4th San Francisco Sex Worker Film and Arts Festival
May 1st-8th, 2005
Schedule at a Glance

For more info visit sexworkerfest.com or call 415-751-1659
Festival Director: Carol Leigh; Associate Producer Erica Berman
Photos at http://www.bayswan.org/swfest2005/300dpi_photos.html

May 1st, 7-10 PM $10- $20.
Opening Party-After Hours: Sex Worker Art Exhibit benefit for the St. James Infirmary sponsored by Center for Sex and Culture. MC-Sister Kitty Cataylst, featuring Kitten on The Keys, Ginger Virago, Sadie Lune, Stacey Swimme, Dee Dee Russell and The Debbys from Australia. Special guests Annie Sprinkle and Scarlot Harlot. Vendors! Sex Toys, Bring $ for Sluts Unite T-Shirts.
Epicenter Gallery, 398 11th St., San Francisco 94103

Monday, May 2nd, 1-4 PM ($10 registration; no one turned away for lack of funds)
Community Forum: Harm Reduction for Sex WorkersCommunity of sex workers, supporters, health providers develop harm reduction models. St. James Infirmary, Tenderloin AIDS Resource Center
Epicenter Gallery, 398 11th St., San Francisco 94103

Monday, May 2nd, 5 PM Free
Sensory Immersion, Celebration of Vibration
Kick off National Masturbation Month with a Sensory Immersion
Celebration of Vibration in an interactive community art project by
Sadie Lune. Dress comfortably or sexily, but nudity is not desired for this art project.
Location: Islais Creek Bridge on Third Street by Evans.

Tuesday, May 3rd 1 PM Donations
Fang Ping of Taiwan's Former Legal Prostitutes, sex worker rights organizing in Taiwan. Film Clips!
Epicenter Gallery, 398 11th St.

Tuesday, May 3rd 8PM, $5-$10 sliding scale
beat ho productions presents THRUST
12 Galaxies, 2565 Mission St,
MC: Raffle-atrix Annie Danger!
Thrust will be a politically charged Cabaret featuring local artists
and agitators. From Duran Ruiz's "ghetto physics" to Zee Boudreaux's
multimedia BuTo dance piece, this evening will thrust tied up sex,
culture, and politics out of current suffocating restraints.

Wednesday, May 4th 11am-9:30 $40 all day, $30 DIY Webcam (scholarships)
Whore College (Register to attend at sexworkerfest.com/whorecollege.html 415-751-1659)
Whore College is a day of classes for sex workers and our communities
11 AM Sex Worker Well-Being
1 PM Self-Defense for Sex Workers
2 PM Discussion and Panel: Beauty Standards and Sex Work-Moderator: Sadie Lune
3:30 PM "The Business" Marketing, Legal Issues, Training in the Bay Area,• Give Your Sex Business a Make Over, Annie Sprinkle, Ph.D. 
7:30 PM DIY Webcam with Melissa Gira

Thursday, May 5, 11-6 PM, City Hall Rm 278 Free
SWOP Presents Human Rights, Prostitution & the Role of Government
Prostitution in the USA 11-12pm- Jeanette Maier, Canal Street Madam
Politicians Weigh In 12- 1pm
(Senator John Burton; SF Supervisor Jake McGoldrick; Alameda Supervisor Nate Miley.)
International Perspective, 1- 2pm
(Janelle Fawkes, President of Australia's Scarlet Alliance; Elena Jeffreys, Australian Performance Artist SWOP AU; Dr. Rita Nakashima Brock, Author and Visiting Scholar; Wang Fang Ping COSWAS; Robyn Few, discussing New Zealand Prostitutes Collective.)
State of the Union 2-3pm Union organizing
Barbary Coast Tour 4:15- 6:30pm
Forum participants-Donations accepted; Guests-$25.
Take a champagne cable car cruise through the Red Light District. Hear the history of prostitution in San Francisco.
Meet at City Hall on the Polk Street side at 4:15.

Thursday, May 5th, 7:30 PM $5-10
boa: new whore culture launch party
web-based journal featuring sex worker artists, activists, and provocateurs
featuring a performance by Gennifer M. Hirano, asianprincess and readings by Mattilda (Matt Bernstein Sycamore), Kirk Read, Shauna Rogan, and Lady Monster, kicking off with a Whore Open Mic, MC’d by boa’s publisher, Melissa Gira.
Femina Potens, 465 South Van Ness

Friday, Movies!
Friday May 6th-Roxie Cinema, 3117 16th St., San Francisco
2 PM  - Movie and Film Opening Reception- Storyville Memory; Machiko Saito's Hard, Fast & Beautiful; Jamaican Reggae Dancehall Queen
4 PM Our health, Our Lives-Gag Rules by Danzine's T. Dulce; Our Life Saving Vinegar from Taiwan; i spy love by kevin@LOVEspace.org; Chellamma sex workers in India, community and tragedy.
6 PM The Sacred Prostitute- Kenneth Ray Stubbs, Ph.D., About the sexual healer, sacred whore, tantra teacher, sexual shaman
8 PM Condoms and Handcuffs: How the Bush Administration Spends Taxpayer Dollars Arresting Prostitutes Under the Guise of Fighting Terrorism; Hand Relief; Measure Q plus Live from New Orleans, Canal Street Madam, Robyn Few-From Keystone Cops to conspiracy theories, these stories and videos will reveal sordid corruption, bizarre misconduct and general waste of your taxpayer dollars! Janelle Fawkes, Australian Sex Worker Activist with Hand Relief
10 PM Carol Queen Live in Peep Show! Talk To A Live Nude Girl!
 
12 Midnight Local Artists: Queer/Fetish Porn, Sex Art, Sex Ed, Erotica & Smut.
The Bay Area has one of the most sophisticated erotic communities and industries
in the world, producing sometimes educational, sometimes transgressive and sometimes
lucrative porn, sex art, etc.. This showcase includes Dances Sacred and Profane
featuring Fakir Musafar (appearing in person!), as well as excerpts from the most
exciting queer and fetish movies by our neighbors including clips from Lavendar
Lounge, Raging Stallion, New School of Erotic Touch, Cleo Dubois, Sir Video, Libido
and more!

Saturday Movies!
Saturday May 7th Roxie Cinema, 3117 16th St., San Francisco
12 Noon-Feminism Gone Wild!- Big Hard Meat Tina Butcher; Big Beautiful Women in the Adult Entertainment Industry; Naked Feminist.
2 Sex TV w/Scarlot Harlot; Ben McCoy My Hustler Boyfriend; Xaviera Hollander: Happy Hooker-new documentary;
4 Annie Sprinkle and Friends-We're Talking Vulva; Tit Printing with Annie Sprinkle;
Sheila Malone and Annie Sprinkle's Amazing World of Orgasm
6 Porn Genre-Fuck - Pornstar Pets by Margi Schnibbe; Be A Rockstar in Bed by Tess Sweet; Dick Ho: Asian Male Porn Star by Jeffrey Lei
8 Peep Box by Difficult Debbie from Australia "Barbie irons clothes just like she would give a 100 hand jobs to men that she services;" Would You Like Me To Stay by Gina Gold; Stripped by Jill Morley "A valuable addition to our open sexual discourse as feminists." Bust Magazine
10 Gangstresses- Director, Harry Davis in Person! Lil Kim, Mary J. Blige, Pam, Shaka Don- unflinching, and unsentimental look at women on the edge; Protection by Penelope Saunders- Smokers, persecuted in this city of the future, are helped by sex workers.
12 Other People's Mirrors and Indie Porn Shorts. Don't miss this very hot, beyond-blair-witch approach to indie features...a new direction in indie film, plus Don't You Like Yourself?; clips from FTM Erotics by Tobaron Waxman; i love jesus; Domestic Paranoia

Sunday, May 8th 1 PM $8.00
Brunch and a movie "The Jeanette Maier Story"
The Story of the Canal Street Madam
Epicenter Gallery, 398 11th St.

Sunday, May 8th 8 PM $15-$50 (sliding scale)
Grand Finale Bootylicious Burlesque with Raffle-atrix Annie Danger!
MC: Kitty Kastro, Lipstick Conspiracy, Big Burlesque, Harlem Shake, Tina Butcher, The Debbys, David Sterry, Shawna Virago, Tallulah Bankheist, beat-ho
At the Fabulous SomArts 934 Brannan (at 8th), San Francisco
Bring Money! Buy stuff! Sluts Unite and Decriminalize T-Shirts; Sex Toys, Crafts, Dee Dee's blinkies...