Pop-Up Magazine Puts The Outlaw Ocean Reporting On Stage
Some of you may not have heard of Pop-Up Magazine. I hadn’t. It is an exclusive, unrecorded, and intimate live experience nobody can quite put into words. About a month ago The Outlaw Ocean Project received an email from the director of Pop-Up Magazine and he asked if we could collaborate on a story due to be published in the New Yorker Magazine in December, based on our reporting done in Libya.
Pop-Up Magazine Productions creates multimedia journalism and storytelling spectacles, performed live for tens of thousands of people annually at grand, historic venues across North America. In other words, they feature new stories by writers, photographers, filmmakers, radio producers, and comedians each year and put them on stage in a captivating multimedia fashion and tour around the country. I’m excited to be featured as one of the collections alongside some pretty spectacular creatives.
Apparently these guys are pretty impressive in what they do. Last year, Pop-Up Magazine Productions won a Pulitzer Prize for creating The California Sunday Magazine (2014-2020). Fast Company added Pop-Up Magazine Productions to their annual list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies, while Ad Age added Pop-Up to their annual "A-List,” which honors the best event creators in media.
The reporting that Pop-Up Magazine is putting on stage focuses on egregious human rights abuses against migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea. This story will be published in the New Yorker Magazine sometime in the next month or so. There will be a total of 4 performances in Oakland, Los Angeles, New York City and Washington DC. I will be on stage speaking, clumsily most likely, playing the role of the omniscient narrator in the presentation. If you want to attend one of the shows, below is a link to the website to buy tickets and learn more about the magazine.