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- Upcoming: Closure
27 – 29 November, 2024CARA Closure: November 27–29
- Past: Artists' Talk
November 23, 2024Sounds of Caribbean Surrealism: Patrick Chamoiseau, Sélène Saint-Aimé, Aruán Ortiz, and Anaïs Maviel in Conversation
- Past: Artists' Talk
November 21, 2024Common Counter – The Sunview Luncheonette
- Past: Artists' Talk
November 14, 2024Artists & the Unknown: Art21 Interviews with Artists
- October 23, 2024
Fall Feast 2024
- Past: Closure
October 23, 2024CARA Closed: Wednesday, October 23
- Past: Artist's Talk
October 17, 2024Dancing on My Own: Artist Lecture by Simon Wu and Conversation with Merray Michael Mina
- Past: Artist's Talk
October 10, 2024Canal Street Research Association: Life on the Rented Island
- Past: Book Launch
September 13, 2024Mapping Malcolm Book Launch
- Past: Book Fair
August 30 – September 01, 2024BOOKED: Hong Kong Art Book Fair
- Past: Closure
August 19 – September 03, 2024CARA Summer Closure: August 19-September 3
- Past: Showcase
August 15, 2024Octavia Project Summer Showcase 2024
- Past: Screening
July 27, 2024CINE CAPITOL Presents: The Great Dictator
- Past: Book Fair
26 – 28 July, 2024CARA at the Vancouver Art Book Fair
- Past: West Side Fest
12 – 14 July, 2024West Side Fest Summer 2024 and Amerika Exhibition Tours
- Past: Conversation
June 20, 2024Javier Téllez in Conversation with Rahul Gudipudi
- Past: Book Fair
16 – 19 May, 2024CARA at the African Art Book Fair
- Past: Book Launch
May 9, 2024Aki Sasamoto: Point Reflection Book Launch
- Past: Gathering
04 – 05 May, 2024HOPE AGAINST HOPE: A woman-led weekend of parade, community, poetry, song, and food
- Past: Conversation
April 27, 2024Publishing Practices and Disparate Design: Transcending and Transforming the Book with African (Con)texts, with Luvuyo Equiano Nyawose, Kennedy Jones, Gee Wesley, and Nontsikelelo Mutiti
- Past: Book Fair
25 – 28 April, 2024CARA at Printed Matter's New York Art Book Fair
- Past: Bookstore Activation
April 14 – May 01, 2024there / is / only / now and neighbor histories: Bookstore Activation by Kimi Hanauer and Katie Giritlian
- Past: Book Launch
April 11, 2024Another Room to Live In Book Launch with Omar Berrada, Sarah Riggs, Safaa Fathy, Marilyn Hacker, Pierre Joris, Alisha Mascarenhas, and Yasmine Seale
- Current: Fellows
April 8, 20242024-2026 Fellowship Awardees: Napoleon Jones-Henderson and the Valerie J. Maynard Foundation
- Upcoming: Book Launch
March 21, 2024Mandible Wishbone Solvent Book Launch with Asiya Wadud, j. eunsun, Alisha Mascarenhas, and Abby Moses
- Past: Book Launch
March 14, 2024The Good Seven Years Book Launch with Rafram Chaddad and Lina Lazaar
- Upcoming: Book Launch
March 8, 2024Tomorrow I Will Become an Island Book Launch with Coco Fusco, Julia Bryan-Wilson, and Jill Lane
- Closure
February 14, 2024CARA Closed: Wednesday, February 14
- Past: Publishing Expanded
09 – 11 February, 2024Publishing Expanded: Where Is Africa
- Past: Conversation
January 25, 2024In Conversation: Ligia Lewis, Niall Jones, Will Rawls, Corey Scott-Gilbert, and Mame Diarra Speis
- Past: Book Fair
18 – 21 January, 2024CARA at the Index Art Book Fair
- Past: Holiday Market
16 – 17 December, 2023Holiday Market
- Past: Bookmobile
09 – 10 December, 2023The Ambedkar Age Digital Bookmobile
- Book Launch
December 8, 2023Reassembly: Field Notes for Unknowing Book Launch
- Past: Conversation
December 1, 2023searching for noon at two o'clock: a conversation with Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung and Manuela Moscoso
- Past: Fall Feast
November 13, 2023CARA's 2023 Fall Feast
- Past: Book Launch
November 3, 2023Meriem Bennani: Life on the CAPS Book Launch
- Past: Book Launch
October 26, 2023A Strange Celestial Road: Book Launch and Conversation with Ahmed Abdullah, Basir Mchawi, and Marilyn Nance
- Past: Conversation
October 23, 2023In Conversation: Twin Shadow AKA George Lewis Jr., Jasper Marsalis, Tavia Nyong'o
- Book Launch
October 12, 2023Long Kwento: Maia Cruz Palileo Reading and Conversation with Kim Nguyen
- Past: Conversation
October 7, 2023Ligia Lewis in Conversation with Manuela Moscoso
- Past: West Side Fest
September 30, 2023West Side Fest
- Past: Exhibition
September 30, 2023 – February 3, 2024study now steady: Live at CARA, Thursday—Sunday
- Past: Exhibition
August 17 – September 03, 2023Traces Exhibition
- Past: Cooler Night
August 14, 2023Cooler Night #5 featuring Voluminous Arts Residents, with Gavilán Rayna Russom and Tivali Thomas
- Past: Book Fair
10 – 13 August, 2023Printed Matter's LA Art Book Fair
- Past: bloom how you must
August 7, 2023Cooler Night #4 featuring Ikue Mori, LN Celestine, sadnoise, Many Many Girls
- Past: Showcase
August 3, 2023Octavia Project Summer Showcase 2023
- Past: bloom how you must
July 31, 2023Cooler Night #3 featuring Jodi Lin, Pauli Cakes/Petty Boots, and Davon Chance/Miz Jade
- Past: Book Launch
July 27, 2023THE MOON IS READING US A BOOK: Serubiri Moses
- Past: bloom how you must
July 24, 2023Cooler Night #2: renounce/remember featuring Coi_n, Sodomahigomorra, Maya Berman, and Lucy York
- Past: bloom how you must
July 17 – August 14, 2023Cooler Nights
- Past: Study Program
July 17 – September 03, 2023Voluminous Arts Study Program
- Past: bloom how you must
July 17, 2023Cooler Night #1 featuring Gyna Bootleg, Naija Couture, and Wolf Chalet
- Past: Artist's Talk
June 23, 2023Artist's Talk: Ana María Millán's Role Play Methodologies
- Past: Showcase
June 21, 2023NEW INC's DEMO2023 Future Memory Flash Everything Party
- Past: Book Launch
June 10, 2023Atomic Terrain: Reading, Conversation, and Plant Grafting
- Past: Publication Event
May 20, 2023Celebration of Our Forthcoming Publication Where is Africa in Venice
- Past: Exhibition Walkthrough
May 16, 2023Frieze Week: Exhibition Tour of 'and we learn to keep the soil wet'
- Past: Performance
May 13, 2023Oíhaŋke Waníča (Infinity): Kite with Robbie Wing
- Past: Performance
May 12, 2023'too quiet to hear': Performance by Amiko Li + Conversation with Aki Sasamoto
- Past: Summit
May 10, 2023Local Contexts Summit
- Past: Performance
April 29, 2023Oíhaŋke Waníča (Infinity): Kite with LEYA
- Past: Conversation
21 – 22 April, 2023Khari Johnson-Ricks, Joselia Rebekah Hughes, and marcus scott williams in Conversation
- Current: Fellows
April 20, 2023CARA's Inagural Fellowship Awardees: E´wao “Rocky” Kagoshima and Beatriz Santiago Muñoz
- Past: Performance
April 8, 2023Oíhaŋke Waníča (Infinity): Kite with Alicia Svigals
- Past: Book Launch
March 31, 2023I Will Keep My Soul: Helen Cammock in Conversation with Re'al Christian
- Past: Workshop
21 – 24 March, 20233-Day Virtual World Building Workshop with Ana Maria Millan
- Past: Performances
March 18 – June 25, 2023Oíhaŋke Waníča (Infinity): Performances by Kite
- Past: Reading
March 4, 2023The Hollow was Electric: Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Asiya Wadud, Serubiri Moses, and Adjua Gargi Nzinga Greaves
- Past: Performance
February 18, 2023An Afternoon with Somi
- Past: Conversation
February 4, 2023Salome Asega and Victor Peterson in conversation
- Past: Book Launch
February 3, 2023Michael in Black by Nicole Miller
- Past: Book Launch
January 26, 2023A Rock, A River, A Street by Steffani Jemison
- Past: Conversation
January 21, 2023Sound Waves: A Diasporic Dialogue
- Past: Conversation
December 10, 2022An Exchange on Black Sonics with Ladi'Sasha Jones and Akeema-Zane
- Past: Holiday Market
10 – 11 December, 2022CARA's Holiday Market!
- Past: Book Launch
December 9, 2022Paolo Javier: True Account of Talking to the 7 in Sunnyside
- Book Launch
December 2, 2022Wesley Brown: Blue in Green
- Past: Book Launch
November 12, 2022Sonia Louise Davis
- Past: Conversation
November 10, 2022Designer Manuel Raeder
- Past: Conversation
October 29, 2022The Unsung in conversation with Gabrielle Davenport
- Past: Artist's Talk
October 28, 2022The Conditions of the Archive—Marilyn Nance: Last Day in Lagos
- Past: Forum
October 20, 2022Jane Hait, Founder at Vera List Center Forum 2022
- Past: Conversation
October 15, 2022Neo Muyanga in conversation with Manuela Moscoso
- Past: Book Fair
13 – 16 October, 2022CARA x Printed Matter's NY Art Book Fair
- Past: Book Launch
October 7, 2022Michael in Black by Nicole Miller. Launch - Los Angeles
- Past: Exhibition
October 1, 2022 – March 4, 2023Hymn to the Strange / Rehearsals
- Past: Book Launch
October 1, 2022Marilyn Nance: Last Day in Lagos
- October 1, 2022
CARA Grand Opening
- Past: Conjuring
05 – 07 August, 2022Conjuring #3
- Past: Conjuring
20 – 24 July, 2022Conjuring #2
- Past: Conjuring
08 – 10 July, 2022Conjuring #1
- Past: Conjurings
July 08 – August 07, 2022CARA Soft Opening: Conjurings
- February 2, 2022
Manuela Moscoso appointed founding Executive Director