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Machado Mijiga, drums Dario LaPoma, piano Milo Fultz, bass Portland multi-instrumentalist Machado Mijiga does not sit still. At just 31 years old, the prolific performer and producer has already released three dozen albums and a slew of singles and EPs spanning genres from jazz to R&B to electronica and hip hop. For his concert at the Hammer, Mijiga and his trio will embrace the eclecticism, pulling from all corners of his vast body of work to synthesize its unique quirks into a tight and lively performance. Learn more here: https://hmmr.buzz/mijiga-j20

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Join the Hammer Museum, AMBOS, and Heart of LA for a special Art Lab event featuring Markings project artist Jackie Amézquita. This bilingual community workshop invites you to participate in a hands-on weaving activity rooted in techniques passed down through generations of Indigenous communities originating from pueblos originarios, cantones, and aldeas across Mexico and Central America. Inspired by the cultural fabric and traditional knowledge embedded in the Markings oral history and public project, lead artist Jackie Amézquita will guide participants through this interactive experience by sharing techniques, inspiration, and the stories behind this sustainable art form that recognizes handwork as a way of preserving ancestral memory. Alongside the workshop, AMBOS will curate an interactive installation on natural dyes and weaving, offering a closer look at the materials and processes behind this practice. A curated playlist by the Central American Sound Archive (CASA) will set the tone for an afternoon of making, sharing, and connection. This program is organized in conjunction with the closing weekend of Several Eternities in a Day: Form in the Age of Living Materials. All ages welcome. Learn more here: https://hmmr.buzz/markingartlab

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Join artists, scholars, curators, and cultural practitioners for a day of thought-provoking conversations inspired by Several Eternities in a Day: Form in the Age of Living Materials. Through keynote presentations and a panel discussion, the symposium explores how contemporary artists engage with living materials and the political, epistemological, and practical questions these practices raise. The panel discussion will examine topics including the conservation of artworks that continue to change over time, questions of ownership and custodianship regarding contemporary art collections, curatorial practices involving ceremonial and organic materials, and the evolving relationships between artists, institutions, and the living materials they engage. Bringing together perspectives from artistic and curatorial practice, anthropology, philosophy, and the sciences, the symposium invites a rich, interdisciplinary dialogue on the implications of living materials in contemporary art. Learn more here: https://hmmr.buzz/manifestation

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Place Is the Space is a four-hour immersive performance experience combining live jazz improvisation, theatrical storytelling and multimedia design inspired by Sun Ra’s philosophy and his film Space Is the Place. The work functions as both a concert and an experiential ritual where musicians, performers, visual elements and audience members collectively shape the space into a place. Metaphorically building the vehicle that Sun Ra aspired towards, expressing Afrofuturistic themes of transcendence, liberation and joy. This cosmic jam session culminates in the audience crowning a ""New Sun Ra,"" who leads the full audience on a pilgrimage to the Hammer Museum for one final performance, where everyone is invited to play along. Presented in conjunction with the Hammer Museum’s current exhibition SPACE IS THE PLACE, which frames “space” as a conceptual framework inspired by the works and views of experimental jazz artist Sun Ra. Learn more here: https://hmmr.buzz/arcenlawson

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