The San Francisco Sex Worker Film & Arts Festival Pass provides admission to all film screenings and events during the festival weekend, May 19-28, 2023, at the Roxie Theater in San Francisco.

Event Details

• (5/19): 'While We Were Away' Sex Worker Literary Event and Working It Anthology Release, 7pm at Fabulosa Books
• (5/20): Carol Leigh Memorial Film Screening, 12pm at the Roxie Theater
• (5/21): The Labor of Sexual Economies, at Stage Werx Theater
• (5/22): Carol Leigh in the House of Mz. Pat, written and performed by Jovelyn Richards aka Sangria Red with Live Musicians, at New Parkway Theater
• (5/23): Sex Worker Skill Share (current and former SWers only), Registration needed for Location
• (5/24): SWFF & Failed Films screening, a benefit for BAWS, at The New Parkway Theater
• (5/25): 'Whore's Eye View' performance by Kaytlin Bailey, a benefit for the Old Pros media non-profit, at The New Parkway Theater
• (5/26): SWFF Variety Show, at Little Boxes Theater
• (5/27): Roxie Movie Marathon, at the Roxie Theater
• (5/28): Whore's Bath spa day (current and former SWers only), Registration needed for Location

Sex Worker Literary Event and Working It Anthology Release

Friday, May 19, 2023, 7pm-9pm PST

Fabulosa Books 489 Castro Street San Francisco, CA

Fiercely intelligent, fantastically transgressive, Working It is an intimate portrait of the lives of sex workers. A polyphonic story of triumph, survival, and solidarity, this collection showcases the vastly different experiences and interests of those who have traded sex, among them a brothel worker in Australia, First Nation survivors of the Canadian child welfare system, and an Afro Latina single parent raising a radicalized child. Packed with first-person essays, interviews, poetry, drawings, mixed media collage, and photographs Working It honors the complexity of lived experience. Sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes hardboiled, these dazzling pieces will go straight to the heart.

Saturday, May 20, 2023, 12pm PST / 3pm EST

Internationally Live Streaming: on carolleighmemorial.com

We are producing a movie to document the enormity of Carol Leigh a.k.a. Scarlot Harlot’s contributions to the world. This labor of love will speak to Carol Leigh’s international legacy and speak to the diversity of her communities as an activist, artist, filmmaker, and educator. You are also invited to host your own viewing gathering, which can be a great way to bring people together to honor Carol Leigh’s legacy.

Saturday, May 20, 2023, 2:00 – 9:00pm PST

St John the Evangelist Episcopal Church 1661 15th St. San Francisco, CA

We will gather together to honor, celebrate and dance. There will be light refreshments, a DJ for dancing and lots of stories and remembrances. Please RSVP so we know how many folks to expect. If you feel called to speak or perform, please fill out this form.

Saturday, May 20, 2023, 12pm PST

Roxie Theatre 3117 16th Street, San Francisco, CA

We are producing a movie to document the enormity of Carol Leigh a.k.a. Scarlot Harlot’s contributions to the world. This labor of love will speak to Carol Leigh’s international legacy and speak to the diversity of her communities as an activist, artist, filmmaker, and educator.

This premiere film screening is part of the 12th biennial San Francisco Sex Worker Films and Arts Festival.

Sunday, May 21, 2023, 2-7pm PST

Stage Werx Theatre 446 Valencia Street San Francisco, CA

**MASKS WILL BE REQUIRED AT ALL FESTIVAL EVENTS**

Film screenings and Book Talk

Lineup of movies here.

Monday, May 22, 2023, 6:30pm PST

The New Parkway Theater 474 24th Street Oakland, CA

Join us for an evening of story, jazz, and laughter celebrating the late Carol Leigh a.k.a. Scarlot Harlot, as she is inducted into the magical brothel known as Mz. Pat’s House by Jovelyn Richards AKA Sangria Red

Wednesday, May 24, 2023, 6-9:30pm PST

The New Parkway Theater 474 24th Street Oakland, CA

Part of the 12th biennial San Francisco Sex Worker Films and Arts Festival, an Evening of Delights is sure to enrapture and tantalize audiences. With adult selections curated by Failed Films Fest, and benefitting peer-led mutual aid organization Bay Area Workers Support.

Lineup of movies here.

Thursday, May 25, 2023, 7pm PST

The New Parkway Theater 474 24th Street Oakland, CA

Whore’s Eye View is a 75-minute mad dash through 10,000 years of history from a sex worker’s perspective. Equal parts history lecture, stand up comedy, and personal storytelling, Kaytlin Bailey masterfully unpacks the age-old stigma surrounding the oldest profession. Her eye-opening message is a compassionate call to action that weaves together compelling facts from history and hard won wisdom from lived experience with comedic flair.

Kaytlin Bailey is the Founder & Executive Director of Old Pros, the host of The Oldest Profession Podcast, an internationally touring stand-up comic, sex worker rights advocate, and writer. Her critically acclaimed one woman show, Cuntagious, sold out performances at NYCFringe and United Solo festival in 2016. Whore’s Eye View is her second one woman show.

Ticket sales benefit the non profit media organization, Old Pros, and our mission to change the status of sex workers in society. Join us for an impactful, entertaining, and enjoyable evening.

Friday, May 26, 2023, 6:30 PST

Little Boxes Theater 1661 Tennessee St, San Francisco, CA

We will be hosting a night of burlesque, comedy, storytelling, and stripping at Little Boxes Theater in San Francisco.

Please bring your $1s (or more) to tip the entertainers!

**MASKS WILL BE REQUIRED AT ALL FESTIVAL EVENTS**

While events are ticketed, we offer sliding scale and NOTAFLOF at the door.

Saturday, May 27, 2023, 12:30 PST

Roxie Theatre 3117 16th Street, San Francisco, CA

**MASKS WILL BE REQUIRED AT ALL FESTIVAL EVENTS**

Lineup of movies here.