Join us for a special holiday hike on the Westridge Trail on 12/14 to the Nike missile site at San Vicente Mountain. Wear your most outrageous holiday sweaters and festive colors, along with any other holiday swag you want to show off. The hike is approximately 7 miles with an elevation gain of 730 feet and with the option to turn around early for those who do not want to join the full hike. Please also make sure that you are prepared with appropriate footwear, sunscreen and/or a hat, and plenty of water. For questions the morning of the hike, contact Morvareed Salehpour at msalehpour@salehpourlaw.com.

Hone your writing skills into an op-ed format and establish an authoritative voice that demands attention. With so much proverbial noise from AI generated content, bots, and constant social media chatter, knowing how to think critically and communicate clearly and from the heart will be the secret weapon for the leaders of tomorrow. Led by Ralinda Harvey Smith, a writer whose opinions and essays have been published in Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and Huffington Post. Her upcoming gift book Free Pass to Order Pizza for the Kids, published by Chronicle Books, is due to be released this fall.

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Admission is free. No advance reservations. Your seat will be assigned to you when you pick up your ticket at the box office. Seats are assigned on a first come, first served basis. The box office opens one hour before the event. British Sounds U.K., 1970 When their surprised patrons ask the theater staff in Nathan Gelgud’s book Reel Politik what they plan to show in their newly liberated movie house, “the Godard-Gorin stuff” is at the top of their list. An agitprop primer in Marx and Mao, radical feminism, and the deconstruction of capitalist image production, British Sounds was Jean-Luc Godard’s first completed project with the Dziga Vertov Group, a militant film collective that included Jean-Pierre Gorin and Jean-Henri Roger, and marked the New Wave icon’s radical break from auteurist filmmaking. Overlapping voiceover readings from the Communist Manifesto and other radical texts illuminate and clash with an extended montage — a car assembly line, a union strategy meeting, a nude woman at home, student organizers — that suggests, if not a fully realized vision, a vital new cinema struggling to be born. DCP, color, 54 min. Directors/Screenwriters: Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Henri Roger. The Third Generation Germany, 1979 The precision and elegance of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s camerawork (he also acted as cinematographer) stands in sharp contrast to the shambolic activities of the would-be terrorist cadre he turns his gaze on in this late ’70s satire of bourgeois revolutionaries. Contrasts bold and subtle abound in this film suffused with high art cinematic allusions and bathroom graffiti, banal routines and sudden bursts of violence. Ostensibly living underground while making vague plans to kidnap a corporate fat cat, these middle-class Marxists play Monopoly to unwind even as their target unspools plans of his own to turn the threat of terrorism into higher profits. DCP, color, in German with English subtitles, 110 min. Director/Screenwriter: Rainer Werner Fassbinder. With: Harry Baer, Hark Bohm, Margit Carstensen. —Senior Public Programmer Paul Malcolm Part of: Reel Politik: Seizing the Means of Projection With Nathan Gelgud

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Join the UCLA Alumni Association in collaboration with partners across UCLA as we bring Bruins together to network and learn about AI. Enjoy hosted appetizers as you strengthen your professional network with alumni across all industry verticals. Get an overview of AI, agentic AI and how AI applies to various industries from Bruin leaders at top organizations in New York. * * *  **Amy Fleming '00 **Microsoft Cloud and AI Director of Financial Services * * *  **Parth Shah, MBA '19 **Salesforce Director of Product Marketing, Agentic AI search and Unstructured Data, Data Cloud * * *  **Ankur Agarwal, MBA '15 **Amazon Web Services (AWS) Principal Product Manager for Agentic AI in Application Security and Operations * * * **Mia Seleshi, MBA '11 (moderator) **UCLA Alumni Affairs Director of Alumni Career Engagement. * * * **Event in collaboration with:**    

It has been thirty years since Noah Baumbach arrived on the scene with Kicking and Screaming (1995), a film that announced a generational talent. In Jay Kelly, Baumbach returns to some of the thornier areas of investigation in his work—the examination of failure, the endless complexities of family, and treacherous journeys of self-discovery. As uniquely embodied by George Clooney as the title character, and Adam Sandler as his endlessly loyal manager, we experience both the euphoria and pain of a creative life lived in the public eye. Co-written with Emily Mortimer and featuring an all-star line-up of acting talent, this is an "insiders" view that invites us all along for the ride. 2025. USA. Directed by Noah Baumbach. Screenplay by Baumbach, Emily Mortimer. With George Clooney, Adam Sandler, Laura Dern. DCP courtesy Netflix. 132 min. Learn more here: https://hmmr.buzz/jaykelly Tickets $10 Hammer members | $20 general admission Current members, check your email for your link to buy tickets, or contact membership@hammer.ucla.edu. Not a member? Become one today for 50% off tickets!

Training and drop-in session for instructors to learn more about myCAE, outline how to access and navigate the myCAE Instructor Portal, and provide an opportunity to troubleshoot any brief questions around instructors' use of myCAE.

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Join BP Beverly Hills Chapter for their monthly meeting!

We’re thrilled to invite you to the UCLA Latino Alumni Association (ULAA) Holiday Celebration, happening in the heart of beautiful Pasadena! The season can get hectic, so we’re keeping things convenient by bringing the Bruin holiday spirit closer to where you live and work. Join us at Bruin-owned Tepito Coffee! Come enjoy an evening filled with festive cheer, warm connections, and Bruin camaraderie. Whether you’re hoping to grow your professional network, reunite with fellow alumni, or learn more about ULAA, this gathering is the perfect way to kick off the holidays. Your presence helps ULAA continue spreading holiday joy through meaningful programming, mentorship, and opportunities for the UCLA Latino alumni community.

Understated auteur Kelly Reichardt's return to more suspenseful genre fare since Night Moves (2013) is The Mastermind, an art heist-turned-character portrait of a Massachusetts father inching closer to the fringes. A frequent visitor to the sleepy Framingham Museum of Art with his wife and kids, out-of-work architect JB Mooney (Josh O'Connor), enlists a shaggy group of local crooks to swipe a few Arthur Dove paintings from the galleries in broad daylight. As the investigation into the robbery begins, Mooney starts to unravel. Set in 1970, Reichardt skillfully uses an America upended by the Vietnam War and transformed by the Civil Rights Movement as a backdrop for the frenzied and desperate Mooney to stay out of the hands of the authorities. Underpinned by stellar performances from the ensemble, including Hope Davis, Bill Camp, Alana Haim, Gaby Hoffman, and John Magaro, The Mastermind is an exemplary Reichardt film with a richly intimate and flawed world, populated by even more textured characters. 2025. USA. Written and directed by Kelly Reichardt. With Josh O’Connor, Alana Haim, Hope Davis. DCP courtesy MUBI. 110 min. Learn more: https://hmmr.buzz/mastermind Tickets $10 Hammer members | $20 general admission Current members, check your email for your link to buy tickets, or contact membership@hammer.ucla.edu. Not a member? Become one today for 50% off tickets!

Applications due December 17, 2025 The UCLA Teaching and Learning Center (TLC) will offer a Course Design Workshop for UCLA Extension instructors in Winter 2026. This series supports instructors in developing clear, well-aligned, and accessible online or hybrid courses grounded in effective instructional practices. Participants will take part in three synchronous sessions, asynchronous activities, and work with an instructional designer throughout the process. By the end of the workshop sessions, participants will develop a focused course module, refine outcomes and assessments, and integrate inclusive design practices that strengthen the overall learning experience. Schedule January 23 – February 13, 2026 | 10–11 a.m. on Zoom January 23, 2026 – Map Your Course: Backward design, learning outcomes, and module mapping January 30, 2026 – Designing Learning Activities: Assessment alignment, activity design, and rubric basics February 13, 2026 – Creating an Inclusive Course: Inclusive design strategies, community building, and digitally accessible practices and tools. For questions, contact the instructional design team at idmp@teaching.ucla.edu

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These meetups are for people who make websites. Join us every other week, on Wednesday at 11am, to ask any questions you may have about making websites at UCLA.

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Join BP Orange County Chapter for their Chapter Meeting!

Training and drop-in session for students to learn more about myCAE, outline how to access and navigate their myCAE Portal, and provide an opportunity to troubleshoot any brief questions around students' use of myCAE.

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UCLA F-1 visa students, do you want to know more about off-campus employment authorization? Join us on one of our weekly OPT webinars hosted by the Dashew Center staff to learn more!

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Followed by a conversation with writer & director Scott Cooper In 1981, after his first number-one album (The River) and top-ten single (“Hungry Heart”), Bruce Springsteen was on the verge of becoming a worldwide sensation and fulfilling the vision of his manager, the former music critic Jon Landau, who had written just a few years earlier, “I saw rock and roll’s future, and its name is Bruce Springsteen.” Instead, Springsteen stepped back and isolated himself in his native New Jersey with an acoustic guitar, a portable four-track recorder, and Suicide’s eponymous debut album to lay out his personal demons on a cassette that became one of the most introspective DIY albums in history: Nebraska. Sunken in a depression and haunted by family ghosts, Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere is the story of a man facing the darkness that surrounds an anxious, luminous heart before embracing the future that awaits him. 2025. USA. Written and directed by Scott Cooper. Based on the book by Warren Zanes. With Jeremy Allen White, Jeremy Strong, Odessa Young. DCP courtesy 20th Century Studios. 120 min. Learn more here: https://hmmr.buzz/springsteen Tickets $10 Hammer members | $20 general admission Current members, check your email for your link to buy tickets, or contact membership@hammer.ucla.edu. Not a member? Become one today for 50% off tickets!

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Training and drop-in session for instructors to learn more about myCAE, outline how to access and navigate the myCAE Instructor Portal, and provide an opportunity to troubleshoot any brief questions around instructors' use of myCAE.

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This UCLA Alumni Bruin Bash Zoom will take place on Wednesday, December 18, 2025, at 6 p.m. Join UCLA’s softball and baseball head coaches as they discuss their respective journeys to the 2025 College World Series, preview their upcoming seasons, and share their thoughts on the current state of college athletics.

Bob Ferguson is: a former revolutionary with the French 75, a self-described “drug and alcohol lover”, a single father to 16-year-old Willa (Chase Infiniti), and above all, a classic cinematic buffoon who has righteousness on his side but not much else. As embodied by Leonardo DiCaprio in a brilliant comic and tender performance, Bob is on the run— pursued by his past and by the vindictive Col. Stephen J. Lockjaw (an amazing Sean Penn)—while chasing his own daughter as she grows up and is drawn into the precarious world that he once inhabited. DiCaprio and Infiniti are supported by a volcanic Teyana Taylor as Willa’s MIA mother Perfidia Beverly Hills and Benicio del Toro as the calm and centered Sensei Sergio St. Carlos, and Anderson drops these characters into an epic story that sprawls across California and its unique alchemy of conspiracy and independence. The result is one of the best films of the year, and one that Paul Thomas Anderson originally shot in VistaVision and will be presented in 70mm at the Hammer Museum. 2025. USA. Written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. Inspired by the novel Vineland by Thomas Pynchon. With Leonardo DiCaprio, Teyana Taylor, Chase Infiniti, Benicio del Toro. 70mm courtesy Warner Brothers. 161 min. Learn more here: https://hmmr.buzz/onebattle Tickets $10 Hammer members | $20 general admission Current members, check your email for your link to buy tickets, or contact membership@hammer.ucla.edu. Not a member? Become one today for 50% off tickets!

In-person: cartoonist and illustrator Nathan Gelgud. Admission is free. No advance reservations. Your seat will be assigned to you when you pick up your ticket at the box office. Seats are assigned on a first come, first served basis. The box office opens one hour before the event. Punishment Park U.S., 1971 Long before reality TV and the current right-wing vogue for alliterative concentration camps (Alligator Alcatraz, et al.), English filmmaker Peter Watkins envisaged the end point of the American right’s demonization of its political enemies in this still disturbing mockumentary. After Nixon declares a national emergency, convicted thought criminals — anti-war activists, conscientious objectors, civil rights leaders — are given a choice: go to prison or take their chances in Punishment Park, an inhospitable desert expanse where, if they can survive three days while being hunted by cops, they can win their freedom. As a European TV crew documents their tribunals and tribulations, a band of leftists struggle across the wasteland rallying around the shared humanity the authorities try to deny them. 35mm, color, 88 min. Director/Peter Watkins. With: Patrick Boland, Carmen Argenziano, Kent Foreman. Ice U.S., 1970 Of all the films in this series, Robert Kramer’s Ice unfolds with the least sense of irony in its rough-hewn, hand-held depiction of an earnest revolutionary network organizing against a fascist takeover of the American government. Kramer himself was co-founder of the radical New York-based collective Newsreel, which produced documentaries in support of leftist causes that would hopefully, in his words, “explode like a grenade in people’s faces.” Kramer’s experience with the era’s revolutionary underground informs Ice’s realism, from the furtive strategy sessions to internal ideological debates, punctuated by sudden bursts of violence. DCP, b&w, 128 min. Director/Screenwriter: Robert Kramer. With: Leo Braudy, Robert Kramer, Paul McIsaac. —Senior Public Programmer Paul Malcolm Part of: Reel Politik: Seizing the Means of Projection With Nathan Gelgud

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Join your local OC Bruins for a refreshing outdoor meetup at Crystal Cove State Park! We will kick off our morning at the Los Trancos Parking lot and make our way down the scenic trail toward the beach. Along the way, we'll stop by Crystal Cove's festive highlight-a charming Christmas tree set up near Beachcomber's, perfect for photos and holiday cheer. After the hike, everyone is welcome to stick around and grab a bite at the nearby Shake Shack, where we can enjoy good food, ocean views, and great company. Whether you're looking to get some fresh air, reconnect with local alumni, or make new Bruin friends, this is the perfect chance to do it. All fitness levels are welcome!

In-person: cartoonist and illustrator Nathan Gelgud. Admission is free. No advance reservations. Your seat will be assigned to you when you pick up your ticket at the box office. Seats are assigned on a first come, first served basis. The box office opens one hour before the event. We Can’t Go Home Again U.S., 1973 If the theater workers in Nathan Gelgud’s book Reel Politik made a movie, it would look something like Nicholas Ray’s We Can’t Go Home Again. Beginning in 1969 and throughout his tenure teaching at Harpur College in New York, Ray recruited students to contribute improvised scenes to an audacious, idealist act of collective filmmaking that Ray wove into an ever-evolving, split-screen tapestry of the times. On its decidedly kaleidoscopic surface, Ray’s ostensible final feature contrasts sharply with his studio career — Rebel Without a Cause (1955), In a Lonely Place (1950), Johnny Guitar (1954) — even as its intensely personal, deeply empathetic and confessional tone resonates with the qualities that made Ray an exemplar Hollywood auteur. DCP, color and b&w, 93 min. Director/Screenwriter: Nicholas Ray. With: Nicholas Ray, Richard Bock, Tom Farrell. A Night at the Opera U.S., 1935 As ever with the Marx Brothers, it’s the delirious moments in between the plot points that make the experience. And of course, everyone will have their own favorites. For one of Nathan Gelgud’s reel revolutionaries, in A Night at the Opera it’s when the boys, on a steamship crossing the Atlantic, join a gathering of Italian immigrant families on the upper deck for a feast of spaghetti, music and dancing. It’s a beautiful sequence of abundance, togetherness and joy that she recalls in moments of doubt or despair. “I think the world could be like that,” she says. “And that keeps me going.” Amen. 35mm, b&w, 91 min. Director: Sam Wood. Screenwriters: Morrie Ryskind, George S. Kaufman. With: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx. Print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive. —Senior Public Programmer Paul Malcolm Part of: Reel Politik: Seizing the Means of Projection With Nathan Gelgud

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