Out and About

More than 600 people attended the 7th annual Dealing for Duchenne celebrity poker tournament and silent auction, raising $650,000 for the Center for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy at UCLA.

UCLA psychiatrist Dr. Daniel Siegel discusses his latest book 'Brainstorm: The Power and the Purpose of the Teenage Brain' tonight, June 3, 7 p.m. in Covel Commons.

Authors Donald Antrim and Karl Ove Knausgaard will lecture on 'The Alternative Uses of Real Life in Fiction & Memoir' at UCLA's Hammer Museum on May 29.

The 28th annual JazzReggae Festival comes to campus this Memorial Day weekend. The two-day festival — Jam Day on Sunday, May 25, and Reggae Day on Monday, May 26 — will feature artists such as Ky-Mani Marley, Snoop Dogg, Aloe Blacc and Black Uhuru.

Over Memorial Day weekend, the UCLA community will host two events to show appreciation for soldiers and veterans.

Melnitz Movies will screen 'Night Moves' on Thursday, May 22, 7:30 p.m. at the James Bridges Theater. The fifth feature film by acclaimed filmmaker Kelly Reichardt stars Jesse Eisenberg, Dakota Fanning and Peter Sarsgaard.

UCLA's School of Theater, Film and Television will screen 'National Treasure' at the James Bridges Theater on May 21, when the school honors the film's screenwriters, alumni Cormac and Marianne Wibberley.

Join the Fowler Museum at UCLA and Charlene Villaseñor Black, associate professor of art history and Chicano/a studies at UCLA. for a discussion of saints on June 4 at 12 p.m.

A sunset meditation session on Thursday, June 5 at UCLA's Fowler Museum will include an introduction to mindfulness, silent meditation and world music.

Roll with your fellow Bruins on a bike train to campus from Culver City or Koreatown on Thursday, May 15, part of UCLA Bike Week sponsored by UCLA Transportation.

An exhibition of the work of MFA students in UCLA Media Arts opens on May 15 and runs through May 29 at the New Wight Gallery.

Actress Lisa Gay Hamilton will be at UCLA on Thursday, May 22 as part of the UCLA Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies' 'Images in Blackness' film series.

The UCLA Hammer Museum hosts a discussion with novelist and UCLA professor Mona Simpson and screenwriter/director David O. Russell, May 8 at 7:30 p.m.

Make gifts for mom at 'Kids in the Courtyard: A Mother's Day of Earthly Delights' on Sunday, May 11, from 1 to 4 p.m. in UCLA's Fowler Museum courtyard.

Candidates for the State Senate's 26th district, which represents UCLA, will take part in a forum on May 16 at 6 p.m. at Korn Convocation Hall.

K.A.M.P. will connect kids and artists at the Hammer museum on May 18.

"Issei: The First Generation," a film documenting the struggles and triumphs of first-generation Japanese Americans, will be screened on May 8 from 4-6 p.m. in UCLA's Broad Art Center.

The UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology offers a rare look at its labs, archives and excavations during an open house on Saturday, May 10 from 1 to 4 p.m.

Drummer John Densmore, a founding member of “The Doors,” will discuss his new book, 'The Doors Unhinged,' at UCLA on May 15 in a Bunche Center Authors' Series Lecture.

Visit Bruin Plaza from 2:30-6:30 on Wednesday, April 30 for one of the last farmers markets of the school year.

David Lloyd Johnston, Canada's governor general, will speak at UCLA about how the United States and Canada can promote innovation across disciplines and across borders.　

UCLA's 36th Sylvia Winstein UCLA Emeriti Arts and Crafts Exhibition takes place on on May 20, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., in the California Room of the UCLA Faculty Center.

Robert Altman's "M*A*S*H*" screens at UCLA's Billy Wilder Theater on Saturday, April 26 as part of a retrospective of the director's work presented by the UCLA Film and Television Archive.

Michael Dean, chair of vocal studies at UCLA and an internationally recognized bass-baritone, will perform a full concert of classic jazz and big band music at UCLA on Tuesday, April 22.

Members of the UCLA women's soccer team, winners of the 2013 NCAA championship, were honored Friday by the Los Angeles City Council. The team added No. 110 to UCLA's all-time best NCAA championship total.