Explore the USC Fisher Museum after hours and enjoy a dynamic evening filled with live performances, music, art activities and more.

• A conversation about storytelling, music, and resilience with Leila Steinberg, an educator, writer, poet, founder of AIM4TheHeART, and former manager of Tupac Shakur, and Diego Gaeta, a keyboardist and producer known for blending 1970s jazz, hip hop, global folk, and chamber music. Moderated by USC professor Brittany Friedman.
  
• Live music by Diego Gaeta, who gained notice for his dynamic and soulful playing in the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra and contributed to André 3000’s New Blue Sun.
  
• Performances by USC Thornton School of Music students in the Special Topic Seminar taught by poet, musician, activist, and USC professor Camae Ayewa (Moor Mother). Student performers include Hogni Egilsson, Ella Kaale, Samvel Krajian, Johnny Miguel, Estevan Olmos, Nathaniel Parks, Dylan Tyree, Chloe Villamayor, and Trevor Zavac.
  
• After-hours access to Ken Gonzales-Day: History’s “Nevermade”, a comprehensive survey of work by the artist, teacher, and scholar, whose oeuvre confronts the omissions and erasures in official narratives with a particular focus on race, place, memory, and gender identity in the United States and Europe. The exhibition will run from August 19, 2025, through March 14, 2026.
  
• Interactive art-making activities and refreshments.