SF Sex Worker Film and Art Festival (Film and Discussion Night–in La Commune)

The San Francisco Sex Worker Film and Art Festival is a biennial cultural event that has been happening in the Bay Area since 1999. We started out as a film festival, but have expanded to become a vibrant venue for performances, workshops, visual arts, community building, political organizing, skill sharing and have collaborated with various organizations to expand into a multi-dimensional project. The Sex Worker Festival recognizes and honors prostitutes, dancers, porn performers and other sex workers from diverse communities, who have been dynamic and integral members of arts communities since time immemorial. Our next festival will be May of 2015 and will be expanding to straddle San Francisco and the East Bay for the first time.

We have been showing films at the Roxie Theatre in San Francisco, and for the first time ever, would like to find a venue in Oakland where we can screen films and host in-depth discussions facilitated by various community members. We are a very low budget operation with a 501(c)3 fiscal sponsor, that is hoping to find a venue that is financially sustainable for us, accessible by BART for our various communities, that shares a vision of social change with us and can generate participation amongst it’s own constituency. We feel your venue is really perfect and fits neatly into all of these requirements, and look forward to a conversation about this potentially dynamic collaboration.

Although we are asking for paid admission, all of our events are no one turned away for lack of funds, and we feel very strongly that this is a vital tenet of our vision.

Here are links to examples of some of the diverse content and events we have featured over the years which were targeted to organizations and communities.

Thanks for your support,

Carol Leigh and Erica Berman
415-751-1659

Current Festival (in progress)
2015 (in progress)
http://www.sexworkerfest.com/

2013 Festival:
http://www.sexworkerfest.com/sexworkerfest2013.html

Some other program-discussion events of past years:

Sex Work, Trafficking and Labor Migration: Views from Inside The Sex Industry
http://www.sexworkerfest.com/swfest2009/SexWorkMigration.html

Intersections: Krip Sex! Krip Sex Work! An evening of film and discussion on interconnections, sex work and the Krip community
http://www.sexworkerfest.com/swfest2009/sins.html

Our program archives are here:
http://www.sexworkerfest.com/archives/