open door: hidden tracks: neighborhood heroes: the rumpus

Nicole  McFeely and Janey Smith, in association with Quiet Lightning productions and Casey McAlduff‘s Studio One Reading Series, are proud to present Hidden Tracks, featuring the work of Adeena Karasick and erica lewis in a one-night only live performance of literary mixtape #43 (aka sparkle + blink 39 aka the fourth stop on this year’s Tour):

click on the image for links to the readers

Art from Elizabeth Moran’s Night, Light series

Free show. Free Lagunitas. Food trucks prior — been to Studio One Art Center? It was made for grazing.

RSVP
Friday, May 3 @ 7:30 • doors 7 • trucks 6
365 45th St, Oakland

Coming from BART?

  1. MacArthur Station
  2. R on 40th (E) until Telegraph Ave
  3. L to Cross 40th and walk ~450 Evan paces
  4. R on 45th
  5. Walk ~550 Evan paces (Studio One is just past the Temescal pool, also on your right — you can’t miss it)

QL + Porch Light Open Door this Monday!

You can now read and watch our March show with Feast of Words right here and our April show with Porch Light right here.

Neighborhood Heroes • June 6th at the Contemporary Jewish Museum

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Glen David Gold
Lisa Brackmann
Michael David Lukas
Susan Steinberg
Kevin Killian
Joseph Lease
Tom Comitta
Karen Penley
Chris Peck the Town Crier

—The Rumpus

Submissions for our show with The Rumpus are now open! It’s going to be Tuesday, July 9th. More info coming soon, but if you can commit to that date now you can go ahead: submit.

 

oakland. free show!

Last night was amazing. Thanks, everyone. Let’s do that again… in two weeks!

For the fourth show of our Tour Through Town we’re teaming up with the always excellent Studio One Reading Series to create a literary mixtape based on the poetry of Adeena Karasick and Erica Lewis. Submissions are open through Wednesday midnight, April 17th. Click here to Submit! That show, on May 3rd, is going to be absolutely FREE, with drinks and snacks provided. There will also be food trucks outside before the event, so come early and hang out! This show is being curated by Nicole McFeelyJaney Smith and Casey McAlduff, who curates S1.

While you’re saving dates…

We are very proud to announce this year’s Neighborhood Heroes:

Beat Memories 2Jane Smiley
Glen David Gold
Lisa Brackmann
Michael David Lukas
Susan Steinberg
Kevin Killian
Joseph Lease
Tom Comitta
Karen Penley
Chris Peck the Town Crier

All performing live at The Contemporary Jewish Museum on Thursday, June 6th! Tickets are only $5 and can be purchased in advance — highly recommended — right here. We will probably sell out. RSVP here.

More info coming soon about our July show with The Rumpus, and then it’s back to the Conservatory of Flowers for August, September and October, when we team up with Litquake.

What would you like to do now, though?

Talk to you soon! Love you,
xo