Programs & Events | Hammer Museum

The Hammer Museum will be closed on Saturday, May 17, for a private event.

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Mindful Awareness Meditation

Thursdays, 12:30–1 PM PDT

Mindful Awareness Meditation will be ONLINE ONLY on May 1, May 8, & May 15. Free weekly drop-in sessions are open to all who are interested in learning how to live more presently.

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Still from Zootopia

Screenings Kids UCLA Film & TV Archive

Family Flicks: Zootopia

A plucky rabbit (Ginnifer Goodwin) earns a spot on the police force of a teeming animal metropolis just as the delicate social contract between predators and prey is threatened by a string of mysterious mammal abductions in this timely animated feature.

Sun May 11 11:00 AM

Still from Cabaret

Screenings UCLA Film & TV Archive

Cabaret

With Christopher Isherwood’s 1939 novel Goodbye to Berlin as its root material, Cabaret looks at the decadence and darkness of Nazism’s rise in Germany through glitzy-framed glasses that are far from rose-tinted.

Sun May 11 7:00 PM

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Lunchtime Art Talk on Rembrandt van Rijn & Angelica Kauffmann

Grunwald Center Curatorial Fellow Kelin Michael leads an in-person discussion of Rembrandt van Rijn and Angelica Kauffmann's works.

Wed May 14 12:30 PM

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Special Programs

ONLINE ONLY: Mindful Awareness Meditation

Free online session open to all who are interested in learning how to live more presently.

Thu May 15 12:30 PM

Arnold Schoenberg star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

Schoenberg in Hollywood: The Making of a Modern Opera

Join composer Tod Machover as he discusses his innovative new opera Schoenberg in Hollywood with conductor Neal Stulberg, director Karole Armitage, and Arnold Schoenberg’s son, Larry Schoenberg.

Sun May 18 1:30 PM

Still from Dzi Croquettes

Screenings UCLA Film & TV Archive

Dzi Croquettes

Screening of a documentary about the Croquettes, a groundbreaking queer performance troupe who carved out rich personal lives and an internationally celebrated career against the backdrop of Brazil’s fall to fascism in the 1960s.

Sun May 18 7:00 PM

UCLA Department of Art Lecture: Cosmo Whyte

From his drawings to his installation works, artist Cosmo Whyte frequently draws upon his Caribbean roots through both material and image.

Tue May 20 7:30 PM

An audience sitting in a darkened theater, watching a woman on stage

Special Programs

Mindful Awareness Meditation

Mindful Awareness Meditation will be ONLINE ONLY on May 1, May 8, & May 15. Free weekly drop-in sessions are open to all who are interested in learning how to live more presently.

Thu May 22 12:30 PM

Kids Special Programs

Laboratorio de Arte/Art Lab

Visita el Laboratorio de Arte para realizar actividades creativas inspiradas en las obras de arte que se exhiben en el museo.

Sat May 24 1:00 PM

A line of inmates dressed in orange firefighting gear, digging a trench

Fighting Two Battles: Inside California’s Inmate Firefighting Program

This forum examines California’s controversial inmate firefighting program from the perspectives of formerly incarcerated firefighters, including issues around compensation and potential program reforms.

Tue May 27 7:30 PM