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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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Special Programs Kids

Family Fundraiser: Kids’ Art Museum Project

Join us for our 15th annual family fundraiser, an event that provides unforgettable experiences for kids and their families with renowned Los Angeles artists.

Sun Sep 29 10:00 AM

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Vice Presidential Debate

Join us and your fellow voters for a live screening of the Walz/Vance debate on ABC.

Tue Oct 1 5:00 PM

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After-Hours Tour: Naoko Takahatake on Sum of the Parts: Serial Imagery in Printmaking, 1500 to Now

Join Naoko Takahatake, Director and Chief Curator, Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, for a tour of the exhibition.

Tue Oct 1 6:00 PM

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Lunchtime Art Talk on Clarissa Tossin

Assistant curator Pablo Jose Ramirez leads an in-person discussion of the work of Clarissa Tossin.

Wed Oct 2 12:30 PM

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Acid Forest

Set in the Curonian Spit, a scenic peninsula in Lithuania, this satiric documentary follows tourists who flock to the region despite the dying, leafless trees of its ancient forest now overtaken by thousands of cormorant birds and their acid-fortified feces.

Wed Oct 2 7:30 PM

Part of the series Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice: Programs & Performances

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

Special Programs

Mindful Awareness Meditation

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

Thu Oct 3 12:30 PM

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Screenings UCLA Film & TV Archive

Afrofuturism: The Last Angel of History / Space is the Place

Screening of four films that challenge and subvert the science fiction genre, as part of the UCLA Film & Television Archive screening series Science Fiction Against the Margins.

Fri Oct 4 7:30 PM

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Exhibition Tour: Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice

Hammer educators lead conversation-based tours of the exhibition Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice.

Sat Oct 5 1:00 PM

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Screenings UCLA Film & TV Archive

Moon Landings: The Science of Fictions

Screening of three films that feature voyages to the moon, as part of the UCLA Film & Television Archive screening series Science Fiction Against the Margins.

Sat Oct 5 7:30 PM

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826LA@Hammer: Monsters Eat Free: Making Scary Menus

Write and illustrate the menu for an All-You-Can-Eat restaurant for vampires, werewolves, mummies, ogres, dragons, zombies, and fairies.

Sun Oct 6 11:00 AM