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Made in L.A. 2023: Roksana Pirouzmand

Featured in Made in L.A. 2023: Acts of Living, Roksana Pirouzmand creates sculptural objects and installations that perform in tandem with the artist’s body. Her...

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Made in L.A. 2023: Vincent Enrique Hernandez

For the past several years, Vincent Enrique Hernandez has been working on an ongoing project, called Valley Tours, an expansive multimedia artwork that, as the title suggests, c...

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Made in L.A. 2023: Jackie Amézquita

The history of Los Angeles is one of diasporic communities and migration. More than one-third of the city’s population is composed of Angelenos who have come here from all...

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Made in L.A. 2023: Joey Terrill

Featured in Made in L.A. 2023: Acts of Living, artist Joey Terrill’s intimate, stylized figurative works, many of which were made amid the devastations of the AID...

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Made in L.A. 2023: Young Joon Kwak

In their sculptural practice, Young Joon Kwak frequently constructs works from cast bodies that are abstracted through cropping, bold color, and texture. Kwak’s object-bas...

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Made in L.A. 2023: AMBOS (Art Made Between Opposite Sides)

Featured in Made in L.A. 2023: Acts of Living, artist collective AMBOS was founded in 2016 by Tanya Aguiñiga as a platform to engage with the reality of the US-M...

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Made in L.A. 2023: Akinsanya Kambon

Featured in Made in L.A. 2023: Acts of Living, artist Akinsanya Kambon's ceramics are visual entries into narratives of the Black diaspora, including African histories...

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Artist talk: Willie Birch

Artist Willie Birch, whose work Johnny Makes the Nightly News (1988) is on view in the Hammer’s Together in Time exhibition, shares insights into his exp...

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Artists Mariah Garnett & Gelare Khoshgozaran in conversation

Video artists Mariah Garnett and Gelare Khoshgozaran, whose works–Full Burn (2014) and Medina Wasl: Connecting Town (2018), respectively–are in the...

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Roberto Gil de Montes in conversation with Pablo José Ramírez

Artist Roberto Gil de Montes, whose work El olvido (2001) is on view in the Hammer’s Together in Time exhibition, joins curator Pablo José Ram&iac...

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Film & TV

Ava DuVernay introduces her documentary "This is the Life"

Director Ava DuVernay introduces her 2008 documentary This is the Life. The film chronicles L.A.’s groundbreaking alternative hip hop movement crystalized in Leim...

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Sarah Schulman & Carolyn Strauss discuss queer representation in film & TV

Novelist, playwright, nonfiction writer, and screenwriter Sarah Schulman joins television producer and former HBO president Carolyn Strauss (Game of Thrones, Treme

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Director Chinonye Chukwu & Robin D.G. Kelley discuss "Till"

Director Chinonye Chukwu joins UCLA professor Robin D. G. Kelley in conversation following a screening of Till, which depicts the true story behind the 1955 lynching of...

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Guillermo del Toro introduces his "Pinocchio"

In-person intro by director Guillermo del Toro before a screening of his Pinocchio.  “From my many wanderings on this Earth, I had so much to say about...

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Taylor Russell discusses "Bones and All"

Conversation with actor Taylor Russell following a screening of Bones and All. Moderated by Rajendra Roy, The Celeste Bartos Chief Curator of Film, The Museum of Modern...

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Claire Foy & Jessie Buckley discuss "Women Talking"

Conversation with Claire Foy & Jessie Buckley following a screening of Women Talking. Moderated by Rajendra Roy, The Celeste Bartos Chief Curator of Film, The Museu...

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Brendan Fraser & Samuel D. Hunter discuss "The Whale"

Conversation with actor Brendan Fraser and writer Samuel D. Hunter following a screening of The Whale. Moderated by Jenelle Riley. From director Darren Ar...

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Directors Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert on "Everything Everywhere All At Once"

Conversation with directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert following a screening of Everything Everywhere All at Once. A smash hit at the box office, Ever...

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Screenwriter Chung Seo-kyung discusses "Decision to Leave"

Q&A with co-writer Chung Seo-kyung following a screening of Decision to Leave. Moderated by Katie Walsh. Director Park Chan-wook took home the Best Director...

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Director Halina Reijn & cast members discuss "Bodies Bodies Bodies"

Q&A with DJ Tyler Boudreaux, director Halina Reijn, and actors Myha’la Herrold, Maria Bakalova, Chase Sui Wonders, and Rachel Sennott following a screning of Reijn's

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Society & Culture

Cyberfeminism Index: Nora Khan, Lauren Lee McCarthy & Mindy Seu

Designer and technologist Mindy Seu joins artist and computer programmer Lauren Lee McCarthy and writer, editor, and curator Nora Khan to discuss the release of Cyberfeminis...

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Erwin Chemerinsky on upcoming Supreme Court cases

As engaged citizens it is important for us all to understand the role the Supreme Court plays in our lives and its decisions impact us all. Erwin Chemerinsky, one of the nation&...

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Liz Goldwyn leads a guided interactive meditation

In celebration of Valentine’s day and the release of her latest book, Sex, Health, and Consciousness: How to Reclaim Your Pleasure Potential, writer, filmmaker, a...

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Maggie Nelson & Michelle Tea in conversation

On the occasion of the paperback release of Maggie Nelson’s On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint, the author joins fellow writer Michelle Tea for a conve...

01:36:08

Erwin Chemerinsky on recent Supreme Court rulings

As engaged citizens it is important for us all to understand the role the Supreme Court plays in our lives and its decisions impact us all. Erwin Chemerinsky, one of the nation&...

01:24:04

Blaise Agüera y Arcas & Lawrence Weschler discuss AI

Friends and intellectual combatants Lawrence Weschler and Blaise Agüera y Arcas discuss their current, and often divergent, perspectives on the creative potential of artifi...

01:29:24

Griffith Observatory Director E.C. Krupp discusses the moon

However we manage to draw down the moon and incorporate it into our affairs, it inevitably draws us up to the celestial realm. Although distant, the moon has influence. The moon...

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WTF NFT?: How Web3 is shifting power in culture

Part of the symposium WTF NFT? Power Shifts: How Web3 is Shifting Power in Culture As blockchain technology continues to grow and advance, every...

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WTF NFT?: Introduction to the NFT landscape

Part of the symposium WTF NFT? NFT Primer: Introduction to the NFT landscape WTF is an NFT? Hear from event organizers Esther Park, Miami-based...

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WTF NFT?: Reggie Watts keynote

Part of the symposium WTF NFT? Keynote address by Reggie Watts, musician, comedian, writer, actor

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Politics

Homelessness in Los Angeles: In Search of Solutions

In the fourth and final installment in the Hammer’s series of deep dives into L.A.’s housing crisis, Anna Scott, journalist and creator of the KCRW podcasts Sama...

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Alleviating the Housing Crisis: Where’s the Money?

In 2016, L.A. voters overwhelmingly voted in support of Proposition HHH, a bond measure designed to generate more than $1 billion over ten years to create affordable housing for...

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Deconflating L.A.’s Homeless and Mental Health Crises

Two separate and critical crises—mental health and homelessness—often reveal their urgency most when they intersect. How does L.A.’s housing shortage exacerbat...

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What’s Driving L.A.’s Housing Crisis?

Anna Scott, journalist and creator of the KCRW podcasts Samaritans and City of Tents, convenes a panel of experts to drill down to the roots of the current hou...

01:36:16

Erwin Chemerinsky on Originalism and the Supreme Court

As engaged citizens it is important for us all to understand the role the Supreme Court plays in our lives and its decisions impact us all. Erwin Chemerinsky, one of the nation&...

01:29:56

Erwin Chemerinsky on upcoming Supreme Court cases

As engaged citizens it is important for us all to understand the role the Supreme Court plays in our lives and its decisions impact us all. Erwin Chemerinsky, one of the nation&...

01:35:24

Erwin Chemerinsky on recent Supreme Court rulings

As engaged citizens it is important for us all to understand the role the Supreme Court plays in our lives and its decisions impact us all. Erwin Chemerinsky, one of the nation&...

01:24:04

Candidate Forums: Your Vote, Our Future

LA City Council District 5 and LA County Board of Supervisors District 3 Presented by UCLA in partnership with the North Westwood Neighborhood Council, Spectrum News, We...

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Profile: TransLatin@ Coalition

Translatin@ Coalition is a nationally recognized organization whose mission is "to advocate for the specific needs of the Trans Latin@ community that resides in the U.S.A. and t...

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Back to school during COVID: Vaccinating teachers

Hammer Forum is made possible by the Rosenbloom FamilyAmid the push to reopen schools in the United States, how are educators being factored into the vaccination str...

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Books

Bloomsday 2023

Now in its 14th year at the Hammer, Bloomsday is a worldwide annual celebration of James Joyce and his landmark book Ulysses. This lively celebration features a cast of...

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Sigrid Nunez reads from "What Are You Going Through"

National Book Award-winning author Sigrid Nunez shares her most recent novel What Are You Going Through, a meditation on friendship, empathy, and what it means to die w...

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Mona Simpson reads from her novel "Commitment," April 2023

Author Mona Simpson reads from her latest release, Commitment, a masterful novel about a single mother’s collapse and the fate of her family after she enters a Ca...

01:07:24

Cyberfeminism Index: Nora Khan, Lauren Lee McCarthy & Mindy Seu

Designer and technologist Mindy Seu joins artist and computer programmer Lauren Lee McCarthy and writer, editor, and curator Nora Khan to discuss the release of Cyberfeminis...

01:20:25

Four authors discuss Rudolfo Anaya's "Bless Me Ultima"

Authors Mona Simpson, Manuel Muñoz, Alejandro Varela, and Justin Torres discuss the foundational work of Chicano literature Bless Me Ultima by the late Rudolfo A...

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Poet Robert Pinsky reads, February 2023

Celebrated poet Robert Pinsky reads from his work, including his new memoir, Jersey Breaks: Becoming an American Poet, which offers a candid, engaging, and wry self-por...

01:03:04

Writers James Hannaham & Jonathan Lethem in conversation

On the heels of his most recent book, Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta, James Hannaham joins fellow author Jonathan Lethem in conversation. Hannaham...

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Alice Elliott Dark reads, January 2023

The award-winning writer Alice Elliott Dark reads from her work, including her most recent novel Fellowship Point. Dark is also the author of the novel Think of Eng...

01:10:46

Maggie Nelson & Michelle Tea in conversation

On the occasion of the paperback release of Maggie Nelson’s On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint, the author joins fellow writer Michelle Tea for a conve...

01:36:08

Hilton Als on the atmosphere of "Joan Didion: What She Means"

Hilton Als, curator of Joan Didion: What She Means (2023), discusses trying to create an atmosphere for the exhibition

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Social Justice

Sarah Schulman & Carolyn Strauss discuss queer representation in film & TV

Novelist, playwright, nonfiction writer, and screenwriter Sarah Schulman joins television producer and former HBO president Carolyn Strauss (Game of Thrones, Treme

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Director Chinonye Chukwu & Robin D.G. Kelley discuss "Till"

Director Chinonye Chukwu joins UCLA professor Robin D. G. Kelley in conversation following a screening of Till, which depicts the true story behind the 1955 lynching of...

00:28:24

Bamby Salcedo & Elana Redfield in conversation

In honor of Trans Awareness Week, Latina transgender speaker and activist Bamby Salcedo joins Elana Redfield, Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law, in conversation at the Ha...

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Art + Activism: A Collaborative Learning Project 2022

In the summer of 2022, the Hammer Museum's academic programs department launched the second year of Art + Activism: A Collaborative Learning Project, a multigenerational artmaki...

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Profile: TransLatin@ Coalition

Translatin@ Coalition is a nationally recognized organization whose mission is "to advocate for the specific needs of the Trans Latin@ community that resides in the U.S.A. and t...

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Protecting the Amazon Rainforest: Averting the ecological tipping point

Indigenous leaders and artists lead a conversation on the global significance of the Amazon biome by highlighting how California’s oil imports affect the future of the Ama...

01:38:05

Artist talk: L. Frank

Tongva-Ajachmem artist, writer, tribal scholar, cartoonist, and community activist L. Frank delivers a lecture.  In conjunction with the exhibition Li...

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Domestic Terrorism Against Communities of Color

This online panel covers the racist terrorism, including by police and military forces, that permeates the history of the United States, and how Tulsa is one brick in a continuo...

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Systemic Brakes on Black Prosperity

Professor Brenda E. Stevenson moderates an online panel on Black entrepreneurship and wealth-building, and the systemic issues that constrain Black economic development in the U...

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Tulsa on Screen: Damon Lindelof & Cord Jefferson discuss "Watchmen"

In this online program, professor Brenda E. Stevenson joins writer and producer Damon Lindelof, creator of HBO’s Watchmen series, and Watchmen writer Cor...

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Music

JazzPOP: Eric Revis Trio

Eric Revis, bassJoshua White, keyboardTina Raymond, drumsA musical chameleon equally at home in Branford Marsalis’ hard-swinging quartet as he is i...

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JazzPOP: Steph Richards' Phantom Power

Steph Richards, trumpet Brian Walsh, bass clarinet Eric KM Clark, violin Joshua White, keyboard

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JazzPOP: Hafez Modirzadeh Quartet

Hafez Modirzadeh, saxophonesTim Volpicella, guitarStan Poplin, bassKeshav Batish, drumsCommanding saxophonist and expansive musical thinker Hafez M...

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Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah in conversation with Joshua Myers

Composer and producer Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah is joined in conversation by Dr. Joshua Myers, Associate Professor of African American Studies at Howard University and author of...

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Ava DuVernay introduces her documentary "This is the Life"

Director Ava DuVernay introduces her 2008 documentary This is the Life. The film chronicles L.A.’s groundbreaking alternative hip hop movement crystalized in Leim...

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Resonances: Music of Armenia

Commemorate the Armenian Genocide by honoring the breadth and depth of Armenian musical heritage. The Lernazang Ensemble (Լեռնազանգ Համույթ), UCLA’s Armenian Music Program...

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Maestro James Conlon on Debussy, the first Impressionist composer

Maestro James Conlon, world-renowned conductor and music director of the Los Angeles Opera, shares his passion for the legacy of French composer Claude Debussy in conjunction wi...

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JazzPOP: Phillip Greenlief in concert

Phillip Greenlief, alto saxophoneLisa Mezzacappa, bassJason Levis, drumsIt’s hard to overstate the impact multi-reed player and composer Phillip Gr...

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JazzPOP: Tina Raymond Trio in concert

Andrew Renfroe, guitarKarl McComas-Reichl, bassTina Raymond, drumsIn her debut album, Left, Right, Left, Los Angeles drummer Tina Raymond explor...

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JazzPOP: Miguel Atwood-Ferguson Ensemble in concert

Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, 5-string electric violinDevin Daniels, alto saxophoneAlison Bjorkedal, harpJamael Dean, keyboardGabe Noel, electric bassGen...

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Performance

Nina Beier & Bob Kil: All Fours

All Fours is a performance of synchronized movement that occurs for roughly ten minutes each hour on a stage of marble guardian lions. The dancers may range in number f...

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Meg Stuart & Varinia Canto Vila: confirm humanity

"Position your body alongside the outer contours of its skin, and then further past, cross the bounding-line of what it knows, linger in the space of intersecting realms. Conten...

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Lifes: Senyawa

“There are many different ways to sing: not only melody or rhythm, but also texture and frequency.” Incorporating homemade instruments and deft vocal explora...

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No Humans Involved: Las Nietas de Nonó

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Witch Hunt: Renate Lorenz & Pauline Boudry

"We are attempting inter-group, or interstellar, telepathic transmission, following the 1974 score Telepathic Improvisation by Pauline Oliveros," says Marwa Arsainos in...

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Witch Hunt: Okwui Okpokwasili

"Being an African-American, having been born here, I feel like I'm always in that middle space and trying to reach, trying to hear, trying to open to a message, a way forward, a...

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Ligia Lewis & Mlondi Zondi discuss Lewis's film "deader than dead"

Movement artist and scholar Mlondi Zondi joins Made in L.A. 2020 artist Ligia Lewis in conversation, following a screening of Lewis’s dance performance deader...

01:07:10

Terry Allen & Jo Harvey Allen in conversation

Terry Allen and Jo Harvey Allen hold a conversation interspersed with readings and music excerpts from Terry’s music recordings, radio shows, and theater works. A singer-s...

01:36:24

Choreographer Will Rawls discusses his work

Choreographer, artist, and writer Will Rawls presents his work-in-progress, a hybrid of dance and stop-motion animation, created as part of his residency at the Hammer. His chor...

01:19:13

#SayHerName: Performances about lives that should have been

This staged reading performance imagines the lives that mothers, daughters, and sisters may have led had some lives not been cut short by violence. Performers celebrate the beau...

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Poetry

Vijay Seshadri reads, February 2023

Poet Vijay Seshadri, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning 3 Sections, reads from his work. He is also the author of That Was Now, This Is Then, The L...

00:49:17

Poet Robert Pinsky reads, February 2023

Celebrated poet Robert Pinsky reads from his work, including his new memoir, Jersey Breaks: Becoming an American Poet, which offers a candid, engaging, and wry self-por...

01:03:04

Poet Ange Mlinko reads from her collection "Venice," November 2022

Ange Mlinko reads from her poetry collection Venice (2022). Mlinko is the author of several books of poetry, including Distant Mandate and Marvelous Things...

00:50:32

Poet Harryette Mullen reads, October 2022

Harryette Mullen is the author of several volumes of poetry including Urban Tumbleweed, Blues Baby: Early Poems, and Sleeping with the Dictionary, whi...

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Poet Richie Hofmann reads, April 2022

Richie Hofmann, the author of A Hundred Lovers (2022) and Second Empire (2015), reads from his work. He is winner of the Beatrice Hawley Award and a recipient...

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Poet Henri Cole reads, March 2022

Henri Cole has published 10 books of poetry, including Pulitzer Prize finalist Middle Earth and his most recent collection, Blizzard. He also recently publishe...

00:46:32

Sheree Rose & Tosh Berman in conversation

A reunion of figures from the Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center’s haunted hallways of the 1980s and 90s. Performer and photographer Sheree Rose freaks forth with thought...

01:01:14

Jack Skelley, David Trinidad & Tosh Berman in conversation

A reunion of figures from the Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center’s haunted hallways of the 1980s and 90s. Poets Jack Skelley and David Trinidad gather to chit-chat about...

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Dennis Cooper, Benjamin Weisman, Amy Gerstler & Tosh Berman in conversation

A reunion of figures from the Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center’s haunted hallways of the 1980s and 90s. This tête-à-tête between Tosh Berman&nbs...

01:14:50

Jack Skelley & Sabrina Tarasoff discuss the documentary "Fear of Poetry"

Jack Skelley and Made in L.A. 2020 artist Sabrina Tarasoff discuss the 1983 documentary Fear of Poetry. Fear of Poetry is an improvisatory 40-minute f...

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Environment

Art & Ideas: Sylvia Earle

Famed oceanographer and explorer Sylvia Earle shares her journey as a participant in decades of unprecedented ocean discoveries and as a witness to devastating loss, and what ac...

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Protecting the Amazon Rainforest: Averting the ecological tipping point

Indigenous leaders and artists lead a conversation on the global significance of the Amazon biome by highlighting how California’s oil imports affect the future of the Ama...

01:38:05

Sylvia Earle & Laura Dern in conversation

In a pre-Earth Day talk, famed oceanographer and explorer Sylvia Earle shares her journey as a participant in decades of unprecedented ocean discoveries and as a witness to deva...

01:44:40

Can a story save the planet? Storytelling and global catastrophes

Celebrated writers Scott Z. Burns, Amitav Ghosh, and Elizabeth Kolbert discuss how the art of storytelling has failed to take on the climate crisis and its attendant catastrophe...

01:24:57

Jane Fonda, Laura Flanders & Janet Valenzuela on environmental justice

Actor and activist Jane Fonda recently said: "We are the last generation who can make the difference between life and death of the planet." Fonda's activism has spanned decades...

01:31:13

Naomi Klein: the case for a Green New Deal

Naomi Klein champions a sweeping environmental agenda with justice at its center. One of the foremost chroniclers of the economic war waged on both people and planet, Klein's bo...

01:37:09

What L.A. can learn about sustainability from Mexico City, Tokyo & Shangai

Mexico City, Tokyo, and Shanghai—megacities with populations of more than 20 million and with unique infrastructures—have in recent years all made pledges toward tot...

01:25:24

Solving California's water future

In order to achieve complete sustainability, Los Angeles must contend with serious finance, governance, environmental, and water management challenges. A panel of experts discus...

01:38:44

Discussion of the documentary film "Berta Vive"

Artist Carolina Caycedo joins journalist Silvio Carrillo and UC Berkeley law professor Roxanna Altholz to discuss the short documentary Berta Vive and indigenous environmental a...

01:49:18

Discussing racial and income environmental equality

Angelo Logan, cofounder of Eastside Yard Communities for Environmental Justice and the campaign director of the Moving Forward Network; Gladys Limoón, executive director of the...

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