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Join in on this FREE martial arts workshop. Open to all students & Rec members. All experience levels are welcome, and no pre-registration is required. Location: John Wooden Center, Blue Room

The Bruin Love Station (BLS) is mobile cart that offers free safer-sex supplies, Narcan, fentanyl test strips and opportunities for students to converse with trained peers and professional staff. Location: Intramural Field Southeast Gates

UCLA Financial Aid & Scholarships will be hosting a series of workshops for assistance with the 26-27 FAFSA/CADAA. Join us for a FREE virtual workshop to receive tips and tricks on how to complete your Financial Aid application by the Priority Filing Deadline of March 2, 2026 (9pm PST)! Meeting ID: 927 1312 6507 Passcode: 469741 No RSVP required. Location: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/92713126507?pwd=shiMgvgdb5T20SEtkKwWpKXvIyGgQ1.1

Feeling overwhelmed by your reading lists? Concerned that you are missing the point of what you have just read? Are you taking pages of notes for every article you read? This workshop will cover effective reading and note-taking strategies so that you read more efficiently, assess your reading with a critical eye, and annotate each work so that important concepts are easily accessible. Note: This workshop does not teach speed-reading techniques.

The DeNeve Music Lab & Recording Studio will host a Music Jam & Artist's Community Space for performance & collabs. Location: Bradley International Room #300

Courses will be dropped on the evening of Friday, January 16, 2026, and a $50 service fee will be assessed for students with an outstanding Winter tuition and fee balance.

This workshop provides an overview on the various forms of academic dishonesty regarding plagiarism. Participants will learn when, where, and why it is important to cite properly. Students will also learn how to avoid plagiarism and the information presented will stress the need to attribute work to the original author and the potential outcomes for plagiarizing. Additionally, paraphrasing, and direct quoting will be discussed. ZOOM. Register through MyEvents on MyUCLA.

Come geek out with others about all things pop culture through a queer lens! Location: LGBTQ Campus Resource Center

The QTBIPOC Space is an intentional space for all folks of different and similar lived experiences to build community, decompress, and practice collective care. Location: LGBTQ Campus Resource Center

In-person: Introduction by guest programmer Janet Louie, Ph.D. candidate, Harvard University. Pre-screening Q&A with Louie and Kurt Wong (UCLA ’90), grandson of Tony Quon and Margaret Lew, owners of the Sing Lee Theatre. 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. The Story of a Small Town ????, Taiwan, 1979 A man (Kenny Bee) recently released from prison falls in love with a mute woman (Joan Lin) in this classic wenyi film. Wenyi, often translated as “melodrama,” refers to a tradition in Chinese cinema dating back to the 1920s. Characterized by their modern, cosmopolitan sensibility, the wenyi or “literary-art” films of 1970s Taiwan were especially popular among diasporic audiences across Asia and North America. The film’s lasting legacy, however, is its soundtrack — featuring Teresa Teng, whose theme song “Small Town Story” became one of the first major pop hits to enter Mainland China after its 1978 economic opening.—guest programmer Janet Louie DCP, color, in Mandarin with English subtitles, 94 min. Director: Lee Hsing. Screenwriter: Chang Yung-hsiang. With: Kenny Bee, Joan Lin, Ko Hsiang-ting. Part of: Echoes from Spring Street: The World of Sing Lee and Chinese-Language Cinema in L.A. Location: Billy Wilder Theater

Dennis Storer Classic Invitational Location: Westwood, CA

Join a Garden Guide for a free tour on January 17, 2026 at 10 am. Explore our living museum featuring collections of plants from around the globe! You’ll hear the stories of selected plants in the Garden and their relevance to human society. All ages are welcome. Tours meet at the La Kretz Garden Pavilion at the northern end of the Garden and are given a grace period of 5 minutes. This event is free and open to the public, no RSVP required. Location: La Kretz Garden Pavilion, 707 Tiverton Drive

Join in on this FREE martial arts workshop. Open to all students & Rec members. All experience levels are welcome, and no pre-registration is required. Location: John Wooden Center, Blue Room

Dennis Storer Classic Invitational Location: Westwood, CA

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. A Nice Place South Korea, 2009 For a decade, sociologist-turned-filmmaker Cho Uhn follows four generations of a family repeatedly displaced from Seoul’s hillside slum of Daldongne. Through grandma (halmeoni in Korean) Jung, the family’s emotional anchor, the film traces their struggle for stability amid demolition and redevelopment. Both ethnographic and experimental, this documentary exposes how urban poverty persists across generations in a rapidly modernizing Korea. A Nice Place premiered at the 2009 Seoul International Women’s Film Festival. Digital, color, 90 min. Directors: Cho Uhn, Park Kyoung-tae. Parasite South Korea, 2019 Bong Joon-ho’s masterpiece peels back layers of class, envy and survival with surgical precision. Following the resourceful working-class Kim family as they infiltrate a wealthy household, this Academy Award–winning film morphs seamlessly from social satire to psychological thriller to tragedy. Through breathtaking use of vertical space — from the custom-built sets of a decrepit basement apartment to the lofty heights of a hilltop mansion — Bong crafts a searing portrait of inequality, where aspiration inevitably curdles into horror and the dream of upward mobility becomes a slippery slope of epic proportions. DCP, color, 132 min. Director/Screenwriter: Bong Joon-ho. With: Song Kang-ho, Lee Sun-kyun, Cho Yeo-jeong, Choi Woo-shik, Park So-dam. —Public Programmer Beandrea July Part of: (Dis)placement: Fluctuations of Home, Part II Location: Billy Wilder Theater

Dennis Storer Classic Invitational Location: Westwood, CA

UCLA Financial Aid & Scholarships will be closed on Monday, January 19, 2026 in Observance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day holiday. We will resume regular operating hours on Tuesday, January 20, 2026. Location: A129 Murphy Hall

Looking to boost student engagement or make your Bruin Learn site easier to navigate-- even mid-quarter? It’s never too late to learn small, effective design tricks that help streamline your course site and help students stay on track. Presenter: Caroline Kong, Senior Associate Director for Engaged Digital Learning #bruin-learn-setup #support-student-navigation #favorite-tips Each academic quarter, the UCLA Teaching and Learning Center (TLC) hosts a weekly series of 10+10 Pop-Up sessions on Zoom. These brief, 10-minute presentations focus on specific topics related to course design, teaching, learning, and assessment, and are led by instructional designers and developers from TLC and campus partners. The “+10” refers to an optional 10-minute discussion following each presentation, where participants can ask questions and share insights. These sessions are open to all UCLA instructors—including faculty, lecturers, instructors of record, graduate student instructors, and postdoctoral scholars. Please direct any inquiries to instructorsupport@teaching.ucla.edu.

It's Transfer Bruin Week 2026! Join us as we kick off a weeklong celebration of the UCLA Transfer Community with breakfast (while the food lasts) & information about all the events that will be hosted for Transfer Bruin week 2026! Location: Kerckhoff 128

Feel free to drop by and chat with RISE Health and Wellbeing Coordinator! Whether you want to discuss campus mental health resources, get connected to CAPS, manage academic stress, or just need someone to talk to, we're here for you. Location: RISE Center at Lu Valle Commons Basement Level

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.

Beginner-friendly stretching and meditation with UCLA Rec Instructor Binny. All equipment provided (yoga mats, blocks). Location: RISE Center at Lu Valle Commons Basement Level

The Bruin Love Station (BLS) is mobile cart that offers free safer-sex supplies, Narcan, fentanyl test strips and opportunities for students to converse with trained peers and professional staff. Location: Bruin Plaza

Come join for a workshop from Project UnLonely bridging creative expression with meaningful connection-building. Location: RISE Center at Lu Valle Commons Basement Level

UCLA F-1 visa students, do you want to know more about off-campus employment authorization? Join us on one of our weekly CPT webinars hosted by the Dashew Center staff to learn more! Location: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/95322790676

UCLA Financial Aid & Scholarships will be hosting a series of workshops for assistance with the 26-27 FAFSA/CADAA. Join us for a FREE in-person workshop in partnership with UCLA Basic Needs at Strathmore to receive tips and tricks on how to complete your Financial Aid application by the Priority Filing Deadline of March 2, 2026 (9pm PST)! The UCLA Basic Needs at Strathmore is located between the Luskin Center and UCPD on Westwood Blvd and in the same building as the Career Center. No RSVP required. Location: 555 Westwood Plaza Strathmore Building, Room 106

Drop in for students or faculty to request support for an academic accommodation concern. These sessions are held by a CAE Disability Specialist who may or may not be a student's assigned Disability Specialist and therefore who may need to follow up with a student's assigned Disability Specialist for the specific question or concern in mind. Location: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/98542923648

Are you looking for a safe and supportive space to practice your English conversation skills? Check out Dashew Center's English Language Circle (ELC)! Here you will have an opportunity to practice your English with other language learners. The circle is led by a native English speaker, who will help you become more confident in your speaking skills and who can answer your language and grammar questions. All of our ELC sessions will take place on Zoom this Winter 2026. Space is limited to 20 participants per session. Participants are welcome to enjoy their lunch during these sessions. The Zoom link will be shared via email upon registering. Please email us at intlprograms@saonet.ucla.edu with any questions.

Feel free to drop by and chat with RISE Health and Wellbeing Coordinator! Whether you want to discuss campus mental health resources, get connected to CAPS, manage academic stress, or just need someone to talk to, we're here for you. Location: RISE Center at Lu Valle Commons Basement Level

In the first session of the LGBTQ CRC’s Inclusive Excellence Training series, participants will be introduced to foundational language and vocabulary as they relate to gender and sexuality, including a brief overview of holistic and intentional frameworks. Participants will come away with strategies and action steps for advocacy in supporting students, staff, faculty, and alumni.

Love books? Care about mental health? Crave good convos with great people? You’re in the right place! Books and Bonding is a weekly club that meets to discuss ideas around improving resilience and create a community of resilient Bruins. Location: RISE Center at Lu Valle Commons Basement Level

Undergraduate Student Initiated Education (USIE) gives juniors and seniors the rare chance to design and lead their own lower-division seminar under the guidance of a faculty mentor. If you’re interested in sharing an academic passion, building teaching and leadership skills, and shaping a meaningful learning experience for your peers, this workshop will walk you through what the program involves and how to prepare a strong application. Location: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/xZ5t5jLKRzGML-HXZEioyw#/registration

In this workshop, we will discuss how to set up an organized system for a large-scale research and writing project, especially the writing components.