San Francisco Sex Worker Film, Art, & Music Festival

6th San Francisco Sex Worker Film, Art and Music Festival Festival dates: May 30th to June 7th, 2009 Website: http://www.sexworkerfest.com/ Tel: 415-751-1659 Email: swfest@bayswan.org Schedule Updates: http://www.sexworkerfest.com/schedule2009.html We 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. The 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. Movies 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." Curators 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! For further information, including sponsorship opportunities, email swfest@bayswan.org Sex worker musicians, please contact: mariko.passion@gmail.com Male sex worker artists, contact Kirk for the Army of Lovers show. mswfestival@gmail.com