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You're invited to:

CalArts Weekend

Friday & Saturday, October 12-13, 2018

Two-Day Passes
$95 each


One-Day Passes
$50 each


Alumni Passes
$65 each

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HIGHLIGHTS

Starting your own business and picking the right niche in no time

FEATURED PERFORMANCE

TRY/STEP/TRIP

Performance & Talk back

FEATURED SPEAKER

Glen Keane '74

Oscar-winning Director, Animator

Featured PERFORMERS

speakeasy society

Alumni Immersive Theater Collective

FRIDAY OCTOBER 12

Starting your own business and picking the right niche in no time

Schedule

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Clear your calendar - It's going down! Schedule Blocks kicks off on May 20th, and you're invited to take part in the festivities. Splash HQ (122 W 26th St) is our meeting spot for a night of fun and excitement. Come one, come all, bring a guest, and hang loose. 

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12



10:00 AM  - 3:00 PM

Check-In


11:00 AM - 6:00 PM

"Student for a Day" Class Visits


11:00 AM

The Ultimate Campus Tour

12:00 PM

Welcome Luncheon

live music by CalArts Salsa Band, led by David Roitstein

1:30 PM

Critical Studies Panel Discussion


3:30 PM

The Ultimate Campus Tour

features an artist talk by J. Cash-Cooper ’12 on Black Magic, Blessed Children, the Alumni Office mural



5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Party at the Pool and

Taste of Santa Clarita

live music by DJ Groundislava '09


6:00 PM - 10:00 PM

The Speakeasy Society presents 

"The Kansas Collection: Chapter 1"

*add-on tickets; limited capacity

8:00 PM 

 Open House Dance Concert


SCHEDULE HIGHLIGHTS

Starting your own business and picking the right niche in no time

Cilience

FUNFEST Performers

With XX 'XX and XX 'XX

Rachel IBA '17

FUNFEST Emcee

Musician & Comedian

Abby & the myth

FUNFEST Performers

With XX 'XX And XX 'XX

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13

Starting your own business and picking the right niche in no time

Schedule

Block #4

Clear your calendar - It's going down! Schedule Blocks kicks off on May 20th, and you're invited to take part in the festivities. Splash HQ (122 W 26th St) is our meeting spot for a night of fun and excitement. Come one, come all, bring a guest, and hang loose. 

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13


9:00 AM - 3:00 PM

Check-In

10:00 AM

Featured Forum 1: Glen Keane '74

Glen Keane will share his personal journey of merging art and technology in the field of animation

11:00 AM

Featured Forum 2: Speakeasy Society

artists of this alumni immersive entertainment company share their invention, experimentation, and collaboration


12:00 PM

Weekend Barbecue with the

Alumni Council and Faculty

live music by Omar Torrez '17

1:30 PM

Featured Forum 3: Try/Step/Trip

performance excerpts and talkback with the team creating this spoken word/step dance musical, in development through CalArts Center for New Performance


2:30 PM - 5:00 PM

FUNFEST CalArts Carnival

Oktoberfest Biergarten, games, prizes, bingo hosted by Rachel Iba '17, live music by Cilience and Abby & the Myth, comedy rough cuts from Graduating Actors


5:30 PM - 7:30 PM

Wild Beast Concert:

Machines and Strings 

curated by the Isaura String Quartet and featuring the CalArts Machine Orchestra

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8:00 PM

Open House Dance Concert

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Registration Notes

Children 15 & Under Attending: FREE Admission

Children 15 and under do not require a separate pass. Simply include their names during the registration process under the field "Name(s) of Child(ren) 15 & Under Accompanying this Attendee." If you are bringing a child with you to class visits, please include them in your headcount (e.g. if two parents and two children are visiting classes, reserve 4 spaces).

 

"Student for a Day" CLASS VISITS: Advance Sign-Up Required
Immerse yourself at CalArts by being a student again. Select your class(es) when purchasing passes. Classes meet capacity quickly, so be sure to register early.

 

Families of Current Students: Passes for Students Are INCLUDED
Families who purchase passes DO NOT need to purchase separate passes for current CalArts students; they will be automatically included at no charge.

 

Accommodations

Whether staying in Valencia or in Los Angeles, HotelStorm offers CalArtians hotel discounts up to 55%. Click here and use access code "CALARTS" (all capital letters).


Seating for Featured Forums is limited; first-come, first-served.

This event will be photographed and videoed. By attending this event, you consent to the use of your image or likeness by CalArts for all purposes.

 

For questions regarding registration and CalArts Weekend, get in touch with us at alumnx@calarts.edu.

For questions regarding registration and CalArts Weekend, get in touch with us at alumnx@calarts.edu. 

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FRIDAY & SATURDAY Admission (Two-Day Pass)
$95.00

*Best Value!*

Start: Fri Oct 12th 9:00am

End: Sat Oct 13th 11:30pm

FRIDAY Admission (One-Day Pass)
$50.00

Start: Fri Oct 12th 9:00am

End: Fri Oct 12th 11:30pm

SATURDAY Admission (One-Day Pass)
$50.00

Start: Sat Oct 13th 9:00am

End: Sat Oct 13th 11:30pm

Alumnx Admission (Two-Day Pass)
$65.00

Start: Fri Oct 12th 9:00am

End: Sat Oct 13th 11:30pm

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Note: A gift is NOT required to attend. All students have benefitted from the CalArts Fund, whether it be from world-renowned faculty-artists, scholarships, or resources that go beyond production facilities and equipment. The impact of your generosity is found in the extraordinary people and programs that continue to make CalArts a special place.

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Friday Night: The Speakeasy Society's "The Kansas Collection: Chapter 1"
$15.00

The Kansas Collection: Chapter 1 is a timed immersive experience, so your prompt arrival at the time you select is crucial. After you select a quantity, specify the showtime and repeat the number of tickets needed including yourself. Note: limit of one timed experience per person.

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Friday Class Visits

Enter the number of people who wish to attend classes under quantity. Then a list of available classes will appear from which you can select specific classes you will attend. Be sure to indicate how many people in your party including yourself will attend which classes.

Voice (Theater)

• INSTRUCTOR: Rafael Lopez-Barantes • LOCATION: E106 (Main Building) • VISITORS: Please enter and exit class quietly. • DESCRIPTION: Liberation of the natural voice from tension and defenses through various exercises.

Start: Fri Oct 12th 11:00am

End: Fri Oct 12th 12:00pm

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Aza Talking Drum Ensemble

• INSTRUCTOR: Andrew Grueschow • LOCATION: B200 (Main Building) • DESCRIPTION: Music of the Dagomba people of Northern Ghana. Students will play the talking drum (lunga), and bass drum (gon-gon) that are the primary instruments of the ensemble.

Start: Fri Oct 12th 4:00pm

End: Fri Oct 12th 6:00pm

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Balinese Dance (Music)

• INSTRUCTOR: Nanik & Nyoman Wenten • LOCATION: A114 (Main Building) • COURSE DESCRIPTION: Instruction in the traditional dances of Bali

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Start: Fri Oct 12th 6:00pm

End: Fri Oct 12th 7:00pm

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Balinese Flute Ensemble (Music)

• INSTRUCTOR: Nanik & Nyoman Wenten • LOCATION: A114 (Main Building) • COURSE DESCRIPTION: Training in Balinese flute playing sixteen various-sized bamboo flutes accompanied by percussion instruments

Start: Fri Oct 12th 2:00pm

End: Fri Oct 12th 3:00pm

BFA 2 Acting Studio (Theater)

• INSTRUCTOR: Daniel Passer • LOCATION: Butler Building 2 A • DESCRIPTION: The mission of the BFA II Acting Studio is to shift actors' attention to the world of language and heightened text, to get language into the mouth and body of the actor using disciplines of text as well as improvisation.

Start: Fri Oct 12th 2:00pm

End: Fri Oct 12th 3:00pm

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Ceramics (Art)

• INSTRUCTOR: Karen Atkinson • LOCATION: Ceramics Studio (Main Building) • DESCRIPTION: Students learn both technically and conceptually through hands-on experience.

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Start: Fri Oct 12th 11:00am

End: Fri Oct 12th 1:00pm

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Choreographers & Composers (Dance & Music)

• INSTRUCTOR: David Rosenboom & Dimitri Chamblas • LOCATION: Lund • DESCRIPTION: Seminar investigating collaborative possibilities between dance makers and music/sound makers. In developing ways of supporting and challenging each others' creative processes, students will be able to develop the clarity, range and responsiveness of their own artistic voices. (50 Remaining)

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Start: Fri Oct 12th 1:00pm

End: Fri Oct 12th 3:00pm

Cinematic Elixirs (Theater)
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• INSTRUCTOR: Lewis Klahr • LOCATION: E314 (Main Building) • DESCRIPTION: An eclectic hopscotch through the length and breadth of film history. Narrative and experimental, silence and sound, the purple and the prosaic, melodrama and realism, the maximal and the minimal, the blunt and the mysterious.

Start: Fri Oct 12th 2:00pm

End: Fri Oct 12th 6:00pm

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Concert Production I (Music)

• INSTRUCTOR: John Baffa • LOCATION: B302 • DESCRIPTION: Concert production concepts and practice.

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Start: Fri Oct 12th 4:00pm

End: Fri Oct 12th 6:00pm

Experimental Music Post-Cage (Music)

• INSTRUCTOR: Michael Pisaro • LOCATION: B318 • DESCRIPTION: The explosion of experimental music in the mid-20th century to the 1990s.

Start: Fri Oct 12th 4:00pm

End: Fri Oct 12th 6:00pm

Experimental Music Workshop I (Music)

• INSTRUCTOR: Michael Pisaro • LOCATION: the Wild Beast • COURSE DESCRIPTION: Examination of works that explore fundamental questions about musical perception.

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Start: Fri Oct 12th 11:00am

End: Fri Oct 12th 12:00pm

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Filmmaking Fundamentals (Film/Video)

• INSTRUCTOR: James Benning • LOCATION: A116 • VISITORS: Please arrive at 1PM and only leave class during natural places to break so as not to interrupt. • DESCRIPTION: An investigation of aesthetics inherent to low cost production equipment.

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Start: Fri Oct 12th 1:00pm

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Intonation Workshop I (Music)

INSTRUCTOR: Wolfgang Von Schweinitz • LOCATION: B312 • DESCRIPTION: Experimental hands-on tuning workshop with instrument and computer sounds to expand analytical hearing capabilities and explore sonorities of microtonal just intonation and methods for refining tuning.

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Start: Fri Oct 12th 4:00pm

End: Fri Oct 12th 6:00pm

Javanese Dance - Men (Music)

• INSTRUCTOR: Nyoman Wenten • LOCATION: A114 (Main Building) • COURSE DESCRIPTION: Instruction in the traditional dance techniques of Indonesia

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Start: Fri Oct 12th 3:00pm

End: Fri Oct 12th 4:00pm

Javanese Dance - Women (Music)

• INSTRUCTOR: Nanik Wenten • LOCATION: A114 (Main Building) • COURSE DESCRIPTION: Instruction in the traditional dance techniques of Indonesia

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Start: Fri Oct 12th 4:00pm

End: Fri Oct 12th 5:00pm

Jazz Faculty Ensemble (Music) Johnson

• INSTRUCTOR: Alphonso Johnson • LOCATION: B319 • VISITORS: Please save questions for the end of the session. • DESCRIPTION: Performance of ensemble works written for small jazz groups, led by Alphonso Johnson.

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Start: Fri Oct 12th 12:00pm

End: Fri Oct 12th 2:00pm

Jazz Faculty Ensemble (Music) Novros

• INSTRUCTOR: Paul Novros • LOCATION: B319 • DESCRIPTION: Performance of ensemble works written for small jazz groups, led by Paul Novros.

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Start: Fri Oct 12th 4:00pm

End: Fri Oct 12th 6:00pm

Motion 1 (Art)

• INSTRUCTOR: Jaime Van Wart • LOCATION: MacLab (Main Building) • DESCRIPTION: This studio class is comprised of a series of short projects or prompts. Students learn the skills necessary to make work at several of the key stages involved in creating short motion graphics pieces: ideation, narrative, storyboards, animatics, and production/animation.

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Start: Fri Oct 12th 1:00pm

End: Fri Oct 12th 4:00pm

Movement (Theater) 11AM Nikolchev

• INSTRUCTOR: Anthony Nikolchev • LOCATION: E407 (Main Building) • VISITORS: Please enter and exit class quietly. • DESCRIPTION: This class will explore movement techniques and approaches from a variety of sources and will expand the student's knowledge of the movement world in general.

Start: Fri Oct 12th 11:00am

End: Fri Oct 12th 12:00pm

Movement (Theater) 1PM

• INSTRUCTOR: Anthony Nikolchev • LOCATION: E197 • VISITORS: Please enter and exit class quietly. • DESCRIPTION: This class will explore movement techniques and approaches from a variety of sources and will expand the student's knowledge of the movement world in general.

Start: Fri Oct 12th 1:00pm

End: Fri Oct 12th 3:30pm

Non-Tonal Theory (Music)

• INSTRUCTOR: Robert Wannamaker • LOCATION: B318 • DESCRIPTION: Modern Western musical structures: extended harmonic relations, pitch-class set theory, serialism, indeterminacy, process, and extended tuning systems.

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Start: Fri Oct 12th 2:00pm

End: Fri Oct 12th 4:00pm

Partnering (Dance)

• INSTRUCTOR: Glen Eddy • LOCATION: A201 (Main Building) • DESCRIPTION: Selections from contemporary repertoire with emphasis on in-depth study of the basics of partner work

Start: Fri Oct 12th 12:15pm

End: Fri Oct 12th 1:30pm

Pre-Production/Visualization (Film/Video)

• INSTRUCTOR: Janice Tanaka • LOCATION: Langley • DESCRIPTION: Explore concept development through story analysis and conceptual and visceral intent of your vision as it is affected by camera choice, film grammar, environment, and analyzing space, light, sound, and choreography of movement.

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Start: Fri Oct 12th 1:00pm

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Professional Practice (Art)

• INSTRUCTOR: Beth Elliott • LOCATION: A107i (Main Building) • COURSE DESCRIPTION: From contracts to job negotiation, course covers essentials for contemporary professional practice. Class includes guests and field trips to various LA design studios and printers.

Start: Fri Oct 12th 11:00am

End: Fri Oct 12th 12:00pm

Skills for Visualization (Art)

• INSTRUCTOR: Joyce Lightbody • LOCATION: A113 • DESCRIPTION: A workshop in fundamental color theory; including basic color perception and vocabulary. Exercises focus on color mixing, color harmony and color contrast.

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Start: Fri Oct 12th 1:00pm

End: Fri Oct 12th 4:00pm

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Speech (Theater) 3:30PM

• INSTRUCTOR: Dwight Bacquie • LOCATION: F100A • VISITORS: If not staying for the whole class, please depart during the break taken roughly at the halfway point of the class. • DESCRIPTION: Intensifies the study of the International Phonetic Alphabet as well as the practice of transcription, sound production and execution of Good Speech, in the tradition of Edith Skinner. Students become familiar with Classic American Stage Speech.

Start: Fri Oct 12th 3:30pm

End: Fri Oct 12th 5:00pm

Tonal Skills D (Music)

• INSTRUCTOR: Marc Lowenstein • LOCATION: B324 (Main Building) • DESCRIPTION: Ear training and basic musicianship skills related to comprehension of tonal relationships in music including intervallic, harmonic and melodic comprehension and fundamental rhythmic skills.

Start: Fri Oct 12th 1:00pm

End: Fri Oct 12th 2:00pm

TRIG: Electronic Percussion (Music)

• INSTRUCTOR: Amy Knoles • LOCATION: A300 • DESCRIPTION: Hands-on workshops exploring the possibilities for percussionists performing with electronic controllers via computer music software, processors, sampling and loop based performance.

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Start: Fri Oct 12th 2:00pm

End: Fri Oct 12th 4:00pm

Undergraduate Critique (Film/Video)

• INSTRUCTOR: Janice Tanaka • LOCATION: Langley (Main Building) • DESCRIPTION: Forum for undergraduates to produce and present work in various stages of pre- and post-production for group discussion and critique.

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Start: Fri Oct 12th 11:00am

End: Fri Oct 12th 1:00pm

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Voice for Dancers 1 (Dance)

• INSTRUCTOR: Rafael Lopez-Barrantes • LOCATION: A200 • VISITORS: Please remove shoes prior to entering the classroom. • DESCRIPTION: Discover, develop and strengthen the role of the voice in the dancer's body as it translates to text and singing.

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Start: Fri Oct 12th 1:30pm

End: Fri Oct 12th 3:00pm