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🇺🇦 “Eyes on Ukraine” (2025)
Friday, Dec. 5, 7:30 p.m.

Join us for the official premiere of this powerful doc that explores the intersection of two crises — war and HIV. It looks to the resilience of a new generation, navigating survival and community through art and activism.

Free: ucla.in/4hMXfi9
November 25, 2025 at 11:55 PM
The Villa of the Birds located in Alexandria, Egypt hosts a stunning array of Early Roman mosaics conserved by five transnational agencies between 1998-2000.

View more photos documenting the conservation process through the UCLA Library International Digital Ephemera Project: ucla.in/4nNOgOT
November 25, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Sun 11/23: “Born in Flames” (1983) + “Stranger Inside” (2001)

Lizzie Borden’s “Born in Flames” is a radical vision of feminist revolt set in a dystopian NY. Followed by Cheryl Dunye’s “Stranger Inside,” a women’s prison drama centering a young Black lesbian.

Borden in person!
Free: ucla.in/3LUEYU1
November 19, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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📺 “Ralph Story’s Los Angeles”
Sat 11/22, 7:30 p.m.

Join us for a specially curated best of “Ralph Story’s Los Angeles” (1964–9) featuring Angels Flight, Clifton’s Cafeteria, Sunset Blvd., the long-lost landmarks Hollywood Ranch Market and Beverly Park, and other iconic places. Free! ucla.in/4921qo0
November 14, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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🔔 Reminder: Monday, November 17 is the preliminary application deadline for 2025-26 UCLA Library Modern Endangered Archives Program Grants.

Full application details: ucla.in/4n8aJGS
📣 2025-26 grant applications for the UCLA Library Modern Endangered Archive Program (MEAP) are open!

Apply for funding to document, digitize and make accessible at-risk collections from around the world.

Applications due Nov 17, 2025.

Full details and Oct 9 webinar registration: ucla.in/4n8aJGS
November 3, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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🎥 I May Destroy You (2020)
Sun 11/16, 7 p.m.

Michaela Coel’s series is a bold exploration of trauma, consent and survival. UCLA Prof. Kathleen McHugh’s research explores the topic of women and anger through the series; she will give a brief talk followed by a screening of 3 episodes ucla.in/3JLcwU8
November 12, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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🎬 An Evening of Films by Pratibha Parmar
Friday 11/14, 7:30 p.m.

“A Place of Rage” (1991) presents candid interviews with activists Angela Davis, June Jordan and Alice Walker.

“My Name Is Andrea” (2022) reexamines the life and legacy of radical feminist Andrea Dworkin.

Free! ucla.in/4nMHOrC
November 10, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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“The Scent of Green Papaya” (1993)—35mm!
Sat 11/15, 7:30 p.m.

Trần Anh Hùng’s film is a luminous portrait of the sensuous world as experienced by a servant girl in ’50s Saigon. Preparing and sharing meals becomes central to her attunement with the rhythms of nature and family life: ucla.in/3LCLYVn
November 10, 2025 at 7:40 PM
You can help us unlock a huge challenge gift for UCLA Library!

🏆 If the Library receives 100 gifts, of any amount, double Bruin Liz Harter ’72, MLS ’79 will make an additional $12,000 donation!

💙 Support us today: crowdfunding.ucla.edu/uclalibrary
Want to be part of something big, bold and Bruin?

During UCLA’s Blue and Gold Challenge week, your support can help UCLA Library expand research resources, preserve world-class collections, and keep Library staff ahead of the tech curve.

Donate today: crowdfunding.ucla.edu/uclalibrary
November 6, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Reel Politik: Seizing the Means of Projection With Nathan Gelgud 📽 Nov 21–Dec 20

Cartoonist Nathan Gelgud’s book, “Reel Politik,” published by @dandq.bsky.social, is a loving satire of all things arthouse with a Marxist-Leninist twist. Join us for a film series inspired by his work: ucla.in/4nBh50T
November 5, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Applications for 2026 UCLA Library Special Collections fellowships are open!

This program provides financial support for travel and other expenses to facilitate research with unique holdings in Library Special Collections.

🗓️ Apply by Monday, December 1, 2025

🔗Full details: ucla.in/3Js9cgg
November 4, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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Sat 11/8, 7:30 p.m.
“The Man Without a World” (1991)
L.A. restoration premiere with live music! 🎻 🎹

In this modern silent, dir. Eleanor Antin suffuses Jewish shtetl life in ’20s Poland with mysticism, politics and homespun wisdom swirling in a pot of love, jealousy and murder

Free ucla.in/3WWrIRn
November 3, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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Sun 11/9, 7 p.m.
“The Juniper Tree” (Iceland, 1990)—35mm!

While still a film student at UCLA, writer-director Nietzchka Keene made this stunning folk horror story, featuring Björk as one of a pair of sisters who are cast to the rocky wilds when their mother is accused of witchcraft: ucla.in/43RMepM
November 4, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Want to be part of something big, bold and Bruin?

During UCLA’s Blue and Gold Challenge week, your support can help UCLA Library expand research resources, preserve world-class collections, and keep Library staff ahead of the tech curve.

Donate today: crowdfunding.ucla.edu/uclalibrary
November 4, 2025 at 9:27 PM
🔔 Reminder: Monday, November 17 is the preliminary application deadline for 2025-26 UCLA Library Modern Endangered Archives Program Grants.

Full application details: ucla.in/4n8aJGS
📣 2025-26 grant applications for the UCLA Library Modern Endangered Archive Program (MEAP) are open!

Apply for funding to document, digitize and make accessible at-risk collections from around the world.

Applications due Nov 17, 2025.

Full details and Oct 9 webinar registration: ucla.in/4n8aJGS
November 3, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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💭 UCLA Library presents the Jacob Marschak Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Mathematics in the Behavioral Sciences.

From Oct 7- Nov 12, four distinguished speakers explore the diverse connections between mathematics and behavioral sciences.

🔗 RSVP: go.library.ucla.edu/marschak
October 4, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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Santa Monica, 1925.

Adelbert Bartlett photo. UCLA library.

#history #photography #California
October 20, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Happy Halloween! 🐈‍⬛ 🎃

📷 “Casting call for black cats to star in Roger Corman movie in Los Angeles, Calif., 1961”

Courtesy of the Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection, @uclalibrary.bsky.social Special Collections: ucla.in/35P6sSl
October 31, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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On October 29, 1969, computer scientists at #UCLA (in 3420 Boelter Hall) sent the first Internet message to a team at Stanford. See a handful of images about that #Internethistory courtesy of @uclasamueli.bsky.social -> samueli.ucla.edu/internet50-p... #histstm #ARPANET
The first internet message was sent from UCLA fifty-six years ago 🌐

Watch PBS SoCal's "Lost L.A." host Nathan Masters visit UCLA Library Special Collections with internet pioneer, Prof. Leonard Kleinrock to see the logbook firsthand: www.pbssocal.org/shows/lost-l...

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How This Contraption at UCLA Sent the First DM
At UCLA Professor Leonard Kleinrock reveals proof of when the internet was born.
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October 30, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Labor in the archives! Had a blast showing off the Justice for Janitors collection to David Huerta who shared stories of the epic 2000 LA janitors strike. Thanks to our @uclalibrary.bsky.social partners!
Earlier this month, David Huerta, president of SEIU-USWW, visited UCLA Library before joining a panel on worker organizing in a UCLA Labor Studies class with Flor Melendrez, CLEAN Carwash Worker Center director.

Read about their visit here: irle.ucla.edu/2025/10/30/h...
L.A. labor leaders link the past and future during visit to UCLA campus
David Huerta, SEIU-USWW president, explored labor history archives before joining Flor Melendrez, CLEAN Carwash Worker Center director, for a panel on worker organizing
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October 30, 2025 at 9:29 PM
The first internet message was sent from UCLA fifty-six years ago 🌐

Watch PBS SoCal's "Lost L.A." host Nathan Masters visit UCLA Library Special Collections with internet pioneer, Prof. Leonard Kleinrock to see the logbook firsthand: www.pbssocal.org/shows/lost-l...

@uclasamueli.bsky.social
How This Contraption at UCLA Sent the First DM
At UCLA Professor Leonard Kleinrock reveals proof of when the internet was born.
www.pbssocal.org
October 29, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Friday, Nov. 7, 7:30 p.m.
📽 “Notfilm” (2015)

Filmmaker Ross Lipman’s deep dive into the production of literary giant Samuel Beckett’s only movie, “Film” (1965), explores how the influences of a cavalcade of artists coalesced — or not — into one of the most enigmatic cinematic works: ucla.in/43IAXrQ
October 28, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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A vital part of archiving history is creating descriptive metadata so that it remains discoverable. On our blog, UCLA student Marley Saldivar-Lozano discusses “Reflecciones” (1972–4) and her work with the Archive to create accurate, ethical metadata for the series, which is online 📺 ucla.in/3JuET8G
October 27, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Sun 11/2: “Wanda” (1970) — 35mm! 🎞

Book signing + Q&A with Elena Gorfinkel @cinemiasma.bsky.social, author of “BFI Film Classics: Wanda”

Made by and starring Barbara Loden, this influential independent film is a portrait of an apathetic woman on a journey through a rural landscape: ucla.in/4gMkkAY
October 23, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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📽 Friday, Oct. 31, 7:30 p.m.
“Sudden Fear” (1952)

A riveting Joan Crawford anchors this masterful blend of romance, suspense and noir. Crawford transforms from smitten newlywed to cunning survivor when she discovers her husband’s (Jack Palance) devious plot.

Free! ucla.in/42YRJmp
October 25, 2025 at 7:59 PM