BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
X-WR-CALNAME:www.indybay.org
PRODID:-//indybay/ical// v1.0//EN
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:Indybay-18599872
SEQUENCE:18649695
CREATED:20090602T043000Z
DESCRIPTION:6th San Francisco Sex Worker Film, Art and Music Festival\n\nFestival 
 dates: May 30th to June 7th, 2009\nWebsite: 
 http://www.sexworkerfest.com/\nTel: 415-751-1659 \nEmail: 
 swfest@bayswan.org\nSchedule Updates: 
 http://www.sexworkerfest.com/schedule2009.html\n\nWe 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.\n\nThe 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 www.modernhooker.com. 
 \n\nMovies include local and international premieres including Death of a 
 Whore, a Spanish-language biography of GrisÈlidis RÈal, 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."\n\nCurators and hosts include 
 Scarlot Harlot, Kirk Read, Laure McElroy, 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!\n\nFor further information, including sponsorship 
 opportunities, email swfest@bayswan.org \nSex worker musicians, please 
 contact: mariko.passion@gmail.com\nMale sex worker artists, contact Kirk 
 for the Army of Lovers show. mswfestival@gmail.com \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/06/01/18599872.php
SUMMARY:San Francisco Sex Worker Film, Art, & Music Festival
LOCATION:Diva’s Night Club and Bar,1081 Post St, San Francisco, CA 94109 
 \n\nhttp://www.divassf.com/
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/06/01/18599872.php
DTSTART:20090602T190000Z
DTEND:20090602T190000Z
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR