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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 directors of the school’s choirs.

Following the camp will be a showcase full of group numbers, acts, and a dance ensemble to show off all the hard work. It will take place on Saturday, July 22nd at 6 pm.

All kids entering 5th grade in the Fall of 2017 or older are invited to attend the camp, regardless of where they attend school.

For more information, visit Hartchoir.com or email summershowchoircamp@gmail.com.

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 which interrupt, highlight, investigate, or extend the conversations begun in the online edition,” according to the website.

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CalArts’ ‘Sublevel Magazine’ Releases Print Edition

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 nominated for Actress and Actor in a Leading Role, and Actress in a Featured Role, respectively.

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CalArts Alumna Earns Tony Nomination

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 prizes.

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Winners of Earth-Arbor Day ‘cArt aRT’ Competition Named

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 winners are put forward for Oscar consideration.

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CalArts Animator Wins NYICFF Audience

The LA SummerFEST, is announcing an open call for musicians for the 2017 season. The LA SummerFEST is an annual 5-week, summer cultural series that serves the North LA County region. The family friendly, free festival includes music, theatre performances, and special events. As part of the cultural series, there are three music festivals. Events are held at Rivendale Park and Open Space in Towsley Canyon.

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Open Call for Bands, Musicians at Rivendale

Painter and CalArts alumnus Gary Lang (Chouinard 68, Art BFA 72) is one of five recipients of the 2017 Francis J. Greenburger Awards, which honor “established artists whom the art world knows to be of extraordinary merit but who have not been fully recognized by the public.”

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CalArts Alumnus Gary Lang Wins Francis J. Greenburger Award

A CalArts alumnus and Experimental Animation faculty member Kirsten Lepore’s (Film/Video MFA 12) stop motion animation video “Hi Stranger” has not only gone viral but a parody version was even featured on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

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CalArts Alumna, Faculty Member’s Video Featured on “The Late Show”

On Monday (April 17), seven bands from the graduating class of The Herb Alpert School of Music at CalArts will perform live at The Troubadour, one of Los Angeles’ most legendary venues. Soundstream 2017, an annual concert event, features an eclectic lineup of artists performing original, forward-thinking music. The show is free and open for all ages, although reservations are requested.

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April 17: CalArts Bands Live at The Troubadour