REDCAT launched 2018 with a bang: a bold international festival of performances by some 200 Latin American and Latino artists at sites throughout the city.
The first-ever survey of short films and performance documentation by Zackary Drucker (b. 1983) and her collaborators, exploring 12 years in the career of a groundbreaking American transgender multimedia artist, LGBT activist, actress, and producer of the award-winning television show, Transparent.
REDCAT's 15th annual NOW Festival premieres nine new contemporary performance projects by Los Angeles artists who are re-defining the boundaries of dance, theater, music and multi-media.
Live music is featured in each of the new projects premiering in the first week of the New Original Works Festival. The NOW Festival kicks off with a program of works by Jasmine Orpilla with Peter Deguzman, Miwa Matreyek with Morgan Sorne,Jmy James Kidd and Tara Jane O’Neil.
The Pacific Standard Time Festival: Live Art LA/LA (January 11 to January 21, 2018) is an international celebration of art and performance throughout greater Los Angeles, with more than 200 Latin American and Latino artists and performers creating adventurous events at more than 25 indoor and outdoor locations. Organized by REDCAT with a consortium of organizations and independent artists, the festival connects artists from more than a dozen countries with neighborhoods city-wide, through vital performances in parks, plazas, galleries, theaters and busy urban settings. The festival is part of the Getty-led Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA initiative and is supported by a major grant from the Getty Foundation.
