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• ERRC Bruin Legacy Tour: "UCLA Fowler Museum"

  • When
    Wednesday, October 08, 2025
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    12:40 PM - 2:00 PM
  • Location
    UCLA Fowler Museum, 308 Charles E Young Dr N, Los Angeles, CA 90024
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  ERRC Bruin Legacy Tour: "UCLA Fowler Museum"

  
  

  Join us for a guided tour of a special exhibit at the Fowler at UCLA, Fire Kinship: Southern California Native Ecology and Art!

  Fire Kinship reintroduces fire as a generative element, one that connects us to our past and offers a collective path toward a sustainable future. On view from January 22, 2025 to April 12, 2026, the exhibition presents a living history that centers the expertise of Tongva, Cahuilla, Luiseño, and Kumeyaay communities. 

  Prior to the colonization of Southern California in the 18th century, Native communities throughout the region used controlled fire practices to ensure the vitality of their local ecosystems. Fire-based land management practices ranged from small burns to spur healthy plant growth, to larger ones that strategically eradicated invasive species and reduced fuel loads (preventing catastrophic fires). Fire Kinship counters the attitudes of fear and illegality around fire, arguing for a return to Native practices, in which fire is regarded as a vital aspect of land stewardship, community wellbeing, and tribal sovereignty. These conversations have been shaped by key community leaders throughout Southern California: Lazaro Arvizu Jr. (Tongva), Marlene’ Dusek (Payómkawichum, Kúupangawish, Kumeyaay, and Czech), William Madrigal (Cahuilla/ Payómkawichum), Wesley Ruise Jr. (La Jolla Band of Luiseño Indians), Stanley Rodriguez (Iipay Nation of Santa Ysabel), William Pink (Pala Band of Luiseño Mission Indians), Lorene Sisquoc (Mountain Cahuilla/ Fort Sill Apache), and Myra Masiel-Zamora (Pechanga Band of Indians). The baskets, ollas, rabbit sticks, bark skirts, and canoes presented in this exhibition were made possible through the relationship between people, place, and fire.

  This one hour guided tour is offered at NO COST.

  Space is limited

  308 Charles E. Young Dr North, Westwood, Los Angeles, CA 90024. (Click Here for Google Map)

  Rideshare visitors can be dropped off and picked up at 305 Royce Drive (off Sunset Blvd). This turnaround area for drivers is directly behind the Fowler.

  Follow the sidewalk that wraps around the building to reach to the front entrance. Parking is available in UCLA Parking Structure 4 or Parking Structure 5

  
  

  Visitors will be asked to store any large bags or food items. UCLA or the ERRC is not responsible for any personal belongings stored during your visit. Pens, gum, food, and drink are not permitted in the museum. Visitors may wish to bring a light jacket or sweater due to the cool temperatures of the galleries.

  I understand there may be photos & videos taken while participating or being close proximity to this event. By attending this event, I hereby grant permission to the Emeriti/Retirees Relations Center and/or Retirees Association at UCLA to use photographs and/or video of me in publications, news releases, online, and in other communications related to the mission of the UCLA Emeriti/Retirees Relations Center (ERRC). For questions about this release, contact Ayesha Dixon, adixon@errc.ucla.edu.
  

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• "Mary Cassatt Between Paris and New York: The Making of A Transatlantic Legacy"

  • When
    Thursday, October 09, 2025
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    1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    UCLA University Club (Formerly the UCLA Faculty Club)
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  Mary Cassatt                           Ruth Iskin   

  The UCLA Emeriti and Retirees Associations are pleased to present a wonderous lecture on the life of Mary Cassatt, artist, and activist given by her biographer, Ruth Iskin, PhD. Dr. Iskin will be describing the life of Ms. Cassatt with talk and slides to emphasize her impact on the world. The event will be held at the University Club (on campus) on Thursday, October 9, 2025 at 1:30pm.

  The first comprehensive study of Cassatt’s life, work, and legacy through the prism of a transatlantic framework.
  This book re-envisions Mary Cassatt in the context of her transatlantic network, friendships, exhibitions, politics, and legacy. Rather than defining her as either an American artist or a French impressionist, author Ruth E. Iskin argues that we can best understand Cassatt through the complexity of her multiple identifications as an American patriot, a committed French impressionist, and a suffragist.

  About the author:  Ruth E. Iskin is author of Modern Women and Parisian Consumer Culture in Impressionist Painting and The Poster: Art, Advertising, Design, and Collecting, 1860s–1900s, editor of Re-envisioning the Contemporary Art Canon, and coeditor of Collecting Prints, Posters, and Ephemera. She is Professor Emerita at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Her work has been translated into eight languages. And she led the Visual Arts Program at UNEX for many years.

  Copies of Dr. Iskin’s book; 

  Mary Cassatt between Paris and New York: The Making of a Transatlantic Legacy

  Can be obtained in advance by contacting University of California Press.  Choose the “UCPress” option when asked to select a vendor. Use code UCPSAVE30 when checking out  for a 30% discount on the book.  https://www.ucpress.edu/books/mary-cassatt-between-paris-and-new-york/hardcover

  The book will also be for sale at the lecture on Oct. 9, 2025 and will be sold by ASUCLA Bookstore. The author will be signing copies at the event.                                                                                            Join us on Thursday, October 9, 2025 at 1:30pm at the University Club, located on the UCLA campus at 480 Charles E.  Young Drive EAST. There is no cost to attend; but we strongly recommend that you register in advance. Light refreshments will be served.

  Register at www.retirees.ucla.edu

  Parking:  The nearest parking lot to the University Club is Lot 2. Those with permits can park in any blue permit space. Those who need parking can do so at the lowest level of Lot 2 in the "visitor" parking area.

  Registration: This event is open to UCLARA members and one guest, UCLA EA members and 1 guest as well as UCLA affiliated groups beginning August 27, 2025. There is no cost for the program; but registration is required. All registration closes on Friday, October 3, 2025 An emergency contact and that contact's cell phone number must be provided  by all registrants and for any guests

  
  

  Questions: Email Michael Heafey at heafeymj@gmail.com or call him at (310) 738-8134. Email preferred.
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• ERRC at the Opera: West Side Story

  • When
    Sunday, October 12, 2025
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    2:00 PM
  • Location
    135 North Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90012
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  The ERRC is proud to be a part of the LA Opera's "Community Circle" Program. We are harmonizing art, wellness, and longevity around our city and engaging LA's vast opportunities for art and cultural activities. For more details on the Community Circle program, Click Here

  The ERRC's free tickets are limited. One ticket per registrant - interested partners need to register separately as we only have 16 tickets... 

  If registration is full, please sign up on the Waiting List - as people's plans may change.

   "West Side Story"

  Tickets will be mailed from the ERRC office at 1116 Rolfe Hall

  • Sunday, October 12, 2025
  • 2pm

  • Dorothy Chandler Pavilion 

  • 135 North Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90012

  Countless fans know and love Leonard Bernstein’s landmark work with songs like “America,” “Somewhere” and “I Feel Pretty,” but few have seen it like this! Originally conceived as an opera, "West Side Story" is a tribute to Bernstein’s impact as only we can, with James Conlon leading the brilliant LA Opera Orchestra—not to mention a magnificent cast in top vocal and physical form. Director Francesca Zambello dives into one of the most emblematic works of American theater with this elevated, maximalist take that incorporates the iconic original choreography created by the legendary Jerome Robbins.

  New York City’s West Side is split between the Jets and the Sharks—but these warring gangs never imagined that two of their own could fall in love. Tenor Duke Kim is Tony, a former Jet who finds himself falling for Maria (the radiant Gabriella Reyes). But Maria is promised to another, and her brother Bernardo is more than willing to rally his Sharks to keep it that way. The two lovers dream of a happily ever after, but their neighborhood can see tragedy coming a mile away.

  Parking and Arrival

  Please try to arrive at least 30 minutes early so you have ample time to find parking.

  • TRAVELING BY CAR — If traveling by car, you may park in The Music Center garage entering on Grand Avenue. Parking is $10 per vehicle.
  • TRAVELING BY BUS — Buses may unload on Hope Street. Your driver will need to park elsewhere and return for pickup.

  LA Opera Connects is generously supported by:

  The Emanuel Treitel Senior Citizen Fund, The Green Foundation, and The Music Man Foundation.

  LA County Department of Arts and Culture is a part of Creative Recovery LA, an initiative funded by the American Rescue Plan

  I understand there may be photos & videos taken while participating or being close proximity to this event. By attending this event, I hereby grant permission to the Emeriti/Retirees Relations Center and/or Retirees Association at UCLA to use photographs and/or video of me in publications, news releases, online, and in other communications related to the mission of the UCLA Emeriti/Retirees Relations Center (ERRC). For questions about this release, contact Ayesha Dixon, adixon@errc.ucla.edu

  The ERRC has a small dynamic workforce dedicated to serve our constituents.

  www.errc.ucla.edu

  emeriti@errc.ucla.edu

  310.825.7456

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