Members jesso Posted January 16, 2008 Members Report Share Posted January 16, 2008 The Sex Workers' Art Show Tour is coming to your town!This looks awesome and a fun night out! I posted the dates below and the main info. There's a ton of interesting tid bits on the website. And check out the links page! Worth a giggle. GingerJanuary17 Portland, OR The East End18 Olympia, WA Washington Center for the Arts19 Davis, CA UC Davis20 San Francisco, CA Victoria Theatre21 San Diego, CA Brick by Brick22 Los Angeles, CA UCLA23 Claremont, CA Pitzer College24 Prescott, AZ TBA25 Flagstaff, AZ Northern Arizona University26 Santa Fe, NM College of Santa Fe28 Tulsa, OK Nightingale Theatre30 New Orleans, LA Zeitgeist Gallery31 Huntsville, AL Flying Monkey ArtsFebruary1 Atlanta, GA Eyedrum Gallery2 Greensboro, NC Guilford College3 Durham, NC Duke University4 Williamsburg, VA College of William and Mary5 Richmond, VA Virginia Commonwealth University6 Baltimore, MD Patterson Theater (2 shows)7 Washington, DC TBA8 TBA9 TBA10 Asbury Park, NJ Asbury Lanes12 NYC The Zipper Theatre13 Annandale, NY Bard College14 TBA15 Boston, MA Collidge Corner Theater16 TBA17 Providence, RI Rhode Island School of Design18 Middletown, CT Wesleyan University19 TBA20 Ann Arbor, MI University of Michigan21 TBA22 Gambier, OH Kenyon College23 Chicago, IL TBA24 TBA25 TBA26 TBAThe show is an eye-popping evening of visual and performance art created by people who workin the sex industry to dispel the myth that they are anything short ofartists, innovators, and geniuses!The wildly successful cabaret-style show is hitting the road again, bringingaudiences a blend of spoken word, music, drag, burlesque, and multimediaperformance art. Intelligent and hot, disturbing and hilarious, theperformances offer a wide range of perspectives on sex work, fromcelebration of prostitutes' rights and sex-positivity to views from thedarker sides of the industry.This year's incredible lineup of performers includes international burlesquesensation and recipient of the "Best Body in Burlesque" award, Miss DirtyMartini; infamous feminist author of I Love Dick Chris Kraus; award-winningauthor of the coming-out memoir How I Learned to Snap, Kirk Read; porn starand writer Lorelei Lee; performance artist and comic queen of cleavage TheWorld Famous *BOB*; performer and musical theatre mutineer Erin Markey;internationally infamous drag-subverter Krylon Superstar; dominatrix anddestroyer of Asian feminine mythology Keva I. Lee; and tour founder anddirector Annie Oakley.The show includes people from all areas of the sex industry: strippers,prostitutes, dommes, film stars, phone sex operators, internet models,etc. It smashes traditional stereotypes and moves beyond "positive" and"negative" into a fuller articulation of the complicated ways sex workersexperience their jobs and their lives. The Sex Workers' Art Showentertains, arouses, and amazes while simultaneously offering scathingand insightful commentary on notions of class, race, gender, laborand sexuality!Also featured at the show will be a new anthology of sex worker writings,Working Sex: Sex Workers Write About a Changing Industry (Seal Press),edited by Annie Oakley. Working Sex features work by several of the show¹sperformers, as well as Eileen Myles, Bruce LaBruce, Nomy Lamm, Michelle Tea,and many more!"The Sex Workers' Art Show is not simply a display of those in the sexindustry... but an active force in articulating, shaping, and contesting themeaning of the identity "sex worker" in the public sphere" --Theatre Journal"Annie Oakley doesn't need a gun. She's armed with fierce creativity,political passion, big brains and exquisite sexiness. As the Sex Workers'Art Show's director, Oakley leads a brilliant crew which serves up whoreculture at its most delicious and satisfying." --Annie Sprinkle, PhdSex Workers¹ Art Show 2008 Tour ScheduleFull schedule at http://sexworkersartshow.com/tourschedule.html..Info about Working Sex at http://sexworkersartshow.com/newbook.html.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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