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Private Screening: 3 D Printing Documentary

Wed, Nov 11, 12:00 AM

From Private Screening; CHUCK HULL & THE HOPE OF 3D PRINTING

**JOIN US FOR A HISTORIC HOLLYWOOD CELEBRATION** **Honoring the Invention of 3D Printing & Its Power to Restore Lives** **THE LAST INVENTOR: CHUCK HULL AND THE HOPE OF 3D PRINTING** **A Brent Wilson Film** Operation of Hope's special patient, Blessing Makwera, from Zimbabwe, Africa is featured in this extraordinary documentary along with 11 other amazing stories! Join Chuck and Anntionette Hull for a special private Hollywood screening celebrating Chuck Hull, inventor of 3D printing, and the extraordinary impact his invention continues to have on the world. Click here for a preview: [The Sizzle Reel](https://vimeo.com/1204922014) **A HOLLYWOOD GATHERING OF INNOVATORS** The evening will bring together leaders, innovators and guests from 3D printing, technology, Hollywood, aerospace, medicine, design, universities, philanthropy and humanitarian organizations, united by one powerful idea: **HOPE THROUGH 3D PRINTING** **Tuesday, November 10, 2026** **4:00 PM — Welcome Reception** **7:20 PM — Documentary Screening** Limited Seating **[RSVP Here by October 28th](https://partiful.com/e/ykCuZ1SCzfpaBCCvFUle?c=OqutFucq)**

2 attendees

Heathens Film Screening

Sun, Nov 15, 7:00 PM

From The Greater L.A. Skeptics Meetup Group

4.7

For our Feed Your Brain event Sunday, November 15, CFI West will screen the film ***Heathens***, a new documentary from David Cowan and Shawn Hardin. Five Americans arrive as strangers at a secluded retreat in the Blue Ridge Mountains — many without their families' knowledge — seeking respite from the guilt, shame, fear, and loneliness of hiding who they are. Each has quietly rejected the religion that raised them, now fearing the cost of honesty: family, security, livelihood. They are not alone. Over 80 million American adults hide their religious disbelief or exaggerate their faith. By the end of the weekend, the five non-believers resolve to reclaim their lives, forging a friendship that carries them through the storms awaiting them back home. In this warm, funny, and unexpectedly joyful story, they rebuild community, inspired by the gospel music of home, reclaiming the slur “heathen” as a proud new identity. For the first time in their lives, five Heathens discover who they truly are. "I found it moving, even shocking." Richard Dawkins "…a powerful new documentary that explores the hidden world of Americans who privately question the faith they were raised in." SMARTCINE “A documentary that is fierce about politics but tender about people." FILMYBUFF **David Cowan** is an Emmy-nominated filmmaker and science philanthropist whose work explores the intersection of belief, truth, and discovery. A member of the DGA and PGA, he is a 2026 News & Documentary Emmy nominee for Outstanding Short Documentary as producer of *HEIST*, and the creator and producer of the award-winning MTV documentary *Afghan Dreamers*. He serves on the boards of the Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and the Center for Inquiry, and brings a storyteller's eye and a scientist's skepticism to *Heathens*, his feature directorial debut. **Shawn Hardin** is a filmmaker, DGA director, and former Television Academy governor whose work spans documentary, narrative, and interactive storytelling. A graduate of USC Cinema-Television, he has directed, produced, shot, and edited more than seventy projects for NBC, MTV, Columbia TriStar, and 20th Century Fox, with independent films screening at the American Film Institute, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and festivals worldwide. He co-founded the Producers Guild of America's New Media Council and later founded OnlySky, serving America's religiously unaffiliated. As co-director of *Heathens*, he brings a lifelong fascination with belief, identity, and reinvention to the screen. Click here to watch the trailer: [https://heathens.community](https://heathens.community/) **Admission: $10, or FREE for CFI Members.** Membership is $60/year. Find out more and join here: [https://cfiwest.org/donate/](https://cfiwest.org/donate/) Tickets are sold at the door only.

2 attendees

Free! Two Films on Oscar Rabin & Valentina Kropivnitskaya

Tue, Nov 24, 3:00 AM

From LA and OC Weirdo Music and Art Forum

4.8

**Date**: November 23\, 2026 \| 07:00 PM \- 10:00 PM Meet at the venue 6:30 to ensure seating. Possible dinner before, TBD **Venue**: [The Wende Museum's Community Center](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/musicwords-la-curated-by-inna-faliks-tickets-2003085787512#location) 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA 90230 **Free, but you must RSVP here:** [https://wendemuseum.org/event/a-road-of-many-colors/](https://wendemuseum.org/event/a-road-of-many-colors/) **A Road of Many Colors: Two Films on Oscar Rabin & Valentina Kropivnitskaya** Oscar Rabin wanted to paint. In the Soviet Union that made him a dissident. In 1974 Rabin helped organize an open-air show of unofficial art in Moscow. The authorities broke it up with bulldozers and water cannons. Images of the attack went around the world, and within weeks officials had to allow a second outdoor show. Thousands came. Several years later Rabin and his wife, the painter Valentina Kropivnitskaya, were forced into exile, and he was stripped of his Soviet citizenship. They started over in France. *A Road of Many Colors* tells their story in two documentaries written and directed by Alexander Smoljanski and Evgeny Tsymbal. *In Search of a Lost Paradise* (2015, 52 minutes) follows the life and art of Kropivnitskaya. *Oscar* (2018, 90 minutes) turns to Rabin. It draws on archival footage, some of it shown publicly for the first time, and on conversations with artists and writers including Ilya Kabakov, Vitaly Komar, Eric Bulatov, Lyudmila Ulitskaya, Vladimir Sorokin, and Vladimir Paperny. Rabin died in 2018 at 90, shortly after the Paris premiere of *Oscar*. The films ask what art can do when power demands obedience, a question artists, writers, and cultural institutions face again today. Alexander Smoljanski joins us for a conversation after the screening. Smoljanski is a writer, director, and producer who conceived *A Road of Many Colors* and made both films with Evgeny Tsymbal. RSVPing to this program does not guarantee admission. Seating is first come, first served.

5 attendees

screening NOON

Sat, Nov 14, 3:00 AM

From Skid Row History Museum & Archive

4.8

Join us for a screening of the short film, “NOON” that was shot in the Skid Row History Museum and Archive in May. The screening will start at 7pm at the museum Nov. 13th. Film by David de Rozas and David Kelley. Featuring the longest lunch counter in LA.

1 attendee

Screening Sorry Baby

Sat, Nov 21, 3:00 AM

From Skid Row History Museum & Archive

4.8

Friday, November 11, 7pm Screening Sorry Baby (2025) Directed and written by Eva Victor Runtime: 1:44 min. Synopsis After a tragic event, a woman finds herself alone while everyone else continues with their lives as if nothing had happened. The film carries off difficult subject matter with a light touch and wry sense of humor.

1 attendee

IN PERSON: Donation-Based Beginner Yoga with Kirstin

Tue, Nov 17, 2:30 AM

From Heal One World:Films and Yoga:Mindfulness and Social Justice

4.9

If you have any issues signing up for or attending the class please email [[admin@healoneworld.org](mailto:admin@healoneworld.org)]([http://mailto:admin@healoneworld.org/](http://mailto:admin@healoneworld.org/)) as soon as you experience problems. Our Venmo, now accepting donations, is @howdonation if you would like to make a contribution. Class Description: Vinyasa based class focused on breathwork, body alignment and asanas to boost our essential mind/body connection. This inclusive class allows you to calm the mind and focus on the strength of your breath and body, moving from an opening meditation and warm up, building into a flow and deeper into specific asanas completing with total relaxation. Great class for all levels from beginner to advanced. Teacher Bio: Kirstin H.S. completed her 200 hour YTT in Ubud,Bali with Zuna Yoga in 2019. She loves providing space to practitioners to take time for themselves and just simply breathe. Through “flow” yoga, Kirstin hopes to give a small reprieve to the anxious and stressful world we live in. Kirstin has been practicing yoga since 2004 and has learned the importance of yoga in cultivating balance, strength, and overall well-being. She loves sharing her knowledge and practice with others, especially those who are new to yoga. Kirstin loves teaching the Heal One World community and empowering her students to achieve their own greatness. Heal One World is a nonprofit dedicated to providing holistic preventative healthcare services and low or no cost—no one is turned away due to lack of funds. If you’d like to contribute to our mission and help us continue to provide services, you may choose to donate any amount on PayPal ([PayPal.me/healoneworld](http://paypal.me/healoneworld)). *Heal One World is a nonprofit dedicated to providing holistic preventative healthcare services and low or no cost—no one is turned away due to lack of funds. If you’d like to contribute to our mission and help us continue to provide services, you may choose to donate any amount on [PayPal](https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=3FKQTKLQBB6PS&source=url). Our Venmo, now accepting donations, is @howdonation if you would like to make a contribution.*

1 attendee

Free Discussion: Visualizing the Cosmos: Science | Art | History

Sat, Nov 21, 10:00 PM

From LA and OC Weirdo Music and Art Forum

4.8

**Free exhibition tour and artist talks** **Date:** Saturday November 7, 12 pm **Meet at entrance 11:30 am** **Venue:** Wende Museum - A-Frame Theater 10808 Culver Blvd., Culver City, CA 90230 **Free but you must register:** [https://wendemuseum.org/event/visualizing-the-cosmos-science-art-history/](https://wendemuseum.org/event/visualizing-the-cosmos-science-art-history/) ***Visualizing the Cosmos: Science \| Art \| History*** is a panel presented by the Wende Museum and the History of Science Society. **Nobel laureate and astrophysicist Kip Thorne,** artist **Lia Halloran**, and NASA historian **Lois Rosson**, co-curator of the exhibition ***Competing Cosmologies: Interpreting the Sky*,** discuss how visual artists and scientists have inspired each other to build a deeper understanding of the universe and the forces that shape it. History of Science Society president **Soraya de Chadarevian** and the Wende’s Chief Curator **Joes Segal** moderate. How did we arrive at the images in astronomical reference books, and what aesthetic decisions stood behind them? How have scientists developed their work through collaborations with artists? And how have the interactions between artists and scientists changed over time? **Kip Thorne** is an astrophysicist and author. He shared the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics with Rainer Weiss and Barry C. Barish for their contributions to the LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) detector and the observation of gravitational waves. Thorne was the Richard P. Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics at Caltech from 1991 until 2009. He was a longtime friend and colleague of Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan and a scientific consultant for Christopher Nolan’s films *Interstellar* and *Tenet*. In 2018 he received the Lewis Thomas Prize for science writing. **Lia Halloran** is an artist who often incorporates science and nature to create projects that draw from scientific materials, flying, skateboarding, historical influences, and identities. She has taken part in a wide range of interdisciplinary collaborations with scientists and architects, including a book with Kip Thorne, *The Warped Side of Our Universe*. She lives in Los Angeles, where she is represented by Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, and is a professor in the Art Department at Chapman University, where she teaches painting and courses that explore the intersection of art and science. **Lois Rosson** is a historian of science and technology based in Los Angeles, where she is a field historian in the NASA History Office. Her current book project traces the impact of Los Angeles’s art and special effects industry on the look of the space environment in planetary science and popular culture. She has held the Guggenheim Predoctoral Fellowship at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum and the Octavia E. Butler Fellowship at the Huntington Library. Her work has been supported by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the Berggruen Institute, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Southern California. **Soraya de Chadarevian** is the president of the History of Science Society, an elected member of the European Academy of Sciences, and a Distinguished Professor in the Department of History and the Institute for Society and Genetics at UCLA. She is a historian of science, technology, and medicine with a background in biology and philosophy. Her main areas of interest are the life sciences in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. **Joes Segal** is the Wende Museum’s Chief Curator and Director of Programming. *As this event takes place during museum open hours, guests may check in at the front of the museum. The garden side gate will open 30 minutes before the start time and is available for ADA access and check-in. Theater doors open 15 minutes before the start time. Seating is first come, first served. An RSVP does not guarantee admission once capacity is reached. No late entry.* **Image**: Lia Halloran, *Andromeda, After Mollie O’Reilly*, from the series *Your Body Is a Space that Sees*, 2017, cyanotype, United States. Courtesy of the artist and Luis De Jesus Los Angeles.

4 attendees

The Great LA Walk 2026. We join this yearly. Come and be part of the happening

Sat, Nov 21, 5:00 PM

From " Ⓒulture, Ⓒuisine, Ⓒocktails, Ⓒoffee & Ⓒonvos = Ⓒommunity "

4.6

(this event (as a meetup) needed to be moved. It's complicated m Event still occurring on Nov 22 2025

135 attendees

11/21/26 7pm-10pm Jazz mixer with appetizers and cocktail.

Sun, Nov 22, 3:00 AM

From " ¡ ᗯᗩᑎTEᗪ TO ᗪO TᕼᗩT . . . ᒍᑌᔕT ᑎOT ᗩᒪOᑎE ! ! ! ℠ "

4.5

Saturday November 21st Jazz Mixer with appetizers and coctails. Please purchase tickets below. https://events.com/r/en_US/tickets/jazz-mixer-with-appetizers-and-cocktail-culver-city-november-1105975

20 attendees

Free! Music/Words LA: Curated by Inna Faliks

Sat, Nov 21, 3:00 AM

From LA and OC Weirdo Music and Art Forum

4.8

**Date**: Friday, November 20 • 7 PM - 9 PM Possible dinner before, TBD **Venue**: [The Wende Museum's Community Center](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/musicwords-la-curated-by-inna-faliks-tickets-2003085787512#location) 10858 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA 90230 **Free, but you must RSVP here:** [https://www.eventbrite.com/e/musicwords-la-curated-by-inna-faliks-tickets-2003085787512](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/musicwords-la-curated-by-inna-faliks-tickets-2003085787512) **Overview** Inna Faliks, cellist Ani Aznavoorian, and composer and DJ Gabriel Prokofiev open the season with music, electronics, and poetry. *Music/Words LA* returns to the Wende for a second season of live music and poetry. Pianist Inna Faliks opens the season with *Breaking Screens*, joined by cellist Ani Aznavoorian and London-based composer, performer, and DJ Gabriel Prokofiev. Piano and cello meet Prokofiev's electronic soundscapes in music by Prokofiev, Lera Auerbach, and Claude Debussy, alongside poetry from the community. Founded by Faliks in New York, *Music/Words* is a platform for artists working where music and text meet. This Los Angeles residency at the Wende builds each program around close listening and live collaboration. **Inna Faliks** is Head of Piano and Professor of Piano at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music and author of *Weight in the Fingertips: A Musical Odyssey from Soviet Ukraine to the World Stage*. *The garden side gate will open 30 minutes before the start time and is available for ADA access and check-in. Theater doors open 15 minutes before the start time. Seating is first come, first served. An RSVP does not guarantee admission once capacity is reached. No late entry.*

6 attendees

CicLAvia Returns to Pasadena

Sun, Nov 15, 8:00 PM

From " ¡ ᗯᗩᑎTEᗪ TO ᗪO TᕼᗩT . . . ᒍᑌᔕT ᑎOT ᗩᒪOᑎE ! ! ! ℠ "

4.5

CicLAvia Returns to Pasadena Sunday November 15. For the first time since 2015, CicLAvia is coming back to Pasadena in November! The free, non-ticketed Open Streets event will take place on Sunday, November 15, inviting the community to bike across Pasadena while stopping along local businesses, information booths, and engaging in cultural amenities. Even if you don't have a bicycle 🚲 🚲 🚲 you can still enjoy the closed off streets for walking. I will get to memorial park metro station with my bicycle at around 12 noon, if anyone wants to join me at north hollywood metro station at 10 am with or without a bicycle that's great, I will be bringing my bike on the metro to pasadena. I have an idea where to go with our bikes for lunch but we will decide between us if that's okay with everyone. [https://www.instagram.com/p/DcCAzcmGSCb/](https://www.instagram.com/p/DcCAzcmGSCb/) https://ciclavia.org/events/pasadena-2026-11/ https://ciclavia.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/ciclavia_pasadena_111526_route-map-w-slow-streets_2000x1125-1.pdf End. Liability Notice: Assistant Organizers, Event Hosts, and support hikers are volunteers and organize hikes without compensation and assume no responsibility for participants or guests. By signing up, you acknowledge the risks associated with outdoor activities and agree to release and discharge the Organizer, Assistant Organizers, and Event Hosts of the Los Angeles Hiking & Fitness Meetup Group from any liability arising from participation. Please see Meetup’s Terms of Service: [https://www.meetup.com/terms/](https://www.meetup.com/terms/)

12 attendees

Free Martial Arts MMA & Life Philosophy Meetup - Culver City

Sun, Nov 15, 5:30 PM

From " F*ck It I'm Single " Social fun & friends & adventures.

4.5

This is a very friendly, NO EGO, free martial arts meetup based on the virtues of wisdom, courage, justice, and discipline. A place where we can train together, share ideas, and learn from each other. Whether you are totally new to martial arts or have been training for years, we welcome everyone. The plan for training is pad work, drills, self-defense practice and, when people feel comfortable, light and supportive sparring. Our backgrounds are in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (BJJ), Boxing, Muay Thai Kickboxing, Jeet Kune Do (JKD), and Wing Tsun Kung Fu, but any martial artists or beginners are welcome with good virtues. If you join, please reach out to the organizer, so we can check in before you attend the first meetup. We just want to ensure everyone is on the same page with the training. Let's grow together!

6 attendees

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