QL returns for the Beast Crawl hat trick: for one and two we did a lil’ something called Random Play… but not this year! Full steam ahead, with sparkle + blink, Lagunitas and everything. The show, curated by Lapo Guzzini, Emma Smith, and Evan Karp, will be at Oakstop, in the third and final leg of the festival. We are proud to be hosting this lineup:

art by Maga Rincon!

Siamak Vossoughi
Kelly Egan
Kate Folk
Kara Vernor
Ivan Hernandez
David Wesley Green
Jill Tydor
Ashley Warren

FREE
Show starts at 8pm sharp!
Check out the rest of the fest — other legs start at 5pm and 6:30 (schedule here)
Oakstop: 1721 Broadway St near 17th St., Oakland
First 100 people get a copy of sparkle + blink

oakstop! as seen from m’iphone

Social Media Book Contest

Think about it. We’re going to make at least one beautiful book out of this. What will it look like?

Neighborhood Heroes

Save the date! Thursday, August 7th @ the Contemporary Jewish Museum

National Poetry Slam

We’re doing 2 shows in 3 days again!*** Saturday August 9th we’ll be a part of the closing day of this year’s NPS! Submissions open as soon as we figure out what we want to do… any ideas? (Seriously, we’re open.)

Statistics

We received 60 submissions to this show and accepted 8 (13%). 5 are first-timers (62.5%). The vets:

• Siamak Vossoughi (14x)
• Kelly Egan (2x)
• Kara Vernor (1x)

***Recent videos + photos

Check out videos/photos from our last two shows: El Rio here, and Modern Eden w/ArtSpan here.