For Immediate Release
Contact: Margaret Crane
661 222 2787

Grammy Nominated Patrice Rushen Leads Master Class For Young Musicians At REDCAT (Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater)

This Free Class is a Project of CalArts Community Arts Partnership (CAP) and The Watts Towers Arts Center Jazz Mentorship Program.

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WHEN: Saturday, January 15, 2005 at 2 p.m.

WHERE: REDCAT (the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater) at 2nd and Hope Streets in the Walt Disney Concert Hall complex

Valencia, December 20 - The Watts Towers Arts Center Jazz Mentorship Program, in conjunction with the CalArts Community Arts Partnership, will present a free interactive Master Class for young musicians of all ages. Grammy-nominated artist Patrice Rushen under the direction of Watts Towers Arts Center director Rosie Lee Hooks will lead the workshop. Patrice Rushen is a classically trained pianist as well as a multitalented composer, producer, arranger, international recording artist and founding member of the 14-year-old Watts Towers Arts Center Jazz Mentorship Program. Participants in the master class should bring their instruments to the workshop.

The Watts Towers Arts Center's programs aim to develop an appreciation of Los Angeles' varied social and cultural history through changing exhibits, tour dialogues, lectures, out/in studio workshops, performances, technical assistance to developing and practicing artists, and two annual heritage festivals. Located in Watts, adjacent to Simon Rodia's Watts Towers, the center has been providing cultural programs for the community since 1961. The Watts Towers Arts Center became a division of the City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department in late 1975.

This event is funded by the JL Foundation and the City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department. It is free and open to the public.

The CalArts Community Arts Partnership (CAP) is in its fifteenth year providing innovative, imaginative, in-depth arts training for teenagers in 40 diverse neighborhoods throughout Los Angeles County. CAP is a partnership between CalArts and Armory Center for the Arts, Art-in-the-Park, Banning's Landing Community Center, Center for the Arts Eagle Rock, Inner-City Arts, KAOS Network, Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, My Friend's Place, Plaza de la Raza, San Fernando Gardens Community Service Center, Santa Clarita Valley Boys and Girls Club, Santa Clarita Valley Youth Orchestra, Self-Help Graphics & Art, Side Street Projects, Taking the Reins, Visual Communications, Watts Towers Arts Center, and William Reagh Los Angeles Photography Center. CAP offers in-depth arts training programs free-of-charge for elementary, middle and high school students in jazz, printmaking, photography, digital media, video, drawing, animation, dance, theater, puppetry, writing, chamber music, world music and graphic design.

For further information please contact Evelyn Serrano, CAP Public Programs Coordinator at 661-222-2710 or the REDCAT Box Office at 213 237-2800.

REDCAT is a 7,000 square foot state-of-the-art black box performance space, a 3,000 square foot exhibition space, and lounge located in the Walt Disney Concert Hall complex in downtown Los Angeles. It is CalArts' downtown center for innovative visual performing, and media arts-a natural extension of the institution, long known for challenging artistic traditions and enabling young artists to learn from some of the world's top practitioners in all artistic disciplines. This same spirit of heightened cultural and civic discourse is what brings REDCAT to life.

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