Fred Moten will join artist Suné Woods and pianist-composer James Gordon Williams at the Hammer this week for an evening of “wordplay, found imagery, improvised music, and moving images.”*
SUNÉ WOODS, FRED MOTEN, AND JAMES GORDON WILLIAMSYOU ARE MINE. I SEE NOW, I’M A HAVE TO LET YOU GOThursday, August 23, at 7:30.HAMMER MUSEUM, 10899 Wilshire Boulevard, Westwood, Los Angeles.
Berta Cáceres—the environmental activist and champion of her indigenous compatriots in Honduras—was murdered at age 44 by members of a U.S.-trained special forces unit of the Honduran army for her role in blocking the construction of the Agua Zarca Dam.
This week the Hammer will screen Katia Lara’s short documentary BERTA VIVE, followed by a conversation with Made in L.A. 2018 artist Carolina Caycedo, journalist Silvio Carrillo, and UC Berkeley law professor Roxanna Altholz on indigenous environmental activism.
BERTA VIVE—BERTA CÁCERES AND THE FIGHT FOR INDIGENOUS WATER RIGHTS
Tuesday, August 21, at 7:30.
CAROLINA CAYCEDO—MADE IN L.A. 2018, through September 2.
BILLY WILDER THEATER, HAMMER MUSEUM, 10899 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles.
Mourning and honoring Berta Cáceres.
Is THE PAJAMA GAME (1957) the “first left-wing operetta,” as Jean-Luc Godard once famously called it? What’s not in doubt is that Doris Day is at her peak in this, the last of her great musicals for Warner Bros.
The film was directed by Stanley Donen and George Abbott, and co-starred Broadway powerhouse John Raitt as a factory superintendent to Day’s union team leader.
Bob Fosse choreographed the musical numbers—“Steam Heat” is an early triumph for this master of dance—and this weekend the UCLA Film and Television Archive will present a 35mm print screening of the film as part of their series Fosse, Fosse, Fosse! A Retrospective.
(DAMN YANKEES—directed by the same two filmmakers and starring Tab Hunter and Fosse’s wife Gwen Verdon—fills out the double-bill. Fosse and Verdon will be played by Sam Rockwell and Michelle Williams in an upcoming FX series.)
THE PAJAMA GAME and DAMN YANKEES, Saturday, August 18, at 7:30 pm.
BILLY WILDER THEATER, Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Boulevard, Westwood, Los Angeles.
cinema.ucla.edu/pajama-game-damn-yankees
Above: Doris Day and John Raitt. Publicity photo for The Pajama Game.
Below: Day (center) in The Pajama Game. Image credit for both: Warner Bros.
Made in L.A. 2018 artist Luchita Hurtado will discuss her practice with Andrianna Campbell, a writer and art history doctoral candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center specializing in modern and contemporary American art.
PATTERNS FOUND IN THE WORLD—LUCHITA HURTADO AND ANDRIANNA CAMPBELL, Sunday, July 15, at 1 pm.
MADE IN L.A. 2018, through September 2.
HAMMER MUSEUM, 10899 Wilshire Boulevard, Westwood, Los Angeles.
Above: Luchita Hurtado, Untitled, circa 1969.
Below: Luchita Hurtado, Untitled, 1970. Images courtesy of the artist and the Hammer Museum.
Jade Gordon—a participating artist with Megan Whitmarsh in the Hammer’s Made in L.A. 2018 biennial and a performance artist with My Barbarian—will lead RAINBOW OF DESIRE, “a range of exercises, games, and techniques to identify, analyze, and respond to internalized oppression” that are “part of Brazilian director and activist Augusto Boal’s liberatory political theater methodology.”*
RAINBOW OF DESIRE—THEATER OF THE OPPRESSED WORKSHOP, Saturday, July 14, from 2 pm to 4 pm.
HAMMER MUSEUM, 10899 Wilshire Boulevard, Westwood, Los Angeles.
* hammer.ucla.edu/rainbow-of-desire-theater-of-the-oppressed-workshop
hammer.ucla.edu/jade-gordon-megan-whitmarsh
An interview with My Barbarian member Malik Gaines will be published in the forthcoming print issue of PARIS LA.
Jade Gordon & Megan Whitmarsh, Ourchetypes installation, Hammer Museum, Made in L.A. 2018.
Image credit: Jade Gordon, Megan Whitmarsh, and the Hammer.
