Sept peace poets, BITCHfest, Breedlove; pot 4 Hep C; rich voters RULE;etc

FREEDOMSEEKERS' CALENDAR
( events, etc., mostly in the San Franhattan Bare Area,
compiled by SUN and SaveFreedom;
often taken from sfqueer.com, ebar.com, sfbaytimes.com,
SFGate.com, ADLbooks.com, redvicmoviehouse.com, et alii ;
mainly for nakist, queer, and/or bohemian communities, et alii, especially at

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nakity/

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sfbarea/

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SaveFreedom/

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/franhattan/

http://www.indybay.org/lgbtqi/
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For many more "queer things to do", anytime,
please visit Larry-bob:
http://www.sfqueer.com/

One might also find events at:
http://www.ebar.com/arts/arts.php?sec=outabout
http://sfpl.lib.ca.us/news/events.htm
http://www.craigslist.org/eve/
http://www.bettyslist.com/
...
http://www.sfgate.com/eguide/events/
http://sfgate.com/eguide/search/books/
http://sfgate.com/eguide/gay/
http://www.sfgate.com/listings/search.php?events

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Is some worthy event NOT listed in the Freedomseekers' Calendar?
You can ADD it, as a comment.
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If URL fails, please google event, venue, performer(s), date, phone number.....
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REPOST freely.
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Thursday, September 14, 2006

The September Project:

POETS FOR PEACE
SF Main Library
Latino/Hispanic A

Library Sponsored Public Program
FREE
6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Every year, on or around September 11, people worldwide attend discussions and reflections
in public libraries for The September Project
– a grass roots organization that encourages people to come together.
This year, the SFPL presents Poets for Peace.....

http://www.theseptemberproject.org

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Thursday, September 14, 2006:
Celebrating release of
BITCHfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magaxzine.
7:30 pm
Modern Times Bookstore, 888 Valencia, SF
FREE
415-282-9246


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OAKLAND: Friday, Sept 15
7.30pm:
The PEOPs Show DVD Release Party
w/ performance of the PEOPs Show, performances by Fly and Lynn Breedlove...!
21 Grand, 416 -- 25th St [ near Broadway], Oakland CA 94612
Exit BART at 19th St.
ALL AGES
$3 - $5
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SF-- LAST time
for Gender Enders, alas:
Friday, September 15th, 8 pm:
San Francisco Says Goodbye to GenderEnders:
After three years running, the San Francisco-based trans/intersex/genderqueer-focused performance series GenderEnders will have its final show: GenderEnders curator and host Julia Serano first created the series in 2003 in order to foster community among transgender-, intersex-, and genderqueer-identified performers and to provide opportunities for gender/sex variant voices to reach larger audiences. Now that the Bay Area's burgeoning "trans" performance scene is going strong, with numerous trans-focused, trans-hosted, and trans-friendly events occurring every month, Serano has decided to retire the series in order to focus on a more trans woman-specific project early next year.
This final installment will feature the hilarious Ham-Bone Johnson, Queer Open Mic host Cindy Emch, and author Thea Hillman [ "For Lack of a Better Word" ].
Host Julia Serano reads excerpt from WHIPPING GIRL.
In addition to the featured performers, GenderEnders hosts a performance open mic. Attendees are encouraged to bring their announcements and their music, spoken word, stand-up comedy, performance art, or any other type of performance to the event.
$5
Femina Potens Gallery 465 South Van Ness [nr 16th St] in Mission District, SF

http://www.genderenders.com/
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Friday SEPT. 15, 10 pm:
HEAVY ROTATION
-- a new queer flavored club for fat women and trans folk, chubsters, size rebels, BBWs, body activists, and our friends and lovers --
is starting THIS FRIDAY, September 15th at El Rio.
A monthly club benefiting different-size-positive organizations and activists,
the first HEAVY ROTATION will benefit
NoLose
with just $5 at the door!
from 10pm until you can't shake it anymore
-- put some wiggle back in your jiggle --

http://www.myspace.com/heavy_rotation

Heavy Rotation at El Rio, 3128 Mission near 26th St, SF
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OAKLAND:
Friday SEPT. 15,
experts discuss development and environment in AFRICA.
7pm
First Congregational Church,
2501 Harrison, Oakland
FREE
510-848-1155



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17 September, Sunday morning, 9:45am:
Unitarian-Universalist Forum,

with SF poet laureate
JACK HIRSCHMAN.

1187 Franklin St, SF (near Geary & Van Ness).
FREE

http://www.uusf.org

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.... thru 16 September:
AFROSOLO Arts Festival
http://www.afrosolo.org
http://www.sfgate.com/listings/event.php?events,e151662

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Sunday, September 17, 2006
THE MIGRANT PROJECT -
Opening Program and Panel Discussion
SF Main Library
Koret Auditorium
Library Sponsored Public Program
FREE
1 p.m. - 3 p.m.
Photographer Rick Nahmias gives an overview of the exhibition,
followed by a panel discussion on
current MIGRANT WORKER issues.....
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SF, exhibit continuing to 31 December 2006:
The Migrant Project: Contemporary California Farm Workers
SF Main Library, Lower Level, Jewett Gallery
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/09/12/18309109.php
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BERKEL Sunday, Sept 17,
6pm -9 pm:
Queer Contra Dance
@ Ashkenaz.
First dance of the season for the fun, flirty, easy-to-learn American barndance.
Mavis McGaugh calls and Band du Jour provides live old-timey tunes at Ashkenaz, Berkeley's home for world music and dance. A low-stress way to meet nice people.
Beginners always welcome. No special attire or partner needed.
$10 (or pay what you can)
1713 San Pablo Ave (near Gilman) in Berkeley.
Map & Directions:
http://www.ashkenaz.com/html/map.html
510.430.2833
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GIRLSTOCK: Sept. 2006:
9/17 and 9/23, SF
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/07/22/18290611.php
Come out and see some of SF's hottest girl and trans bands, and DJs!
http://www.girlstock.com

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Tuesday, September 19, 2006

POETS ELEVEN -- winners of District Four
Parkside Branch
1200 Taraval St. (at 22nd Ave.)
Library Sponsored Public Program
FREE
7 p.m.
SFPL, Friends of SFPL and SF Poet Laureate Jack Hirschman announce an innovative new literary series, "Poets Eleven." Each month,the Friends welcome poetry submissions from residents of one SF supervisorial district. Winners of that district will be chosen for a reading at a library branch.
September celebrates the winners of District 4.
For information on how to submit poems for future months.
please email poets11 [at] friendssfpl.org
or visit
http://www.friendssfpl.org
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* 20 Sept, Wed:
SMACK DAB open stage,
featuring Simon Sheppard
8pm
@ Magnet, 4122-- 18th St, SF,
near Castro St.
FREE.
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SF, Friday Sept 22, signup at 7:30, reading at 8 pm:
Queer Open Mic at the queer Center's Three Dollar Bill Cafe.
Hosted by: Cindy Emch and Sherilyn Connelly.
Proceeds go to performers and Bitch Magazine.
All ages, $1-$5. No one turned away for lack of funds.
LGBT Center, 1800 Market at Octavia
http://www.threedollarbill.com/
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23-24 Sept. 2006:
At LoveFest and at Folsom,
nude-for-peace political demonstrators
may be displaying peace signs, and/or an Earth flag,
and passing out leaflets which say (in part):
" OUR BODIES SPEAK FOR US: Beyond mere words, our nakist bodies signify our ideals of human liberation. They represent the genome of the human species, surprisingly similar on every continent.
Our semantic nakity conveys messages of hope, and of danger. Our bodies speak for our souls.
Our anti-costume calls for freedom now. Our public nakity, open to sun and fog and wind, calls for understanding that our Mother Earth is mortal, and that we must come swiftly to her rescue.... "
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23 Sept: LoveFest
S.F. LoveFest ( formerly "Love Parade SF" )
[ Sat., 23 Sept. 2006 ---
on the day before Folsom ],

http://www.sfLoveFest.org


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** circa 23 Sept:

return of
Perverts Put Out.... !!!!!!
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24 Sept: Folsom Street Fair:
Folsom Street Fair (last Sunday in Sept.) [ 24 Sept. 2006 ]
[ http://www.folsomstreetfair.com/ ].

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..... continuing thru 28 Sept.
SF, queer exhibit at
SF Mail Library, downtown, daily:
Life and Times of H.L. Perry:
http://www.sfgate.com/listings/event.php?events,e228676
Free.
San Francisco, CA 94102
(415) 557-4400
(Civic Center/Hayes Valley areas)
Display documents one of The City's unsung gay heroes.
Along with creating the Ducal Court and being the first grand duchess of San Francisco, Perry was actively involved with the first two Gay Freedom Day Parades,
Metropolitan Community Church, SIR Center [Society for Individual Rights],
Tavern Guild and Golden Gate Business Association.
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art by MITCHO
@ Magnet
Show runs thru September 2006.
Recent watercolors by local art icon Mitcho:
"These are autobiographical works dealing my personal
journey as a queer man,
an environmentalist, and a survivor of rape.
I have been through some dark and terifying terrain.
But much of it is quite beautiful as well....."
Magnet, 4122 -- 18th St. in the Castro.

http://www.sfmagnet.org

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WHITE SHARK:
during September, watch new White Shark on webcam:

http://www.MontereyBayAquarium.org

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San Mateo county:
30 Sept -- Oct. 1,
Sat-Sun:

http://www.bayareapaddlefest.com

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1st Annual Good Vibrations
Amateur Erotic Film Competition:
Have you ever wanted to be in sexy cinema, or to produce it?
Have you ever wanted to see your work on the big screen? Well, here's your chance!
Make a short film (10 minutes max)
with a sexual or erotic theme,
fill out our entry forms and releases, and send it on in!
Prizes will be awarded!
Premiere screening will be at CASTRO THEATRE in SF.
Plus East Bay showing at Parkway Speakeasy Theater, Oakland.

Deadline to submit your film is:
30 September 2006,
by 7pm Pacific Time.

No purchase necessary, and NO entry fee!
For more information, forms and releases, and details,
please visit (soonest!):

http://www.goodvibes.com/Content--Amateur-Film-Festival--id-1874.html
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In SEPTEMBER, please netsurf to

http://www.bayareapaddlefest.com
http://www.hairrison.org
http://www.powertothepeaceful.org
http://www.bayareanaturists.org
http://www.sfLoveFest.org
http://www.folsomstreetfair.com/

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+ NEWS and views for freedomseekers:



MARIJUANA helps treatment of HEPATITIS :

http://www.insidebayarea.com/ci_4328915

[ California has epidemic of Hep C.
The treatment meds cause severe side-effects,
causing many patients to give up and quit treatment.
Pot makes patients happier and healthier, so they're more likely to continue treatment. ]
Please see a;lso:

http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=healthNews&storyID=2006-09-13T152933Z_01_N12370634_RTRUKOC_0_US-MARIJUANA.xml

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POWER TO THE RICH !

California home-owners register AND vote;
while many renters don't even register.

So California's propositions are decided by
a richer, older, whiter fraction of the adult population.

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/09/14/MNGK0L5D4A1.DTL

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Have you changed since "Nine-Eleven" ( 11 Sept. 2001) ?

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/09/11/18307753.php

[ Have you learned anything in the past half-decade? ]

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SF:
less policng of cannabis?:

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/09/12/BAGSPL3S1K1.DTL
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CINNAMON STILWELL comments on debate
among African-American intellectuals:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2006/09/13/cstillwell.DTL

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ELDERS needn't be frail:

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/09/10/MNGRIL07L01.DTL

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At global-warming event in Australia,
mild burlesk (pseudo-stripping)
upsets nudophobes:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2006/09/08/international/i050249D38.DTL

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Nudophobes freak out
when police chief's
large wife
poses nude:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/09/08/national/a121238D23.DTL&type=bondage

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Gay KIWI fights for rights of sex workers:

http://www.ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=1125

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TEE CORINNE:

http://www.sfbaytimes.com/?sec=article&article_id=5456

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VERMONT public nudity stretches limits of liberal tolerance:


http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/09/04/18305976.php

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SF county Domestic Partner registry
welcomes ALL genders:

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/08/26/18300991.php

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From Janus to IANUA (gateways):

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/08/30/18304521.php

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Texas:

the PUBLIC GENITALS Project:

http://www.actlab.utexas.edu/pgp/
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RISE ABOVE: The Tribe 8 Documentary :

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/07/12/DDGBKJSQ2U1.DTL&type=gaylesbian
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Film explains INDIA's NUDE YOGIS:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/12/02/DDGJUG0QSG1.DTL&type=movies

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NUDES in the news:

http://www.bayareanaturists.org/news

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