Programs & Events | Hammer Museum

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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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826LA@Hammer: The Poetry of the Plate: Food Writing from My Ancestor’s Pantry

Learn about the process (and effect) of poetry by creating your own on topics like our planet, climate change, and home.

Sun Aug 6 11:00 AM

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I Want to Live! / Not Wanted

Double feature of two "message" films from the film noir era

Sun Aug 6 7:00 PM

Jeff Goldblum and Lenard Nimoy, seen in medium close-up

CRIME 1978 / Invasion of the Body Snatchers + short films

A screening of films set in San Francisco

Mon Aug 7 7:30 PM

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Brown Sugar

This feel-good, crowd-pleasing ode to old-school hip hop and Black love shimmers on screen thanks to writer/director Rick Famuyiwa and his all-star cast.

Tue Aug 8 7:30 PM

Part of the series Summer Night Cinema: 50 Years of Hip Hop

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Lunchtime Art Talk on Tala Madani

Curatorial assistant Nyah Ginwright leads an in-person discussion of Tala Madani's work.

Wed Aug 9 12:30 PM

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Music & Performance

Steph Richards' Phantom Power

Phantom Power is a recent project of trumpet player Steph Richards combining structured composition and improvisation with Conduction, a conducted musical language created by pioneering cornetist/conductor Butch Morris

Thu Aug 10 8:00 PM

Part of the series JazzPOP 2023

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Harvest

Chefs Alice Waters and David Tanis, farmer Alex Weiser, and journalist Laurie Ochoa in person before a screening of Harvest, director Marcel Pagnol’s enchanting paean to agrarian France.

Fri Aug 11 7:30 PM

Part of the series Food and Film: Farming

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Our Daily Bread / Under the Fig Trees

Screening of two films–the first from 1934, the second from 2021–that represent life and work on a farm.

Sat Aug 12 7:30 PM

Part of the series Food and Film: Farming

A man and a woman slow dance, their foreheads pressed together

Medicine for Melancholy / The Diary of a Teenage Girl

A screening of films set in San Francisco

Sun Aug 13 7:00 PM

Missy Elliott, surrounded by hands holding cell phones to her face

Planet Rocker. Show Stopper. Flow Dropper. Beat Scholar: Women in Hip Hop

An evening celebrating the artistic vision of Missy Elliott, including screenings of her music videos and Ava DuVernay's documentary My Mic Sounds Nice

Tue Aug 15 7:30 PM

Part of the series Summer Night Cinema: 50 Years of Hip Hop