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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

Panic Party

Climate justice through art, advocacy, and action. Join us for a dance party for a greener future!

Sun Feb 16 5:00 PM

If Beale Street Could Talk

If Beale Street Could Talk

Barry Jenkins’s follow-up to Moonlight is both a love story and a moving portrait of two black families in civil rights–era Harlem.

Tue Feb 18 7:30 PM

Part of the series Melancholy & Moonlight: The Poetic Vision of Barry Jenkins

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Lunchtime Art Talk on Inside the Mask

Hammer curatorial staff members lead 15-minute discussions on a work of art.

Wed Feb 19 12:30 PM

Still from the film Sleep Dealer (2008) showing a man in a face mask with his arms spread wide and connected to glowing tubes

Sleep Dealer

This sci-fi thriller follows a young man in Mexico in a strange factory at the US-Mexico border that outsources migrant workers north via virtual reality.

Wed Feb 19 7:30 PM

A sketch of a mummy

Paul McCarthy Artist Walk-through: Victor Estrada

In these informal, 45-minute gallery talks, artists and scholars discuss specific works in Paul McCarthy: Head Space, Drawings 1963–2019.

Thu Feb 20 6:00 PM

Constitution Happy Hour

Special Programs

Constitution Happy Hour, Jan-Feb 2020

Due to uncertainty around COVID-19, the Hammer is temporarily closed to the public and this program has been canceled.

Thu Feb 20 6:00 PM

Still from the film Sunshine State (2002) showing a woman sitting in the foreground at the edge of a bed, and a man half-covered by a sheet sitting up against the headboard

Sunshine State

The Archive screens this prescient satire about the slow gentrification of a simple Florida beach town—starring Edie Falco, Timothy Hutton, and Angela Bassett—as part of the series John Sayles: Independent.

Fri Feb 21 7:30 PM

Still from the film The Secret of Roan Inish (1994) showing a woman crouching in the water, over a floating bassinet , with a man standing nearby

The Secret of Roan Inish

Shot on the western coast of Ireland, this film marks John Sayles’s first filmmaking endeavor outside the United States. Part of the Archive’s series John Sayles: Independent.

Sat Feb 22 7:30 PM

Two children paint at easels

826LA@Hammer: Monster Mayhem: A Game-Making Workshop

Create puzzles and board games, write the rules, and try your best to win.

Sun Feb 23 11:00 AM

A Paul McCarthy sketch in red and black

Curator Walk-through of Paul McCarthy: Head Space, Drawings 1963–2019

Chief curator Connie Butler and curator Aram Moshayedi lead a walk-through of the exhibition.

Sun Feb 23 1:00 PM