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UCLA's '10 Questions'

From Oct. 5 to Dec. 7, 2020 take part in the third installment of the School of the Arts and Architecture's "10 Questions" conversation series as some of UCLA's most fascinating artists, choreographers, musicians, curators and more discuss love, justice and everything in between against the backdrop of COVID-19, global warming and even the presidential election. 

You'll also get to listen to them discuss their work and what it means now. 

Find the full lineup of questions and panelists on the #UCLAarts website.

taisha paggett, “breathingholdinglistening practice.” In conjunction with Made in L.A. 2018, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, September 1, 2018. | Gina Clyne
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White capital letters over black read "What Matters?"
In the 10th and final conversation of UCLA’s “10 Questions: Reckoning” series, legal scholar Anna Spain Bradley, director Peter Sellars and historian Teo Ruiz explore the question, "What Matters?"
white capital letters on a black background read "WHAT IS KINDNESS?"
In the fourth conversation of UCLA’s “10 Questions: Reckoning” series, artist Kristy Edmunds, evolutionary anthropologist Daniel M.T. Fessler and clinical psychologist Vickie M. Mays explore the question, "What is Kindness?"
White capital letters over a black background read "WHAT IS HUMOR?"
In the seventh conversation of UCLA’s “10 Questions: Reckoning” series, chemistry professor Neil Garg, writer and director Dominic Taylor and cognitive psychologist and author Scott Weems, explore the question, "What is Humor?"
White capital letters over black background read "WHAT IS LOSS"?
In the eighth conversation of UCLA’s “10 Questions: Reckoning” series, artist Jenna Caravello, oncology chaplain Michael Eselun, and anthropologist Jorja Leap explore the question, "What is Loss?"
White capital letters over black text read "WHAT IS LOVE?"
In the ninth conversation of UCLA’s “10 Questions: Reckoning” series, educator and writer Alicia Gaspar de Alba, artist Sharon Hayes and researcher Tyrone Howard explore the question, "What is Love?"
Anna Spain Bradley at a library. | Courtesy of UCLA
Anna Spain Bradley, UCLA's new vice chancellor for equity, diversity and inclusion, says it's imperative that we sit down and have conversations with people we disagree with. 
Sharon Hayes performs “In the Near Future” in 2009. | Courtesy of UCLA
What does embracing love — be it cis, trans, gay, straight or queer — have to do with politics and social justice? As it turns out, quite a bit.
A still from Jenna Caravello's short animated film "Frontier Wisdom." | Courtesy of Jenna Caravello
Meet Jenna Caravello, the mind-bendingly creative brain who uses video games, interactive installations and animated short films as ways to help us make sense of memory, loss and meaning.
A poster featuring Tracie L. Washington's quote "Stop Calling Me Resilient because every time you say 'oh, they're resilient' that means you can do something else to me. I am not resilient." Louisiana Justice Institute. | Screenshot "10 Questions"
In the sixth conversation of UCLA’s “10 Questions: Reckoning” series, musician Duane Benjamin, biologist Tracy Johnson and architect Kian Goh explore the question, "What is Resilience?"
The question "WHAT IS HOPE?" in white text over black background. | Screenshot from "10 Questions: Reckoning: What is Hope?"
In the fifth conversation of UCLA’s “10 Questions: Reckoning” series, Herbie Hancock, Tananarive Dueand Ramesh Srinivasan explore the question, "What is Hope?"
Neil Garg uses humor to create a fun and engaging learning environment. In this class, he compared the process of retrosynthesis to creating a sandwich, as a student volunteer assembled a sandwich. | Coral von Zumwalt, Courtesy of UCLA
Can learning organic chemistry and promoting scientific literacy be all fun and games? Neil Garg thinks so.
The question "WHAT IS POWER?" in white over a black background. | Still from "10 Questions: Reckoning: What is Power?"
In the third conversation of UCLA’s “10 Questions: Reckoning” series, William Boyd, Chon Noriega and Jemima Pierre explore the question, "What is Power?"
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