Intersection for the Arts
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| Established | 1965 |
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| Location | 925 Mission St, San Francisco, California United States |
| Director | Kevin Chen |
| Website | www.theintersection.org |
Intersection for the Arts, established in 1965, is the oldest alternative non-profit art space in San Francisco, California. Intersection's reading series is the longest continuous reading series outside of an academic institution in the state of California.
Intersection produces and presents new and experimental work in the fields of literature, theater, music, and the visual arts. Intersection's artists regularly provide classes and workshops to the local community. Intersection also maintains an incubation program for emerging literary, visual and performing arts groups.
Intersection is located in the SoMa district of San Francisco, on 925 Mission Street, between 5th and 6th Streets.
Intersection was founded in the Tenderloin in 1965 by an interfaith coalition of three churches. The organization began as a merger of several faith-based experiments that were using art to reach disenfranchised neighborhood youth while also providing artists who were conscientious objectors with an alternative to serving in the Vietnam War. The founding Director was Laird Sutton and full-time staff members were poetry director Adrian Ravarour, Tom Dobson, Paul Donetti, and Juan Elorreaga. By 1967, it moved to North Beach and remained for 20 years. Robin Williams, Father Guido Sarducci (Don Novello), Whoopie Goldberg, Peter Coyote, Bill Irwin and Country Joe McDonald performed there. Gregory Corso, William S. Burroughs, Gary Snyder, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Ishmael Reed and Margaret Atwood read there.
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