Theme Guides
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
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
