Join curator Ilene Fort and scholars Lisa Janssen and Laura Whitcomb at the USC Fisher Museum for a panel discussion on the roles of Surrealism and the occult in Sci-fi, Magick, Queer L.A.
Upcoming
Club Kaya: An Interactive Experience, Performance, and Archive
On:
Feb 12 - Apr 26 2025
at:
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Past Programs
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.
Radical Imagination: Queer Stories through Sci-Fi Storytelling
On:
Oct 3 2024
at:
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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.
Book Talk: Queer Families Coming of Age in Lane Igoudin’s "A Family, Maybe"
On:
Jun 5 2024
at:
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
