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Part of: Food and Film Presented by UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Hammer Museum In-person: chef and restaurateur Alice Waters. 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. Pather Panchali India, 1955 A masterwork of world cinema, writer-director Satyajit Ray’s directorial debut, Pather Panchali (1955), is also one of its most eloquent expressions of food’s profound role in human life. Hunger frames much of Ray’s neorealist portrait of an impoverished family struggling to make ends meet in rural Bengal. Its ever-present threat lays bare the physical, cultural, emotional and spiritual dimensions of even the simplest meals. This evening’s program reflects on these resonances, particularly as intuitively understood by the couple’s young children, as well as pay tribute to Alice Waters’ longtime friend and cinema lover, Bay Area film curator, producer and festival director Tom Luddy.—Senior Public Programmer Paul Malcolm DCP, b&w, Bengali with English subtitles, 125 min. Director: Satyajit Ray. Screenwriter: Satyajit Ray. With: Kanu Bannerjee, Karuna Banerjee, Chunibala Devi. Special thanks to our community partner: UCLA Rothman Family Institute for Food Studies(opens in a new tab). Location: Billy Wilder Theater

Part of: (Dis)placement: Fluctuations of Home Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive In-person: Q&A with filmmakers Lupita Limón Corrales and Diego Robles, moderated by UCLA Activist-in-Residence James Suazo. 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. (Dis)placement: Fluctuations of Home opens with the works and words of community organizers and filmmakers. Through meetings, poetry and visual arts education and collaboration, these artists engage profoundly with their communities. The films in this program depict the ongoing housing struggles from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C. The evening includes films by UCLA alumni: L.A. Rebellion filmmakers Charles Burnett (’69, M.F.A. ’77) and Shirikiana Aina (M.A. ’82), Los Angeles Filmforum programmer and educator Diego Robles (’06) and 2025 UCLA Luskin Institute Activist-in-Residence(opens in a new tab) Lupita Limón Corrales.—Associate Programmer Nicole Ucedo Brick by Brick U.S., 1982 Brick by Brick is an unflinching documentary portrait of late-’70s Washington, D.C., where Black residents face displacement amid rising gentrification. Juxtaposing the iconography of national monuments with scenes of homelessness blocks away, the film highlights the Seaton Street project, a powerful example of tenant resistance. Nearly 40 years later, Shirikiana Aina’s debut remains a prescient testament to global struggles against displacement — and a reminder of who pays the price for so-called progress in the Chocolate City.—Public Programmer Beandrea July DCP, color, 37 min. Director: Shirikiana Aina. When It Rains U.S., 1995 On New Year’s Day, a man tries to help a woman pay her rent and learns a lesson in connecting with others in a community. Ayuko Babu, founding director of the Pan African Film Festival of Los Angeles, assumes the lead role in a pleasingly empathic reading. 35mm, 13 min. Director/Screenwriter: Charles Burnett. With: Ayuko Babu, Florence Bracy, Kenny Merritt. We Are Wyvernwood U.S., 2011 This collaborative film project between Diego Robles, the LA Co-Media film collective and residents of the Wyvernwood Garden apartment complex in Boyle Heights introduces the Wyvernwood community and their shared struggle against displacement. Filmmaker and educator Diego Robles was invited to collaborate on film education initiatives at Wyvernwood during the early days of the recession — a time when residents were mobilizing against the looming threat of demolition. Through this partnership, Robles guided and participated in the creation of short films that honor the vibrant and unique community Wyvernwood residents are determined to protect.—Associate Programmer Nicole Ucedo DCP, 7 min., in English and Spanish with English subtitles. Directors: Diego Robles, Abraham Osuna of Los Angeles Collective Media (LA Co-Media), Wyvernwood residents Roberto Mujíca and Gumaro Oviedo, the Los Angeles Conservancy. Producer: Karina Muñiz. Nuestros Videos Culturales para la Preservación de Wyvernwood (Our Cultural Videos for the Preservation of Wyvernwood) U.S., 2009 Erasto Arena documented the images seen in Nuestros Videos Culturales para la Preservación de Wyvernwood at a community gathering and procession. The footage was edited by Diego Robles with input from Arena, who wanted to convey the feeling of everything moving fast and slow at the same time. For the residents of Wyvernwood, life does move at a rapid pace as they balance full-time jobs, raising children, organizing community events and resisting eviction and demolition.—Associate Programmer Nicole Ucedo DCP, 4 min. Directors: Erasto Arena de Tejaluca Puebla, Comité de la Esperanza, Diego Robles of Los Angeles Collective Media (LA Co-Media). The Need for Roots U.S., 2023 As a poet and organizer, Lupita Limón Corrales’ voice speaks clearly and loudly on the issues she and her Los Angeles community face. Lupita’s first film, The Need for Roots speaks on these issues too, but without her usual spoken word. Here Lupita’s words are visual, overlaid on footage captured from her window and the surrounding streets. Lupita’s images portray both beauty and destruction as she reflects on the changes in her Echo Park neighborhood and why home is worth defending.—Associate Programmer Nicole Ucedo DCP, 3 min. Director/Screenwriter: Lupita Limón Corrales. Location: Billy Wilder Theater

Are you working on learning a new language? Do you want to take what you're learning in the classroom a step further? The Language Exchange program connects language learners together to improve their conversation skills and meet people from around the world. Language Exchange is open to members of the UCLA community and all language levels! Applications will close on Monday, July 14, 2025 at 11:59 PM PT. You will be notified if we have found you a Language Exchange partner on a rolling basis from when the applications open through July 23rd.

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

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

Hammer Forum is made possible by the Rosenbloom Family Co-presented with the Safeguarding Democracy Project at UCLA Law With rulings on major issues expected by the start of summer 2025, the United States Supreme Court is once again at the center of key legal and policy debates. An all-star panel of legal scholars analyzes the meaning and implications of the latest Supreme Court cases, including Trump v. Wilcox on the power of the President to control personnel and policy at independent federal agencies, Louisiana v. Callais on racial gerrymandering and the Voting Rights Act, United States v. Skrmetti on denial of gender-affirming medical care for minors, as well as a trio of cases on religion in public schools under the First Amendment. The panelists will also consider the implications of these rulings on the role of the courts in response to the Trump Administration’s broad assertion of executive power including cases focused on President Trump’s immigration policy and the Alien Enemies Act. Location: hammer museum

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

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! Time: 2 - 3pm (Pacific Time) Location: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/98199114498

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

See the sunset from the Garden at Third Thursdays, our summer twilight series. Meet new friends at the wine bar, then kick back and enjoy live music! Admission for each event is $10. Free admission for ages 13 and under. Picnics are encouraged. Check-in at La Kretz and Hilgard Entrances. We can't wait to see you there! Location: UCLA Mathias Botanical Garden

See live concerts in the Hammer’s courtyard for free! Enjoy happy hour, late gallery hours, art-making, and more. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and performances start at 7:30 p.m. Cocktails and food available for purchase all night. This event is free and open to the public. Become a member today for priority entry and a free first drink. Your RSVP helps us to gauge attendance to this event. RSVP does not guarantee entry if the event reaches capacity. Admission is granted on a first-come, first-served basis. Location: Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90024

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

The mindful writing retreat will integrate simple techniques from mindfulness to support the writing process and cultivate an approach to writing that fosters balance, self-care, and well-being. Please bring a current writing project because much of the retreat time will be allocated for writing. All sessions will be conducted remotely via Zoom.

Part of: (Dis)placement: Fluctuations of Home Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive In-person: Q&A in-between films with “Moonlight” co-writer Tarell Alvin McCraney and “Razing Liberty Square” director Katja Esson. 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. Razing Liberty Square U.S., 2023 As rising seas threaten Miami’s coast, developers turn inland to Liberty Square — a historically Black neighborhood and the South’s first segregated public housing — sitting 12 feet above sea level. Set where Moonlight was filmed, Oscar-nominated filmmaker Katja Esson’s “exposé of cynical impulses and failed promises” (Chicago Tribune) captures the six-year fight of residents battling displacement under a $300 million city “revitalization” plan. The film offers a timely warning and tribute to those refusing to bend to climate gentrification.—Public Programmer Beandrea July DCP, color, 83 min. Director: Katja Esson. Moonlight U.S., 2016 Set in Miami’s Liberty City, Moonlight was adapted from Tarell Alvin McCraney’s play about growing up Black and gay in a neighborhood marked by hardship and care. Also raised in Liberty City, filmmaker Barry Jenkins’ Oscar-winning film captures Chiron’s quiet, aching journey to selfhood across three chapters. Moonlight honors Miami’s textures and contradictions — its emotional power inseparable from Liberty City’s geography — and now stands as a vital record of this historic community now reshaped by climate gentrification and displacement.—Public Programmer Beandrea July DCP, color, 111 min. Director: Barry Jenkins. Screenwriters: Tarell Alvin McCraney, Barry Jenkins. With: Mahershala Ali, Trevante Rhodes, André Holland, Janelle Monáe, Naomie Harris. Location: Billy Wilder Theater