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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 Kids

Family Flicks: Paddington 2

Delightfully charming in all ways imaginable, Paddington 2 sees the plucky bear embark on an epic quest to find a book for his Aunt Lucy.

Sun Jan 28 11:00 AM

Dana Andrews & Teresa Wright in The Best Years of Our Lives

Archive Talks: The Best Years of Our Lives

Alison Macor will be on hand to share her insights into the production and reception of their groundbreaking work which garnered eight Academy Award wins including Best Picture, Director and Screenplay.

Sun Jan 28 7:00 PM

Artwork: Brother 7 4 5 by Vamba Bility

Lunchtime Art Talk on Vamba Bility

Curatorial associate Ikechukwu Onyewuenyi leads an in-person discussion of Vamba Bility's work.

Wed Jan 31 12:30 PM

Nam June Paik rests between two TV monitors

Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV

Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV traces the life and work of Nam June Paik, the avant-garde artist best known as the father of video art.

Thu Feb 1 7:30 PM

Ramon Novarro and Lupe Velez in Laughing Boy

Eskimo / Laughing Boy

Screening of two pre-Code Hollywood studio films that openly confronted the contemporary consequences of this nation’s fraught history with Indigenous peoples after they were granted citizenship in 1924.

Fri Feb 2 7:30 PM

Gallery view of an exhibition of prints

Exhibition Tour: Groove: Artists and Intaglio Prints, 1500 to Now

Hammer educators lead conversation-based tours of the exhibition Groove: Artists and Intaglio Prints, 1500 to Now.

Sat Feb 3 1:00 PM

Greta Garbo as Anna Christie

Camille / Anna Christie

UCLA Film & Television Archive presents a survey of the talent and mystique that made Greta Garbo the supreme icon of Classic Hollywood.

Sat Feb 3 7:30 PM

Kids write on paper

826LA@Hammer: Make a Guidebook for Your Imaginary World

Conjure up your own planet or island and create guidebooks for these wondrous places to entice visitors. Facilitated by Lorraine Allen Derosa.

Sun Feb 4 11:00 AM

James Conlon photo by Dan Steinberg (attached)

James Conlon

Illustrating and expanding on the importance of works by marginalized composers, Maestro James Conlon discusses “Highway 1,” by trailblazing African-American composer William Grant Still alongside Austrian refugee Alexander Zemlinsky’s “Der Zwerg.”

Sun Feb 4 3:00 PM

Still from Massacre

Massacre

This 1934 western is one of a group of pre-Code Hollywood studio films that openly confronted the contemporary consequences of this nation’s fraught history with Indigenous peoples after they were granted citizenship in 1924.

Sun Feb 4 7:00 PM