Reminder: Radar Reading at the Main Library @ Tue Dec 14 6pm - 7pm (Queer Things)

more details » Radar Reading at the Main Library RADAR = a roaming wonder of literary performance, occurring monthly. Tuesday, December 14th 2010 at the SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC LIBRARY with ~ DAVE END is an acoustic D.I.Y. troubador who writes Queer Cupcake Loving Honesty Pop and focuses on the details that rhyme. Tackling subject matters like bullying, homophobia, body image and heartbreak, Dave End could easily fall into the slippery traps of self-pity and earnestness, but he manages to keep his songs aloft with humor, bounce, and jamboree-style glee. In the past 3 years, Dave End has released 2 albums (How to Hold Your Own Hand, Fruits Commonly Mistaken For Vegetables), played over 250 shows, toured over 18,000 miles, wrote a thesis on American supermarkets, designed costumes, played in the band Gender Mountain, and joined a dance troupe. Most recently he wrote, composed and produced a reading of his new musical entitled "Fabulous Artistic Guys Get Overtly Traumatized Sometimes: The Musical!" He will be performing in Taylor Mac's five-hour Obie-winning play, The Lily's Revenge, at the Magic Theater in 2011. myspace.com/daveend facebook.com/daveend www.genderfabulous.net CARRIE LEILAM LOVE is a writer and Oakland native. She has an MFA in fiction from San Francisco State University and has been published by Drunk N Sailor Press and Intersection for the Arts. She is currently a teaching artist with WritersCorps San Francisco and has worked in education for more than 10 years, teaching students from preschool to college, and works with Oakland Word. When she is not writing, teaching, or curating her soon to be renowned 80's boot collection, Carrie can be found roller skating in the roller derby or training for long distance running events. She blogs weekly about fashion with Ironing Board Collective: http://ironingboardcollective.wordpress.com/ HOPE C. HITCHCOCK is a writer from Portland, Oregon currently working on her first novel, Moving the Skin. This year she won an Elizabeth George Foundation grant and was fairy-godmothered out of the restaurant business and into writing full-time. She lived in San Francisco once, for about six years, before the city tossed her back to Oregon, broke, unemployed and thoroughly whipped. VIVEK SHRAYA is a transplanted prairie boy living in Toronto. Active in the local queer community, he's also a musician who has toured North America, showcased at NXNE and CMW, and appeared with Tegan and Sara, Dragonette, and Melissa Ferrick. Shraya has released five records, including 2009's Keys & Machines, and was recently featured on ABC's Private Practice. God Loves Hair is his first book. Hosted by Michelle Tea Q+A w/ Cookies to follow reading. Ask a Q, get a Cookie. Cookies guaranteed homemade or else made by a professional Cookie baker. Tuesday, December 14th 2010 SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC LIBRARY / Main Branch Latino Reading Room / Basement Level 6pm / Free When Tue Dec 14 6pm – 7pm Pacific Time Calendar Queer Things Who • larrybob@gmail.com - creator

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