Events
The Wende Museum Announces The Robin Center For Russian-Speaking Jewry
The Wende Museum 10808 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, United StatesPine Needle Basketry with Andi B. Meyer
Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, United StatesDiscover the ancient art of coiling pine needles into beautiful, one-of-a-kind baskets.
Geopolitics and International Modernism in Architecture
Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, United StatesA panel on modernist architecture’s utopian and dystopian legacies, from Cold War geopolitics and soft power to contemporary tourism.
Samizdat Sundays
Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, United StatesA hands-on series of textile-based workshops inspired by the Soviet Hippie Collection and other dissident archives at the Wende Museum.
Family Day: Wonder Houses
The Wende Museum 10808 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, United StatesWhat does home look like to you? Join us for a hands‑on building activity.
Music/Words LA: Curated by Inna Faliks
Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, United StatesThe second installment of Music/Words LA, curated by UCLA Head of Piano Inna Faliks, returns to the Wende with a live program pairing music and the spoken word as equal partners.
Living with Loss: A Grief Support Circle
Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, United StatesJoin us in person to share stories, find comfort, and support each other through grief together.
Wellness Wednesday: Mindfulness Meditations
Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, United StatesJoin us for weekly mindfulness, followed by complimentary refreshments and a movement class. All are welcome, regardless of experience.
Saved by a Story–Intergenerational Writing Group
Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, United StatesParticipants age 14+ write to prompts to spark creativity, share stories and build community.
Never Again Is Now (“Nie wieder ist jetzt”)
Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, United StatesAn evening of reading and conversation with author and illustrator Stephanie Lunkewitz and Holocaust survivor Mary Bauer.
Artist-Led Walkthrough of The Sextant with Enrique Martínez Celaya
The Wende Museum 10808 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, United StatesArtist Enrique Martínez Celaya leads a special Frieze Friday morning walkthrough of his exhibition The Sextant at the Wende Museum.
Community Flow Yoga with Kate O’ Neal
Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, United StatesAll experience levels welcome for vinyasa flow yoga.
Digitization Day: Free Archival Digitization
Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, United StatesLooking to digitize personal or family archival material? The Wende Museum is here to help!
Arthur Murray Theater Show
Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, United StatesEnjoy a collection of ballroom and partner dance performances ranging from Waltz to Salsa and more
WriteGirl Personal Storytelling Workshop
Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, United StatesAre you a teen girl or gender-expansive teen (13-18 years old) interested in exploring creative writing? Then join WriteGirl for a FREE Personal Storytelling Workshop.
A Special Evening with Jason Sinay – Full Band Performance
Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, United StatesAn intimate evening with Jason Sinay, the award-winning Los Angeles–based singer-songwriter and guitarist.
Free Improvisation Workshop (Music)
Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, United StatesAll skill and experience levels are welcome - bring your instrument and explore the sounds of free improvisation!
Bilingual Russian-English Storytime
The Wende Museum 10808 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, United StatesJoin us at the Wende Museum for a special bilingual children’s storytime, featuring captivating Russian tales from the Wende’s collection.
Samizdat Sundays
Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, United StatesA hands-on series of textile-based workshops inspired by the Soviet Hippie Collection and other dissident archives at the Wende Museum.
S.U.T@LA – Vipassana Meditation Practice Group
Mindfulness isn’t just for the cushion — it’s for the small, ordinary moments that make up our days.
UNISON: An LA Fires Recovery Concert
Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, United StatesFour newly commissioned works by composers who lost their homes in the fires.
WIP 021
Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, United StatesWIP 021 features works in progress by Adam Kerbel & Santiago Villarreal followed by a post-show talk back moderated by WIP alum Daria Kaufman.
Defiant Laughter: An Evening of Soviet Jewish Purim Spiels
Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, United StatesJoin us for a staged reading of archival Purim spiel scripts shared within Soviet Jewish communities, performed in newly translated English.
Living with Loss: A Grief Support Circle
Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, United StatesJoin us in person to share stories, find comfort, and support each other through grief together.
Wellness Wednesday: Mindfulness Meditations
Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, United StatesJoin us for weekly mindfulness, followed by complimentary refreshments and a movement class. All are welcome, regardless of experience.
Bauhaus | Beyond the Surface: Dimensional Thinking on Paper
Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, United StatesThis hands-on workshop introduces key ideas from the Bauhaus by exploring how dimension emerges from simple materials.
Community Partner, Conversation
SPA-5 Housing & Leadership Forum: West LA Meet the New Mayors.
Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, United StatesJoin a timely conversation with newly elected Westside mayors as they share early priorities, explore regional collaboration, and discuss the future of housing across local communities.
Bauhaus | Repetition, Reordering, and Rearrangement
Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, United StatesDesign scholar Michael Beggs leads a workshop on Josef Albers’s collage exercises.
Community Flow Yoga with Kate O’ Neal
Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, United StatesAll experience levels welcome for vinyasa flow yoga.
Bauhaus Legacies with Fritz Horstman
Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, United StatesAlbers Foundation Education Director Fritz Horstman will provide historical context around the Bauhaus movement and its continuing relevance
Same Player Shoots Again: A Biography of the Pinball Machine
Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, United StatesA discussion with author Andreas Bernard on pinball, public space, and what declining analog play reveals about modern leisure and work.
Samizdat Sundays
Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, United StatesA hands-on series of textile-based workshops inspired by the Soviet Hippie Collection and other dissident archives at the Wende Museum.
Two-Piano Concert with Vivian Fan and Eloise Kim
Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, United StatesAn evening of music for two pianos that moves from cosmic intensity to lyrical intimacy to Latin American rhythms.
S.U.T@LA – Vipassana Meditation Practice Group
Practice Isn’t Just on the Cushion — It’s Wherever Life Takes Us
S.U.T@LA – Vipassana Meditation Practice Group
Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, United StatesPractice Isn’t Just on the Cushion — It’s Wherever Life Takes Us
Bauhaus | Interacting with Color: The Color Experiments of Josef Albers
Exploring through hands-on engagement with color, participants will experiment with ideas such as color relativity, after-image, and the illusion of transparency.
Design: Creative Prompts from the Bauhaus
Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, United StatesParticipants will explore ideas that Bauhaus students and teachers used to generate new geometric forms.
Wellness Wednesday: Mindfulness Meditations
Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, United StatesJoin us for weekly mindfulness, followed by complimentary refreshments and a movement class. All are welcome, regardless of experience.
Saved by a Story–Intergenerational Writing Group
Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, United StatesParticipants age 14+ write to prompts to spark creativity, share stories and build community.
The Movement Playground with Cantilever Collective
Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, United StatesA co-creative movement workshop with live music.
Bauhaus | The Shape-Shifting Forms of the Miura Pattern
Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, United StatesLearn to fold the Miura pattern and its various forms with artist Jeff Morrical.
Saved by a Story–Wildfire Survivor Writing Workshop
Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, United StatesCome together in community to write about the history of the cherished places we have been and how we will come together.
The Eyes of Ghana: Film Screening and Q&A
Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, United StatesA hidden archive of African independence films comes to light. Screening and Q&A with the filmmakers.
Ruth Price Documentary Screening “The Lady Can Sing”
Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, United StatesThis documentary traces the remarkable life of Ruth Price, a jazz doyenne, acknowledged by her fellow artists and the public alike, as one of the greatest jazz vocalists of all time. Aged 95, Ruth is still running The Jazz Bakery in L.A., a venue she founded in 1992.
Samizdat Sundays
Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, United StatesA hands-on series of textile-based workshops inspired by the Soviet Hippie Collection and other dissident archives at the Wende Museum.
S.U.T@LA – Vipassana Meditation Practice Group
Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, United StatesPractice Isn’t Just on the Cushion — It’s Wherever Life Takes Us
Living with Loss: A Grief Support Circle
Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, United StatesJoin us in person to share stories, find comfort, and support each other through grief together.
Tuesday Men’s Club
A gathering for men to sit in meditation, have an honest conversation, and enjoy each other's company.
Wellness Wednesday: Mindfulness Meditations
Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, United StatesJoin us for weekly mindfulness, followed by complimentary refreshments and a movement class. All are welcome, regardless of experience.
The Movement Playground with Cantilever Collective
Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, United StatesA co-creative movement workshop with live music.
Bauhaus | RAW! CLAY! : Exploring Unfired Clay as a Sculptural Medium
Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, United StatesParticipants will honor the Bauhaus spirit of learning by doing and embrace the material possibilities and limitations of unfired clay.
Rocketry Festival with Notre Dame Academy Rocketry Team
The Wende Museum 10808 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, United StatesBuild a stomp rocket, launch a slingshot rocket, and learn about the history of rocketry.
Soviet Hippie Archives Open House
Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, United StatesExplore art, music, and fashion made by hippies in the Soviet Union through archival materials from the Wende’s Soviet Hippie Collection.
Samizdat Sundays
Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, United StatesA hands-on series of textile-based workshops inspired by the Soviet Hippie Collection and other dissident archives at the Wende Museum.
Tea Dances at the Glorya Kaufman Community Center
Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, United StatesMove, mingle, and unwind through the joyful rhythm of social dance.
S.U.T@LA – Vipassana Meditation Practice Group
Practice Isn’t Just on the Cushion — It’s Wherever Life Takes Us
Living with Loss: A Grief Support Circle
Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, United StatesJoin us in person to share stories, find comfort, and support each other through grief together.
Wellness Wednesday: Mindfulness Meditations
Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, United StatesJoin us for weekly mindfulness, followed by complimentary refreshments and a movement class. All are welcome, regardless of experience.
Saved by a Story–Intergenerational Writing Group
Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, United StatesParticipants age 14+ write to prompts to spark creativity, share stories and build community.
Naming the Unknown
Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, United StatesAn LARB editor’s salon exploring how language evolves to name and make sense of emerging phenomena in a rapidly changing world.
Bilingual Russian-English Storytime
The Wende Museum 10808 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, United StatesJoin us at the Wende Museum for a special bilingual children’s storytime, featuring captivating Russian tales from the Wende’s collection.
Community Partner, Special Event
Culver City Book Festival 2026
The Wende Museum 10808 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, United StatesA day of exploring the Los Angeles literary community!
Samizdat Sundays
Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, United StatesA hands-on series of textile-based workshops inspired by the Soviet Hippie Collection and other dissident archives at the Wende Museum.
S.U.T@LA – Vipassana Meditation Practice Group
Practice Isn’t Just on the Cushion — It’s Wherever Life Takes Us
Living with Loss: A Grief Support Circle
Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, United StatesJoin us in person to share stories, find comfort, and support each other through grief together.
Wellness Wednesday: Mindfulness Meditations
Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, United StatesJoin us for weekly mindfulness, followed by complimentary refreshments and a movement class. All are welcome, regardless of experience.
Night of Ideas 2026
The Wende Museum 10808 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, United StatesAn extended Night of Ideas returns with workshops, VR, talks, performance, and food trucks. Free, all-day takeover at the Wende Museum.
Free Improvisation Workshop (Music)
Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, United StatesAll skill and experience levels are welcome - bring your instrument and explore the sounds of free improvisation!
Samizdat Sundays
Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, United StatesA hands-on series of textile-based workshops inspired by the Soviet Hippie Collection and other dissident archives at the Wende Museum.
Nawruz (Spring) Festival
The Wende Museum 10808 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, United StatesCelebrate Nowruz with music, dance, crafts, poetry, and family activities welcoming spring and the Persian New Year.
S.U.T@LA – Vipassana Meditation Practice Group
Practice Isn’t Just on the Cushion — It’s Wherever Life Takes Us
WIP 022
Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, United StatesWIP 022 features works in progress by Faye Driscoll & Toogie Barcelo followed by a post-show talk back moderated by WIP alum Laura Stinger.
Living with Loss: A Grief Support Circle
Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, United StatesJoin us in person to share stories, find comfort, and support each other through grief together.
Tuesday Men’s Club
A gathering for men to sit in meditation, have an honest conversation, and enjoy each other's company.
Wellness Wednesday: Mindfulness Meditations
Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, United StatesJoin us for weekly mindfulness, followed by complimentary refreshments and a movement class. All are welcome, regardless of experience.
Saved by a Story–Intergenerational Writing Group
Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, United StatesParticipants age 14+ write to prompts to spark creativity, share stories and build community.
Community Flow Yoga with Kate O’ Neal
Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, United StatesAll experience levels welcome for vinyasa flow yoga.
A Working Title of Disparate Parts
Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, United StatesA work-in-progress showing of pieces from a brand-new devised theatre project by The Ghost Road Company.
Saved by a Story–Wildfire Survivor Writing Workshop
Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, United StatesCome together in community to write about the history of the cherished places we have been and how we will come together.
Samizdat Sundays
Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, United StatesA hands-on series of textile-based workshops inspired by the Soviet Hippie Collection and other dissident archives at the Wende Museum.
S.U.T@LA – Vipassana Meditation Practice Group
Practice Isn’t Just on the Cushion — It’s Wherever Life Takes Us
Living with Loss: A Grief Support Circle
Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, United StatesJoin us in person to share stories, find comfort, and support each other through grief together.
Wellness Wednesday: Mindfulness Meditations
Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, United StatesJoin us for weekly mindfulness, followed by complimentary refreshments and a movement class. All are welcome, regardless of experience.
Community Flow Yoga with Kate O’ Neal
Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, United StatesAll experience levels welcome for vinyasa flow yoga.
Samizdat Sundays
Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, United StatesA hands-on series of textile-based workshops inspired by the Soviet Hippie Collection and other dissident archives at the Wende Museum.
S.U.T@LA – Vipassana Meditation Practice Group
Practice Isn’t Just on the Cushion — It’s Wherever Life Takes Us
Keeping the Faith: Films About Uganda’s Jewish Abayudaya Community
Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, United StatesTwo short documentary films on the Abayudaya community, followed by a discussion with filmmaker Peter Decherney.
Living with Loss: A Grief Support Circle
Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, United StatesJoin us in person to share stories, find comfort, and support each other through grief together.
Tuesday Men’s Club
A gathering for men to sit in meditation, have an honest conversation, and enjoy each other's company.
Wellness Wednesday: Mindfulness Meditations
Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, United StatesJoin us for weekly mindfulness, followed by complimentary refreshments and a movement class. All are welcome, regardless of experience.
Saved by a Story–Intergenerational Writing Group
Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, United StatesParticipants age 14+ write to prompts to spark creativity, share stories and build community.
Community Flow Yoga with Kate O’ Neal
Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, United StatesAll experience levels welcome for vinyasa flow yoga.
Bilingual Russian-English Storytime
The Wende Museum 10808 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, United StatesJoin us at the Wende Museum for a special bilingual children’s storytime, featuring captivating Russian tales from the Wende’s collection.
Samizdat Sundays
Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, United StatesA hands-on series of textile-based workshops inspired by the Soviet Hippie Collection and other dissident archives at the Wende Museum.
All-American Story: Stories and Conversations About Immigration
Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, United StatesImmigrants and first and second generation Americans foreground their stories at a moment when immigration discourse is flattened by rhetoric.
S.U.T@LA – Vipassana Meditation Practice Group
Practice Isn’t Just on the Cushion — It’s Wherever Life Takes Us
Wellness Wednesday: Mindfulness Meditations
Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, United StatesJoin us for weekly mindfulness, followed by complimentary refreshments and a movement class. All are welcome, regardless of experience.
Community Flow Yoga with Kate O’ Neal
Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, United StatesAll experience levels welcome for vinyasa flow yoga.
Saved by a Story–Wildfire Survivor Writing Workshop
Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA, United StatesCome together in community to write about the history of the cherished places we have been and how we will come together.