Programs & Events

Media artist and scholar John Thornton Caldwell will attend a screening of three films from his distinguished career as a documentarian exploring communities of labor in crisis and flux

Screening of a series of television programs providing counter-narratives that expand the small screen universe, centering African Americans in humankind’s reaching endeavors to explore strange new worlds, as part of the UCLA Film & Television Archive screening series Science Fiction Against the Margins.

Join Cindy Burlingham, Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs, for a tour of the exhibition.

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Forrest Gander reads from Mojave Ghost, which unfolds from desert walks during which he discovers the reticulations of past and present, actual and recalled, physical and spiritual.

Curatorial Assistant Jennifer Buonocore-Nedrelow leads an in-person discussion of Mel Chin's work.

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

Giant Robot founder Eric Nakamura and other contributors present a screening in celebration of the alternative Asian and Asian American culture magazine's 30th anniversary.

Regardless of where you live in Los Angeles, cast your ballot for the 2024 Presidential Election at the Hammer.

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