au5 anti-bedbug demo, sex+culture, ceasefire, Sprinkle, 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, SFBG.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/

On Thursday mornings, one might also find a few events at eBAR:
http://www.ebar.com/arts/arts.php?sec=outabout
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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 the event, venue, performer(s), date, phone number.....
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Please FORWARD freely, to willing recipients only.
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* Sat 5 AUGUST
Rumi Missabu's
The Market of Vain Desires
@ The Center for Sex and Culture
Opening reception/performances: Rumi Missabu of the Cockettes in association with Camaraderie Art Salon and the Center for Sex and Culture present: "The Market of Vain Desires." ....
AFTERNOON PERFORMANCES (doors open 2pm; show 3-5pm) by Pox Eclipse (live music),
Mark Mardon with Aaron Black, (live music) and Michael Layne Heath (poetry/spoken word).
EVENING PERFORMANCES (doors open 7pm; show 8-10pm) by Carl with Records,
Kirk Read, Isis Starr, Cara Vida, Boyfriend Robotique, Moon Trent, Pox Eclipse, Scarlet Harlot.
Events take place each weekend through August.
Center for Sex and Culture, 398 11th St. @ Harrison.
Suggested donation $5 - $20 sliding (NOTAFLOF).
Info: 415-368-5004
415-255-1155
camaraderieartsalon @ yahoo.com
mail @ sexandculture.org
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Sat 5 AUGUST
Crash Cabaret
@ Roxie Film Center
The Experimental Performance Institute (EPI) & The Roxie Film Center at New College of California present Crash Cabaret: Where Queers Collide,
one hot hour of collisions between video, music, dance and theater, performance and activism, reverence and irreverence across the spectrum of gender and sexual orientation. It's a new monthly series of late-night experiments with Dragon Queens and Kings, Dirty Dykes on Motor-Cross Bikes, Punk-Rock Trannys, Artsy-Fartsy Fairies, Holistic Homos, Anarchists and Cosmetologists, Lizzies and Boy-Girls and Bears! August 5 at Midnight!
$10 at the door; $8 when you bring non-perishable food item(s).
A portion of the proceeds will be donated to a local non-profit working to help underserved members of the community.
New College of California's Roxie Film Center, 3117 16th Street (at Valencia Street). Info:
http://www.newcollege.edu/epi/crashcabaret.cfm

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Stanford University:
continuing thru August 5, Saturday:
STANFORD Jazz Festival:
(650) 736-0324
http://www.stanfordjazz.org

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Hiroshima Day:
BERKELEY:
Sunday, Aug. 6:
Floating of peace lanterns:
Contemplate world peace and commemorate
the WWII US bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
at the 5th annual
PEACE LANTERN Ceremony,
sponsored by the Berkeley City Council,
Japanese American Citizens League,
Friends of Hibakusha (A-bomb survivors), and peace organizations.
6:30pm – 9 p.m.
Aquatic Park
near Addison at Bolivar, Berk.
(510) 595-4626

http://www.progressiveportal.org/lanterns

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* Sun 6 AUGUST
Market of Vain Desires
@ Center for Sex and Culture
Night 2 of "The Market of Vain Desires." curated by Rumi Missabu of the Cockettes in association with Camaraderie Art Salon and the Center for Sex and Culture.
Tonight (Sun., Aug. 6): film screening of "Screaming Queens" with co-director Susan Stryker and special guests for Q&A after the film (7-10pm, film at 7pm),
and "Celluloid San Francisco" author Jim Van Buskirk present a program of clips and stills from classic and obscure movies and TV series to illustrate the rich and colorful history of local moviemaking (8:30pm).
$5-$20 sliding scale donation (NOTAFLOF).
Info: 415-368-5004; 415-255-1155
camaraderieartsalon @yahoo .com
mail@ sexandculture .org
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Lebanon/Israel
CEASEFIRE VIGIL
in San Francisco
MONDAY
7 August 2006
6pm - 7pm
near fountain, in Justin Herman Plaza,
Embarcadero (waterfront) area, downtown SF
[ Take BART or Muni to Embarcadero station. ]
...
Join us Monday evening,
as we stand together with people across the globe;
united by our shared message:
" For all our sakes,
cease fire. " ....
Join Amnesty International activists
to put pressure on BOTH sides....
...
Sponsored by AMNESTY International
(415) 291- 9233
...
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/08/03/18294477.php
...
[ Endorsed by SUN. ]
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SF,
continuing thru 7 August, Monday:
the 26th annual SF Jewish Film Festival:

http://www.sfjff.org

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Tue 8 August
The Sydney Gay and Lesbian Choir presents
VOX HOMO AUSTRALIS,
a summer choral concert.
Vox Homo Australis also includes GLAM Youth Choir, Lesbian/Gay Chorus of SF, more.
Admission by donation at the door,
$5 - $15 sliding scale (NOTAFLOF).
Tue., Aug. 8 at 7:30pm.
Most Holy Redeemer Catholic Church, 100 Diamond St. at 18th, SF
( in the Castro ghaytto )
http://www.sglc.org
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Wed 9 Aug.
Favela Rising
@ Roxie Film Center, 3117 -- 16th St, SF ( Latina Mission district):
documenting a man and his grassroots Afro Reggae movement, a city divided and a favela
(Brazilian squatter settlement) united to counteract violent oppression...
Portuguese with English subtitles. 80 minutes.
Screens Wed., Aug. 9- Thu., Aug. 17, nightly at 6:15, 8:00 & 9:35pm.
Additional Sat. & Sun. matinees (2:30) & 4:15. No shows Fri., Aug. 11.

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SF area queer events,
thru Aug. 10 (Thurs.) :
http://www.ebar.com/arts/art_article.php?sec=outabout&article=82

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10 August 2006, Thurs.: SF:
Walk AGAINST BED-BUGS:
Try to change how SF handles cases of bedbug infestation.
Make SF Public Health Dept. hear voices of
residential hotel tenants.
Gather by 2:15pm at 259 Hyde Street,
walk together to meeting at Health Dept.
For info,
please call Alysabeth at Tenderloin Housing Clinic,
(415) 572-6711

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10 August 2006, Thurs.: SF:
PROJECT HOMELESS CONNECT
[ http://www.projecthomelessconnect.com/ ]
in downtown San Francisco,
Bill Graham Auditorium,
Civic Center
( near BART/Muni Civic Center Station).

[ daytime] (maybe 10AM to 3PM? )

help [at] projecthomelessconnect.com

[ Report on June 2006 Connect:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/06/10/BAGS4JBTGE1.DTL ]

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Thu 10 August

** Love, Sex, Death and Art

@ New Conservatory Theatre Center
Love, Sex, Death and Art, a new performance art piece starring Annie Sprinkle and Elizabeth Stephens. Love story offers artistic response to violence of war, the anti-gay marriage movement; + explores lesbian courtship, artificial insemination, queer weddings, breast cancer, and more. Mixing pleasure, pain, passion and juice, the "love artists" will stimulate the senses and crack hearts open.
**Please Note: This show contains nudity.**
$15 - $25.
8pm.
Runs Aug. 10-27. Decker Theatre, NCTC, 25 Van Ness Ave., Lower Lobby.
http://www.nctcsf.org
Tix/info: 415-861-8972
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Thu 10 August
Junk @ The Stud
It's the return of "Junk," a fierce
queer club for
freaks, fags, dykes, cross-dressers, bois, studs, femmes, butches, intersex people, genderqueers, switches, bears, swishy sissies, drag kings and queens, princes and pansies, pirates and pooftahs, punks, nerds, sk8rs, tranny-chasers, anarchists and perverts.
Deejays Zanne and Jennifer Junkyard spin rock, funk, punk, ska, disco, eighties, salsa, hip hop, samba, bhangra, swing, riotgrrl, klezmer, chachacha, tango, soca, big band swing, drum-n-bass, 20s and 30s jazz, R & B, industrial, grunge, bellydance, bollywood ... everything from Dolly Parton to Funkadelic!
$3 ( free b4 10:30pm).
Open 10pm-late.
Thursdays at The Stud, 9th & Harrisxon [sic]
http://www.clubjunk.com
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ISRAEL:
two (rival) Q events (?):
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TEL-AVIV:
thru Aug. 13 (?):
QUEERUPTION #9
( unless cancelled? ):

http://queeruption.org/q2006/index.html

q2006 [at] queeruption.org

[ http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/08/02/18294194.php ]
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JERUSALEM, Aug. 6 thru Aug. 12 (?):
WorldPride festival.
( events WON'T include parade )

[ http://www.worldpride.net/ ]

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SF:
August 11-12-13, Fri-Sat-Sun:
FEMME 2006
Weekend conference celebrating "queer Femme"
in all its expressions....
3-day admission for $65

http://www.femme2006.org


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Berkeley,
Saturday, Aug, 12:
STARC NAKED! Danceparty/Queer Stripshow
10:00 PM - 2:00 AM
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/08/01/18293439.php
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2410 Warring st., Berko
(queer co-op, The Wilde House)
... danceparty and queer stripshow
to benefit radical activist group S.T.A.R.C.
STARC NAKED!
$4 donation
[ and bring your dollar bills, to tip the strippers ]
more info on starc can be found at
http://www.starcalliance.org
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SF,
Aug. 12-13, Sat-Sun. afternoon:
Hippie Hill DRUM CIRCLE,
Sharon Meadow, Golden Gate Park.
FREE.
(BYO)
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13 August, Sunday,
SF: toy faire:
buy or sell at BIZARRE FLEA
(SM Community Exchange),
2pm to 5pm:
942 Mission St.,
between 5th & 6th Streets;
$5 admission to fleamarket.
2006 April 9,
August 13,
December 10.
....
Lady Thorn's SMCE:
POB 16284, SF, CA 94116
(415).753.0703
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SF,
continuing thru Aug. 20:
69th season of
Stern Grove Music Festival
(on Sundays, FREE):

http://www.sterngrove.org

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Wed 23 AUGUST:
Grab a free copy of today's
SF BAY GUARDIAN.
Clip and save their list of
FALL FESTIVALS !!!
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.... thru AUGUST 2006:
SPORTING LIFE
exhibit at queer history society:
http://www.glbthistory.org
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+ NEWS and views:



"Magic" MUSHROOMS for spiritual exploration?

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2006/08/04/notes080406.DTL
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San Franhattan:
HOMELESS getting older:

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/08/04/MNGILKB9KV1.DTL

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NIMBY Castro displays xenophobia
( against CastroWeen ):

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/08/03/18294331.php

[ For background, please see:
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/07/29/18292658.php ]

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JEWISH museum invites GIBSON to visit:

http://breakingnews.iol.ie/entertainment/story.asp?j=191067604&p=y9yx683yx

[ For background, please see:
Mel's HEBRAPHOBIA:
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/07/31/18293176.php ]
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Nudophobia at BART :

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/07/29/18292666.php
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California:
WHY VOTE in November 2006 election?

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/07/24/18290991.php
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Texas:

the PUBLIC GENITALS Project:

http://www.actlab.utexas.edu/pgp/
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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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