Programs & Events | Hammer Museum

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Mindful Awareness Meditation

Thursdays, 12:30–1 PM PDT

Mindful Awareness Meditation will be ONLINE ONLY on May 1, May 8, & May 15. Free weekly drop-in sessions are open to all who are interested in learning how to live more presently.

Explore our series

Colorful photocollage of faces actors from film, some in black and white and others in color. The background shows a scky with a large Easter Island sculture, and an image from the film The Wizard of Oz showing the characters walking towards the Emerald City.

Hedi El Kholti & Abdellah Taïa: Toward the sea, Where we meet

Abdellah Taïa joins Made in L.A. artist Hedi El Kholti to discuss translating their experiences growing up queer in Morocco into writing, art, and film.

Tue Jun 15 7:00 PM

Still from the film "Bloom" (2003) showing actor Stephen Rea portraying the character Bloom, wearing a black bowler hat and peering through a doorway.

Bloom

Celebrate Bloomsday with an online screening of this feature-length film adaptation of "Ulysses," James Joyce’s landmark novel.

Wed Jun 16 7:00 PM

A gallery with a black streetlamp to the left of a triptych of paintings displaying MacArthur Park in Los Angeles

Coffee with a Curator: Made in L.A. 2020: a version

Hammer members! Experience Made in L.A. 2020 with assistant curator of performance Ikechukwu Onyewuenyi.

Thu Jun 17 11:00 AM

Domestic Terrorism Against Communities of Color

This online panel explores the racist violence that permeates the history of the United States, and how it ties directly to contemporary issues, from police violence the resurgence of white supremacist groups.

Thu Jun 17 5:00 PM

Part of the series Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial

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Dennis Cooper, Benjamin Weissman, Amy Gerstler & Tosh Berman

An online tête-à-tête between Tosh Berman and poet-auteurs about their so-called poet-gang in 1980s Los Angeles.

Tue Jun 22 7:00 PM

Part of the series Beyond Baroque and Beyond

Black and white photograph, with a person in the foreground, visible from the chest up, sitting in a church pew and looking upwards. The person has dark skin and short dark hair. The pew extends diagonally into background at the upper left corner. Books are strewn on the pew next to the person.

Music & Performance

God’s Suicide by Harmony Holiday

This one-man play, written by Made in L.A. artist Harmony Holiday, is adapted from an essay by the artist and constructed around the rarely acknowledged suicide attempts of James Baldwin.

Thu Jun 24 7:00 PM

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Jack Skelley, David Trinidad & Tosh Berman

Poets chit-chat about pop culture, self-publishing, Stone Aged-ideas, and poetry’s “archetypal symbologies.”

Tue Jun 29 7:00 PM

Part of the series Beyond Baroque and Beyond

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Sheree Rose & Tosh Berman

The artists exchange thoughts on poetic restraints, sadomasochism, love’s lasting impact, and artistic collaboration.

Tue Jul 6 7:00 PM

Part of the series Beyond Baroque and Beyond

Still from the film 1972 film "L'Ordre," showing a man with leprosy in a suit smoking a cigarette..

Screenings Readings

M as in Maladie screening & Dodie Bellamy reading

Preceded by a reading from Dodie Bellamy, this screening pairs an excerpt from Gilles Deleuze From A to Z with Iranian filmmaker Forough Farrokhzad’s documentary "The House is Black" and Jean-Daniel Pollet’s "L’Ordre."

Thu Jul 8 7:00 PM

Women gather around a table and work on crafts

Special Programs

Teaching for Healing and Transformation through the Arts: An Institute for 4th–8th Grade Teachers

In this free teacher program, you will explore strategies for helping teachers and students use art to process a year of individual and collective trauma

Mon Jul 12 9:00 AM