Saturday, 3pm-1am
Provided by Lit Crawl MN (Photos courtesy of Mages & Quinn Booksellers)
The inaugural Lit Crawl MN will be held on Saturday, 3 pm to 1am, weaving through Uptown, along Lake Street, and culminating in a party at 10 pm at Red Stag Supperclub with DJ Shannon Blowtorch. All events are free and open to the public.
Lit Crawl MN boasts a roster of local authors, artists, and performers at 10+ different events that range from readings, improv, games, interactive story-building, and a hands-on workshop. A celebration of the vibrant literary scene in the Twin Cities, this lively crawl will have something for everyone.
Venue Schedule
Bryant Lake Bowl & Theater: 810 W Lake Street
(2pm doors) 3pm
Graphic Novel Battle Royale! Presented by Rain Taxi
Crawl over to BLB to catch some of the area’s best cartoonists present their latest work in round-robin fashion — then you get to vote as to which presenter gets our coveted “head on fire” prize!
(9pm doors) 9:30pm
Popcorn Story Hour Presented by Coffee House Press, Graywolf Press and Milkweed Editions
Join Coffee House Press, Graywolf Press, Milkweed Editions, and a stable of adventurous authors as they face off and compose stories for you in real time, broadcast live via Twitter. Part improv, part reading, part workshop, who knows where the night (or stories) will take us. You can bring your best prompts, inciting incidents, twists, and turns—audience participation will be highly encouraged.
SooVAC: 2909 Bryant Avenue South
6pm-8pm
EKPHRASTIC
This will be the completion/closing celebration of EKPHRASTIC an experiment in collaborative multi-panel storytelling facilitated by artist Megan Vossler. As a part of this event they will also be partnering with The Riveter and Magers & Quinn Booksellers to create a pop up “book bar” as a part of Lit Crawl MN. The Riveter’s extensive books coverage will come to life as a “shoppable” department, featuring some of the editors’ picks from Issues 3 and 4 of Canon (Riveter’s Book Department) and supplied by Minneapolis’ largest independent bookstore, Magers & Quinn.
Magers & Quinn Booksellers: 3038 Hennepin Avenue
3pm
Literary Fortune-Telling
“What’s your reading destiny? Let the fortune-telling bookseller read the cards and reveal your future–filled with better books.”
Trapeze Barbette: 1600 W Lake Street
4:30pm
Real-Time Editing with The Growler
Join members of the The Growler editorial staff, along a few special guests, as we stage experiments with editing copy in real-time. We’ll challenge audience members to a game of emoji translation, wade through the cryptic nonsense of press releases, and parse fact from fiction in the strangest stories in food and drink.
7:30pm
Life Advice from Poets Presented by The Loft Literary Center
Adulting can be hard. Life advice can help. At this Lit Crawl event, they turn to poets to help us prioritize our lives. You can ask your Big Life Questions to their panel of Esteemed Poets who will enlighten, amaze, or at least make you laugh with their responses. They’ll collect questions from the audience that night, as well as in advance on the Loft’s social media (#lifeadvicefrompoets). The poets will draw questions at random from a beret and take turns offering sage life advice.
The Club Room Red Stag Supperclub: 509 1st Avenue NE
Word Sprout Spoken Word Slumber Party
This verbal party rocks and rolls all day long. Pajamas encouraged.
3pm-4pm
Encyclopedia Show Minneapolis
This show drops edutainment all over the place. Fact based art makes learning more fun than ever in this variety show verbal encyclopedia entry. Hosted by Duck Washington and Levi Weinhagen
4:30pm-5:30pm
Not-So-Silent Planet
Have you ever imagined a world whose laws of physics differ from our own? Welcome to an hour dedicated to speculative fiction: fantasy, sci-fi, supernatural horror, or anachronistic interpretations of myth by some of the nerdiest writers around. Hosted by Phillip Andrew Bennett Low
6pm-7pm
OUTspoken!
A fabulous hour dedicated to creating empowering queer space for you and the people you love. Full of love, unicorns, realness, with plenty of glam sprinkled in. Hosted by Oliver Schminkey
7:30pm-8:30pm
New Sh!t Show All world premiers all the time.
Our features tonight are showing their pieces to the world for the very first time. You may want to be there to say you saw it first. Hosted by Lewis Mundt
9pm-10pm
Story SlamMN!
This show highlights some of the most competitively successful storytellers in the Twin Cities. This hour of personal stories will give you all the feels. Hosted by Allison Broeren.
10pm
After Party with DJ Shannon Blowtorch
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