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CRITICAL STUDIES: This dynamic forum will present multiple perspectives on issues of violence against women, highlighting mass rapes in militarized zones and grassroots efforts to end violence against women.

Presented as part of the Collaborative course cluster “Women, Community Engagement, Resistance and Transdisciplinary Activism” and CODEPINK.

The Calarts event is part of Getty Pacific Standard Time events throughout Southern California  working with artist Suzanne Lacy.

CalArts, C105

MUSIC: The Voice program presents visiting artist Donald Miller, as part of the Voce Vista Software Program class.

CalArts, Butler Building 4

CRITICAL STUDIES: This evening's panel is dedicated to the can-do spirit of independent publishing, from the perspectives of four experienced and dedicated professionals in the field who also have had a direct impact on the public presence of CalArts MFA Writing Program alums. Cheryl Klein of Poets & Writers, Eric Obenauf of Two Dollar Radio, Patricia Wakida of Kaya Press and Elise Capron of Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency will present their roles, responsibilities, objectives and experiences within the world of literature, as well as engage in discussion about publication prospects, preparedness and procedures for the emerging writers, editors, publishers, agents and arts administrators among you.

Cheryl Klein directs the California office of Poets & Writers, Inc., where she has worked since graduating from CalArts in 2002. She is the author of Lilac Mines (Manic D Press) and The Commuters, which won City Works Press’ Ben Reitman Award. She recently received a grant from the Center for Cultural Innovation to complete a novel about wayward circus performers. Her fiction has appeared in The Normal School, Other, and several anthologies.

Poets & Writers, Inc., is the primary source of information, support, and guidance for creative writers. Founded in 1970, it is the nation's largest nonprofit literary organization serving poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers. Our national office is located in New York City. Our California branch office is based in Los Angeles.

Eric Obenauf is the publisher and editor in chief of Two Dollar Radio. His writing on the publishing industry has appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, The Rumpus, and other places. He was spotlighted by the industry trade magazine Publishers Weekly as one of 50 up-and-coming individuals working in publishing under the age of 40.

Two Dollar Radio is a family-run book publishing outfit based in Columbus, Ohio, whose titles have been honored by the National Book Foundation, chosen as Editors' Choice selections by the New York Times Book Review, and made year-end best-of lists at O: The Oprah Magazine, Time Out New York, NPR, and The Believer. The Seattle Stranger envisioned them leading a “dream industry” out of the wreckage of corporate publishing.

Patricia Wakida is a writer, artist and cultural worker currently based in Los Angeles, CA, after twenty-five years in Oakland, CA. She was born in San Diego, California and raised between Honolulu, Hawaii and Fresno, California. She is the editor of two publications on the Japanese American experience, Only What We Could Carry: The Japanese American Internment Experience, and Unfinished Message: the collected works of Toshio Mori, and served as project coordinator for dozens of other publications on California history.
 
She has worked as a literary and community historian in the state of California for the past fifteen years, most recently as Associate Curator of History at the Japanese American National Museum. She has extensive experience working in literary communities, including nearly a decade with cultural institution Heyday Books, the Oakland Museum of California, the National Japanese American Historical Society, California Council for the Humanities, California State Library, the California Historical Society and the Alliance for California Traditional Artists. She has served on various non-profit boards including Mills College Alumnae Association, Poets & Writers California, San Francisco Center for the Book, Kaya Press, California Studies Association and Heyday Institute.
 
Patricia has worked as an apprentice papermaker in Gifu, Japan and as an apprentice letterpress printer and hand bookbinder in California; she maintains her own linoleum block and letterpress business under the Wasabi Press imprint.

Kaya Press has been publishing cutting-edge Asian diasporic writers for more than 15 years. Kaya and its authors have won numerous awards, including the Gregory Kolovakas Prize for Outstanding New Literary Press, the American Book Award, the Association for Asian American Studies Book Award, the PEN Beyond Margins Open Book Prize, the Asian American Writers' Workshop Award, and the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Prize.

Kaya was the name of a tribal confederation of six Korean city-states that existed from the middle of the first until the sixth century CE. Although the Kaya kingdom was an iron-age culture, it is remembered as a utopia of learning, music, and the arts due to its trade and communication with China, Japan, and India.

The word “Kaya” has meaning in many major languages. In Japanese it is “summer night” or a type of yew tree that withstands harsh environmental conditions. In Malay, “kaya” means “rich,” in Indonesian, “prosperous,” and in Tagalog “to be able.” In Sanskrit, “kaya” means “body,” and in Turkish it means “rock.” In Zulu, “kaya” means “home.”
                                                                                       

Elise Capron is an agent at the Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency, which was established nearly 30 years ago and is known for guiding the careers of many best-selling fiction and non-fiction authors, including Amy Tan, Lisa See, Maxine Hong Kingston, Chitra Divakaruni, Eric Foner, Chalmers Johnson, and many more. Elise is most interested in serious character-driven literary fiction, well-written narrative nonfiction, and short story collections.

A graduate of Emerson College, Elise holds a BFA in Writing, Literature and Publishing, and served on the editorial staff of the Emerson Review during her time there. She interned at Harcourt and the Dijkstra Agency before joining the agency full-time in late 2003.

Elise is interested in fiction that has unforgettable writing, a terrific narrative voice/tone, and memorable characters. She loves novels with an unusual or eccentric edge, and is drawn to stories she has never heard before. On the nonfiction front, Elise is looking for many of these same qualities: fascinating true stories told in a compelling way. She aims to work with writers who are getting their work published regularly in magazines and who have a realistic sense of the market and their audience. Some of Elise's recent and soon-to-be-published books include Tiphanie Yanique's How to Escape from a Leper Colony (Graywolf) and The Land of Love and Drowning (Riverhead), Maureen McHugh’s After the Apocalypse which was picked as one of the “Top Ten Best Books of 2011” by Publishers Weekly (Small Beer Press), Courtney Brkic’s The Sun in Another Sky (Little Brown), Rikki Ducornet's Netsuke (Coffee House), Jonathon Keats' Virtual Words (Oxford) and The Book Of The Unknown (Random House), Jack Shuler's Blood and Bone (University of South Carolina) and The Noose: A History (Public Affairs).

CalArts, Roy O. Disney Music Hall

MUSIC: Second year DMA Performer-Composer recital.

CalArts, Cafeteria

ART: Graphic design program's T-Shirt Show featuring shirts for sale.

CalArts T-Shirt Show 2012

CalArts, Roy O. Disney Music Hall

MUSIC: Jazz drum set recital featuring the Larry Koonse Fall 2011 Faculty Ensemble, Brundlefly, and Bubbelluh: CalArts Klezmer!

CalArts, Main Gallery, L-Shape Gallery, Roy O. Disney Music Hall Foyer, Main Reception Area

MUSIC: A complete performance of the Song Books by John Cage.

CalArts, Roy O. Disney Music Hall

MUSIC: Music Technology recital featuring performances by Ashley Jacobson and friends.

CalArts, Bijou Theater

FILM/VIDEO: Can a 61 year-old’s life be told in 90 minutes? Of course not. But NFB producer Michael Fukushima will do his best to showcase the range and style of auteur short-form filmmaking that has epitomized the NFB Animation Studio since its founding in 1941, and made it one of the pre-eminent and most successful studios around.

A 90-minute film programme followed by Q+A session.

• Neighbours (Norman McLaren, 1952, 8:06)
• Bead Game (Ishu Patel, 1977, 5:35)
• The Cat Came Back (Cordell Barker, 1988, 7:41)
• When The Day Breaks (Amanda Forbis/Wendy Tilby, 1999, 9:40)
• Ryan (Chris Landreth, 2004, 13:54)
• cNote (Chris Hinton, 2004, 6:55)
• Jaime Lo, small and shy (Lillian Chan, 2006, 7:48)
• Muybridge’s Strings (Koji Yamamura, 2011, 12:39)

Plus a special treat of two bonus films!

About the NFB

The National Film Board of Canada has led the way in auteur animation since 1941, when cinema pioneer Norman McLaren founded its first animation unit. Since then, NFB animators have created groundbreaking films across a wide array of techniques and styles. Today, the NFB is developing groundbreaking interactive productions, while pioneering new directions in 3D stereoscopic film, community-based media, and more.

Since the NFB's founding in 1939, it has created over 13,000 productions and won over 5,000 awards, including 12 Oscars, and 4 Webbys. Over 2,000 NFB productions can be streamed online at NFB.ca, as well as via partnerships with the world's leading video portals, while the NFB's growing family of apps for smartphones and tablets delivers the experience of cinema virtually everywhere.

Most recently, the NFB has been honoured with its 71st and 72nd Oscar nominations, for Dimanche (Patrick Doyon) and Wild Life (Amanda Forbis/Wendy Tilby).

REDCAT: in the early 1980s, many artists were excited by the possibility of showing video art on television—a promise that was broken by commercialism. By turns humorous, pensive, or even abstract, this selection of short videos highlights some of the era’s most compelling video art accompanied by music.  Read more

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CalArts, The Wild Beast

MUSIC: An evening of original scenes written and performed by Vocal Arts students and special guests.

Paul Brach Visiting Artist Lecture Series Presents: Cauleen Smith

At CalArts F200
6:00 PM

CalArts, Tatum Lounge

MUSIC: Live music by bands Aquadeer and Division Threshold.

CalArts, Roy O. Disney Music Hall

MUSIC: New music performed by alumni, faculty and students.

CalArts, Sharon Disney Lund Dance Theater

DANCE: The Sharon Disney Lund School of Dance presents a student-curated concert of choreography by BFA students and MFA students including Daniel Charon, Cesilie Kverneland, and Rebecca Lemme.

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CalArts, Bijou Theater

White Material
Claire Denis
2008 / 102 min.

FILM/VIDEO: Marking the first collaboration between two titans of French cinema—director Claire Denis and actress Isabelle Huppert—White Material unfolds as a fever dream, a haunting, enigmatic look at the horrors of colonialism’s legacy, a subject that Denis first explored in her semiautobiographical debut feature, Chocolat (1988). 

This event is part of The Tournées Festival, the weekly series of new French films on campus.

Support for the Tournées Festival is provided by:

• The French Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs / The Centre National de la Cinématographie
• The Florence Gould Foundation / The Grand Marnier Foundation / highbrow entertainment.
• www.facecouncil.org

CalArts, Coffeehouse Theater

THEATER: Performance of Cloud 9 (student project) theatrical play.

CalArts, Roy O. Disney Music Hall

MUSIC: Mid-residency recital.

CalArts, Roy O. Disney Music Hall

MUSIC: A concert of North Indian classical music for sitar & tabla.

REDCAT: Two courageous authors, novelist Shahrnush Parsipur and poet Suheir Hammad, have fiercely insisted on voicing consciousness and social criticism. Joined by editor and scholar Persis Karim, who moderates, this evening is devoted to creative conviction linking nations, genres, and generations.  Read more

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Shahrnush Parsipur was born in Tehran in February 17, 1946. She started her literary career when she was sixteen, writing short stories and articles. She graduated from the University of Tehran in Sociology. When she was twenty-eight, she wrote her first novel, Sag va Zememstaneh Boland (The Dog and the Long Winter – translated into Russian). She is the author of several additional novels, including Touba and the Meaning of Night (adapted into a film by Shirin Neshat), and the first ever Iranian science fiction novel, Bar Baaleh Badd Neshestan (On the Wings of Wind), two novellas, including the acclaimed Women Without Men, and three collections of short stories.  Parsipur has been imprisoned several times for her activism and for the feminist content of her fiction, much of which is banned in Iran. Due to the problems associated with the revolution in Iran in 1979, she could not complete her education in France, and had to return to Iran.  As a result of a misunderstanding, she ended up in the Islamic Republic of Iran's political prison, for four years and seven months, and later, because she openly referred to the issue of virginity in her novella Women Without Men, she was imprisoned twice more.  She is also the author Prison Memoir, and two collections of short stories.  In 2003 she received the International Writers Fellowship from the Brown University, and is the recipient of numerous awards.  Her works have been translated into English, Swedish, Spanish, Malayalam, Italian, Dutch and French.  Ms. Parsipur currently lives in Northern California.

Suheir Hammad is the author of ‘breaking poems’, recipient of a 2009 American Book Award, as well as the best selling ‘ZaatarDiva’, ‘Born Palestinian, Born Black’ and ‘Drops of This Story’.  She has been the Artist in Residency at the NYU’s APA Institute, as well as a recipient of the Copeland Fellowship at Amherst College.  She appeared in the 2008 Cannes Film Festival Official Selection, ‘Salt of This Sea’.  Her produced plays include ‘Blood Trinity’ and ‘breaking letter(s)’, and she wrote the libretto for the multimedia performance ‘Re-Orientalism’.  An original writer and performer in the TONY award winning Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry Jam on Broadway, Suheir appeared on every season of the HBO show that inspired the Broadway run and world tour.

Persis Karim is a poet, editor and professor of literature and creative writing at San Jose State University. She is the editor of two anthologies: Let Me Tell You Where i've Been: New Writing by Women of the Iranian Diaspora (2006) and A World Between: Poems, Short Stories and Essays by Iranian Americans (1999). She has written extensively on Iranian diaspora literature and her poetry has appeared in numerous national and local publications. She lives in Berkeley, California.

CalArts, Main Gallery

THEATER: Fran Bennett, theater veteran and CalArts longtime professor, will direct a performance honoring the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  The performance will include an interdisciplinary interpretation of his "I Have a Dream" speech featuring the CalArts community, administrators and students.

REDCAT: For five years, filmmaker Lee Anne Schmitt and her collaborators followed Terry Albrecht, a guide-for-hire for hunters of buffalo, to create The Last Buffalo Hunt. As the mystique of the West becomes a commodity for the nouveaux riches, Albrecht’s livelihood is threatened and cowboys and buffalo alike become ghosts.  Read more

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REDCAT: Celebrating the 100th anniversary of John Cage’s birth, REDCAT hosts two nights of rarely played music by the American visionary. The New Century Players, CalArts’ professional new music ensemble, joins forces with the CalArts Orchestra to perform such works as 103, Fifty-Eight and Cage’s seminal graphic score Fontana Mix.  Read more

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Paul Brach Visiting Artist Lecture Series Presents: Anthony Lepore

At CalArts F200
6:00 PM

CalArts, Roy O. Disney Music Hall

MUSIC: Jazz saxophone recital featuring original music by Elysia Strauss and the world premiere of her Indie Rock Big Band.

CalArts, Bijou Theater

Le père de mes enfants
The Father of My Children
Mia Hansen-Løve
2009 / 110 min.

FILM/VIDEO: Only 30 years old, the prodigiously talented writer-director Mia Hansen-Løve follows her assured 2007 debut, Tout est pardonné (All Is Forgiven), about a drug-addicted dad, with an even more wrenching look at another troubled, charismatic patriarch, inspired by the life and death of French film producer Humbert Balsan.

This event is part of The Tournées Festival, the weekly series of new French films on campus.

Support for the Tournées Festival is provided by:

• The French Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs / The Centre National de la Cinématographie
• The Florence Gould Foundation / The Grand Marnier Foundation / highbrow entertainment.
• www.facecouncil.org

CalArts, Roy O. Disney Music Hall

MUSIC: An evening of original and originally inspired music with the Zirque Michael Bonner Trio.

CalArts, Coffeehouse Theater

DANCE: A Jordon Waters event and social gathering. Come and enjoy a night of DJ, dance and performance.

CalArts, Roy O. Disney Music Hall

MUSIC: Recital featuring performances with GRAMPUS, MDMD and friends. Thank you to everyone for your support.

CalArts, Roy O. Disney Music Hall

MUSIC: Rimpau plays ROD with some real good friends.