Friday, July 24th

Porchlight's 7th Anniversary Show!

Lucky Number 7: Tales of Fortune, Adventure, and Serendipity (or lack thereof)

Join Porchlight on Friday night for a change as we celebrate 7 years of storytelling.

Featuring stories by:

Filmmaker and writer Christy Chan

Animator Scott Kravitz

"Mythbusters" co-host Adam Savage

and more.

Additional storytellers coming soon.

DETAILS:

Friday, July 24th, 8 p.m. Doors open at 7 p.m.

Verdi Club, 2424 Mariposa Street, San Francisco

$12 (Friends of the San Francisco Public Library at the $50 and above level receive half-off tickets, limit two per show)

Tickets available at the door or in advance. Check back soon for a link to purchase advance tickets.

Ages 21 and up.

STORYTELLER BIOS:

Christy Chan is a Virginia-born filmmaker and writer. She grew up in a house with fourteen relatives, three languages and one bathroom. Being able to tell stories through pictures and the occasional, colorful curse word was a lucky survival skill. Her short film, Wash n' Fold, plays in film festivals around the U.S. this summer. She lives in San Francisco and works out of the beautiful natural distracton of Sausalito's Headland Center for the Arts, where she is an Affiliate Artist.

Scott Kravitz is an animator whose work was featured in Madagascar 2, The Matrix Trilogy, and The Host. This year he shared an Annie Award for his work on a United Airlines ad that ran during the 2008 Olympics. His short film "Loom" premiered at the Hiroshima Animation Festival. He has been a restauranteur, a veterinary technician, an election observer, and a runway model (at age 8). Recently, he appeared on stage in the San Francisco, LA, and New York productions of Mortified to talk about his fear of death. For more, see www.scottkravitz.com.

Adam Savage co-hosts Discovery Channel's "Mythbusters". Long before the show, he loved science and art classes and elaborate school pranks. He's been an actor, sculptor, photo developer and projectionist, a gallery owner, graphic designer, and assistant animator, a rigger, master carpenter, prop maker, scenic artist and set designer for theater, a toy company R&D guy, a teacher, a producer, a feature film special effects artist and modelmaker. At present, in addition to the TV show, he serves as official Alterations & Button-Sewer for his family, in San Francisco, where he lives. For more, see www.Adam Savage.com.

Additional storyteller bios coming soon.