Our favorite (and only) live magazine experience is returning to the Bay next month as part of a four-city spring tour. Pop-Up Magazine will be at the Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco on Tuesday, April 12 and the Paramount Theatre in Oakland on Wednesday, April 13. Tickets go on sale tomorrow (Tuesday, March 15) at noon PST, and will go fast, so be ready.
If you haven't been yet, let us try to explain:
Pop-Up Magazine brings together the best kinds of creatives—writers, artists, photographers, filmmakers, puppeteers, the list goes on—and puts them onstage to share and discuss their work. All pieces performed at the show are new and unpublished, either created for the event or as part of a larger ongoing project. This means getting a first look at work from some of the biggest names in fiction, photography, film and more. It's "work everyone else will start hearing about a year from now," according to senior editor Pat Walters. Also, nothing is recorded, so everything shared is a one-time only creative experience.
Pop-Up has done more than a dozen shows in the Bay, and at the events this April you can expect to see prize-worthy pieces from the following:
— Novelist/journalist and Radio Ambulante founder Daniel Alarcón, who the New Yorker named one of the 20 best writers under 40
— Katy Grannan, a famous photographer whose work is included in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Guggenheim, among others
— Radiolab producer Molly Webster
— Doreen St. Felix from Lena Dunham’s Lenny
— Popular and funny writer/performer Lindy West
— Dexter Thomas, a writer for the Los Angeles Times
— Claire Hoffman, a journalist based in Los Angeles who writes for the New Yorker and Rolling Stone, among others
— Alex Cohen, the co-host of KPCC's "Take Two," who will interview someone in the film world (last year in Los Angeles, Cohen interviewed Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, directors of the Lego Movies, the Jumpstreet movies, and next year’s Young Han Solo Star Wars movie)
We can't wait. See you there!
