June and Jean in Concert Tickets Available

Adrienne Kennedy’s June and Jean in Concert, directed by Nataki Garrett, explores the past and present relationship between twins June and Jean. Through the sisters’ fractured memories of their lives in the South, June and Jean investigate growing up and family, through the eyes of children. June and Jean in Concert runs February 26-27 and March 1, 2010 in Butler Building 2.

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Project: Piero’s War
Synopsis:
Two young soldiers walk towards each other in a valley full of snow. They look down to avoid the wind blowing snow in their faces. When they are close in the middle of the valley, Piero stops and sees the other Soldier. He sees that he wears a uniform of the opposite army. The other Soldier looks at him. As they look at each other, they know that they have to kill each other. Piero hesitates, the other Soldier shoots him. Piero falls on his back in the snow. They look at each other till Piero dies. The other Soldier walks away in Piero’s footprints.

Farm Noir Video Blog #3

FARM NOIR

Friday, November 13th, at 8:00pm; Saturday, November 14th at 8:00pm and Monday, November 16th at 8:00pm

Amy Tofte, a MFA 2 playwright drew her inspiration for Farm Noir from her own childhood on a farm in North Dakota and her love of film noir. Absurdism, surrealist, noir, classic Greek theater and a variety of other genres are woven together in Tofte’s tale of two families suddenly dropped together into an amorphous time period . Anna, the young daughter of both families, tries to figure out her relationship to both her families past and present as well as her relationship to the land itself. CalArts School of Theater presents a workshop of Amy Tofte’s Farm Noir on Friday, November 13th, at 8:00pm; Saturday, November 14th at 8:00pm and Monday, November 16th at 8:00pm. All performances are in Butler Building 2 on CalArts’ campus.

GRANSEEKING BASICS FOR INDIVIDUALS IN THE ARTS WORKSHOP

Pasadena – Thursday, October 29, 1:30-3:00 pm

This course is geared towards individuals involved in the arts and looking to fund any type of arts-related project.

If you are an individual involved in the arts and looking for funding to complete a project, mount an exhibition, put on a performance, conduct research, or anything else arts-related, Grantseeking Basics for Individuals in the Arts will show you how to:

WAITING FOR LEFTY OPENS THIS WEEK

Oct 23, 24, 26 2009 8 pm

CalArts, Butler Building #2

Fri, 10/23/2009 – Mon, 10/26/2009

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This workshop production of Waiting for Lefty explores Clifford Odets’ classic story of unions, class, hope, and perseverance through music, motion, and poetry. Written at the height of the Great Depression, this vigorous, confrontational work, based on a 1934 strike of unionized New York cab drivers, is re-examined by guest director Gina Belafonte and the cast in a visual and aural exploration of the period and its story