Porchlight Storytelling Series

A not-to-miss variety show celebrating the wonderment and weirdness of SF's landmark indie bookstore with author Mary Roach, illustrator Wendy McNaughton, Thao of the Get Down Stay Down, Vetiver's Andy Cabic, Forum's Michael Krasny, author Robin Sloan, author and musician Willy Vlautin and more!

 

Hosted by Arline Klatte and Beth Lisick on September 6, 2017 at the Great American Music Hall.  Recorded and Mixed by Brandi Howell

Direct download: Porchlight_Green_Apple.mp3
Category: -- posted at: 2:29pm PDT

It's our 15th birthday and we're putting on a killer storytelling show to celebrate!
BACK IN THE DAY will feature true tales from a stellar assortment of humans including:
Muni Diaries founder Eugenia Chien
Lawyer, activist, and artist Matt Gonzalez
Bartender and writer Ginger Murray
Master bookbinder Dominic Riley
Writer and contributor to The New Yorker, Vice, and The Guardian, Carvell Wallace
Writer, performer Cintra Wilson
Musical Guest Sonny Smith

with your emcees Arline Klatte and Beth Lisick

Direct download: Porchlight_15th_Anniversary_Show.mp3
Category: -- posted at: 10:37am PDT

Porchlight and Sketchfest present:
BOMBS AWAY! Stories of Implosions and Explosions

With Dana Merwin, Eddie Pepitone. Erin Foley, Karla Martin and Mike Phirman 

Direct download: Porchlight_012017_Sketchfest_Night_1.mp3
Category: -- posted at: 11:25pm PDT

Every year, we join forces with the amazing Litquake Literary Festival to bring you a night of stories told by authors and writers. Our theme for this show is ripped from the Talking Heads song “Life During Wartime,” and involves tales of explosive scenarios, epic struggles, and living each day like it could be your last. With Greg Milner, Laurie Notaro, D. Watkins, Jack Boulware, Eric Spitznagel, Bucky SInister, and Pamela Alma Weymouth. Hosted by Arline Klatte and Beth Lisick, with music by Marc Capelle. 

Direct download: Litquake_101016.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 10:26am PDT

Who am I?

It's a queston that never fails to amuse, confuse, bewilder, and humble us as we plunk along our journey on this earth. To what end, no one knows. To paraphrase Oliver Sacks, it is an enormous privilege and adventure to be a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet. And you are free to have canned fish for lunch every day, if you wish. 

As Porchlight celebrates fourteen years of personal storytelling onstage, we look to a theme where storytellers can choose to reflect or freak out on the whats, whys, and hows of who they think they are. 

Cousins author Mary Roach and bookbinder Dominic Riley
Mythbusters legend Adam Savage
writer and actor Moon Zappa
Executive strategist Karla Martin
Writer/performer/psychic hotline operator Ben McCoy
Bawdy Storytelling dynamo Dixie De La Tour

Direct download: 14th_Anniversary_Show.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 4:58pm PDT

Porchlight partners with Greenhouse, a software company that optimizes hiring practices, for a show of stories about JOBS. Our storytelling superstars for this special edition include writer/musician Eric Shea, HIV educator Ed Wolf, and producer/comedian Dana Merwin
 
Hosted by Arline Klatte at the Hilton Union Square on May 26, 2016. Recorded by PSAV and mixed by Patty Fung.
Direct download: PorchlightGreenhousePodcast.mp3
Category:Storytelling -- posted at: 11:27am PDT

Porchlight returns with a Bill Graham and the Rock & Roll Revolution edition featuring Wavy Gravy, Bob Barsotti, Eric Shea, Deanne Franklin, Bart Davenport, and Lorrie Murray.

Hosted by Arline Klatte and Beth Lisick on May 12, 2016 at The Contemporary Jewish Museum. Recorded by Brandi Howell. Mixed by Patty Fung. 

Direct download: PorchlightPodcastCJMRockNRoll2016.mp3
Category:Storytelling -- posted at: 2:56pm PDT

Kitchen Confidential is back! Hear some of SF's finest onstage with their insider stories about food, restaurants, kitchens, customers, and the vagaries of having a life in the service industry. Writer and restaurant person Karen Leibowitz. Natural foods expert/writer Matt Levine. Cookbook author J. Kenji Lopez-Alt. Comedian Kyle Mizono. Chef/teacher Erika Almeida Mooney and superstar chef Richie Nakano.

Hosted by Arline Klatte and Beth Lisick on April 13, 2016 at San Francisco's Verdi Club.
Recorded by Brandi Howell. Mixed by Patty Fung. 

Direct download: PorchlightPodcastKitchenConfidential2016.mp3
Category:Storytelling -- posted at: 5:12pm PDT

You're Doing It Wrong: Stories from Porchlight's annual SF Sketchfest show featuring Beth Lisick and Arline Klatte with guests Iris Haas-Biel, Moshe Kasher, Jackie Kashian, Kyle Mizono and Aparna Nancherla and songs by Bart Davenport.

Hosted by Arline Klatte and Beth Lisick January 22, 2016 at the Swedish American Hall
Recorded by Brandi Howell. Mixed by Patty Fung. 

Direct download: PorchlightPodcastSFSketchfest2016.mp3
Category:Storytelling -- posted at: 8:36pm PDT

Litquake’s edition of the Bay Area’s long-running Porchlight series (15 years!) returns to the festival for a special storytelling night of authors and writers, telling tales on the theme of “Kill Your Darlings.” Featuring stories by Heather Mackey, Martha Tolles, Neal Pollack, Mark Haskell Smith, Siamak Vossoughi and Ali Liebegott.

Hosted by Arline Klatte and Beth Lisick on October 12, 2015 at San Francisco's Verdi Club.
Recorded by Brandi Howell. Mixed by Patty Fung. 

Direct download: PorchlightPodcastLitquake2015.mp3
Category:Storytelling -- posted at: 7:08pm PDT