@2220arts.bsky.social
Interdisciplinary, volunteer-run cultural center in LA hosting film, music, literature, performance. A community living room for autodidacts, explorers and ordinary intellectuals championing art, experiment and imagination.
This week at 2220, four concerts and listening sessions helmed by formidable women (Vicki Ray, Georgia Anne Muldrow, Odeya Nini, Daniela Huerta, Barbara Braccini), along with a sneaky bit of Oscars counterprogramming in the form of an under-the-radar Jonas Mekas classic.
This week at 2220 Arts + Archives.
Announcing! 📣
Falling Leaves
directed by Otar Iosseliani
Soviet Union, 1966, 91 min
New 4K restoration presented by DRY LEAF director Alexandre Koberidze and composer Giorgi Koberidze—March 28
@2220arts.bsky.social ! 🍂
🎟️: link.dice.fm/u04f7239c126
This week at 2220: film, live scoring, readings, djs, performances and more.
In Los Angeles for Slamdance Film Festival until Feb 25! Hope to see as many friends as I can while I'm in town. Check out the Narrative Shorts blocks programmed by Brian @nonfilms.bsky.social! Screenings are sold out, but you can try the rush line 📽️ #Slamdance2026 #IndieFilm @2220arts.bsky.social
This week at 2220.
EVIDENCE
by Lee Anne Schmitt
LA premiere @2220arts.bsky.social • Feb 24 • Q&A w/ Schmitt & Athina Rachel Tsangari
This personal-political essay traces the rise of conservative think tanks through the dealings of chemical and munitions manufacturers. Music by Jeff Parker. 🎶 link.dice.fm/i7ba79cb61f7
The next seven days at 2220: heedless but full of heart. 10 events in one week!
A week dense with musical innovators from Beirut to Berlin to SF to LA.
Tonight at 2220.
This week at 2220.
Los Angeles friends! Tonight, 1/21 at 8pm @2220arts.bsky.social, Mezzanine is presenting one of our top ten films of all-time, director Bill Forsyth's 1984 comedy, Comfort and Joy! Back in 2020, Generoso wrote a piece on it for @ink19.bsky.social.
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Announcing! 📣
On Feb 24 @2220arts.bsky.social, we’re thrilled to welcome Lee Anne Schmitt for the LA premiere of her personal-political essay film EVIDENCE, which traces the impact of conservative think tanks on modern America. 🇺🇸
Q&A w/ Schmitt and Athina Rachel Tsangari! link.dice.fm/i7ba79cb61f7
Coming this week to 2220.
This week at 2220.
heads up… this is happening next wednesday @2220arts.bsky.social
Los Angeles friends! One of our favorite films of 2019, Fire Will Come (O que arde), screens tonight, 1/6, at 7:30pm @2220arts.bsky.social! Director Oliver Laxe (Sirāt) will be there in person to deliver an extended introduction to tonight's screening!
2026 begins at 2220 Arts + Archives.
For those in LA, we have a record release show on Feb 8th at @2220arts.bsky.social thanks to Pehrspace! We'll be with Jen Boyd and Ki Oni's wonderful Underwater Garden Ensemble, who are too many to name! Kate Lain will also present 16mm film loops made during the 2020 fires. Hope to see you!
One week from today! 🔥
Join us Jan 6 @2220arts.bsky.social as we welcome SIRĀT director Oliver Laxe for the belated Los Angeles premiere of his extraordinary 2019 feature FIRE WILL COME!
One night only! 🎟️: link.dice.fm/Y8c1ebf044af
This week at 2220 – our final events before a two week winter break, featuring an adventurous Lebanese-Egyptian duo's take on Chicago blues, an innovative book launch and group reading, and a quartet of holiday videos from legendary Bay Area experimentalist George Kuchar!
Saturday night, we welcome a 75 performer community orchestra into the Archives to take on a Gavin Bryars gem!
This week at 2220: more events than days to come!
This week at 2220!
Next up, Ted Hearne's wild hyperpop folk opera FARMING, playback and performance, Thursday night.
Tix: link.dice.fm/n5a5e6b3877d
Master Scottish piper Brigdhe Chaimbeul at 2220 Arts on Saturday night.
Felicia Atkinson live at @2220arts.bsky.social (11/15/25) @shelter-press.bsky.social
This week at 2220, a quartet of high concept performances and screenings, spanning hyperpop confrontations vs settler colonialism, a radical docufiction on the Sri Lankan civil war, plus two nights of deep listening and environmental/object-oriented performance. See you soon!
Tonight at 2220, a special installment of Braided Sound, featuring an ensemble comprised of Patrick Shiroishi, Jesse Perlstein, Sanaya Ardeshir, AshTreJinkins, and Jason Adams, who will perform a graphic score designed by Jesse Perlstein.
