Name: Porchlight: A Storytelling Series
Start: 2025-01-17T20:00:00-0800
End: 2025-01-17T21:30:00-0800

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Friday January 17, 2025 8:00pm - 9:30pm PST

For the past twenty-one years, Porchlight has been San Francisco's premier storytelling series. Each month, co-founders Beth Lisick and Arline Klatte invite six people to tell ten-minute true stories without using notes or memorization. Past storytellers include some of the area's most entertaining school bus drivers, mushroom hunters, politicians, socialites, sex workers, musicians, authors, systems analysts, and social workers. With Merrill Garbus, Michael Hitchcock, Adam Savage, Ayelet Waldman, Gary Anthony Williams and musical guests Dawn Silva & Gail Muldrow, with music by Marc Capelle.

Artists

Merrill Garbus

Merrill Garbus is a musician, producer, composer and looping maven who slams, wails and shakes with her band, Tune-Yards. She released her first, self-recorded album, BiRd-BrAiNs, in 2009, the same year that she moved to Oakland. Lately she is co-writing scores for Boots Riley's projects... Read More →

Michael Hitchcock

From his critically-acclaimed roles in film and television to his award-winning work as a writer and producer, Michael Hitchcock has earned a solid reputation in the entertainment industry.Hitchcock’s acting credits include “Nobody Wants This,” “Jackpot,” “Palm Royale,” “Your... Read More →

Adam Savage

Adam Savage has spent his life gathering skills that allow him to take what's in his brain and make it real. He's built everything from ancient Buddhas to futuristic weapons, from spaceships to dancing vegetables, from fine art sculptures to animated chocolate — and just about anything... Read More →

Ayelet Waldman

Ayelet Waldman is the author of "A Really Good Day", "Love and Treasure", and other books. She was an executive producer and writer of the Emmy-nominated, and Peabody prize-winning Netflix drama, "Unbelievable".

Gary Anthony Williams

Gary Anthony Williams' film credits include "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows," "The Internship," "Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle," "Undercover Brother," "Soul Plane," “Outlaw Johnny Black” and "The Factory."On television, Williams currently recurs in “Night... Read More →

Dawn Silva & Gail Muldrow

Dawn Silva, from the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Inductees, (Parliament Funkadelic) and vocalist with Sly & The Family Stone, Brides Of Funkenstein, dropped her debut CD, (All My Funky Friends) in January 2000, rated as the (only) (authentic) Funk Album released in the New Millennium. On... Read More →

Arline Klatte

Arline Klatte is the co-host of the successful San Francisco-based storytelling show, "Porchlight".

Beth Lisick

Beth Lisick is a writer and actor from the San Francisco Bay Area, currently living in Brooklyn. She is the author of six books, including the New York Times bestseller "Everybody Into the Pool" and the novel "Edie on the Green Screen". She is also co-founder of the Porchlight Storytelling... Read More →

Marc Capelle

Marc Capelle is a San Francisco native musician, composer, arranger, and producer.He’s played with 100’s of acts including Virgil Shaw, the Fresh & Onlys, Jason Lytle, American Music Club, Tommy Guerrero, Kelley Stoltz, Third Eye Blind, Margaret Cho, and quartet-style gospel pioneers... Read More →

Friday January 17, 2025 8:00pm - 9:30pm PST
Great American Music Hall 859 O'Farrell St, San Francisco, CA 94109

Theater + Storytelling

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