PST ART will kick off with a free daytime fireworks show at the L.A. Memorial Coliseum on Sept. 15. (photo courtesy of Cai Studio)

Getty announced on Sept. 3 full details of an ambitious slate of programs and events to accompany the more than 70 exhibitions that make up PST ART: Art & Science Collide, offering audiences in Southern California numerous pathways to experience, and participate in, what is now the nation’s largest arts initiative. Events will kick off on Sept. 15 with a free monumental daytime fireworks performance at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, entitled WE ARE: Explosion Event for PST ART, by artist Cai Guo-Qiang.

The wildly diverse programs range from a runway fashion show featuring futuristic creations by Indigenous designers to a commemorative rocket launch of a replica of the Sputnik satellite, from a summit on climate change for high-school activists to the LA Phil and Master Chorale premiere of a multimedia work by Doug Aitken, from participatory workshops on synthetic bioengineering to an evening of deep-space communication hosted by comedian Reggie Watts and organized by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

“The dazzling spectrum of programs we’re announcing will unite audiences in communal experiences across the region, and further animate the thematic exhibitions of Art & Science Collide,” said Katherine E. Fleming, president and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust. “Designed for people of all ages and backgrounds, these programs will ensure that everyone can find something in Art & Science Collide to excite, illuminate and engage.”

For information, visit pst.art.