Name: Aloud / Out Loud: Indigenous Voices
Start: 2025-11-29T18:30:00-08:00
End: 2025-11-29T20:00:00-08:00
Location: 1501 Grant Avenue, San Francisco, CA, United States, California 94133

$Aloud \/ Out Loud: Indigenous Voices$

We are so excited to announce a very special event, Aloud / Out Loud: Indigenous Voices! Please join us Saturday, November 29th, at 6:30PM.
This month's featured authors:
👉 Julian Brave NoiseCat
👉 Kim Shuck
👉 Jon Hickey
👉 Sara Calvosa Olson
👉 Greg Sarris
👉 Theresa Harlan
Julian Brave NoiseCat is a writer, Academy Award-nominated filmmaker, champion powwow dancer, and student of Salish art and history. His writing has appeared in dozens of publications, including The New York Times, The Washington Post and The New Yorker. NoiseCat has been recognized with numerous awards, including the 2022 American Mosaic Journalism Prize and many National Native Media Awards. He was a finalist for the Livingston Award and multiple Canadian National Magazine Awards and was named to the TIME100 Next list in 2021. His first documentary, Sugarcane, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary. Directed alongside Emily Kassie, Sugarcane premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, where NoiseCat and Kassie won the Directing Award for U.S. Documentary. NoiseCat is a proud member of the Canim Lake Band Tsq’escen and descendant of the Lil’wat Nation of Mount Currie. We Survived the Night is his first book.
Kim Shuck embraces the fool and jester qualities of being a modern poet and artist. She is a devotee of San Francisco, whose hills she wanders nearly always on foot. Her maternal grandparents met at the Polish Hall on Shotwell, and she spent many hours with her mother and grandmother wandering the Mission St. Miracle Mile, taking books out of the Mission Branch library, and watching aquarium fish on the ground floor of what used to be Hale's. She firmly believes in carrying a bubble wand, keys, pen and notebook, and a cats cradle string at all times.
Shuck is widely published in journals, anthologies, and a couple of solo books. She enjoys volunteering in SFUSD elementary school classrooms to share her love of origami, poetry , and basket making... in other words, math of various kinds. In 2019, Shuck was awarded an inaugural National Laureate Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets and a PEN Oakland Censorship Award.
Jon Hickey is a writer from Minnesota. He earned an MFA from Cornell University and was a Stegner Fellow in fiction at Stanford University. His short stories have appeared in numerous journals such as Virginia Quarterly Review, Gulf Coast, and the Massachusetts Review, among other places.
He is a member of the Lac du Flambeau Band of Chippewa Indians (Anishinaabe).
Sara Calvosa Olson (Karuk) is the author of Chími Nu’am: Native California Foodways for the Contemporary Kitchen (Heyday, 2023). Her work explores narratives that nourish Indigenous food sovereignty through renewed relationships with California’s oldest foods.
Greg Sarris is an accomplished author, university professor, and tribal leader currently serving his seventeenth term as Chairman of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria. His publications include Keeping Slug Woman Alive, Grand Avenue, Watermelon Nights, How a Mountain Was Made, Becoming Story, and The Forgetters. In June 2026 his new novel, The Last Human Bear, will debut. He is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Sundance Institute, former board chair of the Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian, and a member of the Board of Regents for the University of California. Greg lives and works in Sonoma County, California. Visit his website at greg-sarris.com.
Theresa Harlan is the founder & director of The Alliance for Felix Cove, dedicated to celebrating her Coast Miwok family’s life at Tomales Bay. Theresa has a long history working in the Native American community as an art writer/curator and consultant. She curated the traveling exhibition “Sing Me Your Story, Dance Me Home: Art and Poetry from Native California” (2007-2011). Published essays include, “A View of Our Home, Tomales Bay, Calif.: Portrait of a Coast Miwok Family, 1930-1945” in Our People, Our Land, Our Images: Indigenous Photographers, Heyday Books, 2006.
Telegraph Hill Arts and Literature presents writers, musicians, and other artists, while giving back to the creative community and to our neighbors. (https://telhilit.org)