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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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Screenings UCLA Film & TV Archive

60th Anniversary Screening: Hollywood Squares

In celebration of the NBC game show, three episodes will be screened with a Q&A with writer-producer Harry Friedman and actors Ruta Lee, Rich Little and Jo Anne Worley

Sat Nov 21 7:30 PM

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Screenings UCLA Film & TV Archive

Tōhoku Documentary Trilogy

Screening of Ryusuke Hamaguchi's two-year oral history project of a dual natural disaster than triggered a nuclear accident.

Sun Nov 22 11:00 AM

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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 28 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 28 1:00 PM

Close up of Halle Berry as Dorothy Dandridge

Screenings UCLA Film & TV Archive

Introducing Dorothy Dandridge

Screening of two of Dorothy Dandridge's early short films, followed by the 1999 biopic of Dandridge produced and starring Halle Berry

Wed Dec 2 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 Dec 3 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 Dec 5 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 Dec 5 1:00 PM

Three figures sit wearing white masks, while a man embraces the figure on the left

Screenings UCLA Film & TV Archive

A Page of Madness

Screening of three silent films accompanied by performances by renowned benshi Ichirō Kataoka as a part of a weekend of live performances.

Sat Dec 5 7:30 PM

A black ink line drawing depicts interconnected human figures in acrobatic poses, their bodies of the figures are composed of many smaller faces.

Huguette Caland: A Life in a Few Lines . . . and Other Twists and Turns

Join exhibition curator Hannah Feldman for a lecture on Huguette Caland, her use of the line to express, delineate, and sometimes occlude, and her works' relationship to the body and community.

Sun Dec 6 2:00 PM