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Contact: David Barber, Media Representative
661-253-7724

CALARTS COMMUNITY ARTS PARTNERSHIP PRESENTS AN EVENING OF READINGS & PERFORMANCES AT REDCAT

December 9, 7 PM
Free event

Valencia, December 1 - On Tuesday, December 9 at 7:00 p.m., CalArts Community Arts Partnership (CAP) presents its first ever event at REDCAT, an evening of readings and performances by current MFA writing students at CalArts who lead workshops with gay and lesbian LAUSD students at OASIS in West Hollywood. Students from OASIS will be members of the audience. REDCAT is located in the Walt Disney Concert Hall Complex at 631 W. Second St. (at Hope St.) in downtown Los Angeles.

Miah Jeffra and Dante Eaton will read from their recent work, with a reading featuring multi-media projections by Karla Diaz. The event also features "UNVEILED" a multi-disciplinary performance which is a collaboration by composer/guitarist Brian Stearns, choreographer Ella Ben-Aharon, and video artist David Cabrera.

The performance is followed by a Q&A session between the participants and OASIS students, concerning how the works came about and what is possible when presenting the written word publicly. For more information about this performance, call 661-253-2708.

The CalArts Community Arts Partnership (CAP) offers in-depth arts training programs free-of-charge for middle school and high school students in jazz, printmaking, photography, video, drawing, graphic design, dance, digital arts, theatre, puppetry, chamber music, world music, animation, and writing in 40 neighborhoods throughout Los Angeles County.

CAP is a partnership between CalArts, Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, Armory Center for the Arts, Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, Banning's Landing Community Center, Center for the Arts Eagle Rock, Inner-City Arts, KAOS Network, My Friend's Place, Plaza de la Raza, Santa Clarita Valley Boys and Girls Club, Santa Clarita Valley Youth Orchestra, San Fernando Gardens Community Service Center, Self-Help Graphics, Side Street Projects, Visual Communications, William Reagh Los Angeles Photography Center, and Watts Towers Arts Center.

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