Saturday, February 13, 2010, 12:00-4:30pm: Writing with Survivorship, for folks who are survivors of ritual or cult abuse.
March 10-27: Body Heat: Femme Porn Tour. The cross-country extravaganza! In this our fourth installment, Kathleen Delaney (Atlanta, GA.), Diana Cage (NYC), Meliza Bañales (San Francisco, CA), Jen Cross (San Francisco, CA), Nicky Click (Durham, NH),Gigi Frost (Boston, MA), Sossity Chiricuzio (Portland, OR.), Alex Cafarelli (San Francisco, CA.), and Al Schlong (Atlanta, GA) are prepared to rock off all your socks.
See Special Events, below, for more info about BH2010!
Spring 2010 Workshops
Beginning Monday, April 12. Write Whole-Survivors Write
Meets 8 Monday evenings, 6:30-9:00pm. This workshop is open to all women survivors of sexual trauma.
Gather with other women survivors of sexual trauma in this workshop, and write in response to exercises chosen to elicit deep-heart writing, and deal with such subjects as: body image, family/community, sexuality, dreams, love, faith, and more. You'll be encouraged to trust the flow of your own writing, and receive immediate feedback about the power of your words!
Beginning Tuesday, April 13.Declaring Our Erotic: An erotic writing workshop open to everyone!
Meets 8 Tuesday evenings, 6:30-9:00pm
Are you ready to explore some new edges in your writing? Are there longings you would like to find language for? In this deliberately-diverse erotic writing workshop, you will get more comfortable exploring and talking about sexual desires, receive strong and focused feedback about your new writing, explore the varied and complex aspects of sexuality and desire in a fun and confidential environment, and, of course, try your hand at some explicit erotic writing! In addition, if you choose, you may share your manuscripts with peer writers for well-rounded response to your erotic work.
April 2010. Healing Through Writing: Meets Thursday mornings; Spring 2010 workshop will begin in April.
A workshop for folks living with cancer. Offered through the UCSF Mt. Zion Art for Recovery program.
To register for this workshop or for more information, contact Cindy Perlis:Cynthia.Perlis@ucsfmedctr.org
These eight-week workshops are for anyone dealing with cancer and its effects, who is interested in self-exploration and sharing. Studies have shown that the simple act of writing, like art making, about emotionally difficult events or feelings has a positive effect of the immune system. Writing and poetry offer a wonderful way to reevaluate your priorities and to discover your personal source of meaning and hope in the face of life-threatening illnesses. No writing or poetry experience is necessary to participate.
Join us!
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Special Events!
Bay Area Only! Friday, Jan 29 and Sat, Jan 30:
A Sneak Peak of Body Heat 2010 -- before the tour begins!
Sizzlin' Fierce Fiery Femmeness - 2 Nights, 2 Different Shows ***DO NOT MISS THIS EVENT!!!!!!!***
Friday, January 29th, 2010 @ Center for Sex & Culture 8pm - Cost $10.00 - $15.00 you pick :)
Performers:
Carol Queen
Kathleen Delaney
Jen Cross
Madison Young
Vixen Noir / Veronica Combs
Amelia Mae Paradise from Diamond Daggers
Saturday, January 30th, 2010 @ Center for Sex & Culture 8pm - Cost $10.00 - $15.00 you pick :)
Performers:
Shar Rednour
Daphne Gottlieb
Kathleen Delaney
Jen Cross
Alex Cafarelli
Lady Fantastique
www.myspace.com/femmeporntour
femmeswriteporn@yahoo.com
Center for Sex and Culture
1519 Mission (between 11th and So Van Ness). San Francisco, CA 94114
www.sexandculture.org
Body Heat: The Femme Porn Tour -- 2010!
The fourth installment of Body Heat, is set to hit the road March 12th, 2010 with the tour beginning in Boston, Massachusetts and ending in Vancouver, Canada. In the Springs of 2008 and 2009, Body Heat toured nationally, and again with a smaller tour this past Summer which focused its efforts in the New England area.
This fourth line-up will feature Body Heat founder and spoken-word performer Kathleen Delaney (Atlanta, GA.), former On Our Backs editor, radio personality, and acclaimed author Diana Cage (NYC), Sister Spit vet, former slam champion, filmmaker, and writer Meliza Bañales (San Francisco, CA), published author and sex-workshop facilitator Jen Cross (San Francisco, CA), Nationally renowned singer / performer Nicky Click (Durham, NH), The Femme Show founder & performer Gigi Frost (Boston, MA), Mother Wit and Dirty Queer founder Sossity Chiricuzio (Portland, OR.), Erotic writer and versatile performer Alex Cafarelli (San Francisco, CA.), and Queer Drag King performer Al Schlong (Atlanta, GA).
Along with an arsenal of erotic song, dance, camp, poetry, smut, and prose they will also be joined by special guests along their various stops. Celebrated sexologists and authors Carol Queen and Shar Rednour are just two of the special guests that will join the tour in cities across the Nation.
Hailed by the Center for Sex Positive Culture (Seattle, WA.) as “The best Femme porn writers in the country,” this is the tour’s fourth outing, with their first taking place last year in April of 2008 and starting with a sold-out show at the Center for Sex and Culture in San Francisco, CA and ending in Atlanta, GA. The tour hopes to support and promote queer femmes in their contributions to erotica, the sex industry, the sex-positive movement, and in forming a more complex sexual identity through art and performance.
The tour is in need of bookings and can be contacted through Myspace at: www.myspace.com/femmeporntour. The site also holds their tour blog and upcoming tour dates. If you are a queer femme who specializes in smutty poetry, burlesque, queer porn, and/or performance and would like to perform with the femmes on one of their stops, you can also contact us at femmeswriteporn@yahoo.com.
Can't wait to see you back on the road! Watch this space for tour dates and more information!
Writing Ourselves Whole presents
~Holiday Dirt: fecund new erotica~
a benefit reading and celebration!
When: Thursday, December 17, 7:30 SHARP
Cost: $10-50: sliding scale, no one turned away for lack of funds
Location: Center for Sex and Culture, 1519 Mission Street (between 11th and South Van Ness), San Francisco, CA 94103
Your winter holidays shaping up to be a bit too wholesome? Never fear -- join Jen Cross as she presents these fierce new works from the Writing Ourselves Whole workshops, sharp and sexy writing that will delightfully sully your holiday spirit and open your mind to all sorts of new reindeer/dreidel games!
Celebrate risky writing and readings -- let us inspire your erotic imagination.
With Jen Cross and Writing Ourselves Whole writers -- stay tuned for reader information!
~~ Can't make the reading on 12/17? You can still help writing ourselves whole! We are raising funds to pay for a move: whatever you can give will help! Click the link/button below to use PayPal to send your donations. Thank you so much!
A fundraiser for Writing Ourselves Whole (Declaring Our Erotic/Write Whole workshops), which exists in the service of transforming trauma and/or struggles around sexuality into art, and creating spaces in which individuals may come to recognize the artist/writer within.
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Monthly Erotic Reading Circle at CSC:
Join Carol Queen and Jen Cross and your fierce, fabulous community of erotic writers the fourth Wednesday of every month, as we gather to share our creative erotic endeavors! Bring whatever you're working on, or whatever you'd like to be working on.
Come join readers and share your erotic writing! Bring something to read or just be part of the appreciative circle of listeners. This is a great place to try out new work (ask for comments if you like), or get more comfortable reading for other people. Longtime writers will bring their latest... newly inspired writers, bring that vignette you scrawled on BART while daydreaming on your way to work! Carol Queen and Jennifer Cross host/facilitate this space dedicated to erotic writers and readers!
Non-judgmental listening guaranteed, all orientations and levels of writing experience welcome.
$5-up sliding scale suggested donation, no one turned away for lack of funds (donations support the Center for Sex and Culture).
Come on over to the Center for Sex & Culture, 1519 Mission, Suite 1, San Francisco.
FMI: www.centerforsexandculture.org)
Upcoming Reading Circle Dates:
