CalArts president Steven D. Lavine hosts a lively and thought-provoking roundtable discussion led by graphic design luminary Lorraine Wild -- one of this year’s winners of the coveted AIGA Medal, the highest honor in the field of design | Click here

In the confluence of imaginary communities, autonomous zones and technologies of identity and difference, what role can writing play in the invention of alternative communities, identities and politics? | Click here

Alain Badiou, France’s most important living philosopher and author of the groundbreaking volume Being and Event, gives a timely and compelling talk on the crossroads of contemporary art and politics, artistic creation and critical discourse, and aesthetic theory and political thought | Click here

Black Clock editor, novelist, critic and CalArts MFA Writing Program faculty member Steve Erickson discusses the nature of contemporary L.A. fiction with Michael Silverblatt, host of KCRW's Bookworm | Click here

Leading intellectuals, artists and social scientists from across the Americas come together for CalArts’ third annual symposium on artistic production, social criticism and political discourse in the Western Hemisphere | Click here

A pioneer in video, conceptual art and feminist art practice, Martha Rosler creates work that considers everyday life and the social sphere | Click here

A series of performances by Tomas Benetiz (MC), Sandy Agustin, Barbara Bush/Martha Wilson, Douglas Kearney, Terence McFarland, Mark Murphy, Jordan Peimer, Los Pochos/Otono Lujan and more! | Click here

CalArts president Steven Lavine welcomes Molly O’Neill, a columnist for The New York Times Magazine and the host of the PBS series Great Food, for a roundtable on the pleasures of great food writing | Click here

Featuring a selection of new writings and performances by graduating students from the CalArts MFA Writing Program, the NextWords reading series comes to REDCAT for its fourth and final event of the spring | Click here