Schedule
Sex Worker Fest 2009
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(Note:
Movies are June 2, June 5, June 6 and June 7)
Date: Saturday May 30th
Time: 7:00pm
Event: radar SPECTACLE-a benefit for radar LAB, a writer's retreat
hosted by Ali Liebegott and Michelle Tea with performances by Dorothy Allison,
Kirk Read, ZZ Packer, Eileen Myles, Yes Alexander and more
art auction with work by Xylor Jane, Sarathustra, Chris Duncan, Jen Smith,
Peter Pizzi and more, food * drink * fabulosity
Location: a.Muse Gallery, Alabama between 18 and 19, San Francisco
Cost: $20
Contacts: info@radarproductions.org
Event Website:http://www.yourmusegallery.com/events.html
Venue Website: http://www.yourmusegallery.com/events.html
Purchase tickets:
https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/66883/
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Date: Sunday, May 31st
Time: 1PM-6PM
Event: Center for Sex and Culture presents Belle Bizarre Bazaar
Sex Worker Art, Crafts, Sex Toys...An Orgy of Shopping
Entertainment all day!
Location: Center for Sex and Culture, 1519 Mission St, San Francisco
Cost: No charge. Donations for CSC gladly accepted!
Contact: 255 1155, events@sexandculture.org
Website: http://www.sexworkerfest.com/swfest2009/BelleBazaar.html
Tickets:
Donations at door
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Date: Sunday, May 31st
Time: 9 PM
Event: SWOP at Diva's
Location: Diva's, 1081 Post Street, San Francisco
Cost: Donations for SWOP San Francisco!
Contacts: Acire.Roche@swop-sanfrancisco.org,Shelly.Resnick@swop-sanfrancisco.org
Event:Website:
http://www.sexworkerfest.com/swfest2009/Divas.html
Venue Website: http://www.divassf.com/
Late Night SWOP party at Diva's Locals and out of towners, don't miss
this great party
Tickets: Donations
at door
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Date: Monday, June 1st
Time: 2 PM
Event: SWOP (Sex Workers Outreach Project) Sponsors "SWOP Hospitality
Day and Roundtable" for Sex Workers and Allies.
Location: Contact below for location and more info.
Cost: Free
Contacts(916) 904-2058 Acire.Roche@swop-sanfrancisco.org, Shelly.Resnick@swop-sanfrancisco.org
Event Website: http://www.sexworkerfest.com/swfest2009/swopday.html
Venue Website: http://www.swopusa.org/
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Date: Tuesday, June 2,
2009
Time: 7 PM to Midnight
Event: Whore-A-Palooza with Stripper Karaoke , movies and music!
Location: El Rio, 3158 Mission St (@ Cesar Chavez), San Francisco,
CA 94110. El Rio
Cost: Free Music! Movies and Performance sliding scale $3-$20
Contacts: 415-287-3114, Mariko Passion mariko.passion@gmail.com
Event Website: http://www.sexworkerfest.com/swfest2009/Whore-A-Palooza.html
Venue Website: http://www.elriosf.com/
The Sex Worker Fest presents Whore-A-Palooza an evening of movies,
music and performances. Enter the first ever stripper Karaoke contest
and win $$$$! Anyone can enter! Slots are limited, so contact mariko.passion@gmaiil.com
to sign up today! Shop on the patio at The Whore Store! Mistress of
Ceremonies, Annie Danger with music by Mariko Passion, The Illustrious
Mistress Whitefeather Lash, Scarlot Harlot, Keva I. Lee and more.
Free Music! Performances and movies sliding scale $3-$20 donation
to the Sex Worker Festival.
Tickets: Donations
at door.
http://www.sexworkerfest.com/tickets2009.html
All Movie Pass includes this event. Individual Shows can be purchased at
the door.
Movies:
Whore Power
Director: Robert Johanssen
A super 8 mini sex worker rights extravaganza, orginally part of Mayworks
- a festival of working people and/in the arts. (Canada, 10 min-1999)
I am a Sex Worker
Producer: Sex Work Awareness
New York-based advocacy organization recently implemented its first
day-long Speak Up media training workshop, which took place at the
Harm Reduction Coalition in mid-April. At the end of the day, the
workshop participants made a public service announcement video. Go
to http://sexworkawareness.org to learn more about SWA's media advocacy
and public education initiatives. (US, 1 min-2009)
Sex Worker to Sex Worker
Producer/Performer: Seranna (Jessie Abraham)
Director/Editor: Vikrant Kishore- Film Maker and Directo ;Cameraperson:
Imteyaz - ur rahman
Seranna, a local sex worker/activist/comedian turned movie producer,
visits Delhi, India to produce this movie with award winning Indian
filmmaker, Vikrant Kishore. The series is entitled Comparing Country's
Compassion. Her altar ego 'Jessie Abraham' compares laws, culture,
police corruption, and client condom usage and condom accessibility
to discover how these effect sex workers on a day to day level. Noting
decriminalisation as a best practice for the sex industry, Seranna
interviews sex workers, clients, HIV experts and sex work activists
while an International guest of an international sex workers conference.
(Australia, excerpt from 43 min - 2009)
Five Sex Rooms and a Kitchen
Director / Producer: Eva C. Heldmann; Cinematography: Rainer Komers
US premiere! The film documents work in a little whore house in Germany:
The sex rooms are equipped differently according to the varied needs
of the customers. The kitchen is where the life goes on between the
work: waiting, reading, making-up, calls and more calls, chatting
and cooking. The film reveals the expressive power of shoes. The whores
dance a ballet of dominance, artifice, and pleasure.) Enjoy speculum
and stirrups in der Klinik studio, a bat-cave dungeon with a neat
hydraulic lift, and spiked heels galore in this busy Berlin flat,
where it's business-as-usual for four Deutsche Sexarbeitern (German
sex workers). (Germany, 79 min. -2008)
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Date: Wednesday, Thursday-June
3. June 4
Time: 8 PM
Event: Army of Lovers, curated by Kirk Read-Part of the Queer Arts Festival
and the Sex Worker Film, Art and Music Festival and the Center for Sex and
Culture to create programming that highlights work by and about male sex
workers.
Location: Center for Sex and Culture
Cost: Tickets: $10-20 sliding NOTA
Buy Tickets on-line: www.brownpapertickets.com
Contacts:415-255-1155; email Kirk Read: mswfestival@gmail.com
Event Website: http://www.ArmyofLovers.org
Venue Website: http://www.sexandculture.org/
Tickets:http://brownpapertickets.com/event/66814
Army of Lovers presents "Formerly Known As," two nights
of art, video and performance by male sex workers by men who've worked
in the sex industry. These programs will feature men of different
ages and backgrounds, bringing together a group of guys who often
operate in isolation from one another. You will hear true stories
about hustling in Pershing Square in the 1940s, the kidnapping fantasies
of professional masters and transguys pioneering new sex work markets!
See cartoons and visual art! Hear original songs! See inexplicable
performance art! All people are welcome.
The festival will feature these folks and more: Christraper Sings,
MACK, George Birimisa, Dhami Boo, Jeff Ball, Mattilda, Daniel Allen
Cox, Reginald Lamar, Krylon Superstar, Amos Mac, Joseph Kaminski,
Stephen Elliott, Matt Runkle, Kirk Read, Scott Upper, Steve Susoyev,
Matt Walker, Durward, David Henry Sterry, Nick Leonard, Ken Ireland,
Stephen Boyer, Billy Boy and more!
There will be several nights of multimedia cabaret where writers,
performers and filmmakers come together to showcase their work as
well as visual art, music and film/video nights.
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Date: Friday, June 5th
Time: 7 PM
Event: "Sex Workers or Sex Slaves? From Taiwan to Cambodia to Rhode
Island"
Location: Artists Television Access 992 Valencia, San Francisco, CA 94110
Cost: $6-$10 sliding scale
Contacts: Fest: 415 287-3114; ATA 415-824-3890
Press contact email: carol@bayswan.org
Event Website: http://www.sexworkerfest.com/swfest2009/sexworkmigration.html
Venue Website: http://www.atasite.org/
Tickets: $6
at door, but this may sell
out. Purchase movie
passes here. Purchase
individual ticket for this event here.
The San Francisco Sex Worker
Film, Art and Music Festival features films, and a discussion on Sex
Work, Trafficking and Labor Migration: Views from Inside The Sex Industry.The
San Francisco Sex Worker Film, Art and Music Festival features films,
an a discussion on Sex Work, Trafficking and Labor Migration: Views
from Inside The Sex Industry.In the 21st century we witness a return
to a focus on trafficking and slavery in the context of discussions
about commercial sex. Indeed, 'trafficking' functions as a metaphor
for prostitution. This evening's presentation includes a number of
movies which present extremely candid accounts of the experiences
and travails of migrant sex workers. This content is rare, including
a US Premiere from Taiwan, as is the discussion. Why do some human
rights experts say that the US sponsors trafficking? These stories
challenge stereotypes of migrant sex workers from Southeast Asia,
usually regarded as 'sex slaves' and present the viewer with a rare
understanding of women who travel across borders to work in the sex
industry. For more about this discussion, visit http://www.nodo50.org/Laura_Agustin/
The Films:
Anti-trafficking: Cambodia the Reality
Produced by APNSW (Asia Pacific Network of Sex Workers)
First-person stories of the effect and human cost of US backed anti-trafficking
laws on Cambodian sex workers, including accounts of a sex worker's
stay in a notorious "reeducation camp" prison. (Thailand,
4:43 min. - 2008)MTV and the Trafficking Law in Cambodia
Produced by No Exit News
MTV and U.S. AID want to save Cambodian women from sex work, but some
very irate Cambodian women think MTV forgot to have a conversation
or two along the way... A heartfelt response by sex workers in Cambodia
to the MTV Exit Campaign against trafficking and exploitation. (Cambodia,
9 min-2008)
Happy Endings
Director/Producer: Tara Hurley; Editor: Nick Marcoux; Sound Design:
Timothy O'Keefe
This guerilla style documentary follows the life of “Heather”
over three years as she works in a massage parlor, while the Rhode
Island legislators debate over what they have strategically called
a “loophole” which that allows prostitution behind closed
doors. The movie features interviews from massage parlor workers (from
Koprea?) in Rhode Island as they are confronted with the racism and
xenophobia of local anti-prostitution activists. This film also features
interviews with many Rhode Island's movers and shakers including Providence
Mayor David Cicillin Steve Brown of the ACLU and anti-prostitution
zealot, Donna Hughes.(US, 80 min- 2008)
To See or Not To See
(US Premiere screening) tells the fascinating story of immigrant sex
workers from mainland China in Taiwan. Director Tsai Yi-Feng rides
in the backseat with a driver for the sex workers, and follows the
women from their recruitment in Chengdu, Sichuan, to their workplace
in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. As immigrants, the women in this video might
be stereotyped as 'trafficking victims,' but the movie documents the
real lives, perceptions and difficult choices for these women. This
movie is a must see for all those who suspect that behind the sensationalistic
trafficking headlines, there is a deeper and more complex story about
the struggles of sex work immigrants and the choices women make.
Director's Statement
"I filmed “To See or Not to See” the only way I could.
Illegal, fake cross-Straits marriages, the women coming and going
in all the places offering sex services-the camera recorded everything,
but I had to pretend I didn't see a thing."
And just like me, these women, confronted by the male gaze, by a moralizing
public discourse, by daily smear attacks-they too how to pretend they
don't see. Facing the cameraman and the photographer, they also often
pretend not to notice. Facing their parents, their families, even
themselves, they have no choice but to pretend not to see."Screenings/Awards
2004 Taiwan International Documentary Festival-Nominated for Image
Taiwan Award
2003 WuShanTou Film Festival - Opening Film, Taiwan
2004 Taipei Film Festival - Jury's Special Prize
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Date: Friday June 5, 2009
Time: 9 PM -3 am
Event: Cirque X, St. James Infirmary Benefit, Party, Performers include
exotic dancers, burlesque, drag, aerial shows, live music & dj's,
and more!
Location: Paradise Lounge, 11th (and Harrison Street) San Francisco,
CA 94103
Cost: $15 Advanced General Admission/$20 General Admission at Door
Plus VIP tickets!
Contacts:
Event Website: http://www.stjamesinfirmary.org
Venue Website: http://www.paradisesf.com
Tcikets: http://www.inticketing.com/evinfo.php?eventid=34425
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Date: Saturday, June 6th
Time: noon-2 am
Event: Sex Worker Film Festival at The Roxie
Location: Roxie Cinema, 3117 16th Street
Cost: $8.00-$10.00;Day Passes: $30.00; All Movie Passes: $40.00.
http://www.sexworkerfest.com/tickets2009.html
Contacts: swfest@bayswan.org 415-287-3114
Event Website: http://www.sexworkerfest.com/
Venue Website: http://www.roxie.com
Movies Listed here: http://www.sexworkerfest.com/swfest2009/RoxieSWFEST2009.html
Tickets: http://www.sexworkerfest.com/tickets2009.html
Individual Shows can be purchased at the door.
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Date: Sunday, June 7th
Time: 7-9 PM
Event: Intersections: Krip Sex! Krip Sex Work!
An evening of film and discussion on interconnections, sex work and
the Krip community.
Location: Ninth Street Independent Film Center
Cost: $5-20 sliding scale
Contacts:
Event Website: http://www.sexworkerfest.com/swfest2009/sins.html
Artist Website: http://www.sinsinvalid.org/
Venue Website: http://www.ninthstreet.org/index.html
Tickets: http://www.sexworkerfest.com/tickets2009.html
All Movie Pass includs this event. Individual Shows can be purchased at
the door.
