Red Light Lit joins Summer of Lust Festival
Three years ago, when Veronica Christina and Jennifer Lewis started Red Light Lit, the idea was to run a reading series that focused on sexuality without limiting the writing to erotica and without creating a literary event geared only toward a literary crowd.
The result, while still evolving, has been a series that provides artists and audience members the opportunity to share sometimes intensely personal experiences in a safe, supportive space.
Usually every other month, the event series was due to take August off; instead, they’ve agreed to do three special shows, the first of which is Friday, Aug. 12, as part of the Summer of Lust Festival.
“We’ve kind of evolved into a troupe of writers — a collective of musicians, writers, comedians — and this is the first time we’re profiling just one photographer,” Lewis said by phone.
All the photos for this show are being contributed by Jackie Hancock of Jank Zine, and the entire night of readings is being scored by the performer/producer Cellista, with a blend of DJ’ing and live acoustic cello — she’s been working on the score since Lewis finished selecting the writing two weeks ago and sent it over by email.
[...] as an audience member, it should feel a little more like a play, where everyone gives me their work and I pore over it and cut it and put it together where there’s a theme.
Poets Terry Taplin and Frederik Speers read for Nomadic Press, with music by Poise 7 p.m. Friday, Aug. 12, 2926 Foothill Blvd.
Summer of Lust concludes at PianoFight with Luna Malbroux’s Live Sex SF, a show that pairs comedians and relationship experts for an unscripted conversation about, as she said by phone, “everything from BDSM to polyamory, in a very fun, lighthearted way” (7 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 13, $15), followed by “Forking!,” a play about sex and love in the ’90s in which the audience decides the plot (9:30 p.m., $20). www.pianofight.com/summeroflust
Kim Shuck’s Gears Turning series presents poets Charles Blackwell, Leticia Hernandez and Nina Serrano, with music by Ed Dang (4 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 14, Modern Times Bookstore, 2919 24th St., S.F., free). http://bit.ly/2aPY0Yi