Non-Boring Opera
OperaWorks' 2009 original "Non-Boring Opera" will feature 30 Advanced and Professional Artists in a new opera created during OperaWorks' advanced program. In four weeks, these artists will have learned to let go of the traditional "plant and sing" model to perform in a contemporary style that is vibrant, exciting, and relevant and engaging for today's audiences.
Created by co-directors Melissa Weaver and Ann Baltz, choreographer Paula Thomson, and music directors Dan Bridston, Chun-Wei Kang and Shane Schag, this production will introduce exciting opera theater designed to touch the mind, body and soul of the audience. Join us!
Two Performances Only!
Saturday, July 25 at 7:00 p.m.
Sunday, July 26 at 2:00 p.m.
Recital Hall (in Cypress Hall)
California State University, Northridge
http://www.operaworks.com
ART CENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN’S OPEN HOUSE EVENTS ENCOURAGE
COMMUNITY TO EXPLORE CREATIVITY WITH THREE SPECIAL PUBLIC EVENTS
Art Center’s “Saturday High” program August 8, 11 a.m. -12 p.m. and again 3 to 4 p.m. Art Center welcomes high school students, parents and art educators to an Open House. All Saturday High classrooms will be open to the public, and a list of classes and maps will be available in the Hillside Campus (1700 Lida St.) and in the Public Programs office (950 S. Raymond Ave.).
Art Center for Kids Open House
August 9, 4 p.m., Art Center will welcome elementary and middle school students, parents and educators to its Hillside Campus and its South Campus for exhibitions of fine art, design, and digital media work created by the summer term children.
Go Beyond: Art Center at Night’s Annual Open House (for Adults)
On August 12, 7 - 9 p.m., Art Center at Night (ACN), the college's continuing studies program, will host an end-of-term Open House/Fall Registration event on its South Campus for prospective students and invited guests. This special event will showcase Art Center at Night classes and allow prospective students to become better acquainted with the possibilities of an Art Center education. Registration period for Art Center at Night’s is Aug. 10 - Sept. 4. Classes begin Sept. 8. For more information visit http://www.artcenter.edu/atnight.
A Celebration of Moviemaking Magic in Chatsworth
Amalgamated Dynamics Inc. (ADI), an Academy Award-winning studio that builds aliens, monsters, beasts and costumes for Hollywood's greatest science fiction and fantasy films, will be the site of the Cinema Heritage Project's next presentation on Saturday, Aug. 8, in Chatsworth.
The free event will include the first public tours of the studio, where the creatures in the Alien, Predator and Tremors films were created. ADI also built the "bugs" in Starship Troopers, the beasts of Jumanji and Goro of Mortal Kombat, as well as costumes used in the Spider-Man films.
The ADI studio at 20100 Plummer St. (at Winnetka Avenue) includes a museum and a large workshop where its creations are built and displayed.
Reservations are required for the tours. Tours last 30-40 minutes and start at 15 minute intervals between 3 and 5:30 p.m.
At 7 p.m., guests will hear presentations by people who work in the special effects industry, followed by a screening of a major science fiction motion picture.
The Cinema Heritage Project is a grassroots nonprofit corporation that presents movies at the locations where they were made. CHP events include speakers, site tours and other features to celebrate the movies and the people who made them, as well as the locations and their histories.
To obtain reservations for tours, contact the Cinema Heritage Project at info@cinemaheritage.com or call (818) 348-8657. Specify your preferred tour time.
http://www.cinemaheritage.com.