2220 Arts + Archives
@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.
A community living room for autodidacts, explorers and ordinary intellectuals championing art, experiment and imagination.
This week at 2220!
November 30, 2025 at 9:43 PM
This week at 2220!
Next up, Ted Hearne's wild hyperpop folk opera FARMING, playback and performance, Thursday night.
Tix: link.dice.fm/n5a5e6b3877d
Tix: link.dice.fm/n5a5e6b3877d
November 18, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Next up, Ted Hearne's wild hyperpop folk opera FARMING, playback and performance, Thursday night.
Tix: link.dice.fm/n5a5e6b3877d
Tix: link.dice.fm/n5a5e6b3877d
Master Scottish piper Brigdhe Chaimbeul at 2220 Arts on Saturday night.
November 18, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Master Scottish piper Brigdhe Chaimbeul at 2220 Arts on Saturday night.
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!
November 18, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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.
November 13, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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.
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!
Plus, can't miss visits from Brighde Chaimbeul, Felicia Atkinson and Hanif Abdurraqib!
November 10, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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!
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!
October 29, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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.
October 27, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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.
This week at 2220!
October 20, 2025 at 8:35 PM
This week at 2220!
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!
October 13, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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.
Odeya Nini and M. Sage open the night.
October 12, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Tonight at 2220! The LP release concert for Patrick Shiroishi's latest: Forgetting is Violent.
Odeya Nini and M. Sage open the night.
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!
October 10, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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!
This week at 2220: seven events. Two book launches, films from Mexico and Romania, an LP release by Patrick Shiroishi, gospel brunch with Jimetta, and live scoring of a Hitchcock silent classic.
See you soon.
See you soon.
October 6, 2025 at 6:38 PM
This week at 2220: seven events. Two book launches, films from Mexico and Romania, an LP release by Patrick Shiroishi, gospel brunch with Jimetta, and live scoring of a Hitchcock silent classic.
See you soon.
See you soon.
Saturday night, a double bill of pan Afrikan hip hop, from Senegal to LA!
October 4, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Saturday night, a double bill of pan Afrikan hip hop, from Senegal to LA!
Tonight at 2220!
October 3, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Tonight at 2220!
This week at 2220: portraits of exile, political struggle and self-determination, from Senegal to Argentina to Scotland and home, however we define it.
September 29, 2025 at 9:58 PM
This week at 2220: portraits of exile, political struggle and self-determination, from Senegal to Argentina to Scotland and home, however we define it.
Tonight at 2220. 8pm.
September 23, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Tonight at 2220. 8pm.
This week at 2220: visits from legendary film critic J Hoberman and London-based film artist Ben Rivers, the conclusion of Mezzanine's 8-part Luc Moullet retrospective, and three distinct concerts exploring improvisation from different angles and approaches, incl a visit from NYC's Charmaine Lee!
September 22, 2025 at 6:22 PM
This week at 2220: visits from legendary film critic J Hoberman and London-based film artist Ben Rivers, the conclusion of Mezzanine's 8-part Luc Moullet retrospective, and three distinct concerts exploring improvisation from different angles and approaches, incl a visit from NYC's Charmaine Lee!
Friday at 3pm and 7pm, we present two programs of poetry films to benefit the Poetic Research Bureau, currently celebrating its 25th year of presenting literature in Los Angeles.
September 18, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Friday at 3pm and 7pm, we present two programs of poetry films to benefit the Poetic Research Bureau, currently celebrating its 25th year of presenting literature in Los Angeles.
This week at 2220 we celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Poetic Research Bureau with a live poetry film anthology and a marathon reading, while adding three programs of cinema experiments and an inventive piano recital as fellow travelers.
September 15, 2025 at 5:51 PM
This week at 2220 we celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Poetic Research Bureau with a live poetry film anthology and a marathon reading, while adding three programs of cinema experiments and an inventive piano recital as fellow travelers.
2220 Arts hosts five screening programs this week, including two from Mezzanine's Luc Moullet retrospective, and a Saturday night concert from Erin Durant, Tara Jane O'Neil and others.
September 8, 2025 at 4:22 PM
2220 Arts hosts five screening programs this week, including two from Mezzanine's Luc Moullet retrospective, and a Saturday night concert from Erin Durant, Tara Jane O'Neil and others.
Coming this week to 2220 Arts.
September 1, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Coming this week to 2220 Arts.
2220 wraps up August with a summer-themed screening and reading, plus a quartet of warm & considered concerts spanning cosmic country, creative jazz, Brazilian guitar and modular synth. A half dozen that's anything but incomplete.
August 25, 2025 at 8:17 PM
2220 wraps up August with a summer-themed screening and reading, plus a quartet of warm & considered concerts spanning cosmic country, creative jazz, Brazilian guitar and modular synth. A half dozen that's anything but incomplete.
This week at 2220.
August 18, 2025 at 11:36 PM
This week at 2220.
Next up at 2220.
August 16, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Next up at 2220.