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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

Beekeeper Joe O'Brien

Learn about beekeeping, honey bees, varieties of honey, and native California bee and plant species from beekeeper Joe O'Brien.

Sun Oct 20 4:00 PM

Part of the series Bee Week

Martin Dohrn filming a bumblebee hovering over a dandelion

My Garden of a Thousand Bees

Filmed with one-of-a-kind lenses forged on his kitchen table, wildlife filmmaker Martin Dohrn documents the incredible variety of wild bees in his garden, revealing unique natural history insights and depths of behaviors never recorded before.

Sun Oct 20 5:00 PM

Part of the series Bee Week

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CANCELED: After-Hours Tour: Pam Paulson on Sum of the Parts: Serial Imagery in Printmaking, 1500 to Now

Tue Oct 22 6:00 PM

Animated rendering of an iceberg hovering between high-rise buildings

Beyond the Tip of the Iceberg

Artist Rob Reynolds in conversation with oceanographers and glaciologists David Sutherland and Twila Moon to discuss their collaborations, and how communication between art and science can raise awareness of today’s most urgent crises.

Tue Oct 22 7:30 PM

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

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Lunchtime Art Talk on Christina Ramberg

Robert Soros Senior Curator Paulina Pobocha leads an in-person discussion of Christina Ramberg's work.

Wed Oct 23 12:30 PM

Still from Techne: Evidence in the Anthropocene

Techne: Evidence in the Anthropocene

Director Daniel R. Small's documentary telescopes between planetary and galactic evidence presented by scientists and artist-investigators who contemplate both deep time and the fate of the human species.

Wed Oct 23 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 24 12:30 PM

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Screenings UCLA Film & TV Archive

High Art

Director Lisa Cholodenko and other crewmembers will be on hand to discuss Cholodenko's skillful and brilliant debut feature that provokes questions of love, ambition and sacrifice.

Fri Oct 25 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 26 1:00 PM

Installation built of blue Water Bricks

Special Programs

Eco Hardware: Building a Better Tomorrow, One Recycle at a Time with Lan Tuazon, Precious Plastic, 1 Plastic Life, & Richard Wilks

In this workshop, Lan Tuazon will join artists and environmental organizers to demonstrate how they are building communities to tackle the global plastic pollution crisis.

Sat Oct 26 1:00 PM

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