Pop-Up Magazine presents Pop-Up Magazine featuring Magik*Magik Orchestra
2015-04-18
Nourse Theater
275 Hayes St, San Francisco, CA
7:30 PM, Saturday, April 18, 2015

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1. [7:46 PM] Editor's Note
2. [7:47 PM] Alexis Madrigal: Human-ish
3. [7:55 PM] Anand Varma: Keeping Bees
4. [8:02 PM] (Advertisement)
5. [8:03 PM] Suki Kim: Letters from Pyongyang
6. [8:14 PM] Naomi Harris: Animal Attractions
7. [8:17 PM] Dana Goodyear: the Robin at the Window
8. [8:32 PM] (Advertisement)
9. [8:36 PM] Steve Silberman: the Invention of Autism
10. [8:52 PM] (Advertisement)
11. [8:53 PM] the Kitchen Sisters: Wall Street
12. [9:03 PM] Latif Nasser: Wrestling With Pain
13. [9:21 PM] (Advertisement)
14. [9:23 PM] Alec South & Stacey Baker: How We Met
    [show ends 9:33 PM]

Magik*Magik Orchestra

• Lisa Berube: violin;
• Minna Choi: piano, music director;
• Jory Fankuchen: violin;
• Michelle Kwon: cello.

Tonight's event was interesting enough, but when it comes right down to it, for me, the expense wasn't commensurate with the reward. Each of the speakers was decent enough, and a few of the talks were quite compelling, but I don't see myself attending again unless it's as a guest. Except for a short opening segment of a few minutes, the musical component of the night was restricted to mostly innocuous background, and like the talks, just wasn't all that exciting enough. Guess I'm a bit jaded or something. It also seemed a little weird to include commercial breaks in the flow of the evening – didn't we pay enough to escape that particular form of torture? – but I suppose it's all a big experiment by the originators, and you have to give them credit for trying something new.

Would I suggest that other folks try this out in a future instance? Sure, if it sounds like something you'd enjoy, why not?

Back to the previous event! ☸ Up to the 2015 yearbox! ☸ Up to the 2015 event list! ☸ On to the next event!