Name: Runway Stories: Litquake Edition
Start: 2024-10-17T19:00:00-0700
End: 2024-10-17T21:00:00-0700

Thursday October 17, 2024 7:00pm - 9:00pm PDT

Co-presented with Radium Presents and SF Sketchfest

Four storytellers of Moth Storyslam and Grandslam fame curated by JP Frary plus four Litquake authors take this beautiful outdoor stage for Runway Stories as we hear tales centered around the theme, "First Love.” Featuring storytellers Don Reed, Dhaya Lakshminarayanan, Beau Ryder Davis, and Kimberli Joy, and authors Sarah Thornton (Tits Up: What Sex Workers, Milk Bankers, Plastic Surgeons, Bra Designers, and Witches Tell Us about Breasts), Tina Horn (Why Are People Into That? A Cultural Investigation of Kink), Dominic Lim (Karaoke Queen), and Mas Masumoto (Secret Harvests: A Hidden Story of Separation and the Resilience of a Family Farm). Doors at 6:00PM. $20 adv / $25 door / $49 VIP (includes premium seating and 2 drink tickets)

Book sales for this event coordinated by Pegasus Books.

Authors and Participants

Dhaya Lakshminarayanan

Dhaya’s debute album DHAYATRIBE debuted #2 on iTunes. She received the Liz Carpenter Political Humor Award (previously awarded to Samantha Bee, Wanda Sykes and Mark Russell) for her stand-up. Comedy Central Asia crowned her the Grand Prize Winner of “The Ultimate Comedy Challenge... Read More →

Mas Masumoto

Mas Masumoto is an organic peach, nectarine, apricot, and grape farmer and a pioneer in organic farming since the 1980s. He is the author of thirteen books including Epitaph for a Peach, Wisdom of the Last Farmer, and a cookbook, The Perfect Peach. A documentary, Changing Season on... Read More →

Dominic Lim

Dominic Lim’s debut novel, All the Right Notes, has been named a 2023 best book by over 20 publications, including USA Today, Library Journal, Goodreads, and Entertainment Weekly, who called it “a swoony, joyful rom-com to take readers into a love story worthy of a Broadway stage... Read More →

Beau Davis

Beau Ryder Davis is a comedian and storyteller based in Oakland, California. He is an eight-time Moth Story Slam winner, most recent Bay Area Moth GrandSlam winner, and has appeared on the nationally syndicated Moth Radio Hour. He's currently working on a show about growing up in... Read More →

Don Reed

Don Reed is the host/producer/curator of Redwood Nights: Storytelling Under the Stars at Deer Park Villa. He was a Theatre Bay Area winner for Outstanding Solo Production East 14th and is currently co-producing filmmaker Robert Townsend‘s solo hit Living the Shuffle. A San Francisco... Read More →

Tina Horn

Tina Horn is a writer, educatrix, and media-maker. She is the author of Why Are People Into That?: A Cultural Investigation of Kink, a book based on her long-running indie fetish podcast. Tina is the creator/writer of the sci-fi sex-rebel comic book series Safe Sex / SfSx, and the... Read More →

Kimberli Joy

Kimberli Joy has been weaving the truth into humorous stories for as long as she can remember. In June 2022, she was thrilled to share a stage with JP at The Moth. She is a familiar face at Redwood Nights Storytelling under the Stars and has entertained audiences at Oakland Story... Read More →

Sarah Thornton

Sarah Thornton is a sociologist with “a reporter’s nose and a Double D brain.” She is the author of four critically acclaimed non-fiction books, including Tits Up, an exploration of the subcultures of breasts, deemed “required reading” and “a healing journey,” that ensures... Read More →

Thursday October 17, 2024 7:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
Radium Runway

Storytelling

Outdoors? Outdoors

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