Out and About

On August 22 at 2 p.m., Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLA will host a St. Baldrick’s Foundation signature head-shaving event to raise funds and awareness for lifesaving childhood cancer research. The goal is to raise $5,000.

“Street Muse: Kenya” will screen on Aug. 21 at the UCLA Fowler Museum, followed by conversation with director and star.

The Hammer is inviting all families in the Los Angeles area to its courtyard to reflect on the timeless question: Why does art matter?

UCLA Fowler Museum is hosting 'Mask Making' as part of its Kids in the Courtyard series on Sunday, August 17 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.

UCLA’s Hammer Museum presents the latest “Flux” screening of short films, music videos, filmmaker retrospectives and visual artwork from around the world, on Tuesday, Aug. 12, 7:30-9:30 p.m. Admission is free.

Back by popular demand after sold-out houses last summer, the Oscar Wilde classic, “Lady Windermere’s Fan,” will be performed at UCLA’s William Andrews Clark Memorial Library in five performances by the Chalk Repertory Theater, July 25-August 2.

UCLA’s Film and Television Archive will be hosting a Hollywood hero on July 25: Norma Barzman, a screenwriter who fled to France when she was blacklisted during the Red Scare of the 1940s and 1950s.

UCLA’s Hammer Museum and KCRW are teaming up to present Made in L.A. Music, four nights of free, live, Los Angeles-based music in the museum courtyard over four weeks.

This weekend marks the launch at UCLA's Billy Hammer Theater of “Cruzamentos: Contemporary Brazilian Documentary,” a month-long pageant of weekend showings of Brazilian film.

Water researchers from UCLA, the Natural History Museum and elsewhere are helping the region understand issues, history and possible solutions related to the drought. A discussion series featuring panels of experts begins July 10.

The Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber Music Festival, an annual event presented by the UCLA Center for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies, features four free concerts this year.

On Thursday, July 10 at the UCLA Hammer Museum, The Do-Over and Innovative Leisure present De Lux, The Do-Over mystery guest DJs and KCRW DJ Mathieu Schreyer.

Three films by photographic and video artist Judy Fiskin will screen at the Billy Wilder Theater on Tuesday, July 1, 7:30 p.m., followed by a Q&A with the artist.

Head to UCLA's Hammer Museum on Thursday, July 3, 7:30 p.m., to see "Maradona," a documentary about Argentinean soccer star Diego Maradona, regarded by many as the world's greatest modern player.

Head to UCLA's Hammer Museum to catch eight live broadcasts of the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil June 28 through July 13, plus 'Maradona," a documentary on Argentinean soccer star Diego Maradona, on July 9.

The UCLA Film and Television Archive series, "Robert Altman: A Retrospective," will run through June 29 at the Billy Wilder Theater.

Grammy-nominated vocalist, composer and arranger Perla Batalla will sing at UCLA's Fowler Museum on Sunday, June 22, 3:30 pm.

Head to UCLA's Hammer Museum tonight, June 16, to celebrate James Joyce’s 'Ulysses' at the Hammer's fifth annual Bloomsday.

If you park in UCLA Parking Structure 4, 7  or 8, you may have noticed the elevator doors urging you to take the stairs, a clever message from UCLA Transportation.

UCLA's Fowler Museum will screen 'Narco Cultura,' a documentary about folk saints and the drug war in Mexico and the U.S., on Thursday, June 12 at 7 p.m.

The UCLA Film and Television Archive will screen the 1923 silent films “The Bright Shawl” and “The Fighting Blade” this Friday, June 6, 7:30 p.m.

UCLA’s Fowler Museum hosts “Down to Earth: Buggy Petting Zoo” on Sunday, June 8, 2-4 p.m.

Terrence Malick’s stunningly photographed film screens June 2, 7:30 p.m. at the James Bridges Theater.

Join UCLA's Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden in celebrating the opening of its new La Kretz Entrance on Monday, June 2, noon.

Volunteer for the fifth annual Westwood Organized Meaningful Project (WOMP) on Saturday, May 31, in a day of community improvement projects in Westwood Village and the North Village.