Tea time again

genius writer Michelle Tea's RADAR reading series
tuesday, october 26, 2004
san francisco public library
downstairs in the latino reading room
6pm sharp * free

featuring:

from canada, AMBER DAWN, whose poetry has been published in several Canadian literary magazines and anthologies; who for the last five years has combined performative reading with performance art at literary cabarets in the Pacific North West; who currently hosts a bi-monthly queer erotic literary event called Femmes Read Porn in Vanocouver; who traveled with the 2003 Sex Workers Art Show Tour, is editing an anthology of writing with Arsenal Pulp Press, and is working on a novel, titled Beeyatches.

from east boston, the return of PETER PIZZI, independent filmmaker andphotographer; who tells stories with the use of slides and photos, of which are set to a poignant music track; who delighted and disturbed Radar audiences last year with his Mr. Bunny character succumbing to
loneliness, a depressed couple taking a fatal stroll, and one young woman?s dream date with a little doll; who leads workshops in video producing and can be found teaching at cambridge community television in cambridge, mass. Peter's work has been featured in living rooms, and film festivals across the country; more information about him and his work can be found at
? www.magicclubfilms.com.

from canada, MICHAEL V. SMITH, who has written, performed and produced a number of award-winning videos which tour international festivals; who performs a popular naked stand-up improv audience-participation cabaret act; who writes a monthly sex-ed column, Blush, in vancouver's XtraWest, and freelances for the Globe Mail; who was named one of Vancouver's Most Dangerous People (Loop Magazine) and is an MFA grad from UBC's prestigious Creative Writing program. Michael's small town blue collar novel, Cumberland, was nominated for the Amazon/Books in Canada First Novel Award.

from the east bay, CARLA TRUJILLO, editor of Chicana Lesbians: The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About, winner of the the LAMBDA Book Award for Best Lesbian Anthology and the Out/Write Vanguard Award for Best Pioneering Contribution to the field of Gay/Lesbian Lifestyle Literature; who also edited Living Chicana Theory; and whose novel, What Night Brings, set in the bay area of the 1960s, is about a young girl who wants god to turn her into a boy and get rid of her father, won the 2003 Miguel Marmol Prize.

hosted by Michelle Tea, who will provide hommade cookies and leftover Skittles.

the readers will dazzle you, the audience, with their words and pictures.
then you, the audience, will impress the readers with witty questions during the lively Q -n- A session.
snacks distributed to all the participants.

OH! and you all really, really do not want to miss the San Francisco premiere of the poet, writer and Radar alum Eileen Myles' opera, Hell, at Yerba Buena this Thursday, October 21st. It features an underworld purchased by an apocalyptic earth, run by a sinister, wooden Father Tree, populated by slick, agent-type Devils on cell phones, and stars Julianna Snapper as the hero, a girl poet. The opera tackles the soldier archetype, probes the mystery of Iceland, looks at our increasingly fascistic, corporate-controlled culture and makes a beautiful case for the salvation of live poetry. It's gorgeous and scary and really funny. Please check it out.