Quiet Lightning presents their 128th show and the 5th annual Poetry in Parks – a collaboration with California State Parks and, this year, Kearny Street Workshop – at Ayala Cove on Angel Island the 15th of September, 2019. The festival began with youth readings, followed by a literary mixtape and QL’s Neighborhood Heroes series, this year curated by Kearny Street. Readings/performance in the following order:

Youth poets: Allie, Livia, Kika | music by Cindy Z | Norma Smith » David S. Maduli » Kate Hoyle » Syche Phillips » Abigail Licad » Julia Halprin Jackson » Johnny Alvarez » Glenn Ingersoll » Linette Escobar | Maddy Raskulinecz » Donna Laemmlen » Peter Bullen » Christina Newhard » Cassandra Dallett » Eric Darby » C.E. Shue » Kevin Dublin | music by Cindy Z | Neighborhood Heroes: Flo Oy Wong » Truong Tran » Kenji C. Liu » Genny Lim » Kirin Khan » Shelley Wong

Mixtape curated by Katie Tandy and July Westhale + featuring art by Connie Zheng:

Quiet Lightning’s next show is on Mon, Nov 4 inside the historic Doolan-Larson Building @ Haight/Ashbury streets. Tickets are $15 and limited to 50 people, due to space constraints. Here for tickets + more info.

Quiet Lightning is accepting submissions for a literary mixtape to be held on Jan 6, 2020, curated by Sophia Passin & Kathleen Torrez. Submissions are open through Wed, Dec 11.