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Lit Crawl 2014: Taking Literature to the Streets
October 18, 2014 @ 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
FREE
Featuring the Hothouse Transplants Writing Group!
The Lit Crawl was created by San Francisco’s Litquake Literary Festival in 2004 with a simple concept: transform a bar crawl into a fast-paced mob scene of literary mayhem. Lit Crawl takes over a neighborhood, adding pop-up events to every conceivable venue – bars, cafes, bookstores, galleries, clothing boutiques, furniture showrooms, parking lots, laundromats, bowling alleys, barbershops, bee-keeping supply shops, parks, police stations. Experience dozens of writers read from their work, and watch hundreds of literati tromp the route and get drunk on words — all for free!
This year’s tenth annual Lit Crawl will span over three hours in the Mission District’s Valencia Street corridor, featuring an astonishing 101 literary readings and events, including poetry, fiction, nonfiction, comedy and more, in bookstores, bars, galleries, restaurants, stores, cafés, community spaces, a bookmobile, a vibrator store, and a police station.
The Red Poppy Art House Lit Crawl Event will feature readings about the intersection between love and reinvention from The Hothouse Transplants Writing Group,comprised of three NY Times writers (based in California). Their first time participating in the Crawl, the group will take on subjects exploring the complexities of relationships that push us to go beyond borders both physical and emotional, and how transcending pre-existing ideas about identity, culture, and gender transforms us. From a Jewish girl that marries her gay Muslim best friend to keep him in the U.S.; an American girl helped through a crisis by a new friend in a foreign land; and a young, gay man who reinvents his parental relationships and pieces together his jigsaw puzzle childhood. Love picked them up in one place and left them in another.
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Admission: FREE. Doors at 8:00pm. Show at 8:30pm. All ages welcome.