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HIGHWAYS

Performance . Dance . Music . Film . Visual Art

UPCOMING
EVENTS

  • Santa Monica Rep Theater - Makin' Cake
    Santa Monica Rep Theater - Makin' Cake
    Nov 10, 2025, 7:00 PM
    Highways, 1651 18th St, Santa Monica, CA 90404, USA
    Part history lesson, part social science revelation, change agent and poet laureate Dasha Kelly’s performance explores America’s sweet tooth and pathway to salvation, leaving room for cake and conversation following the show.
  • Maya Billig & Camila Arana
    Maya Billig & Camila Arana
    Multiple Dates
    Fri, Nov 21
    Nov 21, 2025, 8:00 PM – 9:30 PM
    Highways, 1651 18th St, Santa Monica, CA 90404, USA
    2 new dance works burn through illusion + intimacy, where beauty turns perilous + love devours as it adores. Billig’s Not My Queen teeters between witch trial + 80s pageant - a delirious spectacle of female power + punishment. Arana’s For Better or For Worse dissects love’s most exquisite brutality.
  • Maya Billig & Camila Arana
    Maya Billig & Camila Arana
    Multiple Dates
    Sat, Nov 22
    Nov 22, 2025, 8:00 PM – 9:30 PM
    Highways, 1651 18th St, Santa Monica, CA 90404, USA
    2 new dance works burn through illusion + intimacy, where beauty turns perilous + love devours as it adores. Billig’s Not My Queen teeters between witch trial + 80s pageant - a delirious spectacle of female power + punishment. Arana’s For Better or For Worse dissects love’s most exquisite brutality.
  • 2025 International Nihilist Film Festival
    2025 International Nihilist Film Festival
    Dec 20, 2025, 8:00 PM
    Santa Monica, 1651 18th St, Santa Monica, CA 90404, USA
    Bringing you the weirdest short films from around the world for over 25 years. Produced by Elisha Shapiro.

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About
HIGHWAYS

Highways Performance Space is Southern California’s boldest center for new performance, film and visual art.

In its 36th year, Highways continues to be an important alternative cultural center in Los Angeles that encourages radical artists from diverse communities to develop and present innovative new works. Highways promotes the development of contemporary socially involved artists and art forms.

 

Our mission is to develop and present innovative performance and visual artists, promote interaction among people of diverse cultural backgrounds and engage artists and the communities they serve in cross-cultural dialogues about social, cultural and artistic issues.

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Box Office

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Parking

Free parking is available on site

at the 18th St. Arts Center.

CONCESSIONS

Food and Drinks available for all events, 

and can be taken into the event space.

CONTACT US

ADDRESS

1651 18th St.

Santa Monica, CA 90404

EMAIL

admin@highwaysperformance.org

TEL

310-453-1755

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FUNDERS

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supported, in part, by the

Los Angeles County Board
of Supervisors through the Department of Arts and Culture.

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