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Take a study break and build your own DIY bag charm to take home. Pick your beads and accessories—all supplies provided. It's the perfect creative reset leading up to finals! No RSVP needed. Just stop by the table in the Powell Library Rotunda! Location: Powell Library Rotunda

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

Dr. Jones-Correa will explore how public spaces in Philadelphia—parks, pools, libraries, and community gardens, among others—foster both informal (311 calls) and formal (voting) democratic engagement. Location: Haines Hall 153

Take a finals break at the Science and Engineering Library in Boelter Hall and make your own custom button! All supplies are provided—just bring your inspiration. De-stress and walk away with something you made yourself! Location: Science and Engineering Library

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

Join us for a celebration and conversation commemorating the publication of Data Consciousness: Reframing Blackness in Contemporary Print, edited by Dr. Tiffany Barber. This volume accompanies the exhibition of the same name, which was featured at Print Center New York, from September 18–December 20, 2025. The book features contributions from Dr. Safiya Noble and Los Angeles-based designer and artist Silas Munro, whose work appeared in the original exhibition, alongside his colleague Randa Hadi, who served as the lead designer for the book. The event includes a conversation between Dr. Barber, Dr. Noble, Munro, and Hadi, followed by a showcase of graduate student research at the intersection of Black Studies, Critical Data Studies, and Aesthetics. Data Consciousness Reframing Blackness in Contemporary Print engages with the intellectual legacy of W.E.B. Du Bois and his contributions to sociology, art, and aesthetics. Through this engagement, they explore how technology and data increasingly mediate issues of race, identity, and equity. Location: DataX Impact Forum, 3312 Murphy Hall

Need some study time outside the library? Join the Graduate Student Association (GSA)’s External Vice President and GSRC for a Study Jam on Tuesday, June 2, for some studying and snacks! Location: Student Activities Center, Room 4

Afro-Latinx Connection de UCLA’s 4th Annual Culture Show, "Remembering Home," will celebrate the richness of Afro-Latin cultures across Latin America and the Caribbean. This year’s theme blends worlds where hip-hop meets reggaeton and tradition meets modern expression, bringing “home” to life through movement, music, and community. Location: Ackerman Grand Ballroom

Join us in celebrating the UCLA Activist in Residence Program's ninth cohort: Set Hernandez, José Gama Vargas, Chelsea Kirk, and Chris Tyler! With a shared commitment to “turn the university inside out” and invite artists, community organizers, and movement leaders to undertake power-shifting scholarship and pedagogy focused on social change, the UCLA Asian American Studies Center and the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy are pleased to celebrate the 2026 UCLA Activists-in-Residence. Location: UCLA Mathias Botanical Garden

DataX, the UCLA Center on Resilience & Digital Justice (CRDJ), and the Center for Critical Internet Inquiry (c2i2), in partnership with Residential Life, invite you to a film screening of the critically acclaimed film BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions. In this film, Los Angeles-based director Kahlil Joseph weaves fiction and history together, engaging the legacies of W.E.B Du Bois and Marcus Garvey alongside contemporary artists and Twitter discourses to explore collective visions of Black consciousness. Location: Northwest Campus Auditorium

We provide legal counseling on: • Landlord-Tenant Issues • Immigration Issues • Employment Issues • Family Law • Criminal/Traffic Matters • University-related Concerns (Disciplinary, Title IX) • Personal Injury • And more!! Come by our office at A239 Murphy Hall or on Zoom to ask legal questions. Meeting ID: 926 8881 6950 Passcode: 675685 9 am - 11 am and 1:30 pm - 4 pm Location: A239 Murphy Hall - https://ucla.zoom.us/j/92688816950?pwd=45MZlA2kz9NIlpGMBizOelKXkhN2ao.1

Need calming energy heading into finals week? Stop by Charles E. Young Research Library (YRL) and take a well-earned break and reset with the UCLA People-Animal Connection therapy dogs. Make a furry friend and take home a free wellness bag* courtesy of the UCLA Bruin Resource Center. Participants are required to sign a waiver in advance or at the event to participate. Co-sponsored by the UCLA Bruin Resource Center: UCLA Collegiate Recovery Program UCLA Bruin Guardian Scholars Program UCLA Bruin Underground Scholars Program UCLA Undocumented Student Program UCLA Students with Dependents Program * Available while supplies last. Location: Charles E. Young Research Library

Need calming energy heading into finals week? Stop by Charles E. Young Research Library (YRL) and take a well-earned break and reset with the UCLA People-Animal Connection(opens in a new tab) therapy dogs. Make a furry friend and take home a free wellness bag* courtesy of the UCLA Bruin Resource Center. Location: Charles E. Young Research Library

FITWELL Talks: Conversations with UCLA Health experts on the latest wellbeing research, practical recommendations, and more. Just thirty minutes via Zoom over your lunch hour. Join live, listen in, and come ready with questions. Take good care. June 2026: FITWELL Talks: Beach Safety, with Ocean Lifeguard and UCLA Writing Programs Instructor Nathan Deuel When he was 45 years old, longtime UCLA writing instructor Nathan Deuel took the test to join L.A. County's vaunted Ocean Lifeguard Division. After a grueling 10-week academy, during which candidates leap off piers, dive from moving Baywatch rescue boats, and learn the skills to be a good ocean lifeguard, Deuel graduated last spring and started patrolling the county's 72 miles of coastline. Join us to discuss beach safety, what it's like to be a lifeguard, and what the county is doing to keep the ocean a fun place for everyone. Location: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/ubhUlYvXRD6snCn0hqLyrw#/registration

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

Join the Bedari Kindness Institute and Initiative to Study Hate for an afternoon devoted to sharing research findings drawn from the study of hate and kindness—and to thinking of ways in which we can make a real difference in the world. The BKI Impact Symposium will explore some of the most critical issues in the world today, including navigating AI technologies, reducing political and social polarization, and building practices of compassion and community. Location: James West Alumni Center

Join the BKI community for an afternoon devoted to sharing research findings drawn from the study of hate and kindness—and to thinking of ways in which we can make a real difference in the world. The BKI Impact Symposium will explore some of the most critical issues in the world today, including navigating AI technologies, reducing political and social polarization, and building practices of compassion and community. The symposium will feature the following three panels, along with research project posters: Toward a Better AI? Can It Combat Hate with Kindness? The danger AI poses to society is becoming clearer by the day. AI technologies have already been explicitly implicated in the spread of mis- and dis-information, risk developing lethal means of destruction, and perpetuate sexual violence against women and girls. This panel will consider the very real social, economic, and political threat that artificial intelligence poses and how we can insist on accountability from big tech,while also considering how AI might be used as a tool to combat hate and encourage compassion. Replacing Polarization and Hate with Compassion Polarization is a ubiquitous and toxic presence in politics, media, and popular culture in the U.S. It discourages meaningful interactions and connections across social, political, and ideological divides. This panel will consider compassion-guided and prosocial-driven initiatives to reduce polarization and increase people’s sense of shared reality and community across differences. Fortifying Practices of Compassion and Community A growing trend in research suggests that practices informed by altruism, prosocial behavior, and acts of compassion and kindness have a significantly positive impact on our mental and physical well being. This panel will discuss the effects of such acts and initiatives on both the individual and community level, ultimately exploring how they might benefit our collective humanity. ***At the culmination of 4 years of research, the Initiative to Study Hate, a community of almost 130 multi-disciplinary researchers, has supported 107 projects to understand and mitigate hate. During the 2025-2026 academic year, BKI has welcomed over 40 researchers on 18 projects seeking to create a more kind and compassionate world. Visit event website to RSVP.

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! Location: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/98199114498

The Ace and Aro Space is a weekly dialogue and affinity space wanting to build community or learn more about the asexual and/or aromantic spectrums. Location: LGBTQ Campus Resource Center

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

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 MyUCLA by going to Campus Life> Calendar> Event Reservations> Find Events.

Neurodiversity Empowerment Hour is a weekly virtual drop-in space where students can join a brief 10–15 minute session to receive support, learn about helpful campus resources, and explore ways to build skills for wellbeing and success. Location: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/91475273736

Join us for a beginner friendly guided meditation. Take some time to breathe, meet community, and practice mindfulness, spirituality, and stillness. 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

Do you have questions about your professional future or need guidance on your career choices? Join the Career Center counselors over zoom for SwD-specific support! Location: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/99736684465

Let’s celebrate you! Each month, we’ll throw a fun and festive birthday bash to recognize all residents with birthdays that month. Whether it’s your actual birthday or you just want to join the celebration, everyone is welcome to stop by for cake, music, and good vibes. Come build connections and create community, and help us make each birthday feel a little more special. Location: De Neve Plaza B

A central figure in the literary and cultural spheres of the late nineteenth century, Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) was also the originator of Irish modernism. Still, literary scholarship has largely sidelined his powerful influence over this movement. Regarded by his contemporaries as an outstanding artist, critic, and public intellectual until his imprisonment in 1895, current research on Wilde tends to confine his leading presence within the late Victorian aesthetic and decadent movements. By highlighting this overlooked aspect of Wilde’s legacy, “Oscar Wilde’s Modernist Legacies” will raise critical and theoretical awareness of his influence over modernist innovation not only within the field of literary production but also in related artistic areas in Ireland and beyond. Location: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

A central figure in the literary and cultural spheres of the late nineteenth century, Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) was also the originator of Irish modernism, though literary scholarship has largely sidelined his powerful influence over this movement. By highlighting this overlooked aspect of Wilde’s legacy, and drawing on the Clark Library’s imposing archive, the “Oscar Wilde and His Literary Circle Collection,” this conference will explore the dialogues that these figures established, and raise critical and theoretical awareness of Wilde’s influence over modernist innovation, not only within the field of literary production, but also in related artistic areas in Ireland and beyond. Location: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library - https://www.youtube.com/@ucla-c1718cs

This session introduces adaptive equity-oriented pedagogy (AEP). AEP adapts evidence-based practices (e.g., grading for equity, AI, formative assessments, UDL) to address barriers to student learning. Research studies show that, compared to active learning courses, instructors applying AEP increase average achievement by over a letter grade for all students. AEP also supports positive psychosocial outcomes (e.g., motivation, sense of self-efficacy, sense of community) across disciplines and college contexts. This session highlights strategies that instructors have used to adjust teaching, address equity barriers to learning, and increase achievement in over a dozen courses. It also shares findings on how AEP-Al supported greater student engagement and success across college courses. Presenter Bio: Andrew Estrada Phuong is an assistant professor in the Department of Education Studies at UC San Diego. He earned a master’s degree from Harvard and a PhD from UC Berkeley. His research examines how adaptive equity-oriented pedagogies (AEP), artificial intelligence, and professional development improve student achievement and positive psychosocial outcomes such as motivation, sense of self-efficacy, belonging, and reduced stereotype threat. In over a dozen STEM courses in Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics, and Statistics, his work has demonstrated that AEP-based professional development increased instructors’ equitable teaching competencies. Instructors have leveraged these competencies to improve their students’ success at scale. He has taught STEM pedagogy courses and co-developed award-winning, campus-wide programs that supported instructors, staff, and managers in using AEP to improve learner success at scale. His work has been recognized with the Teaching Effectiveness Award, the UC Berkeley Chancellor’s Outstanding Staff Team Award, the 2024 Robert J. Menges New Researcher Award from the American Educational Research Association’s (AERA) Faculty Teaching, Evaluation, and Development SIG, and the POD Network’s 2025 Robert J. Menges Award. His work was featured in Times Higher Education, and UC San Diego Today called him “The Teaching Transformer.” Location: Pritzker 1531 - https://ucla.zoom.us/j/94753519344?pwd=F55VRl4NUNaB4mx0ba5ofucB4Oan2E.1&from=addon

Looking for a calm and creative way to end your week? Grab a cup of tea and join Creative Reset, a weekly hour of creative wellness, to slow down, enjoy arts and crafts, and recharge before the weekend. Each week may include a guided art or craft activity, open time to create, journal, draw, or color at your own pace, and occasional reflective writing prompts to spark creativity and support your wellness. No experience is needed, and all UCLA students are welcome! Location: RISE Center at Lu Valle Commons Basement Level

Join the UCLA LGBTQ CRC every Friday at noon to watch queer films and TV! Snacks and art supplies will be provided. No RSVP required! Location: LGBTQ Campus Resource Center

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 Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz Performance at UCLA(opens in a new tab) Class of 2027 will showcase their string quartet compositions created under the guidance of legendary pianist and composer Herbie Hancock, Institute of Jazz Performance Artistic Director Ambrose Akinmusire and Composition Artist-in-Residence Billy Childs. The string quartet performing the compositions will feature UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music students Makiba Kurita (violin), Jamily Lee (violin), Jerry Wang (viola) and Leon Cho (cello). Please join UCLA Library and the quartet for an hour of creative music. Location: Walter H. Rubsamen Music Library

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

Join Sproul/SV Court Communities in celebrating the end of the 2026 academic year. The event will be carnival themed allowing students to engage in fun activities and festivities in order to build community and celebrate everyone's hard work at UCLA. Location: Sunset Village Plaza

2026 UCLA Celebration of Iranian Cinema Please note: Registration does not guarantee entry if the event reaches capacity. Admission is granted on a first come, first served basis. Patrons who have registered will need to obtain their free tickets at the box office, where seating will be assigned. Any seats remaining 15 minutes before showtime will be released to standby patrons. Guest Speaker: Director Abdolreza Kahani (via video). Screening 1 of 2 Abraham Year: 2024 Country: Iran Language: Persian with English subtitles Runtime: 14 min. Digital. Color. Farhang Short Film Festival 2nd prize winner A visually striking story of a small town tragedy, Abraham follows a local policeman who stumbles into a family secret while investigating the murder of a young man whose body is found in a cave outside the city. DCP. Directors/Screenwriters: Elnaz Ghaderpour, Reza Gamini. With: Hamid Pour Azari, Sajad Afsharian, Safoora Khoshtinat. Screening 2 of 2 Mortician Year: 2025 Country: Canada Language: Persian with English subtitles Runtime: 95 min. Digital. Color. Winner of the audience-voted Sean Connery Prize at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, Mortician is set in Canada where a schlubby émigré, Mojtaba (Nima Sadr), performs Islamic ritual washing of the dead as a cultural service of the Iranian government. When he loses his job he wonders how he’ll continue to send money to his family back home until an enigmatic, exiled pop star (Gola), an outspoken opponent of the regime, hires him to help her with one last public protest. The oddest of couples, they find common ground amidst the cold Canadian winter until their secret is exposed in writer-director Abdolreza Kahani’s slow-burn thriller. DCP. Director/Screenwriter: Abdolreza Kahani. With: Nima Sadr, Gola, Pouya Razavi. Location: Billy Wilder Theater

Join us for the Collegiate Recovery Program End-of-Year Celebration on Saturday, June 6th from 5-7 PM in Tom Bradley International Hall, Room 300. This gathering is a chance to celebrate the close of the academic year, reflect on our collective growth, and honor our graduating CRP students as they reach this important milestone. ??? All CRP students are encouraged and welcome to attend. Graduating students will be recognized during the celebration. Please RSVP by Friday, May 8th! You can find additional details about the event in the form. Location: Bradley 300

Join us for a quick study break before final exams begin. Therapy dogs, crafts, snacks, and more! Location: Sunset Village Plaza

2026 UCLA Celebration of Iranian Cinema Please note: Registration does not guarantee entry if the event reaches capacity. Admission is granted on a first come, first served basis. Patrons who have registered will need to obtain their free tickets at the box office, where seating will be assigned. Any seats remaining 15 minutes before showtime will be released to standby patrons. Screening 1 of 2 Inside Amir Year: 2025 Country: Iran Language: Persian with English subtitles Runtime: 103 min. Digital. Color. After his girlfriend emigrates to Italy with the expectation that he will soon follow, bike messenger Amir (Amirhossein Hosseini) is still neither fully committed to leaving nor fully clear on what the future holds if he stays in Iran. Instead, he spends his in-between days hanging with friends who have themselves settled into a life of drift, playing poker, cooking meals together and biking around the city and country. Nothing ever really happens, which is precisely the point of writer-director Amir Azizi’s warm and loving portrait of a generation that has learned to embrace simple freedoms and pleasures where they can find them in a world where even that can feel like an act of resistance. DCP. Director/Screenwriter: Amir Azizi. With: Amirhossein Hosseini, Hadis Nazari, Nader Pourmahin. Screening 2 of 2 Divine Comedy Year: 2025 Country: Iran Language: Persian with English subtitles Runtime: 98 min. Digital. Color. Iranian writer-director Bahram Ark (Skin, Animal) plays Bahram, an Iranian writer-director who has achieved fame on the international festival circuit but has yet to have one of his films screened in Iran. After his latest is again denied a permit, he and his producer Sadaf (Sadaf Asgari) set out on her moped determined to find a way to get it on screen with the help of a hodgepodge of decidedly eccentric characters. Bahram’s situation is all too familiar to co-writer-director Ali Asgari (Terrestrial Verses) and his regular collaborators here, who use romantic comedy tropes to illuminate the absurdities — and dangers — faced by filmmakers in Iran. DCP. Director: Ali Asgari. Screenwriter: Alireza Khatami, Bahram Ark, Bahman Ark, Ali Asgari. With: Bahram Ark, Sadaf Asgari, Hossein Soleimani. Location: Billy Wilder Theater

Join us in celebrating our parenting/caregiving community at UCLA. The BPS x SwD End of Year centers the theme "Rooted in Community" honoring collective care, connection, and support systems that make student parent success possible.

2026 UCLA Celebration of Iranian Cinema Please note: Registration does not guarantee does not guarantee entry if the event reaches capacity. Admission is granted on a first come, first served basis. Patrons who have registered will need to obtain their free tickets at the box office, where seating will be assigned. Any seats remaining 15 minutes before showtime will be released to standby patrons. Screening 1 of 3 Son Year: 2024 Country: Iran Language: Kurdish with English Subtitles Runtime: 15 min. Digital. Color. Farhang Short Film Festival Audience Choice Award winner In a village in remote Iranian Kurdistan, an old mother waits for her son to return from military service. When he doesn’t arrive as expected, she sets out to find him only to discover a truth about his identity that will change their lives forever. DCP. Director/Screenwriter: Saman Hosseinpuor. With: Maryam Boubani, Kurosh Ahmadi, Kianoosh Farzin. Screening 2 of 3 Between Dreams and Hope Year: 2025 Country: Iran Language: Persian with English Subtitles Runtime: 106 min. Digital. Color. A frequent collaborator with filmmaker Ali Asgari, writer-director Farnoosh Samadi centers the inequity and injustices faced by Iranian women in much of her work. In her second feature behind the camera, Samadi expands her frame to include Azad (Fereshteh Hosseini), a trans man, longing to start his life with his lover Nora (Sadaf Asgari), but who must confront his estranged father before he can. Hosseini and Asgar (another Asgari film regular) deliver deeply affecting performances in a story that is by turns tender and harrowing about the power of love over hate. DCP. Director/Screenwriter: Farnoosh Samadi. With: Fereshteh Hosseini, Sadaf Asgari, Hooman Rahnemoon. Screening 3 of 3 The Great Yawn of History Year: 2024 Country: Iran Language: Persian with English Subtitles Runtime: 93 min Digital. Color. Part adventure story, part mystical allegory, director Aliyar Rasti’s The Great Yawn of History begins with an eccentric job interview. Beitollah (Mohammad Aghebati) drops dollar bills with his contact information around the city, then interviews anyone who calls about their belief system. Answering that he believes in nothing, Shoja (Amirhossein Hosseini) gets the gig: following Beitollah deep into the Iranian desert to find a box of gold coins he saw in a vision. Rasti’s debut feature won the Special Jury Award in the Encounters section of the Berlin International Film Festival for its exploration of faith and greed set against the hardscrabble landscapes of a depopulated rural Iran. DCP. Director/Screenwriter: Aliyar Rasti. With: Mohammad Aghebati, Amirhossein Hosseini, Saber Abar. Location: Billy Wilder Theater