Pop-Up Magazine, the acclaimed live magazine show, is back! The show, presented with Literary Arts, returns to Portland on October 26 at Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall with a brand-new issue: Love Stories.
Pop-Up Magazine: Love Stories is a night of live film, comedy, animation, and music, featuring stories about first loves and blind dates, relationships with friends, family, and the natural world, one night stands, hermit crabs, apologies, spies, and so much more. Imagine a comedy show, play, concert, podcast, and film—all wrapped into one night. Playbill said the show is “sweeping the nation with live performances of human interest stories…like an emotionally intellectual rock concert.”
Portlanders are in for a treat. This themed issue of Pop-Up Magazine will feature performances from writer and actor Ryan O’Connell (Netflix’s Special; Peacock’s Queer as Folk; author of I’m Special: And Other Lies We Tell Ourselves), poet Sarah Kay (Project VOICE), musician Victoria Canal (Elegy EP),poet and playwright Marc Bamuthi Joseph (The Just and The Blind, Watch Night, The Kennedy Center), author and artist Chanel Miller (NYT bestselling memoir Know My Name), radio producer Rachael Cusick (Radiolab), filmmaker Nadav Kurtz (Paraiso, a Sundance Film Festival selection), comedian Pamela Rae Schuller (“What Makes Me Tic”), director Ben-Alex Dupris (“Sweetheart Dancers”), and more.
With support from Google, Pop-Up Magazine: Love Stories will feature ASL interpreters, open captioning, and ADA accessible seating. For more information, please visit their FAQ.
