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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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Eternity and a Day

Winner of the Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or, Theo Angelopoulos’ s final “Trilogy of Borders” film offers a meditation on national and existential boundaries.

Sat Oct 15 7:30 PM

826LA@Hammer: Dig It! Sparking Literary Inspiration from Jazz

In this kids workshop, write a short creative piece inspired by the New York City jazz scene in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Sun Oct 16 11:00 AM

A colorful portrait of LeRoi Jones with his wife and child in front of an orange background. A bird figure appears in the lower right corner of the painting

Bridget R. Cooks Walk-through: Bob Thompson: This House Is Mine

UC Irvine professor Bridget R. Cooks leads a walk-through of the exhibition Bob Thompson: This House Is Mine.

Sun Oct 16 3:00 PM

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Special Programs

Literary Death Match

Authors Amelia Gray, Jean Chen Ho, Rasheed Newson, and Prince Shakur face off in front of judges Zach Anner, Viet Thanh Nguyen, and Kristina Wong in “The most entertaining reading series ever” (Los Angeles Times).

Tue Oct 18 7:30 PM

Dark-hued painting of a view of the sky through a hole in a roof

Lunchtime Art Talk on Janiva Ellis

Aram Moshayedi, Robert Soros Curator, leads an in-person discussion of Janiva Ellis's work.

Wed Oct 19 12:30 PM

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Harryette Mullen

The UCLA professor and award-winning poet reads from her work.

Thu Oct 20 7:30 PM

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Special Programs

UCLA Art History Graduate Symposium: Figuring Space

Exploring formulations of space and its revolutionary nature as a medium, such as for Indigenous, diasporic, genderfluid, and anti-racist imaginaries in art historical inquiries.

Fri Oct 21 10:00 AM

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Days of '36

A political assassination kicks off Theo Angelopoulos’s depiction of one Greek dictatorship made under the shadow of another.

Fri Oct 21 7:30 PM

A colorful painting of abstracted, featureless human and animal figures. In the right corner sits the Madonna and child

Exhibition Tour: Bob Thompson

Hammer educators lead conversation-based tours of the exhibition.

Sat Oct 22 1:00 PM

Still from the film "Journey from the Fall" (2006)

Journey from the Fall

The UCLA Film & Television Archive screens director Hàm Trần’s award-winning drama as part of Hear + Việt + Film, a Symposium on Music in Trans-Vietnamese Film.

Sat Oct 22 7:30 PM