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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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Colorful painting depicting a nude, featureless woman standing in the foreground, while a red figure holding a yellow bird jumps at an open-jawed sea monster

Helen Molesworth Walk-through: Bob Thompson: This House Is Mine

Curator Helen Molesworth leads a walk-through of the exhibition Bob Thompson: This House Is Mine.

Sun Oct 30 3:00 PM

A middle aged man and woman look towards an inferred audience

The Suspended Step of the Stork / The Beekeeper

The first film in Theo Angelopoulos’s "Trilogy of Borders may be his sharpest assault on the moral and political failures of the West.

Sun Oct 30 7:00 PM

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Special Programs

California General Election Polling Place

The Hammer is an official Vote Center for the California General Election, including for federal, state, and local offices.

Mon Oct 31 10:00 AM

Vote at the Hammer

Special Programs

California General Election Polling Place

The Hammer is an official Vote Center for the California General Election, including for federal, state, and local offices.

Tue Nov 1 10:00 AM

Vote at the Hammer

Special Programs

California General Election Polling Place

The Hammer is an official Vote Center for the California General Election, including for federal, state, and local offices.

Wed Nov 2 10:00 AM

Pencil sketch of a person from the shoulders upward

Lunchtime Art Talk on Odilon Redon

Curatorial associate Matthieu Vahanian leads an in-person discussion of Odilon Redon's work.

Wed Nov 2 12:30 PM

Vote at the Hammer

Special Programs

California General Election Polling Place

The Hammer is an official Vote Center for the California General Election, including for federal, state, and local offices.

Thu Nov 3 10:00 AM

Still from the film "The Panic in Needle Park" (1971)

The Panic in Needle Park

Adapted for the screen by Joan Didion, this harrowing chronicle of addiction marked the debut of a young Al Pacino.

Thu Nov 3 7:30 PM

Part of the series Can’t Get That Monster Out of My Mind: Joan Didion and Cinema

Vote at the Hammer

Special Programs

California General Election Polling Place

The Hammer is an official Vote Center for the California General Election, including for federal, state, and local offices.

Fri Nov 4 10:00 AM

man takes photo of people on the hillside, their backs face the photographer

Alexander the Great

A bandit leader sparks an international incident by kidnapping a group of English tourists to force economic reforms.

Fri Nov 4 7:30 PM