Launched in 2020, Litquake's curatorial program highlights the Bay Area’s BIPOC & LGBTQ+ writers and thought leaders. Out Loud puts Litquake’s full event production resources into the hands of guest curators who in turn produce a vibrant, impactful series of festival events.
Litquake Out Loud aims to tackle a glaring, urgent problem: there is a serious lack of accessible literary programming for the broader Bay Area community, especially for marginalized audiences. Too many of the Bay’s arts organizations providing literary programming do not do so free of charge, often asking exorbitant rates, and tend to be culturally exclusive. While Litquake still has work to do in this vein, we are proud of how we’ve made the festival more accessible and diverse in recent years, and wish to continue our efforts to better reflect the make-up and needs of the San Francisco Bay Area as a whole.
Litquake Out Loud represents our continued investment in ensuring that all people are included in the creation of and access to the Bay Area’s historic, thriving arts scene. Cultural equity is a core goal of Litquake’s commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Litquake Out Loud celebrates curators who have a rich history of organizing and provides them with Litquake’s event production resources and expertise. Litquake will work directly with the curators on event production in the months leading up to the festival, helping to find fitting venues (or online spaces) and appropriate community partners.
Resources provided will include:
Success in this program can take many forms, but will privilege a vibrant, collaborative, mutually beneficial relationship between curators and Litquake. While Litquake’s primary goal is to elevate each curator and celebrate underserved voices, we also hope to expand our capacity as an organization to better serve underrepresented communities at large as is central to Litquake’s commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion.
Litquake Out Loud aims to tackle a glaring, urgent problem: there is a serious lack of accessible literary programming for the broader Bay Area community, especially for marginalized audiences. Too many of the Bay’s arts organizations providing literary programming do not do so free of charge, often asking exorbitant rates, and tend to be culturally exclusive. While Litquake still has work to do in this vein, we are proud of how we’ve made the festival more accessible and diverse in recent years, and wish to continue our efforts to better reflect the make-up and needs of the San Francisco Bay Area as a whole.
Litquake Out Loud represents our continued investment in ensuring that all people are included in the creation of and access to the Bay Area’s historic, thriving arts scene. Cultural equity is a core goal of Litquake’s commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Litquake Out Loud celebrates curators who have a rich history of organizing and provides them with Litquake’s event production resources and expertise. Litquake will work directly with the curators on event production in the months leading up to the festival, helping to find fitting venues (or online spaces) and appropriate community partners.
Resources provided will include:
- A production budget, including stipends for curators and participating writers
- The breadth of Litquake’s networks and expertise in marketing, collaborative partnerships, and event production
- A dedicated program manager who will work closely with curators to ensure the free flow of ideas and skills, as well as the success of program events
Success in this program can take many forms, but will privilege a vibrant, collaborative, mutually beneficial relationship between curators and Litquake. While Litquake’s primary goal is to elevate each curator and celebrate underserved voices, we also hope to expand our capacity as an organization to better serve underrepresented communities at large as is central to Litquake’s commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion.
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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.