The Winter/Spring 2026 season is live! Join us for a new season of performances, concerts, exhibitions and screenings from January 12 to July 5, 2026. 

January 

Acclaimed filmmaker Chantal Akerman’s travelogue D’Est en Musique is presented in a musical collaboration with celebrated cellist Sonia Wieder-Atherton and award-winning pianist Sarah Rothenberg on January 12th and 13th in collaboration with Monday Evening Concerts. 

Fiction writer and memoirist Carmen Maria Machado presents her signature blend of horror writing, sci-fi, fantasy, and psychological realism on January 15 as this year’s Katie Jacobson Writer in Residence. 

February 

The Industry celebrates the return of its LAB series in partnership with REDCAT, with new works in opera by renowned artists Guillermo E. Brown, Carmina Escobar, and Matana Roberts from February 20-March 1st in the gallery and on the stage.

March

GRAMMY-nominated orchestral collective Wild Up presents The Odes, on March 7th, an evening that traces a living lineage of experimentation with works ranging from Purcell and Schnittke to living composers, with performances by students of The Herb Alpert School of Music at CalArts. 

In an unhinged solo performance, self-proclaimed “experimental clown artist,” Alex Tatarsky  ushers audiences through an absurdist hellscape of the mind on Mar 19-21 with their piece Sad Boys in Harpy Land.

An ambitious live multi-projection of 35mm film, The Changeover System: A Projection Performance Installation (2023–2025) by Gibson + Recoder has its LA premiere on March 28. 

April 

Harmony Holiday’s Spectacular Brooding, her first solo exhibition in Los Angeles, investigates black grief and she calls the “Black Backstage,” a zone of sacred privacy that makes the spectacularization of performance bearable on view April 4th to July 5th. 

A string quartet performed in total darkness, George Friedrich Haas’ visionary “Third String Quartet” is performed by the JACK Quartet on April 9th as part of the Body and Sound festival organized by LA Phil Insight and Liquid Music.

Choreography and AI come together in Rashaun Mitchell + Silas Riener’s Open Machine, a dynamic new work that imagines an Artificial Intelligence lovingly programmed by experimental dance presented on April 17-18.

For the first time since its creation in 1979, For Whose Entertainment, a critique of Black comedians and their work by renowned filmmaker, artist, and educator Ben Caldwell has its first public screening on April 25th. 

May

LA-based queer performance artist Jibz Cameron, best known for her multimedia alter ego Dynasty Handbag, returns to REDCAT on May 1-2 for an evening of performance, film, and readings celebrating the debut of her new memoir, Hell in a Handbag. 

Reflecting the creativity of the CalArts community, this season’s School of Film/Video showcase presents a selection of screenings by students in its four programs on May 7-9.  The wild and varied work of the graduating class of CalArts’ MFA Creative Writing Program features the incredible range of experimentation that characterizes its students on May 11. For CalArts Dance: Emergent Forms on May 13-14, choreographers James Gregg, T. Akuchu, Dimitri Chamblas, and Caitlin Javech (MFA Choreography ‘22) craft new works that highlight the unique artistic voices of 2026 undergraduate class of The Sharon Disney Lund School of Dance. 

Fusing memoir, concert, and cabaret, Jodie Landau takes up stories of his life in a personal exploration of love, sex, gender, and family through opera on May 29-30 presented in partnership with Beth Morrison Projects. 

June

Orchestral collective Wild Up presents The Interior Castle, an evening of ecstatic and contemplative music by visionary women on June 6, which includes works by Emahoy Tsegue Maryam Guebrou, alongside new music by LA-based composers Eliza Bagg and M.A. Tiesenga. 

In a boundary-pushing collaboration with his mother, Obie winning writer and director Shayok Misha Chowdhury considers what is experimental about experimental theater with the West coast premiere of his play RHEOLOGY June 11-13.  

The PARTCH Ensemble returns to REDCAT June 26-27 to present works by iconoclastic composer Harry Partch along with two world premieres by Rand Steiger and Daniel Corral.

Check out the full event calendar for the Winter/Spring 2026 season!