Theme Guides
USC Visions and Voices creates theme guides for selected events featuring information on the event topics, guest speakers and artists, participating organizations, and additional resources. Theme guides may be accessed at the links below.
SPRING 2025
1/24/25: Live Artists Live [5.0]: Bodies Making Space – Program and Theme Guide
2/4/25: Kaufman Converge – Featuring Teresa “Toogie” Barcelo and Rauf “Rubberlegz” Yasit – Program
2/8/25: Punk for the People: The Past, Present, and Future of BIPOC Punk – Theme Guide
2/12/25: Club Kaya: An Interactive Experience, Performance, and Archive – Program
2/23/25: Bereishit Dance Company: Balance & Imbalance / Judo – Program
3/1/25: El Respiro / Respire: A Panel and Performance with Carolina Caycedo – Theme Guide
3/5/25: Voices of Freedom, Voices of War in Ukraine: Readings, Conversations, and Creative Workshops – Theme Guide
3/14/25: Quincy Jones Symphonic: A USC Concert Experience – Program
3/24/25: LA Opera: Così Fan Tutte – Theme Guide
4/3–6/25: Homeboys, A Musical – Program and Theme Guide
4/15/25: Contact Improvisation Workshop with Aimar Pérez Galí – Theme Guide
4/16/25:“A System in Collapse Is a System Moving Forward” – A Dance Performance-Lecture by Aimar Pérez Galí and Daniel Méndez Piña – Program and Theme Guide
4/21/25: After the Flames: The Role of the Artist in Climate Justice and Sustainable Change – Program
4/25/25: Legacies: USC – A Multigenerational Song Cycle – Program
FALL 2024
9/3/24: LA Phil at the Hollywood Bowl: Carmen and Carnival with Dudamel – Theme Guide
9/6/24: EMK presents Frida: The Last Night Show – Performance and Panel – Program and Theme Guide
9/16/24: Beyond the Human?: From the Metaphysical to the Physical – A Symposium on AI and the Arts – Program
9/19/24: Ghostly Labor by Vanessa Sanchez and La Mezcla – Program and Theme Guide
9/24/24: Reimagining Disability Narratives through Artistic Practice – A Lecture by A. Laura Brody – Theme Guide
9/25/24: Opulent Mobility – Opening Panel & Reception – Theme Guide
10/1/24: Gender, Queerness, Disability, and the Arts – A Conversation with A. Laura Brody and Brontë Grimm – Theme Guide
10/3/24: Radical Imagination: Queer Stories through Sci-Fi Storytelling – Theme Guide
10/16/24: LayeRhythm: Switch – Program
10/18/24: Behind the Scenes of K-pop – Program
10/20/24: Green Day’s American Idiot – Theme Guide
10/23/24: Spectral Science: Conjuring the Invisible World – Theme Guide
10/30/24: Phantasmagoria: Lighting the World Beyond – Theme Guide
SPRING 2024
1/19/24: Nobody Knows: Unmuted Voices – 43rd Annual USC Celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. – Program
1/25–31/24: Blood Baby – Theme Guide
2/20/24: An Evening with Common – Theme Guide
2/28/24: waheedworks: Bodies as Site of Faith and Protest – Program and Theme Guide
3/21/24: About Face: Women, War, and Re-envisioning Troy – Theme Guide
3/23/24: CHRISTEENE: The Lion The Witch And The Cobra – Program and Theme Guide
4/1–2/24: About Face: Walking Tour – Theme Guide
4/6/24: The Great Wall of Los Angeles at 40: A Conversation with Judy Baca and Screening of Mur Murs – Theme Guide
4/27/24: Rhythms + Visions / Expanded + Live 4 – Program
FALL 2023
8/25/23: Keith Haring: Art Is for Everybody – Theme Guide
9/8/23: Make Mend II: Unravel, Unwind – Theme Guide
9/13/23: What Is American: PUBLIQuartet – Program and Theme Guide
9/20/23: Hip Hop 50: Celebrating Hip Hop Dance Scholarship – Theme Guide
9/22/23: This Is Not a True Story – Theme Guide
9/30/23: Arts, Activism, and Reproductive Rights: Workshops, Panel, and Procession – Theme Guide
9/30/23:Hip Hop 50: A Birthday Party for Hip Hop – Theme Guide
10/4/23: Hip Hop 50: Celebrating Collaboration & Community – Theme Guide
10/15/23: Here, My Voice – Program
10/16/23: Boundless Curiosity: An Evening with Mark Rios – Theme Guide
10/19/23: Ephrat Asherie Dance: UNDERSCORED – Theme Guide
10/24/23: Let’s Talk about George Floyd: Systemic Racism in the United States Today – Theme Guide
10/26–29/23: Ghosts of USC: A Historical Haunt – Program and Theme Guide
10/27/23: Rebecca Gomperts Discusses Art, Activism, and Reproductive Rights – Theme Guide
11/2/23: An Evening with Enrique Martínez Celaya Including a Conversation with Martin Brest – Theme Guide
11/13/23: An Evening with Maxine Hong Kingston – Theme Guide
11/17/23: Make Mend II: Tools of the Trade – Theme Guide
11/30/23: LA Opera: El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego – Theme Guide
12/2/23: The Upcycled Self: An Evening with Black Thought from The Roots – Theme Guide
SPRING 2023
1/17/23: MLK/FBI – A Screening and Conversation with Sam Pollard – Theme Guide
1/20/23: Gibney Company – Program and Theme Guide
1/25/23: John Singleton: A Celebration – Baby Boy – Theme Guide
1/27–28/23: Losing Ground @ 40 – Program and Theme Guide
2/1/23: SOUL! 2023: Producing to Power in the 21st Century – Theme Guide
2/8/23: Uprooted: The Journey of Jazz Dance – Screening and Conversation – Theme Guide
2/11/23: Yuja Wang & Dudamel: Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 and Symphonic Dances – Theme Guide
2/15/23: A.I.M by Kyle Abraham: An Untitled Love – Program and Theme Guide
2/21/23: An Evening with Nikole Hannah-Jones – Theme Guide
3/2/23: Sunday in the Park with George – Theme Guide
3/5/23: John Singleton: A Celebration – Hustle & Flow/Black Snake Moan – Theme Guide
3/8/23: Birds of No Nation: Afghan Women on Art, Gender, Freedom, and Exile – Theme Guide
3/21/23: The Vanishing Worlds of Audubon – Theme Guide
3/22/23: John Singleton: A Celebration – Four Brothers – Theme Guide
3/23/23: Rewriting War: A Conversation with Refugee Writers – Theme Guide
3/31/23: Dismantling Orientalism: This Is Not a True Story – Theme Guide
4/12/23: Cynossema: A Dirge from the Dog’s Tomb – Program and Theme Guide
4/20/23: John Singleton: A Celebration – Snowfall – Theme Guide
4/30/23:Tales of Clamor by PULLproject Ensemble – Program and Theme Guide
FALL 2022
8/26–27/22: John Cameron Mitchell & Stephen Trask: The Origin of Love – Program and Theme Guide
9/9/22: Lee Alexander McQueen: Mind, Mythos, Muse – Theme Guide
9/9/22: John Singleton: A Celebration – Boyz n the Hood – Theme Guide
9/20/22: Rodgers & Hammerstein’s OKLAHOMA! – Theme Guide
9/21/22: John Singleton: A Celebration – Poetic Justice – Theme Guide
9/29/22: Monica Bill Barnes & Company: The Running Show – Program and Theme Guide
9/30/22: Live Artists Live: Sings of Freedom – Program and Theme Guide
10/8/22: Taipei Night at the USC Pacific Asia Museum – Theme Guide
10/11/22: Interstitial: A Book of (Musical) Stories – Program and Theme Guide
10/12/22: John Singleton: A Celebration – Higher Learning – Theme Guide
10/20/22: (Un)Documents – Theme Guide
10/25/22: Lido Pimienta in Concert – Theme Guide
10/26/22: Uta Awase: A Modern Take on the Traditional Japanese Poetry Contest – Theme Guide
11/1/22: An Evening with Natasha Trethewey – Theme Guide
11/3/22: Dahlak Brathwaite: Try/Step/Trip – Program and Theme Guide
11/9/22: John Singleton: A Celebration – Rosewood – Theme Guide
11/13/22: August Wilson’s Radio Golf – Theme Guide
11/16/22: Interstitial Satellite Concert – Program
11/30/22: John Singleton: A Celebration – Shaft – Theme Guide
SPRING 2022
1/21/22: Art, Identity, and Power: An Evening with Rocky Rivera and Audrey Chan – Theme Guide
2/2/22: Decolonizing Research: A Conversation with Indigenous Scholars – Theme Guide
2/11–12/22: Doug Varone and Dancers – Program and Theme Guide
2/16/22: Keith Wailoo – Inequalities Unmasked: What Pandemics Reveal about American Society from the Spanish Flu to COVID-19 – Theme Guide
2/17/22: Everybody’s Talking about Jamie – Theme Guide
2/23/22: Tupac Shakur. Wake Me When I’m Free – Theme Guide
2/26/22: Roving Studio Triptych with Artist Kite – Theme Guide
3/2/22: The Soldier’s Tale – Program and Theme Guide
3/3/22: Archival Intimacies: Queering South/East Asian Diasporas – Theme Guide
3/9/22: California Dystopia: Understanding Climate Change and Social Collapse through Science Fiction – Theme Guide
3/11/22:Chutney Popcorn – Screening and Conversation with Nisha Ganatra and Maryam Keshavarz – Theme Guide
3/26/22: The Real James Bond…Was Dominican – Theme Guide
3/31/22: Tracing Our Creative Origins: A Workshop with Sita Kuratomi Bhaumik – Theme Guide
4/1/22: Belonging as Survival: Creativity, Activism, and Community – Theme Guide
4/7/22: Borrowed Recipes: Migrant Food Worlds of the Silk Road – Theme Guide
4/13/22: Michele Bratcher Goodwin – Dying While Black: Race, Maternity, and the Reproductive Health Care System – Theme Guide
4/14/22: Crafting Change: An Afternoon with the Social Justice Sewing Academy – Theme Guide
4/15/22: Make Mend: Kintsugi Hack – Theme Guide
4/21–22/22: Ku’er Worlds: Queering Chinese American Identities in Art and Film – Theme Guide
4/29–30/22: South of Expo: Art, Artists, and Cultural Spaces since the 1960s – Theme Guide
FALL 2021
10/16/21: Because of Anita: Truth, Justice, Race, Gender, and Power–30 Years Later – Program and Theme Guide
10/21/21: Masters of the Currents – Program and Theme Guide
11/2/21: An Evening with Zadie Smith – Theme Guide
11/4–6/21: USSR 30: Cinema after the Collapse – Schedule and Theme Guide
11/11/21: Waging Peace in Vietnam: Protest Movements and Social Change – Theme Guide
11/15/21: Midnight Traveler: Capturing the Global Refugee Crisis on Film – Theme Guide
12/2/21: Rhythms and Revolution: Race, Gender, and Jazz – Terri Lyne Carrington, säje, and Patrice Rushen in Concert – Theme Guide
12/4/21: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictee: A Marathon Reading – Theme Guide
12/6/21: Make Mend: I’m DYE-ING to Make That! – Theme Guide
