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Hi everyone!
We have exciting news, we hope. We are applying for a space! We'd hoped
to find a way to collaborate (and move in) with the Jon Sims Center,
but that did not prove do-able. So we are moving forward with Plan B, and
our fingers are crossed. We really need donations at this time, and I
am going to send a separate mail about that which can be forwarded as-is
to anyone who's open to supporting us as we prepare to move.
We have these important save-the-date announcements:
Nina Hartley is coming 11/19! She's doing other SF events that weekend
too, which we'll tell you about.
Annie Sprinkle is hosting a fabulous benefit for us on 12/10: Nude Aid!
It's an Erotica Art Making and Give Away Event. See below for detail
and a call for participating artists and volunteers.
You probably figured out that the hoped-for S. Bear Bergman event did
not materialize. But Bear will be back in January!
If you'd like to participate in discussions re: the future of Jon Sims
Center, go there (1519 Mission) at 2 pm on 11/4. 11/11, or 1/18.
In this event newsletter:
CSC-sponsored:
TOMORROW! Caught Looking: Erotic Tales of Voyeurs and Exhibitionists
bookparty -- 11/4
Yogaplay for Men -- 11/6
Carol speaks at Creating Change -- 11/9--11
Become an Extraordinary Lover™ - For Men who love Women -- 11/11
Nina Hartley Couples Class -- 11/19
Nude Aid: Erotica Art Making and Give Away Event -- 12/10
Nude Aid call for artists and volunteers
Other events we think you'd enjoy:
Celebrating the Body Erotic for Women -- 11/3-5
Clothing swap for men and transmen! -- 11/4
The Things We Do for Love with Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens --
11/10-29
The Bawdy Island Burlesque Hullabaloo! -- 11/16
Cleo Dubois Academy of SM Arts -- 11/18 and 19
Other stuff of interest:
Psych survey about casual sex
Summer '05 Wonder Intern Elizabeth is in Africa
TOMORROW! 11/4, 2 pm -- CAUGHT LOOKING: Erotic Tales of Voyeurs and
Exhibitionists BOOK PARTY
with editor Rachel Kramer Bussel IN PERSON, plus readers Thomas Roche,
Simon Sheppard, Carol Queen, and Stan Kent.
Light refreshments will be served!
At Good Vibrations, 1620 Polk Street btw. Clay and Sacramento
**************************
Monday, 11/6, 7 pm -- YOGAPLAY FOR MEN
Let us know if you want to be put in touch with this group of men who
practice nude, partnered yoga.
*************************
Thursday, 11/9--Saturday, 11/11 -- CAROL SPEAKS AT CREATING CHANGE, the
LGBT community's most important annual conference. In Kansas City, MO.
CQ appears with other board members and friends of the Woodhull Freedom
Foundation for an important Sexual Freedom Institute (11/9 -- CQ is on
a panel called Public Speaking About Sexual Freedom) and other panels
include Bisexuals Talking about Sex, Public Pillow Talk, Leather Caucus,
and Sex Work.
See www.thetaskforce.org/ourproj...ndex.cfm for detail.
************************
Saturday, November 11th, 9:30 to 5:30 -- BECOME AN EXTRAORDINARY
LOVER™ - For Men who love Women
at Counterpulse, 1310 Mission at 9th St., SF.
Participants from recent Become an Extraordinary Lover™ Workshops said:
“I wish I attended this course when I was 20.” – Oakland
“Getting a feedback from women about they liked during a hands on work
was phenomenal.” – NJ
“Hands on training is amazing - doing is much more educational than
talking.” – Berkeley
“Just want to let you know I put what I learned to practice with my
girlfriend and got an A+. So glad I took the class.” – Marin
Now it’s your turn to drive women wild… There is nothing more arousing
than watching a woman you are making love to writhe and moan with
delight. However, there are very few places to get practical, explicit, and
straightforward advice about what turns women on.
In this Hands-On, one-day workshop you'll learn everything from the
arts of romance and seduction to advanced pleasure techniques. Learn to
read women's non-verbal cues, to elicit information about her secret
sexual desires, and to keep her coming back for more. You will have the
opportunity to practice different kinds of touch on a woman, understand
her responses, and receive helpful feedback. The facilitators will cover
intimacy, communication and how to give pleasure during a sexual
encounter including manual and oral techniques.
Tuition is $325. To sign up email info@CelesteAndDanielle.com or call
Danielle at (415) 336-3258.
The facilitators, Celeste and Danielle, believe in the transformative
power of pleasure because they have experienced the transformation in
their own lives. Danielle Harel is an erotic educator and a clinical
sexologist who has devoted the last thirteen years to counseling couples,
women, men, and groups. She graduated with a Doctor of Human Sexuality
(DHS) degree from the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality in
San Francisco. Celeste Hirschman has made a lifelong study of
sexuality, intimacy, and relationships both inside and outside of the classroom.
She has studied sexuality from an academic perspective and in May of
2005 she received an MA in Human Sexuality Studies from San Francisco
State University. Both Danielle and Celeste teach and practice Sexological
Body work, a California State approved program of body-based, erotic
education that invites people to find out what is erotically possible for
them, and deepen their experiences of pleasure and embodiment.
*****************
Sunday, 11/19, 2-5 pm -- NINA HARTLEY'S COUPLES' WORKSHOP!
Place TBA.
$80 per couple, $100 per triple.
Nina teaches her favorite vulva and penis massage techniques! More
detail next time. Reserve a space by emailing us!
*****************
Sunday, 12/10, 5--9 pm -- NUDE AID: Erotica Art Making and Give Away
Event
at 111 Minna btw. 2nd St. and New Montgomery (www.111minna.org)
$20--40 sliding scale admission gets you into this art happening where
you can watch erotic artists at work, many drawing nude or fetish-clad
models from life! Take an artwork for free, buy more for $20-40, and
bid on even more art in our silent auction! Free whores d'ouevres, cash
bar. Just in time for XXXmas and other holidays when you might want to
surprise your sweetheart or treat yourself to a unique work of art.
Hosted by the one and only Annie Sprinkle and produced by Lady Monster and
Carol Queen, this will be a sexy, arty extravaganza, and help us retire
all our move-related debt! Spread the word, especially if you know any
artists who'd like to participate.
NUDE AID CALL FOR ARTISTS AND VOLUNTEERS:
We need YOU to make this benefit a success!
*Seeking artists to participate by making art onsite, water-based media
only please. You can paint/draw our fabulous live models... or just
make sexy art as the spirit moves you, with collage or any other medium
that will be clean-up-able. (If you are not in a position to donate your
art materials but otherwise would love to do this, talk to us. We will
seek material donations so starving artists will not have out-of-pocket
expenses.) Please be prepared to make 20 or more pieces to give away.
AND/OR... donate to our silent auction! Artists, please RSVP soon so we
can put your name on our press materials. We'd love to get you some
well-deserved attention!
*Seeking fabulous volunteers to model, set up, make whores d'ouevres,
work the door, clean up, post flyers and postcards, and more! Please let
us know if you'd like to help out.
************************************************************************************
OTHER EVENTS WE THINK YOU'D ENJOY:
CELEBRATING THE BODY EROTIC FOR WOMEN (November 3-5): Oakland, CA
In a safe, serious and playful space that respects boundaries, embrace
pleasure as a healer, and experience your body as powerful, expressive,
and sacred.
This full weekend course invites you to empowered sexuality,
self-defined eroticism, and spiritually integrated eros. We expand awareness
through a process of breath, movement, and touch meditation, in which each
woman's choices and rhythms are honored. This workshop is for women of
all sexual orientations who are ready to learn with other women about
the power of touch to illuminate inner and outer worlds.
$325 if registered before October 5, $350 if registered after.
Scholarships and volunteer opportunities are available.
For more information, contact:
F. Karyn Block <bodyelectricwomen@gmail.com> or call 510.459.3781
****************************
Saturday, 11/4, -- MEN'S (AND TRANSMEN'S) CLOTHES SWAP!
What: All Men's Fashion Clothing Swap
When: Saturday, November 4, 12-4 p.m.
Where: The Cafe (2367 Market St. & Castro)
How Much: $10 in advance, $15 at the door. 21 and up only.
All the major deets can be found here: www.swapsf.com. It's shaping up
to be a big cross-gender-preferences event. Obviously the gay community
is way into it -- it's in the Castro, it's guys' fashion only, there
are no changing rooms (wink!), but the lesbian community has gotten
behind it (www.curvemag.com), and the FTM crews are into it, as well.
[We may work with them in the future to do a sexy clothes swap!!]
****************************
November 10- November 29 -- THE THINGS WE DO FOR LOVE with ANNIE
SPRINKLE AND BETH STEPHENS. A multi-media installation at Femina Potens Art
Gallery
Reception and opening: November 10th, 7 – 10pm
New work from the Love Art Laboratory AT Femina Potens Gallery 465 S.
Van Ness at 16th st, San Francisco,CA. 415-217-9340
www.feminapotens.com
San Francisco, California--Elizabeth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle are
two artists in love who collaborate in the grand tradition of other
artist couples such as Yoko and John, Sony and Cher, Gertrude and Alice,
Sigfried and Roy and Matthew Barney and Bjork.
Concerned with the prevalence of violence, moral divisiveness, and the
anti-gay marriage movement, Stephens and Sprinkle decided to offer
society an alternative vision and to spread their love through art. On
December 18th, 2004 they had an experimental performance art wedding where
they committed to doing all kinds of art projects about love for seven
years. Each of the seven years is based on the theme and color of a
chakra. (A format offered by artist Linda Montano.) Thus they became each
other's domestic partners, art muses and collaborators, and their "Love
Art Laboratory" was born. They then began producing a wide variety of
"Love Art" projects. Currently they are almost two years into their
project.
On view at Femina Potens will be new art works, and ephemera from their
live art events. Such as when they got breast cancer they created the
world's first cancer erotica, Hairotica. They dressed up for
chemotherapy and created a series of photos, the Chemo Fashion Show. They made
collages from the radiation treatment plans and some old pin-up photos to
create the Breast Cancer Ballet. Their Extreme Kiss can be viewed on
multiple TV monitors. Their new art catalogue which can be enjoyed at a
reading table. Orange Wedding Two's wedding costumes will be on display
along with a 5-minute video of their wedding. Art fans can get a "love
infusion" by sitting in the Love Infusion Center. New projects are
developing at a rapid pace. After two successful San Francisco runs of
their theater piece Exposed; Experiments in Love, Sex, Death and Art last
summer, which they wrote and performed together, they then turned their
attentions towards making visual art. Femina Potens is their firs
t solo exhibition of visual art from the Love Art Laboratory.
****************************
Thursday, Nov. 16 -- THE BAWDY ISLAND BURLESQUE HULLABALOO!
[Sadly, CQ was going to be on this bill but will now be far away on the
isle of Indiana, speaking at De Pauw U!]
Beware! The dastardly pirate cruise ship "The Black.... Panties!" once
again travels over the briny deep from Bawdy Island towards our beloved
foggy bay! Come splice the main brace with San Francisco's premier
burlesque performers as they weigh anchor on November 16th at the DNA
Lounge. Join cap'n Kingfish and the Bay Area's premier pirate band "The Ship
Disturbers" on the quarterdeck, as they host a rowdy night of comedy,
music and dance. Kiss the gunners daughter with San Francisco's own
Kitten On The Keys (suzanneramsey.net), long stemmed hoyden Cherry
Lix of the Twilight Vixen Review
(www.twilightvixen.com/showgirls.html), the collective booty
shaking of the Bottoms Up! Burlesque girls
(www.bottomsupburlesque.com/), Bettina May
(www.bettina.ca) and a host of music, comedy, and special guests guaranteed to
entertain even the most addled scallywags.
more info at - shipdisturbers.com
DNA Lounge
375 Eleventh Street, San Francisco
Thursday, November 16th, 8:30 PM
15 doubloons -- 21+
**********************
CLEO DUBOIS ACADEMY OF SM ARTS
Erotic Dominance Intensive Weekend for Dominant Men & Men Who Switch
November 18-19, 2006
SF Citadel, San Francisco
For Men who want to go deeper into the physical, emotional,
psychological and spiritual aspects of BDSM play from the Top side
Meet & Greet Friday, November 17 7-9.30PM
Hands On Training! Limited to 8 students! Enrolling Now!
Teachers: Cleo Dubois and Eve Minax
sm-arts.com/mens-intensive.htm
sm-arts.com/mens-application.htm
CleoDubois@sm-arts.com
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Psychology Masters Degree student posts survey about casual sex:
Here is the link to the survey:
www.psychdata.com/s.asp
"My name is Tom Pearson and I am a psychology graduate student at the
University of Northern British Columbia. With the help of my supervisor,
Dr. Sherry Beaumont, I am currently working on my thesis proposal that
is focusing on potential individual difference factors that may predict
why casual sex has a variable impact on young adult's psychological
health.
My survey will be about 150 items, of which 60 items will be very short
(just rating emotions after reading casual sex scenarios). Participants
will also be asked to fill out demographic information, sexual history
information, a questionnaire on styles of relating to others, and a
questionnaire on casual sex motives."
*******************
Summer '05 Wonder Intern Elizabeth is in Africa:
"Hello everyone! I have been given a pretty incredible opportunity to
live and volunteer in Namibia for the next 14 months. I'm writing to
share more information about what I'll be doing, the program I'll be
working with, and the incredibly interesting Republic of Namibia. I am also
writing to ask for your help.
On October 11th, my partner Aaron and I flew to southern Africa with a
final destination of Windhoek, Namibia. For the first several months,
until the end of December, I will be living with Aaron and volunteering
in Windhoek. Aaron will be working with a non-profit called the
Bicycle Empowerment Network Namibia (www.benbikes.org.za/namibia). He'll be
designing and fabricating bicycle ambulances, providing bikes to
community health workers, and training people on fabrication techniques and
how to fix their bicycles. I, on the other hand, am hoping to find an
AIDS organization that needs volunteers, but I will also be trying my
hand at teaching English in order to get experience for phase two of my
time in Namibia. "Phase numero dos?" you say? Several weeks ago I
applied and was accepted to the WorldTeach Namibia program. I have decided
to accept the position, which means I will be in Namibia for an extra
year on top of the few months I was already planning on spending v
olunteering in Windhoek.
WorldTeach (www.worldteach.org) is a non-profit organization based in
Cambridge, MA that sends volunteers abroad to teach (primarily English,
but also math, science, computer skills, etc.) in several developing
countries around the world. Because the program doesn't start until late
December, I have not yet been given my teaching assignment. Most
likely I will be teaching English at a school right outside of Windhoek.
English is the official language of Namibia, though there are
approximately 28 different languages spoken throughout the country. There will
also be opportunities for me to do HIV/AIDS education with my students,
which I am especially excited about.
The WorldTeach program started in Namibia in 1990, right after the
country gained independence and has been doing quite well ever since. They
have a good relationship established with the Namibian Ministry of
Education and the Ministry will cover part of the funding for my being
there. However, they do not cover all of the funding for this experience.
The cost of the program is almost $6,000. This includes roundtrip
airfare, insurance in country, housing, a small living stipend, and in
country support from the Namibian WorldTeach field director.
Fortunately, I worked really hard this summer as a waitress and saved
quite a bit. Now, although I am so very excited to do the program, the
additional cost and time in Namibia has proven too great for my
savings. I am still approximately $2,000 short of the $6,000 program fee.
Consequently, I have decided to reach out to you, my family and friends,
to ask if you would be willing to help me out with the costs of the
WorldTeach program. I know many of us are strapped for cash, but even
sending as little as $5-10 (or as much as $1000!) will help. If my
fundraising efforts are successful and I raise at least $1,000, WorldTeach has
an anonymous donor that has agreed to give me a matching grant of
$1,000. Going above and beyond my goal of $2,000 would be EVEN BETTER as it
would allow me to do so much more during my time in Namibia.
Namibia is a country that is still rebuilding its education system
post-apartheid and is in desperate need of teachers. It is also a country
that is suffering from a 21% AIDS prevalence rate among adults (even
higher in the more densely populated northern regions), a fact that
especially affects the education system. Teachers in Namibia (and in
sub-Saharan Africa in general) are a group that tends to have a higher rate
of infection than others, perhaps due to their positions of authority
and the respect the position holds. I have been presented with an
incredible opportunity to teach, learn, and build capacity in a place that is
quickly losing the capacity to provide enough teachers for itself. I
would be deeply appreciative if you would assist me in this opportunity.
To donate:
1. Please make all checks out to WorldTeach, Inc.
2. Put my name AND Namibia in the memo line
3. Send checks to WorldTeach c/o Center for International Development,
Harvard University, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge MA 02138
All donations made are tax-deductible. If you'd like a receipt for
your donation, include a note saying that as well as the address you'd
like the receipt to be sent to if it is different from the address on your
check. Unfortunately, WorldTeach cannot accept cash donations. If
you're a check-less person, but you'd still like to donate, you can get a
money order from a bank, grocery store, or gas station.
Thank you for your support! -- Elizabeth"
[CQ adds: This young woman was a terrific addition to the CSC family
and we miss her a lot! Our loss is absolutely Namibia's gain.]
We have exciting news, we hope. We are applying for a space! We'd hoped
to find a way to collaborate (and move in) with the Jon Sims Center,
but that did not prove do-able. So we are moving forward with Plan B, and
our fingers are crossed. We really need donations at this time, and I
am going to send a separate mail about that which can be forwarded as-is
to anyone who's open to supporting us as we prepare to move.
We have these important save-the-date announcements:
Nina Hartley is coming 11/19! She's doing other SF events that weekend
too, which we'll tell you about.
Annie Sprinkle is hosting a fabulous benefit for us on 12/10: Nude Aid!
It's an Erotica Art Making and Give Away Event. See below for detail
and a call for participating artists and volunteers.
You probably figured out that the hoped-for S. Bear Bergman event did
not materialize. But Bear will be back in January!
If you'd like to participate in discussions re: the future of Jon Sims
Center, go there (1519 Mission) at 2 pm on 11/4. 11/11, or 1/18.
In this event newsletter:
CSC-sponsored:
TOMORROW! Caught Looking: Erotic Tales of Voyeurs and Exhibitionists
bookparty -- 11/4
Yogaplay for Men -- 11/6
Carol speaks at Creating Change -- 11/9--11
Become an Extraordinary Lover™ - For Men who love Women -- 11/11
Nina Hartley Couples Class -- 11/19
Nude Aid: Erotica Art Making and Give Away Event -- 12/10
Nude Aid call for artists and volunteers
Other events we think you'd enjoy:
Celebrating the Body Erotic for Women -- 11/3-5
Clothing swap for men and transmen! -- 11/4
The Things We Do for Love with Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens --
11/10-29
The Bawdy Island Burlesque Hullabaloo! -- 11/16
Cleo Dubois Academy of SM Arts -- 11/18 and 19
Other stuff of interest:
Psych survey about casual sex
Summer '05 Wonder Intern Elizabeth is in Africa
TOMORROW! 11/4, 2 pm -- CAUGHT LOOKING: Erotic Tales of Voyeurs and
Exhibitionists BOOK PARTY
with editor Rachel Kramer Bussel IN PERSON, plus readers Thomas Roche,
Simon Sheppard, Carol Queen, and Stan Kent.
Light refreshments will be served!
At Good Vibrations, 1620 Polk Street btw. Clay and Sacramento
**************************
Monday, 11/6, 7 pm -- YOGAPLAY FOR MEN
Let us know if you want to be put in touch with this group of men who
practice nude, partnered yoga.
*************************
Thursday, 11/9--Saturday, 11/11 -- CAROL SPEAKS AT CREATING CHANGE, the
LGBT community's most important annual conference. In Kansas City, MO.
CQ appears with other board members and friends of the Woodhull Freedom
Foundation for an important Sexual Freedom Institute (11/9 -- CQ is on
a panel called Public Speaking About Sexual Freedom) and other panels
include Bisexuals Talking about Sex, Public Pillow Talk, Leather Caucus,
and Sex Work.
See www.thetaskforce.org/ourproj...ndex.cfm for detail.
************************
Saturday, November 11th, 9:30 to 5:30 -- BECOME AN EXTRAORDINARY
LOVER™ - For Men who love Women
at Counterpulse, 1310 Mission at 9th St., SF.
Participants from recent Become an Extraordinary Lover™ Workshops said:
“I wish I attended this course when I was 20.” – Oakland
“Getting a feedback from women about they liked during a hands on work
was phenomenal.” – NJ
“Hands on training is amazing - doing is much more educational than
talking.” – Berkeley
“Just want to let you know I put what I learned to practice with my
girlfriend and got an A+. So glad I took the class.” – Marin
Now it’s your turn to drive women wild… There is nothing more arousing
than watching a woman you are making love to writhe and moan with
delight. However, there are very few places to get practical, explicit, and
straightforward advice about what turns women on.
In this Hands-On, one-day workshop you'll learn everything from the
arts of romance and seduction to advanced pleasure techniques. Learn to
read women's non-verbal cues, to elicit information about her secret
sexual desires, and to keep her coming back for more. You will have the
opportunity to practice different kinds of touch on a woman, understand
her responses, and receive helpful feedback. The facilitators will cover
intimacy, communication and how to give pleasure during a sexual
encounter including manual and oral techniques.
Tuition is $325. To sign up email info@CelesteAndDanielle.com or call
Danielle at (415) 336-3258.
The facilitators, Celeste and Danielle, believe in the transformative
power of pleasure because they have experienced the transformation in
their own lives. Danielle Harel is an erotic educator and a clinical
sexologist who has devoted the last thirteen years to counseling couples,
women, men, and groups. She graduated with a Doctor of Human Sexuality
(DHS) degree from the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality in
San Francisco. Celeste Hirschman has made a lifelong study of
sexuality, intimacy, and relationships both inside and outside of the classroom.
She has studied sexuality from an academic perspective and in May of
2005 she received an MA in Human Sexuality Studies from San Francisco
State University. Both Danielle and Celeste teach and practice Sexological
Body work, a California State approved program of body-based, erotic
education that invites people to find out what is erotically possible for
them, and deepen their experiences of pleasure and embodiment.
*****************
Sunday, 11/19, 2-5 pm -- NINA HARTLEY'S COUPLES' WORKSHOP!
Place TBA.
$80 per couple, $100 per triple.
Nina teaches her favorite vulva and penis massage techniques! More
detail next time. Reserve a space by emailing us!
*****************
Sunday, 12/10, 5--9 pm -- NUDE AID: Erotica Art Making and Give Away
Event
at 111 Minna btw. 2nd St. and New Montgomery (www.111minna.org)
$20--40 sliding scale admission gets you into this art happening where
you can watch erotic artists at work, many drawing nude or fetish-clad
models from life! Take an artwork for free, buy more for $20-40, and
bid on even more art in our silent auction! Free whores d'ouevres, cash
bar. Just in time for XXXmas and other holidays when you might want to
surprise your sweetheart or treat yourself to a unique work of art.
Hosted by the one and only Annie Sprinkle and produced by Lady Monster and
Carol Queen, this will be a sexy, arty extravaganza, and help us retire
all our move-related debt! Spread the word, especially if you know any
artists who'd like to participate.
NUDE AID CALL FOR ARTISTS AND VOLUNTEERS:
We need YOU to make this benefit a success!
*Seeking artists to participate by making art onsite, water-based media
only please. You can paint/draw our fabulous live models... or just
make sexy art as the spirit moves you, with collage or any other medium
that will be clean-up-able. (If you are not in a position to donate your
art materials but otherwise would love to do this, talk to us. We will
seek material donations so starving artists will not have out-of-pocket
expenses.) Please be prepared to make 20 or more pieces to give away.
AND/OR... donate to our silent auction! Artists, please RSVP soon so we
can put your name on our press materials. We'd love to get you some
well-deserved attention!
*Seeking fabulous volunteers to model, set up, make whores d'ouevres,
work the door, clean up, post flyers and postcards, and more! Please let
us know if you'd like to help out.
************************************************************************************
OTHER EVENTS WE THINK YOU'D ENJOY:
CELEBRATING THE BODY EROTIC FOR WOMEN (November 3-5): Oakland, CA
In a safe, serious and playful space that respects boundaries, embrace
pleasure as a healer, and experience your body as powerful, expressive,
and sacred.
This full weekend course invites you to empowered sexuality,
self-defined eroticism, and spiritually integrated eros. We expand awareness
through a process of breath, movement, and touch meditation, in which each
woman's choices and rhythms are honored. This workshop is for women of
all sexual orientations who are ready to learn with other women about
the power of touch to illuminate inner and outer worlds.
$325 if registered before October 5, $350 if registered after.
Scholarships and volunteer opportunities are available.
For more information, contact:
F. Karyn Block <bodyelectricwomen@gmail.com> or call 510.459.3781
****************************
Saturday, 11/4, -- MEN'S (AND TRANSMEN'S) CLOTHES SWAP!
What: All Men's Fashion Clothing Swap
When: Saturday, November 4, 12-4 p.m.
Where: The Cafe (2367 Market St. & Castro)
How Much: $10 in advance, $15 at the door. 21 and up only.
All the major deets can be found here: www.swapsf.com. It's shaping up
to be a big cross-gender-preferences event. Obviously the gay community
is way into it -- it's in the Castro, it's guys' fashion only, there
are no changing rooms (wink!), but the lesbian community has gotten
behind it (www.curvemag.com), and the FTM crews are into it, as well.
[We may work with them in the future to do a sexy clothes swap!!]
****************************
November 10- November 29 -- THE THINGS WE DO FOR LOVE with ANNIE
SPRINKLE AND BETH STEPHENS. A multi-media installation at Femina Potens Art
Gallery
Reception and opening: November 10th, 7 – 10pm
New work from the Love Art Laboratory AT Femina Potens Gallery 465 S.
Van Ness at 16th st, San Francisco,CA. 415-217-9340
www.feminapotens.com
San Francisco, California--Elizabeth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle are
two artists in love who collaborate in the grand tradition of other
artist couples such as Yoko and John, Sony and Cher, Gertrude and Alice,
Sigfried and Roy and Matthew Barney and Bjork.
Concerned with the prevalence of violence, moral divisiveness, and the
anti-gay marriage movement, Stephens and Sprinkle decided to offer
society an alternative vision and to spread their love through art. On
December 18th, 2004 they had an experimental performance art wedding where
they committed to doing all kinds of art projects about love for seven
years. Each of the seven years is based on the theme and color of a
chakra. (A format offered by artist Linda Montano.) Thus they became each
other's domestic partners, art muses and collaborators, and their "Love
Art Laboratory" was born. They then began producing a wide variety of
"Love Art" projects. Currently they are almost two years into their
project.
On view at Femina Potens will be new art works, and ephemera from their
live art events. Such as when they got breast cancer they created the
world's first cancer erotica, Hairotica. They dressed up for
chemotherapy and created a series of photos, the Chemo Fashion Show. They made
collages from the radiation treatment plans and some old pin-up photos to
create the Breast Cancer Ballet. Their Extreme Kiss can be viewed on
multiple TV monitors. Their new art catalogue which can be enjoyed at a
reading table. Orange Wedding Two's wedding costumes will be on display
along with a 5-minute video of their wedding. Art fans can get a "love
infusion" by sitting in the Love Infusion Center. New projects are
developing at a rapid pace. After two successful San Francisco runs of
their theater piece Exposed; Experiments in Love, Sex, Death and Art last
summer, which they wrote and performed together, they then turned their
attentions towards making visual art. Femina Potens is their firs
t solo exhibition of visual art from the Love Art Laboratory.
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Thursday, Nov. 16 -- THE BAWDY ISLAND BURLESQUE HULLABALOO!
[Sadly, CQ was going to be on this bill but will now be far away on the
isle of Indiana, speaking at De Pauw U!]
Beware! The dastardly pirate cruise ship "The Black.... Panties!" once
again travels over the briny deep from Bawdy Island towards our beloved
foggy bay! Come splice the main brace with San Francisco's premier
burlesque performers as they weigh anchor on November 16th at the DNA
Lounge. Join cap'n Kingfish and the Bay Area's premier pirate band "The Ship
Disturbers" on the quarterdeck, as they host a rowdy night of comedy,
music and dance. Kiss the gunners daughter with San Francisco's own
Kitten On The Keys (suzanneramsey.net), long stemmed hoyden Cherry
Lix of the Twilight Vixen Review
(www.twilightvixen.com/showgirls.html), the collective booty
shaking of the Bottoms Up! Burlesque girls
(www.bottomsupburlesque.com/), Bettina May
(www.bettina.ca) and a host of music, comedy, and special guests guaranteed to
entertain even the most addled scallywags.
more info at - shipdisturbers.com
DNA Lounge
375 Eleventh Street, San Francisco
Thursday, November 16th, 8:30 PM
15 doubloons -- 21+
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CLEO DUBOIS ACADEMY OF SM ARTS
Erotic Dominance Intensive Weekend for Dominant Men & Men Who Switch
November 18-19, 2006
SF Citadel, San Francisco
For Men who want to go deeper into the physical, emotional,
psychological and spiritual aspects of BDSM play from the Top side
Meet & Greet Friday, November 17 7-9.30PM
Hands On Training! Limited to 8 students! Enrolling Now!
Teachers: Cleo Dubois and Eve Minax
sm-arts.com/mens-intensive.htm
sm-arts.com/mens-application.htm
CleoDubois@sm-arts.com
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Psychology Masters Degree student posts survey about casual sex:
Here is the link to the survey:
www.psychdata.com/s.asp
"My name is Tom Pearson and I am a psychology graduate student at the
University of Northern British Columbia. With the help of my supervisor,
Dr. Sherry Beaumont, I am currently working on my thesis proposal that
is focusing on potential individual difference factors that may predict
why casual sex has a variable impact on young adult's psychological
health.
My survey will be about 150 items, of which 60 items will be very short
(just rating emotions after reading casual sex scenarios). Participants
will also be asked to fill out demographic information, sexual history
information, a questionnaire on styles of relating to others, and a
questionnaire on casual sex motives."
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Summer '05 Wonder Intern Elizabeth is in Africa:
"Hello everyone! I have been given a pretty incredible opportunity to
live and volunteer in Namibia for the next 14 months. I'm writing to
share more information about what I'll be doing, the program I'll be
working with, and the incredibly interesting Republic of Namibia. I am also
writing to ask for your help.
On October 11th, my partner Aaron and I flew to southern Africa with a
final destination of Windhoek, Namibia. For the first several months,
until the end of December, I will be living with Aaron and volunteering
in Windhoek. Aaron will be working with a non-profit called the
Bicycle Empowerment Network Namibia (www.benbikes.org.za/namibia). He'll be
designing and fabricating bicycle ambulances, providing bikes to
community health workers, and training people on fabrication techniques and
how to fix their bicycles. I, on the other hand, am hoping to find an
AIDS organization that needs volunteers, but I will also be trying my
hand at teaching English in order to get experience for phase two of my
time in Namibia. "Phase numero dos?" you say? Several weeks ago I
applied and was accepted to the WorldTeach Namibia program. I have decided
to accept the position, which means I will be in Namibia for an extra
year on top of the few months I was already planning on spending v
olunteering in Windhoek.
WorldTeach (www.worldteach.org) is a non-profit organization based in
Cambridge, MA that sends volunteers abroad to teach (primarily English,
but also math, science, computer skills, etc.) in several developing
countries around the world. Because the program doesn't start until late
December, I have not yet been given my teaching assignment. Most
likely I will be teaching English at a school right outside of Windhoek.
English is the official language of Namibia, though there are
approximately 28 different languages spoken throughout the country. There will
also be opportunities for me to do HIV/AIDS education with my students,
which I am especially excited about.
The WorldTeach program started in Namibia in 1990, right after the
country gained independence and has been doing quite well ever since. They
have a good relationship established with the Namibian Ministry of
Education and the Ministry will cover part of the funding for my being
there. However, they do not cover all of the funding for this experience.
The cost of the program is almost $6,000. This includes roundtrip
airfare, insurance in country, housing, a small living stipend, and in
country support from the Namibian WorldTeach field director.
Fortunately, I worked really hard this summer as a waitress and saved
quite a bit. Now, although I am so very excited to do the program, the
additional cost and time in Namibia has proven too great for my
savings. I am still approximately $2,000 short of the $6,000 program fee.
Consequently, I have decided to reach out to you, my family and friends,
to ask if you would be willing to help me out with the costs of the
WorldTeach program. I know many of us are strapped for cash, but even
sending as little as $5-10 (or as much as $1000!) will help. If my
fundraising efforts are successful and I raise at least $1,000, WorldTeach has
an anonymous donor that has agreed to give me a matching grant of
$1,000. Going above and beyond my goal of $2,000 would be EVEN BETTER as it
would allow me to do so much more during my time in Namibia.
Namibia is a country that is still rebuilding its education system
post-apartheid and is in desperate need of teachers. It is also a country
that is suffering from a 21% AIDS prevalence rate among adults (even
higher in the more densely populated northern regions), a fact that
especially affects the education system. Teachers in Namibia (and in
sub-Saharan Africa in general) are a group that tends to have a higher rate
of infection than others, perhaps due to their positions of authority
and the respect the position holds. I have been presented with an
incredible opportunity to teach, learn, and build capacity in a place that is
quickly losing the capacity to provide enough teachers for itself. I
would be deeply appreciative if you would assist me in this opportunity.
To donate:
1. Please make all checks out to WorldTeach, Inc.
2. Put my name AND Namibia in the memo line
3. Send checks to WorldTeach c/o Center for International Development,
Harvard University, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge MA 02138
All donations made are tax-deductible. If you'd like a receipt for
your donation, include a note saying that as well as the address you'd
like the receipt to be sent to if it is different from the address on your
check. Unfortunately, WorldTeach cannot accept cash donations. If
you're a check-less person, but you'd still like to donate, you can get a
money order from a bank, grocery store, or gas station.
Thank you for your support! -- Elizabeth"
[CQ adds: This young woman was a terrific addition to the CSC family
and we miss her a lot! Our loss is absolutely Namibia's gain.]
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