Wende Museum

Community Flow Yoga with Kate O’ Neal
2026-08-28 10:30 - 11:30, 2026-09-04 10:30 - 11:30, 2026-09-11 10:30 - 11:30, 2026-09-25 10:30 - 11:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Wende Museum’s Community Center, 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90230, United States
Participants must bring their own yoga mat, and are encouraged to also bring a towel to pad their knees and yoga blocks if desired.
Join our new weekly yoga session; all experience levels welcome! Yoga is a practice that builds strength, flexibility, and focus while calming the mind and restoring balance to the body. Through mindful movement and breathwork, it supports physical health, reduces stress, and cultivates a deeper sense of well-being that carries into daily life. Each class offers a chance to reset, recharge, and reconnect.
Kate is a certified yoga instructor with teaching experience at Cliffs of Id, Iconic Fitness, Red Diamond Yoga, Downtown Women’s Center, and Stoneview Nature Center. Her classes combine gentle warm-ups, smooth flow sequences of strength-building poses, and restorative cool-downs, creating an accessible practice that leaves students grounded, energized, and renewed.
As this event takes place during museum open hours, guests may check in at the front of the museum. The garden side gate will open 15 minutes before the start time and is available for ADA access and alternative check-in. Theater doors open 15 minutes before the start time. Seating is first come, first served. An RSVP does not guarantee admission once capacity is reached. No late entry.

Wellness Wednesday
2026-09-02 09:00 - 10:00, 2026-09-09 09:00 - 10:00, 2026-09-16 09:00 - 10:00, 2026-09-23 09:00 - 10:00, 2026-09-30 09:00 - 10:00
In September, our regular Mindfulness session with Christiane Wolf will be replaced by a Sound Bath led by Kris Matsuoka. Christiane returns on Wednesday, October 7.
Whether you are new to meditation or already have experience, we welcome you to this community sit in the beautiful A-Frame Theater of the Wende Museum’s Community Center. Each session is followed by complimentary garden refreshments and an optional movement class.
This Sound Bath is designed as a continuation of Christiane Wolf’s regular Wellness Wednesday session. We will begin together with a visualization for inner peace, followed by a guided relaxation of the body to help release tension, and finish by relaxing together to sound from live instruments tuned specifically to help you find peace. Please wear comfortable clothes. Floor space is limited for those who wish to lie down for the full experience, but you are welcome to bring a yoga mat, pillow, and blankets.
Teacher Bio:
Kris Matsuoka is a Los Angeles native and a graduate of Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. He lives and works in Culver City, California.
While working in the creative industry, Kris was always asked the same question: “How do you come up with your ideas?” That led to an ongoing exploration of a second question: “Where do ideas even come from?” Looking into the lives of his favorite artists and mentors, Kris found one common thread. They had all turned to meditation at some point, and discovered that “not knowing” is a nice place to be.
Through the practice of meditation, Kris has seen how it can sharpen our perception of the world and reconnect us with nature. Sound meditation has become his most recent area of focus. For the past decade, he has hosted Sound Baths, workshops, and classes that use sound to invoke a sense of wonder and help people relax. Kris has found that in a relaxed, free, and peaceful state, your best ideas come most clearly.
An ADA-accessible entrance to the Wende Museum Community Center is available through the gate from the parking lot at 10858 Culver Blvd. Limited floor space is first come, first serve. Please arrive early as RSVP does not guarantee admission to this free program.

Saved by a Story–Intergenerational Writing Group
2026-09-09 16:00 - 18:00, 2026-09-23 16:00 - 18:00, 2026-10-14 16:00 - 18:00, 2026-10-28 16:00 - 18:00, 2026-11-25 16:00 - 18:00, 2026-12-16 16:00 - 18:00
Participants ages 14 and up welcomed. Please arrive 5 or 10 minutes early to get settled, as we start the group promptly at 4pm.
We are excited to come together in community, to dive into our creativity and share our stories.
What is Saved by a Story-Intergenerational Writing Workshop at the Wende Museum? Participants of all ages write to prompts to spark creativity, share stories and build community. We write to surprise ourselves and discover the bounty of stories that lie within.
We come together and write, choose to share (or not, you decide), listen and write some more.We do this in the beautiful environs of the Wende Museum and its provocative and compelling collection. Some of our prompts will help us engage with the current exhibitions as well as engage with each other.
In later groups, we will draft stories and workshop them.
We offer creativity and community in a non-judgmental environment.
The writing group meets in person on the second and fourth Wednesday of the month.
Please arrive 5 or 10 minutes early to get settled as we start punctually at 4pm.
What you will need:– a note book–nothing fancy–a pen–if you prefer to write on a computer, feel free to bring that.
Where:
Wende Museum’s Community Center
in the Cotsen Learning Center on the Second Floor
10858 Culver Boulevard
Culver City, CA, 90230
310-216-1600
Please enter through the garden gate from the parking lot at 10858 Culver Blvd.
RSVPs for this free program do not guarantee admission. Doors will open and seating will begin 15 minutes prior to the start of the program. Limited seating is available on a first come, first served basis. Please note that doors will close promptly at the program’s start time and late entry will not be permitted.

Saved by a Story–Wildfire Survivor Writing Workshop
2026-09-19 10:30 - 12:00, 2026-10-03 10:30 - 12:00, 2026-11-14 10:30 - 12:00, 2026-12-05 10:30 - 12:00
Participants of all ages welcomed. Please arrive 5 or 10 minutes early to get settled, as we start the group promptly at 10:30 a.m.
Come together to write about the history of the cherished places we have been, what we have lost (and found), and how we will chart a way forward.
We’ll write to timed prompts to spark creativity, share stories, and connect.
We’ll meet Saturdays on the campus of the fascinating Wende Museum. The Wende is a cultural center, art museum and archive that brings history to life.
For more information, email: kathleenkatims@gmail.com
Please enter through the garden gate from the parking lot at 10858 Culver Blvd.
RSVPs for this free program do not guarantee admission. Doors will open and seating will begin 15 minutes prior to the start of the program. Limited seating is available on a first come, first served basis. Please note that doors will close promptly at the program’s start time and late entry will not be permitted.
