The 7th Biennial San
Francisco Sex Worker Film and Arts Festival presented by Desiree Alliance,
ISWFACE, BAYSWAN and SWOP-USA
Producers: Erica Fabulous & Carol Leigh AKA Scarlot
Harlot;
Film Curator: Laure Mc Elroy
Sponsored
by: San Francisco Bay Times; San Francisco Bay Guardian; National
Queer Arts Festival; San Francisco Transgender Film Festival; Media
Alliance; St. James Infirmary; SWAAY (Sex Work Activists, Allies,
and You); Good Vibrations; Sex Worker Media Library; Center for Sex
& Culture; Babes in Toyland; Vixen Creations; Fatso; Sisters of
Perpetual Indulgence, Inc. |
7th
BIENNIAL SAN FRANCISCO SEX WORKERS FILM AND ARTS FESTIVAL
Advance
Tickets Available: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/profile/60201
KICKOFF: "LOVE FOR $ALE: A Sweet Talking ~ Street Walking Bawdy
Burlesque Cabaret" to benefit the St. James Infirmary
FAVORITES: Rent Boy's Hookies Award Winner Derrick Hanson, "Get
The Money Up Front" Cabaret!, The Art of Webcamming Workshop
NEW: "WHORES BATH" Reclaiming the Healing Function of Sex Workers
(and the lexicon too)
NEW: "Modern Day Asian Sex Slavery: The Musical"! Because "the
real enemies are racism, marginalization and ignorance of the lives of
sex workers"!
NEW: "Roaming Hookerfest" Caravan at Mystery Locations Divulged
Last-Minute!
NEW: Annie Sprinkle's "What the F*ck is Ecosex and How Can It Improve
Your Sex Business?" A Show-and-Tell
AND MUCH MUCH MUCH MORE!
The San Francisco Sex Worker Film and Arts Festival has, since 1999,
provided a forum for sex worker film and video makers to screen works
about sex workers and the sex industries from around the world. The Festival
has expanded to become a vibrant venue for performances, workshops, visual
arts, political organizing, skills sharing and ever expanding other events.
The Sex Worker Festival recognizes and honors prostitutes, dancers, porn
performers and other sex workers, who have since time immemorial been
dynamic and integral members of arts communities.
The
Festival introduces Erica Fabulous as Producer and brings her long-time
collaborations with San Francisco's diverse queer/trans/sex worker underground.
Erica created the "Roaming Hookerfest," (AKA Up Against The
Wall: Sex Workers in Public Spaces), a traveling outdoor caravan of sex
workers, projecting movies and distributing sundries, gifts and safer
sex materials through the streets and alleyways of San Francisco (at
secret coordinates divulged at the last minute)! Up Against The Wall
is proud to be included on Kickstarter, the largest funding platform
for creative projects in the world. (www.kickstarter.com/projects/18637495/up-against-the-wall-sex-workers-in-public-spaces)
The caravan will be joined by burlesque performance ensemble GLITTERACTION!
"Using the power of art and sparkle to create beauty and to challenge
ourselves and others," also performing in the Festival's "Get
The Money Up Front" Cabaret.
For the first time the Sex Worker Festival presents "Whores Bath,"
a spa and magical healing event for sex workers in San Francisco, "reclaiming
our roles as healers." "Whores Bath" contributes to the
21st century lexicon with a new entry in the Urban Dictionary (www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=whores%20bath)
The Festival is presenting "Modern Asian Sex Slavery: The Musical,"
a one woman show by Mariko Passion offering an experiential, ironic,
poetic and intense perspective on the stereotypes surrounding sex workers
of Asian descent in the context of the current the anti-trafficking discourse.
Mariko Passion explores "the real enemies...racism, marginalization
and ignorance of the lives of the sex workers."
Kicking off the Festival, our own Derrick Hanson, Rent Boy's Hookies
Award Winner (Mr. San Francisco 2011, Escort of the Year AND International
Best Fetish Escort of the Year http://www.rentboy.com/ListingPopup.aspx?lid=179490
is teaming up with SF's original "musical comedy cabaret porn star"
Tom Orr to present LOVE FOR $ALE: A Sweet Talking ~ Street Walking Bawdy
Burlesque Cabaret kicking off the festival to benefit the St. James Infirmary
(www.stjamesinfirmary.org).
Annie Danger (http://anniedanger.webs.com/)
will emcee the "Get The Money Up Front" Cabaret featuring Alotta
Boutte', 2011 Leather Alliance Entertainer of the Year Award winner.
Performance
artist Annie Sprinkle (www.anniesprinkle.org/
) presents "What the F*ck is Ecosex and How Can It Improve Your
Sex Business?" a show and tell presentation exploring Green Porn,
Eco-phone Sex, Nature Fetishes and Eco-whores.
Renowned
writer and performance artist, Kirk Read (www.kirkread.com)
American Library Association Honor Book Award winner for "How I
Learned to Snap" (Penguin/Putnam) presents a workshop on friendship
for male sex workers.
Miss
Majors of TGI Justice Project (www.tgijp.org)
(and of 1969 Stonewall uprising fame) will participate in a workshop
with Desiree Alliance (www.desirealliance.org)
co-director and prisoners rights activist, Crisitine Sardina on social
justice and sex workers' rights. Both are also prisoners rights advocates.
Festival Screenings
Films and videos for the Festival focus on prostitutes' rights; sex work
migration and the anti-trafficking framework; sex work as a labor issue
on the international agenda; sex workers as artists; queer and trans
sex workers; sex work and gender identities; sex education, sex art,
porn, fetish culture and erotica; portraits of strippers, prostitutes,
doms, and madams, and much more.
Some highlights include:
-"Transfrancisco" by Glenn Davis features Nadia Cabezas (AKA
Kitty Kastro, a festival artist who died in an automobile accident in
2007) and many others.
-Fetish musical, "Devious Inc"
-"Mutantes: Punk Porn Feminism" features sex work sheroes Annie
Sprinkle, Lydia Lunch, Scarlot Harlot and Michelle Tea
-"Every Ho I Know Says So: A Resource for Lovers, Partners and Sweeties
of Sex Workers," by Lusty day, Jackson and the Australian sex worker
organization, Scarlet Alliance, was created "as a response to the
lack of resources for people looking for advice on how to be good to
a sex worker."
-"Titty Fuck Me" starring Trauma Flinstone is a San Francisco
style musical montage of campy, sexy bliss by Sion Shankel.
International
work includes Good Women of Taiwan by Yann-Shan Tsaia with COSWAS (Collective
of Sex Workers and Supporters) and number of videos from sexworkerspresent
www.sexworkerspresent.blip.tv/ (on blip TV) including a new work from
Asian Pacific Network of Sex Workers, Bad Rehab, a controversial new
music video, protesting the use of raid and rescue as an anti-trafficking
measure by Somaly Mam at AFESIP, an anti-sex worker foundation in the
region.
"There are a wide array of narrative approaches including video
poems, documentaries, feature length fairy tales, and skin flicks,"
explains curator Laure McElroy. "We have voices from Africa, Canada,
Holland, USA, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, and the fictional town of New Cityville.
We are showing all walks of life, and diverse gender, sexuality, lifestyle,
and business models."
Festival founder, Carol Leigh AKA Scarlot Harlot says, "Sex workers
have an excellent vantage point from which to view social hypocrisy,
expressed in many contexts--by the lawmakers who use their services,
then sponsor policies which further criminalize them, to the wanna-be
saviors who try to 'rescue them.' This whores-eye-view of society is
reflected in this body of work by sex workers."
2011sponsors
include the San Francisco Bay Times (www.sfbaytimes.com); the San Francisco
Bay Guardian (www.sfbg.com); National Queer Arts Festival (www.queerculturalcenter.org),
the San Francisco Transgender Film Festival (www.trannyfest.com); the
Center for Sex & Culture (www.sexandculture.org); Media Alliance
(www.media-alliance.org); Sex Worker Media Library (www.sexworkermedialibrary.org);
International Sex Worker Foundation for Art Culture and Education (www.iswface.org),
Sex Workers Outreach Project; Desiree Alliance; SWAAY (Sex Work Activists,
Allies and You) the St. James Infirmary (www.stjamesinfirmary.or); Solace,
San Francisco (www.solacesf.org); Bound Not Gagged (www.boundnotgagged.com);
the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, Inc, (www.thesisters.org) and others
to be announced.
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If
you would like more information or to schedule an interview about this
festival or topic, please call (415) 751-1659 or (503) 348-7666.
Contacts:
Producer/Directors- Carol Leigh AKA Scarlot Harlot and Erica Fabulous
Telephone: Erica Fabulous; 503-348-7666; Carol Leigh (415) 751-1659
email: swfest@bayswan.org, sexworkerfest@gmail.com
Dates: May 20-29, 2011
Location: Multiple venues in San Francisco: Roxie Cinema, SOMArts Cultural
Center; Center for Sex & Culture.
Website: http://www.sexworkerfest.com
Schedule: "http://www.sexworkerfest.com/swfest2011/schedule2011.html
Tickets::https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/173630
(Individual events will be listed after May 1, 2011)
Additional Curators: Film Curator- Laure McElroy; Multimedia Art Show
Curator: Tobias Ex (Hook Collective);
Photos for publication: http://www.sexworkerfest.com/swfest2011/hi_resSWFEST_2011.html
Also at http://www.sexworkerfest.com/swfest2011/PressPhotos/
Go to Schedule:
7th Biennial Event May 20-29, 2011