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FITWELL Talks: Conversations with UCLA Health experts on the latest wellbeing research, practical recommendations, and more. Just thirty minutes via Zoom over your lunch hour. Join live, listen in, and come ready with questions. Take good care. June 2025 - Why We Hurt - Understanding the Science of Pain Speaker: UCLA physical therapist Carole Netter, PT, MS

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West Coast Premiere! Co-presented by TransUP (Transgender UCLA Pride) and the UCLA Film & Television Archive. Democracy, truth, and justice hang in the balance in this riveting documentary that follows the battle against anti-trans legislation to the highest court in the land. The spotlight falls on ACLU attorney Chase Strangio as he becomes the first openly transgender person to argue before the U.S. Supreme Court. The case's outcome will have far-reaching implications for bodily autonomy in areas including contraception, abortion, and reproductive healthcare. Followed by a Q&A with director Sam Feder, producer Amy Scholder, and journalist, critic, editor, and podcaster Tre'vell Anderson.

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UCLA F-1 visa students, do you want to know more about off-campus employment authorization? Join us on one of our weekly CPT webinars hosted by the Dashew Center staff to learn more!

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Private drop-in consultations with an immigration attorney. No RSVP - waiting room only. Admitted in order of joining.

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These meetups are for people who make websites. Join us every other week, on Wednesday at 11am, to ask any questions you may have about making websites at UCLA.

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This training session will help new instructors and TAs prepare their Bruin Learn (Canvas) course sites. Session facilitators will cover essential topics, including navigating your course site, uploading a syllabus, creating assignments, grading tips, and communicating with students. Join us to get a head start on preparing your Bruin Learn site for the upcoming term. Audience: Faculty, TAs

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Topic: UCLA Library Information Literacy and Instructional Design Showcase Session Overview: A team of instructors from UCLA Library will share their experience hosting a biannual Summer Information Literacy Institute for faculty, teaching assistants, and other instructors at UCLA. The presenters will share: - How they supported Institute participants in incorporating information literacy principles and pedagogical approaches into their courses and assignments. - An overview of Institute curriculum and approaches to incorporating active learning into instruction. - How they collaborated to include contributions from library instructors, instructional designers and experts in library services and collections for this week-long virtual intensive training. Past Institute participants will also share their experiences with incorporating information literacy principles into their courses and curriculum, and discuss why they feel information literacy skills are more important than ever in higher education. Presenters’ Bio Muriel McClendon, Associate Professor and Vice Chair for Graduate Affairs for the Meyer and Renee Luskin Department of History is a longtime fangirl of the UCLA Library and the UCLA Library librarians and participated in the 2022 Summer Information Literacy Institute. Michelle Brasseur is a Humanities and Social Science Librarian, the UCLA Library User Engagement Teaching and Learning Functional Team Lead, and member of the 2024 Institute planning team. Chris Gilman Is a Digital Curriculum Program Coordinator for the UCLA Digital Library Program who specializes in Bruin Learn, IIIF (International Image Interoperability Framework), information literacy and learning experience design. Chris has been a member of the Institute planning team since 2022. Kelsey Brown is a Humanities and Social Sciences Librarian who works with the Archeology, Public Policy, and Urban Planning departments. Kelsey is a member of the 2024 Institute planning team.

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Co-presented by UCLA Mindful, the mindfulness education center of UCLA Health. Enjoy Mindful Awareness Meditation in person every Thursday in the Billy Wilder Theater! Every session is also broadcast live right here on the Hammer's website. Whether you participate in person or online, Mindful Awareness Meditation is offered every Thursday at 12:30 PM. To join the livestream, simply visit this page each week on Thursdays at 12:30 PM and click the Play button that will appear in the center of the livestream screen below.

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Feel free to drop by and chat with RISE Health and Wellbeing Coordinator! Whether you want to discuss campus mental health resources, get connected to CAPS, manage academic stress, or just need someone to talk to, we're here for you.

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Feel free to drop by and chat with RISE Health and Wellbeing Coordinator! Whether you want to discuss campus mental health resources, get connected to CAPS, manage academic stress, or just need someone to talk to, we're here for you.

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Part of the 2025 UCLA Celebration of Iranian Cinema Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive Please note: registration does not guarantee entry if the event reach capacity. Admission is granted on a first-come, first-served basis. Patrons who have registered will need to obtain their free tickets at the box office, where seating will be assigned. Any seats remaining 15 minutes before showtime will be released to standby patrons. The Siren France/Germany/Luxembourg/Belgium, 2023 For 14-year-old Omid, the Iran-Iraq War begins with rockets tearing over a soccer game he’s playing with his friends in the Iranian port of Abadan. After Omid refuses to evacuate with his mother, he takes over an injured friend’s food delivery route that brings him into contact with a disparate group of eccentrics struggling to survive the chaos. With the city soon poised to fall, they band together to devise a daring escape plan. In deploying a 2D animation style to tell this story of war, director Sepideh Farsi (Red Rose, 2015 UCLA Celebration of Iranian Cinema) confronts its horrors head on while illuminating in fresh and visually compelling ways the humanity besieged by it. DCP, color, in Persian with English subtitles, 100 min. Director: Sepideh Farsi. Screenwriter: Javad Djavahery. With: Mina Kavani, Hamidreza Djavdan, Parviz Sayyad.

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Hammer educators lead conversation-based tours of the exhibition Noah Davis. Capacity is limited. Visitors will be admitted on a first come, first served basis.

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A Conversation with Director Julie Ha featuring a welcome by Actor and Director Randall Park Exclusive author event and preview of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center's Foundations and Futures: Asian American and Pacific Islander Multimedia Textbook. Journalist, author, and Emmy-award-winning filmmaker Julie Ha reflects on her experience retelling this monumental story, explores the importance of preserving historical narratives across communities, and unveils, for the first time, her textbook chapter, Free Chol Soo Lee: How a Lone Death Row Inmate Sparked a Movement. This is the second in a series of Foundations and Futures’ chapter preview events.

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Part of the 2025 UCLA Celebration of Iranian Cinema Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive In-person: Q&A with Maryam Mehrjui and Safa Mehrjui, daughter and son of Dariush Mehrjui. Please note: registration does not guarantee entry if the event reach capacity. Admission is granted on a first-come, first-served basis. Patrons who have registered will need to obtain their free tickets at the box office, where seating will be assigned. Any seats remaining 15 minutes before showtime will be released to standby patrons. Writer-director Dariush Mehrjui studied cinema and philosophy at UCLA before returning to Iran in the late 1960s where his second feature The Cow is credited with launching the Iranian New Wave. A giant of Iran cinema for over five decades until his untimely, tragic death in 2023, Mehrjui was a fierce critic of the Iranian regime and fought government censorship throughout his career. In his films, he explored the psychological toll of fear, ignorance and oppression on the lives of individuals with grace, insight and poetry. The Archive is honored to present a two-evening tribute (June 28 and 29) to his life and legacy featuring some of his greatest works. Leila Iran, 1997 Soon after meeting at a joyful gathering of family and friends, Leila (Leila Hatami) and Reza (Ali Mosaffa) are happily married. When Leila learns she can’t have children, however, that supportive network of relations becomes an unrelenting force of social pressure that threatens to drive them apart, most forcefully articulated by Reza’s domineering mother who insists Leila allow Reza to take a second wife. Hatami delivers a devastating performance in Dariush Mehrjui’s unforgettable portrait of a woman under emotional siege that film critic Amy Taubin called “the most brilliant depiction of a marriage gone to hell that I’ve ever seen.” DCP, color, in Persian with English subtitles, 102 min. Director: Dariush Mehrjui. Screenwriters: Mahnaz Ansarian, Dariush Mehrjui. With: Leila Hatami, Ali Mosaffa, Jamileh Sheikhi.

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Free collaborative workshops, presented with 826LA, combine writing with creative activities for groups of up to 20 students. Recommended for ages 8–14. Reservations encouraged. Visit 826la.org or call 310-915-0200. Bringing together high-energy improvisation exercises with the art of poetry, students will learn how both writing and performance can be gateways to creative agency. Led by Christian Perfas (aka Soul Stuf), a spoken word poet and teaching artist based in the Greater Los Angeles area.

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Artist Lawrence Lek will screen films from his “Smart City” series, which laid the conceptual groundwork for NOX High-Rise, his exhibition at the Hammer. The screening will be followed by an audio-visual performance by Lek, and a discussion of the role of film, video games, and architecture in his worldbuilding practice.

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Part of the 2025 UCLA Celebration of Iranian Cinema Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive In-person: Introduction by Maryam Mehrjui and Safa Mehrjui, daughter and son of Dariush Mehrjui. Please note: registration does not guarantee entry if the event reach capacity. Admission is granted on a first-come, first-served basis. Patrons who have registered will need to obtain their free tickets at the box office, where seating will be assigned. Any seats remaining 15 minutes before showtime will be released to standby patrons. Writer-director Dariush Mehrjui studied cinema and philosophy at UCLA before returning to Iran in the late 1960s where his second feature The Cow is credited with launching the Iranian New Wave. A giant of Iran cinema for over five decades until his untimely, tragic death in 2023, Mehrjui was a fierce critic of the Iranian regime and fought government censorship throughout his career. In his films, he explored the psychological toll of fear, ignorance and oppression on the lives of individuals with grace, insight and poetry. The Archive is honored to present a two-evening tribute (June 28 and 29) to his life and legacy featuring some of his greatest works. Hamoon Iran, 1990 “Why did it go wrong? How did it start?” So ruminates a bitter Hamoon (Khosro Shakibai) after his wife (Bita Farahi) demands a divorce, but the questions about his marriage take on ever stronger existential consequences. A middle manager at a trading company, the middle-aged Hamoon aspires to the intellectual life (his wife is a celebrated abstract painter) but his struggle to complete a philosophy thesis only compounds his sense of anger and resentment. Director and co-writer Dariush Mehrjui shakes up his acute study of a marriage and a life on the rocks with unreliable flashbacks and surreal dream sequences that draw us inexorably deeper in Hamoon’s collapsing psychology. DCP, color, in Persian with English subtitles, 120 min. Director: Dariush Mehrjui. Screenwriters: Dariush Mehrjui, Haroon Yashayayi. With: Khosro Shakibai, Bita Farahi, Ezzatolah Entezami. The Pear Tree Iran, 1998 An intellectual author struggling with writer’s block, Mahmoud (Homayoun Ershadi) retreats to the country villa where he grew up only to be confronted by a prized pear tree that refuses to bear fruit and aching memories of his first love, played by a radiant Golshifteh Farahani making her feature film debut. In Dariush Mehrjui’s masterpiece of middle-aged doubt, the personal and the political steep in longing and regret while almost every shot comes suffused in golden, autumnal light captured through the lens of cinematographer Mahmoud Kalari. DCP, color, in Persian with English subtitles, 95 min. Director: Dariush Mehrjui. Screenwriters: Dariush Mehrjui, Goli Taraghi. With: Homayoun Ershadi, Golshifteh Farahani.

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Feel free to drop by and chat with RISE Health and Wellbeing Coordinator! Whether you want to discuss campus mental health resources, get connected to CAPS, manage academic stress, or just need someone to talk to, we're here for you.

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This training session will introduce the newest iteration of Ally Accessibility Tools to instructors and TAs. The first part of this training will describe Ally functionality and how it supports compliance with accessibility standards for content within Bruin Learn. Session facilitators will introduce Ally's Accessibility Score Indicator, the Alternative Formats Tool, and the new Ally WYSIWG editor ("What You See Is What You Get"). Audience: Faculty, TAs

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