Talks provide Bowers visitors with access to respected speakers and experts from around the world; each offering a special perspective on the collections, exhibitions and themes housed and explored by the Bowers Museum through the varied lenses of archaeology, anthropology, education, social sciences and the arts. This is your time to ponder, your place to learn and your space to share with your community.

Timeless Melodies: How Jewish Artists Transformed Popular Music

August 25, 2022 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm

PURCHASE TICKETS Presented by Larry Maurer, historian of the Timeless Melodies Foundation for Education, Inc. Join...

Bead Society OC: Living Works of Art with Sculptor Marsha Judd

August 27, 2022 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

PURCHASE ONSITE TICKETS Join Marsha Judd, a Southern California-based ceramic sculptor and designer, as she talks...

Celebrity Speaker Series: Elton John Tribute with Kenny Metcalf

September 8, 2022 10:30 am - 12:00 pm

Crescendo Chapter of the Guilds of Segerstromg Center for the Arts: Celebrity Speaker Series 2022 Don’t miss this...

ARCE OC: Funerary Papyri as Social Reflections of the Living and the Dead with Marissa A. Stevens, Ph.D.

September 10, 2022 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm

PURCHASE ONSITE TICKETS Presented by Marissa A. Stevens, Ph.D., Assistant Director of the Pourdavoud Center for the...

Indigenous Music and Instruments of South America with Ethnomusicologist Jim Berenholtz

September 17, 2022 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm

PURCHASE ONSITE TICKETS Ethnomusicologist Jim Berenholtz presents a lecture and performs samples from the diverse...

Timeless Melodies: Rodgers & Hart

September 22, 2022 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm

PURCHASE TICKETS Take a nostalgic walk down memory lane with music and more presented by Larry Maurer, historian of...