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Radar Reading Series: Underground Writers, Artists & Free Cookies | SF

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Wednesday, January 9, 2013 - 6:00 pm | Cost: FREE
San Francisco Main Public Library | 100 Larkin St, San Francisco, CA 94102

Event Details

“Show Us Your Spines” Indie Writers Reading | SF Main Library

The Radar Reading Series has been going on for over 14 years now and starting 2018 they will be changing the format from a one-time reading 12 times a year to six month-long residencies that result in a bi-monthly presentation of work.

Show Us Your Spines is a month-long writer residency + reading in collaboration with the SF Public Library’s Hormel Center. For a month QTPOC writers will work with Hormel Center LGBT archives around a specific queer theme, writing/producing a piece that will then be read/presented the following month at the Hormel Center.

Each residency cohort will be comprised of four writers/artists, who will spend one month with a section/theme of the archives chosen by both RADAR and the library. During that month they will write/create a piece inspired by the chosen ephemera.

Wednesday, January 9th Lineup

  • D-L Alvarez is a visual artist working in various mediums, including fiction. His drawings and films are in the collections of the SF and NY MoMA and the Whitney, and recently the Berkeley Art Museum honored him with his first museum solo-exhibition.
  • Jack Halberstam has published 5 books including The Queer Art of Failure (Duke UP, 2011) and Gaga Feminism: Sex, Gender and the End of Normal (Beacon Press, 2012).
  • Grace Krilanovich’s debut novel The Orange Eats Creeps, published by Two Dollar Radio, was a finalist for the Indie Booksellers’ Choice Award and the Believer Book Award, and was named one of Amazon’s Top Ten Science Fiction/Fantasy Books of 2010. Grace is a MacDowell Colony fellow and was a National Book Foundation “5 Under 35” honoree for 2010.
  • Favianna Rodriguez is a transnational interdisciplinary artist and cultural organizer that works for social change.

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Cost: FREE
Categories: *Top Pick*, Literature
Address: 100 Larkin St, San Francisco, CA 94102