August 2026
Friends in Space: How NASA’s Galileo Mission Inspired a Children’s Book with Nagin Cox and Rosaly Lopes
Join Adventurers’ Club members Nagin Cox and Rosaly Lopes for a talk about their work on the Galileo mission, the challenges of… Read more
Birdwatching: Santa Barbara and Beyond with Robert Zeman
Join Adventurers' Club member Robert Zeman for an evening exploring the world of birdwatching, from the varied habitats of Santa Barbara to… Watch the program here!
The Donn of Tiki - Special Film Screening and Q&A
Join the Adventurers' Club for a special screening of The Donn of Tiki, the acclaimed documentary on Don the Beachcomber and the… Read more
July 2026
Living with the Mentawai: An Expedition to Siberut Island with Emily Harriss
Journey deep into the dense jungles of Siberut Island with Emily Harriss as she recounts her expedition to live among the Mentawai… Watch the program here!
Marching Toward Launch of the Near-Earth Object Surveyor with Dr. Amy Mainzer
Join Dr. Amy Mainzer at the Adventurers' Club for an inside look at NASA's Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor mission, an ambitious effort… Watch the program here!
A Life in Counterintelligence and Global Risk with Gina L. Osborn
Gina L. Osborn is a retired FBI executive, Army veteran, and former Chief Safety and Security Officer for the Los Angeles County Metropolitan… Watch the program here!
Freedom Weighs Almost Nothing with Esther Adán
Esther Adán’s transformation from a conventional life in Spain to a full-time nomadic journey across four continents by motorcycle began in 2023… Watch the program here!
Freediving: From Novice to World Stage with Alasdair Boyd
At age 58, Alasdair Boyd entered the world of freediving as a complete novice. Less than a decade later, he would go… Watch the program here!
June 2026
Exploring the Universe- Private Tour of JPL with Scott Nowak #1261
This is a members only event. Come join Scott Nowak for a private tour of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on June 29,… Read more
9th Annual Tiki Night: Tiki During WWII with Jeff "Beachbum" Berry
Program by Jeff "Beachbum" Berry In the thick jungles and open waters of the South Pacific, how did the Greatest Generation get… Watch the program here!
Club Dark- Tiki Prep
The club is dark this Thursday as we prep for tiki night. Read more
The Comeback of the Bald Eagle in Michigan with Dr. Carl Palazzolo
For nearly half a century, veterinarian Dr. Carl Palazzolo has dedicated his career to animal care, treating animals ranging from household pets… Watch the program here!
The 10½ Greatest Adventures on Earth with Richard Bangs
After half a century of exploration across some of the world’s most remote and politically complex landscapes, from Angola to Zimbabwe and… Watch the program here!
The Aviator and the Showman: Amelia Earhart and George Putnam with Laurie Gwen Shapiro
Award-winning author and journalist Laurie Gwen Shapiro joins the Adventurers’ Club for a presentation on her acclaimed new book, The Aviator and… Watch the program here!
May 2026
Walking Across the U.S. in 100 Days with Kianna Torres
Kianna Torres will be talking about why she’s choosing to build her first company as an entrepreneur in the public rather than… Watch the program here!
Into the Rugged Wild: Trekking the Pacific Northwest Trail with Dyana Carmella
Journey into the deep wilderness of the Pacific Northwest with Dyana Carmella as she recounts her 74-day, 1,200-mile solo hike across the… Watch the program here!
A Life in Flight: From Rogue Pilot to Atlantic Crossings with Penelope Cornwall
Penelope Cornwall is a retired commercial pilot and flight instructor, and Vice President of the International Fellowship of Flying Aviators. She possess… Watch the program here!
Arctic Expedition: Honoring Matthew Henson's Legacy with Erick Cedeño and Danica Carey
What does it mean to follow in the footsteps of one of the most important yet underreported figures in exploration history? This… Watch the program here!
April 2026
Friendship Under the Soviet Sky with Dr. Louis Friedman
Adventurers’ Club member Dr. Louis Friedman will be sharing his extensive travels and collaborations in the USSR and Russia in the 1980s… Watch the program here!
Leadership Lessons from the Open Sea with Kent Matsuoka
Invited to sail aboard the USCGC Eagle, Kent Matsuoka experienced firsthand the management and leadership principles passed down through generations of sea… Watch the program here!
Solo Travel Across Seven Continents with Eleya Avery-Ault
Eleya Avery-Ault’s most recent trip was an expedition to Antarctica just one week after her 24th birthday, marking her 7th continent and… Watch the program here!
Academics and Adventures: Exploring Tropical Islands with Students with Hinrich Kaiser
Hinrich Kaiser was born and raised in Europe, where it was easy to cross borders and learn about other countries. Early in… Watch the program here!
Discovering Ancient Shipwrecks in Menorca with Trent Alves
Explorers Club student member Trent Alves takes us beneath the waters of Menorca, where an underwater archaeology project is reshaping our understanding… Watch the program here!
March 2026
Attunement Across Cultures: From South Pacific to South America with Aasha LaCount
Join Aasha LaCount, roller-skater and ISEI Emotional Intelligence Facilitator who has dedicated over a decade of work to emotional intelligence and human… Watch the program here!
The 130th Flag: A Nat Geo Superskilled Story with Dan Baird
Join world-renowned Survival Expert and Head Producer Dan Baird for an exclusive, behind-the-scenes look at the making of the second season of National… Watch the program here!
Sonic Safari: Tribal Music of India with Chuck Jonkey
Adventurers' Club member Chuck Jonkey (#1026) travels the world recording and documenting tribal music and rituals. He has assembled a vast collection… Read more
Among the Hadza and Maasai: Kinship in Tanzania with David Grober
Academy Award and Emmy Award–winning Adventurers’ Club member David Grober recently returned from northern Tanzania, where he lived among Hadza and Maasai… Watch the program here!
February 2026
Antarctica: "The Thing Expanded" with Wayne White
There is a ritual at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station that after the last aircraft departs and the station is officially “closed”… Watch the program here!
Motorcycle Overlanding Across Europe with Scott McQueen
The Adventurers' Club welcomes back member Scott McQueen as he returns to Los Angeles from Europe to share highlights from a months-long… Watch the program here!
United States of Adventure with Will Soiland
When Will Soiland was 24 years old, he took a leap into the unknown and discovered the joys of solo travel. Growing… Watch the program here!
The Vanguard of Outward Bound with Dr. Marion Somers
In the early 1970’s Dr. Marion Somers, an avid outdoorsman, decided she wanted to attend the Hurricane Island Outward Bound School (HIOBS)… Watch the program here!
January 2026
Visiting Iraq with Reymundo Perez
In the last twenty years, Iraq has undergone profound changes in governance and daily life. After the U.S.-led invasion in 2003 ended… Read more
The Right Hand Man: A Journey of Investigation in Panama with Cillian Dunne
Then-27-year old Cillian Dunne tells the story of choosing to follow a piece of reporting in a Central American nation, beyond the… Watch the program here!
Pong Around the World – Stories from 7 Continents with Justin Bookey
Tens of millions of people play ping pong worldwide, but very few have used a paddle as a passport to the entire… Watch the program here!
The Adventurers' Club 2026: The Frontier Ahead with Rich Mayfield
Join us for the first gathering of the year as Rich Mayfield #1211, President of the Adventurers’ Club of Los Angeles, shares… Watch the program here!
November 14, 2019- Bobby Green: Vintage Auto Racing
November 7, 2019– Annual Business Meeting– Second Session
November 2, 2019- 2019 Night of High Adventure at the Bowers Museum
October 24, 2019- Matt Kresling: The Madagascar Journals
October 17, 2019- Pierre Odier: Adventures in Southern Nepal and Bangladesh
October 10, 2019- Dawson Bloom: Scottish Archeology
September 12, 2019- Jim McEachen: Beyond Everest- Adventures in the Lesser-Known Himalaya
September 5, 2019– Andrew Medina: A Tryst in Triage (On Fingering the Afflictions of Paraguay)
August 29, 2019 – Alec Shumate: Summer Fury: Combat Art with the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing
August 22, 2019- Jake Roberts: Kayaking Uganda and Climbing Mt. Kenya
August 15, 2019– Franky Ortega: Jumping into Normandy– 75 Years Later
August 8, 2019– John Grasson: The Lost Ships of the Desert
August 1, 2019– Evan Bozanic 1173:Rebreathers in Diving, Aviation, and Submarines
July 25, 2019– Man’s First Landing on the Moon!
July 18, 2019- Kate Liszka: Exploring the Amethyst Mines of Pharaoh
June 13, 2019- Dean Torrance: The Adventures of Jan and Dean
June 27, 2019- Greg Downing: Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, China
June 20, 2019- David Veeneman: Mutiny on the Bounty: Fact or Fiction?
June 6, 2019- 75th Anniversary of D-Day: With stories from our members.
May 30, 2019- Richard Higbie: Blimping and Ballooning in the 1950s and ‘60s
May 23, 2019- Alec Shumate: Forbidden Frontier- The Matis Tribe of the Brazilian Amazon and a Field Report from a Flagged Expedition
May 16, 2019- Members Showcase: Short Stories From Several Members
May 9, 2019- Neil Mandt: Augmented Reality
May 2, 2019- Scott Warner: Prospecting the USA
April 27, 2019- Steve Elkins: The Lost City of the Monkey God
April 25, 2019- Allan Smith: The Marine Raider Memorial March
April 18, 2019- Alec Shumate:Paddling Down the Mekong River in Cambodia
April 11, 2019- Elisa Kotin: The Best of Seven Continents
April 4, 2019- Lance Miller: Leadership Lessons from Ernest Shackleton
March 28, 2019- Christoper Bartlett: Papua New Guinea – Above and Below
March 21, 2019- Second Annual Tiki Night
March 14, 2019- Archaeologist Brian Fagan: The Attacking Ocean
March 7, 2019- Alan Feldstein: Saving Cheetahs!
February 28, 2019- Linda Abrams: The First Women to Fly
February 21, 2019- Katherine Partain: Leading Nuclear Audits
February 14, 2019- Matterhorn
February 7, 2019- Mad Man Mike Hughes: Rocketman!
January 31, 2019- Chuck Jonkey: The 1937 film “Forbidden Adventure in Angkor”
January 24, 2019- Jim Biesterfield: Mommy Dearest
January 17, 2017- Karen Heath Clark: Sailing The Mediterranean
January 10, 2019- Col. Greg Raths, USMC (ret.): Nine Lives as a Fighter Pilot
January 3, 2019- Michael Lawler: Cruising to Yemen Through the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea
Rick Bartow Retrospective
By Dr. Amy Scott
Things You Know But Cannot Explain
December 20, 2018
ACLA President’s Holiday Party
November 29, 2018
An Open Night
Doug Westfall
The Pan Am China Clipper
December 6, 2018
An Open Night
Don Ray
Did the U.S. Army fire and detonate
a nuclear artillery round in Laos or Vietnam late in 1968?
November 8, 2018
A Member Night
Scott Warner 1184
Dredging the Bering Sea for Gold
November 15, 2018
An Open Night
Steve Kaye
BIRDS
The Next Adventure
November 22, 2018
DARK
Thanksgiving
November 1, 2018
Professor Kate Liszka
King Tut
Treasures of the Golden Pharaoh
October 27, 2018- Night of High Adventure
An Open Night – Members and All Guests Welcome
A Celebration of the Life and Contributions of
Shane Berry, ACLA Member 1093
October 11, 2018
A Ladies’ Night
Decoding the Mystery of the Designs on Mimbres Pottery
Ancient Pueblos Culture in New Mexico
Speakers Tony Berlant and Evan Maurer
Curators of the Mimbres Exhibit at LACMA and authors of the book on the Exhibition
Referred by David Hayen, Esq.,1203
September 27, 2018
A Gentlemen’s Night
Wayne White 1194
Chief of South Pole Station
This – Is – Gonna’ – Be – AWESOME!
October 4, 2018
Gentlemen’s Night
Membership Meeting
September 13, 2018
A Ladies’ Night
Sid Hallburn 1125
Self Defense Tips for Women
September 6, 2018
A Ladies’ Night
An ACLA and Explorer’s Club Night
Pierre Odier 988
Remote Corners of Gujarat India 2017
For members of both clubs and their guests.
August 30, 2018
A Gentlemen’s Night
Lynn Redman 1198
A midwestern rancher tours India in 1993; can’t get a decent steak anywhere…
August 16, 2018
A Ladie’s Night
Teddy Roosevelt
John Ashbaugh
August 23, 2018
A Ladies’ Night
Dr. Milton Love
Research Biologist, Marine Science Institute, UC, Santa Barbara
August 9, 2018
A Ladies’ Night
Jeff Holmes 1146
SE Asia WAY off the beaten path
August 2, 2018
A Gentlemen’s Night
David McAlexander 1199
SAMs (Surface-to-Air Missiles)
Dodging Aerial Death from Vietnam to Desert Storm
July 12, 2018
A Ladies’ Night
Marco Rocchio
The Story of Coffee from Ethiopia to Guatemala
Referred by David Hayen, Esq.,1203
July 19, 2018
A Gentlemen’s Night
Dave Finnern
Member 1065
Sunken Mysteries Of The West
June 28,
A Ladies’ Night
Justin Chapman
Traveling from Capetown to Kampala in Search of an African Utopia
June 21, 2018
A Ladies’ Night
Dr. Megan O’Neil
Associate Curator LACMA
New Discoveries at the Pyramids in the Ancient City of Teotihuacan, Mexico
Referred by David Hayen 1203
June 7, 2018
A Ladies’ Night
Valerie Lezin
Connecting Cultures Mobile Museum
Referred by David Hayen 1203
June 14, 2018
A Night Open To All
Robert Quist ACLA Member
Cuba 2010 and Again 2017
May 31, 2018
A Ladies’ Night
Yosemite NPS Firefighter
Larry Ypez
Bear Attack Survivor
May 24, 2018
A Ladies’ Night
Dave Berman 1201
600 Years of the Universe Through Glass
From Galileo to Alvan Clark & Beyond
May 17, 2018
A Ladies’ Night – Everyone Welcome
I N M E M O R I A M
Bob Silver 728
Party
May 3, 2018
A Gentlemen’s Night
Alec Shumate
The Vanishing Art of Travel Sketching
May 10, 2018
A Ladies’ Night
Nick Ut
From Hell to Hollywood
Interview by Mark Edward Harris
April 26, 2018
A Gentlemen’s Night
Ed Reynolds
200 Countries and Driven 1953 MG in 48 States
April 19, 2018
A Ladies’ Night
Rich Mayfield
Hiking the Appalachian Trail from Florida to Maine, Part 1
April 12, 2018
A Ladies’ Night
Phyllis Hansen
The Art of Pioneering:
Paintings and Tales of Early California
April 5, 2018
A Gentlemens’ Night
Andy Medina
Clash of Giants – Cold War Espionage
March 29, 2018
A Ladies’ Night
Kendall Hudson
SOLD OUT!
Tiki Culture in a Coconut Shell
March 22, 2018
A Ladies’ Night
Rusty Nelson
Storm Chasing and Image Mastery
March 15, 2018
A Ladies’ Night
Eric Drummond
Giant Rubies Discovered in Greenland
March 8, 2018
A Ladies’ Night
The King of Redonda, Michael Lawler Member 1195
Spanish Discovery of Hawaii before Capt. Cook
March 1, 2018
A Ladies’ Night
Member Showcase
Bring an Object that Relates to an Adventure.
February 22, 2018
A Ladies’ Night
Casey Sheppard
7 Life Lessons from Solo Traveling
February 15, 2018
A Ladies’ Night
“Hot Rod” Kurtz, Navy Aviator
First Night of War
Or, ejecting from a damaged jet over ocean
February 8, 2018
A Gentlemen’s Night
Brian Kresie 1186
Bang Bang!Ft. Irwin National Training Center preparing troops to deploy overseas
February 1, 2018
A Ladies’ Night
Both ends of the frozen world
The Antarctic – Wayne White 1194
The Arctic – Francis Luta
January 25, 2018
A Ladies’ Night
Natalie Gibb
Exploring Yucatan Underwater Caves
January 18, 2018
A Gentlemen’s Night
Bill Altaffer 1095
B U L G A R I A
January 11, 2018
A Ladies’ Night
Dr. Michelle Rich
Pre Columbian Archeology Discoveries in 7th Century Guatemala
January 4, 2018
A Gentlemen’s Night
Jay Foonberg 1126
Havana Cuba for Adventurers Club
December 14, 2017
A Gentlemen’s Night
President’s Annual Holiday Celebration
November 30, 2017
A Ladies’ Night
Ken Corben
Creatures of Light
Deep Sea Science and Dives
December 7, 2017
A Ladie’s Night
Dave Rader
Theodore Roosevelt
November 9, 2017
A Ladie’s Night
Barbara Schultz
How Amelia Earhart financed her flying
November 16, 2017
A Ladies’ Night
Terrence Finnegan
A Delicate Affair on the Western Front
November 23, 2017
Club Dark
Thanksgiving
November 2, 2017
A Gentleman’s Night
Showcase of the Awesome Members
of ACLA
Club General Business Meeting Precedes Program
October 12, 2017
A Ladie’s Night
Ken Freund 1046
Motorcycles Across Russia
October 19, 2017
A Gentlemen’s Night
Member Spotlight
Plus Rabbi Shifren
International Masters Ocean Championships
A Non-Club Event
Sunday, October 22, 2017
International Masters – Ocean Championships
At Duke’s of Huntington Beach
September 21, 2017
Marthe Cohen
A Jewish Spy in Nazi Germany
Referred by Steve Bein 1057
September 28, 2017
Shane Berry 1093
Ecuador and Galapagos
Independent Exploration
October 5, 2017
Allison Brown
Staying Fit for Adventure
The Adventurer’s Club thanks Martin Bloom 1147 for this speaker.
September 7, 2017
Erin Johnson
Atlas Obscura Night
The Adventurers Club thanks Eric Steit 1166 for referring this speaker.
September 14, 2017
Eileen Finklestein
The Kindness of Strangers: A Travel through civilized and remote Bolivia
The Adventurers Club thanks Alan Feldstein 1094 for referring this speaker.
August 31, 2017
Scott Tracy Griffin
Tarzan on Location, Director of Special Projects – Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.
The Adventurers Club thanks Stewart Deats 1168 for referring this speaker.
August 17, 2017
TJ Korst – Egyptology: Fact/Myth
August 24, 2017
Bob Silver 728 Birthday Bash
– and Transpac 2017 with Mike Lawler 1195 Mike and Barbara’s Exhilarating Sailing Race
August 10, 2017
Andrea Donnellan – The Big One
August 3, 2017
Member Spotlight – The Awesome Members of ACLA
July 27, 2017
Elisa Kotin – A Journey Through the Real Indonesia
July 20, 2017
Steven Wright – 21 Day Wilderness River Trip Down the Grand Canyon
July 13, 2017– Eric Streit #1166 – Catholic Sicilian Culture of Death