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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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Music & Performance

Turiya Rising: Jeff Parker

One of contemporary music’s most versatile and innovative electric guitarists and composers, Jeff Parker takes the stage in the galleries of Alice Coltrane, Monument Eternal.

Sun Mar 23 5:00 PM

Part of the series Turiya Rising Performance Series

Still from Cry Danger

Screenings UCLA Film & TV Archive

Cry Danger

Cry Danger (1951) is an unforgettable noir filled with snappy, laconic dialogue and a captivating narrative equal to none other.

Sun Mar 23 7:00 PM

a cement sculpture in the shape of a heart

Lunchtime Art Talk on Star Feliz

Curatorial Assistant Nyah Ginwright leads an in-person discussion of Star Feliz's work.

Wed Mar 26 12:30 PM

Installation view of framed works installed on wall

After-Hours Tour: Whitney Arnold on Out of the Ordinary: Uncommon Marks, Materials, and Matrices

Join UCLA Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Medicine Whitney Arnold for a tour of the exhibition.

Wed Mar 26 6:00 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 Mar 27 12:30 PM

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Screenings Conversations

The Films of Ana Mendieta

A diverse selection of ten films created by the multidisciplinary artist Ana Mendieta between 1971 and 1981, followed by a talk with Raquel Cecilia Mendieta, Director of the Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, and Jay Ezra Nayssan.

Thu Mar 27 7:30 PM

Black and white photo of Audrey Hepburn inspecting items in an automat

Screenings UCLA Film & TV Archive

Food and Film: The Automat

Renowned chef, activist and cinephile Alice Waters will be in-person with filmmaker Lisa Hurwitz, whose documentary on the Automat brims with nostalgia for the fabled restaurant chain known for serving food from behind windowed, coin-operated doors.

Sat Mar 29 7:30 PM

Music & Performance

Turiya Rising: The Day I Met the Sun

Artist Devin T. Mays performs on stage with Bill Harris and Gerrit Hatcher in the galleries of Alice Coltrane, Monument Eternal

Sun Mar 30 5:00 PM

Part of the series Turiya Rising Performance Series

Barbra Streisand as Yentl

Screenings UCLA Film & TV Archive

Yentl

Barbra Streisand shines as Yentl, an only daughter of a rabbi in a small Ashkenazi Jewish village in 1904 Poland who yearns to enter yeshiva like the young men her age in this musical epic.

Sun Mar 30 7:00 PM

an installation with a plant, a painting hanging on a broken wall

Lunchtime Art Talk on William Leavitt

Curatorial Assistant Jennifer Buonocore-Nedrelow leads an in-person discussion of William Leavitt's work.

Wed Apr 2 12:30 PM