Events

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  • 20 Oct

    Clark Library Highlights Tour – Fall Tour October 20

    Tuesday, October 20, 2026
    11:00 am PDT – 12:00 pm PDT
    UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    The “Clark Library Highlights Tour” provides an introduction to the history, architecture, and collections of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. Led by Instruction & Engagement staff, the program offers visitors an opportunity to experience the historic library and learn about its place in the cultural history of Los Angeles. The visit also includes an overview of the current exhibition,...

  • 25 Oct

    Quatuor Danel, Chamber Music at the Clark

    Sunday, October 25, 2026
    2:00 pm PDT – 4:00 pm PDT
    UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    All Chamber Music at the Clark tickets will be sold by the UCLA Central Ticket Office. Tickets may be purchased online, via telephone, or in person.  Ticket prices: General $60; Senior (age 55+) $50; UCLA student (valid student ID required for each ticket) $15. Tickets are non-refundable. Tickets for this concert will go on sale Tuesday, September 22, 2026 at...

  • 27 Oct

    Clark Library Highlights Tour – Fall Tour October 27

    Tuesday, October 27, 2026
    11:00 am PDT – 12:00 pm PDT
    UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    The “Clark Library Highlights Tour” provides an introduction to the history, architecture, and collections of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. Led by Instruction & Engagement staff, the program offers visitors an opportunity to experience the historic library and learn about its place in the cultural history of Los Angeles. The visit also includes an overview of the current exhibition,...

  • 28 Oct

    Halloween Magic Lantern Show! – Showing 1

    Wednesday, October 28, 2026
    5:00 pm PDT – 6:00 pm PDT
    UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    Presented by The American Magic Lantern Theater Travel back in time with the boisterous fun of America’s only Halloween magic lantern show. An authentic 1890s visual extravaganza projected on a full-sized screen—the kind of show that led to the movies!  Halloween stories like Poe’s The Raven, spooky animated comedy, spiritualist slides of the dead visiting the living—all dramatized on-screen by...

  • 28 Oct

    Halloween Magic Lantern Show! – Showing 2

    Wednesday, October 28, 2026
    7:00 pm PDT – 8:00 pm PDT
    UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    Presented by The American Magic Lantern Theater Travel back in time with the boisterous fun of America’s only Halloween magic lantern show. An authentic 1890s visual extravaganza projected on a full-sized screen—the kind of show that led to the movies!  Halloween stories like Poe’s The Raven, spooky animated comedy, spiritualist slides of the dead visiting the living—all dramatized on-screen by...

  • 2 Nov

    “Through the Magic Door”: Stories from the Private Library of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

    Monday, November 2, 2026
    4:00 pm PST – 5:30 pm PST
    UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library & via Livestream
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, CA 90018

    Lecture by Dr. William Zachs, Director, Blackie House Library and Museum Nearly a decade ago the descendants of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) transferred a substantial part of the author's private library to Blackie House Library and Museum in Edinburgh, the city of his birth. Each of the 400 volumes tells a unique story of the writer who not only...

  • 3 Nov

    Clark Library Highlights Tour – Fall Tour November 3

    Tuesday, November 3, 2026
    11:00 am PST – 12:00 pm PST
    UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    The “Clark Library Highlights Tour” provides an introduction to the history, architecture, and collections of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. Led by Instruction & Engagement staff, the program offers visitors an opportunity to experience the historic library and learn about its place in the cultural history of Los Angeles. The visit also includes an overview of the current exhibition,...

  • 5 Nov

    “Odious! In Woollen!”: Blank Precedents and the London Stationers, 1690-1830

    Thursday, November 5, 2026
    4:00 pm PST – 5:30 pm PST
    UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library & via Livestream
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, CA 90018

    Twenty-First Kenneth Karmiole Lecture on the History of the Book Trade Lecture by Dennis Duncan, Associate Professor, University College London This paper begins with a collection of four dozen Burying in Woollen affidavits from the village of Upper Heyford in Oxfordshire, dating from the first decade of the eighteenth century to the last. Each affidavit testifies to a burial in...

  • 8 Nov

    Trio con Brio Copenhagen, Chamber Music at the Clark

    Sunday, November 8, 2026
    2:00 pm PST – 4:00 pm PST
    UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    All Chamber Music at the Clark tickets will be sold by the UCLA Central Ticket Office. Tickets may be purchased online, via telephone, or in person.  Ticket prices: General $60; Senior (age 55+) $50; UCLA student (valid student ID required for each ticket) $15. Tickets are non-refundable. Tickets for this concert will go on sale Tuesday, October 6, 2026 at...

  • 10 Nov

    Clark Library Highlights Tour – Fall Tour November 10

    Tuesday, November 10, 2026
    11:00 am PST – 12:00 pm PST
    UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
    2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, California 90018

    The “Clark Library Highlights Tour” provides an introduction to the history, architecture, and collections of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. Led by Instruction & Engagement staff, the program offers visitors an opportunity to experience the historic library and learn about its place in the cultural history of Los Angeles. The visit also includes an overview of the current exhibition,...

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