Programs

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. 

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.

Join science-fiction authors Ryka Aoki, Micaiah Johnson, and Brent Lambert for readings and a conversation that delve into the fascinating world of science fiction and its intersection with queer narratives.