For Immediate Release
Contact: Denise Nelson, Office of Public Affairs
661-253-7826

CalArts Community Arts Partnership (CAP) presents Youth Video & Animation Screening at REDCAT

April 28, 7 pm

Los Angeles, April 19 - Students from the CAP Video and Animation Programs present an evening of short animated films and live-action videos at REDCAT on April 28 at 7 pm. CAP Video and Animation students from Inner-City Arts, Watts Towers Arts Center, Visual Communications, Banning's Landing Community Center, Center for the Arts Eagle Rock, San Fernando Gardens Community Service Center and the William Reagh Los Angeles Photography Center work under the direction of CalArts School of Film/Video faculty Leo Hobaica, Cynthia Overman, John Mahoney, Steve Brown, and Nancy Buchanan, and CalArts School of Art faculty Chris Peters, along with CalArts School of Film/Video alumni Vanessa Cruz, Ruben Esqueda and Brooke Keesling.

Roy and Edna Disney / CalArts Theater (REDCAT) is located in the Walt Disney Concert Hall complex, 631 W. Second St. in Los Angeles. This performance is FREE and open to the public (reservations recommended - call 213-237-2800). For more information regarding this event please contact Sayda Trujillo at 661-222-2710 or trujillo@muse.calarts.edu.

The CalArts Community Arts Partnership (CAP), in its 14^th year, 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, Plaza de la Raza, Watts Towers Arts Center, Armory Center for the Arts, Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, Banning's Landing Community Center, Center for the Arts Eagle Rock, San Fernando Gardens Community Service Center, Santa Clarita Valley Youth Orchestra, Side Street Projects, My Friend's Place, Visual Communications, Santa Clarita Valley Boys and Girls Club, Self-Help Graphics, KAOS Network, William Reagh Los Angeles Photography Center and Inner-City Arts.

This CAP event is funded by the City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department, the Capital Group, the Entertainment Industry Foundation, Walter E.D. Miller, and the James Irvine Foundation. REDCAT is CalArts' new performance venue and gallery in Walt Disney Concert Hall, located at the corner of 2nd and Hope streets. For more information on events at REDCAT, call 213-237-2800.

REDCAT inaugural season sponsors include Shamrock Holdings, KCRW FM, The L.A. Weekly, and the Standard Hotel, with additional media sponsorship provided by The Downtown News.

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