Past
Local nonprofit leaders came together virtually on February 25, 2021, for the second Culver City Nonprofit Convening and the presentation of the second annual Nonprofit Transformation Prize to Shoes For the Homeless. Representatives of more than 230 nonprofit organizations based in Culver City were invited to convene via Zoom for panel discussions on topics such as the future of philanthropy and anti-racism work in the nonprofit sector.
Vladimir Paperny, Adjunct Professor at the Department of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures at UCLA and author of Architecture in the Age of Stalin: Culture Two, will present a talk comparing two Cold War comedies: The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming (1966, United States) and The Russian Souvenir (1960, Soviet Union). This presentation is a continuation of his project with late film critic and screenwriter Maya Turovskaya, called "Hollywood in Moscow: American and Soviet Film of the 1930s-1940s," and his third virtual film discussion at the Wende.
The 22nd Cold War Spaces lunchtime talk with Alex Vitale, author of The End of Policing, professor of sociology at Brooklyn College, and the coordinator of the Policing and Social Justice Project at Brooklyn College, and Joes Segal, the Wende Museum's Chief Curator and Director of Programming.
The twenty-first Cold War Spaces lunchtime talk with Joanna Stingray, singer, actress, music producer and writer, and Joes Segal, the Wende Museum's Chief Curator and Director of Programming.
Join Heidi Duckler Dance and the Wende Museum online for a screening and artist talkback of What Remains, a live experimental production created by site-specific dance company Heidi Duckler Dance filmed in the Wende Museum's garden back in December of 2019. Both movement and opera emanated from the female perspective and examined the notion of memory, the idea of forgetting, and the struggle for individuality.
Join us for the first virtual Art Past Present with Enrique Martínez Celaya, artist, author, and former scientist. Martínez Celaya is Provost Professor of Humanities and Art, University of Southern California (USC), and Montgomery Fellow at Dartmouth College. His artwork has been exhibited and collected by major institutions around the world.
The sixteenth Cold War Spaces lunchtime talk with Julia Tatiana Bailey, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the National Gallery in Prague, and Joes Segal, Chief Curator and Director of Programming at the Wende Museum.
The fifteenth Cold War Spaces lunchtime talk with Aniko Imre, Professor of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California (USC), and Joes Segal, Chief Curator and Director of Programming at the Wende Museum.
The fourteenth Cold War Spaces lunchtime talk with Eric Avila, Professor of Chicano Studies and Urban Planning at UCLA, and Joes Segal, Chief Curator and Director of Programming at the Wende Museum.
The thirteenth Cold War Spaces lunchtime talk with Benjamin Forest, Associate Professor of Geography at McGill University, Montreal; Juliet Johnson, Professor of Political Science at McGill University, Montreal; and Joes Segal, Chief Curator and Director of Programming at the Wende Museum.
The twelfth Cold War Spaces lunchtime talk with New York-based Russian artist and researcher Yevgeniy Fiks and Joes Segal, the Wende Museum's Chief Curator and Director of Programming.
The eleventh Cold War Spaces lunchtime talk with Choi Chatterjee, Professor of History at California State University at Los Angeles (CSULA), and Joes Segal, the Wende Museum's Chief Curator and Director of Programming.
The tenth Cold War Spaces lunchtime talk with Robeson Taj Frazier, Associate Professor of Communication at USC, and Director of the Institute for Diversity and Empowerment at Annenberg (IDEA), and Joes Segal, the Wende Museum's Chief Curator and Director of Programming.
The ninth Cold War Spaces lunchtime talk with Kate Brown, Professor of Science, Technology and Society at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Joes Segal, the Wende Museum's Chief Curator and Director of Programming.
The eighth Cold War Spaces lunchtime talk with Samuel Huneke, Assistant Professor of History at George Mason University, and Joes Segal, the Wende Museum's Chief Curator and Director of Programming.