Living Room: Reading Series & Salon (In-Person)
Schedule
Fri Aug 23 2024 at 07:00 pm to 09:30 pm
Location
Alton Hotel | San Francisco, CA
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The Living Room Reading Series & Salon is a community for intimate performances of writing, music, and conversations about large ideas.Join us for intimate performances of writing, ideas, and conversation on a central theme.
You can see previous themes and get more information about the shows at https://thelivingroomsf.com.
Some upcoming themes include: Renewal, Excellence, & Education.
The Living Room is but one part of a larger vision to develop an incubator and community-building program for writers with the intent to make being a full-time writer accessible to anyone and not a privilege. * Said another way ,* the idea is to dismantle the idea of the full-time writer as a solitary and privileged individual with graduate education and a professorship to sustain their writing. Instead, a full-time writer is a community-uplifting, politically-engaged, financially supported culture bearer who crafts their work, publishes & performs it, is a part of contributing their creative & technical skills to build communities connected to their own passions while also being able to afford housing, dining, and other bills as well as radical self-care like massages and travel. The Living Room serves to help writers develop the necessary skills and to be a conduit for connecting writers into established communities through partnerships and its own programming in scholarship-funded workshops (education), reading series & salons (community & political advocacy), youth mentoring and support through creative writing activities (youth outreach), elder support and capturing of stories from seniors in their own voices while also helping to combat isolation with creativity (senior outreach), support in building all of these writers' careers through a community press and advising for finding and applying to grants and residencies (publishing and advocacy), and getting writers into non-traditional spaces such as business lunch hours (service-learning & corporate accountability). The aim is to prioritize serving BIPOC, formerly incarcerated, survivors of trauma experienced through military service, houselessness, or sexual assault, and neurodivergent writers, but it is a space to build up all.
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Where is it happening?
Alton Hotel, 101 California St, San Francisco, CA 94111-5580, United States,San Francisco, CaliforniaEvent Location & Nearby Stays: