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Mindful Awareness Meditation

Thursdays, 12:30–1 PM PDT

Free weekly drop-in sessions are open to all who are interested in learning how to live more presently.

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Child draws at a table while adults look on

Kids Special Programs

Art Lab

Drop by Art Lab for hands-on creative activities inspired by artworks on view at the museum.

Sat Dec 12 1:00 PM

Two men, one facing the camera wearing a fedora and suit, the other facing down

Screenings UCLA Film & TV Archive

Tribute to Director Stan Lathan: Go Tell It on the Mountain

Trailblazing producer-director Stan Lathan will be on hand to discuss this 1985 American Playhouse telefilm adaptation, loved by author James Baldwin.

Sat Dec 12 7:30 PM

Close up glamour shot of the actress Dorothy Dandridge

Screenings UCLA Film & TV Archive

Malaga / The Decks Ran Red

Screening of two Dorothy Dandridge's films, including a feature from the U.K. and a low-budget MGM movie by idiosyncratic director Andrew L. Stone.

Sun Dec 13 7:00 PM

An audience sitting in a darkened theater, watching a woman on stage

Special Programs

Mindful Awareness Meditation

Free weekly drop-in sessions are open to all who are interested in learning how to live more presently.

Thu Dec 17 12:30 PM

A man and woman looking at each other on a ship. The man is enslaved in shackles.

Screenings UCLA Film & TV Archive

Tamango / Tarzan's Peril

Screening of two Dorothy Dandridge's films from the 1950s, including a French/Italian production set on a Dutch slave ship, and a classic Tarzan film.

Sat Dec 19 7:30 PM

A woman in a black dress and a man in a solider's uniform sit in the front seat of a jeep, the man holding the steering wheel while the woman rests her elbow on his shoulder and smiles

Screenings UCLA Film & TV Archive

Carmen Jones

Screening of director Otto Preminger's "all Black" version of Georges Bizet's opera and Oscar Hammerstein’s musical, starring Dorothy Dandridge and Harry Belafonte.

Sun Dec 20 7:00 PM

An audience sitting in a darkened theater, watching a woman on stage

Special Programs

Mindful Awareness Meditation

Free weekly drop-in sessions are open to all who are interested in learning how to live more presently.

Thu Jan 7 12:30 PM

An audience sitting in a darkened theater, watching a woman on stage

Special Programs

Mindful Awareness Meditation

Free weekly drop-in sessions are open to all who are interested in learning how to live more presently.

Thu Jan 14 12:30 PM

An audience sitting in a darkened theater, watching a woman on stage

Special Programs

Mindful Awareness Meditation

Free weekly drop-in sessions are open to all who are interested in learning how to live more presently.

Thu Jan 21 12:30 PM

An audience sitting in a darkened theater, watching a woman on stage

Special Programs

Mindful Awareness Meditation

Free weekly drop-in sessions are open to all who are interested in learning how to live more presently.

Thu Jan 28 12:30 PM