Assemblies & Workshops
with acclaimed children's authors
3000 K-5 students · 160+ classrooms
with acclaimed children's authors
3000 K-5 students · 160+ classrooms
Kidquake
Our 2021 Program
Due to the on-going difficulty of producing indoor events for school-aged children, Kidquake will again be held virtually. On Fridays October 8th and October 15th, we will release "virtual classroom visit" videos direct to teachers for use in the classroom featuring authors presentations paired with writing, illustration, and book-making activities. Teaching materials will be available for download soon.
Due to the on-going difficulty of producing indoor events for school-aged children, Kidquake will again be held virtually. On Fridays October 8th and October 15th, we will release "virtual classroom visit" videos direct to teachers for use in the classroom featuring authors presentations paired with writing, illustration, and book-making activities. Teaching materials will be available for download soon.
*sign ups close on October 6th
**100 teachers will win free books for their classrooms!
**100 teachers will win free books for their classrooms!
For Grades K-2
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For Grades 3-5
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History
As part of the festival each October, Litquake produces Kidquake, and brings over 800 K-5 students and teachers to the San Francisco Public Library for two days of presentations by acclaimed children's authors, workshops, author meet-and-greets, and free books. During COVID, we've moved online, providing 3000 students safe and fun "virtual classroom visits" with more authors and activities than ever.
In true Litquake style, San Francisco students in grades K-5 get to sample from the work of four or five authors in an hour-long presentation and then participate in hands-on workshops with the writers they’ve just seen. Each student leaves with a new book and teachers receive a bag of books and other goodies. Sign-up forms are distributed early each fall to San Francisco schools.
Last year, 100% of teachers noted that Kidquake programming reinforces lessons from the classroom, and prized Kidquake’s ability to inspire their students by affording them a connection to authors and the writing process. Kidquake also caters to San Francisco’s most diverse student bodies.
View 2020's video archive here.
2020 Teaching/Learning Handouts:
- The Campaign - Activity Guide
- Download Marya's make-a-petition activity here
- No Voice Too Small: Young Americans Making History - Activity Guide
- No Fuzzball (Isabella Kung) - Illustration activity
- Download Florencia's poetry activity here.
Kidquake Program Directors: Jilanne Hoffmann & Deborah Krant
With support from...
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Our Mission
Litquake’s diverse live programs are created with the aim of inspiring critical engagement with the key issues of the day, bringing people together around the common humanity encapsulated in literature, and perpetuating a sense of literary community, as well as a vibrant forum for Bay Area writing.
Litquake’s diverse live programs are created with the aim of inspiring critical engagement with the key issues of the day, bringing people together around the common humanity encapsulated in literature, and perpetuating a sense of literary community, as well as a vibrant forum for Bay Area writing.