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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

ONLINE ONLY: Mindful Awareness Meditation

Free online session open to all who are interested in learning how to live more presently.

Thu Apr 30 12:30 PM

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Lunchtime Art Talk on Pieter van der Heyden, after Pieter Bruegel

Curatorial Fellow Kelin Michael leads an in-person discussion of Pieter van der Heyden, after Pieter Bruegel's work.

Wed May 6 12:30 PM

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Special Programs

ONLINE ONLY: Mindful Awareness Meditation

Free online session open to all who are interested in learning how to live more presently.

Thu May 7 12:30 PM

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Lunchtime Art Talk on Paul Cadmus

Curatorial Assistant and Collection Specialist Jennie Waldow leads an in-person discussion of Paul Cadmus' work.

Wed May 13 12:30 PM

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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 May 14 12:30 PM

Readings Conversations

Kimberlé Crenshaw’s Backtalker: An American Memoir

Crenshaw's new memoir uses the story of Crenshaw's own life as a vehicle for something larger: making intersectionality and critical race theory, two of the most debated and misunderstood ideas in American public life, legible through lived experience.

Thu May 14 7:30 PM

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Exhibition Highlights Tour: Several Eternities in a Day

Hammer educators lead conversation-based tours of the exhibition Several Eternities in a Day: Form in the Age of Living Materials.

Sat May 16 1:00 PM

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826LA@Hammer: Inspired by Visual Art: Quirky Characters Write Poems

Step inside the mind of a quirky character in a persona poem workshop! Students will choose a work of art from printed examples to inspire a character and develop that character’s point of view using improv exercises. Led by Jen Cheng.

Sun May 17 11:00 AM

Poetry: A.E. Stallings

Stallings, forty-seventh Oxford Professor of Poetry and winner of the MacArthur Fellowship, has published five volumes of poems, most recently This Afterlife.

Tue May 19 7:30 PM

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Lunchtime Art Talk on Mary Sully

Curatorial Assistant Jessi DiTillio leads an in-person discussion of Mary Sully's work.

Wed May 20 12:30 PM