Out and About

The UCLA community is invited to attend a panel discussion on the federal budget and Congressional appropriations processes.

The UCLA International Institute will host a conversation about how professional baseball has become a major economic and cultural institution that employs thousands of Dominican workers in the training of baseball prospects.

The son of migrant farm workers, Herrera was educated at UCLA and Stanford University. He earned his M.F.A. from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

Since its debut in 1945, Spring Sing has showcased UCLA’s most talented student performers.

An estimated 6,500 people will converge on the campus Saturday, May 13, a day set aside to give admitted transfer students and their family members firsthand knowledge about the world-class academic opportunities and campus lifestyle that await them here.

The UCLA Costen Institute of Archaeology will be hosting an open house from noon to 4 p.m. on Saturday, May 13, in the UCLA Fowler building.

John Emerson, former U.S. ambassador to Germany under President Obama, will deliver the 2017 Bernard Brodie Distinguished Lecture on the Conditions of Peace.

More than 20 artists, photographers, sculptors, artisans and crafts persons will participate int he 39th Sylvia Winstein UCLA Emeriti Arts and Crafts exhibit.

The UCLA Black Alumni Association and the UCLA Afrikan Student Union invite you to hear a conversation with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar hosted by Tyus Edney on Abdul-Jabbar’s new book, “Coach Wooden and Me: Our 50-Year Friendship On and Off the Court.”

Join the UCLA Asia Pacific Center for a film screening of Felicia Lowe’s documentary, “Chinese Couplets,” from noon to 1:30 p.m. on Friday, May 19 in the Charles E. Young Research Library presentation room.

Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz is an internationally recognized ensemble whose mentors include the legendary Herbie Hancock, Herb Alpert and Wayne Shorter.

With an all-female ensemble, choreographers Darrian O’Reilly and Sarah Jacobs combine physical humor and idiosyncratic theatricality to animate the Fowler courtyard from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Wednesday, May 17.

Chef Massimo Bottura, whose Osteria Francescana is among the world’s most highly regarded restaurants, will appear at the fifth annual public lecture.

Tony Award–winning playwright and activist Eve Ensler and UCLA professor and legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw will lead a conversation and offer strategies for surviving the current political climate as antiracist feminists.

Join the UCLA Department of Asian Languages and Cultures for five days of kyogen with living national treasure Mansaku Nomura and his student Yukio Ishida.

Watch 12 finalists complete in this competition to determine who best can represent UCLA in explaining their research to the public in three minutes. The winner advances to the systemwide contest May 4.

UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, USC Annenberg School of Communication and USC School of Cinematic Arts present "Transforming Hollywood 8: The Work of Art in the Age of Algorithmic Culture."

The UCLA Healthy Campus Initiative is envisioned and supported by Jane and Terry Semel.

The UCLA Healthy Campus Initiative invites you to attend a TEDxUCLA Salon exploring Eudaimonia — what is it and why more of it is needed.

Eight of the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music’s finest classical musicians were selected to perform in the 13th annual All-Star Concern

Join the UCLA American Indian Studies Center in rallying on behalf of Native American efforts to preserve the environment, and for a celebration of indigenous culture and identity.

Join the UCLA Center for the Study of Religion for a conversation with Amir Hussain, professor of theological studies at the Loyola Marymount University and an expert on Muslims in America.

UC Walks is a systemwide UC Living Well program that is coordinated by the wellness programs at each campus.

For the first time since 2005, the UCLA Department of English will be reprising the marathon reading at 9:30 a.m. on Friday, May 19, in the Rolfe Courtyard, with "Beloved," by Toni Morrison.

As part of the UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin lecture series, the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs invites you to examine the socio-political factors that provoked the 1992 Los Angeles Uprising, as well as its impact on the racial and economic climate in L.A.