What makes collage a queer medium? Throughout this hands-on session, we'll cut, layer, juxtapose, and reinterpret pre-existing narratives.
The Wende's series on suppressed films continues with Pontecorvo's 1966 film about terror, resistance, and state violence
Join us in person to share stories, find comfort, and support each other through grief together.
A gathering for men to sit in meditation, have an honest conversation, and enjoy each other's company.
Join us for weekly mindfulness, followed by complimentary refreshments and a movement class. All are welcome, regardless of experience.
A co-creative movement workshop with live music.
All experience levels welcome for vinyasa flow yoga.
A devised theatre work created by the PAE ensemble showcasing Pasifika artistry and talents.
A hands-on series of textile-based workshops inspired by the Soviet Hippie Collection and other dissident archives at the Wende Museum.
Move, mingle, and unwind through the joyful rhythm of social dance.
Join us in person to share stories, find comfort, and support each other through grief together.
Join us for weekly mindfulness, followed by complimentary refreshments and a movement class. All are welcome, regardless of experience.
Artist Ivana Dama performs in the Wende garden in conjunction with her installation Breathing Alarms, followed by a conversation.
Participants age 14+ write to prompts to spark creativity, share stories and build community.
All experience levels welcome for vinyasa flow yoga.
Join us at the Wende Museum for a special bilingual children’s storytime, featuring captivating Russian tales from the Wende’s collection.
A free quarterly chess tournament open to players of all ages and skill levels.
Join us for Family Day at the Wende Museum to make punk patches inspired by the Wende Museum’s counter-cultural collections.
A low-pressure community of readers who read silently, but together.
Join us in person to share stories, find comfort, and support each other through grief together.
A free community concert honoring the legacy, innovation, and enduring influence of Black music through an evening of soul, funk, jazz, and R&B.
Join us for weekly mindfulness, followed by complimentary refreshments and a movement class. All are welcome, regardless of experience.
Join an exclusive preview screening of a documentary-in-progress chronicling the extraordinary life of Holocaust survivor and artist Trudie Strobel.
A co-creative movement workshop with live music.
All experience levels welcome for vinyasa flow yoga.
A hands-on series of textile-based workshops inspired by the Soviet Hippie Collection and other dissident archives at the Wende Museum.
Join us for weekly mindfulness, followed by complimentary refreshments and a movement class. All are welcome, regardless of experience.
Participants age 14+ write to prompts to spark creativity, share stories and build community.
Fast-paced and educational, this Afro-Contemporary dance technique class will challenge participants to engage body, mind, and spirit.
All experience levels welcome for vinyasa flow yoga.
A new performance by Maral and her visual collaborator Annapurna Kumar, exploring sounds and images related to geologic time and the content.
A hands-on series of textile-based workshops inspired by the Soviet Hippie Collection and other dissident archives at the Wende Museum.
Guided by artist Anne Pearce, participants will explore watercolor as a tool for observation.
Tim Robbins' film about the 1937 government shutdown of a pro-labor musical, followed by a conversation with Robbins himself.
A gathering for men to sit in meditation, have an honest conversation, and enjoy each other's company.
Join us for weekly mindfulness, followed by complimentary refreshments and a movement class. All are welcome, regardless of experience.
A co-creative movement workshop with live music.
All experience levels welcome for vinyasa flow yoga.
Community Partner, Conversation, Music
Original multi-genre music and spoken word performances by Black female-identifying and queer artists.
Guided by ceramic artist Peyton Ellis, participants will sculpt a functional wind instrument.
Move, mingle, and unwind through the joyful rhythm of social dance.
Join us in person to share stories, find comfort, and support each other through grief together.
Join us for weekly mindfulness, followed by complimentary refreshments and a movement class. All are welcome, regardless of experience.
Participants age 14+ write to prompts to spark creativity, share stories and build community.
Fast-paced and educational, this Afro-Contemporary dance technique class will challenge participants to engage body, mind, and spirit.
All experience levels welcome for vinyasa flow yoga.
Join us at the Wende Museum for a special bilingual children’s storytime, featuring captivating Russian tales from the Wende’s collection.
A special presentation of The Bob Baker Marionette Theater’s Traveling Jamboree roadshow.
Participants will carve their own printing block and hand-print a cotton bandana to take home. No previous experience is necessary.
A low-pressure community of readers who read silently, but together.
Residents have been working to create contemporary art pieces in response to the collections of the Wende, exploring the question: what is the impact of living underneath an authoritarian regime?
Join us in person to share stories, find comfort, and support each other through grief together.
Join us for weekly mindfulness, followed by complimentary refreshments and a movement class. All are welcome, regardless of experience.
Meet author Dagmar Eckel as she launches her memoir about growing up as child of a 1954 World Cup champion.
Come together in community to write about the history of the cherished places we have been and how we will come together.
A hands-on series of textile-based workshops inspired by the Soviet Hippie Collection and other dissident archives at the Wende Museum.
Participants will learn about aromatic botanicals, resins, woods, and herbs while blending and shaping their own custom scents.
Join us in person to share stories, find comfort, and support each other through grief together.
Join us for weekly mindfulness, followed by complimentary refreshments and a movement class. All are welcome, regardless of experience.
A co-creative movement workshop with live music.
WriteGirl is a Los Angeles-based creative writing and mentoring organization for teen girls and gender-expansive teens ages 13-18.
Historian Teofilo Ruiz on his political engagement in Cuba: the uprising against Batista, the break with Castro, prison, and exile.
A hands-on series of textile-based workshops inspired by the Soviet Hippie Collection and other dissident archives at the Wende Museum.
Discover the vibrant traditions of Chinese and Taiwanese pickling in this hands-on culinary workshop.
Join us at the museum for a fun series of 6 workshops led by children's book illustrator and author, Stephanie Lunkewitz.
Gather, play, and connect at a special summer garden mahjong event hosted by Mahjong Sessions at The Wende Museum!
Join us in person to share stories, find comfort, and support each other through grief together.
A gathering for men to sit in meditation, have an honest conversation, and enjoy each other's company.
Join us for weekly mindfulness, followed by complimentary refreshments and a movement class. All are welcome, regardless of experience.
Participants age 14+ write to prompts to spark creativity, share stories and build community.
Fast-paced and educational, this Afro-Contemporary dance technique class will challenge participants to engage body, mind, and spirit.
Eat, explore, and dance at a free, all-ages KCRW Summer Nights party at the Wende Museum, featuring a Good Food–curated Night Market.
A hands-on series of textile-based workshops inspired by the Soviet Hippie Collection and other dissident archives at the Wende Museum.
Join us at the museum for a fun series of 6 workshops led by children's book illustrator and author, Stephanie Lunkewitz.
Photographer Mark Neville lives in Kyiv and delivers aid to frontline towns, taking photos of the people he meets along the way.
Join us in person to share stories, find comfort, and support each other through grief together.
Join us for weekly mindfulness, followed by complimentary refreshments and a movement class. All are welcome, regardless of experience.
A co-creative movement workshop with live music.
All experience levels welcome for vinyasa flow yoga.
Take a peek into daily life in East Germany. Household objects, store products, counterculture ephemera, and more will be on display for visitors to peruse and engage with.
A play by Steven Vargas that has been workshopped throughout LA and will have its official public reading.
What does it take to produce reliable and meaningful history for a wide public at this moment?
A hands-on series of textile-based workshops inspired by the Soviet Hippie Collection and other dissident archives at the Wende Museum.
Join us at the museum for a fun series of 6 workshops led by children's book illustrator and author, Stephanie Lunkewitz.
Join us in person to share stories, find comfort, and support each other through grief together.
Join us for weekly mindfulness, followed by complimentary refreshments and a movement class. All are welcome, regardless of experience.
Participants age 14+ write to prompts to spark creativity, share stories and build community.
Presented by Emersion Music, CURRENTS: Composers in Motion is an immersive evening of cinematic music, live chamber strings, piano, electronics, and movement.
All experience levels welcome for vinyasa flow yoga.
Join us at the Wende Museum for a special bilingual children’s storytime, featuring captivating Russian tales from the Wende’s collection.
A hands-on series of textile-based workshops inspired by the Soviet Hippie Collection and other dissident archives at the Wende Museum.
We are a low-pressure community of readers who read silently, but together. There is no assigned reading—bring whatever is in your TBR pile and join us.
Screening of 1943 film and a discussion with Academy Award winner Kevin Macdonald, grandson of director Emeric Pressburger.
Join us in person to share stories, find comfort, and support each other through grief together.
Join us for weekly mindfulness, followed by complimentary refreshments and a movement class. All are welcome, regardless of experience.
Looking to digitize personal or family archival material? The Wende Museum is here to help!
All experience levels welcome for vinyasa flow yoga.
Stanford historian Tom Mullaney on the lost 1947 Chinese typewriter, rediscovered in a New York basement, that shaped the digital age.
Photographs from the archives of the newspapers La Razón and Clarín trace four decades of Argentine political life.
Join us at the museum for a fun series of 6 workshops led by children's book illustrator and author, Stephanie Lunkewitz.
