Past event
Date:
16 June 2015
This memorable evening, which included the first Letters Live show to be put on outside of the UK, celebrated ten years of 826LA inspiring students to write. 826LA is all about creativity, and in that tradition, creative people – writers, musicians, comedians, and other special guests, including a number of 826LA alumni – took to the stage to show the power of the written word. The whole evening was hosted by the legendary talk show host Jimmy Kimmel who also did a brilliant job introducing each of the letters and performers.
Letters Live was the entertainment for this gala dinner event which raised over $350,000 for 826LA, the LA branch of the remarkable charity that Dave Eggers founded in San Francisco in 2001 and which now operates in over a dozen cities in America.
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Torturing the Saxophone
Robert Crumb to Mats Gustafsson
We all feel like that now and then
Sir Archibald Kerr to Lord Pembroke
Wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day
E. B. White to Mr. Nadeau
I Like words
Robert Pirosh
The Matchbox
Sylia Townsend Warner to Alyse Gregory
To My Old Master
Jourdon Anderson to P.H. Anderson
P.S. This is my favorite memo ever
Matt Stone to the MPAA
An instrument of joy
Margaret Mead to Elizabeth Mead
We press you close and kiss you with all our strength
Ethel & Julius Rosenberg to Their Sons
My good friend Roosvelt
Fidel Castro to The President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt
How could you go ahead of me?
South Korean widow to Eung-Tae Lee
Your eager mother
Jessie Bernard to Unborn Daughter
Dear John
Invisible Ink
Sunny Road