Wende Museum

Community Flow Yoga with Kate O’ Neal
2026-01-30 10:30 - 2026-03-27 11:30, 2026-02-06 10:30 - 2026-04-03 11:30, 2026-02-13 10:30 - 2026-04-10 11:30, 2026-02-20 10:30 - 2026-04-17 11:30, 2026-02-27 10:30 - 2026-04-24 11:30, 2026-03-06 10:30 - 2026-05-01 11:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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.

Wellness Wednesday: Mindfulness Meditations
2026-02-11 09:00 - 2026-04-01 11:00, 2026-02-18 09:00 - 2026-04-08 11:00, 2026-02-25 09:00 - 2026-04-15 11:00 | 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. Each session is followed by complimentary garden refreshments and an optional movement class.
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. Limited floor space is first come, first serve. Please arrive early as RSVP does not guarantee admission to this free program.

Bilingual Russian-English Storytime
2026-03-28 10:30 - 11:00, 2026-04-25 10:30 - 11:00, 2026-05-30 10:30 - 11:00, 2026-06-27 10:30 - 11:00, 2026-07-25 10:30 - 11:00, 2026-08-29 10:30 - 11:00 | The Wende Museum, 10808 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90230, United States
Join us at the Wende Museum for a special bilingual children’s storytime, featuring captivating Russian tales from the Wende’s collection of Soviet Books. Hosted by Archives Assistant Anya Ponomareva, stories will be presented in both English and Russian, offering a fun and engaging experience for young listeners of all backgrounds. Perfect for children aged 4-8 and their families, this event celebrates culture and language through the joy of storytelling!

WIP 022
2026-04-06 19:30 - 21:30 | Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum, 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90230, United States
WIP 022 features works in progress by Faye Driscoll & Toogie Barcelo followed by a post-show talk back moderated by WIP alum Laura Stinger.
What is WIP?
WIP is an artist-led, work-in-progress performance platform co-founded by dance artists Kate Wallich, Stephanie Zaletel, and Belize Wilheim. Launched in 2023, WIP was created to give choreographers and performance makers a “low-tech, high-visibility” space to share evolving works with audiences, fostering curiosity, dialogue, and critical exchange at every stage of development.
The format is simple: each WIP features two artists sharing up to 25 minutes of work-in-progress, followed by a moderated post-show conversation.
WIP’s mission is to provide a supportive and sustainable environment for artists to test new ideas, receive meaningful feedback, and catalyze experimentation within the Los Angeles dance and performance community. By centering progressive and innovative work that challenges convention, WIP strengthens the local ecosystem and deepens connections between artists, arts institutions, and audiences.
https://www.wipla.info/#info

All-American Story: Stories and Conversations About Immigration
2026-04-26 14:00 - 17:30 | Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum, 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90230, United States
All-American Story: Stories and Conversations About Immigration foregrounds lived experience at a moment when immigration discourse is flattened by rhetoric, bringing immigrants and first- and second-generation Americans together to share stories and songs that insist on their complexity, specificity, and humanity.
From 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. you’ll hear true stories and music created and performed by American immigrants and 1st- and 2nd-gen Americans from around the world.
Following the readings, performers will lead a conversation about immigration, and afterwards we’ll meet in the garden for refreshments–and conversations will continue.
Those interested will meet back in the theater from 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. for a workshop where professional writers, editors and composers will help you learn how to share your own stories.
