Last week we wrapped on our virtual series, Litquake on Lockdown, which aired nearly 30 events online since April, all in the name of keeping the Bay Area connected and engaged in the key ideas of the day. Now we're gearing up for a virtual festival complete with 150+ authors and 60 events on a deeply impacted budget. This is an exciting and daunting project, and through it we remain committed to providing the Bay Area with inspiring, empathy-building programming.
Help us grow this conversation and our message of bringing people together around literature.
Every gift of $100 or more receives a complimentary mug celebrating our brief flirtation with fame—the dulcet sound of “Litquake” in Alex Trebek’s mouth on a January episode of Jeopardy! (pictured: intrepid donor Jared Bhatti)
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About Litquake Words Matter. 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. We believe in literature as a public good, so we work to produce events that are accessible to all. www.litquake.org Litquake is grateful for the support of the following funders who help make our programming possible. Institutional Giving: Adobe Employee Community Fund, Bill Graham Memorial Foundation, California Arts Council, California College of the Arts, California Institute of Integral Studies, Center for the Art of Translation, California Humanities, Chronicle Books, Craig Newmark Philanthropies, Fleishhacker Family Foundation, Grants for the Arts, HarperOne, Margaret and William R. Hearst III Foundation, Mary A. Crocker Trust, Miner Anderson Family Foundation, Mystery Writers of America, Northern California Chapter, National Endowment for the Arts, The Bernard Osher Foundation, The Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation, Stanford Continuing Studies, Yerba Buena Gardens Festival, Zellerbach Foundation. Individual Giving: Frances Dinkelspiel and Gary Wayne, Margaret and Will Hearst, Scott James and Gerald Cain, Nion McEvoy, Craig Newmark, and Nicole Miner and Robert Mailer Anderson. Media Sponsors: San Francisco Chronicle, 7 X 7, KQED, Bay Area Reporter, Johnny Funcheap, and KALW 91.7
