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6th San
Francisco Sex Worker Film, Art and Music Festival
Festival dates: May 30th to June 7th, 2009
Website:http://www.sexworkerfest.com/
Tel: 415-751-1659
Email: swfest@bayswan.org
Schedule Updates:http://www.sexworkerfest.com/schedule2009.html
Tickets Available at:http://www.sexworkerfest.com/tickets2009.html
We are very excited
to announce the 2009 San Francisco Sex Worker Film, Arts and Music Festival.
This is the 10th anniversary, and 6th Biennial Festival! This year we focus
on documentaries, sex worker portraits and activist shorts. The 2009 movies
represent new trends in sex worker cinema, the intimate focus on individual
sex workers with a new respect for their courage in the face of hazards
of the work and escalating repression. New activist shorts also mark currents
trend including "how-to," safety education for sex workers, and
unabashed, playful and celebratory sex worker rights propaganda.
The 2009 Sex Worker Fest will be presented in tandem with the Queer Cultural
Festival http://www.queerculturalcenter.org. The 2009 Fest includes a week
of fun, sexy, political, kinky, naughty, bold and educational events: Saturday.
May 30th- A Radar benefit hosted by Michelle Tea with Dorothy Allison, Kirk
Read and more; Sunday, May 31st- Two events-An All Day Shopping Orgy/ Kinky
Gifts, Sex Worker Crafts Show and Garage Sale at Center for Sex & Culture
featuring entertainment including Ckiara Rose reading from "Song of
Men Slaves"; May 31st- late night party at Diva's sponsored by Sex
Workers Outreach Project; Monday, June 1st- Sex Workers Outreach Project
Hospitality Day and Roundtable for sex workers and allies; Tuesday, June
2nd- a party at El Rio with sex worker musicians including Mariko Passion
featuring Mistress of Ceremonies, Annie Danger; Wednesday and Thursday,
June 3rd and 4th- Army of Lovers, performances by male sex workers, curated
by Kirk Read at Center For Sex & Culture; Friday June 5th Two events
-Movies at Artists’ Television Access 7-10 PM; Late night- 9PM-3am,
Cirque X" at Paradise Lounge benefit for St. James Infirmary, 10 year
anniversary, a carnival of decadence with amazing fire troops and aerial
acrobatics to sexy burlesque shows, exotic dancers, XXX porn stars, drag
queens and fierce DJs!; The Sex Worker Fest also introduces work from artists
including cartoons by Modern Hooker at http://www.modernhooker.com.
Movies include local and international premieres including Death of a Whore,
a Spanish-language biography of Grisélidis Réal, whose re-burial
caused a recent international scandal ( http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/09/prostitute-griselidis-rea_n_173212.html
); "Happy Endings" with interviews from massage parlor workers
in Rhode Island as they are confronted with the racism and zenophobia of
local anti-prostitution activists; Science Friction with "Cinema of
Desire" in this portrait of a trans sex worker from Thailand; "You're
Welcome," a tender and humorous story of 'the whore next door' from
Norway; a panel and international feature about sexual services for disabled
clients; sex worker activist produced short docs and experimental work include
“Prostitution Free Zone” by PJ Starr, "Flipping the Lens:
A Look at $pread Magazine," and "Know Your Rights" from Sex
Workers Outreach Project (SWOP) Chicago; experimental shorts from Renegade
Evolution and music videos from Scarlot Harlot; plus clips from your neighbors'
home grown porn with Blowfish, No Fauxxx, and Good Vbirations and New School
of Erotic Touch including kink/SM/BD/fetish/sex ed from San Francisco with
stars including Madison Young in "Bride of Sin." This year the
San Francisco Sex Worker Festival is honored to share eight short works
from sexworkerspresent,
the Asia Pacific Network of Sex Workers. These powerful productions and
collected work provide a valuable library of first person accounts of sex
worker's lives and organizing efforts in Asia and around the World. We also
thank COSWAS, Collective of Sex Workers and Supporters from Taiwan for assistance
curating this festival.
Curators and hosts include Scarlot Harlot, Kirk Read, Laure McElroy, Luna
Pantera, Annie Danger, Madeline Lowe and Mariko Passion. Sponsors include
the National Queer Arts Festival http://www.queerculturalcenter.org, Trannyfest
http://www.trannyfest.com, International Sex Worker Foundation for Art Culture
and Education http://www.iswface.org, the St. James Infirmary http://www.stjamesinfirmary.org,
Breaking The Silence Film and Arts Festival, BAYSWAN http://www.bayswan.org,
The Center for Sex & Culture http://www.sexandculture.org, SWOP-USA
http://www.swopusa, Good Vibrations, http://www.goodvibes.com, the Sisters
of Perpetual Indulgence and others to be announced!
For further information, including sponsorship opportunities, email swfest@bayswan.org
Sex worker musicians, please contact: mariko.passion@gmail.com
Male sex worker artists, contact Kirk for the Army of Lovers show. mswfestival@gmail.com
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Instructions for web
posting campaign
Dear
Friends,
Some of you from far away were looking for a way to volunteer. Here is the
easy, fun job of spreading the word on the web...all ready to go and easy
for you with the instructions below:
The long version of the press release is ready, along with pictures to download
and post.
I will also put a short version on that page also.
http://www.sexworkerfest.com/swfest2009/Release2009.html
Instructions for web campaign:
1. Email swfest@bayswan.org and let us know you are going to do this.
2. Follow that link above and use the material at the site.(Check back for
changes as I will be updating it.)
3. We haven't posted it anywhere except Facebook, but that can still use
a bigger campaign. You can start with any...Myspace, local announcement
boards, Bound Not Gagged, etc. I will being posting updates at this Google
doc about where we have posted this. I think you can also add what you did
to the google doc...sometimes that doesn't work. http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dc7zq2x9_140cmcs3d32
4. If you can't get on to the google doc, email swfest@bayswan.org and let
us know where you posted it.
5. Below is a list of venues and addresses. Ideally, you can just put "San
Francisco" or "multiple locations," but for a list of venues:
May 30th- Muse Gallery 614 Alabama
Street San Francisco, CA 94110
May 31st- June 3, 4th-Center for Sex and Culture, 1519 Mission, San Francisco,
CA 94103
June 1st- Diva’s Night Club and Bar,1081 Post St, San Francisco, CA
94109 http://www.divassf.com/
June 2nd--El Rio-3158 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94110, http://www.elriosf.com/
June 5th- Artists’ Television Access, 992 Valencia Street, San Francisco,
CA 94110, http://www.atasite.org/
June 5th- Paradise Lounge, 1501 Folsom St., San Francisco CA,94103http://www.paradisesf.com/
June 6th- Roxie Cinema, 3117 16th Street, San Francisco, CA 94103, http://www.roxie.com/
June 7th- Ninth Street Independent Film Center, 145 9th St. San Francisco,
CA 94103 - (415) 503-1972 http://www.ninthstreet.org/
Festival Info Line: 415-287-3114
Media and Business line: 415-751-1659
Generally, use 415-287-3114
Thanks sooooo much! Yippie!
Please call or email if you have questions.
415-751-1659
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If you are posting
this info on the web, below are additional items for you to download and
upload to various websites.
You can download a
word doc of above text at:
http://www.sexworkerfest.com/swfest2009/SWFESTRelease-Draft1.doc
Images for web postings:
(drag these to your
desktop and you can upload and post them on websites)
Additional
Photos:
http://www.sexworkerfest.com/swfest2009/photos/
Additional
Images:
http://www.sexworkerfest.com/swfest2009/images09/