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Mindful Awareness Meditation

Thursdays, 12:30–1 PM PDT

Free weekly drop-in sessions are open to all who are interested in learning how to live more presently.

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the words "VOTE HERE" appear across a background that is blue on the ledt half and red on the right half.

Special Programs

Primary Election Polling Place

The Hammer is an official Vote Center for the presidential primary elections.

Mon Mar 2 8:00 AM

the words "VOTE HERE" appear across a background that is blue on the ledt half and red on the right half.

Special Programs

Primary Election Polling Place

The Hammer is an official Vote Center for the presidential primary elections.

Tue Mar 3 7:00 AM

Blue and red graphic icons of the republican and democratic parties, on a white background.

Special Programs

Super Tuesday Bash 2020

Watch the Super Tuesday election results roll in at the museum, following polls and pundits on giant screens.

Tue Mar 3 5:30 PM

Four figures drawn on a sushi restaurant menu

Lunchtime Art Talk on Paul McCarthy

Hammer curatorial staff members lead 15-minute discussions on a work of art.

Wed Mar 4 12:30 PM

A man in a mask and gloves examines a stack of books

Change Gamers: Patrick Jagoda & Ashlyn Sparrow

Two speakers from the Game Changer Chicago Design Lab discuss how games can create deep and meaningful stories about the human condition.

Thu Mar 5 7:30 PM

Still from the film Pilgrimage showing a group gathered around a monument built at a former WWII concentration camp for Japanese Americans

Asian Americans / Pilgrimage

Part of the Image Movers: UCLA Asian American Studies Center 50th Anniversary Film Festival, this screening includes two short films followed by a sneak preview of an episode from PBS’s upcoming "Asian Americans" television series.

Fri Mar 6 7:30 PM

Still from the film Better Luck Tomorrow (2003) showing a young Asian American couple riding a motorcycle

Better Luck Tomorrow

Part of the Image Movers: UCLA Asian American Studies Center 50th Anniversary Film Festival, this screening revisits the contemporary classic through a restorative justice framework with a panel of UCLA scholars, activists, and special guests.

Sat Mar 7 7:30 PM

Still from the film The Shocking Miss Pilgrim (1947) showing a man looking askance at a women seated next to him

The Shocking Miss Pilgrim

Part of the Women to the Polls: A Suffrage Film Festival, this post-WWII film poses suffrage, employment, and women’s ambition as challenges to romantic and personal happiness.

Sun Mar 8 1:00 PM

Two masks. On the left a brown mask with bared teeth and black eyes. On the right, a mask with a red face, black hair and yellow eyes.

Special Programs

Transformative Justice Ritual

This workshop uses the tools of transformative justice to repair conflict through healing and transformation.

Tue Mar 10 7:30 PM

Painting of a woman in a gold dress wearing a crown

Lunchtime Art Talk on Rembrandt van Rijn

Hammer curatorial staff members lead 15-minute discussions on a work of art.

Wed Mar 11 12:30 PM