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.

FALL 2021
10/16/21: Because of Anita: Truth, Justice, Race, Gender, and Power–30 Years LaterProgram and Theme Guide
10/21/21: Masters of the Currents Program and Theme Guide
11/2/21: An Evening with Zadie SmithTheme Guide
11/4–6/21: USSR 30: Cinema after the CollapseSchedule and Theme Guide
11/11/21: Waging Peace in Vietnam: Protest Movements and Social ChangeTheme Guide
11/15/21: Midnight Traveler: Capturing the Global Refugee Crisis on FilmTheme 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

SPRING 2022
1/21/22: Art, Identity, and Power: An Evening with Rocky Rivera and Audrey ChanTheme Guide
2/2/22: Decolonizing Research: A Conversation with Indigenous ScholarsTheme 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 KiteTheme Guide
3/2/22: The Soldier’s TaleProgram and Theme Guide
3/3/22: Archival Intimacies: Queering South/East Asian DiasporasTheme Guide
3/9/22: California Dystopia: Understanding Climate Change and Social Collapse through Science FictionTheme Guide
3/11/22:Chutney Popcorn – Screening and Conversation with Nisha Ganatra and Maryam KeshavarzTheme Guide
3/26/22: The Real James Bond…Was Dominican – Theme Guide
3/31/22: Tracing Our Creative Origins: A Workshop with Sita Kuratomi BhaumikTheme Guide
4/1/22: Belonging as Survival: Creativity, Activism, and CommunityTheme Guide
4/7/22: Borrowed Recipes: Migrant Food Worlds of the Silk RoadTheme 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 HackTheme 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 2022
8/26–27/22: John Cameron Mitchell & Stephen Trask: The Origin of LoveProgram and Theme Guide
9/9/22:  Lee Alexander McQueen: Mind, Mythos, MuseTheme 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 JusticeTheme Guide
9/29/22: Monica Bill Barnes & Company: The Running ShowProgram 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) StoriesProgram and Theme Guide
10/12/22: John Singleton: A Celebration – Higher LearningTheme Guide
10/20/22: (Un)DocumentsTheme Guide
10/25/22: Lido Pimienta in ConcertTheme 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/TripProgram 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 ConcertProgram
11/30/22: John Singleton: A Celebration – Shaft – Theme Guide

SPRING 2023
1/17/23: MLK/FBI – A Screening and Conversation with Sam Pollard Theme Guide
1/20/23: Gibney CompanyProgram 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 ConversationTheme Guide
2/11/23: Yuja Wang & Dudamel: Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 and Symphonic DancesTheme Guide
2/15/23: A.I.M by Kyle Abraham: An Untitled LoveProgram 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 WritersTheme 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 2024
8/25/23: Keith Haring: Art Is for Everybody – Theme Guide
9/8/23: Make Mend II: Unravel, UnwindTheme Guide
9/13/23: What Is American: PUBLIQuartetProgram and Theme Guide
9/20/23: Hip Hop 50: Celebrating Hip Hop Dance ScholarshipTheme Guide
9/22/23: This Is Not a True StoryTheme Guide

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