Enjoy music, dance, theater and more, while experiencing wellness through all your senses. Join some of today’s most original authors, researchers and thinkers for conversations about how to create a healthy, engaged life for your family. Discover a global perspective on how children and families live around the world.


Traffic, air quality, consumer culture, beach pollution – explore how issues like these are affecting all of us. Be a part of town hall discussions on issues that determine everyone’s health. Help green your community and build a sustainable family lifestyle.

  • BEACON Lights Up Community's Feelings

    Six lanterns in the window of The UCLA Family Commons glow with colors that change as people’s feelings change. This interactive, data-driven display is designed to spark public conversation about how we feel. Using a mix of art and technology, it gives us another way to share and see each other’s feelings.

    The shifting colors of the BEACON lanterns reflect the ups and downs, ins and outs, of how people in our community are feeling. The colors change continually, just as our feelings change from moment to moment.

    When you use our “widget” to record how you feel, your input is automatically transferred to the server that controls the lanterns.

    Join the conversation. Click here to add your light to the lanterns’ glow.