RADAR

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RADAR Productions is a San Francisco-based non-profit that produces literary happenings around the Bay Area and beyond.

Founded in 2003 by writer Michelle Tea, RADAR conducts presenting, commissioning, professional development and touring programs that stimulate the production of queer and underground literature and heighten San Francisco’s reputation as a national literary center.

RADAR gives voice to innovative queer and outsider writers and artists whose work authentically reflects the LGBTQA community’s diverse experiences.

RADAR’s programs include:

Year-round literary arts events
Sister Spit literary performance tour
Eli Coppola Memorial Poetry Chapbook Prize
Commissioned work during the National Queer Arts Festival
Completion grants for published writers
The Lab, an annual retreat for RADAR’s writers and artists
Sister Spit, an imprint on City Lights Books

RADAR Productions is generously sponsored and supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, the California Arts Council, San Francisco Foundation, San Francisco Arts Commission, Zellerbach Family Foundation, San Francisco Grants for the Arts, Friends of the San Francisco Public Library, the James C. Hormel Gay & Lesbian Center, Open Meadows Foundation, Walter & Elise Haas Fund, James Irvine Foundation, Rainbow Grocery Cooperative, CA LGBT Arts Alliance, the Queer Cultural Center and all of our individual donors.
RADAR’s artists-
10.15.11
RADAR Litcrawl
Laurie Weeks, Mica Sigourney, Brontez Purnell, Rhiannon Argo and Myriam Gurba

10.12.11
RADAR Reading Series
Laurie Weeks, Genny Lim, Myriam Gurba, Alvin Orloff, KM Soehnlein and Apocalypse Cakes

9.9.11
RADAR Lab Showcase
Ali Liebegott, Danny LeVesque, Chris Vargas, Greg Youmans, Danny Nguyen and Beth Lisick

9.7.11
RADAR Reading Series
Adam Boehmer, Tom Comitta, Dodie Bellamy and Anna Martine Whitehead

7.12.11
RADAR Reading Series
Surprise Issues w/ Kim Kelly & Dylan Mira, Susie Bright, Ariel Dunitz-Johnson, Jennifer Natalya Fink,  DeWayne Frazier Dickerson and Miguel Gutierrez

6.1.11
RADAR Superstar
Jonathan D. Katz; Catherine Opie, Pamela Sneed and Chinaka Hodge

5.27.11
RADAR @ SF Zen Center
Oddball Film, Rhodessa Jones, Bucky Sinister, Ali Liebegott and Philip Huang

5.11.11
RADAR Reading Series
Rhodessa Jones, Clare Marie Myers, Jill Soloway, Antonia Crane, Paul Madonna and D. Scot Miller

April 2011
Sister Spit Tour
Michelle Tea, Ali Liebegott, Myriam Gurba, Kirk Read, Mari Naomi, Amos Mac and Blake Nelson

4.28.11
RADAR Reading Series
Sara Bierman, Philip Huang, Trinie Dalton, Monty Suwannukul, Ben McCoy and Lucy Corin

3.8.11
RADAR Reading Series
Blake Nelson, Cedar Sigo, Camille Roy and Nicolas Boggs

2.22.11
RADAR Reading Series
Erin O’Briant, Sharon Barnes, Lisa Brown, Matt Rohrer, Daniel Handler and Kirk Read

2.12.11
ValenTINY Big Idea Night @ YBCA
Lovers, Hamilton Morris, Dave End, Mica Sigourney and Dax Tran-Caffe

1.18.11
RADAR Reading Series
Vendela Vida, Joel Tan, Sara Seinberg, Tara Jepsen, Ali Liebegott, Chris Vargas & Greg Youmans

12.14.10
RADAR Reading Series
Dave End, Carrie Leilam Love, Vivek Shraya and Hope Hitchcock

11.2.10
RADAR Reading Series
LE Leone, Novella Carpenter, Chelsea Rae Klein and Gordon Edgar

10.6.10
RADAR Reading Series
Tao Lin, Sara Marcus, Lizzy Acker and Elizabeth Pickens

9.22.10
RADAR Lab Showcase
Deez, Rose Tully, Annie Sprinkle & Beth Stephens, Justin Chin, Kat Yoas and Ali Liebegott

9.10.10
RADAR Reading Series
Gina Gold, LarryBob Roberts, V. Vale and Eileen Myles

8.24.10
RADAR Reading Series
Yas Min, Stephanie Rosenbaum, Ryder Cooley and Anisse Gross

August 2010
RADAR Lab 2nd annual retreat
Eileen Myles, Deez, Kat Yoas, Rose Tully, Quince Mountain, Maggie Nelson, Annie Sprinkle, Beth Stephens, Justin Chin, Tamara Llosa Sandor and Elyssa Joy Kilman

7.7.10
RADAR Reading Series
Diane Di Prima, Ryka Aoka, Tony Tilathimutte and Mica Sigourney