02
Mar

XXXhibition: An Art Show Celebrating Sex Workers

Posted by Sadie at 05:59pm

Title: XXXhibition: An Art Show Celebrating Sex Workers
Location: Million Fishes Gallery, San Francisco 2501 Bryant Street,
Link out: Click here
Description: Please join us in honoring International Sex Workers Rights Day by celebrating the talents and gifts of our local community! On Thursday, March 3 from 6-9pm we will showcase art from more than a dozen Bay Area sex worker artists.

The exhibition will feature paintings by Sadie Lune, art prints by Annie Sprinkle, erotic oil paintings by Nancy Peach, photos of St. James Infirmary workers by Rachel Schreiber and Barbara DeGenevieve, video previews from the Sex Worker Film and Art Festival by Carol Leigh (aka the Scarlot Harlot), mixed media collage by Kalash, textile by Zee Boudreaux, and much more.

This event is hosted by the Sex Workers Outreach Project (SWOP-Bay Area), St. James Infirmary, and Hookers, Escorts, Masseurs Association (HEMA).
Start Time: 18:00
Date: 2011-03-03
End Time: 21:00

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02
Mar

32 actions Documentation up!

Posted by Sadie at 05:42pm

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!

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24
Feb

A Fire in Our Belly- an art intervention in the National Portrait Gallery

Posted by Sadie at 02:53pm

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.

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23
Feb

The Pain- When Will It End: Tim Kreider interviewed in Baltimore City Paper

Posted by Sadie at 06:11pm

In my hometown of Baltimore last month, I experienced something for the first time in a loooong time: waking up to snow falling out of every window in my mother’s house. My mouth didn’t close for 20 minutes, and I kept saying “Oh my GOD!!!”

Now that I just returned from Aspen to visit my art-wife, Lula Mae Day and her beloved, Talbott Walker, I’m old hat at snow. We even stood on giant “icicles”, big frozen sheets in the middle of the Roaring Fork River. We wrote songs, took footage for a new video in the Winter Collaboration series, I learned to dance ochos at Tango class, and Lula taught me to crochet. We sat in the biggest hot springs in the world, looking through the steam at the snow covered mountains, just like convalescing Victorian protagonists. And yet it felt like not much at all, the perfect way to make art, just flowing because that is what we do together without stress or distractions.

Anyway, Baltimore. My beloved Grouper, Tim Kreider, infamous creator of The Pain- When Will It End came down from his turret in Brooklyn to write in his undisclosed location on the Chesapeake and cannoli taste-test with me. He is my Grouper because I am his #1 Groupie, a dynamic that grew out of my adolescent adoration of his comics and ignorance that cartoonists rarely have groupies.

So! We met Joe McLeod from the City Paper at Club Charles one night for Tim’s interview, since he has a new book of political cartoons coming out. Which will be followed by a ‘book-book’ with no drawings at all.

You can read about it: http://citypaper.com/news/columns/the-pain-never-ends-1.1108733
and if you live in Baltimore, see him present the book at Atomic Books (one of the long-lasting coolest places in Baltimore and shining star of the painfully lean selection of accessible and appealing bastions of weird when I was a desperate teenager, which also now carries Bend Over Magazine) on February 25.

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11
Feb

“Plumbing” at Breaking Ranks: Human/Nature

Posted by Sadie at 08:57pm

Title: “Plumbing” at Breaking Ranks: Human/Nature
Location: Marin Headlands Center for the Arts, Meet in the Mess Hall, Building 944, Fort Barry
Link out: Click here
Description:

Breaking Ranks: Human/Nature

Readings & Performances

Sunday, February 13, 2 – 5PM

Admission FREE | Meet in the Mess Hall, Building 944, Fort Barry

Reservations are not required, but we invite you to click here as a courtesy RSVP
Exhibition

ongoing through February 20

Admission FREE | Building 944, 3rd Floor

Gallery Hours | Tuesday – Friday + Sunday, Noon – 5PM

“Breaking Ranks” in military usage indicates the movement of a group to fall out of line, allowing each person to go his or her own way.

The Bay Area artists, performers, and writers included in this annual exhibition break ranks from the status quo to investigate the

arbitrary division between Nature and Culture.

Readings & Performances | Sunday, February 13, 2 – 5PM

On Sunday, February 13, we’ve invited artists to create site-specific performances that activate both the natural landscape and the cultural

history of military presence at Headlands. The day is organized as a progression, starting in the Mess Hall in Building 944, Fort Barry at 2PM,

with artist guides leading audience members from site to site in and around Headlands’ campus.

Site 1: Building 944 Fort Barry

A. Anisse Gross tells the untold story of parsley, and serves up parsley treats.

Site 2: A 15 minute guided walk up the hill to Battery Wallace

B. Christian Nagler & Cassie Thornton lead the walking experience.

Site 3: Battery Wallace

C. Sarah Fran Wisby enacts conversational poetry.

Site 4: Building 961

D. Matt Runkle reads fiction about a post-functional city

E. Elise Baldwin performs with dioramas, live video, sound & light.

Site 5: A 10 minute guided walk back down the hill

F. Jesse Nathan, en route, ambushes from hilltops with poetry.

Site 6: Gym Building

G. Alex Nichols contemplates bird poems, containment, and word cages.

H. Denise Leto broadcasts feminist embodiment and eco-poetics.

Site 7: Building 944 Fort Barry

I. Jesse Nathan recites poetry.

J. Qilo Matzen performs a piece in the latrine about water and queer cruising.

Watch a video preview of Qilo Matzen performing in the latrine.

**PLEASE NOTE Qilo’s piece contains graphic language and suggestive behavior**

Plan to wear comfortable walking shoes, or alternately, feel free to drive or bike the short distance between locations.

In case of rain, indoor performances will proceed as planned; outdoor pieces may migrate inside.
Start Time: 14:00
Date: 2011-02-13
End Time: 17:00

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29
Dec

Squart!: the Resolutionists

Posted by Sadie at 12:48am


Title: Squart!: the Resolutionists
Location: SOMArts 934 Brannan Street (btw. 8th and 9th)
Link out: Click here
Description: Join SOMArts Cultural Center and co-producers THEOFFCENTER to help usher in another year of spontaneous queer art (SQUART!), and support SQUART! in advance of their retreat to the Headlands.

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

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16
Dec

Naked Girls Reading in honor of the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers

Posted by Sadie at 10:17pm

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

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25
Nov

Walk of Gratitude

Posted by Sadie at 04:23am

My favorite Thanksgiving tradition, now in the third year. I take a long walk with lovers and/or friends around midnight the night before Thanksgivng Day, or on Thanksgiving after dinner (or both) and as well walk we just verbalize all the things we are grateful for. Thank you to Shalo P. for creating this tradition with me two years ago.

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24
Nov

You Know What I Love #2

Posted by Sadie at 11:36pm

Tiger, tiger burning bright….
In San Francisco, you can’t spit on the sidewalk without wetting a piece of art.
Street art comes and goes, I often mark my path through the city with the wheat pastes, stencils and murals I prefer. (And maybe you recall the hipster stencil wars of 2006-2008?)
This tiger recently got a makeover but he’s been there in some manifestation since I’ve lived in the city and I’ve been delighted every time I pass him at Valencia and 15th


and there’s one of my wives….

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10
Nov

32 actions: Crosstraining for Teaching Myself to Love

Posted by Sadie at 06:18pm

Title: 32 actions: Crosstraining for Teaching Myself to Love
Location: Kotbusser Tor Ubahn Station, Berlin
Description: On November 11, 2010, my 32nd birthday, I’ll be performing 32 Actions: Cross Training for Teaching Myself to Love at the Kotbusser Tor U-Bahn station. This is a performance piece patchworked from 32 actions sent by you, my community.
Start Time: 11:11
Date: 2010-11-11

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