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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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All of a Sudden

Depicting the remarkable chance encounter in Paris of a French nursing home director and a Japanese theater director facing terminal cancer, All of a Sudden is a moving testimony to the power of human empathy. Followed by a conversation with writer-director Ryûsuke Hamaguchi

Fri Nov 13 7:30 PM

Part of the series MoMA Contenders 2026

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Exhibition Highlights Tour: Huguette Caland: A Life in a Few Lines

Hammer educators lead conversation-based tours of exhibition highlights for "Huguette Caland: A Life in a Few Lines"

Sat Nov 14 1:00 PM

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Kids Special Programs

Art Lab

Drop by Art Lab for hands-on creative activities inspired by artworks on view at the museum.

Sat Nov 14 1:00 PM

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Screenings UCLA Film & TV Archive

Borders That Flower: The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing / Women Beyond Borders

In person Q&A with UCLA professors after the screening of two films, separated by 20 years, but connected by themes of identity, memory, and place throughout Lebanon and Palestine.

Sat Nov 14 7:30 PM

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Screenings UCLA Film & TV Archive

Archive Talks: Trans Cinema: Making Communities, Identities, and Worlds

Author Laura Horak of "Trans Cinema: Making Communities, Identities, and Worlds" will host a talk before a ten part screening of films showcasing trans representation and trans history in media.

Sun Nov 15 7:00 PM

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Screenings UCLA Film & TV Archive

A War on Women

Director Raha Shizari will be on hand to discuss her powerful documentary, which tells of the generational struggle of Iranian women to achieve basic human rights.

Mon Nov 16 7:30 PM

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Screenings UCLA Film & TV Archive

Archive Talks: Trouble in Paradise

Pre-screening conversation with author Howard Gutner and director of the David C. Copley Center for Costume Design at UCLA, Deborah Nadoolman Landis, before the screening of pre-code comedic romance by Ernst Lubitsch.

Wed Nov 18 7:30 PM

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 Nov 19 12:30 PM

Faceless figure in a paint-streaked white smock

Exhibition Highlights Tour: Huguette Caland: A Life in a Few Lines

Hammer educators lead conversation-based tours of exhibition highlights for "Huguette Caland: A Life in a Few Lines"

Sat Nov 21 1:00 PM

Child draws at a table while adults look on

Kids Special Programs

Art Lab

Drop by Art Lab for hands-on creative activities inspired by artworks on view at the museum.

Sat Nov 21 1:00 PM