Wende Museum

Samizdat Sundays and Other Subversions
2025-10-12 10:30 - 12:30, 2025-09-28 10:30 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum, 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90230, United States
Join us for Samizdat Sundays—hands‑on textile workshops inspired by the spirit of creative resistance and DIY culture found in samizdat traditions. Each week offers a different project, connecting archival stories of subversion with contemporary making.
We encourage participants to bring an item each week—a T‑shirt, a pair of jeans, or any textile you’re ready to transform, repair, or experiment with.
Each session is free, open to all skill levels, and guided by artists who delight in subversion and play. Come for one or come for all—together we’ll stitch, alter, repair, and imagine new forms of expression.
Schedule:
Sun, Sep 14 | Hidden Pocket
Bring a piece of clothing to transform with a secret pocket.
Sun, Sep 21 | Boro Workshop & “Finish It” Clinic
Make a boro-style cleaning rag, potholder, or coaster—or bring back a past project to finish.
Sun, Sep 28 | Cloth Book Cover
Bring a favorite book and create a custom cloth cover.
Sun, Oct 5 | Protest Hut
Inspired by shelters made by Crimean Tatars.
Sun, Oct 12 | Disaster Shirt & Visible Repair
Add embroidered text to a shirt or jacket, plus another chance to finish earlier projects.
Sun, Oct 19 | Paper Book Cover
Start a three-week series on folded paper objects. Bring a book to wrap.
Sun, Oct 26 | Portable Altar
Make origami boxes and stands.
Sun, Nov 2 | Memorial Accordion Book
Coinciding with Day of the Dead, design a decorated accordion book from cloth, paper, or drawing.
Sun, Nov 9 | Image/Text Collage: Mini-Zine
Use old magazines to create a one-page zine or collage.
Sun, Nov 16 | Image/Text Collage: Reveal/Conceal
Play with envelopes and folding forms that hide and reveal images and text.
Sun, Nov 23 | Image/Text Collage: Accordion or Box
Craft books or boxes entirely from salvaged magazine and book pages.
Sun, Dec 7 | Mail Art: Postcards
Experiment with small-scale postal art.
Sun, Dec 14 | Mail Art: Folding Cards
Make folding cards with or without custom envelopes.
Sun, Dec 21 | Mail Art: Mail-a-Scroll
Send a scroll through the USPS—cloth or paper, testing the limits of the post.

About the teaching artist
Kate Ingold is an LA-based artist and poet working with the discarded, the damaged, and the worn out. Materials and methods include textiles, collage, photography, video, ceramics, and performative installation. She works in series driven by conceptual concerns and is currently making work in two interwoven projects: Relics for Future Rituals and Damaged Goods/Small Repairs.
RSVPs for this free program do not guarantee admission. Limited seating is available on a first come, first served basis.
An ADA-accessible entrance to the Glorya Kaufman Community Center is available through the garden gate from the parking lot.

The Bumdog School of Film
2025-10-11 13:00 - 17:00, 2025-09-27 13:00 - 17:00 | Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum, 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90230, United States
Led by underground photographer and filmmaker Bumdog Torres, this five-session workshop at the Wende Museum invites participants to learn the essentials of DIY filmmaking using just a smartphone – no crew, no budget, just pure creative grit.
With lessons grounded in Bumdog’s own journey of making a feature film while unhoused on the streets of Los Angeles, the purpose of these classes will not be just to teach film grammar. But to learn the great value of the experience of making a movie. The personal growth and adventure of pure creation. And the importance of knowing afterward that you made your mark on the world… even if it’s just a stain.
If you’re ready to dive into the full five-session adventure, email Michael Balot-Garza at education@wendemuseum.org and share a few sentences about why you’re interested. Space is limited, and, by signing up, you’re committing to attend all five sessions. Participants are recommended to be ages 18 and up and must have a smartphone with video capability.
#1: Editing and transitions. Cinematic composition. Juxtaposition of Sound. “Recreate Your Day”. September 20th, 9am – 5pm
#2: “Stories for Movies” September 27th, 1pm – 5pm
#3: “Storytelling for Movies” October 11th, 1pm – 5pm
#4: “Mastery” October 25th, 1pm – 5pm
#5: “Gestalt” and “Make your own damn movie” November 8th, 9am – 5pm
An ADA-accessible entrance to the Glorya Kaufman Community Center is available through the gate from the parking lot at 10858 Culver Blvd.

Helix Collective: L.A. Stories
2025-10-11 13:00 - 16:00 | CA
L.A. Stories brings together local poets, writers, composers, and musicians to celebrate the beauty and diversity of Los Angeles. This music and storytelling show from Helix Collective creates vignettes within the city about surviving and thriving in L.A. We all share this city but it looks different from every vantage point.
Helix Collective’s musicians including flutist Sarah Robinson, oboist Phil Popham, pianist Kathryn Eames, and percussionist Tyler Stell narrate and perform this set of musical stories. These include poetry and stories from local authors as well as a collection of letters from the early 20th Century Los Angeles. These are set to music by composers writing original music for the project.
This performance is made possible in part by the City of Culver City and its Cultural Affairs Commission with support from Sony Pictures Entertainment.
Free parking is available in the city lots adjacent to the museum.
PROGRAM
An Angel’s Account – composer Jamie Thierman
The Leap – composer Mark Carlson, poet Larry Colker
To Live in Los Angeles – composer and author Dale Trumbore
The Reverse Swayze – composer Gene Micofsky, author John Grady
The Spinning Hourglass – composer Phil Popham, poet Ashley Veterre
In That Other Fantasy Where We Live Forever – composer Phil Popham, author Wanda Coleman
ABOUT HELIX COLLECTIVE
Helix Collective are classical musicians busting out of the traditional mold. From crossover dance music, to storytelling, to film, television, and video game music, the Los Angeles-based ensemble takes the best of classical chamber music and makes it the life of the party.
Variety Magazine praised Helix Collective’s musical range moving from “moody urgency and edgy chamber-music sound” to the “sweetly romantic evoking wide-open spaces.”
Helix “has a little something for everyone: those who like their classics straight up, with a contemporary edge to it, or with populist appeal.” Called “dizzyingly virtuosic with exquisite musicianship and world-class range” by The Free Times and praised for “beyond-the-ordinary programming.”
Like the double helix, the ensemble is rearrangeable, flexible, and fuses the DNA of classical music into worlds where it’s never gone before. www.helixcollective.org
THE CREATION OF L.A. STORIES
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dd4wRx1_0hc

Saved by a Story–Wildfire Survivor Writing Workshop
2025-10-11 10:30 - 12:00 | Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum, 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90230, United States
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.

Community Flow Yoga with Kate O’ Neal
2025-10-10 10:30 - 11:30 | Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum, 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.
An ADA-accessible entrance to the Glorya Kaufman Community Center is available through the gate from the parking lot at 10858 Culver Blvd.

Easy Rawlins and Beyond: In Conversation with Walter Mosley
2025-10-08 19:30 - 20:30 | CA
Join us at the Wende Museum on October 8th to celebrate the release of Walter Mosley’s newest novel, Gray Dawn!
Walter will discuss his work, iconic characters, and influential career alongside novelist Gary Phillips. Don’t miss two of the biggest and best crime fiction authors working today in this historic venue!
About the participants:
Walter Mosley is one of America’s most celebrated writers. He was given the 2020 National Book Award’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, named a Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America, and honored with the Anisfield-Wolf Award, a Grammy, a PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award, the Robert Kirsch Award, numerous Edgars, and several NAACP Image Awards. His work has been translated into twenty-five languages. He has published fiction and nonfiction in The New Yorker, Playboy, and The Nation. As an executive producer, he adapted his novel The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey for AppleTV+. He co-wrote the adaptation of his novel The Man in My Basement to stream on Hulu, and he served as a writer and executive producer for FX’s Snowfall. He divides his time between Brooklyn and Santa Monica.
Gary Phillips has published novels, comics, novellas, short stories and edited or co-edited several anthologies, including the Anthony-winning The Obama Inheritance: Fifteen Stories of Conspiracy Noir. Almost thirty years after its publication, his debut, Violent Spring, was named one of the essential crime novels of Los Angeles. He was also a writer and co-producer on Snowfall, a show streaming on Hulu about crack and the CIA in 1980s South Central, where he grew up.
About Gray Dawn:
In this thrilling mystery from “master of craft and narrative” Walter Mosley (National Book Foundation), Detective Easy Rawlins has settled into the happy rhythm of his new life when a dark siren from his past returns and threatens to destroy the peace he’s fought for.
The name Easy Rawlins stirs excitement in the hearts of readers and fear in the hearts of his foes. His success has bought him a thriving detective agency, with its first female detective; a remote home, shared with children and pets and lovers, high atop the hills overlooking gritty Los Angeles; and more trouble, more problems, and more threat to those whom he loves. In other words, he’s still beset on all sides.
A number of below-the-law powerbrokers plead with Easy to locate a mysterious, dangerous woman—Lutisha James, though she’s gone by another name that Easy will immediately recognize. 1970s Los Angeles is a transient city of delicate, violent balances, and Lutisha has disturbed that. She also has a secret that will upend Easy’s own life, painfully closer to home.

Saved by a Story–Intergenerational Writing Group
2025-10-08 16:00 - 18:00 | Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum, 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90230, United States
Participants of all ages 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
in the Cotsen Learning Center
on 2nd Floor of the
Glorya Kaufman Community Center
10808 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.

Wellness Wednesday: Soup O'Tha Day with Cantilever Collective Dance Workshop
2025-10-08 10:00 - 11:30 | Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum, 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90230, United States
Step into the spontaneous spirit of Soup O’Tha Day, a dance workshop series from Cantilever Collective that stirs up a nourishing mix of movement, music, and community. Each session is improvised, ephemeral, and open to all—no dance experience required. With live-mixed soundscapes, playful prompts, and space to move freely, these workshops invite you to explore connection, curiosity, and joy through your own body’s language.
One day’s “special” will never be the same as the next. Come as you are. Move how you feel.
An ADA-accessible entrance to the Glorya Kaufman Community Center is available through the garden gate from the parking lot. It will open approximately 30 minutes before the program begins.
RSVPs for this free program do not guarantee admission to the A-Frame Theater. 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.

Wellness Wednesday: Mindful Meditations with Christiane Wolf
2025-10-08 09:00 - 10:00 | Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum, 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90230, United States
Join us for our weekly mindfulness meditations. 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 Glorya Kaufman Community Center
You do not have to join all sessions but can join as your schedule allows.
What is mindfulness? Mindfulness is being fully present to your life instead of being on autopilot. Our mind tends to rehash the past and to rehearse the future. There is nothing wrong with that except that it does it too much and it keeps us from being with what is actually happening right in this moment. We can feel like life is passing us by and we miss a lot of good moments with family and friends, in nature and just throughout the day. When we are present we become better listeners and observers and will make better choices, big and small. People who regularly practice mindfulness meditation report overall stress levels going down and being able to deal with whatever comes their way in a better, healthier way. They also feel more connected and more joyful.
We practice this through mindfulness meditation where we train the mind to stay with an anchor, like the sensations of the breath. Eventually the mind will calm down and so will the body. We learn tools to be with a busy mind, challenging emotions, and even physical pain. We can access peace, calm and joy that arises independently of what’s going on in our lives at this time.
The guest teacher for this installment is Dr. Allyson Pimentel.
An ADA-accessible entrance to the Glorya Kaufman 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 guarentee admission to this free program.

WIP Los Angeles
2025-10-06 19:30 - 21:30 | CA
WIP is an artist-run work-in-progress series on the first Monday of [almost] every month in Los Angeles.
WIP 017 marks our first WIP of many at The Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum and will feature work-in-progress by Mamie Green & Emily Mast. There will be a post-show moderated talk-back with the artists.
Created to give choreographers and performance makers a “low-tech, high-visibility” space to share their evolving choreographies with audiences at various stages of development, WIP is dedicated to providing a platform for artists to shepherd ideas over time—making space for experimentation, feedback, and the kind of dialogue that allows work to deepen and evolve in community.
WIP 017:
Mamie Green
Emily Mast
October 6, 2025
Doors 7pm, Show 7:30p
Enter through the garden gate
FREE with RSVP
Tickets → wipla.info/017
Instagram → @wipla.grid

How Can We Not Know What We Know?: A Workshop in Sublimation
2025-10-05 14:30 - 16:00, 2025-10-04 14:30 - 16:00, 2025-10-04 12:30 - 14:00 | Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum, 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90230, United States
Artist Robby Herbst invites participants into what he calls “the emotional illogic of hiding from yourself” and “communicating through impractical means.” Over 90 minutes, he will guide the group through exercises that ask people to move, act, write, speak, and play, sometimes in ways they might not expect. Herbst notes that “together this will add up to a kind of communication, which could be understood as a kind of art.”
This is not a sit back and watch event. Participants will be asked to interact with one another, and the exercises will include physical contact. It is designed for those who are curious and daring enough to step into an experience led by, and shared with, others.
Please note: Peanut butter will be used in this workshop. Participants with allergies should take necessary precautions.
About the artist:
Robby Herbst is an interdisciplinary artist whose work interrogates social and behavioral architectures through social sculpture, organizing, writing, publishing and visual art. An instigator of the geographically sited critical landscape projects of the Llano Del Rio Collective and a co-founder of the critical art collective The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, Herbst has been an artist in residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts, Villa Montalvo, and Provisions Library. His projects have been supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for Artwriting, The Mike Kelley Foundation, The Danish Arts Council, and the Durfee Foundation.

Samizdat Sundays and Other Subversions
2025-10-05 10:30 - 12:30 | Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum, 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90230, United States
Join us for Samizdat Sundays—hands‑on textile workshops inspired by the spirit of creative resistance and DIY culture found in samizdat traditions. Each week offers a different project, connecting archival stories of subversion with contemporary making.
We encourage participants to bring an item each week—a T‑shirt, a pair of jeans, or any textile you’re ready to transform, repair, or experiment with.
Each session is free, open to all skill levels, and guided by artists who delight in subversion and play. Come for one or come for all—together we’ll stitch, alter, repair, and imagine new forms of expression.
Schedule:

Sun, Oct 5 | Protest Hut
Inspired by shelters made by Crimean Tatars.
Sun, Oct 12 | Disaster Shirt & Visible Repair
Add embroidered text to a shirt or jacket, plus another chance to finish earlier projects.
Sun, Oct 19 | Paper Book Cover
Start a three-week series on folded paper objects. Bring a book to wrap.
Sun, Oct 26 | Portable Altar
Make origami boxes and stands.
Sun, Nov 2 | Memorial Accordion Book
Coinciding with Day of the Dead, design a decorated accordion book from cloth, paper, or drawing.
Sun, Nov 9 | Image/Text Collage: Mini-Zine
Use old magazines or textile scraps to create a one-page zine or collage.
Sun, Nov 16 | Image/Text Collage: Reveal/Conceal
Play with envelopes and folding forms that hide and reveal images and text.
Sun, Nov 23 | Image/Text Collage: Accordion or Box
Craft books or boxes entirely from salvaged magazine and book pages.
Sun, Dec 7 | Mail Art: Postcards
Experiment with small-scale postal art.
Sun, Dec 14 | Mail Art: Folding Cards
Make folding cards with or without custom envelopes.
Sun, Dec 21 | Mail Art: Mail-a-Scroll
Send a scroll through the USPS—cloth or paper, testing the limits of the post.
About the teaching artist
Kate Ingold is an LA-based artist and poet working with the discarded, the damaged, and the worn out. Materials and methods include textiles, collage, photography, video, ceramics, and performative installation. She works in series driven by conceptual concerns and is currently making work in two interwoven projects: Relics for Future Rituals and Damaged Goods/Small Repairs.
RSVPs for this free program do not guarantee admission. Limited seating is available on a first come, first served basis.
An ADA-accessible entrance to the Glorya Kaufman Community Center is available through the garden gate from the parking lot.

Wende Museum Exhibition Tours: Counter/Surveillance
2025-10-03 11:30 - 12:30, 2025-09-28 14:30 - 15:30, 2025-09-27 11:30 - 12:30, 2025-09-26 11:30 - 12:30 | The Wende Museum, 10808 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90230, United States
Join us for free guided tours of the Wende Museum’s exhibition Counter/Surveillance: Control, Privacy, Agency.
Explore the origins of modern surveillance technologies and tactics in Counter/Surveillance, tracing their development from the Cold War to today, alongside the creative resistance of dissidents and artists.
This exhibition offers a powerful and highly relevant look at control and resistance in a world shaped by surveillance and censorship.

Community Flow Yoga with Kate O’ Neal
2025-10-03 10:30 - 11:30, 2025-09-26 10:30 - 11:30 | Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum, 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90230, United States
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. Participants must bring their own yoga mat, and are encouraged to also bring a towel to pad their knees and yoga blocks if desired.
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.
An ADA-accessible entrance to the Glorya Kaufman Community Center is available through the gate from the parking lot at 10858 Culver Blvd.

Soup O'Tha Day: Cantilever Collective Dance Workshop
2025-10-02 17:30 - 19:00 | Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum, 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90230, United States

Wellness Wednesday: Mindful Meditations with Christiane Wolf
2025-10-01 09:00 - 10:00, 2025-09-24 09:00 - 10:00 | Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum, 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90230, United States
Join us for our weekly mindfulness meditations. Whether you are new to meditation or already have experience we welcome you to this community sit in the beautiful garden of the Wende Museum.
You do not have to join all sessions but can join as your schedule allows.
What is mindfulness? Mindfulness is being fully present to your life instead of being on autopilot. Our mind tends to rehash the past and to rehearse the future. There is nothing wrong with that except that it does it too much and it keeps us from being with what is actually happening right in this moment. We can feel like life is passing us by and we miss a lot of good moments with family and friends, in nature and just throughout the day. When we are present we become better listeners and observers and will make better choices, big and small. People who regularly practice mindfulness meditation report overall stress levels going down and being able to deal with whatever comes their way in a better, healthier way. They also feel more connected and more joyful.
We practice this through mindfulness meditation where we train the mind to stay with an anchor, like the sensations of the breath. Eventually the mind will calm down and so will the body. We learn tools to be with a busy mind, challenging emotions, and even physical pain. We can access peace, calm and joy that arises independently of what’s going on in our lives at this time.
Teacher Bio:
Christiane Wolf is an internationally known mindfulness and Insight (Vipassana) meditation teacher. Originally from Berlin, Germany, she is a longtime proud resident of Culver City where her three children attended (or still attend) CCMS and CCHS.
Christiane was trained as an OB/GYN in Germany but pivoted to not only practicing mindfulness meditation but then teaching it, mainly through InsightLA.
She was trained and mentored by Trudy Goodman, Jack Kornfield, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Gil Fronsdal
and others.
Christiane is the author of Outsmart Your Pain – Mindfulness and Self-Compassion to Help You Leave Chronic Pain Behind and the coauthor of A Clinician’s Guide to Teaching Mindfulness, a classic training manual for mindfulness teachers.
Check www.christianewolf.com for more info.
An ADA-accessible entrance to the Glorya Kaufman Community Center is available through the gate from the parking lot at 10858 Culver Blvd.

The Tragedy of Franz Liszt: A Recital with Michael Walsh
2025-09-28 16:00 - 18:00 | CA
As a special event for the American Freedom Alliance, Michael Walsh is coming to Los Angeles to perform a piano recital prior to his concert tour across Europe:
THE TRAGEDY OF FRANZ LISZT
1) Liszt, Transcendental Etude No. 1 “Preludio”
2) Liszt, Five Hungarian Folksongs
3) Liszt: The Chapel of William Tell (Annees de pelerinage, Bk 1)
4) Wagner: Album-Sonata in A-flat (for Mathilde Wesendonck)
INTERMISSION
5) Liszt: Angelus! Prière aux anges gardiens (Annees, Bk 3)
6) Liszt: Cypresses of the Villa d’Este II (Annees, Bk 3)
7) Liszt: Mephisto Waltz #4
8) Sursum Corda (Annees, Bk. 3)
The recital is free, but you must pre-register as space is limited
About Michael Walsh
The author of 19 published novels and non-fiction books and a lifetime member of the Writers Guild of America, the Hollywood screenwriters’ union, Michael Walsh was for 16 years the classical music critic and a foreign correspondent for Time Magazine, for which he covered Vladimir Horowitz’s 1986 return to Russia as well as the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the end of the U.S.S.R in 1991.
He won the 2004 American Book Awards prize for fiction for his novel, And All the Saints, a fictionalized autobiography of the notorious Irish-American gangster, Owney Madden, bought before publication by MGM, and also wrote As Time Goes By, a licensed novelistic sequel to the movie Casablanca for Warner Books. In addition, he is the co-writer of hit Disney Channel movie Cadet Kelly, which at its debut in 2002 was the highest-rated show and highest-rated original movie in the history of the channel.
His books The Devil’s Pleasure Palace and The Fiery Angel have become foundational in any discussion of the importance of restoring Western civilization. His book Last Stands: Why Men Fight When All is Lost has been described by Victor Davis Hanson as “a philosophical and spiritual defense of the premodern world, of the tragic view, of physical courage, and of masculinity and self-sacrifice in an age when those ancient virtues are too often caricatured and dismissed.”
HIs most recent book is A Rage to Conquer: Twelve Battles That Changed the Course of Western History which was the focus of an AFA-David Horowitz Freedom Center event at which he tied together great military battles and the music that formed their backdrop. It was that event that inspired this recital.
Michael has spoken at several AFA events including last year’s “War on Men” conference and the 2019 “Long March” conference, and the AFA looks forward to this special evening!

Family Day: Postcards Connecting Communities
2025-09-28 12:00 - 15:00 | The Wende Museum, 10808 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90230, United States
In the Cold War, shortwave radio operators used QSL cards as a form of identity. These postcards often featured art from the operator’s homeland. This Family Day, we’re taking inspiration from QSL cards! You and your family can decorate your own postcard to represent your community. What special places or landmarks would you include? What other things visually represent your city or neighborhood?
Additionally, W6TRW Amateur Radio Club (Redondo Beach) and W6UE Caltech Amateur Radio Club (CITARC) will be demonstrating radio equipment and explaining how amateur radio supports communication, science, and emergency response.

Culver City's Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration
2025-09-27 17:00 - 22:00 | CA
Join us for a New Tradition!
The City of Culver City invites you to a free, family-friendly Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration on Saturday, September 27th from 5 PM to 10 PM at the Glorya Kaufman Community Center and Garden on the Wende Museum grounds.
Bring your family and friends for an evening filled with music, dance, films, art, food, and community. No RSVP needed—just show up and celebrate!
MUSIC + DANCE | Garden Stage
Hispanic Heritage DJ Set
Grupo Flor de Aztlán – student performers from Culver City Unified School District showcasing regional Mexican dances (Colima, Sinaloa, Jalisco)
El Haru Kuroi – East LA experimental Latin Jazz/Post-Punk trio with multilingual lyrics (Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese, English)
Fermín Sinfonntes – modern salsa with a contemporary edge
FILM SCREENINGS | A-Frame Theater
5:30 PM: The Chicano Collection / La Colección Chicana (2005 documentary featuring Cheech Marin and Chicano artists)
6:30 PM: Margaret Garcia: Against All Odds | Razón de Ser: Luis C. Garza | Craft in America: Collectors
7:15 PM: Artist Panel Discussion with Margaret García, Luis C. Garza, Francisco Palomares, and José Lozano
8:00 PM: Artbound: The Cheech (2024 award-winning documentary about Chicano art in L.A.)
9:00 PM: Artbound: América Tropical: The Martyr Mural of Siqueiros (2023 documentary on L.A.’s Olvera Street mural)
ART ACTIVITIES | Upstairs Classroom & Garden
Papel picado workshop with América Madrigal-Herrera
Bilingual storytime reading of Little Chanclas with artist/author José Lozano
Flores de Papel & Corona de Flores workshops
Live art by Francisco Palomares (Garden)
Art displays and community resource tables (Garden)
Food and drinks will be available for purchase.
EVENT DETAILS
Date: Saturday, September 27, 2025
Time: 5 PM – 10 PM
Location: Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum
10808 Culver City Blvd., Culver City, CA 90230
Parking: Free | Admission: Free | No reservations required
Celebrate culture, history, and community with Culver City. We look forward to seeing you there!
Getting to the Event
Plan ahead and consider taking the bus or using other mobility options to attend the event including the Culver CityBus! Call (310) 253-6500 or visit the Culver CityBus Website to map your trip. The City’s Next CCBus App provides real time bus locations, trip planning and bus occupancy levels.
Parking
Parking is limited at the Wende Museum. Parking will be available at and around Veterans Memorial Park. Please do not park in residential areas.

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