presented by Desiree Alliance, ISWFACE, BAYSWAN and SWOP-USA

Whore-A-Palooza

Producer-Mariko Passion (mariko.passion@gmail.com) 
Event: Whore-A-Palooza with Stripper Karaoke at El Rio (presented by 6th Biennial San Francisco Sex Worker Film, Art and Music Festival)
Date: 7 PM June 2th, Tuesday
Location: El Rio
Address: 3158 Mission St (@ Cesar Chavez), San Francisco, CA 94110. El Rio Tel (415) 282-3325
Festival Tel: 415-287-3114

Press contact: Carol Leigh, 415 751 1659
Press contact email: carol@bayswan.org

Venue Website: http://www.elriosf.com/
Website: http://www.sexworkerfest.com/swfest2009/Whore-A-Palooza.html
Email: swfest@bayswan.org, mariko.passion@gmail.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, FIST, whore-tastic one man dance punk band!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.

Everyone knows El Rio, with an outdoor patio, two rooms of entertainment, one of which is completely free...plus cheap prices for drinks! They sponsor LGBT among others communities...extremely fun and very San Francisco! We even have movies (see below) ON THE PATIO!

 

Movies:

Whore Power
Director: Robert Johanssen
A super 8 silent aabout discovering graffiti in an alleyway, orginally part of Mayworks - a festival of working people and/in the arts. (Canada, 3 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)