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PROPHECY, DIVINE MADNESS, AND PSYCHOLOGY:
LIBER NOVUS, THE RED BOOK OF C. G. JUNG
Public Lecture by Professor Sonu Shamdasani
(Red Book Editor and co-translator; General Editor of the Philemon Foundation; & Philemon Professor of Jung History at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London)

Friday, April 23, 7:30-9:30 PM
UCLA Schoenberg Hall
Limited Seating. Advance ticket purchase strongly recommended.
Doors open at 6:30.

$50 General Admission (non-reserved seating)

Reserved seating available to those supporting the work of The Philemon Foundation by purchase of a tax-deductible Philemon donor/patron events package of $1,000 or $5,000.

Register Online for Tickets or call: 805-969 3626, EXT. 103.

All proceeds benefit the Philemon Foundation
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Artist Jonas Wood's studio.

This interview was conducted using electronic mail. Questions composed by the Hammer's new media manager Amanda Law. Look for information on Jonas Wood's Hammer Project here.

AL: I see from your bio that you went to undergrad for psychology but then received an MFA in painting and drawing. How did you travel from one subject to the other?
JW: I chose to go to a liberal arts school so that I could pursue both science and art classes. I finished my psychology major after junior year and senior year I focused mainly on learning how to paint.

AL: There are a lot of plants in the Hammer exhibition. Why plants?
JW: I first started painting plants after grad school as a means to paint from life. When I moved to LA I was really taken with the plant life (succulents mostly) and started painting plants

Valentine's Day: Heartbreak and Triumph at the Hammer
Sunday, February 14, 2010
1 – 3 pm
Billy Wilder Theater

Visitors to the Museum are invited to experience a private concert with musician Emily Lacy. Emily will be performing live onstage a song of heartbreak or one of triumph (each participant selects one or the other), for an audience of one. Appointments will be scheduled every eight minutes between 1 and 3 pm. Sign up here: http://valentinesdayconcertone.eventbrite.com/
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FORAGING IN WESTWOOD
Saturday, February 6, 2010, 12 – 3pm (rain or shine)
Sign up required, limited to 15 participants: http://wildfoodsouting.eventbrite.com/
Check out video of this event here: http://www.vimeo.com/9367767

This afternoon outing will take place in the dense urban jungles of Westwood, CA. Mike Metzger will lead up to 15 participants through sidewalks, alleys, public land and everywhere else in between to forage for edible plants. The group will then gather and make a large wild salad and then make a dressing from only fruits that they have gathered on their hunt. The group will meet in the lobby at 12pm and then reconvene in the courtyard to make the salad at 3pm.


MICRO-CONCERTS
Every Saturday, beginning February 6, 2010
Upon arrival through the Wilshire Lobby, visitors will be invited to sit for a short (one- to two-minute) concert by live musicians in the Museum’s

Last June the Hammer was awarded a $1 million grant from the James Irvine Foundation’s Arts Innovation Fund and at the heart of this grant is the creation of a new model for visitor engagement. Over the next four years the Hammer will create a new kind of interactive museum: an artist-driven visitor engagement and education program that encourages daily contact among visitors, artists, and Museum staff, and activates the spaces, exhibitions, and website in imaginative ways. Each year the Hammer will invite an artist or team of artists to take up residence in the Museum to further develop and also implement this engagement program, which we are calling A.I.R. – for Artist-in-Residence.


Mark Allen

Our first A.I.R. project is with Machine Project under Mark Allen’s creative direction. Mark is executive director of Machine Project, a LA-based social experiment and alternative art space in Echo