Monarch Butterfly by rocío sánchez (2026 AIR) features Melissa Almaguer (tap dance and percussion) and Kenneth Jiménez (double bass). Together, the trio explores the elusive monarch’s migratory journey through sound and movement, with each instrument articulating distinct states of motion.
Isabella Thorpe-Woods presents "Envelop/e," her second program as ISSUE’s 2026 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow. Bringing together choreographers Jade Manns and Ella Dawn W-S for site-specific duets, they navigate presence and absence, repetition and rupture, and the tension between inherited geometries and shifting landscapes.
"Spiriting Off" is a new solo work by luthier Webb Crawford (2026 AIR) for electric guitar, tenor banjo, and five-string banjo.
ISSUE closes the summer season with the return of Matana Roberts (2009 AIR). Opening the evening, Ben Vida (2013 AIR) will perform music from his 2026 release, "Oblivion Seekers" with vocalist Sara Magenheimer.
Dorit Chrysler performs on theremin, voice and laptop, with visuals by Lary 7.
"The Project Room presents a rare performance of Tenny's Postal Pieces (1965-71). Written during a brief tenure in the earliest days at CalArts, Postal Pieces is a remarkable series of eleven works printed on postcards.
New York based composer and hammer dulcimer player Dan Joseph will lead his chamber ensemble in a program of his recent ensemble works.
Join us for a special evening with Daniel Pinchbeck, author of Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism (Broadway Books, 2002).
Proto-Homos: Male-Male Erotic Cultures in the U.S. before 1900
A rare sighting of composer Gina Leishman's one-of-a-kind glass armonica (a three-tiered construction of spinning goblets).
The Project Room presents compositions and sound-art installations of electronic composer Amnon Wolman.
Artists, musicians, filmmakers, actors, poets, puppets, activists and many others gather inside the Project Room to fuel and inspire a ceremony of sounds, acts and visuals from sunset to sunrise.