Alumni Events

The Office of Alumni Relations produces a range of opportunities for alumni to get together and reconnect with CalArts.  Visit this page often to see what is in store.

LOS ANGELES

David Gordon’s Trying Times (remembered)
A Pick Up Performance Company Production
Thursday, December 4, 2008
8:30 PM
REDCAT
631 West 2nd Street
Los Angeles, CA  90012
Box Office: 213-237-2800

"Cool, witty, wry . . ." The New York Times
Kick off the winter season with CalArts alumni at DTW. Originally commissioned in 1982 by David R. White and Dance Theater Workshop, David Gordon’s Trying Times(remembered) has not been seen in its entirety in over 25 years. Now, the piece is being produced with Pick Up Performance Company members including alumnus Marcus Phillips (BFA Dance ‘07) and eight dance students from CalArts Sharon Disney Lund School of Dance. This rare remount will feature a new script based on David Gordon’s 1982 production and Igor Stravinsky's Apollo.

School of Theater Alumni Holiday Party
Monday, December 15, 2008
7:30-9:30 p.m.
The Theatre @ Boston Court
70 North Mentor Ave., Pasadena  91116
Free parking behind the theater
R.S.V.P. alumni@calarts.edu by Monday, December 8, 2008.

CalArts School of Theater, in collaboration with the Alumni Association and the Office of Alumni Relations, cordially invites Theater alumni,deans and faculty for an evening of holiday cheer! Live music by alumna, Juli Crockett (MFA Theater '01) and her band, The Evangenitals!

NEW YORK

Conversations with Contemporary Photographers at the Guggenheim Museum: Catherine Opie (MFA Art ‘88)
and Gregory Crewdson
Monday, December 8, 2008 at 6:30 PM
Peter B. Lewis Theater, Sackler Center for Arts Education
Guggenheim Museum
1071 Fifth Avenue (at 89th St.)
New York, NY, 10128-0173
Admission: $10
Box Office: 212.423.3587

Recipient of the 2003 CalArts Alpert Award in the Arts, Catherine Opie is a documentary photographer
whose midcareer retrospective,“Catherine Opie: American Photographer” opened at the Guggenheim Museum this fall. She and fellow photographer Gregory Crewdson will address the construction of a pictorial narrative and the social dynamics of the American suburbs in a special conversation moderated by Jennifer Blessing, Curator of Photography. The artists will reflect on their medium’s complex relationship to truth, their individual contexts
within its history, and the many possibilities for its future.*Reference: The Guggenheim Museum

David Gordon’s Trying Times (remembered)
A Pick Up Performance Company Production
Thursday, December 11, 2008
7:30 PM
Dance Theater Workshop
219 W 19th Street
New York, NY, 10011
CalArts alumni admission: $21
To receive the CalArts Alumni discount, call 212-924-0077 and use discount code: Gordon20.

"Cool, witty, wry . . ." The New York Times
Kick off the winter season with CalArts alumni at DTW. Originally commissioned in 1982 by David R. White and Dance Theater Workshop, David Gordon’s Trying Times(remembered) has not been seen in its entirety in over 25 years. Now, the piece is being produced with Pick Up Performance Company members including alumnus Marcus Phillips (BFA Dance ‘07) and eight dance students from CalArts Sharon Disney Lund School of Dance. This rare remount will feature a new script based on David Gordon’s 1982 production and Igor Stravinsky's Apollo.