Events & Exhibitions

Browse our upcoming events and workshops and explore our online exhibitions.

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    Cornerstone Research Workshop
    Getting Started With Research

    Learn all about the research process and research opportunities at UCLA, as well as how to find a faculty mentor and earn course credit for doing research. This virtual workshop is free and open to all undergraduates. For more information about the Cornerstone Research Workshop series, visit the Undergraduate Research Workshops Center.

    This event will be offered both in person and over Zoom. If you would like to attend this workshop in person, the event will be held in Powell Library Classroom C, Room 320C.

    Please register in advance to attend in person, virtually or join via Zoom.

    Want to take this workshop now online? The workshop is also available asynchronously on our Writing Instruction + Research Education (WI+RE) website.

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    Science Research Workshop
    How to Read Scientific Articles

    Feeling lost when it comes to reading scientific journal articles? With so many different study and article types, pulling out the main points and elements of the paper can be challenging. Join us to gain a foundational understanding of scientific articles to feel more confident and at ease in class, lab, the clinic and during independent research time.

    This workshop will be offered via Zoom. If you're registered, you'll receive the Zoom invitation information the day of the workshop.

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All Upcoming Events

Event Series & Exhibitions

  • Film still close-up on African American woman and man looking out a window
    Event Series
    “Going My Own Way”: Celebrating Ivan Dixon

    Pesented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Hugh M. Hefner Classic American Film Program

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    Event Series
    “You Had Better Make Some Noise”: Malcolm X at 100

    This four-night series presents film and television works, both fiction and nonfiction, that explore the depth of Malcolm X’s legacy

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    Event Series
    Archive Talks
    Ongoing

    Archive Talks pairs leading historians and scholars with screenings of the moving image media that is the focus of their writing and research.

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    Event Series
    Archive Television Treasures
    Ongoing

    Made possible by the John H. Mitchell Television Programming Endowment

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    Event Series
    Archive Treasures
    Ongoing

    Archive Treasures showcases works from UCLA Film & Television Archive’s extensive holdings, which comprise one of the largest moving image collections in the world.

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    Event Series
    Archive Treasures: UCLA AMIA Student Chapter Takeover!
    Ongoing

    We’ve turned the Billy Wilder Theater over to UCLA AMIA chapter members to curate a program of prints and media from the Archive’s collection

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    Event Series
    Beyond Barbie

    This series seeks to redefine coming-of-age narratives about girlhood by showcasing films with a shared focus on a girl’s desire to know and express herself

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    Workshop Series
    Cornerstone Research Workshops
    Ongoing

    Foundational research and management skills workshops, open to students at all levels.

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    Event Series
    Family Flicks
    Ongoing

    UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Hammer Museum have teamed up for a free matinee screening series of new and classic family-friendly films from around the world.

  • Portrait of a woman standing in a fig orchard in a still from "Under the Fig Trees"
    Event Series
    Food and Film

    Presented by UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Hammer Museum

  • Strip of Japanese characters and illustrations
    Event Series
    Japanese Paper Films

    Experience kami firumu, or paper films, projected alongside live musical accompaniment and discuss the innovative techniques currently being used to safeguard these fascinating artifacts

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    Event Series
    Legacy Project Screening Series
    Ongoing

    The Outfest UCLA Legacy Project is a collaborative effort bringing together the UCLA Film & Television Archive and Outfest to collect, restore and showcase queer film and video

  • two boys with mohawk haircuts clasping hands
    Event Series
    New Wave

    Elizabeth Ai’s kinetic film documents New Wave music in the Vietnamese diaspora and skillfully weaves together the challenges of intergenerational understanding in the search for the American dream

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    Palestine Blues

    This documentary captures the resistance of Palestinian farmers in in the village of Jayyous in this intimate, deeply human portrait of resilience in the face of displacement and occupation

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    Workshop Series
    Research Workshops
    Ongoing

    UCLA Library research workshops teach relevant skills and encourage critical thinking about the research process.

  • Sarah Maldoror with hand outstretched in front
    Event Series
    Sarah Maldoror: Through a Lens of Resistance and Rebellion

    A screening of three of filmmaker and theater artist Sarah Maldoror’s markedly distinct works created for cinema and broadcast television

  • Students, some wearing medical scrubs, sitting around a table talking and looking at a laptop
    Workshop Series
    Science Research Workshops
    Ongoing

    Science focused research skills and topics workshops, aimed at STEM audiences but open to all students.

  • Man and his mirror reflection from Cabaret movie
    Event Series
    We Don’t Need This Fascist Groove Thing

    Travel from Berlin to Brazil to see how queer artists — using the power of music, dance, glitter and camp — pushed back against the death machine of greed, bigotry and targeted violence

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