The Sex Workers' Art Show Tour Is Coming To Your Town!

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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.

Ginger

January

17 Portland, OR The East End

18 Olympia, WA Washington Center for the Arts

19 Davis, CA UC Davis

20 San Francisco, CA Victoria Theatre

21 San Diego, CA Brick by Brick

22 Los Angeles, CA UCLA

23 Claremont, CA Pitzer College

24 Prescott, AZ TBA

25 Flagstaff, AZ Northern Arizona University

26 Santa Fe, NM College of Santa Fe

28 Tulsa, OK Nightingale Theatre

30 New Orleans, LA Zeitgeist Gallery

31 Huntsville, AL Flying Monkey Arts

February

1 Atlanta, GA Eyedrum Gallery

2 Greensboro, NC Guilford College

3 Durham, NC Duke University

4 Williamsburg, VA College of William and Mary

5 Richmond, VA Virginia Commonwealth University

6 Baltimore, MD Patterson Theater (2 shows)

7 Washington, DC TBA

8 TBA

9 TBA

10 Asbury Park, NJ Asbury Lanes

12 NYC The Zipper Theatre

13 Annandale, NY Bard College

14 TBA

15 Boston, MA Collidge Corner Theater

16 TBA

17 Providence, RI Rhode Island School of Design

18 Middletown, CT Wesleyan University

19 TBA

20 Ann Arbor, MI University of Michigan

21 TBA

22 Gambier, OH Kenyon College

23 Chicago, IL TBA

24 TBA

25 TBA

26 TBA

The show is an eye-popping evening of visual and performance art created by people who work

in the sex industry to dispel the myth that they are anything short of

artists, innovators, and geniuses!

The wildly successful cabaret-style show is hitting the road again, bringing

audiences a blend of spoken word, music, drag, burlesque, and multimedia

performance art. Intelligent and hot, disturbing and hilarious, the

performances offer a wide range of perspectives on sex work, from

celebration of prostitutes' rights and sex-positivity to views from the

darker sides of the industry.

This year's incredible lineup of performers includes international burlesque

sensation and recipient of the "Best Body in Burlesque" award, Miss Dirty

Martini; infamous feminist author of I Love Dick Chris Kraus; award-winning

author of the coming-out memoir How I Learned to Snap, Kirk Read; porn star

and writer Lorelei Lee; performance artist and comic queen of cleavage The

World Famous *BOB*; performer and musical theatre mutineer Erin Markey;

internationally infamous drag-subverter Krylon Superstar; dominatrix and

destroyer of Asian feminine mythology Keva I. Lee; and tour founder and

director 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 workers

experience their jobs and their lives. The Sex Workers' Art Show

entertains, arouses, and amazes while simultaneously offering scathing

and insightful commentary on notions of class, race, gender, labor

and 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 show¹s

performers, 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 sex

industry... but an active force in articulating, shaping, and contesting the

meaning 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 whore

culture at its most delicious and satisfying." --Annie Sprinkle, Phd

Sex Workers¹ Art Show 2008 Tour Schedule

Full schedule at http://sexworkersartshow.com/tourschedule.html

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Info about Working Sex at http://sexworkersartshow.com/newbook.html

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