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Litquake and 48 Hills Presents:
Porchlight Storytelling: Touched by an Angel
Tue, 15 Oct, 7:30 PM PDT
Doors open
6:30 PM PDT
Swedish American Hall
2174 Market St, San Francisco, CA 94114
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Description
The Bay Area’s long-running Porchlight storytelling series returns to Litquake for this special edition, featuring tales on the theme of Touched by an Angel: Stories of Mentors, Teachers, Guardians, and Influencers.
Featuring stories by Litquake co-founder Jack Boulware and authors Nico Lang (American Teenager), Adam Nimoy (The Most Human: Reconciling with My Father), Eugene Rodriguez (Bird of Four Hundred Voices), Dawn Silva (The Funk Queen), and Christina Vo (My Vietnam, Your Vietnam). Co-hosted by Arline Klatte and Beth Lisick. Music by Marc Capelle.
Doors at 6:30PM.
For any event that is listed as 18 or 21 and over, ANY ticket holder unable to present valid identification indicating that they are of age will not be admitted to this event, and will not be eligible for a refund. Any event listed as All Ages, means 6 years of age or older. ALL tickets are standing room only unless otherwise specified. If you need special accomidation, contact info@cafedunord.com.
Support acts are subject to change without refund.
Professional Cameras are not allowed without prior approval. Professional Camera defined as detachable lens or of professional grade as determined by the venue staff. When in doubt, just email us ahead of the show! We might be able to get you a Photo Pass depending on Artist’s approval.
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Age Limit
21+
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Jack Boulware
Jack Boulware
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Jack Boulware was a co-founder and executive director of San Francisco's Litquake literary festival. He runs the newsletter "What Jack Boulware Fails to Realize." Boulware works on book projects, contributes freelance articles, and performs readings. He lives in West Marin.
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Nico Lang
Nico Lang
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Nico Lang is a journalist, editor, culture critic, and essayist. Lang is the founder of Queer News Daily and has previously worked as the deputy editor of Out magazine, an LGBTQ+ correspondent for VICE, the news editor at Them, and a contributing editor at Xtra Magazine. Their work has been published in Rolling Stone, Esquire, The Daily Beast, HuffPost, BuzzFeed News, Slate, Harper’s Bazaar, Playboy, MTV News, Vox, NBC News, The New York Times, Salon, The Guardian, Queerty, The Advocate, and the Los Angeles Times, among others. Their new book American Teenager was released this October. Lang was recently named Online Journalist of the Year by the Los Angeles Press Club Association and is the recipient of 10 awards from the National Association of LGBTQ+ Journalist, a GLAAD Award, and the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund’s inaugural Visibility Award.
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Adam Nimoy
Adam Nimoy
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Adam Nimoy is a graduate of UC Berkeley and Loyola Law School. He practiced entertainment law for seven years before changing careers to become a television director. Adam Nimoy directed over forty-five hours of network television including episodes of Ally McBeal, NYPD Blue, and Gilmore Girls. Due to his television directing career having ended in part due to addiction issues, he segued into teaching filmmaking at the New York Film Academy in Burbank, California. In 2004, he began his program of 12-step recovery and has been sober ever since. He is a board member of Beit T’Shuvah, a residential addiction treatment center. In 2016, he directed the documentary film For The Love Of Spock, and in 2024 he published a memoir entitled The Most Human: Reconciling with My Father, Leonard Nimoy.
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Eugene Rodriguez
Eugene Rodriguez
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Eugene Rodriguez is founder and executive director of Los Cenzontles Cultural Arts Academy, a nonprofit based in San Pablo, California, that he began as a youth group in 1989. Rodriguez has produced over thirty albums and numerous films for Los Cenzontles, and he has collaborated with Linda Ronstadt, Jackson Browne, Los Lobos, Lalo Guerrero, Ry Cooder, the Chieftains, and Taj Mahal. His work has been featured in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, and NPR. He is also the recipient of several awards and fellowships, including from the California Arts Council and United States Artists. He is the author of Bird of Four Hundred Voices: A Mexican American Memoir of Music and Belonging. He lives in Richmond, California.
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Dawn Silva
Dawn Silva
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The Funk Queen an Autobiography by Dawn Silva is one of the most unusual books ever written. The arc of history is long, but bends towards justice. Hailed by scholars, music critics, fans and educators alike as an “Academic Masterpiece” with enough Music, History, and Culture to be taught on college campuses for decades. Dawn Silva as the core member of three of the most impressive Funk bands ever assembled, Sly Stone, Parliament Funkadelic and The Brides Of Funkenstein, was born in Sacramento, California. She added her voice to a string of Platinum and Gold selling records with sold-out concerts around the world. Silva has written a piece of history that has never been told in this manner, until now. The singer, songwriter, now published author, pulls you on stage with her amid the fog, pyrotechnics, polyphonic vocals, augmentations and arguments. Her writing's so vivid that it will feel as though you were there, witnessing every hilarious, shocking, sad, terrifying, and exceptional moment.
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Christina Vo
Christina Vo
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Christina Vo is a Santa Fe-based author whose work delves into themes such as loss, intergenerational trauma, healing, identity, and the notions of home and reconciliation. Her second book, My Vietnam, Your Vietnam, is an intergenerational memoir co-written with her father. Vo is also the author of The Veil Between Two Worlds: A Memoir of Silence, Loss, and Finding Home. With a background in international work, Vo has experience at UNICEF, the World Economic Forum, and various nonprofits. She currently works at Stanford University and holds an MSc from the London School of Economics.