Programs

Upcoming

Closing Party for Sci-fi, Magick, Queer L.A.

On: Mar 15 2025 at: 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Join us Saturday, March 15th from 1- 4 pm at USC Fisher Museum for an unforgettable closing event for Sci-fi, Magick, Queer L.A.: Sexual Science and the Imagi-Nation. Commemorate the closing of this groundbreaking exhibition through live tarot readings, music, food, occult books and zines, art making, and curator-led tours. RSVP for the event at the link here.

Past Programs

Women, Surrealism, and the Occult in Los Angeles

On: Feb 21 2025 at: 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Join LACMA curator emerita Ilene Susan Fort, independent curator Laura Whitcomb, and independent scholar Lisa Janssen at the USC Fisher Museum for a panel discussion on the role of Surealism and the occult in Sci-fi, Magick, Queer L.A. 

Dionysian Worship in Queer California

On: Nov 14 2024 at: 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Join us for a fascinating talk that looks at the rites of Dionysus as employed in two Californian contexts: the first, a filmed act of sparagmos (the ritual rending apart of a sacrificial victim) in Los Angeles in Kenneth Anger's Inauguration of the Pleasuredome (1954); the second, a series of Bacchic revels enacted by Arthur Evans and his Faery Circle in San Francisco and its environs in the mid-1970s, which prefigured and inspired the Radical Faeries Movement that later became a fully-fledged queer spiritual pathway.