Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA 2014/2015 Season

The announcement of the much anticipated CAP UCLA 2014/2015 season was released this week. Westwood Village was honored to attend the preview hosted by Executive and Artistic Director, Kristy Edmunds. The upcoming 2014/2015 season features an an impressive and complex mix of collaborative works from well known musicians, artists, and theater and dance troupes. The catalog of performers is astonishing and sure to inspire and delight all who witness their incredible talent.

Here are a few program highlights:

Friday, October 24, 2014 

Exposed - Songs for Unseen Warhol Films

Created in celebration of The Andy Warhol Museum’s 20th Anniversary, this multimedia performance event unveils 15 never-before-seen 1960s films captured by Andy Warhol, featuring Marcel Duchamp, Edie Sedgwick, Donovan, Warhol himself, and others. 

Saturday, November 1 and Sunday, November 2, 2014

Batsheva Dance Company 50th Anniversary Tour: Sadeh 21

One of the most influential contemporary dance companies in the world celebrates 50 years, embarking on a choreographic voyage of cinematic proportions. 

Friday, November 7, 2014

superposition by Ryoji Ikeda

superposition is a performance created by sound artist Ryoji Ikeda exploring the way we understand the reality of nature on an atomic scale and is inspired by the mathematical notions of quantum mechanics. 

Friday, April 17 through Sunday, April 19, 2015

Vincent by Leonard Nimoy

Using more than 500 letters exchanged between Vincent van Gogh and his brother Theo, author and acclaimed actor, Leonard Nimoy, brings this story life in a one-man performance by acclaimed French actor Jean-Michel Richaud.  

Saturday, May 2, 2015

John Zorn 

Zorn will present a series of performances on May 2 at different venues, including 12 sets that will take place over a course of six hours in galleries at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The same day, he will perform an evening concert and a midnight organ recital at Royce Hall.

Season subscriptions are currently on sale now for preset series packages or you may Create-Your-Own (CYO) series of five or more events. Series subscribers save 15% off individual ticket prices, CYO subscribers save 10%. Individual tickets go on sale August 13. For a full lineup of this new and exciting season, please visit www.CAP.UCLA.edu. 

Fallen Fruit: Fruitique!

The Hammer Museum received a $100,000 grant from LA2050 to fund ReSTORE LA, a program to bring unique artists and artisans to fill vacant storefronts in Westwood Village in November 2013. The program featured 24 pop-up stores selling world class handmade art and was very successful. Two of the pop-up stores extended their stays in the Village, and one of these stores is Fallen Fruit: Fruiteque! 

Fallen Fruit: Fruitique!, is an art collaboration originally conceived in 2004 by David Burns, Matias Viegener and Austin Young. Since 2013, David and Austin have continued the collaborative work. They began their collaboration by mapping public fruit trees growing around Los Angeles. Their work sparked many other ventures, including the public art that brought them to ReSTORE LA by using fruit as the material, subject or medium. The Fruitique is a mix between an art gallery and a workshop that brings people of all ages together to create art. 

Fallen Fruit sees fruit as a common denominator to change the way you see the world. Their projects are group-oriented and are often inspired by a guest artist or a passerby who sets the tone and direction of the project, which guarantees that no two works of art are the same. Each person, not only creates art but also creates a neighborhood that coexists together. "A lot about what we do and what we want was to get people out of their cars. LA is very car-centric. When creating the fruit maps, we wanted to have people get out of their cars and interacting with nature. Being in Southern California we are fortunate enough to have fruit growing trees year round, many of which are on public property,” said Austin Young. Public Fruit Jams invites a broad public audience to transform homegrown or public fruit and then join in communal jam-making as experimentation in personal narrative and sublime collaboration.

What's next? Fallen Fruit’s Fruitique!: GARDEN OF EDEN, will be opening their 2nd program installation at the Kinross location, launching on Wednesday, April 16th, 2014. This store will be loosely themed with animals and fruit and there will be a reception for the artists on Sunday, April 27th from noon to 4pm.

For the newest project, Fallen Fruit is working with local communities to transform the neighborhoods surrounding Downtown Los Angeles into a walk-able network of Urban Fruit Trails with over 150 fruit trees planted in the MacArthur Park neighborhood. Stay tuned for information on this project.

How can you get involved? Check out their website: www.fallenfruit.org, and join their newsletter to get updates on upcoming Public Fruit Jams, or visit in person. Fallen Fruit: Fruitique!, open every weekend.