Radar Superstar: A Queer AF Variety Show

Join Radar Productions for our annual celebration showcase. We choose 4 incredible queer artists and welcome you to the gorgeous Koret Auditorium for a free show!

Thursday, June 1
Show begins at 6pm
San Francisco Main Library
100 Larkin Street
Koret Auditorium (lower level)
Hosted by Juliana Delgado Lopera

FEATURING…
Clement Hil Goldberg
Vanessa Rochelle Lewis
Ana María Montenegro Jaramillo
Mari Naomi
Lydia Greer + Shauna Fallihee

Clement Hil Goldberg is a multidisciplinary artist primarily working in film, sculpture, and animation to create a fabulous extinction aesthetic. Goldberg created the stop motion animated web series The Deer Inbetween and joined Michelle Tea to produce the 20-filmmaker collaborative feature film Valencia. Valencia won Jury Awards for Best Experimental Feature at the Polari Film Festival and Best Narrative Feature at Chicago Reeling in 2013. In 2016 Clement received their MFA in Art Practice and New Media certificate from UC Berkeley. Their current project Our Future Ends was awarded a 2016 visual arts Creative Work Fund grant in collaboration with CounterPulse. Goldberg’s work has been exhibited at the Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive and the Worth Ryder Art Gallery; Yerba Buena Center For The Arts, SOMArts, Luggage Store Gallery, Artists Television Access, all in San Francisco; and over 50 international film and arts festivals including Frameline, Outfest, MIX NYC, Hamburg International Queer Film Festival and Cleveland International Film Festival.

Vanessa Lewis, formerly known as Jezebel Delilah X, is a queer, lush-bodied, Black, femme performance artist, writer, actress, filmmaker, educator, facilitator, orator and Faerie Queen Mermaid Gangsta for The Revolution. She loves to flirt, laugh, perform, crack corny jokes, and insert Octavia Butler references into every conversation. She is a Co-Managing Editor for Everyday Feminism and Director of queer, Black, multi-disciplinary performance troupe, Congregation of Liberation. She has performed in a wide variety of Queer theatre projects and cabarets, and has been a featured reader at literary events all over the Bay Area. She uses a combination of memoir, poetry, theatre, and feminist storytelling to advance her politix of radical love, socioeconomic justice, anti-racism, community accountability, critical reflection, love, healing, and liberation. She loves romantic songs, romantic films, romantic books, romantic conversations, romantic friendships, and writing long, vulnerable, passionate facebook statuses about romance.

Ana María Montenegro (1986) is a Colombian artist based in San Francisco, CA. Her work is a series of conceptual experiments that deal with the structural rules that govern image composition, the protocols of narrative genres and the cultural codes that affect them. She uses media that allows her to play with time, text, movement and randomness.

MariNaomi is the award-winning author and illustrator of Kiss & Tell: A Romantic Resume, Ages 0 to 22 (Harper Perennial, 2011), Dragon’s Breath and Other True Stories (2dcloud/Uncivilized Books, 2014), Turning Japanese (2dcloud, 2016), and I Thought YOU Hated ME (Retrofit Comics, 2016). Her work has appeared in over sixty print publications and has been featured on numerous websites, such as The Rumpus, LA Review of Books, Midnight Breakfast and BuzzFeed. MariNaomi’s comics and paintings have been featured by such institutions as the Smithsonian, the De Young Museum, the Cartoon Art Museum, the Asian Art Museum, and the Japanese American Museum. In 2011, Mari toured with the literary roadshow Sister Spit. She is the creator and curator of the Cartoonists of Color Database and the Queer Cartoonists Database. She has taught classes for the California College of the Arts Comics MFA program, and is currently a guest editor at PEN America.

Lydia Greer is a visual artist and filmmaker whose work includes sculptural and video installation, single channel video, puppet theatre, hand-made animation and works on paper. She works with themes of allegory and euphemism in narrative structures exploring the languages of psychology and theatre. Lydia is interested in the most elaborate forms of storytelling and time based art such as opera, film and puppet theatre as well as the narrative charge of everyday objects and how communication ceremonies play out in the personal, spiritual and historical/political arenas. Each narrative she works with is a misremembered, taboo or unreliable story inviting audience engagement in narrative construction and play. From 2003-2007 she directed the LET’S DANCE SHADOW THEATRE, a handmade, ragtag puppet company in Portland, OR. Since then her mixed media work has been shown at the Exploratorium Museum, Artists’ Television Access, Pacific Film Archive/Berkeley Art Museum, Santa Clara University, Portland Experimental Film Festival, Berkeley Center for New Media, Adobe Back Room Gallery, Royal None Such Gallery and SomArts among other venues. She has also worked as a puppeteer and designer with ShadowLight Productions in San Francisco. Lydia is currently the Artistic Director of Facing West Shadow Opera: a collective of predominantly queer artists, filmmakers, and musicians hybridizing art forms including live opera, animation, shadow theatre and found film to create unique performances, each akin to a live graphic novel with euphoria-inducing live chamber music.

Soprano Shauna Fallihee has been featured with numerous Bay Area ensembles including San Francisco Choral Society, Masterworks Chorale, San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra, Open Opera, West Bay Opera and the Old St. Mary’s Cathedral Noontime Concert Series. Deeply dedicated to the performance of new music, Shauna has performed world premieres and contemporary works with Facing West Shadow Theater, NothingSet Ensemble, San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra, Opus Project, Wild Rumpus, Ensemble Mik Nawooj and enjoyed a decade with new music chamber choir Volti. An active educator, Shauna is on the voice faculty at Holy Names University, Chabot College, City College San Francisco, Acalanes High School and the Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choir. She is also a Master Teacher Trainer for The Dailey Method, an alignment-based Barre and Cycle fitness program.