Programs & Events

Hammer educators lead conversation-based tours of the exhibition Alice Coltrane, Monument Eternal

This stirring documentary revels in the beauty of the natural world while examining how climate change impacts species as far-flung as the Arctic polar bear and the African bush elephant.

Join us for a rare opportunity to experience early Japanese paper films, or kami firumu, projected alongside live musical accompaniment, and discuss the innovative techniques currently being used to safeguard these fascinating artifacts of pre-war Japanese cinema.

Curatorial Assistant Nyah Ginwright leads an in-person discussion of Mona Hatoum's work.

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

The New York Times bestselling author discusses his provocative new book, which exposes the legal foundations perpetuating inequality, racial bias, and injustice in America today

This program, curated by UCLA AMIA Student Chapter, features animated films that reject traditional narrative structures while exploring abstract concepts and emphasizing visual and aural elements.

Screening of two films that depict girls—five orphaned sisters in rural Turkey and an 11-year-old French-Senegalese girl—exploring identity and rebellion.

This program, curated by UCLA AMIA Student Chapter, explores how reenactment exposes cinema’s inherent nature to simultaneously depict, reconstruct and reinterpret.