A preview of a work in progress with Lisa Austin, Linda Champagne, Carla Diamond, Trudy Fisher, Lori Gates, David Katznelson, Harry Levy, Linda Ryan, Sue Sponge and special guests.

Memwah is Howie Klein’s printed and photographed recollections of his life well-lived. Tasked with finishing a book upon his death in December 2025, award-winning columnist Denise Sullivan has gathered a cast of friends from his San Francisco years at KSAN, KUSF and 415 Records, to read the ’70s and ’80s portions of Klein’s memoir aloud, speak to the causes he cared about, and spin the records he loved.

From the tenements of New York and its downtown psychedelic scene, on the hippie trail through Afghanistan and India, to a vegan kitchen in Amsterdam, by the mid-’70s, Klein found himself at Harvey Milk’s camera store on Castro Street, and at the center of San Francisco’s mid-’70s social, political and musical scenes. Working as a photographer, writer, DJ and co-founder of 415 Records, and inspired by the writings of Jean Genet, John Rechy, and A Dance With Fred Astaire by Jonas Mekas, Klein has left us a treasure trove of photographs and memories from every decade of his outloud life. Memwah compiles in luminous detail: his trips on drugs and kicking them, a kiss with Brian Jones, the final Sex Pistols concert at Winterland, working with Joni Mitchell, Neil Young and Lou Reed as an executive at Warner Brothers Records, meetings with Al Gore and Vaclav Havel, and testifying before a congressional committee.

A multiple award-winning advocate for free speech and as passionate about art and music as he was about queer liberation, voting rights and progressive causes, Klein lived to write about a life that was was one-of-a-kind.