Happy New Year! And thanks to all who gave during our end of year fundraising campaign. It may not always seem like Litquake is a small, grassroots operation, but we are very much a small, grassroots operation. Every donation counts! Thank you. Truly.
Lest you think we've settled in for a long winter's nap, Litquake is excited to present new events with JCCSF, Live Worms, SF Sketchfest, and Goethe Institute below! |
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| Homie: Poet Danez Smith
Wednesday, January 29 • 7:00pm
JCCSF
$20, Use LITQ25 for 25% off
Co-presented with JCCSF
Award-winning poet Danez Smith (Don’t Call Us Dead) is a groundbreaking force, celebrated for deft lyrics, urgent subjects and performative power. Join Smith as they read from and share their new collection, Homie, a magnificent anthem about the saving grace of friendship at a time when our country is overrun by violence, xenophobia, and disparity, speaking from within a body defined by race, queerness, and diagnosis. |
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| Don Asmussen in convo w/ Phil Bronstein
Sunday, January 12 • 3:00pm
Live Worms Gallery
FREE
Illustrator Don Asmussen is the creator of Bad Reporter, a twice-weekly political comic strip in the San Francisco Chronicle that is syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate, and a fine art illustrator. In October 2019, he illustrated The Wig Diaries, Mary Ladd’s debut disrespectful cancer book. In conversation with Phil Bronstein, former Chronicle executive editor and executive chair of the board for the Center for Investigative Reporting in Berkeley. |
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| My First Time
Thursday, January 10 • 10:00pm
PianoFight
$25, All Ages
Groundlings Alums Mary Jo Smith and Colleen Smith (no relation) host a storytelling podcast that asks their guests to recall their first significant memories of essential life moments. Past themes have been Cars, Virginity, Love, Hate, Apartments, Drugs and Porn. With special guest Bryan Safi ("Throwing Shade"). |
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| The Art of Process w/ Aimee Mann and Ted Leo
Saturday, January 18 • 4:00pm
Brava Theater
$35, All Ages
The Art of Process with Aimee Mann and Ted Leo is the newest artistic collaboration from legendary singer-songwriters Aimee Mann and Ted Leo. Every other week, Aimee and Ted talk to friends across the creative spectrum to find out how they work. With special guests Rhett Miller (Old 97's) and Scott Thompson (Kids in the Hall). |
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| Fake TED Talks
Saturday, January 18 • 7:30pm & 10:30pm
Cobb's Comedy Club
$45 Reserved Front Row Seating,
$40 Reserved Premium Seating,
$35 General Admission, 18+
TED Talks are influential videos from expert speakers on education, business, science, tech, and creativity. Fake TED Talks are simply hilarious. With all of the bullet points and none of the facts, Jonathan Coulton, Paul and Storm, Adam Savage and other guests will present a well-rehearsed presentation, live, in the present. |
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Shoah: A Film Screening
Monday, January 27 • 10:00am - 9:00pm
Goethe-Institut San Francisco
FREE
Co-presented by Berlin International Literature Festival and Goethe-Institut SF
January 27, International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust, was introduced by the United Nations in 2005 to commemorate the Holocaust and the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in 1945. To honor this day, and remind us all of the current growing popularity of anti-Semitism, cultural institutions around the world will participate in a global film screening of Shoah, the 1985 documentary by Claude Lanzmann. With a running time of 9½ hours, both surviving victims and perpetrators of the systematic extermination of Jews by the German Reich are given time to speak on camera. |
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