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DESCRIPTION: \n \n'Speaking To Las Vegas in the Language of Las Vegas'\nVISUAL ART 
 EXHIBIT BY Laurenn McCubbin\n \nSAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA – July 3 - 31, 
 2010 – Femina Potens is tickled pink to introduce you to the 
 multi-dimensional world of  Sex Workers.  This July we bring you a stunning 
 multimedia art installation that combines a performance, video and 
 illustrated portraits of real Las Vegas Sex Workers by artist, Laurenn 
 McCubbin. We are pleased to present her amazing, graphically-explicit 
 one-woman show all month long! Considering the current flaccid economic 
 climate, McCubbin illuminates the underground yet highly visible economic 
 exchange that is Las Vegas sex work. The artist questions the relationship 
 between the economy of Sin City and the illegal activities that give it its 
 infamous status. McCubbin seizes the perfect moment to expose the 
 backhanded and contradictory legalities of sex work through recreating 
 "hooker cards," in her own graphically bold visual style.  The artist uses 
 her personal history as a sex worker to affirm her message in a uniquely 
 proactive and sex-positive manner.   \n \nAnd of course, it wouldn't be a 
 Femina Potens event if we didn't get your blood flowing! We invite you to 
 the  Opening Reception at 7pm, including a sizzling Artist Performance at 
 9pm on the evening of  Saturday, July 3rd, 2010.  Enjoy refreshments and 
 libations during the opening reception as we tell the stories of these 
 sex-positive individuals and their work. Come introduce yourself to a 
 pioneer in the underground world of sex work.    Join us all month long as 
 we present you with an array of exciting workshops, performances and 
 events. Show runs through July 31, 2010.\n\n'Speaking To Las Vegas in the 
 Language of Las Vegas'\nArtwork by Laurenn McCubbin\nVisual Art Exhibit + 
 Events\nJuly 3-31, 2010\nOpening Reception Saturday, July 3th, 
 7-10:30pm\nFemina Potens Art Gallery\n2199 Market St @ Sanchez\nSan 
 Francisco, CA 94110\n\nHours: Thurs-Sun, Noon-6:00pm\n415-864-1558 
 \nwww.feminapotens.org\n\nSupport cutting edge artwork - Become a member 
 today!\nAll workshops are free to FP Members!\n\nFind us on Facebook and 
 Twitter!\n\n \nJuly 2, (Friday), Thin Line Between Art & Sex 8pm An evening 
 of explicit art & sex performance for Femina Potens Members.  Become a 
 member today.\n \nJuly 3, (Saturday), Artist Workshop "Thinking, Acting, & 
 Producing Around Charged Subjects" 2pm Laurenn McCubbin and Audacia Ray 
 host a in-depth discussion on working on projects dealing with the risqué. 
  ($10-15) Buy your tickets now.\n   \nJuly 3, (Saturday), Opening Reception 
 + Artist Performance 7- 10:30pm   Celebrate with artist Laurenn McCubbin. 
 Window installation by founder of the Precita Eyes Muralists, Susan 
 Cervantes.  (FREE) \n \nJuly 17, (Saturday), Sizzle with Belle De Jour 8pm 
 Award winning literature series. Author of 'Secret Diary' of a call girl 
 Belle De Jour joins Femina Potens! ($10) Reserve your spot now. \n \nJuly 
 18, (Sunday), Workshop with Belle De Jour 3pm Belle De Jour leads you 
 through an exploration of identity and sex work through the written word 
 and blogging! ($15-20) Reserve your spot today.\n \nJuly 24, (Saturday), 
 Open Eyes: Queer Film Night 8pm Film Screening of "Lorelei Lee", "The Price 
 of Pleasure," "Virginie Despentes Mutantes: Feminisme PornoPunk,"  & "HBO 
 Real Sex 33: Stocks Down, Sex Up." Panel discussion including Madison Young 
 and other sf sex activist and luminaries. ($10) Purchase advance tickets 
 here.\n \nJuly 25, (Sunday), Sex Positive Sex Workshop with Carol Queen 6pm 
 In a culture that's so divided about sex work of any kind (It's fascinating 
 and kind of glamorous! It's debased and degraded!), sex workers have the 
 most real knowledge about our own lives. But many of us carry some of 
 society's obsessions to work with us. We often get self-esteem by comparing 
 ourselves to other sex workers (I'm a dancer, not a whore! Well, at least I 
 don't fuck them! Those street girls are all druggies!) -- and it can be 
 hard to stay sex-positive when sex is, well, work. Join Carol Queen, author 
 of Real Live Nude Girl: Chronicles of Sex-Positive Culture, to explore what 
 makes a sex-positive sex worker -- and why you really want to be one if 
 you're going to be a sex worker at all. This session is appropriate for 
 people of all genders who've worked or are thinking about working. ($10) 
 Reserve your spot 
 now.\n_____________________________________________________________________ 
  \n \nLaurenn McCubbin is currently the Associate Director for the 
 Burlesque Hall of Fame. In the past, she has been the Managing Editor for 
 Shojo Beat magazine, the art director for Image Comics and the creative 
 director for the award-winning Kitchen Sink magazine. Her sequential (comic 
 book) work, with writers like Warren Ellis, Stephen Elliot and Joyce Carol 
 Oates, have been published by Marvel, Image, Dark Horse & McSweeneys. Her 
 illustration work has been featured everywhere from Boing Boing to The New 
 York Times. Her graphic novel RENT GIRL (written by Michelle Tea) was 
 optioned by Showtime to be turned into a television series. Currently, 
 Laurenn is getting her MFA in Painting and Drawing from UNLV, and she has a 
 new comic, MADAME XANADU (written by Matt Wagner), coming out from 
 Vertigo/DC comics in July, 2010. \n \nAudacia Ray is a media maker, 
 sexuality rights activist, and former sex worker who is based in New York 
 City. She works as the Program Officer for Online Communications and 
 Campaigns at the International Women’s Health Coalition and consults on 
 information and communications technologies for the Global Network of Sex 
 Work Projects. As a co-founder of advocacy organization Sex Work Awareness, 
 Audacia leads annual media training workshops for sex workers. She is the 
 author of Naked on the Internet: Hookups, Downloads, and Cashing In on 
 Internet Sexploration, a former executive editor of $pread magazine, and 
 has blogged at WakingVixen.com since 2004.\n\nBelle De Jour is the pen name 
 of Brooke Magnanti, a UK-based writer and science researcher. Author of 
 'Secret Diary of a Call Girl'.  Interests: whisky, taphonomy, PGP 
 encryption.\n \nCarol Queen has a PhD in sexology, which she financed 
 largely through sex work. It was almost like a lab course! She's done 
 explicit movies, worked at the Lusty Lady before some of you people were 
 even born, and been a call girl. She is the founding director of the Center 
 for Sex & Culture (www.sexandculture.org), has authored (or edited) many 
 books about sex (most recently the updated second edition of Exhibitionism 
 for the Shy), and works as Staff Sexologist at Good Vibrations. She's at 
 www.carolqueen.com.\n 
 \n______________________________________________________________________\n\nFemina 
 Potens is a nationally recognized art gallery and performance space, 
 established in 2001, and dedicated to the advancement of women and 
 transgender artists.  \n\nWe are sponsored by the Queer Cultural Center, 
 with support from the California Arts Council, the San Francisco Arts 
 Commission, the Zellerbach Foundation, and Grants for the Arts. We also 
 thank our Golden Rope Donors: Theresa Ikard, Jack Killough, Saxon MacLeod, 
 James Mogul, Catherine Murty, Nancy Peach, John Pettite, and Carnal Nation. 
 \n\nFemina Potens is a leading queer organization in San Francisco and has 
 been featured on HBO’s Real Sex, MTV Networks’ Logo channel, and the Q 
 Television Network; in Bitch, Bust, and Spread magazines and Brian 
 Alexander's book America Unzipped; and locally, in the San Francisco Bay 
 Guardian and the San Francisco Chronicle, where Violet Blue called Femina 
 Potens “the most happening art space in the city; a revolution in art and 
 sex.”\n2199 Market St | San Francisco, CA 94114 US\nThis email was sent 
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SUMMARY:'Speaking To Las Vegas in the Language of Las Vegas' Artwork by Laurenn McCubbin
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