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

Idyllwild Arts and The Summer Poetry Workshop invite you to experience an extraordinary evening of readings by Billy Collins, one of America’s most beloved poets | Click here

CalArts President Steven D. Lavine welcomes cultural critic, urban historian and novelist Norman M. Klein, curator Margo Bistis and designer Andreas Kratky for a celebration marking the publication—and corresponding exhibition—of The Imaginary 20th Century| Click here

Join artist Barry McGee for a lecture/presentation on the closing week of his exhibition Advanced Mature Work| Click here

This program tracks the history and legacy of the Black Panther Party, its revolutionary politics, grassroots ideology, irrepressible leaders and the struggle for justice that continues today | Click here

This multimedia presentation/performance by Alpert Award-winning artist Walid Raad examines the events, experiences, forms, objects and effects that surrounded the explosion of a car bomb on January 21, 1986, in the Furn Ech Chubak area of Beirut | Click here

As globalization continues to accelerate the circulation of people, goods, financial assets, disease, entertainment, news and technology, ideas and intellectuals have also become part of this ostensibly irreversible trend | Click here

Some of the most influential voices in poetry, performance and criticism come together for a multidisciplinary celebration of Maggie Nelson’s new book, Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions | Click here

Performance artist and playwright Holly Hughes has a flair for telling outrageous stories of everyday lesbian life, touching off controversy and challenging complacency at every turn | Click here

Innovative Los Angeles writers and CalArts faculty members Steve Erickson, Douglas Kearney, Janet Sarbanes and Christine Wertheim read selections from their acclaimed work | Click here

Focusing on the goals of community engagement and social change through art, this lively roundtable discussion features an eclectic group of artists, performers and writers | Click here

Israeli-born, London-based architect Eyal Weizman talks about the architecture of exclusion, violence and control in the occupied territories of the Middle East | Click here

The School of Critical Studies presents a reading by MFA candidates in its Writing Program | Click here