Sex Worker Fest - San Francisco Bay Area Sex Worker Film & Arts Festival

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Five days sex worker art, parties, movies, magical healing and politics! Join us for this whores-eye-view at the 20th Anniversary San Francisco Bay Area Sex Worker Film and Arts Festival May 22nd to 26th at the Roxie, Oakland SOL, Artists' Television Access, Dungeon Art Gallery, and Whores Bath at sexworkerfest.com

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Join us for 5 days sex worker art, parties, movies and politics at the 20th Anniversary of San Francisco Bay Area Sex Worker Film and Arts Festival May 22nd to 26th with an introductory webinar May 19th. Join us at the Roxie, Artists' Television Access,Oakland SOL, Dungeon Art Gallery, and ‘Whores Bath.’ Since 1999 the Festival has provided a forum for sex worker film and video makers, expanding to become a vibrant venue for performances, workshops, politics and more, sexworkerfest.com.

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The San Francisco Bay Area Sex Worker Film & Arts Festival provides a forum for the accomplishments of sex worker performers, artists, activists and video makers from San Francisco and around the world. The Sex Worker Fest focuses on the lives, art, and the struggle for workers' and human rights by people engaged in sex work. The Festival strives to maintain a forum for diverse voices, including youth, sex workers of color, migrant sex workers; sex workers' rights organizations around the world, queer and trans sex workers, sex worker artists, and sex workers both within and outside the borders of the United States.

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Movies play at various venues including an introductory webinar May 19th. Artists Television Access (SF), BAWS (Bay Area Worker Support benefit with “Failed Films” at Dungeon Art Gallery, Oakland, Oakland SOL, and a Sex Worker Movie Marathon at the Roxie Theate.

Events culminate at Whores Bath, a magical healing event for sex workers only.
Visit our schedule and our website for all the details : http://sexworkerfest.com/

Festival Producers: Carol Leigh, Erica Elena and Sangria Red
Movie Curators: Ari Gatak, Miki Mossman, Bambi Katsura

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Sex Worker Festival Producers and Mission

Through the diversity of sex worker communities, the Sex Worker Festival has developed an intersectional mission prioritizing voices of those of us who are politically underrepresented such as trans folk, workers of color, street-based workers, and workers who transcend the racist, sexist, heterosexist, white-supremacist norms and standards of mainstream beauty. We highlight the artistic endeavors of workers in all aspects of the sex industry because whore culture is real, present and on a corner, in a bar, in a hotel or in a bedroom community near YOU.

Social Media Fundraising Campaign

In order to raise funds, the festival looks toward our own San Francisco based sex positive crowd funding platform at Fundly. Funds from our campaign go to provide stipends for artists, and scholarships for attendees. Visit our campaign at Fundly at https://fundly.com/swfest2019

20th Anniversary of the San Francisco Bay Area Sex Worker Film and Arts Festival

Contact: Carol Leigh | swfest@bayswan.org | 415-857-5425 | sexworkerfest.com
Dates: May 22-26
Title: 20th Anniversary San Francisco Bay Area Sex Worker Film & Arts Festival
Time: Varies, full schedule http://www.sexworkerfest.com/events.html
Web Page: SexWorkerFest.com
Image Links: www.sexworkerfest.com/presskit/webpics-logos.html
Venues: Multiple venues Artists Television Access (SF), BAWS (Bay Area Worker Support) benefit with “Failed Films” at Dungeon Art Gallery (Oakland), Oakland SOL, and a Sex Worker Movie Marathon at the Roxie Theater, and the Whore’s Bath Retreat.
Tickets: Festival passes from $60 to $80 and Individual show tickets available at the door and in mid May at sexworkersmarathon.eventbrite.com

Summary: Five days of sex worker art, parties, movies and politics! Join us for this whores-eye-view at the 20th Anniversary Biennial San Francisco Bay Area Sex Worker Film and Arts Festival at locations throughout the Bay Area.

General Description: The San Francisco Bay Area Sex Worker Film & Arts Festival provides a venue for the accomplishments of sex worker performers, artists, activists and video makers from San Francisco and around the world. The Sex Worker Fest focuses on the lives, art, and the struggle for workers' and human rights by people engaged in sex work. The Festival strives to maintain a forum for diverse voices, including youth, sex workers of color, migrant sex workers; sex workers' rights organizations around the world, queer and trans sex workers, sex worker artists, and sex workers both within and outside the borders of the United States. All events are open to the public unless otherwise noted.

Events:
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International Webinar- “Trends in Sex Worker Cinema”
Date: Sunday, May 19, 2019
Time: 9 am PST
Tickets: $3-$10 Sliding scale, registration and more at http://sexworkercinema.eventbrite.com
Venue: Zoom https://zoom.us/j/6888145294?pwd=MDRoQm5MdUJxelZHbHVXV2lnbHk4Zz09
Title: “Trends in Sex Worker Cinema”
Co-Production: In Conjunction with San Francisco Bay Area Sex Worker Film and Arts Festival (sexworkerfest.com)
Web Page: http://sexworkercinema.eventbrite.com
Description: We invite sex workers and our allies and supporters to join this international discussion of “Trends in Sex Worker Cinema” and launch of our first Sex Worker Fest CyberScreening

This year we observed an exponential growth in facility with the technology and power of cinema. The submissions were more developed, nuanced and sophisticated. Sex workers are at home with the techniques of video journalism and self-representation. The movies featured in this CyberScreening range from unique cultural representations, to important videos that will inform sex worker rights projects around the world, to fun and bold student work, to experimental representations by sex worker artists, to brilliant sex worker self confessional. We open this conversation to sex workers and supportive allies. Email sexworkerfest@gmail.com for more information.

Visit http://sexworkerfest.com/cyberscreening.html for information of works being screened online during Festival week.

POWER RESET

Opening party and Screening for Sex Worker Rights
Date: Wednesday, May 22, 2019
Time: 7:30-10pm
Tickets: Sliding scale $7-$50 loveandcondoms.eventbrite.com
Venue: Artists televison Access, 992 Valencia, San Franciusco
Title: Opening Party for The Sex Worker Festival
Co-Production: In Conjunction with San Francisco Bay Area Sex Worker Film and Arts Festival (sexworkerfest.com)
Web Page: sexworkerfest.com/events/
Description: Drink, snack talk and watch movies with the Sex Worker Festival! The evening is a benefit for Poverty Schoolar program in Honor of Laure McElroy; DVD Launch for PJ Starrs award winning movie, No Human Involved, about the death of Marcia Powell at the hands of the Arizona Prison system. The Film program " Power Reset" includes No Democracy Here and other short works.

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Failed Films presents a film benefit for Bay Area Workers Support (BAWS)

Date: Thursday May 23rd, 2019
Time: 7-10 PM
Title: Failed Films presents a film benefit for Bay Area Workers Support (BAWS)
Co-Production: In Conjunction with San Francisco Bay Area Sex Worker Film and Arts Festival (sexworkerfest.com)
Web Page: https://bayareaworkerssupport.org/fffundraiser http://www.sexworkerfest.com/baws_failedfilms.html
Venue: Dungeon Gallery
Tickets: At Door, Sliding scale $10 -$100 / NOTAFLOF; https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4236340
Sex Worker Festival Pass: $80- 150 at loveandcondoms.eventbrite.com
Publication Contact: Carol Leigh | swfest@bayswan.org | 415-857-5425 | sexworkerfest.com

Summary:
Join us for an outdoor movie night, showcasing a dozen local sex worker artists. This event seeks to subvert the long-held ideals and traditions that leave many excluded from traditional film festivals. Failed Films is here, ready, and waiting to embrace the radical self-expression and wildly imaginative antics that you and yours dare to share.
All proceeds go to BAWS’ Emergency Grant Fund. This event is part of the Bay Area Sex Worker Film Festival. For more info abut Failed Films: https://www.instagram.com/failedfilmsfest/

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Event Release- Come to me —Sangria Red
Date: Friday, May 24, 2019
Time: 6:30-8 PM
Title: Black Mother and Jazz
Co-producers/presenters: In Conjunction with San Francisco Bay Area Sex Worker Film and Arts Festival
Webpage: https://blackmotherandjazz.eventbrite.com
Venue: Oakland SOL, 1236 23rd Avenue, Oakland
Tickets: At the door $15-50;
Contact For publication and media: Carol Leigh, swfest@bayswan.org, 415-857-5425; sugars982@gmail.com

Summary: Performance Artist/Teacher/Film Director/Coach/Radio Host Sangria Red an evening of erotic storytelling...music...food

Sangria Red transports us back to a 1930s New Orleans Jook Joint for an evening of erotic stories… pre-biblical…Sangria invites y’all into a night/day/she/he/moon/sun/water/earth ...timeless tales that heal... Fish tacos for purchase, wine and special treats.

Come to me —Sangria Red

"For over 25 years, this writer and director, has been active in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond as an artist, performer, and educator, supporting marginalized communities and focusing her artistic and advocacy work on the intersectionality of race, class, gender, and LGBTQ oppressions… currently a resident artist at La Peña Cultural Center in Berkeley, California.”
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Sex Worker Movie Marathon at the Roxie

Date: Saturday May 25, 2019
Title: Sex Worker Movie Marathon at the Roxie
In conjunction with: 20th Anniversay of the San Francisco Bay Area Sex Worker Film and Arts Festival
Web Page: sexworkerfest.com/film_roxie.html
Time: Shows at 11:30, 1:30, 4:15: 6:25, 8:40 and 10:30 PM
Venue: The Roxie, 3117 16th Street, San Francisco
Tickets: Individual tickets at the door: $12 before 6, $15 after 6, purchase at Roxie website www.roxie.com/calendar ; Movie passes for May 25th only sexworkersmarathon.eventbrite.com from $60 to $150
Contact for publication and media: Carol Leigh | swfest@bayswan.org | 415-857-5425 | sexworkerfest.com
Summary: The San Francisco Bay Area Sex Worker Film & Arts Festival provides a forum for the accomplishments of sex worker performers, artists, activists and video makers from San Francisco and around the world. The Sex Worker Festival focuses on the lives, art, and the struggle for workers and human rights by people engaged in sex work. Join us for this whores-eye-view at the Roxie for the 20th Anniversary of the (since 1999) San Francisco Bay Area Sex Worker Film and Arts Festival

Screening schedule -Details at sexworkerfest.com/film_roxie.htm

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Whores Bath: A Magical Healing Spa

Date: Saturday May 26, 2019
Title: Whores Bath: A Magical Healing Spa
In conjunction with: 20th Anniversary of the San Francisco Bay Area Sex Worker Film and Arts Festival
Web Page: http://whoresbath.org/
Time:
Venue: Visit the website for more information
Festival Passes at loveandcondoms.eventbrite.com from $60 to $150
Contact for publication and media: Carol Leigh | swfest@bayswan.org | 415-857-5425 | sexworkerfest.com

This is the closing night party of the San Francisco Bay Area Sex Worker Film and Art Festival, 2019."Whore’s Bath" is a sex worker only spa day for current and former sex workers of all kinds. Please respect the space by keeping this in mind when inviting people.

Massage, facials, foot baths, craniosacral, somatic touch, tarot, sauna, showers, workshops, clothing swap, refreshments and community care.

Light spa food, if you want to bring something, non alcoholic beverages, desserts, and fruit welcome
All practitioners and participants are current and former SWs only. All genders welcome. We welcome all sex workers, street-based, indoor, outdoor, doms, strippers, car-dates, etc.

We want this space to be free of racism, classism, transphobia, ableism, fatphobia, full-service-phobia, etc. Please email us at oaklandswish@gmail.com if you have any questions, needs or concerns.
Accessibility info : According to the website of the space ╘The building is fully permitted, accessible, and built to modern codes. It includes fire sprinklers, fire extinguishers, smoke detectors and multiple exit routes. We have a wheelchair lift serving our second floor spaces, and ADA-compliant access.
We have six gender neutral toilets, showers, changing space and a sauna.╒ More details to follow.
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: In order for this space to be accessible to everyone please do not wear scents or bring any to use on yourself or others. For more information on how to keep things scent free, check out
http://brownstargirl.org/fragrance-free-femme-of-colour-genius/
For more info, email oaklandswish@gmail.com
Please bring clothes for the swap. What doesn’t get taken will be donated to St James and Out of the Closet.

www.sexworkerfest.com
www.oaklandswish.org
www.bayareaworkersupport.org
https://stjamesinfirmary.org/

Best Queer Programing at the Sex Worker Movie Marathon at the Roxie May 25th 20th Anniversary of the San Francisco Bay Area Sex Worker Film and Arts Festival

Direct Contact: Contact: Carol Leigh | swfest@bayswan.org | 415-751-1659 | sexworkerfest.com
Publication Contact: Sex Worker Fest sexworkekrfest@gmail.com 415-857-5425 sexworkerfest.com
Dates: May 22-26th

Media Release
http://www.sexworkerfest.com/presskit/index.html#release

Summary
Five days of sex worker art, parties, movies and politics! Join us for this whores-eye-view at the 20th Anniversary Biennial San Francisco Bay Area Sex Worker Film and Arts Festival at locations throughout the Bay Area.
Short Description
The San Francisco Bay Area Sex Worker Film & Arts Festival provides a venue for the accomplishments of sex worker performers, artists, activists and video makers from San Francisco and around the world. The Sex Worker Fest focuses on the lives, art, and the struggle for workers' and human rights by people engaged in sex work. The Festival strives to maintain a forum for diverse voices, including youth, sex workers of color, migrant sex workers; sex workers' rights organizations around the world, queer and trans sex workers, sex worker artists, and sex workers both within and outside the borders of the United States. All events are open to the public unless otherwise noted.

Best Queer Programming-Movies at the Roxie May 25th
Sex Worker Movie Marathon at the Roxie
11:30 am-11:30 PM
http://sexworkerfest.com/roxie.html
Roxie May 25th, 11:30am
Kitchen Talk
Reclaiming Our Image
(5:20-2019,US)
A group of 12 Black, Indigenous and People of Color in porn gather to create self-directed content. "During the shoot we ended up gathered in the kitchen crying, laughing and holding each other. Here is an excerpt of that conversation.”

Tránsitos
Linda Pornsánchez
(35:11 - 2018, Spain )
"Tránsitos" is about the way that two migrant sex workers in Europe, who--while looking for a better life from machismo, transphobia, gender violence or whorephobia--instead find racism, violence and exploitation. It dives into their strategies such as activism, art and political love.

Roxie May 25th, 1:30 PM

Heart of Woman
Keith Holland/Toni Newman
(8:16- 2017, USA)
Three diverse individuals, one male, one female and one who's wrestling with the decision, are working in the sex industry to survive, while they struggle physically, emotionally and spiritually to find understanding and legitimacy in a morally-corrupt world that takes no prisoners. Producer Toni Newman is director of the St. James Infirmary. The movie is derived from her book, "I Rise-The Transformation of Toni Newman"
https://www.tonidnewman.com/

Roxie May 25th, 8:40 (Boys starts approx 9 PM)

Boys For Sale
Produucer - Ian Ash, Director - Itako
(76MIN - 2017, Japan)
Young men are selling sex in Japan. Who is buying? In 2-chome, the gay district of Shinjuku, are bars selling "urisen" - straight boys who have sex with men. Formerly the red-light district of Tokyo, 2-chome has had an historical connection to prostitution since the Edo-period which continues to this day. Nine "urisen" speak about their experiences selling sex to men as well as how they began the work.
Roxie May 25th, 4:15 PM

£125/ hr
James Mileham/Andrew Owens
(09:32 - 2018, United Kingdom )
This short documentary explores the everyday life of Lyon, a polish teenager working as a prostitute in London.

Familia?
Kase Pena/Marlene Forte
(14:55 - 2017, USA )
A Transgender woman, pressured into returning to sex work by her demanding mother so that she may financially provide for her family in their native country, also deals with a pesky teenage neighborhood boy who's in love with her, and a married lover with empty promises.
Roxie May 25th, 10:30 PM

Pennie
Lola Clavo
(60MIN - 2018, United Kingdom)
A documentary portrait of Pennie, a 29-year-old art student from Athens living in London and working in the sex industry. The film follows Pennie through her daily life for a period of one year. The film challenges preconceived notions regarding femininity, sexuality and sex work. Pennie is queerness in its essence. She is able to fluidly move through gender roles, stereotypes and sexuality in the most natural way, even when being part of an industry that moves strongly in the opposite direction.