Lit Crawl LA

Time 2020-09-22 09:03:49

Web Name: Lit Crawl LA

WebSite: http://litcrawlla.org

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Lit Crawl L.A. 2020 Vision returns in cooperation with Los Angeles Public Library on October 24, 2020. Come crawl virtually as the Los Angeles literary community shares its vision of 2020 past, present and going forward in a unique, free-to-the-public, virtual festival .Presented by the Los Angeles Literary Foundation, Lit Crawl L.A. debuted in Los Angeles on October 23, 2013 with an emphasis on Greater Los Angeles’ diverse literary communities.Lit Crawl L.A. 2020 Vision is presented in cooperation with the Los Angeles Public Library . The Lit Crawl was created by San Francisco’s Litquake literary festival back in 2004, and the idea was simple: let’s transform an ordinary bar crawl into a mob scene of literary mayhem. Could we take over a neighborhood, or two, add pop-up events to every venue that might allow it (bars, cafes, bookstores, theaters, galleries, clothing boutiques, furniture showrooms, parking lots, Laundromats, bee-keeping supply shops), invite dozens of authors to read from their work, and watch hundreds of literati tromp the route and get drunk on words — all for free? Not only was the concept wildly popular, it has expanded every year. San Francisco’s closing night Lit Crawl now attracts over 6,000 people, and is the world’s largest such event. In 2008 Lit Crawl NYC launched in Manhattan, also an immediate hit. Austin was next, swarming for the first time in 2011. And in 2012, Lit Crawl birthed two more Lit Crawls, one in Brooklyn, another in Seattle. The first London Lit Crawl was held in September 2013. The striking thing about Lit Crawl, actually, was not the variegated writerly menu nor was it the variety of venues—54 of them, including bookstores, bars, coffee shops, galleries and a bee-keeping supply store. Rather it was the specter of writing and literature—literature!—transforming an ordinary Saturday night in the neighborhood into a carnival of sorts. Up and down Valencia Street, crowds overflowed out of open doorways, and between readings, people hustled from one event to another or gathered on street corners clutching red Lit Crawl maps like participants in a mammoth scavenger hunt. —New York Times describing San Francisco’s Lit Crawl 2011. Lit Crawl L.A. is presented by the Los Angeles Literary Foundation, a 501c3 non-profit corporation and is also a project of the Litquake Foundation

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