Wende Museum Exhibition Tours: Counter/Surveillance
2025-05-11 14:30 - 15:30, 2025-05-16 11:30 - 12:30, 2025-05-17 11:30 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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.

Wende Museum Meditations with Christiane Wolf
2025-05-14 09:00 - 10:00 | The Wende Museum, 10808 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90230, United States
Join us for our new 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.

Saved by a Story–Intergenerational Writing Group at the Wende Museum
2025-05-14 16:00 - 18:00 | The Wende Museum, 10808 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.
When:
Winter/Spring 2025 Schedule
We meet in person on the second and fourth Wednesday of the month.
Wed, Feb 26, 4-6pm
Wed, Mar 12, 4-6pm
Wed, Mar 26, 4-6pm
Wed, April 9th, 4-6pm
Wed, April 23rd, 4-6pm
Wed, May 14th, 4-6pm
Wed, May 28th, 4-6pm
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.

Soup O'Tha Day: Cantilever Collective Dance Workshop
2025-05-15 17:30 - 19:00 | The Wende Museum, 10808 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.

Wende Museum Calendar Launch
2025-05-17 08:00 - 17:00 | CA
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Wende Museum Exhibition Tours: Counter/Surveillance
2025-05-18 14:30 - 15:30, 2025-05-23 11:30 - 12:30, 2025-05-24 14:30 - 15:30, 2025-05-25 14:30 - 15:30, 2025-05-30 11:30 - 12:30, 2025-05-31 14:30 - 15:30, 2025-06-06 11:30 - 12:30, 2025-06-07 14:30 - 15:30 and 3 more dates | The Wende Museum, 10808 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90230, United States
Join us for guided tours of the exhibition Counter/Surveillance: Control, Privacy, Agency.

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.

Wende Museum Meditations with Christiane Wolf
2025-05-21 09:00 - 10:00, 2025-05-28 09:00 - 10:00 | The Wende Museum, 10808 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90230, United States
Join us for weekly mindfulness meditations. All are welcome, regardless of experience level.

Join us for our new 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.

WATCH PARTY - A Teen Night Event
2025-05-23 18:00 - 21:00 | The Wende Museum, 10808 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90230, United States
WATCH PARTY at the Wende! Live music, RISO printmaking, & food. Free & open to high school students ONLY!

Join us for WATCH PARTY, a free Teen Night event at the Wende Museum for current high school students ONLY! Celebrate the start of summer with an evening of creativity, music, and community with students from all over the city. Enjoy student art installations, live performances by local teen musicians, hands-on printmaking stations led by RISO Studio Arts, and delicious Vietnamese bites catered by Nong Lá Café.
WATCH PARTY is the perfect space to connect, create, and vibe. Open to all 2024-25 school year high school students, with valid student ID required at the door.
The evening is themed on the Wende Museum’s current exhibition Counter/Surveillance: Control, Privacy, Agency, which features installations of Cold War-era surveillance technology alongside contemporary art installations that speak to the evolution of surveillance in the present day.
Student installations will involve a live-streamed video feed, and by attending this event, you consent to being filmed. No recordings will be made nor will be used for any purposes outside of the scope of the event.
The Wende’s teen program is supported by Sony Pictures Entertainment, Amazon, Mark Hughes Foundation, and Skip Victor.

Family Day: Eisner Intergenerational Big Band Concert
2025-05-25 14:00 - 15:00 | The Wende Museum, 10808 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90230, United States
Join us for a special Family Day music performance in the Wende Museum garden by the Eisner Intergenerational Big Band.

Join us for a special Family Day music performance in the Wende Museum Garden by the Eisner Intergenerational Big Band, in partnership with Heart of LA.
The Eisner Intergenerational Big Band (EIBB) unites some of the best jazz musicians, from teenagers to seniors, to rehearse and perform an outstanding, stylistically diverse jazz repertoire. The EIBB gives a new life to jazz hits that transformed the American music landscape throughout history. Through improvisation, EIBB musicians bring a unique experience to every performance. The EIBB brings music to communities across Los Angeles to highlight the benefits of building meaningful, intergenerational relationships through music and performance.

Saved by a Story–Intergenerational Writing Group at the Wende Museum
2025-05-28 16:00 - 18:00 | The Wende Museum, 10808 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90230, United States
Participants of all ages write to prompts to spark creativity, share stories and build community.

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.
When:
Winter/Spring 2025 Schedule
Wed, Feb 26, 4-6pm
Wed, Mar 12, 4-6pm
Wed, Mar 26, 4-6pm
Wed, April 9th, 4-6pm
Wed, April 23rd, 4-6pm
Wed, May 7th, 4-6pm
Wed, May 28th, 4-6pm
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 Museumin the Cotsen Learning Centeron 2nd Floor of theGlorya Kaufman Community Center10808 Culver BoulevardCulver 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.

Learn to Solder - Youth Soldering Instructional (Ages 10-18)
2025-05-31 14:00 - 15:00 | The Wende Museum, 10808 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90230, United States
Learn STEM skills at our beginner soldering workshop! Build a dolphin-shaped PCB and gain hands-on soldering experience at the Wende Museum.

Youth ages 10-18 are invited to participate in a beginner-friendly soldering workshop at the Wende Museum where participants will assemble a wearable dolphin-shaped, blinky printed circuit board (PCB). This hands-on session, led by Angelina Tsuboi, is designed to introduce young people to the fundamentals of soldering. Everyone will leave with their own completed PCB and firsthand soldering experience.
This event is hosted in partnership with Hack Club.
About the instructor:
Angelina Tsuboi is a Programmer, Mechatronics Engineer, and Scientific Researcher committed to advancing technology through innovation and interdisciplinary research. Her work focuses on secure satellite systems, Internet for Mars initiatives, and pushing the boundaries of photonics to explore information transfer and quantum mechanics.

Wende Museum Meditations with Christiane Wolf
2025-06-04 09:00 - 10:00 | Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum, 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90230, United States

Soup O'Tha Day: Cantilever Collective Dance Workshop
2025-06-05 17:30 - 19:00 | Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum, 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90230, United States
Join Cantilever Collective for a transformative dance workshop that blends movement, music, and community.

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.

Samizdat Sundays and Other Subversions
2025-06-08 10:00 - 13:00 | Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum, 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90230, United States
A hands-on series of textile-based workshops inspired by the Soviet Hippie Collection and other dissident archives at the Wende Museum.

Rooted in the rebellious spirit of DIY and “making do,” Samizdat Sundays and Other Subversions invites participants of all ages to gather together to repair, reclaim, and create. Inspired by the Soviet Hippie Collection and other dissident archives at the Wende Museum, this hands-on series of workshops led by artist Kate Ingold offers an opportunity to make a new “imaginary elsewhere” through wearable art and textile materials.
Each session, we will explore themes of personal and collective freedom, expression, and identity. Workshops include:
Wave your freak flag high: Create flags and banners for imaginary countries
From straight to wide: Convert straight pants into bell bottoms
Pack light: Deconstruct old T-shirts and turn them into shopping bags
Make it invisible: Sew secret messages into your favorite textiles, for yourself or others
Patch it up: Create unique, hand-sewn patches to use for necessity or identity
Story of Today: Embroider bandanas or make a fabric journal to tell the story of your experience in our present time
Join us for Sundays of stitching and subversion—no experience necessary, just a willingness to imagine, mend, and make with intention.
About the teaching artistKate 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.

Exploring Critical Media Literacy and Making Memes
2025-06-08 14:00 - 16:00 | Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum, 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90230, United States
This hands-on workshop explores our relationships with media, technology, and popular culture.

This hands-on workshop explores our relationships with media, technology, and popular culture by critically questioning media and creating our own alternative messages. By critically reading and writing with images, sounds, multimedia, and print, we enhance our critical thinking skills and embrace our potential as active global citizens. For two hours, we will use the critical media literacy framework to explore examples and engage in activities before creating our own memes that address our interests and concerns. Join Dr. Jeff Share, award-winning photojournalist and educator, UCLA senior lecturer, and author of numerous articles and books on critical media literacy.
Due to the interactive nature of this workshop, it is not recommended for ages 13 or below.
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.

Wende Museum Meditations with Christiane Wolf
2025-06-11 09:00 - 10:00 | Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum, 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90230, United States

Saved by a Story–Intergenerational Writing Group at the Wende Museum
2025-06-11 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 write to prompts to spark creativity, share stories and build community.

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 Museumin the Cotsen Learning Centeron 2nd Floor of theGlorya Kaufman Community Center10808 Culver BoulevardCulver 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.
