Women in Animation (WIA) is pleased to announce the first round of academic partnerships to encourage student participation in the WIA network of support. The School of Visual Arts (SVA) has aligned as both a corporate sponsor as well as a membership sponsor, and California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) has agreed to be a […]
The City of Santa Clarita will officially dedicate The MAIN, formerly the Repertory East Playhouse, with a ribbon-cutting ceremony in Old Town Newhall on Thursday, June 29 at 4 p.m.
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Academy Award-winning filmmaker and CalArts alumna Sofia Coppola (Art 94) has won Best Director at the recently concluded 2017 Cannes Film Festival held in France. Coppola, who garnered the award for the Southern gothic, “The Beguiled”, is only the 2nd female filmmaker to win best director in the festival’s 70-year history. The last female to […]
Saugus High School’s theater arts program took home three Jerry Herman High School Musical Theatre awards, which honor excellence in public and private high school theater performances, Monday.
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Hart High School’s nationally award-winning show choir will be holding a two-week camp from July 10th through July 21st at the Hart High School Auditorium. The camp, which runs from 12 pm to 5 pm each weekday, is an opportunity for kids to learn show choir, be inspired, and have fun. The instructors are the choreographers and musical […]
May 9, the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena, Calif., hosts the release party of B-Sides, the print edition of “Sublevel Magazine’s.” Housed in CalArts’ Creative Writing Program, Sublevel is devoted to the nexus of literature, poetics, art, criticism, philosophy, culture and politics. “B-sides treats the magazine’s online features as its A-sides, offering elaborations […]
The Tony Award nominations were announced last Tuesday (May 2), with CalArts alumna Condola Rashad (Theater BFA 08) earning a nod for Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play for A Doll’s House, Part 2. Rashad joins her fellow castmates Laurie Metcalf, Chris Cooper and Jayne Houdyshell, who were also […]
“Variety”, the venerable entertainment trade publication, held its annual 10 Animators to Watch event at Quixote Studios in West Hollywood on Thursday night (May 4). Among the publication’s honorees were two CalArtians: Director of Character Animation at CalArts Maija Burnett, who received the Animation Educator of the Year; and director, animator and alumna Kirsten Lepore […]
The City of Santa Clarita announced Tuesday the winners of the 2017 “cArt aRt” competition, held in conjunction with the City’s annual Earth Arbor Day Festival, held April 29 through 30, 2017. The creative contest prompts residents to transform ordinary trash or recycling carts into extraordinary works of art for the chance to win cash […]
Last month (March 2017), Welcome to My Life won an NYICFF (New York Children’s Film Festival) Audience Award for children (between 12 and 17 years old). NYICFF is the largest children’s film festival in North America and a qualifying Academy Awards festival. Audience members of all ages can vote on the festival-winning films, and the […]
