CALARTS TO MARK 30TH ANNIVERSARY.Byline: Daily News Names such as Disney and Eisner are behind CalArts' 30th anniversary gala, a $350-a-head soiree soi·ree also soi·rée n. An evening party or reception. [French soirée, from Old French seree, from seir, evening, from Latin planned later this month in Beverly Hills. Chairmen Lee Ramer and Tim Disney are planning the Oct. 25 event at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, with honorary chairs Jane and Michael Eisner. It was the late Walt Disney and his brother Roy who founded California Institute of the Arts California Institute of the Arts known as CalArts U.S. private institution of higher learning in Valencia. Created in 1961 through the merger of two other art institutes, it was the first in the U.S. in Valencia, an effort to bring together creative minds from all the arts under one roof. CalArts will will honor Patty and Roy Disney for their gift toward the new REDCAT REDCAT The Roy and Edna Disney/Calarts Theater - the Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater, planned adjacent to the new Walt Disney Concert Hall This article or section may contain original research or unverified claims. Please help Wikipedia by adding references. See the for details. This article has been tagged since September 2007. at the Los Angeles Music Center The Music Center (officially named the Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County) is one of the three largest performing arts centers in the nation. Located in downtown Los Angeles, the Music Center is home to the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Ahmanson Theater, Mark Taper . Also receiving honors will be Frank Gehry, the father of two CalArts alumni and designer of the concert hall. The gala will feature as guests painter Ross Bleckner, multimedia performance artist Laurie Anderson and alumnus Jacques Heim and his Diavolo Dance Company. ``We've designed the night's program to reflect the national and international avant garde performance and exhibition activity that will be featured at REDCAT when it opens in 2002,'' CalArts President Steven Lavine said. ``At CalArts, we always celebrate our anniversaries not by looking back, but by looking forward.'' CalArts was the first college in the United States to offer degrees specifically for students of the visual and performing arts. Walt and Roy Disney united the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music, founded in 1883, and the Chouinard Art Institute The Chouinard Art Institute was a professional art school founded in 1921 in Los Angeles, California by Nelbert Murphy Chouinard (1879-1969). Born in Montevideo, Minnesota, Chouinard studied at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York and in Munich, Germany. , founded in 1921, to form the new institute. Tickets for the anniversary gala are available by calling (661) 253-2743. |
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