Pop-Up Magazine Tour

A new kind of storytelling performance, not recorded or filmed

Taking new non-fiction stories off the page and into the third dimension, Pop-Up Magazine is an unusual performance template aiming to keep the audience at the edge of their seats. Across a wide range of topics—pop culture, crime, science, food, politics, music—narrators will speak, making use of visuals (be it animation or film or photography) all the while an on-stage band performs the story’s “soundtrack.” …

The California Sunday Magazine

SF's live performance Pop-Up Magazine releases a monthly print edition and online content

By the time Pop-Up Magazine brought their live-performance “literary magazine” to NYC in collaboration with ESPN, they were already four “issues” into a cultural phenomenon anchored in the Bay Area. An issue of Pop-Up happens to be a night of art, film and storytelling on stage, occurring three or four times a year. Not only was each issue sold out, but also highly sought-after—as the …