Calm Mornings
Calm Mornings
Calm Morning Hour creates an environment for all learners to enjoy less-sensory stimulating spaces with moderated sound and lighting displays.
Join filmmakers Jorge R. Gutierrez and Sandra Equihua for an interactive animation activity celebrating Día de los Muertos in our Stories of Cinema, Animation gallery. Instruction for this activity will be offered in Spanish and English with live ASL interpretation.
Jorge R. Gutierrez
Emmy award-winning Jorge Gutierrez is a Mexican animator, painter, voice actor, writer, and director. Born in Mexico City and raised in Tijuana, Gutierrez has completed various films, cartoons, illustrations, and paintings exploring his love with Mexican pop and folk culture. He was the director and cowriter of the animated feature The Book of Life, produced by Guillermo del Toro for 20th Century Fox, which earned Gutierrez a 2014 Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Animated Feature Film. He was also the writer and director of the Emmy-nominated Son of Jaguar VR short for Google. Along with his wife and muse, Sandra Equihua, they created the multiple Emmy Award–winning animated television series El Tigre, The Adventures of Manny Rivera for Nickelodeon. Gutierrez is currently writing and directing his animated limited series Maya and the Three for Netflix.
Sandra Equihua
Emmy award-winning Sandra Equihua is a Tijuana-born artist, designer, and voice actress based in the city of Los Angeles. Equihua received her BFA in Graphic Design at IBERO University in Tijuana, Mexico and shortly after branched to character design for animated series and films. She has had the pleasure of working on projects at Sony, WB, Disney, and Nick Jr. In 2007 at Nickelodeon, with her husband Jorge Gutierrez, she created and designed the multiple Emmy award-winning animated series, El Tigre, The Adventures of Manny Rivera. In 2014, she and her husband once again collaborated to make the animated feature The Book of Life, produced by Guillermo del Toro for 20th Century Fox. She most recently designed and voiced characters for the new limited series Maya and the Three for Netflix.
Academy Museum inclusion initiatives are made possible in part by the Ruderman Family Foundation. This program is also made possible in part by a grant from the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs.
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Calm Morning: Adventures through Storyboarding
Join us for sensory-friendly gallery highlights and workshops, and stay for an accommodative screening of UP (2009) with filmmaker Ronnie del Carmen.
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Join us for sensory-friendly gallery highlights and workshops, and stay for an accommodative open-captioned screening of ELF (2003).
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Designated hours to experience the museum in a less-sensory-stimulating way.
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Saturday, September 24, 2022
Calm Morning: The Wizard of Oz
Join us for sensory-friendly gallery exploration and a drop-in workshop inspired bythe accommodative screening of The Wizard of Oz (1939).
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Sat, Oct 29, 2022
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Join us for sensory-friendly gallery exploration and a family workshop inspired by the accommodative screening of ParaNorman (2012).
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Saturday, November 26, 2022
Calm Morning: The NeverEnding Story
Join us for sensory-friendly gallery exploration and a family workshop inspired bythe accommodative screening of The NeverEnding Story (1984).
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Saturday, January 28, 2022
Calm Morning: Beetlejuice
Join us for sensory-friendly gallery exploration and a family workshop inspired by the accommodative screening of Beetlejuice (1988).
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Saturday, February 25, 2023
Calm Morning: My Neighbor Totoro
Join us for sensory-friendly gallery exploration and a family workshop inspired by the accommodative screening of My Neighbor Totoro (1988).
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Calm Morning: Foley Art
Join us for sensory-friendly gallery exploration and a family workshop inspired by the accommodative screening of Singin’ in the Rain (1952).
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April 29, 2023
Calm Morning: Lego Stop-Motion
Join us for sensory-friendly gallery exploration and a family workshop inspired by the accommodative screening of The Lego Movie (2014)
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Saturday, May 27
Calm Morning: Muppets Most Wanted Puppet-Making Workshop
Join us for sensory-friendly gallery exploration and a family workshop inspired by the accommodative screening of Muppets Most Wanted (2014).
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Saturday, June 24, 2023
Calm Morning: Zootopia
Join us for sensory-friendly gallery exploration, a family workshop inspired by the accommodative screening of Zootopia (2016), and a marionette show by the Bob Baker Marionette Theater!
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Saturday, July 29, 2023
Calm Morning: Finding Nemo Music Workshop
Join us for sensory-friendly gallery exploration and a family workshop inspired by the accommodative screening of Finding Nemo (2003).
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Saturday, August 26, 2023
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Join us for sensory-friendly gallery exploration and a family workshop inspired by the accommodative screening of Big Hero 6 (2014).
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Calm Morning: Raya and the Last Dragon—Design a Dragon Workshop
Join us for sensory-friendly gallery exploration and a family workshop inspired by the accommodative screening of Raya and the Last Dragon (2021).
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Saturday, October 28, 2023
Calm Morning: The Witches Special Effects Makeup Workshop
Join us for sensory-friendly gallery exploration and a family workshop inspired by the film The Witches (1990).
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Saturday, January 27, 2024
Calm Morning: The Lego Batman Movie Stop-motion Workshop
Join us for sensory-friendly gallery exploration and a family workshop inspired by the accommodative screening of The Lego Batman Movie (2017).
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Saturday, February 24, 2024
Calm Morning: A Wrinkle in Time
Designated hours to experience the museum in a less-sensory-stimulating setting.
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Saturday, March 30, 2024
Calm Morning: Queen of Katwe
Join us for sensory-friendly gallery exploration and a family workshop inspired by the accessible screening of Queen of Katwe (2016).
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Saturday, April 27, 2024
Calm Morning: He Named Me Malala Movie Poster Design
Join us for sensory-friendly gallery exploration and a family workshop inspired by the accessible screening of He Named Me Malala (2015).
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Saturday, May 25, 2024
Calm Morning: Turning Red
Join us for sensory-friendly gallery exploration and a family workshop inspired by the accessible screening of Turning Red (2022). We will be joined by special guest, Rosalie Chiang, the voice of Meilin Lee in Turning Red!
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Saturday, June 29, 2024
Calm Morning: Onward
Join us for sensory-friendly gallery exploration and a family workshop inspired by the accessible screening of Onward (2020).
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Saturday, July 27 , 2024
Calm Morning: Ralph Breaks the Internet
Join us for sensory-friendly gallery exploration and a family workshop inspired by the accessible screening of Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018).
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Saturday, August 31, 2024
Calm Morning: Monsters, Inc.
Join us for sensory-friendly gallery exploration and a family workshop inspired by the accessible screening of Monsters, Inc. (2001).
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Sat, Sep 28, 2024
Calm Morning: Encanto
Join us for sensory-friendly gallery exploration and a family workshop inspired by the accessible screening of Encanto (2021).
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Saturday, October 26, 2024
Calm Morning: Haunted Sounds Foley Art
Join us for sensory-friendly gallery exploration and a family workshop inspired by the accessible screening of Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948).