Culture Groups Los Angeles

🍜 Asian Background Social: Lounge Asia Los Angeles (Easy English) @6pm

⏰ 6:00 to 9:00 pm LA time 🌏 Make new international friends in Los Angeles. Come alone, practise your English, and enjoy a relaxed social night. 😊 A friendly meetup for networking, language exchange, and real conversation — open to everyone. Why People Love Lounge Asia 🍜 **Asian-focused event** 🤝 Many guests come alone 💬 No need for perfect English 🌏 No games or forced introductions — just enjoy the conversation Lounge Asia began within the Asian community, so people from Asia often feel comfortable and at home here. At the same time, everyone is welcome — locals, expats, travellers, students, returnees, digital nomads, and globally minded people. ━━━━━━━━━━ How to Join 1️⃣ Tap "RSVP" on this page 2️⃣ Show your Meetup QR code at reception 3️⃣ Collect your name tag and start meeting people ✅ Early RSVP is free ✅ RSVPs made within 48 hours of the event start time are $5 ✅ Limited capacity — please RSVP early Many people attend alone, so don't worry if it's your first time. ━━━━━━━━━━ How to Find Us 📍 Venue The Normandie Club 3612 W 6th St, Los Angeles, CA 90020 [Normandie Club](https://www.thenormandieclub.com/?utm_source=chatgpt.com) ⏰ Start Time — Los Angeles Local Time 6pm ⚠️ Important: This is the local time in Los Angeles. Meetup may display Brisbane time or another time zone, so please follow the local time shown above. 🚶 Getting There About a 3-minute walk from Wilshire/Normandie Metro station. ━━━━━━━━━━ 🍺 Please Support the Venue This event is free or low-cost because the venue supports our community. Please purchase at least one drink during the event. Your support helps us keep organising events at great venues. ━━━━━━━━━━ 💚 Please Be Respectful Lounge Asia is a friendly social event where everyone should feel comfortable and welcome. 🚫 This is NOT a pickup or dating event. Anyone who makes others uncomfortable may be removed immediately. Not allowed: harassment, unwanted attention, MLM / crypto / religious recruitment, or anything that makes others uncomfortable. Organisers reserve the right to refuse entry or ask anyone to leave. 🪪 A valid government-issued photo ID is strictly required for entry. No photo ID, no entry. Driver's licences must be issued by the government of the country where the event is held. 📸 Photos and short videos may be taken for community and promotional purposes. If you prefer not to appear, please let an organiser know when you arrive. ━━━━━━━━━━ Lounge Asia is already growing in Australia and is now expanding across Asia — Japan, Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore. Our goal is simple: More friendship, more understanding, and more genuine connections across cultures. 📱 Instagram: @_lounge_asia 🎥 Watch Event Video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNak_cu9CXw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNak_cu9CXw) 👉 GET VIP ACCESS: [https://forms.gle/t6GXAjTNFECetVuZ8](https://forms.gle/t6GXAjTNFECetVuZ8) ━━━━━━━━━━ 🌏 Come say hi! Hey, come hang out! 来一起玩吧！ 一起來聊天吧！ 気軽に遊びに来てね！ 편하게 놀러 와요! มาเจอกันนะ! Tới chơi nha! Tara, sali ka na! Yuk, gabung! လာပြီး အတူပျော်ကြရအောင်! មកលេងជាមួយគ្នាណា! ມາພົບກັນເດີ້! Хамтдаа цуглацгаая! Komm einfach vorbei! Jom join kita! See you at Lounge Asia!

🍜 Asian Background Social: Lounge Asia Los Angeles (Easy English) @6pm

⏰ 6:00 to 9:00 pm LA time 🌏 Make new international friends in Los Angeles. Come alone, practise your English, and enjoy a relaxed social night. 😊 A friendly meetup for networking, language exchange, and real conversation — open to everyone. Why People Love Lounge Asia 🍜 **Asian-focused event** 🤝 Many guests come alone 💬 No need for perfect English 🌏 No games or forced introductions — just enjoy the conversation Lounge Asia began within the Asian community, so people from Asia often feel comfortable and at home here. At the same time, everyone is welcome — locals, expats, travellers, students, returnees, digital nomads, and globally minded people. ━━━━━━━━━━ How to Join 1️⃣ Tap "RSVP" on this page 2️⃣ Show your Meetup QR code at reception 3️⃣ Collect your name tag and start meeting people ✅ Early RSVP is free ✅ RSVPs made within 48 hours of the event start time are $5 ✅ Limited capacity — please RSVP early Many people attend alone, so don't worry if it's your first time. ━━━━━━━━━━ How to Find Us 📍 Venue The Normandie Club 3612 W 6th St, Los Angeles, CA 90020 [Normandie Club](https://www.thenormandieclub.com/?utm_source=chatgpt.com) ⏰ Start Time — Los Angeles Local Time 6pm ⚠️ Important: This is the local time in Los Angeles. Meetup may display Brisbane time or another time zone, so please follow the local time shown above. 🚶 Getting There About a 3-minute walk from Wilshire/Normandie Metro station. ━━━━━━━━━━ 🍺 Please Support the Venue This event is free or low-cost because the venue supports our community. Please purchase at least one drink during the event. Your support helps us keep organising events at great venues. ━━━━━━━━━━ 💚 Please Be Respectful Lounge Asia is a friendly social event where everyone should feel comfortable and welcome. 🚫 This is NOT a pickup or dating event. Anyone who makes others uncomfortable may be removed immediately. Not allowed: harassment, unwanted attention, MLM / crypto / religious recruitment, or anything that makes others uncomfortable. Organisers reserve the right to refuse entry or ask anyone to leave. 🪪 A valid government-issued photo ID is strictly required for entry. No photo ID, no entry. Driver's licences must be issued by the government of the country where the event is held. 📸 Photos and short videos may be taken for community and promotional purposes. If you prefer not to appear, please let an organiser know when you arrive. ━━━━━━━━━━ Lounge Asia is already growing in Australia and is now expanding across Asia — Japan, Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore. Our goal is simple: More friendship, more understanding, and more genuine connections across cultures. 📱 Instagram: @_lounge_asia 🎥 Watch Event Video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNak_cu9CXw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNak_cu9CXw) 👉 GET VIP ACCESS: [https://forms.gle/t6GXAjTNFECetVuZ8](https://forms.gle/t6GXAjTNFECetVuZ8) ━━━━━━━━━━ 🌏 Come say hi! Hey, come hang out! 来一起玩吧！ 一起來聊天吧！ 気軽に遊びに来てね！ 편하게 놀러 와요! มาเจอกันนะ! Tới chơi nha! Tara, sali ka na! Yuk, gabung! လာပြီး အတူပျော်ကြရအောင်! មកលេងជាមួយគ្នាណា! ມາພົບກັນເດີ້! Хамтдаа цуглацгаая! Komm einfach vorbei! Jom join kita! See you at Lounge Asia!

Social Mixer: Get Your Fun Game On With Optional White Elephant Gift Exchange

Korean-English Language Exchange

Korean-English Language Exchange

Desi Film Club - Baramulla

Hey Everyone we are launching a Desi film club as an extension of the book club, this will be run by our book club member Natasha. Come one, come all to the Bollywood/Desi Film Club! My name is Natasha and I am creating this film club to build a community that celebrates, analyzes, and enjoy films made by and for desi people. We will be watching films from India's Hindi Film Industry, commonly known as Bollywood, and other film industries in India such as Malayalam Cinema, Tamil Cinema, Marathi Cinema, Bengali and so many more film industries that represent specific languages/ethnic cultures. Don't worry, we won't exclude Desi films from other desi siblings that make up the subcontinent in Pakistan, Kashmir, Nepal, Sri Lanka and diaspora films made from the U.S., Canada, and more. ☺️ We will be exploring films from the silent era, to the golden era, current, mainstream, art house, and so much more! You don't have to be an expert on films or the industries (I certainly am not) to join. In celebration of the spooky season 👻 our first film will be the Bollywood film Baramulla (2025) which can be found on Netflix. Rules: 1\. Please watch the film on your own or with others and let's meet and talk about it\. 2\. All films suggested to watch must provide English Subtitles\. Not all of us are fluent in the 400\+ languages and dialects from the subcontinent\. ;\) 3\. No\, you do not have to be Indian or South Asian to be part of the club\. People of all ages\, at all levels of knowledge/exposure to desi films\, and all backgrounds are welcome to the club\. 4\. I will have a sign at one of the tables in Samosa House to let you know where we will be meeting\.

Korean-English Language Exchange

Free! Two Films on Oscar Rabin & Valentina Kropivnitskaya

**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.

🍜 Asian Background Social: Lounge Asia Los Angeles (Easy English) @6pm

⏰ 6:00 to 9:00 pm LA time 🌏 Make new international friends in Los Angeles. Come alone, practise your English, and enjoy a relaxed social night. 😊 A friendly meetup for networking, language exchange, and real conversation — open to everyone. Why People Love Lounge Asia 🍜 **Asian-focused event** 🤝 Many guests come alone 💬 No need for perfect English 🌏 No games or forced introductions — just enjoy the conversation Lounge Asia began within the Asian community, so people from Asia often feel comfortable and at home here. At the same time, everyone is welcome — locals, expats, travellers, students, returnees, digital nomads, and globally minded people. ━━━━━━━━━━ How to Join 1️⃣ Tap "RSVP" on this page 2️⃣ Show your Meetup QR code at reception 3️⃣ Collect your name tag and start meeting people ✅ Early RSVP is free ✅ RSVPs made within 48 hours of the event start time are $5 ✅ Limited capacity — please RSVP early Many people attend alone, so don't worry if it's your first time. ━━━━━━━━━━ How to Find Us 📍 Venue The Normandie Club 3612 W 6th St, Los Angeles, CA 90020 [Normandie Club](https://www.thenormandieclub.com/?utm_source=chatgpt.com) ⏰ Start Time — Los Angeles Local Time 6pm ⚠️ Important: This is the local time in Los Angeles. Meetup may display Brisbane time or another time zone, so please follow the local time shown above. 🚶 Getting There About a 3-minute walk from Wilshire/Normandie Metro station. ━━━━━━━━━━ 🍺 Please Support the Venue This event is free or low-cost because the venue supports our community. Please purchase at least one drink during the event. Your support helps us keep organising events at great venues. ━━━━━━━━━━ 💚 Please Be Respectful Lounge Asia is a friendly social event where everyone should feel comfortable and welcome. 🚫 This is NOT a pickup or dating event. Anyone who makes others uncomfortable may be removed immediately. Not allowed: harassment, unwanted attention, MLM / crypto / religious recruitment, or anything that makes others uncomfortable. Organisers reserve the right to refuse entry or ask anyone to leave. 🪪 A valid government-issued photo ID is strictly required for entry. No photo ID, no entry. Driver's licences must be issued by the government of the country where the event is held. 📸 Photos and short videos may be taken for community and promotional purposes. If you prefer not to appear, please let an organiser know when you arrive. ━━━━━━━━━━ Lounge Asia is already growing in Australia and is now expanding across Asia — Japan, Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore. Our goal is simple: More friendship, more understanding, and more genuine connections across cultures. 📱 Instagram: @_lounge_asia 🎥 Watch Event Video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNak_cu9CXw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNak_cu9CXw) 👉 GET VIP ACCESS: [https://forms.gle/t6GXAjTNFECetVuZ8](https://forms.gle/t6GXAjTNFECetVuZ8) ━━━━━━━━━━ 🌏 Come say hi! Hey, come hang out! 来一起玩吧！ 一起來聊天吧！ 気軽に遊びに来てね！ 편하게 놀러 와요! มาเจอกันนะ! Tới chơi nha! Tara, sali ka na! Yuk, gabung! လာပြီး အတူပျော်ကြရအောင်! មកលេងជាមួយគ្នាណា! ມາພົບກັນເດີ້! Хамтдаа цуглацгаая! Komm einfach vorbei! Jom join kita! See you at Lounge Asia!

TAFFF (The American French Film Festival)

Chers amis. Le TAFFF revient à Los Angeles la semaine prochaine. The American french Film Festival comes back to LA next week. A week of French movies, documentaries, TV series, many FREE screenings. Happy Hour talks with filmmakers followed by wine and cheese receptions. Check out programs, schedule, and all info here. https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org We will post individual events as well. If anyone plans to attend a screening and would like to meetup please message me through meetup or in the chat below and we can schedule it. See you there Alain

Free: Exhibition Opening: COSMOLOGIES: INTERPRETING THE SKY

**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/exhibition-opening-competing-cosmologies-interpreting-the-sky/](https://wendemuseum.org/event/exhibition-opening-competing-cosmologies-interpreting-the-sky/)* visit the Wende Museum for the opening of Competing Cosmologies: Interpreting the Sky on Saturday, November 7. 12 p.m.: Curator-led tour 2 p.m.: Opening speeches 3 p.m.: Opening reception Co-curated by the Wende Museum’s chief curator Joes Segal, associate curator Emma Diffley, and NASA historian Lois Rosson, Competing Cosmologies explores how new discoveries in space exploration during and after the Cold War have inspired visual artists around the world. Its four sections, Astronomy, the Space Race, Futurisms, and Aliens, bring together artists from the East, the West, and the Global South and trace how they responded to advances in space science and technology and connected these discoveries to their own cultural contexts. The exhibition combines historical artifacts, including a full-scale model of Sputnik-1, an original meteorite, and cosmos-themed sculptures, with contemporary and Cold War-era artwork inspired by the cosmos. Artists include Pyotr Belenok, Nuotama Bodomo, Chesley Bonestell, Beatriz Cortez, David van Eyssen, Bettina Forget, Chitra Ganesh, Mark Steven Greenfield, Lia Halloran, Jitish Kallat, Paul Laffoley, Alexei Leonov, Aaron Samuel Mulenga, Truong Minh Quy, Sun Ra, Leo Raudys, Ionel Talpazan, Fedir Tetyanych, and Li Tianbing. Competing Cosmologies is on view through October 17, 2027.

San Gabriel Valley Chinese Language Meetup

The primary reason for this meetup is for a friendly language exchange between English speakers and Chinese(all dialects) speakers. The end goal is to improve in the language that each person seeks to learn. The secondary reason is for an exchange of cultures(all cultures 😃).