CORRECTION: Masked Ball is at 6-8pm (not 7-9pm)! Apologies for any confusion.
The Masked Ball: Litquake's Opening Night Party Thursday, Oct. 7 · 6:00-8:00pm St. Joseph's Art Society
Co-presented by 7x7
Please join us (and special A-list author guests*) for Litquake’s Masked Ball at Saint Joseph's Arts Foundation located in the the elegant and luxurious converted church and courtyard designed by Ken Fulk with a hosted wine bar from 6-7, poetry invocation by San Francisco’s third Poet Laureate devorah major, and music from the Marc Capelle Trio. Free tacos from Taqueria Angelica’s! Free book-themed masks! All proceeds go to offset costs of producing the Litquake 2021 festival. $50 (pre-registration required)
*Scheduled to appear are Natalie Baszile, Tongo Eisen-Martin, Andrew Sean Greer, Daniel Handler, Eddie Muller, D.A. Powell, Michelle Richmond, Chef Bryant Terry, Oscar Villalon, Alia Volz and more!
Word/Jazz Friday, Oct. 8 · 7:00-9:00pm Local Edition
Sponsored by Yerba Buena Community Benefit District Co-presented by Healdsburg Jazz Festival
In the great tradition of San Francisco jazz and spoken-word basement readings first forged by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Kenneth Rexroth, and Bob Kaufman, Litquake is proud to bring back this festival favorite, showcasing world-class poets accompanied by improvised music created on the spot. With Genny Lim, devorah major, Paul S. Flores, and Brontez Purnell. Music by the Marcus Shelby Trio. Doors at 5pm for cocktails. $20 adv / $22 door
The Removed with Brandon Hobson & Tommy Orange Friday, Oct. 8 · 7:00-8:30pm Zoom Webinar
Drawing deeply on Cherokee folklore, The Removed (Ecco) from National Book Award finalist Brandon Hobson seamlessly blends the real and spiritual to excavate the deep reverberations of trauma—a meditation on family, grief, home, and the power of stories on both a personal and ancestral level. In the fifteen years since their teenage son, Ray-Ray, was killed in a police shooting, the Echota family has been suspended in private grief. With the family’s annual bonfire approaching—an occasion marking both the Cherokee National Holiday and Ray-Ray’s death—the mother Maria attempts to call the family together from their physical and emotional distances once more. But as the bonfire draws near, each of them feels a strange blurring of the boundary between normal life and the spirit world. In conversation with Tommy Orange. FREE, $5-10 suggested donation (pre-registration required)
This is a pre-recorded event held on Zoom Webinar. There will be no author Q&A.
About Litquake Litquake seeks to foster interest in literature, perpetuate a sense of literary community, and provide a vibrant forum for Bay Area writing as a complement to the city's music, film, and cultural festivals. 2021 Dates: Oct. 7-23. www.litquake.org
Litquake is grateful for the support of the following funders who help make our programming possible. Institutional Giving: California Arts Council, California College of the Arts, California Institute of Integral Studies, Center for the Art of Translation, Chronicle Books, Craig Newmark Philanthropies, Grants for the Arts, HarperOne, Margaret and William R. Hearst III Foundation, Miner Anderson Family Foundation, Mystery Writers of America, Northern California Chapter, The Bernard Osher Foundation, Stanford Continuing Studies, Swinerton Family Fund, Yerba Buena Gardens Festival, Zellerbach Foundation. Individual Giving: Frances Dinkelspiel and Gary Wayne, Margaret and Will Hearst, Scott James and Gerald Cain, Nion McEvoy, Craig Newmark, and Nicole Miner and Robert Mailer Anderson. Media Sponsors: San Francisco Chronicle, 7 X 7, KQED, Bay Area Reporter, Johnny Funcheap, and KALW 91.7
