On Oct 12, 2011 Litquake presented Ishmael Reed with its 5th annual Barbary Coast Award in honor of his long-standing contributions to the Bay Area literary scene. Hosted by W. Kamau Bell and with musical accompaniment by Broun Fellinis, friends and performers paid tribute to Reed in the following order:
- Intro to the Barbary Coast Award by Jack Boulware
- Broun Fellinis
- Clark Blaise
- Tennessee Reed
- Claire Ortalda
- Ianthe Brautigan Swensen
- Boadiba
- Yuri Kageyama
- Alejandro Murguía
- Act II, Scene 6 of Reed’s play “Body Parts” with Seth Corr, Sherry Davis, and Boadiba
- Lorna Dee Cervantes
- Genny Lim
- Al Young