Dystopian Studios

04/30/2026

Join your fellow artists, makers, filmfolk, performers, entrepreneurs, crafters, makers and mad scientists for an amazing gathering of minds

LA’s most eclectic creative gathering is back—this time with a focus on The Art of Performance and The Performance of Art.

If you’ve been looking for your people in LA—this is where they are.

Collab is part art salon, part creative mixer, part idea incubator. For 20 years, it’s been a space where artists, founders, makers, and curious minds come together to connect, collaborate, and spark what’s next.

Expect a room full of:
Artists · Designers · Filmmakers · Builders · Entrepreneurs · Musicians · Creative Technologists · And people doing things that don’t fit in a box

⚡ What Happens at Collab?

🎤 Guest Speakers (Ask + Offer Format)
Real people building real projects share what they’re working on—and what they need.
It’s not just inspiration… it’s collaboration.

May Speakers TBA

🎨 Live Artists
Creating throughout the night

MAY:

Live graffiti patio with ShanduOne and CRG1. Bring a can and join their artistic collaboration!

More live artists TBA please let us know if you'd like to Showcase your work.

🎭 Performances
Pop-up moments of music, performance, and creative expression

K&R "One Spot Bar" The designers of the infamous Torture Totter bring their latest creation to life.

More performances TBA, let us know if you'd like to be added to the mix.

🍴 Food + Drinks
Free wine + soft drinks included
Come hungry, will also have an awesome food vendor slinging out some amazing and affordable cuisine.

🌍 April Theme: The Art of Performance and The Performance of Art.

👉 Want to showcase your work?
We’re always looking for live artists + projects, just email us at [email protected] and we'll connect to make it happen!

👋 First Time?

Perfect. Collab is designed to be easy to walk into—even solo.
People are open, curious, and actually talk to each other here.

Collab works best with new faces, so if you can, bring a friend!

🎟️ Details

$5 Donation (but we always welcome larger donations to help us keep Collab going) which includes wine and sodas
📍 Dystopian Studios II
341 South Avenue 17, Unit A

04/26/2026

01/06/2026

Tuesday, Jan 13th 730 PM to 1130 PM
Dystopian Studios 2
341 South Avenue 17, Los Angeles

It is a new year. Symbolically a fresh start, Collab is here to kick your creative self into high gear for 2026.

Resolutions. New creative technologies. New projects. And cool new stuff at Collab, LA's best art salon and creative mixer.

Have some cool new project, idea or opportunity you want to discuss? We are having an open Collab format for January, and you're welcome to submit your presentation for one of our open spots. And if you're a live performer or artist who wished to show, we're looking forward to hearing from you as well.

Our guest speakers are structured around an ask and give format. They share their projects, their experiences, and their amazing talents. In return, they make an ask of the community to help make their creative dreams reality.

GUEST SPEAKERS for JANUARY

The Collab Volunteers “Resolutions"
Our annual motivation, inspiration and accountability activity. An awesome and fun way to make friends and contacts, network, and channel your creative energies towards a single, year long goal. Our crew will be leading all participants to identify a challenging (but attainable) creative goal, to share that goal with the group, and suggest ways to achieve that goal. Every 3 months at Collab we’ll have a quick gathering to share our progress, offer suggestions on how to refocus, and do some good old fashioned peer pressure to keep you on track!

Kevin Flint “Table for 7”
Announcing a new, intimate dinner salon to bring together the most interesting, creative and cool people for an night of discussion, creativity and entertainment. In addition to discussing the new event, Kevin will be sharing decades of experience on how you can start your own creative events as well as looking for collaborators to kick this new event into launch! Especially looking for a culinary partner to help make this a tasty affair.

OPEN COLLAB

Have a project to share, an awesome idea to launch or a call for collaborators? We will have open slots to feature YOU! If you’d like to be guaranteed a spot, please send an email to [email protected]

12/09/2025

Collab Art Salon and Creative Mixer
Tuesday, December 9th
730 PM to 1130 PM
341 South Avenue 17, Los Angeles 90031

LA's best art salon and creative networking event presents a look at Photography. Past, Present, and what the future holds. Tuesday, December 9th at 7:30 PM.

GUEST SPEAKERS FOR DECEMBER

Mei Xian Qiu, a Los Angeles–based international photographer will join us on Tuesday. Mei's transnational upbringing across Java and the United States forms the basis of her complex work - combining inquiry into identity, displacement, and futurity. Born into a Chinese minority community and given multiple names at birth as anticipatory acts, she works at the intersection of lived history and imagined possibility. Her practice traces how selves are fractured, transported, and continually rewritten within shifting political and cultural terrains.
https://www.instagram.com/mei_xian_qiu/?hl=en

Robert Nelson, fine art visual concepts and character portraits. Twenty years of gallery work. Best known for his shows Mind's Eye and Rated R, and portraits of pop culture celebrities like Pierre Bernard (Pierre Bernard's Recliner of Rage).
https://www.instagram.com/robert_nelson_art/?hl=en

Brian Knapmiller is a Los Angeles-based award winning Director/Writer/Producer. Brian has made most of his career in the world of unscripted television, working as a showrunner, producer, director, and writer across a variety of networks and genres. But his greatest passion is still focused on stories that highlight personal stories of triumph over struggle, and exploring subcultures and parts of society others find taboo, controversial, or simply misunderstand.
https://www.instagram.com/brianknappmiller/?hl=en

Edward “Bumdog” Torres is Career Homeless Bum who happens to write, make films, books and movies.
https://www.instagram.com/bumdogtorres/?hl=en

Interactive photo DISPLAY
James Payne - 3D Portraits

Victor Arreguin is a retired telecommunications technician now concentrating on photography.
https://www.instagram.com/arreguinphotography/?hl=en

PERFORMERS for DECEMBER:
Sparky - Fire, Flow Artist

10/24/2025

The Brewery Artwalk is this weekend. The world's largest art colony, with over 550 artists living, working and (mostly) coexisting!

LA's biggest annual art event, you don't want tu miss it.

And be sure to stop by Kevin Flint's Dystopian Studios loft.
Just look for the giant Halloween display, and come on in and say hi.

And if you're around after Artwalk on Saturday, we'll be firing up the grill for hot dogs! Artwalk after party!

670 Moulton Ave #9, Los Angeles CA 90031

10/15/2025

Doors open in 10 minutes!

10/08/2025

Next TUESDAY (October 14th) at Dystopian Studios 2.

730 PM to 1130 PM
341 South Avenue 17, Los Angeles 90031

$5 suggested donation.
Free drinks, cheap food.

This month's topic is creative 3rd Spaces.

We'll have a number of great speakers, a guest panel, and about 100 awesome LA creatives.

Hope to see you there!

09/09/2025

Tomorrow night!
Tuesday, September 9th
730 PM to 1130 PM
Dystopian Studios 2
341 South Avenue 17
Los Angeles

The Collab Art Salon and Creative Mixer returns with an awesome group of guest artists for a panel hosted by






Plus fire performance by FlameStruck. Pizza, wine and drinks. And 100 or so awesome LA artists to meet, befriend and collaborate with!

05/30/2025

Los Angeles. Our shoot through lighting panel and a single RGB light are enough to give countless combinations at Dystopian Studio II and II Plus.
2000 sq ft studio rentals tarting at $30/hour. Plentiful free, safe parking right outside the studio door. A huge white c*clorama, black void, 12' w green screen, tons of included grip equipment, multiple lighting packages and dozens of set walls means you can shoot all of your content in one convenient spot.

05/28/2025

Los Angeles! Enjoy a spacious 2200 sq ft studio (expandable to 4000 sq ft!) with a large, backlit white c*clorama, black c*clorama, 12' wide green screen, styling room and a dozen other backgrounds for half the price of studios half the size. A first floor studio with plentiful free, safe parking right outside the studio door. Rates as low as $25/hour. A large selection of free, included grip equipment (C-stands, boom stands, rolling stairs, sand bags, video monitor, speakers, apple boxes, fans, streamers, posing cubes, v-flats.) Plus a robust selection of available lighting packages for a very affordable rental charge.

Book now! Link for booking in bio.
*cloramawall