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Pop-Up Magazine

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{{Infobox company

| image = Pop-Up Magazine.png

| type = Live magazine

| founded = 2009

| founders = Douglas McGray
Lauren Smith
Derek Fagerstrom
Evan Ratliff
Maili Holiman

| hq_location_city = San Francisco, California

| hq_location_country = United States

| parent = Emerson Collective

| website = {{URL|popupmagazine.com}}

}}

Pop-Up Magazine is a live performance magazine. The live shows focus on breaking multimedia stories performed on stage by writers, radio producers, photographers, filmmakers, and musicians. The events are not live-streamed or recorded for later viewing.

Pop-Up Magazine events are currently produced two to three times a year and routinely sell out.{{Cite magazine |url=https://www.cjr.org/the_feature/the_power_of_pop-up.php|title=The power of Pop-Up Magazine's live journalism |last=Bech|first=Lene|date=April 2015|magazine=Columbia Journalism Review |access-date=2016-03-22}} The events usually contain an average of 12 short stories, with production running approximately 100 minutes.

Each story is designed specifically for a live format, often using unconventional media for journalism. Levels are performed alongside photographs, animations, illustrations, or film, and many are accompanied by an original score performed live by Magik*Magik Orchestra.{{Cite web|url=http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/pop-up-magazine-presents-stories-for-all-five-senses/Content?oid=4738670|title=Pop-Up Magazine Presents Stories for All Five Senses|website=East Bay Express|access-date=2016-04-13}}

History

Pop-Up Magazine was founded in San Francisco in 2009{{cite news|last1=Carroll|first1=Jon|title=Here today, gone already: It's 'Pop-Up Magazine'!|url=http://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/carroll/article/Here-today-gone-already-It-s-Pop-Up-6566989.php|publisher=San Francisco Chronicle|date=October 12, 2015}} by Douglas McGray, Lauren Smith, Derek Fagerstrom,{{cite news|last1=Mason|first1=Laura|title=Bay Area Power Couples: Derek Fagerstrom & Lauren Smith of Pop-Up Magazine and The Curiosity Shoppe|url=http://www.7x7.com/love-sex/bay-area-power-couples-derek-fagerstrom-lauren-smith-pop-magazine-and-curiosity-shoppe|publisher=7x7|date=February 23, 2011}} Evan Ratliff, and Maili Holiman.{{cite news|url=http://www.spd.org/2010/11/three-questions-maili-holiman.php|title=Three Questions With Maili Holiman, DD, Pop Up Magazine|date=November 9, 2010|publisher=SPD|last1=LaCroix|first1=Jeremy}}

McGray says the idea for the show came from trying to get different kinds of storytellers and artists together in the same room. "Filmmakers have their film openings, artists will have gallery openings, and writers will have their readings. And we're never at the same things together. We thought about the idea of a live magazine as a way to bring these different communities together and bring their communities of fans together."{{Cite web |date=November 21, 2011 |title=No Recording Allowed At Pop-Up Magazine Shows |url=https://www.npr.org/2011/11/21/142606327/at-pop-up-magazine-shows-no-recordings-allowed |website=NPR.org |access-date=2016-04-13}}

The first Pop-Up Magazine show took place in 2009 at the 360-seat Brava Theater in San Francisco's Mission District. In 2010 Pop-Up Magazine grew to a 900-seat auditorium, and the audience reached 2,600 in 2011.

Pop-Up Magazine went on its first national tour in 2015, with stops in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle, Chicago, and New York City{{cite web|url=http://www.thestranger.com/blogs/slog/2015/09/01/22792739/tickets-for-pop-up-magazine-go-on-sale-today|title=Tickets for Pop-Up Magazine Go on Sale Today|last=Richards|first=Kathleen|date=September 1, 2015|website=The Stranger}} The show toured again in the spring of 2016, before a live audience of 10,000 people, in New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Oakland.{{Cite web|url=http://www.coolhunting.com/culture/pop-up-magazine-tour|title=Pop-Up Magazine Tour|last=Shin|first=Nara|date=March 21, 2016|website=Cool Hunting|access-date=2016-03-22}}

Pop-Up Magazine held its farewell tour in 2023, with stops in San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York.{{Cite web |date=February 1, 2023 |title=Pop-Up Magazine: One More Time |url=https://www.popupmagazine.com/onemoretime/ |access-date=September 18, 2023 |website=Pop-Up Magazine.com}}

Collaborations

Pop-Up Magazine occasionally partners with organizations and public figures for special performances outside its own tours. In 2011, they collaborated with SFMOMA for a show about wine{{cite web|url=http://www.sfweekly.com/foodie/2011/03/11/sidebar-sfmomas-live-pop-up-magazine-looks-at-wine|title=Sidebar: SFMOMA's Live Pop-Up Magazine Looks at Wine|first=Jonathan|last=Kauffman|website=sfweekly.com}} and ESPN the Magazine{{cite web|url=http://www.wnyc.org/story/134005-pop-magazine-you-cant-hold/|title=Pop-Up: The Magazine You Can't Hold Comes to New York City|website=wnyc.org}} for a show about sports. In 2013, they produced a night of stories and live music inspired by Beck's Song Reader, a collection of sheet music written by Beck and published by McSweeneys.{{cite web|url=http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2013/05/21/pop-up_magazines_the_song_reader_issue_celebrates_music_written_remembered_and_reinvented/|title=Pop-Up Magazine's "The Song Reader Issue" Celebrates Music Written, Remembered, and Reinvented|website=kqed.org}} In 2015, they curated Session 8 of TED2015 in Vancouver, producing 11 stories performed on TED's main stage.{{cite web|url=http://blog.ted.com/pop-up-magazine-the-engrossing-talks-of-session-8-of-ted2015/|title=Pop-Up Magazine: The engrossing talks of Session 8 of TED2015|date=19 March 2015|website=ted.com}}

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Pop-Up Magazine is produced by California Sunday, Inc., which published an online and print magazine called The California Sunday Magazine from 2014 to 2020. McGray launched the magazine with publisher Chas Edwards in October 2014. McGray said: "We started a media company. We approached it like a story production company. Some of the things we'd make would be live experiences, live stories, and some of the things we'd make would be stories for you to read at home."{{Cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/pop-up-magazine_us_56f3008be4b0c3ef5217ca68|title=Pop-Up Magazine Is A Here-Today, Gone-Tomorrow Experiment In Storytelling|website=The Huffington Post|access-date=2016-04-13}}

In 2016, the magazine won a National Magazine Award for overall excellence in print magazine photography.{{cite web|url=http://www.magazine.org/asme/ellie-awards-2016-winners-announced|title=ELLIE AWARDS 2016 WINNERS ANNOUNCED – ASME|website=www.magazine.org|access-date=2016-05-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161115071102/http://www.magazine.org/asme/ellie-awards-2016-winners-announced|archive-date=2016-11-15}} Other finalists included National Geographic, New York, Vanity Fair, and The Wall Street Journal.

Past contributors

References

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External links

  • [https://www.youtube.com/c/popupmagazine Pop-Up Magazine] YouTube

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