Title: Cherche la Schwanz performance with Kay Garnellen
Location: Barbie Deinhoff’s, Schlesische strasse 16, Berlin
Link out: Click here
Description: a gender roleplay burlesque based on our true life adventures!
Start Time: 22:00
Date: 2011-10-20

I’ve posted the interview in full on the Biological Clock project page.

Gallery Hours are noon-5pm
Monday 4/25- Friday 4/29 and noon-4 Saturday 4/30
the Gallery is in the same building as Thrift Town and Discount Fabrics, buzz for the Blue Studio

The spring Artgasm show including the installation of Biological Clock along with other art around birth and rebirth will be opening on Friday the 22.

Between April 17th and April 30th Femina Potens will be presenting exhibits & groundbreaking performance art focused around Birth, Conception, the Womb, & Motherhood. Exhibits for our April ArtGasm include Sadie Lune’s Biological Clock, An ongoing piece about time and fertility, which will peak in a queer fertility insemination ritual performance at the gallery. Collaborators for this piece include Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens. Madison Young will be opening her exhibit of Becoming MILF, which addresses her journey through pregnancy and birth while continuing her work in the adult industry. Ms Young will be doing a live performance piece in the gallery in which she pumps breast milk and hands out breast milk ice cream to the gallery goers. Other exhibits include pieces from Amelia D’Entrone’s photography series After Birth, which explores the emotional and physical adjustments experienced during post-partum. ArtGasm will be taking place at the Michelle Oconnor Gallery located on Mission St at 17th St. Gallery Openings, gallery hours and performance times will be posted shortly.

The installation features work by artists:
Dr. Hal Robins, Annie Sprinkle, Dirt Star, Star St. Germain, Mike Ritch, Jed Bell, Robert Lawrence and Carol Queen, Annie Danger, Drew Dazzle, Apaulo Hart, Rachel Znerold

www.feminapotens.org

http://www.thebluestudio.org/TheMichelleOConnorGallery.htm

Or send $ via paypal to maestrasadie@gmail.com

This is my shameless plea for funding. It’s been brought to my attention that people love videos:

For over a year and a half I’ve worked on Biological Clock, the project that will hopefully turn out to be my piece of life-changing art with the most long-term and fulfilling effects; initiating the new life of my child and delving more deeply into teaching myself to love than I’ve ever known.

My work is mostly self-funded, and this project involves many artists I would love to pay and materials I would love to afford. Not to mention the desired outcome: my child-to-be, and what a statement that in America if you aren’t rich, mentions of love or learning aren’t amongst the first responses when you say you are planning to have a baby, but “babies are expensive” is repeated over and over.

Please help me live my dreams in life and art by donating a little summin’ summin’ to the Biological Clock project. This is a chance to give some $ towards risky earnest art made with intention an passion, to scream a big yes to practicing intimacy and connection as an antidote to virtuality, to offset the imbalances of wages for queers, sex workers, women and artists, and to support and promote efforts towards love, faith and hope in a time and place where cynicism and suffering are much easier to sell.

I am so grateful for the beautiful absurd life that I get to live with a lot of help from some very generous people, and I would love to get a chance to be grateful to you for your help realizing this dream. Thanks.

San Francisco Sex Workers Bare All to Bring Hope
Sex Workers Celebrate A Rare Victory at the United Nations

March 18th, 2011- Scantily clad sex workers and their friends will gather inside the Civic Center Bart Station near U.N. Plaza at 12 noon on Friday March 18th to celebrate a rare nationwide victory handed down from the United Nations. “86 THE VIOLENCE” is an art demonstration drawing attention to the US State Department’s acceptance of Recommendation #86 in the Universal Periodic Review, the UN Human Rights Council’s report card for human rights abuses for individual countries. In accepting Recommendation #86, the US says: “…no one should face violence or discrimination in access to public services based on sexual orientation or their status as a person in prostitution.”

“It’s finally been acknowledged that sex workers are human beings deserving of rights,” said ­­­­­­Patricia West, a coordinator with the Bay Area chapter of the Sex Workers Outreach Project (SWOPBA). This news comes more than 2 years after the Prop. K loss on the 2008 ballot, which would have symbolically decriminalized prostitution in San Francisco.

“In 2008 voters were clearly confused about the difference between sex work and human trafficking,” said Annie Sprinkle, who has been a sex worker rights advocate since 1975. Advocates say that by accepting Recommendation #86 the US has clearly addressed the human rights needs of sex workers, drawing a distinction between consensual sex work and forced labor, “Hopefully this move by the US will better inform San Franciscans and lead to more sensible, effective policies.”

Recommendation #86 equally condemns violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation, “Discrimination against sex workers and discrimination against LGBTQ people are interconnected struggles,” explains Stephany Ashley, Programs Director of the St. James Infirmary. She continues, “Many sex workers are lesbian, gay, bisexual; those sex workers who are transgender experience significantly higher levels of violence. Human rights abuses against sex workers are attacks on the Queer community as well.”

Sex workers say there are complex issues that will have to be addressed to truly improve the U.S.’s human rights status with sex workers. “Poverty, homo- and transphobia and racism are the biggest factors compromising sex workers’ safety,” said artist Sadie Lune, a sex worker participating in the nationwide actions. “Finally, the U.S. is under international scrutiny for its state-sanctioned mistreatment of sex workers. We support the U.N. in taking our government to task and demanding that the U.S. stop allowing sex workers to be the targets of preventable violence.”

A press conference will begin at 1pm during the demonstration inside the Civic Center BART Station near U.N. Plaza. Sex workers and supporters will be available for comment. For more information please contact Stacey Swimme, Communications@StJamesInfirmary.org or 877-776-2004 x 2

More information about Sex Workers and the UPR available at: www.HumanRightsForAll.info

Who: Sex Workers Outreach Project of the Bay Area (SWOPBA), St. James Infirmary (SJI)

What: 86 THE VIOLENCE Art Action and Press Conference

When: 12 noon, Press Conference 1pm

Where: Inside Civic Center BART Station, (nr. stairs leading to United Nations Plaza)

So I’m posting it here in case people would like to read it:
Hello sweet peas,
Did you know sweet peas, as in the multi-colored flowering plant are actually poisonous? But that’s not how I feel about you, though I know we all have our shadow side. (Scroll down to the purple for important stuff…)

Happy March 4th! My 8 year anniversary of living in SF, I can’t believe it. I remember someone saying “oh you’ve only been here 4 years…?” but that was 4 years ago! And happy International Sex Workers Rights day, one day late…

Here’s another did you know: did you know you can use up all the space on your gmail account if you try
really hard? Or, conversely, by not trying at all but just being a picture-slinging, dubiously organized horader-type?
It’s true.
I’m finding out the hard way, every morning for several months. Feel free to mock, I’m pretty astounded myself.

So if you ever want to send me pictures or large attachments, email me first and I’ll give you another place to send them. Also, its possible with the occasionally saucy subject lines I employ in these announcements that googles vigilant spam-bot, just trying to protect you from drowning under blue mountains of via**a and ci*lis and amateur, bar*ly-leg*l p*********y, is inadvertently whisking me away to the purgatory of the inbox. Of course you won’t know to check spam if you aren’t seeing this, but if for some reason you notice I’m not blah blah blahing as much as usual and for some reason you wish that I was, check out spam.

Ok, instead of the normal chronological progression of events, I’m going to talk about my BIG PROJECT first, and then all the upcoming stuff after. (Also, did I happen to lend you some hats? Two of my favorite hats, one a black newsboy cap and one a red cloche with black velvet trip have eluded me since my return from Europe. If you have a clue, let me know, and thank you for letting that little twitching part of my brain in charge of corralling lost things get a moment’s peace.)

***BIG PROJECT: Biological Clock***
Please save the dates! Between April 29-May1 I will be creating a public performance ritual, exploring themes of time, the body as a public/private site for sexualization/creation and queer fertility.
This is the most exciting and potential consequential project of my live so far, and is both a very personal life project and a public art project. You can learn more about it here: http://sadielune.com/projects/biological-clock/

Be a part of interactive art! Take the Bio Clock Queer Fertility Survey #1!:http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/C56ZXN7
The queer fertility survey #2 will be coming out in about a week.

If you already know you couldn’t bear to miss it, you can RSVP now at: bioclockproject@gmail.com.
You will get a response to confirm that we got your email and then a more personal response within a few weeks.

The timing and dates are still tentative, but the most likely scenario as of now is that there will be three rituals on three sequential days, maybe 2 nighttimes and one daytime, each with an audience/participant load of no more than 50. This is subject to mid-grade drasticness in change, as the whole project depends on the exact timing of my ovulation as well as who and how many sperms end up involved. But teh 29-1 part seems clear, and hey, at least my ovaries have the good sense to wait for a weekend.

Photographers/Videographers: I may have a couple of spots left for documentarians. Would you love to come and respectfully shoot this ritual in beautiful stills or video? Do you have experience filming events where not everyone can be photographed? Please let me know!

And there are other ways to help/be involved…Do you have sperm, 50 matching tea cups, access to lots of (fowl) eggs, mexican candles in glass, money, time, a vehicle, carpentry skills, potted plants, willing co-parents, an excellent camera, emotional support, etc. that you want to contribute, loan, trade or sell to the project or me and my potential spawn? Email me at bioclockproject@gmail.com and let’s talk about it!
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*upcoming stuff
Bay Area:

*Sex Worker Shop Talk
www.sexworkshoptalk.com
March 8, 15, 22 -Sex Work Shop Talk –
Center for Sex & Culture – 1349 www.sexandculture.org
Mission, SF -7PM -$3-10 notaflof
March 8 – Funniest work experiences storytelling &chocolate cupcakes *plus
meet your local resources*
March 15 – Profiles of 5 inspiring sexworkers and chocolate truffles
March 22 – Makeup techniques for all genders clothing, hair and makeup
product and toy swap and chocolate treats
*Girl Talk: A Trans & Cis Woman Dialogue
Thursday, March 24th, 2011
7:00pm – 10:00pm
San Francisco LGBT Community Center – Ceremonial Room
1800 Market Street between Octavia & Laguna
Tickets: $12-$20 (no one turned away!)
(Link to BrownPaperTickets site will be provided soon. I strongly recommend that you get tix in advance — we sold out very fast last year.)

Queer cisgender women and queer transgender women are allies, friends, support systems, lovers, and partners to each other. Trans and cis women are allies to each other every day — from activism that includes everything from Take Back the Night to Camp Trans; to supporting each other in having “othered” bodies in a world that is obsessed with idealized body types; to loving, having sex, and building family with each other in a world that wants us to disappear.

Girl Talk is a spoken word show fostering and promoting dialogue about these relationships. Trans and cis women will read about their relationships of all kinds – sexual and romantic, chosen and blood family, friendships, support networks, activist alliances. Join us for a night of stories about sex, bodies, feminism, activism, challenging exclusion in masculine-centric dyke spaces, dating and breaking up, finding each other, and finding love and family.

FEATURING:
Mira Bellwether
Gina de Vries
Tara Hardy
Tobi Hill-Meyer
Marlene Hoeber
Sadie Lune
Elena Rose, aka little light
Ray Rubin
***Curated & hosted by Gina de Vries, Elena Rose, & Julia Serano.***

*Squart goes to the Marin Headlands for 24 hours of consecutive art-making!!!!!
March 26-27

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=177682992276514

woah.

International:
*Open Your Golden Gates
Hamburg- bildwechsel at Glizzer Bar, feb. 23
Berlin- Silver Future, March 6
Montreal-http://www.givideo.org/ , March 16th

Have you ever been to San Francisco? Did you leave your heart there? Are you curious about the world’s gay paradise?

Coral Short is back to deliver you the Bay Area’s finest queer videomakers’ work. From Oakland back across the Bay Bridge to San Francisco, the raw creativity of the world’s gay epicentre is on display. Shining forth from the projector this work will delight, move and astonish you. Ranging from tough to tender, from dreamlike to wild, new queer stars are born. So crawl out of that winter hibernation cave, bundle up, come out, and be entertained by these hot Californians.

Bay Area Video Artists:

Terry Berlier
Lukas Black
David Castro
Yvette Choy
Joey Cupcake
Jason Fritz
Samara Halperin
Loretta Hintz
Jody Jock
Gregory Kaplowitz
Justin Kelly
Mev Luna
Sadie Lune
Ilyse Magy
Julian Shendelman
Liz Singer
Chris Vargas

*Lesbian Shorts Screening from the Berlin Porn Film Fest ’10
Berlin- MovieMento Kino
March 16th
Yum will be screening in the oldest running cinema in Berlin

*Recent Past stuff

*I had some paitings in the XXXhibition @ Million Fishes Gallery, celebrating International Sex Workers’ Rights Day. The show will be up through this weekend. www.millionfishes.com

*I dirty dirty, hard, and wet things on and off my knees in Plumbing, a site-specific performance installation about water usage and queer space created by Qilo Matzen and Maren Abromowitz in the latrine at the Marin Headlands Center for the Arts http://www.headlands.org/event_detail.asp?key=20&eventkey=928
Choreography by Qilo Matzen, in collaboration with a host of amazing performers: Annie Danger, Seeley Quest, Emmett Ramstad, Shawna Scroggins, and more! Sound score by Maren Abromowitz.

*No, You’re Weird contest.
Thanks to the art direction of one Jess Young, I was one of the ‘honorable mentions’ in the recent Fluevog “No You’re Weird Contest”. check it out: http://www.fluevog.com/files_2/contest_weird_winners.html

I just added the photos and a description from this fall’s birthday performance, 32 actions: Teaching Myself to Love to the Performance page. Since the piece was in November and the page is arranged chronologically, you may have to scroll down a bit to find it. Enjoy!

Amazing that in 2011, censorship in National museums is a current issue. After being displayed for a month in the National Portrait Gallery’s exhibit: Hide/Seek, Difference and Desire about queer desire in art; David Wajnarowicz’s video piece, A Fire in My Belly was pulled after complaints from the religious right. You can read more about it here: www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/30/…

You can see the documentation on the Performance page.
I went to the National Portrait Gallery and for half an hour held space for the missing video with a live intervention.

The format is simple: people show up at 6 p.m. and break into teams. Given a list of criteria, groups are given two hours to make a piece. At 8 p.m. whatever is made is performed and commented on by a panel of judges. It’s usually incredibly creative, inspiring, fun and always bizarre. The process begins at 6:00 p.m. with the show at 8:00 p.m. Cash bar, socializing encouraged
Start Time: 18:00, 20:00
Date: 2011-01-09

Title: Naked Girls Reading in honor of the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers
Location: Center for Sex and Culture, 1519 Mission St @ 11th, San Francisco
Link out: Click here
Description: Where: Center for Sex and Culture. 1519 Mission Street @ 11th Street, SF
When: Friday, December 17th. Doors: 8:30pm. Event: 9:00 – 10:30pm
Cost: $15.00 general. $20.00 Front Row.
Advanced Tickets: via PayPal: Stephanie @ LadyMonster.com
Must be over 18. There will be actual nudity.

December 17th commemorates the 7th Annual International Day To End Violence Against Sex Workers. A call to arms for all sex worker activists to fight for their rights.

Annie Sprinkle is one of the sex workers that spearheaded this event and will be one of the special guest readers at Naked Girls Reading – San Francisco. Sadie Lune, an international woman of intrigue, performance art and renowned sex worker will also be a special guest reader.

The theme for this event is reading literature written by sex workers, including: the new highly acclaimed memoir, Some Girls by Jillian Lauren, Scarlot Harlot’s Unrepentant Whore, Georgina Spelvin’s The Devil Made Me Do It and more…

nakedgirlsreading.com/sanfrancisco/
Start Time: 20:30
Date: 2010-12-17