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.
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.
We are delighted and honored that "Sci-fi, Magick, Queer L.A.: Sexual Science and the Imagi-Nation" was named one of the top 30 art books by Hyperallergic of 2024.
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.
