2220 Arts + Archives

This week at 2220.

Comfort and Joy – Ink 19 With just a few short days before Christmas in Glasgow, morning drive time disc jockey, Alan “Dickie” Bird finds himself caught in the middle of an absurd ice cream war in Bill Forsyth’s masterful 198...

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.

concert announcement: PAPA M WITH FULL BAND FEATURING THE EXTRAORDINARY TALENTS OF ALEJANDRO SALAZAR DYER (DRUMS), PAUL OLDHAM (BASS), AARON OLSON (GUITAR), AND DAVE PAJO (GUITAR) RYLEY WALKER LIVE AND IN PERSON JANUARY 14 2220 ARTS + ARCHIVES LOS ANGELES, CA Ryley Walker + Papa M Wed, Jan 14, 2220 Arts .

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.

Ian Wellman (Album Release), Underwater Garden Ensemble, Jen Boyd Tickets | $15 | 8 Feb @ 2220 Arts + Archives, Los Angeles | DICE **pehrspace** presents an album release concert for Ian Wellman, with additional performances by Underwater Garden Ensemble and Jen Boyd. ∆ **Ian Wellman**...

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!

Kevin Killian’s Collected Poems — The Poetic Research Bureau Friday, December 12

Tonight!

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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 2220 Arts + Archive (Los Angeles, CA) on November 15, 2025

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.

Tonight! 🔥

Join us as we welcome director Marta Mateus for a double bill of her acclaimed debut FIRE OF WIND and the new restoration of a rare short from 1969 by Portuguese master João César Monteiro—8pm @2220arts.bsky.social .

🎟️ 🔗: link.dice.fm/L66ddbe88ef5

This week at 2220, we open up with Portuguese language cinema from Portugal and Brazil, and close with classics of LA experimental film, including a rarely seen feature from Bill Viola.

Plus, can't miss visits from Brighde Chaimbeul, Felicia Atkinson and Hanif Abdurraqib!

Continuing a week of international arthouse horror up to the 31st, we continue with some French DIY outsider entries tonight, and wrap up with a Japanese silent classic tomorrow scored by doom metal ensemble The Silent Light!

This week at 2220: two early week performances yield to a six event stretch of film screenings bookending Halloween, featuring three wild bills of international arthouse horror followed by three days of animated and oneiric film works.

Announcing! 📣

Fire of Wind
directed by Marta Mateus
Portugal, France, Switzerland, 2024, 74 min

Join us Nov 10 @2220arts.bsky.social as we welcome Marta Mateus for a double bill of her debut feature and the 4K restoration of a rare short by João César Monteiro! 🎟️: link.dice.fm/L66ddbe88ef5

This week at 2220!

L.A.! Monday October 20 @8P @acropoliscinema.bsky.social presenting @2220arts.bsky.social 2 eclipse films by Kevin Jerome Everson spotlighting composer David Dominique’s ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️score for the 2025 work “When The Sun is Eaten (Chi’bal K’iin)” + exclusive vinyl pre-release - celluloid + wax!

This week at 2220: eightfold concerts + performances, spanning creative improvisation, ambient avant-pop, multiple generations of jazz innovation, dark folk balladry, and a Sunday mini-festival of contemporary gamelan!

Tonight at 2220! The LP release concert for Patrick Shiroishi's latest: Forgetting is Violent.

Odeya Nini and M. Sage open the night.

Come by this Sunday for the first concert in our second Sunday brunch series with Jimetta Rose and the Voices of Creation. 12pm-4pm, food, DJs, gospel choir, community uplift!