Reminder: RADAR Superstar Free at Main Library @ Wed Jun 6 6pm - 7pm (Queer Things)

more details » RADAR Superstar Free at Main Library the RADAR reading series: a showcase of underground + emerging writers + artists Wednesday, June 6th 2012 San Francisco Public Library 6 PM RADAR SUPERSTAR! It's RADAR's 9th Birthday. Come celebrate and party with: ZACKARY DRUCKER earned an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts in 2007 and a BFA from the School of Visual Arts in 2005. She has performed and exhibited her work internationally in numerous museums, galleries, and film festivals including the 54th Venice Biennale--Swiss Off-Site Pavilion; Curtat Tunnel, Lausanne, Switzerland; L.U.C.C.A. Museum of Contemporary Art, Lucca, IT; Les Recontres Internationales, Paris/Berlin/Madrid; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA; Deitch Projects, Leo Koenig Inc. Projekte, and Invisible Exports in New York; and Jerome Zodo, Milan. In Los Angeles, her performances, films and videos have been seen at the Hammer Museum, REDCAT, LACE, Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, Steve Turner Contemporary, and Human Resources. ARIANA REINES is the author of Mercury (2011), Coeur de Lion (2007), and The Cow (2006), which won the Alberta Prize from Fence Books. Her play TELEPHONE was commissioned by The Foundry Theatre and presented at the very haunted Cherry Lane Theatre in New York in 2009, winning two Obies. Book-length translations include My Heart Laid Bare by Charles Baudelaire, The Little Black Book of Griselidis Real: Days and Nights of an Anarchist Whore by Jean-Luc Hennig, and most recently Preliminary Materials Toward a Theory of the Young-Girl by TIQQUN, about to be out from Semiotext(e). Writing and performance have been featured in Dazed+Confused, Novembre, The Fader, & HOBO, Works+Process at the Guggenheim, The Hammer Museum of Art, & others, and in San Francisco at the wonderful Small Press Traffic &c. She was Roberta C. Holloway Lecturer in Poetry at UC Berkeley in 2009, but still needs to discover, like really discover The Bay. You could help with that. She just got back from Haiti, where she worked with traumatized children in a mobile naturopathy clinic: http://haiti.citronica.com Justin Torres grew up in upstate New York. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, Tin House, Glimmer Train, and other publications. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, he is a recipient of the Rolón United States Artist Fellowship in Literature, and is now a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford. He has worked as a farmhand, a dog-walker, a creative writing teacher, and a bookseller. Recipient of a PEN Center West Rosenthal Fellowship and an IBWA Prize for short fiction, Ellery Washington's essays and short stories have been widely published and anthologized, both nationally and abroad (in England, France, Germany and elsewhere), most notably in The New York Times, Ploughshares, The International Review, OUT Magazine The Berkeley Fiction Review, The Frankfurter Allgemeine, Nouvelles Frontières, and in the National Bestseller State by State--a Panoramic Portrait of America. As a screenwriter his credits include feature script rewrites for numerous independent directors and producers, as well as story consulting for major production companies, including Paramount Pictures, Tristar and Fox Searchlight. His primary focus, however, remains on narrative prose, be it fiction or creative nonfiction. He's currently working on his first novel and divides his time between Oakland and New York. Hosted with some sort of extra-great birthday treat by Michelle Tea. Q+A to follow! Wednesday, June 6th 2012 San Francisco Public Library / Main Branch Koret Auditorium 6:00pm / $0.00 Sponsored by the James C. Hormel Gay & Lesbian Center and Zellerbach Family Foundation. HEY! Do us a wicked big favor? Take this RADAR survey. We want to know who you are and what you think about what we're doing! http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/BB6WC9M When Wed Jun 6 6pm – 7pm Pacific Time Calendar Queer Things Who • larrybob@gmail.com - creator

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