Happy 2025! ONE is as busy as ever — checkout some of our upcoming programs.

CLUB KAYA: Tuesday, February 12, 6:30 - 9:30 pm at ONE Archives

ONE Archives is ecstatic to host Club Kaya! Celebrating 30 years of Kaya Press, the award-winning Asian diasporic publisher, we are delighted to host a community partner who has long supported the work of emerging queer writers and narratives. Join us on February 12th to celebrate their anniversary with a collaborative, interdisciplinary, and interactive performance experience led by Kaya artist and resident Alan Nakagawa. The night will feature video installations, disco balls, karaoke, sound experiences, and interactive installations.   

In our downstairs gallery and throughout our space, engage with Kaya Micro Operas: Alternatives to Archiving by Alan Nakagawa. After reading all 68 of Kaya’s books, he proposed “creating a Micro Opera for every one of their published works…2025 also marks 40 years since I first experienced Micro Operas–short, multidisciplinary pieces–at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles. Having worked until the early 2000s with this format in my Collage Ensemble Inc. collective, I wanted to return to this way of making art. Kaya Micro Operas is my attempt to archive the emotional content of each published work. I wanted to embody the imagination that gets activated through reading. I felt like each book offered a universe, and I wanted to capture every one of these  journeys in a small sound work.”

Upstairs, view some of Kaya’s archive in the exhibit Portrait of a Publisher as a Political Project: 30 Years of Kaya Press. To read more about the project, please visit the Visions and Voices website here. Both exhibitions will be open for viewing at the archive through April 26th.

Women, Surrealism, and the Occult in Los Angeles: Friday, February 21, 2 - 4 pm at USC Fisher Museum

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 surrealism and the occult in Sci-fi, Magick, Queer L.A. Renate Druks and Cameron, two prominent artists in the exhibition, will be the starting point to consider the important contributions of women to midcentury Los Angeles art and occult history more broadly. Both creative muses for queer filmmakers Kenneth Anger and Curtis Harrington, Druks, and Cameron were also highly prolific artists whose work was informed by their travels to Mexico and interests in surrealism, psychoanalysis, astrology, and tarot. Their impact on art today is more palpable than ever; for those seeking alternative visions of the world, their indelible artworks offer enchanting possibilities.

The discussion, moderated by exhibition co-curator Kelly Filreis, will offer new insights on Cameron and Druks and their wider roles in the Los Angeles occult and avant-garde art scenes. The panelists will also discuss the discoveries and unique challenges involved in researching, preserving, and curating the work of women artists and others who have been historically under-examined.

Come early for a curator-led tour of the exhibition at 1 pm.