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10
days
sex worker art, parties, movies and politics! Join us for this
whores-eye-view at the 9th Biennial San Francisco Bay Area Sex
Worker Film and Arts Festival May 15th to 24th at the Center
for Sex & Culture, the Roxie Cinema, Oakland's OMNI Commons,
La Pena in Berkeley and beyond. sexworkerfest.com.
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for Calendars
Join us for 10 days sex worker art, parties, movies and politics
at the 9th Biennial San Francisco Bay Area Sex Worker Film and
Arts Festival May 15th to 24th at the Center for Sex & Culture,
the Roxie Cinema, Oakland's OMNI Commons, La Pena in Berkeley
and beyond. Since 1999 the Festival has provided a forum for
sex worker film and video makers, since expanding to become
a vibrant venue for performances, workshops, visual arts, political
organizing and more, in many Bay Area venues. sexworkerfest.com.
Tweets
#SanFrancisco
#SexWorker Fest May 15-24 Whores Bath, Institute of #Sexwork
ology @sexworkerfest
#SexWorker
Festival lineup @Scarlot_Harlot @MsMarikoPassion & more
sexworkerfest.com @sexworkerfest May 15-24
#SexWorker
Diaries @LaPenaCultural Berkeley May 15 @SexWorkerFest @theginagoldshow
http://ht.ly/M003I
Mobilize
stop violence against #Transgender women of color + #sexworkers
@IsaNoyola @RedLightLegal @CentrSexCulture May 16
#spreadbook @SexWorkerFest 5/21,
Mack Friedman @DrMireille Catherine Plato http://ht.ly/M01r1
@vixennoir @omnicommons @jubakalamka #sexworkers
(more to come)
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10
days
of sex worker art, parties and politics! Join us for this political
and cultural soiree at the Center for Sex & Culture, Roxie
Cinema, Omni Commons and more. Get a whores-eye view with Mariko
Passion, The Incredible Edible Akynos and authors from Spread
Magazine's new anthology. Throughout May the Roaming Hookerfest
brings movies to your agency or organization including the St.
James Infirmary, CAL-PEP and more. Sponsored by SWOP, BAYSWAN,
ISWFACE, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, Inc., the East
Bay Express, the San Francisco Transgender Film Festival, Media
Alliance, the National Queer Arts Festival and community business
sponsors including Rentboy, Slixa, Cuties Tools, Good Vibrations,
Bondassage and many more coming soon! Check
out our schedule at: www.sexworkerfest.com/swfest2015/schedule2015.html
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Description #2 around 2-300 words
The
San Francisco Bay Area Sex Worker Film & Arts Festival provides
a forum for the accomplishments of sex worker performers, artists
and video makers from San Francisco and around the world. The
2015 Festival features long running events including “The
Institute of Sexworkology” and “Whores Bath"
(the magical healing spa for sex workers). New events include
a free solo performance workshop for sex workers by Sangria
Red presenting "Sex Worker Soliloquies". This year
Gina Gold kicks off the Festival on May 15th at LaPena with
“Sex Worker Diaries,” in conjunction with her ongoing
series, TMI Storytelling. Mariko Passion returns with classic
performance art at the Center for Sex & Culture. Back by
popular demand from New York City is The Incredible Edible Akynos
and Cinnamon Maxxine. The Festival also proudly welcomes Australian
performance artist Queenie Bon Bon in "Deeply Leisured,"
fresh from the Adelaide Fringe Festival with Lexi Lipstick in
'Born Again Pervert.'. Bay Area activist and well known producer/musician,
Juba Kalamka hosts a reading featuring the newly launched $pread
anthology, based on the magazine by that name. Anthology readers
include Scarlot Harlot, Erica Elena and special guest Professor
Mireille Miller-Young.
Community events include “Sex Work Is Not Trafficking,”
a community discussion and screening about the escalating scapegoating
of sex workers and other communities under the guise of anti-trafficking.
SWAG joins the Festival this year to present “Human &
Here: A Community Event Against Violence” Mobilizing resistance
and addressing conditions surrounding violence against sex workers
and transgender women of color from evictions to profiling to
physical attacks to murder and more at the Center for Sex &
Culture.
Movies play throughout the week at various venues including
a marathon sex worker screening, day and night at the Roxie
Theater on Saturday, May 23rd and queer male stripper brunch
to start the day. Plus we will present new works in our online
theater sponsored by buymybloomers.com/swfest.html.
Visit our schedule and our website for all the details www.sexworkerfest.com/swfest2015/calendar2015.html
Festival
Director: Erica Elena
Festival Curator: Laure McElroy
Festival Producers: Carol Leigh, Erica Elena, Laure McElroy,
Kalash Ka
Event Producers: The Institute of Sexworkology presented by
Dean of Economic Empowerment, Donia Christine and Headmistress,
The Incredible Edible Akynos. Other producers include Mariko
Passion, SWAG, Gina Gold, Sangria Red, and more!
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Since 1999
the Festival has provided a forum for sex worker film and video
makers, since expanding to become a vibrant venue for performances,
workshops, visual arts, political organizing and more, in many
Bay Area venues.
Performance events include Gina Gold kicking off the Festival
with ‘Sex Worker Diaries: Lusty Ladies and The Reverend’
featuring Julia Query, Simone de la Getto and Jana Drakka. Queenie
Bon Bon, brings her solo performance, ‘Deeply Leisured’
on tour from Australia, opening with Lexi Lipstick in work from
‘Born Again Pervert.’ A Performance Workshop series
for sex workers by Sangria Red, culminates in ‘Sex Worker
Soliloquies,’ with Mariko Passion, Incredible Edible Akynos
& Cinnamon Maxxine.Juba Kalamka hosts the $pread Book Launch
SuperParty with music by Vixen Noir (releasing her new CD, Dangerous).
Readers include Professor Mireille Miller-Young, who launches
her new book, ‘A Taste For Brown Sugar: Black Women in
Pornography.’
Community events include Sex Work IS NOT Trafficking, a community
event on the increasing scapegoating of sex workers, youth,
migrants, people of color and other communities under the guise
of anti-trafficking. SWAG presents 'Human & Here: A Community
Event Against Violence Against Sex Workers & Transgender
Women of Color. Long running events include ‘The Institute
of SexWorkology’ and ‘The Shannon Williams Whores
Bath.’
Movies play throughout the week w/ a marathon sex worker screening
at the Roxie Theater on Saturday May 23rd 'Born into Porn' features
Nina Hartley. ‘Remedy’ explores the good, the bad,
the offensive, the cruel, the hysterical, and the plain weird
aspects of the commercial BDSM world without passing judgment.
Screenings climax with pagan ecosexual rituals including Holy
MILF. Movies online at buymybloomers.com/swfest.html.
“We are thrilled to partner with you and present such
a high caliber of art work, social justice solidarity and consciousness.”
--Láurá Salazar, La Peña Cultural Center
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Press
Release 2015
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Immediate Release: 5/2/2015
Event Summary: The San Francisco Bay Area Sex Worker Film &
Arts Festival has provided a forum for sex worker film and video
makers since 1999. The Festival has since expanded to become
a vibrant venue for performances, workshops, visual arts, political
organizing, skills sharing and ever expanding events for sex
workers from San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley and from around
the world.
Producers- Festival Director: Erica Elena; Producers: Erica
Elena, Carol Leigh AKA Scarlot Harlot & Laure McElroy; Film
Curator: Laure Mc Elroy; Performance Curators: Sangria Red &
Mariko Passion; Event Producer: Kalash Ka; Institute of Sexworkology
Faculty: Donia Christine (Dean of Economic Empowerment) and
The Incredible Edible Akynos (Headmistress)
Telephone: (415) 857-5425
email: sexworkerfest@gmail.com
Dates: May 15-24, 2015
Location: San Francisco Bay Area; Multiple venues: Omni Commmons,
Oakland; Whores’ Bath at Jack London Square/Oakland; LaPena,
Berkeley; Center for Sex & Culture; Roxie Cinema, San Francisco
and more.
Website: http://www.sexworkerfest.com
Schedule: http://www.sexworkerfest.com/swfest2015/calendar2015.html
Tickets: loveandcondoms.eventbrite.com
Media Release and Materials-2015 Logos at http://www.sexworkerfest.com/swfest2015/webpics-logos.htm
Photos, Movie Stills and Illustrations: sexworkerfest.com/swfest2015/allphotos.html
The San Francisco Bay Area Sex Worker Film & Arts Festival
has provided a forum for sex worker film and video makers since
1999. The Festival has since expanded to become a vibrant venue
for performances, workshops, visual arts, political organizing
and skills sharing. The Festival recognizes and honors prostitutes,
dancers, porn performers and other sex workers from diverse
communities, who have been dynamic and integral members of arts
communities since time immemorial.
Long running events including ‘The Institute of SexWorkology’
and ‘The Shannon Williams Whores Bath’ in Oakland,
our magical healing spa dedicated to Shannon Williams, a great
leader and friend who died in January. This year Gina Gold kicks
off the Festival with ‘Sex Worker Diaries,’ in conjunction
with TMI Storytelling also featuring Julia Query (‘Live
Nude Girls Unite!’ director), Simone de la Getto and Jana
Drakka. The Festival introduces Queenie Bon Bon, in her solo
performance, ‘Deeply Leisured’ direct from Australia,
opening with Lexi Lipstick in ‘Born Again Pervert.’
A Free Solo Performance Workshop series for sex workers by Sangria
Red culminates in ‘Sex Worker Soliloquies,’ an ensemble
work based on solo performances with Mariko Passion, Incredible
Edible Akynos and Cinnamon Maxxine.
Juba Kalamka hosts the $pread Book Launch SuperParty with music
by Vixen Noir (releasing her new CD, Dangerous). $pread Readers
include Scarlot Harlot, Fabulous, and special guest, Professor
Mireille Miller-Young, who also launches her new book, ‘A
Taste For Brown Sugar: Black Women in Pornography.’ Spoken
word artists also include Catherine Plato, Tucson's Kym Cutter
and Mack Friedman.
Community events include Sex Work IS NOT Trafficking, a community
discussion and screening about the increasing scapegoating of
sex workers, youth, migrants, people of color and other communities
under the guise of anti-trafficking. SWAG (Sex Workers Action
Group) joins the Festival this year to present 'Human and Here:
A Community Event Against Violence' mobilizing resistance and
addressing conditions surrounding violence against sex workers
and transgender women of color.
The Festival has screened over 300 movies since 1999. Movies
play at various venues including a marathon sex worker screening
at the Roxie Theater on Saturday May 23rd (with a morning queer
male stripper brunch at Center for Sex and Culture!) 2015 brings
a new focus on sex workers' families and communities. 'Born
into Porn' from the US features Nina Hartley and Peru’s
‘I am a Sex Worker’ from the cultural activist group,
CiudadaniasX, are also programmed as part of ‘I Heart
A Sex Worker’ sponsored by SWOP Bay Area. ‘Remedy’
explores the good, the bad, the offensive, the cruel, the hysterical,
and the plain weird aspects of the commercial BDSM world without
passing judgment. Videos from around the world portray fierce
sex worker activists as the movement expands in Africa through
the work of SWEAT and Sisonke. Pagan and ecosexual ritual movies
including ‘Holy MILF’ close the day. This year the
Festival also sponsors the 'Filmmakers Forum' an informal screening
and discussion where filmmakers and the audience have a chance
to examine trends in sex worker cinema.
Festival Founder, Carol Leigh AKA Scarlot Harlot says, "Sex
workers have an excellent vantage point from which to view hypocrisies,
from the lawmakers who use our services, then sponsor policies
which further criminalize us, to the wanna-be saviors who claim
to 'rescue' us but only increase our vulnerability. This whores-eye-view
of society is reflected in this body of work by sex workers."
Additional
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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.
In order to raise funds, the festival
looks toward our own San Francisco based sex positive crowd
funding platform,
Tilt. Funds from our campaign go to provide stipends for
artists, and scholarships for attendees. Visit our campaign
at Tilt! http://tilt.com/campaigns/support-sex-worker-cultural-events-sexworkerfest
Summary Listings of Individual Events
Note that these have urls with photos from events beneath them.
Individual
Events:
1. Friday, May 15th, 8 PM Gina Gold’s "Sex Worker
Diaries: Lusty Ladies and The Reverend", part of her TMI
Storytelling series at La Pena Cultural Center, 3105 Shattuck
Ave, Berkeley. Comedian Gina Gold presents this special
event for the opening of the San Francisco Bay Area Sex Worker
Film & Arts Festival. Described as 'Raw Stories, Real Spit,'
TMI Storytelling (Too Much Information) features a rotating
cast of storytellers giving an unadulterated, often hardcore
look at life. This evening’s cast also a Lusty Lady mini-reunion
with Julia Query (Director of Live Nude Girls Unite!) and Simone
de la Getto who also toured with the Sex Worker Art Showplus Reverend
Jana Drakka, Zen priest and harm reductionist. The Festival will also screen two of Gina's
comedic shorts including recent 'Stripper Damage' was voted the best
short of the 2013 Sex Worker Festival. See her YouTube channel on ‘The Gina Gold
Show.’ Call (415) 857-5425 for info. Visit http://www.sexworkerfest.com/
Tickets at http://lapena.org
NOTAFLOF
Image: http://www.sexworkerfest.com/swfest2015/images2015/ginagoldcard.jpg
2. Saturday, May 16th, 6:30 PM SWAG (Sex Workers Action Group)
presents 'Human & Here: A Community Event Against Violence'
at the Center for Sex and Culture, 1349 Mission St. San Francisco.
A community building event mobilizing resistance and addressing
conditions surrounding violence against sex workers and transgender
women of color from police brutality to evictions to profiling
to physical attacks, murder and more. Sliding scale $1-? Advance
tickets at http://loveandcondoms.eventbrite.com.
Call (415) 857-5425 for info. Visit http://www.sexworkerfest.com
NOTAFLOF
Image : http://www.sexworkerfest.com/swfest2015/images2015/humanherephotocollage.jpg
3. Sunday, May 17th, 10 am- 7:15, 'The Institute of SexWorkology'
a day long series of workshops for current and former sex workers
only, private location info provided when you sign up. Call
(415) 857-5425 or email sexworkology@gmail.com. Visit http://www.sexworkerfest.com
NOTAFLOF http://www.sexworkerfest.com/sexworkology/
Image: http://www.sexworkerfest.com/swfest2015/images2015/INSTITUTESEXWORKOLOGY-FLT.jpg
4. Sunday May 17th, 8:30 PM Direct from Australia! DEEPLY LEISURED
is a hybrid performance that spans the genres of stand up comedy,
performance, lecture, and consciousness-raising story telling,
Queenie Bon Bon will be welcomed by local artist Lexi Lipstick
with a piece from Lexi’s upcoming show, "Born Again
Pervert", about ‘being born-again to life as a professional
and lifestyle pervert.’ Center for Sex & Culture 1349
Mission Street. Call (415) 857-5425 for info. Visit http://www.sexworkerfest.com/
Advance tickets at http://deeplyleisured.eventbrite.com
NOTAFLOF http://sexworkerfest.com/swfest2015/queeniebonbon.html
Image: http://www.sexworkerfest.com/swfest2015/images2015/QueenieBonBon2sml.jpg
5. Monday, May 18th, 7:30 PM ‘Sex Worker Filmmakers Forum
and Screening’ 7:30 PM This year the Festival sponsors
an informal screening and discussion where filmmakers and the
audience a chance to examine trends in sex worker cinema. Scarlot’s
Harlot’s 11th Street Salon. Advance tickets at http://loveandcondoms.eventbrite.com.
Call (415) 857-5425 for info. Visit http://www.sexworkerfest.com
NOTAFLOF
Image: http://www.sexworkerfest.com/swfest2015/images2015/ScarlotHarlotselfie.jpg
6. Tuesday and Wednesday May 19th- 20th 1-4 PM Free Solo Performance
Workshop for Sex Workers with Sangria Red. Sangria Red is a
performer, writer and teacher, sharing the principles of her
own unique form of performance based on the techniques of musical
improvisation. In this short workshop series, Sangria Red will
be tailoring her emphasis to your work and process. Call (415)
857-5425 for info. Visit http://www.sexworkerfest.com
NOTAFLOF Tickets at https://sexworkerperformanceworkshop.eventbrite.com/
Image: http://www.sexworkerfest.com/swfest2015/images2015/sangria3.jpg
7. Wednesday, May 20th, 7 PM, Sex Work Is Not Trafficking, Omni
Commons 4799 Shattuck Ave. Oakland. An evening of short movies
and discussion for sex workers and allies who are in the cross
hairs of anti-trafficking campaigns, trying to make sense of
this new war against us. Join this discussion from diverse attendees
who are committed to working together to support sex workers
rights and challenge prostitution abolitionism, end demand strategies
and the hypocrisies of the rescue industry. http://www.sexworknottraffick.eventbrite.com
(415) 857-5425 for info. http://sexworkerfest.com/swfest2015/sexwork_trafficking.html
Image: http://www.sexworkerfest.com/swfest2015/images2015/raidposter.jpg
8. Thursday, May 21st, 7:30 PM, ‘Spread Book Release Superparty’
Omni Commons 4799 Shattuck Ave. $pread (The Anthology) Book
Release + Literary Event for San Francisco Bay Area Sex Worker
Film and Art Fest + 'A Taste for Brown Sugar: Black Women in
Pornography' Signing with Mireille Miller-Young + music by Vixen
Noir, Hosted by Juba Kalamka. Advance tickets at http://loveandcondoms.eventbrite.com.
Call (415) 857-5425 for info. NOTAFLOF http://www.sexworkerfest.com/swfest2015/spokenword-spread.html
Image: http://www.sexworkerfest.com/swfest2015/images2015/spreadparty.jpg
9. Friday, May 22nd, 8PM 'Sex Worker Soliloquies' an ensemble
work based on solo performances presented by performing artist
and instructor Sangria Red and starring Cinnamon Maxxine, The
Incredible, Edible Akynos and Mariko Passion. Participating
artists are well known virtuosos in this genre of performance
work, offering diverse approaches ranging from burlesque to
classic performance art. Join us for this rare experimental
and classic evening of theater. Center for Sex & Culture
1349 Mission Street, SF Call (415) 857-5425 for info. Visit
http://www.sexworkerfest.com
Advance tickets at http://sangriared.eventbrite.com
NOTAFLOF http://www.sexworkerfest.com/swfest2015/sangriared.html
Image: http://www.sexworkerfest.com/swfest2015/images2015/sangria_xsmall8.jpg
10.
Saturday May 23rd 11am-1PM 'Jack Davis and TTBaum present:
Nelly Frittata Queer Male Strippers and Brunch!" Center
for Sex and Culture. 1349 Mission St. Bring your dollar bills,
your appetite and your sense of adventure to the queerest brunch
in San Francisco! Weekend brunch with queer men in erotic performance,
a one of a kind, gender-bending, queer event! Not your gay grandfather’s
Magic Mike. Tickets at http://www.nellyfrittata.eventbrite.com
More info at https://www.facebook.com/events/754202311344181/
Image: http://www.sexworkerfest.com/swfest2015/images2015/NellyFritatta.jpg
11. Saturday, May 23rd, 2:00-midnight ‘Sex Worker Movies
All Day and Night at The Roxie’ Since 1999 the San Francisco
Sex Worker Film and Arts Festival has provided a forum for sex
worker film and video makers to screen narratives and docs,
shorts and features, about sex workers and sex work, businesses,
industries and trades around the world. 3117 16th St, San Francisco,
Advance tickets at http://loveandcondoms.eventbrite.com.
Call (415) 857-5425 for info. Visit http://www.sexworkerfest.com
NOTAFLOF
Image: http://www.sexworkerfest.com/swfest2015/images2015/girlsfest.jpg
12. Sunday, May 24th, 2PM-8PM ‘The Shannon Williams Memorial
Whores Bath & Clothings Swap’ a spa and healing event
where sex workers can be pampered, pamper each other, and reclaim
our role as healers. Our closing event, Whore's Bath will feature
practitioners from various healing modalities from herbal treatments
to massage to Reiki, acupuncture and more, as well as tarot
readers, food, and a hot tub! Jack London Square, Oakland Visit
http://www.sexworkerfest.com/whoresbath
Call (925) 391-0592 for more information. NOTAFLOF
Image: http://www.sexworkerfest.com/swfest2015/images2015/whoresbath-webpost.jpg
