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 Read More
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watch the film, see what’s next
QL Films • Combustion cast + crew • Watch the written responses to the story sparkle + blink 52 by Quiet Lightning COMING SOON Tuesday, June 3 @ El Rio (patio) • curated by Kristen Kramer + Sarah Carpenter Thursday, June 5 @ Modern Eden Gallery w/ArtSpan • Lucy Tiven, Colin Winnette, Kwan Booth, Denise Benavides, Carolyn Ho and Nate Waggoner responding to Fairy Tales: The Test of Time | RSVP | >more Read More
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museum recap, beast crawl + the rumpus
Woah. Over 200 people came out to the Contemporary Jewish Museum for the sixth installment of Neighborhood Heroes. Check out these photos, courtesy of Julie Michelle: [portfolio_slideshow size=large showtitles=true nav=top trans=fadeZoom exclude=”4499, 4430, 4519″ click=lightbox] You can read our 40th issue of sPARKLE & bLINK right here and watch the entire show (with author links) here. You can also enjoy Read More
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 Read More
celebrate your humanity on tax day with storytelling + literature
We’re seriously teaming up with Porch Light! Monday April 15 The Verdi Club 2424 Mariposa St. 8pm • $15 advance/$20 door — We might sell out • Get your tickets now Get to know the people sitting next to you Art by Sarah Moran Piano by Marc Capelle Come early! Sandwiches from Bicycle Bánh Mì, kegs from Lagunitas, Read More
get advance tickets to tuesday’s feast of words
Following our show with 826 Valencia, the first stop on our Tour Through Town, we head to SOMArts this Tuesday, March 19th to team up with Feast of Words. Find more information here, including links to the readers and the chef, but we want to make sure you get a seat at the table; seating Read More
Tour Through Town
In 2013, Quiet Lightning teamed up with a different literary organization each month in order to bring together the many outstanding series and organizations of the Bay Area literary world, and to introduce its various audience members to programming they might like but not yet know about. For those reasons, to ensure that we continue Read More
the tour through town kickoff show
Right this way! You there—step right up and tour the town. We got art on the walls and wandering minstrels, food and Downtown Wine on the pour. Special guests at each station: Studio One, 826, and SOMArts in the house; a video projector, exquisite corpse, oracular storytelling, a lightning trivia station with prizes, our beloved Read More
report from the lab • pushcart nominations • tour through town kickoff show!
Meghan Thornton and SB Stokes put together a gripping show to close out our third year with a tense, gothic, poetry-heavy first set and a fiction-heavy second. It was the first time we ever had a guest curator (SB), and I don’t think Kevin Killian will mind when I report that he called the show “seamless” Read More