This is a list of all the stuff we have coming up. Most of these are free events at our Echo Park storefront, some are classes and workshops, and some are projects in various other locations/cities/continents. If you’re interested in what we’ve been doing, we direct you to our Archive of Past Activities and our Interactive Keyword Matrix.

We make no guarantee that the things listed below will occur when, where, or as they are described. For the most reliable information on our activities, sign up for our email list and check your email every five minutes from here on out.

HAMMER AIR // The Little William Theater Festival of New Music: week 5

The shipwrecked boat is coming!

A lecture on Ghost Ships of the Sky.

September 11, 10am-2pm is SOLD OUT NEW SESSION ADDED: Sept 12, 10am-2pm Create a Jellyfish sea creature from just yarn and a hook! Taught by  Cheryl Cambras, this one-day class will show newcomers the basics of crocheting while walking them through a complete first project: your own non-stinging, cuddle-safe Jellyfish! Workshop size is limited for [...]

HAMMER AIR // The Little William Theater Festival of New Music: week 6

Calling Los Angeles artists working with voice: Hone your chops, develop your ideas and get those ideas realized! Everyone is welcome. You don’t need to have a great voice or read music. This is not a choir! It is a sound collective. Think: Glee! + Imperial Orgy + AACM + Post-war horror movie choirs + Brian Eno’s sing-a-longs + Mieskuoro Huutajat + whatever you put in…

Machine’s first class solely dedicated to hats!

Thursday September 16th, 8pm Creston Lea will be joining us to read from his recent book Wild Punch, which may or may not include relevant maritime topics such as falling through ice. We are pleased to let you know that Creston will be joined by one of our most beloved troubadours, Daniel Brummel. Coincidentally, Creston [...]

Did you know puppy dog tails were once used to navigate the sea?

HAMMER AIR // The Little William Theater Festival of New Music: week 7

Saturday September 18th, 8pm We are very pleased that one of our favorite new musical discoveries, Tommy Santee Klaws, will grace our shipwreck with their cavernous, earthy, visceral sounds.

Moby Dick with puppets, aboard the installation “Sinking Ship”. Puppet show by Nicole Antebi and Linda Wei, ship by Joshua Beckman.

September 19th, 8pm Join us for an evening with Historian Jim Wilke as he discusses prominent shipwrecks and particularly disastrous nautical failures in time.

Friday September 24th, 8pm Colin Dickey discusses the odd story of the sinking of the SS Normandie. Originally a French luxury cruise ship, the SS Normandie was being retrofitted as a troop transport in New York’s harbor when it caught fire in 1942 and was destroyed. The incident was quickly ruled an accident due to [...]

Joshua Beckman and Emily Lacy present an evening of poetry and music based on The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, the longest major poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. More info TBA

An Enormous Microscopic Evening will celebrate, demonstrate and display a variety of magnification devices, from state of the art equipment and futuristic gadgets to home made single lens scopes designed to see the invisible. Taking place at the Hammer Museum.