Porch Light Storytelling Series

01/20/2026

We're back for another Sketchfest special with an especially killer lineup! Tickets at sfsketchfest.com

05/31/2025

Thank you for sending your friends, family, lovers, and former co-workers to Porchlight Paris!

05/21/2025

Arline, Beth and Marc are headed back to Paris for another edition of "San Francisco Storytelling in the City of Light" If you happen to be in Paris on May 30th, please join us, or send your friends our way! It will be, perhaps, too much fun.

Porchlight Presents “Fish Out of Water” – San Francisco’s Longest-Running Storytelling Show returns to Paris

Dive into a world of personal stories told live on stage as San Francisco’s Porchlight series returns to Paris for the third time.
This year’s event will be held at the Galerie L'Avis De Passage on 30 May with a group of storytellers sharing personal tales centered around the theme Fish Out of Water. From moments of deep discomfort to surprising self-discovery, this show will take the audience on a journey of cultural missteps, unexpected adventures, and the challenges of finding one’s place in a foreign or unfamiliar environment. Some fish even grow legs and evolve.
Whether it’s a story of navigating a new country, experiencing a clash of cultures, or overcoming personal boundaries, Fish Out of Water invites the audience to reflect on the universal feeling of being out of place and the beauty of transformation that those experiences can bring.

Featuring:
A dynamic group of storytellers – some seasoned Porchlight veterans and some telling stories on stage for the first time, choreographer Delphine Gaborit, actor Jean-Baptiste Marcenac, writer Scott Hobbes Bourne, journalist at Le Monde Sinead McCausland, creative director Steve Muller, and writer/activist Gail Straub

Show Details:
Event Name: Porchlight: Fish Out of Water
Date: 30 May 2025
Time: 19:00
Venue: 21 Rue Charles V, 75004 Paris

01/17/2025

Our big Sketchfest show is tonight at the Great American Music Hall and there are still tickets available! Come hear stories from musician Merrill (Tune-Yards) Garbus, comedic actor Michael Hitchcock, Mythbuster Adam Savage, author Ayelet Waldman, actor Gary Anthony Williams plus music by Dawn Silva and Gail Muldrow aka The Brides of Funkenstein!

Check out the schedule, buy your tickets, and sync your calendars. This year's SF Sketchfest lineup is jammed with comedy hoopla!

09/24/2024

Our Litquake show is gonna be gooooooood! We've got Litquake co-founder *Jack Boulware*, Leonard Nimoy's son *Adam Nimoy*, out with a new memoir about his father, author of "My Vietnam, Your Vietnam" *Christina Vo*, musician and author *Eugene Rodriguez*, journalist *Nico Lang*, and *Dawn Silva* who started her career singing with Sly and the Family Stone and Funkadelic and has just written a memoir!