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SUMMARY:Living with Loss: A Grief Support Circle
DESCRIPTION:Join a warm and understanding space where you can share\, listen\, and heal. Led by Dr. Barry Goldstein\, this grief support circle is all about connecting with others who get what you’re going through. Come as you are\, no judgments—just open hearts and support to navigate the ups and downs of loss side by side. Everyone is welcome!
URL:https://wendemuseum.org/event/living-with-loss-a-grief-support-circle/2026-08-25/
LOCATION:The Wende Museum’s Community Center\, 10858 Culver Boulevard\, Culver City\, CA\, 90230\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Partner
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SUMMARY:Wellness Wednesday
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our weekly mindfulness meditation. 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 Community Center \nYou 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. \nWhat 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. \nWe 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. \nTeacher Bio: \nChristiane 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. \nChristiane was trained as an OB/GYN in Germany but pivoted to not only practicing mindfulness meditation but then teaching it\, mainly through InsightLA. \nShe was trained and mentored by Trudy Goodman\, Jack Kornfield\, Jon Kabat-Zinn\, Gil Fronsdal and others. \nChristiane 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. \nCheck www.christianewolf.com for more info. \nAn ADA-accessible entrance to the Wende Museum 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.
URL:https://wendemuseum.org/event/wellness-wednesday-mindfulness-meditations-2/2026-08-26/
LOCATION:The Wende Museum’s Community Center\, 10858 Culver Boulevard\, Culver City\, CA\, 90230\, United States
CATEGORIES:Wellness
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SUMMARY:Saved by a Story–Intergenerational Writing Group
DESCRIPTION:Participants ages 14 and up welcomed. Please arrive 5 or 10 minutes early to get settled\, as we start the group promptly at 4pm. \nWe are excited to come together in community\, to dive into our creativity and share our stories. \nWhat 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. \nWe 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. \nIn later groups\, we will draft stories and workshop them. \nWe offer creativity and community in a non-judgmental environment. \nThe writing group meets in person on the second and fourth Wednesday of the month. \nPlease arrive 5 or 10 minutes early to get settled as we start punctually at 4pm. \nWhat you will need:– a note book–nothing fancy–a pen–if you prefer to write on a computer\, feel free to bring that. \nWhere: \nWende Museum’s Community Center\nin the Cotsen Learning Center on the Second Floor\n10858 Culver Boulevard\nCulver City\, CA\, 90230 \n310-216-1600 \nPlease enter through the garden gate from the parking lot at 10858 Culver Blvd. \nRSVPs 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.
URL:https://wendemuseum.org/event/saved-by-a-story-intergenerational-writing-group-4/2026-08-26/
LOCATION:The Wende Museum’s Community Center\, 10858 Culver Boulevard\, Culver City\, CA\, 90230\, United States
CATEGORIES:Wellness,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260827T180000
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SUMMARY:CURRENTS: Composers in Motion
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Emersion Music\, CURRENTS: Composers in Motion is an immersive evening of cinematic music\, live chamber strings\, piano\, electronics\, and movement. \nThe program features original music by award winning composers Emer Kinsella\, Duncan Thum\, Vivek Maddala\, Layla Minoui\, Yuichiro Oku\, Amit May Cohen\, Zack Hexum & Niki Hexum\, performed live by the Emersion Ensemble with movement artists Malik “Gvmby” Bannister and Jasmyn Thomas. \nInspired by the Wende Museum’s connection to transformation and turning points\, CURRENTS explores how history moves like water: carrying memory\, changing shape\, and replenishing what comes next. \nSupported by the City of Culver City\, Sony Pictures Entertainment\, Culver Arts\, Fine Line Music\, BMI\, Orchestral Tools. A fiscally sponsored project under Creative Visions Foundation.
URL:https://wendemuseum.org/event/currents-composers-in-motion/
LOCATION:The Wende Museum’s Community Center\, 10858 Culver Boulevard\, Culver City\, CA\, 90230\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Partner
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SUMMARY:Community Flow Yoga with Kate O’ Neal
DESCRIPTION:Participants must bring their own yoga mat\, and are encouraged to also bring a towel to pad their knees and yoga blocks if desired. \nJoin 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. \nKate 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. \nAs this event takes place during museum open hours\, guests may check in at the front of the museum. The garden side gate will open 15 minutes before the start time and is available for ADA access and alternative check-in. Theater doors open 15 minutes before the start time. Seating is first come\, first served. An RSVP does not guarantee admission once capacity is reached. No late entry.
URL:https://wendemuseum.org/event/yoga/2026-08-28/
LOCATION:The Wende Museum’s Community Center\, 10858 Culver Boulevard\, Culver City\, CA\, 90230\, United States
CATEGORIES:Wellness
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260829T110000
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SUMMARY:Tales in Two Tongues: Bilingual Russian-English Storytime
DESCRIPTION: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!
URL:https://wendemuseum.org/event/storytime/2026-08-29/
LOCATION:The Wende Museum\, 10808 Culver Boulevard\, Culver City\, CA\, 90230\, United States
CATEGORIES:Family
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260830T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260830T123000
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SUMMARY:Samizdat Sundays
DESCRIPTION: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. \nWe 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. \nEach 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. \nJoin 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. \nAugust 2: I am HERE. Today\, we will make a piece that declares we are here\, in this time and space. We will look at the work of On Kawara\, Tehching Hsieh\, Sho Shibuya and JB Daniel\, artists who have made a practice of documenting their days as they lived them. Sometimes these works are incredibly simple\, like the date/time works of On Kawara or the daily sky photos of JB Daniel; sometimes they are more complicated\, like the beautiful paintings Sho Shibuya has made on the front cover of the daily New York Times since the Covid lockdown. What will you make to declare “I am here\,” to document your experience today? Will you begin with our latitude/longitude? The time on your smartphone? Or will you begin with a memory or a feeling or a color? Your work can be a collage or a drawing or a textile\, or perhaps a combination of all three. \nAugust 9: Time Capsule. There are time capsules being prepared across the country in celebration of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence (you can read about the 50-state one here: https://america250.org/time-capsule/contents/). These capsules will be buried\, sent into outer space\, opened early and perhaps lost for good. Many time capsules are PR stunts\, but as my friend archaeologist Shannon Dawdy proposed in her Chronoscope Substack newsletter recently (https://shannonleedawdy.substack.com/p/so-whats-in-your-time-capsule)\, “we use time capsules to try to understand — or to assert — what this present moment is all about and to project ourselves into the future.” Today we will make an object for a theoretical time capsule. Perhaps you really will send yours into the future by burying your object or adding it to a local time capsule\, or perhaps your time capsule is conceptual rather than physical. What object would you like to make for the future? \nAugust 16: The Time-Keeper Appliqué/Embellishment. Have you met someone who has tattoos that mark a period in their life (or do you yourself have such a tattoo)? Throughout human history\, people have embellished their bodies and their clothing to reflect their lives as they lived them. Soldiers wear medals and patches that declare aspects of their service and training; tattoos and scarring may document rites of passage and other transitions; backpacks and jean jackets may be decorated with patches and pins from festivals\, camps\, schools\, travels\, etc. In today’s workshop\, we will add an applique or embellishment to a favorite piece of clothing\, bag\, or other object\, as a reminder of this time of our lives. Perhaps you will begin by making a decorated patch; perhaps you will move straight into embroidering your object directly; or perhaps your embellishment will be hidden from view\, only known to you. Bring a textile (or two) to play with — a canvas bag\, a shirt\, a pair of pants\, a bandana — whatever you would like to transform into a time keeper. \nAugust 23: Hidden Pocket. Today we will reprise a popular workshop from last summer: the hidden pocket. Hidden pockets have been used for millennia to hide\, conceal\, and keep safe objects that the wearer does not want others to see (at least not when they’re walking around town). During the Soviet Era\, hidden pockets in large overcoats were used to transport handwritten Samizdat. In the Iron Age\, a woman who lived in modern day Denmark wore a cloak with a secret pocket sewn closed (she is known as the “Huldremose Woman.”) that contained small objects that have been described by archaeologists as talismans and charms. Today we will sew a hidden pocket into a piece of clothing (and perhaps make an object or two to keep in the pocket as well)\, or make a small pouch that can be worn around our necks and hidden in our shirts\, or around our waists and hidden in our pants. Perhaps your hidden pocket is visible from the outside\, even if it’s contents are not\, or perhaps your hidden pocket is truly hidden from everyone but you. What will you keep in your pocket? \nAugust 30: Finish It Clinic. Today\, we will finish up projects. If you don’t have anything to finish\, don’t despair! Come and I will give you a project from a past workshop to do during our time together. \nAbout the teaching artist \nKate 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. \nRSVPs for this free program do not guarantee admission. Limited seating is available on a first come\, first served basis. \nAn ADA-accessible entrance to the Wende Museum Community Center is available through the garden gate from the parking lot. This gate will be opened approximately 15 minutes prior to the program.
URL:https://wendemuseum.org/event/samizdat-sundays-2-2/2026-08-30/
LOCATION:The Wende Museum’s Community Center\, 10858 Culver Boulevard\, Culver City\, CA\, 90230\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:Silent Book Club Los Angeles
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThe first half hour of our meetup is dedicated to socializing and getting comfortable\, then we head into our silent reading hour\, followed by another half hour to discuss what you read or just hang out and get to know the other readers. \nAll formats are welcome: physical books\, e-readers\, or audiobooks (with headphones of course!). Stay updated and learn about our other meetups and locations at instagram.com/silentbookclubla. \nNo RSVP needed\, just show up ready to read! \n**Please note that the Silent Book Club will be taking a break at this location in September. Visit our Instagram page to view other events and locations.**
URL:https://wendemuseum.org/event/silent-book-club-los-angeles/
LOCATION:The Wende Museum’s Community Center\, 10858 Culver Boulevard\, Culver City\, CA\, 90230\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Partner
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260831T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260831T220000
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SUMMARY:The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp | Cinema Under Pressure
DESCRIPTION:Cinema Under Pressure is a Monday night film series at The Wende Museum. It explores the struggles over what audiences are permitted to see. Each screening is paired with a discussion featuring a guest expert. \nThis month’s film is The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)\, written\, produced\, and directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. The story follows British officer Clive Candy across forty years of war\, peace\, and love. His closest friend is a German officer. \nWinston Churchill learned of the production in 1942 and asked his ministers to find a way to stop it. The War Office refused to lend the filmmakers military support. Once the film was finished\, Churchill tried to block its export. Government reviewers found no reason to suppress it\, and the film opened in London in June 1943. American distributors cut it anyway. Later prints ran barely half the original length and dropped the flashback structure that gives the story its shape. The full version was restored in 1983 and is now regarded as one of the finest British films ever made. \nFilmmaker Kevin Macdonald joins us for a discussion after the screening. Macdonald is Pressburger’s grandson and wrote his biography. He won an Academy Award for the documentary One Day in September\, and his films include Touching the Void\, The Last King of Scotland\, and Whitney. He will be joined in conversation by Aidan Victor\, The Wende Museum’s film curator. \nThis program is free. RSVPing to this free program does not guarantee admission. Seating is first come\, first served.
URL:https://wendemuseum.org/event/the-life-and-death-of-colonel-blimp-cinema-under-pressure/
LOCATION:The Wende Museum’s Community Center\, 10858 Culver Boulevard\, Culver City\, CA\, 90230\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screening
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