Pop Up Magazine – A Live Event
Imagine – a live magazine created specifically for the stage, a screen and a live audience. Nothing will arrive in your mailbox and no content will be viewed online. The world’s first magazine with a temporal existence-for one night in one place.
Each evening of Pop-Up unfolds like a magazine. Short reviews, dispatches, and provocations anchor the front, longer features follow in the back. Pop-Up seeks to explore the varied world around us, through stories and ideas showcasing the country’s most interesting writers, filmmakers, photographers and radio producers. Science, music, politics, art, business, food, literature, design, nature—all in a 75 minute show. Contemporary theater for our ADD/ADHD culture. And then, audience and contributors can top it all off with drinks at the lobby bar for a Q&A!
The 1st issue on April 22, 2009 at the Brava Theater in San Francisco, CA showcased a virtual Who’s Who of writers, broadcasters, artists, independent filmmakers and journalists. Michael Pollan, contributing writer to the NY Times Magazine and author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma shared the stage with 23 yr. old Brandon McFarland who fused the skills he learned at Youth Radio in high school into a special presentation of broadcast journalism, on-air hosting and music production.
Among the offerings, public radio producers, Tania Ketenjian & Ahri Golden, founders of Thin Air Media, a production company which fosters connection, communication, and empowerment to people through media and events were united with award winning NPR series producers, The Kithchen Sisters-Davia Nelson & Nikki Silva. Filmmakers Alex Gibney, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room traded barbs with Roman Mars – a sound producer based at KALW 91.7 in San Francisco.
Even the most intellectual and discriminating audience member was stimulated by all of the talent together, on stage, sharing short moments of unseen, unheard work. Books, films, journalism, photography, and radio documentaries in progress. Obsessions and digressions. Outtakes, arguments, and live interviews. One show, one magazine, one extraordinary experience!
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