6-9 PM
Join us for an evening seminar moderated by Lisa Jervis, founding editor and publisher of Bitch magazine, as she leads an esteemed panel of magazine founders, editors, and publishers in a discussion on how to start—and sustain—a magazine. Each panelist comes to 826 with a unique experience and approach to developing a magazine. No details will be spared, all pertinent secrets will be revealed.
About our moderator:
Lisa Jervis is the founding editor and publisher of Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture, a national nonprofit quarterly magazine offering feminist commentary on our intensely mediated world. She is also a founding board member of the media training and advocacy organization Women in Media and News. Her work has appeared in numerous magazines and books, including Ms., the San Francisco Chronicle, Utne, Mother Jones, the Women's Review of Books, Bust, Hues, Salon, Girlfriends, Punk Planet, Body Outlaws (Seal Press), LiP: Informed Revolt, and The Bust Guide to the New Girl Order (Penguin). She is the co-editor of Young Wives' Tales: New Adventures in Love and Partnership (Seal Press) and BitchFest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine (forthcoming from Farrar Straus & Giroux). She's currently working on a book about the intellectual legacy of gender essentialism and its effect on contemporary feminism. She speaks widely on feminism, media criticism, and the independent press.
Our panelists:
Sam Grawe is the editor in chief at Dwell magazine. He started at the magazine in October 2000, as the editorial assistant and currently holds the record for most title changes on the creative team. Sam is also a contributing photographer for the magazine. Prior to Dwell, Sam worked for The Burdick Group where he researched and wrote the museography for Churchill Downs’ Kentucky Derby Museum. He has also written for Wired and Nylon magazines, co-taught a design workshop with Erwan Bouroullec at The University of Art and Design in Helsinki, and is one half of the electronic music group Windsurf (Sentrall Records).
Melissa Hung is the editor in chief of Hyphen, a pan-Asian American magazine hailed by the San Francisco Chronicle as "the oracle of Asian American culture." A journalist with experience covering a wide array of social and cultural issues, Melissa helped launch Hyphen in 2003. She also works with San Francisco WritersCorps. Visit Hyphen at hyphenmagazine.com.
Jen Loy is the co-publisher of Kitchen Sink and is currently doing time as the magazine's Untitled editor. As a founding member and former president of Neighborlady Community Arts Project, the arts and culture nonprofit that publishes Kitchen Sink, she is working on new programs of interest to Kitchen Sink and NLCAP member artists. She is also an artist representitve on the Port of Oakland Public Art Committee, and in her spare time works with the City of Oakland to preserve Oakland's cultural venues.
Neil Stevenson has edited several magazines in the UK, including the long-running style/fashion monthly The Face and club culture title Mixmag. He has also worked for Dazed and Confused, Wallpaper and various other glossy magazines. In 2000 he launched the anti-celebrity email and website Popbitch, which enjoyed the distinction of having been sued by both David Beckham and his wife Victoria. Neil is currently taking a break from media, and is working for Bay Area design firm IDEO.