Daredevil Arts Festival returns for its second year to Venice, California, presenting nearly 50 shows from July 11 to 19 between the Electric Lodge and Pacific Resident Theatre. The multidisciplinary arts festival, which showcases the diverse and boundary-pushing artists of Venice Beach and its environs, features several CalArtians within the lineup.
SQRM
Media artist Carole Kim (Film/Video-IM MFA 03) presents SQRM, an installation piece that melds technology and live performance. According to the program notes: “[SQRM] explores the idea of composite presence, liveness on liveness, to visualize anew how we are plural and how we may coexist as translucent temporal multi-limbed beings joined by unified focused intent.”
Joining Kim are fellow CalArtians Kozue Matsumoto (Music MFA 16) on koto; Marta Tiesenga (Film/Video, Music MFA 19) on reeds; and dancer Chenhui Mao (Dance BFA 19).
- Performances of SQRM take place on Saturday, July 11 at 3 pm and Saturday, July 18 at 3:30 pm at the Electric Lodge. Tickets.
Godless
Cristina Fernandez, a comedic performer, writer/director, and podcaster, presents her one-woman show Godless.
The show has been performed and workshopped at Stomping Ground, Upright Citizens Brigade, and Hollywood Fringe Festival 2025 in Los Angeles. The show is described as an “absurd remix of theater, stand-up, storytelling and clown-part performance, part gloriously chaotic confession.”
- Godless is scheduled for Saturday, July 18 at 5 pm at the Electric Lodge. Tickets.
Homecoming: Infinite Blessings
Homecoming: Infinite Blessings is an evening of musical performance by Yung Swan (Lenka Janischova Shockley [Music 19]). Yung Swan presents a mix of originals and covers that explore feelings, colors, and story.
- Homecoming: Infinite Blessings takes place at the Pacific Resident Theatre on Friday, July 17 at 8:30 pm. Tickets.
The Eyes
Amelia Charter and Jessica Hemingway (Theater BFA 13) together sew a piece around them in The Eyes. Featuring live accompaniment by CalArts DMA Primož Sukic, the new collaboration explores “the visual physiological response to changes in perception of illumination, time, and distance. Charter and Hemingway at times disappear behind the fabric panels, and other times are more foregrounded, emerging and reemerging differently through sequences, shadows, and forms.”
- The Eyes takes place at The Electric Lodge on Saturday, July 18 at 5:30 pm. Tickets.
