With support from the California Arts Council, Highways will organize two collaboratively curated 2022 programs at our Santa Monica venue: the first will organize the LGBTQ+ Latinx component of Highways’ third annual Maudit Film Festival; the second will curate two weekends of LGBTQ+ Latinx performers at our annual “Behold” Festival.
Highways presents over 100 annual performances by culturally diverse dramatic soloists, small theater groups, dance companies and spoken word artists. We also curate an average of 10 annual contemporary exhibitions exploring the boundaries between the performing and visual arts and sponsor residencies that provide emerging artists access to professionally directed training in the performing arts. Our presentations and promotional campaigns financially support hundreds of culturally diverse and cutting-edge artists and nurture their artistic development. To date, Highways has presented over 1000 original works, and has produced over 2400 different arts programs that have attracted over 285,000 people.