Issue No. 5

  • November 9, 2011
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  • Davies Symphony Hall
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  • San Francisco

Contributors

Steven Leckart is a correspondent for Wired and writer at large for Pop-Up. He's recently written for Maxim, Men's Journal, and Men's Health. For shorter doses, you can follow @stevenleckart on Twitter. Jonathan Snyder is the associate photo editor at Wired.com. A regular contributor to Pop-Up, he's shot for San Francisco magazine, TheAtlantic.com, and Wired. Follow @jonsnyder on Twitter and Instagram.

Stephanie Foo is a producer and music editor for the NPR storytelling show Snap Judgment. Her writing has appeared in The Bold Italic and Wonka Vision magazine. Sometimes, she draws comics about boys.

Christina Seely is an artist and educator whose work centers around the tension between nature, culture, and time. Her photographs have been exhibited and published widely and are featured in many collections including the Walker Art Center, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, and the National Museum of Women in the Arts.

Steve Silberman (stevesilberman.com) is a freelance writer, a blogger for the Public Library of Science, and a contributing editor for Wired magazine. He is currently writing a book on autism and neurodiversity that will be published by Avery/Penguin in 2013.

Daniel Alarcón is the author of two story collections, a graphic novel, and Lost City Radio, winner of the 2008 International Literature Prize. He is executive producer of Radio Ambulante, a Spanish-language storytelling podcast launching in 2012. Guillermo Galindo's art spans a wide spectrum of expression from symphonic composition to video, opera, f ilm music, instrument building, performance art, and sound design. His work has been performed and shown at major festivals and art exhibits throughout the world.

Jason Fulford is a photographer and co-founder of J&L Books. He is a contributing editor to Blind Spot magazine, and a frequent contributor to Harper's and the New York Times Magazine. Tamara Shopsin is a graphic designer and illustrator. Her work has been featured in the New York Times Magazine, Good, and Time.

Chinaka Hodge is a poet and playwright. She is the author of For Girls With Hips and co-writer of Marc Bamuthi Joseph's Scourge. Her first play, Mirrors in Every Corner, is a 2010 Rockefeller MAP Fund grantee. Her work has been featured in Newsweek and San Francisco magazine, on PBS, NPR, and CNN, and in two seasons of HBO's Def Poetry.

Mac McClelland reports and tweets about human rights for Mother Jones and is either "swashbuckling" or "offensive," depending on whom you ask. Her book, For Us Surrender Is Out of the Question, was a finalist for this year's Dayton Literary Peace Prize.

Michael Light is a photographer focused on the environment and how contemporary culture relates to it. His work has been exhibited and collected globally. He is currently immersed in an aerial photographic survey of Western states titled Some Dry Space, which won a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2007.

Scott Snibbe is an artist, filmmaker, and entrepreneur. His apps and installations encourage social, emotional, and physical interactions. Snibbe's work is in the permanent collections of the Whitney and MoMA; his projects appear in science museums, airports, and Olympics, and he has collaborated with musicians and filmmakers including Björk and James Cameron. Calder Quartet is a string quartet based in Los Angeles that performs works by composers from Christopher Rouse and Terry Riley to Beethoven and Haydn. They also perform with rock bands including The National and Vampire Weekend. They have recently performed at Walt Disney Concert Hall, Carnegie Hall, the Hollywood Bowl, and on Jay Leno and David Letterman's late night shows.

Dana Goodyear, a staff writer at The New Yorker, teaches literary nonfiction at the University of Southern California and is a co-founder of Figment, an online literary community. She is the author of Honey and Junk, a collection of poems, and has a new collection coming out in 2012.

Rivkah Beth Medow is an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker who lives and works in Oakland. She has produced many projects for television, film festivals, and the web. Her first feature documentary, Sons of a Gun, premiered at SXSW in 2009. She believes in obsessions and forgiveness.

Bonnie Tsui (bonnietsui.com) is a frequent contributor to the New York Times and the author of the award-winning American Chinatown: A People's History of Five Neighborhoods. She also writes for the Atlantic Monthly, Outside, and Condé Nast Traveller.

Steven Johnson is the author of seven books, most recently Where Good Ideas Come From, and the co-founder of four websites, including Findings.com. He just moved with his family to Marin after twenty years in New York City.

Charlotte Buchen (101films.net/charlotte) is a filmmaker whose work has followed Egyptian entrepreneurs, Sufi musicians in Pakistan, and bicycle mavens in Oakland. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Current TV, Newsweek.com and PBS FRONTLINE/World.

Investigative journalist A.C. Thompson is a staff reporter at ProPublica and a correspondent for PBS FRONTLINE. His stories helped to exonerate two San Francisco men wrongly convicted of murder and exposed the slaying of New Orleans resident Henry Glover, who was killed by police in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

Lisa Katayama is a freelance journalist and the founder of The Tofu Project, a design thinking program in creativity and entrepreneurship based out of Tokyo and San Francisco. Jason Wishnow is the filmmaker behind TEDTalks, the award winning video series viewed over half a billion times.

Starlee Kine is a radio producer and writer. She is a regular contributor to This American Life. Her writing has appeared in Wired, Gourmet, and the New York Times Magazine. She is working on a book of essays about the self-help industry called It IS Your Fault.

In the 1970's, renowned artist Richard Misrach helped pioneer the renaissance of color photography and large-scale presentation that are in widespread practice today. Over a dozen monographs have been published of Misrach's work and his photographs are in the collections of over fifty major institutions, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Jon Mooallem (@jmooallem) is a writer at large for Pop-Up and a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine. He's working on a book about people and wild animals in America.

Sam Green (samgreen.to) is a San Francisco-based documentary filmmaker. His film The Weather Underground was nominated for an Academy Award in 2004, broadcast nationally on PBS, and included in the Whitney Biennial. Green's "live documentary" Utopia in Four Movements premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and is still screening widely.