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Hey Bruins, stay fueled for finals season by stopping by the BruinHub at Strathmore on Wednesday, March 13th through Tuesday, March, 18th for breakfast treats. Vegan and dairy-free options will be available. Location: BruinHub at Strathmore (501 Westwood Plaza, Room 117)

Need calming energy leading up to finals week? Stop by the Charles E. Young Research Library (YRL) and take a well-earned break with the UCLA People-Animal Connection(opens in a new tab) therapy dogs! Participants must sign a waiver before participating in the event. Location: Charles E. Young Research Library (YRL)

The Hammer's curatorial department leads free, insightful, short discussions about artists every Wednesday at 12:30 p.m. This talk on Robert Gober is led by Curatorial Assistant and Collection Specialist Jennie Waldow. 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. Nadine is a RISE Health and Wellbeing Coordinator Specialist who supports neurodivergent students across UCLA. If you would like to have a chat with her, are seeking support, and/or would like to be connected to resources, please come visit in person or on Zoom. Whatever feels most comfortable for you! Meeting ID: 918 3367 1204 Passcode: 051779 Location: RISE Center at Lu Valle Commons Basement Level - https://ucla-hipaa.zoom.us/j/91833671204?pwd=ZGQADrjzt6JBLhR43FWyallrXU5HsG.1

Take a break, unwind, and tap into your creative side at USP Colors & Connection! Join us for an afternoon of art, relaxation, and community as we partner with the RISE Center to create a space for self-expression and meaningful connections. RSVP for Location RSVP LINK: https://bit.ly/ColorsAndConnection Whether you're an artist or just looking to de-stress, this is the perfect space to pause, recharge, and connect with fellow students. Materials will be provided—just bring yourself!

Description: Join Bruins 4 Recovery & the Collegiate Recovery Program weekly AA Desire to Stop meetings. Meeting is open to community members as well. How to get there: From Bruin Plaza, go through the bookstore, take the elevator to the second level and it’s the first meeting room on the left, across the ballroom. Location: Ackerman Union Room #2410

Join the RISE Center for Books and Bonding every Wednesday. RISE will be providing the books and there will be no assigned readings, so please stop by if you are interested. Location: RISE Center at Lu Valle Commons Basement Level

The Flux screening series brings the creative community together to celebrate outstanding short films and music videos from around the globe, with wildly inventive filmmaker presentations and performances. Location: hammer museum

Join us during finals week! Stop by for some free grab-and-go snacks to fuel you through finals season. We will also be providing wellness goodie bags! (while supplies last) @ Dashew Center Lobby (Bradley Hall 1st Floor Lobby) Tuesday, March 13th, from 10am - 4pm (PT) Location: Bradley Hall 1st Floor Lobby

Led by Maile Chung, post-graduate assistant conservator, UCLA Library Preservation and Conservation Location: Powell Library Classroom A, Room 307A

CAPS Drop-In Hours provide free, confidential, brief consultations for UCLA undergraduate and graduate students that identify as undocumented or come from mixed-status families. During the visit, a specialized counselor can help you to explore resources, assess your mental health, and when needed, connect you to ongoing CAPS counseling, and other services. Location: Undocumented Student Program office - Student Activities Center B52

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 Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Scholar Engagement team for our final drop-in hours of the quarter. Come for coffee, snacks, and grading support during this social working session. #GraduateProfessional #TAs #Postdocs Location: Powell 190

Seeing a psychiatrist, or any mental health professional, can be intimidating. Are you interested in learning about what to expect during an appointment with a psychiatrist, and how to access services at UCLA? Join us for this passive program where students can leave questions for a CAPS psychiatrist to answer at our Ask A Psychiatrist program in spring quarter. Location: RISE Center at Lu Valle Commons Basement

Friendly Match Location: Westwood, CA

In the last few decades, debates stemming from the science and history “wars” have called attention to the ways in which cases are constructed and proven across disciplines. This has led to questions about the nature and selection of evidence, the role of scale, and the function of narrative in “making” a case. The “Cases and Scale in Historiography” conference builds on these examinations by inviting scrutiny on the relationship between the case and one of its constitutive elements: scale Location: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

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

Feeling tense or fatigued? A few minutes of chair massage focused on the back, neck and shoulders can improve circulation, reduce stress and tension and rejuvenate your spirit. Drop in for an ergonomic chair massage and let UCLA Library and UCLA Recreation help relieve your end of year stress. Location: Charles E. Young Research Library (YRL)

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. Behind Every Good Man U.S., 1967 In strong contrast to the largely negative depictions of transgender people on film at the time, Nikolai Ursin’s black and white short provides an illuminating glimpse into a day in the life of an unnamed trans woman. The protagonist of Ursin’s independent film isn’t rendered as the typical “other” but instead as stable, hopeful and desirable. Stylistically, filmmaker Ursin (1942–1990) artfully blurs elements of cinéma vérité documentary and subtle dramatization to bring his lead’s deeply personal aspirations and meditations on love and acceptance to light. The resulting intimate portrait, possibly one of the earliest to honestly document a Black trans woman on film, serves as a rare cultural artifact at the intersection of trans and Black life in mid-century America. Significantly, the film also provides a previously unavailable bridge to later similarly themed works, such as Shirley Clarke's landmark documentary Portrait of Jason (1967) and Queens at Heart (1967).—Mark Quigley 16mm, b&w, 8 min. Director: Nikolai Ursin. Preserved by the UCLA Film & Television Archive. How Not to Date While Trans U.S., 2022 Too often on screen, transness has been equated exclusively with medical transitions, making the question of when, if at all, to disclose one’s transness to others a central theme in trans film history. (It is no accident that the titular film of this series is called Disclosure.) Filmmaker Nyala Moon delves into the issue of disclosure through a darkly comedic chronicling of recent first dates with “problematic” men. By routinely breaking the fourth wall, Moon, who stars as Andi, playfully reclaims her right to self-definition, autonomy and privacy.—Beandrea July DCP, color, 12 min. Director/Screenwriter: Nyala Moon. With: Nyala Moon, Juliana Martinez, Javan Nelson. Gun Hill Road U.S., 2011 Harmony Santana, an early example of a trans actor playing a trans character, shines as Vanessa in this family drama about a Puerto Rican trans teenager in New York City navigating her hormonal changes as a girl who must hide who she is from her transphobic father (Esai Morales). Written and directed by Bronx native Rashad Ernesto Green (Premature), his feature debut features a strong ensemble cast of Morales, Judy Reyes and Santana who imbue this story with vibrance, tenderness and pathos. The film also features original poetry penned by New York theater mainstay Zora Howard, a longtime collaborator of Green.—Beandrea July DCP, color, 86 min. Director/Screenwriter: Rashad Ernesto Green. With: Esai Morales, Judy Reyes, Harmony Santana, Isiah Whitlock Jr. Location: Billy Wilder Theater

Need a quiet place to focus? Join us for open study spaces across The Hill during finals! Enjoy extended hours and a distraction-free environment. Location: De Neve Plaza Rooms, Carnesale Palisades, Covel Grand Horizon

Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive and The Andrew J. Kuehn Jr. Foundation In-person: Q&A with Michael Lumpkin and Kelly McKaig, author of the forthcoming publication "James Bidgood: Dreamlands." 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. Pink Narcissus U.S., 1971 West Coast restoration premiere! In 1963 — the year of Scorpio Rising, Flaming Creatures and Warhol’s first films — physique photographer James Bidgood began working on an ambitious homoerotic film fantasy he called Pink Narcissus. For over six years, he filmed his star, Bobby Kendall, using 8mm Kodachrome and later 16mm Ektachrome stock on numerous lavish sets, most built in the confines of his cramped Manhattan apartment. After many delays, the film’s backers grew tired of waiting for a finished film and dropped Bidgood from the project. Bidgood repudiated their version, and when Pink Narcissus was released in 1971, his credits for producing, directing, writing and photography were listed as “Anonymous.” Nearly 30 years later, Bidgood reclaimed his role as the visionary creator of the queer cinema classic and became a major influence on artists ranging from Pierre et Gilles to David LaChapelle and Steven Arnold. Now, over 60 years after Bidgood began crafting his sumptuous opus, the Archive presents its 4K restoration in this West Coast restoration premiere.—Michael Lumpkin DCP, color, 68 min. Director: James Bidgood. With: Bobby Kendall, Don Brooks, Charles Ludlam. Restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive from a 35mm internegative, 35mm print and 35mm track negative. Funding provided by Snapdragon Capital Partners. Laboratory services by Roundabout Entertainment, Inc., Audio Mechanics. Special thanks to Frameline, Marcus Hu, Michael Lumpkin, Strand Releasing and James Woolley. Support for the screening is provided by the Robert Gore Rifkind Foundation Queer Screening Endowment and The Andrew J. Kuehn Jr. Foundation. Location: Billy Wilder Theater

Newport Regatta Location: Newport Beach, CA

Step into the galleries of Alice Coltrane, Monument Eternal every Sunday for special performances on a stage designed for the exhibition by artist GeoVanna Gonzalez. Each performance is presented in celebration of Coltrane’s legacy as a musical innovator and as an ode to her Sunday services at the Sai Anantam Ashram. Limited seating in gallery will be available on a first come, first served basis. Location: hammer museum

In-person: Tre’vell Anderson, author of "We See Each Other: A Black Trans Journey Through TV and Film." 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. Mary of III Fame U.S., 2020 From the mind of writer-director and Black trans woman Tourmaline comes Mary of III Fame, a fictional story inspired by a newspaper clipping from the 1830s about a trans woman named Mary Jones who was arrested for stealing a man’s wallet. The film is set in Seneca Village, an autonomous settlement of free Blacks and Irish immigrants located on what is known today as Central Park where Jones, a gifted conjurer who can see visions of future events and alter reality with her well crafted spells, fends off the white city officials who want to take control of the land she and her community call home. Here, Tourmaline answers the call of “critical fabulation” theorized by the influential historian Saidiya Hartman, inventing the narrative that doesn’t exist in the historical archive for Jones.—Beandrea July 16mm, color, 17 min. Director/Screenwriter: Tourmaline. With: Rowin Amone, Christopher Murray, Eva Reign. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil U.S., 1997 In the film adaptation of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Chablis Deveau enters the story as a potential source for John Kelso (John Cusack), a magazine writer from New York City who comes to the aid of an antiques dealer Jim Williams (Kevin Spacey) when he is accused of murder. The Lady Chablis, a real-life cabaret performer and local celebrity in Savannah, Georgia, plays a version of herself with Deveau. Director Clint Eastwood reportedly believed she was the only person who could convincingly embody the character. Chablis quickly assumes a larger-than-life presence in the film, holding her own as a scene partner against Cusack right up until the last frame. She particularly stands out in the dramatic courtroom scene at the center of the film where she turns the transphobia of the judge and onlookers on its head: “Them folks think they’re using The Doll, but The Doll is using them right back. I’m gonna use that courtroom as my coming out party.” It’s a rare on-screen portrayal of a Black trans woman in the 1990s that “evades the life-ending trauma and violence that often comes to Black trans folks in popular culture,” writes cultural critic Tre’vell Anderson, who appears in the documentary Disclosure.—Beandrea July 35mm, color, 155 min. Director: Clint Eastwood. Screenwriter: John Lee Hancock, based on a book by John Berendt. With: The Lady Chablis, John Cusack, Kevin Spacey, Jude Law, Irma P. Hall. Location: Billy Wilder Theater

Need calming energy during finals week? Stop by the Charles E. Young Research Library (YRL) and take a well-earned break with the UCLA People-Animal Connection(opens in a new tab) therapy dogs! Participants must sign a waiver before participating in the event. Location: Charles E. Young Research Library (YRL)

Feeling tense or fatigued? A few minutes of chair massage focused on the back, neck and shoulders can improve circulation, reduce stress and tension and rejuvenate your spirit. Drop in for an ergonomic chair massage and let UCLA Library and UCLA Recreation help relieve your end of year stress. Location: Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library

Feeling tense or fatigued? A few minutes of chair massage focused on the back, neck and shoulders can improve circulation, reduce stress and tension and rejuvenate your spirit. Drop in for an ergonomic chair massage and let UCLA Library and UCLA Recreation help relieve your end of year stress. Location: Eugene and Maxine Rosenfeld Management Library

Dear UCLA Community, We are excited to announce that the Undocumented Student Program (USP) housed within the Bruin Resource Center (BRC) will be facilitating UndocuAlly Training Sessions at the end of this Winter Quarter. If you're interested in participating, please complete the registration through our RSVP form. We kindly ask that you commit to attending all three sessions, as each one will cover unique topics to provide a comprehensive understanding of how to support undocumented students. Below, you’ll find the details for each session: Undocu Ally Training: Session #1 Undocumented Student Program - Resources & Services Date: Tuesday March 18th, 2025 Location: TBD (in-person) Time: 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM Undocu Ally Training: Session #2 UC Immigrant Legal Services - Legal Updates & Information in this New Administration Date: Wednesday, March 19th, 2025 Location: Zoom Time: 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM Undocu Ally Training Session #3 Mental Health Services Ally Training Date: Thursday, March 20th, 2025 Location: Zoom Time: 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM