Show-and-Tell: A Pride Gathering of Audio Makers

Celebrate PRIDE with creativity, community, and sound! Join KALW for an evening of audio storytelling, connection, and inspiration at Show-and-Tell: A Pride Gathering of Audio Makers. Whether you’re an audio veteran, a passionate beginner, or simply a fan of the medium, you’re invited to share your work—or just soak up the vibes.

🎧 What’s happening:
This is a casual, inclusive show-and-tell space where audio makers can present finished pieces or works-in-progress. We’ll prioritize pieces related to PRIDE—stories of identity, queerness, joy, resistance, love, and everything in between. If time allows, we’ll open up to other themes too.

All genres are welcome:
🎙️ Documentary
📝 Personal essay
🎭 Fiction
🌆 Soundscape
🎵 Music
🎛️ Experimental audio

🗣️ Don’t have something to share this time? No problem! Come to listen, support your fellow creatives, and get inspired for next time.

Bring your work, your curiosity, and your love of audio. Let’s uplift queer voices and share the power of sound.

🎧 Hosted by Lusen Mendel

Lusen Mendel makes narrative audio features and sound-rich video documentaries. They currently freelance for artists and sound/art festivals making videos for social media. They are also an experienced freelance field reporter, producer, and tape syncer for radio shows and podcasts.

Previously they worked for a year on KQED's The California Report Magazine, a weekly radio show that shares in-depth storytelling and audio documentaries about the people and places that make California unique. Before that they were a sound engineer for KALW's Out in the Bay, and interned with KALW News and Women's Audio Mission (WAM).

Lusen also organizes local audio/video potlucks that bring together Bay Area journalists, musicians, and installation artists to support and inspire each other.

There is a $10 - $20 sliding scale suggested donation for this event. Nobody will be turned away for lack of funds.

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📍 220 Montgomery St., San Francisco, 2 blocks from BART/MUNI
🚪 Reception doors open at 5:00
🗣️ Program begins at 6:00
🆓 The event is free with an RSVP — and you are welcome to donate what you want

Please note:

• The event space is just to the left of the main entrance to the Mills Building at 220 Montgomery Street
• We recommend taking BART/MUNI, exiting at Montgomery, and walking two blocks north
• Ride-shares can drop off and pick up directly in front of the venue
• If you drive, there are several garages within two blocks of the event location; free street parking is available across from the venue at 7:00 pm