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UCLA Library bridges collections, scholarship and innovation, helping students, faculty and public scholars generate knowledge at the intersection of teaching, learning and research.

Take a look at what the Library has achieved in our full 2024-2025 Impact Report: library.ucla.edu/impact/2025
UCLA Library has completed a yearlong preservation project to digitize 173 audiovisual items from the East West Players — the longest-running Asian American theater group in the United States. Materials are now available for access.

Read about the preservation process: ucla.in/3XpfhxD
December 6, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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🎬 Reality Frictions (2024)
Fri 12/12, 7:30 p.m.

Co-presented by Los Angeles Filmforum

L.A. premiere! In his essay film, filmmaker and UCLA Prof. Steve F. Anderson explores the “intersection of fact and fiction on the screens of Hollywood.” Followed by Q&A with the filmmaker.

Free! ucla.in/48oL5sN
December 5, 2025 at 11:16 PM
UCLA Library bridges collections, scholarship and innovation, helping students, faculty and public scholars generate knowledge at the intersection of teaching, learning and research.

Take a look at what the Library has achieved in our full 2024-2025 Impact Report: library.ucla.edu/impact/2025
December 4, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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Sunday, Dec. 7, 7 p.m.
35mm double feature! 🎞

“Putney Swope” (dir. Robert Downey Sr., 1969)
“Hi, Mom!” (dir. Brian De Palma, 1970)

Free: ucla.in/48sK1CN
(Clip from “Putney Swope”)
December 3, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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Family Flicks: “The Wiz” (1978) ✨
Sun 12/7, 11 a.m.

Director Sidney Lumet’s dazzling adaptation of the hit Broadway musical transplants L. Frank Baum’s fantastical world from somewhere over the rainbow to somewhere over the Brooklyn Bridge.

Co-presented by @hammer.ucla.edu
Free! ucla.in/3XvdZRO
December 3, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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Our Father, the Devil (2021)
Sat 12/6, 7:30 p.m.

Babetida Sadjo is riveting as a Guinean refugee and chef in France whose life is upended by the arrival of a priest tied to a harrowing past. Dir. Ellie Foumbi crafts a taut revenge thriller and a profound meditation on healing.

Free ucla.in/3Y1cdYE
December 1, 2025 at 9:02 PM
This #GivingTuesday, donate to the University Librarian’s Greatest Needs Fund at UCLA Library! Your contribution will support librarians and the Bruin community in driving academic research and expanding student resources.

Support UCLA Library today: ucla.in/49EjFA3
December 2, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Announcing our free events for winter 2026! Screening January through March: Chinese-language films rescued by the Archive from the shuttered Sing Lee Theatre in L.A.’s Chinatown, anti-fascist Hollywood classics preserved by the Archive, Rod Serling and Gene Hackman TV + more: cinema.ucla.edu/events
December 1, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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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