Kristy Edmunds: Creating community through performing arts
Works In Progress
English - October 21, 2020 16:00 - 32 minutes - 22.5 MBVisual Arts Arts Performing Arts art architecture design film theater dance performance visual arts ucla los angeles Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
What is the role of the performing arts, while theaters sit empty and large gatherings are banned? That question has been at the forefront for artist and curator Kristy Edmunds. She’s the executive and artistic director of UCLA's Center for the Art of Performance. The public arts organization has been "using every tool at our disposal to find ways to carry things forward [and] migrate what resources we have directly to artists.”
Edmunds will be a panelist at the next “UCLA 10 Questions: Reckoning” event on Oct. 26, responding to the question “What Is Kindness?" For this episode of Works In Progress, she discusses kindness in her work, and the challenges facing CAP UCLA and other performing arts centers during this period of extreme uncertainty.