REDCAT proudly celebrates the Alpert Award in the Arts, annual fellowships administered by CalArts on behalf of The Herb Alpert Foundation. The following events feature the work of Alpert Award winning artists.
Past 05/06 Alpert Award Winner Events:
November 3-6, 2005
Dan Hurlin: Hiroshima Maiden
West Coast premiere

Dan Hurlin’s beautifully staged puppet theater work brings to life a forgotten chapter of history: the harrowing account of 25 Hiroshima survivors--all young women horribly disfigured in the nuclear attack--who visited the United States in 1955 to undergo reconstructive surgery. | Click here

December 1-3, 2005
Anne Lebaron And Terese Svoboda: Wet
World premiere

Set against the backdrop of a great American river during a torrential flood, this provocative new opera by Anne LeBaron and Terese Svoboda sketches out a world in which multinational corporations have cornered all supplies of water. | Click here

December 5, 2005
Jack H. Skirball Screening Series
Ellen Bruno: Stories Of Death And Survival

Noted for her unflinching documentation of social, economic and human rights issues in East Asia, Alpert Award-winning filmmaker Ellen Bruno screens two new films. | Click here

January 26-28, 2006
CEAIT Festival

The genre-bending annual fest from the CalArts Center for Experiments in Art, Information and Technology returns to REDCAT with a new international lineup of unabashedly experimental works in music, multimedia, installation and sound art. | Click here

February 2-4, 2006
Carl Hancock Rux: Asphalt

This kaleidoscopic portrait of a near-future, post-apocalyptic city and its distressed inhabitants is an electrifying stage adaptation of the Alpert Award winner’s debut novel. | Click here

March 13, 2006
Jack H. Skirball Screening Series
Jem Cohen: Chain

In this provocative mix of documentary and fiction, the Alpert Award-winning filmmaker lays out beautifully composed images shot throughout the United States, Europe and Australia. | Click here