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:
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
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.
We’re taking over the patio at El Rio on Tuesday, June 3rd! Come hang out with us. We’ll have typewriters so you can request poems on demand from some of the evening’s readers and perhaps a special guest or two; you’ll also be able to use Quiet Lightning stationary to write your own words (we’re creating stationary just for this show!)… perhaps you’ll come up with some rough gems for our book contest?
We are proud to introduce to you our authors/entertainment for the evening, curated by Kristen Kramer + Sarah Carpenter!
ArtSpan is going to give out Blick sketching materials to a limited # of folks so you (and the other people at this ARTIST MIXER) can respond to the literary responses to the visual representations of FAIRY TALES
Submit to this show! Deadline is the end of Wednesday, April 16. Here’s how you do it.
ps. thanks everyone who came to our book release party for Zack Haber and Tupelo Hassman. That felt really fantastic to see so many friends and bright attentive faces, and the books are still real and so pretty and we are really proud of them! If you didn’t get a copy you can now do that here; you’ll also be able to pick them up in other places soon… though of course the best place to get them is at the shows! Come on May 12! Please submit. And check out Tiny Splendor… we’ll be working with them again but that doesn’t mean you can’t work with them! And/or be their friends. And three cheers for Hipstamatic — especially to their Director of Fun, Mario Estrada… what a magical way to release our first books. Videos and full text coming soon… Go forth, now; go forth and make people want to make more things!
We made the books with Tiny Splendor, who will be set up with a print sale. There will be cheap food and free ice cold draft beer courtesy of Lagunitas… which perhaps will inspire you to participate in the livestream of image-based storytelling via Oggl. Wait! There’s more… a special performance by Stella Peach!
Monday, April 7th Haus of Hipstamatic 74 Langton St. (b/w Folsom and Howard, 7th and 8th streets) Doors at 6:45 • Readings at 7:30
art by Wesley Powell
21+
$7-10 admission includes sparkle + blink
$15 for s+b plus one author book $20 for all three
No one turned away for lack of funds
This all happened as a result of our first book contest. Are you working on a book right now? We’ll be announcing our second book contest in the beginning of May.
Quiet Lightning is also made possible in part thanks to the Zellerbach Family Foundation, and would absolutely not be so darn great without the help and consistent good work of our board, staff, and volunteers. Our ears and minds are are always open, and so are our meetings — the next one is on April 20th (no joke). Send us a line if you’d like to attend and/or get involved in some way.
Next: sparkle + blink 50 with the San Francisco Center for the Book Friday, March 7th
375 Rhode Island Street
7:30 readings, doors at 6:30
$7-10, first 100 ppl get a special edition
$3 ice cold Lagunitas drafts
Free snacks • All ages welcome
375 Rhode Island Street
7:30 readings, doors at 6:30 $7-10, first 100 ppl get a special edition $3 ice cold Lagunitas drafts
Free snacks • All ages welcome
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We received 103 submissions for this show and accepted 12 (12%)
5/12 have read for QL before (42%, 68% first-time in QL)
Submit by the end of Wednesday, February 12th to be a part of our show with the San Francisco Center for the Book. The show is going to be inside their shop of wonders. They are going to letterpress the covers to our 50th book, with design by our main man j. brandon loberg. Lagunitas will be back in the house. Everyone who comes to the show will have a part in making their own book. Click here to submit. Send us anything. We’d love to read your best work, your weirdest, most-like-you work, your most not-like-you work. Surprise us. But more than anything, surprise yourself.
Amy E. Glasenapp‘s story “Combustion” will be the basis for our first short film, which we plan to screen at our May show. We’re currently casting; auditions are this Wednesday and Thursday (January 29th and 30th) in San Francisco. If you can’t make it on one of those dates and would like a shot, we’ll be holding a short round early afternoon Saturday February 1st. More details about the film and auditions can be found here.
Thanks to everyone who sent us a script or a story. We received 19 and accepted 1 (5%). We had a blast imagining how we might convert them into movies, and are thrilled to get to work on Amy’s story. Actually, we’re already hard at work: the script is being drafted, the location scouted, props and equipment gathered… we’ll have all the shooting done by the first of March.
Submissions Open
Beast Crawl
