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

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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Installation view of a fashion exhibition

CANCELLED: Curator Walk-through: Refashioning: CFGNY & Wataru Tominaga

Sun Jun 30 1:00 PM

Still from In the Land of Brothers

In the Land of Brothers

Directors Alireza Ghasemi and Raha Amirfazli tell a powerful story across three interconnected episodes of an Afghan refugee family’s generational struggle to make a home in Iran.

Sun Jun 30 7:00 PM

Pink poster reading "a spectacle and nothing strange"

Lunchtime Art Talk on Eve Fowler

Collection specialist/curatorial assistant, Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts Jennie Waldow leads an in-person discussion of the work of Eve Fowler.

Wed Jul 3 12:30 PM

Gallery view full of bright fabrics and clothing

After-Hours Tour: Diane Fujino and Kano Fujino-Harmachis on Refashioning: CFGNY & Wataru Tominaga

UC Santa Barbara professor of Asian American Studies Diane Fujino and UC Davis graduate Kano Fujino-Harmachis leads a walk-through of the exhibition.

Tue Jul 9 6:00 PM

Black and whit the photo of a mother standing, holding her young daughter in front of her

Rabbit in the Moon

Documentary film on Japanese Americans in American concentration camps during World War II. Followed by a Q&A with director Emiko Omori and producer Chizuko Omori.

Tue Jul 9 7:30 PM

Photo of a man's swim trunks with the words "Mondrian in Excelsis" written on them

Lunchtime Art Talk on David Medalla

Curatorial assistant Jennifer Buonocore-Nedrelow leads an in-person discussion of the work of David Medalla.

Wed Jul 10 12:30 PM

Graphic of the Supreme Court

Under the Gavel: The U.S. Supreme Court’s Most Recent Term in Review

An all-star panel of legal scholars analyzes the meaning and implications of the latest Supreme Court cases

Wed Jul 10 7:30 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 Jul 11 12:30 PM

Ben Stiller and Robin Williams in Night at the Museum

Screenings Kids

Family Flicks: Night at the Museum

History comes alive—literally—after a divorced dad, struggling to reconnect with his son, takes a job as a guard at a museum with a magical secret: When the doors are locked, its exhibits spring to life.

Sun Jul 14 11:00 AM

Still from Daughters

Daughters

Four young girls prepare for a special Daddy Daughter Dance with their incarcerated fathers, as part of a unique fatherhood program in a Washington, D.C., jail in this eight-year documentary journey.

Tue Jul 16 7:30 PM

Part of the series Summer Night Cinema: True Stories