AUGUST '06 EVENTS


Saturday, August 5 - Masturbate-a-thon goes to London! Visit www.masturbate-a-thon.com for more details!


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Become an Extraordinary Lover for Men who love women -- 8/13, 9:30 to 5:30.
The Last Become an Extraordinary Lover Workshop for Men who Love Women was an amazing success!!!

Participants said:

"I thought I knew everything, but now I realize how little I knew..." - Sunnyvale.

“Hands on training is amazing - doing is much more educational than talking.” – Berkeley

"Thank you so much for today's class. It was an honor, an education, and a joy to spend a gorgeous Sunday in the company of such exceptional women" - Oakland

We also got some feedback from women: When asked what the words "Extraordinary Lover" meant to her, one woman said, “It makes me think about my husband after taking your workshop" - Mountain View

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, oral and anal techniques.

Tuition is $245. Sign up by July 20th and pay $225.

To sign up email Danielle at Danielle@DareToEnjoy.com or Celeste at Celeste@Celestialerotics.com or call Celeste at (415) 336-3258.


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Tuesday, August 15th, 7pm - 10pm -- Shelly Mars, the Grand Daddy of Drag, Lets It All Hang Out in Her New Workshop, “Evolution Of Gender”

Center for Sex and Culture, 398 11th Street.

• Shelly Mars created his drag king character Martin 20 years ago here is San Francisco, he now returns a bigger and better genderqueer as part of SFDK11.

• Shameless provocateur, infamous gender-bender, and fresh from working with the Great Apes in Florida, Shelly is offering a hands-on, full-body kinetic experience into the drag performance world in this special workshop:

• Prepare to sweat and get physical with Shelly’s trademark body movements exercises, which combines her years of yoga, capoeira, dance, and recent study of the Great Apes.

• Conquer stage fright with frequent live/impromptu acting opportunities.

• Expand character repertoire with improvisations, vocals & physical exploration of different animal and drag personas.

• Review on-camera performances for immediate and honest feedback from the instructor and fellow performers.

• Ideal opportunity for drag kings & queens who are interested in digging deeper into and developing more multidimensional aspects of their drag personas. Stop just lip-synching and take your performance to the next level.

• Currently the Artist in Residence at the Museum of Sex in New York City, Mars has been pushing the boundaries of gender performance in works such the gender coach on A&E’s documentary, Role Reversal, the cult classic, Virgin Machine, independent film,
Marry Harron’s Ballad of Bettie Page, Venus Boyz, and her critically-acclaimed one-woman show, Sex on Mars! Shelly will also
be screening clips from the new documentary about her work, The Dark Matter of Mars, which debuted recently at New York’s Newfest Gay & Lesbian Film Festival. Come and enjoy some vintage drag footage from the 1980s!

For more information on Shelly Mars or to attend one of her New
York workshops, visit www.shellymars.com.

Price: $35. - $50. please call, 415.282.5378 to register; you may also prepay using paypal to shelly@shellymars.com (price includes admission to SF Drag King Contest,
www.sfdragkingcontest.com)

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Candye Kane! 8/16

The Center for Sex & Culture Proudly announce a very special upcoming event: An Intimate Evening with Candye Kane and the Diamond Daggers! The big beautiful bodacious bisexual blues diva Candye Kane takes the stage at the Center for Sex & Culture for an unforgettable show with her friends The Diamond Daggers. These performance sensations bring their big talents to CSC for one night only on August 16! Candye Kane, porn starlet-turned-singer, promises a show that'll make you shout. Her last CSC performance featured dirty songs and bawdy ballads from the 1920s to the present. Candy's newest album, White Trash Girl (RUF Records), follows her other cult classics: Whole Lotta Love, The Toughest Girl Alive, Swango, Diva La Grande, Knockout, and Home Cookin'. Candye joins us with her band just before heading to the Netherlands. Signed CDs will be available from Candye at the event.

The Washington Post says that Ms. Kane's voice is "a natural wonder Like the Grand Canyon." Candye describes her style as "Mississippi by way of Las Vegas with a quick stopover in San Francisco." She has headlined the Monterey and San Francisco Blues Festivals, performed with many celebrities including k.d. lang and Lea Delaria, and appeared on Queer as Folk.

Joining Candye on the stage: The classic chorus-girl charm (with a queer vaudevillian twist) of San Francisco's own Diamond Daggers! These burlesque cuties have a wild streak and their shows never fail to inspire;

Don't miss it!

Wednesday, August 16.

Admission $20, no one turned away for lack of funds.

Door: 7 pm, show at 8
The Center for Sex & Culture is located at 398 11th Street at Harrison in San Francisco.

Call (415) 255-1155 to reserve; leave your name, number, and number of tickets, and pay for tickets at the door (check or cash). Tix can also be reserved via email at mail@sexandculture.org. IMPORTANT: Unpaid reserved tickets must be picked up by 7:30 pm on the day of the show. If you can't arrive by 7:30 and wish to pay for tickets in advance, we can accept payment via PayPal or check. Email us for details. SPACE IS LIMITED!

http://www.candyekane.com/
http://www.diamonddaggers.com/

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Thursday, 8/17 -- CAROL QUEEN reads at Inside Story Time, the erotic reading series at Rickshaw Stop (155 Fell Street)

This month's theme: Bottoms! (Last month was Tops.) CSC loans CQ out for the night; she will read from her newest book Whipped! and have some for sale. She'll be joined by Stephen Elliott, Greta Christina, Yanina Gotsulsky, Allison Landa and others. For more on Inside story Time, which SF Weekly called "SF's Best New Reading Series," visit http://www.insidestorytime.com/
155 Fell Street, $3-10 sliding scale.

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Become an Extraordinary Lover for women who love men -- 8/20

Women! Thank you so much for the wonderful feedback you sent in answer to Danielle and Celeste’s survey. In response to your suggestions, they have created their first in a series of special classes just for you.

The first will be held on Sunday, August 20th 9:30am-5:30pm. In this class Danielle and Celeste have blended all the ingredients needed to help you become a confident and erotically empowered sex goddess.

Some women are good in bed, but others are extraordinary lovers. These women are more than good technical lovers, they are women who are self-possessed and who understand pleasure in their own body and in men’s bodies. Extraordinary lovers have erotic energy and grace that magnetizes everyone who crosses their path, they know how to balance enthusiasm for their partners’ deepest desires with an ability to initiate and communicate their own desires and fantasies. In this class, you will begin your transformation into a magnetic sex goddess. You will learn and practice techniques that will help you become the most confident, informed, sensual, and sexy lover you can be!

Tuition is $225. Sign up before July 20th and pay $195.

To sign up email Danielle at Danielle@DareToEnjoy.com or Celeste at Celeste@Celestialerotics.com or call Celeste at (415) 336-3258.

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RUMI'S AUGUST SHOWS AT CSC in association with Camaraderie Art Salon

Exhibiting artists: Mark Mardon, Rumi Missabou, VinC, Joshua Freiwald, Jim Winters, Carl Linkhart, Gustavo Villareal, Bill Bowers, Eric Schum, Alex, Nowik

Shows are all sliding scale, $5-20. No one turned away for lack of funds. All shows at CSC, 398 11th/Harrison

8/5, 2-5 pm, show at 3: Mark Mardon, Michael Layne Heath, Pox Eclipse.

8/5, 7-10, show at 8: Carl with Records, Kirk Read, Isis Starr, Cara Vida, Boyfriend Robotique, Moon Trent, Pox Eclipse, Scarlot Harlot.

8/6, 7-10: Film Night with Screaming Queens (with Susan Stryker and Special Guests); Celluloid San Francisco: clips and stills from classic and obscure movies set here! With Jim Van Buskirk, 8:30.

8/12, 2-5 pm, Q&A with the artists whose work is featured in the gallery (see above listing), with artists' reception and silent auction of Cockette memorabilia. Q&A at 3.

8/12, 7-10 pm, show at 8: The Lewd, Hey Girl!, Red Herring, Winsome Griffles.

8/13, 7-10 pm, films at 8: Cockette Film Night! Tree Your Sap Beats Gently Against Mine, Palace, Elevator Girls in Bondage, presented by original Cockette Rumi.

8/19, 2-5 pm, show at 3: Strange de Jim presents the history of the Castro, from 1880 to the present, as told in photos.

8/19, 7-10, film at 8: That Boy with Peter Berlin, with special guest Dick Johnson.

8/20, 7-10 pm, show at 8: Carl with Records, Isis Starr, Cara Vida,
Boyfriend Robotique, Pox Eclipse, Hot Boxxx Girls with Vicky
Marlane, Felicia Flames-Ashton, Bobby Ashton, Gina La Divina,
Collette Legrande.

8/26, 2-5 pm, show at 3: Full Cry spoken word with Drissana
Devananda, Sweet Pam Tent, Kirk Read, Jay Allen Davis, Cara Vida,
Jet, Damien Gray, Carl Linkhart, Carol Queen, Ocean Moon, La John
Joseph, Rumi Missabou.

8/26, 7-10 pm, film at 8: Vice and Consent with director Howard
Scott Warshaw and special guests. Q&A after the film.

8/27, 7-10, show at 8: Closing Night! An evening of special guests
and surprises.


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Annie and Beth want CSC folks to come to their show this week -- 2 for 1! Please mention this offer when you call New Conservatory Theatre to reserve.

AUGUST 10 - 27, The New Conservatory Theatre Center in Association with Love Art Laboratory presents...

Annie Sprinkle & Elizabeth Stephens in

love, sex, death and art
A NEW PERFORMANCE ART PIECE

Directed by NEON WEISS
Media Design & Soundscape by SHEILA MALONE

Featuring Guest Artist
TINA TAKEMOTO
and lab assistants Maya Orli Cohen, Dylan Vade, Kaytea Petro

AUGUST 10 - 27, 2006
Thursdays, Fridays & Saturdays at 8:00 pm

What happens when ex-porn star, sexologist and performance artist Annie Sprinkle falls madly in love with experimental artist, professor and sexy dyke playboy Elizabeth Stephens? They create a Love Art Laboratory, and you are invited to come experiment with them. Mixing elements of pleasure, pain, passion, and juice, these love artists will stimulate the senses and crack hearts open. Take an adventure into the exotic and unknown.

This multi-media performance art theater event explores courtship, artificial insemination, breast cancer, queer weddings,and more. Enjoy a bevy of lab technicians, a buff F2M, chances to be human guinea pigs and mind expanding visions.

Drink some "love elixir" and we guarantee great results with no unpleasant side effects.

But you must be over 18, because this show is also about breasts.
Love, Sex, Death and Art is a unique love story in the grand tradition of artist couples such as John and Yoko, Gertrude and Alice, Sony and Cher, Siegfried and Roy. It also offers an artistic response to the violence of war, and the anti-gay marriage movement.

PLUS! Tina Takemoto's guest appearance as Bjork-Geisha promises to include fan dancing, lip synching, and chopstick hara kiri.

The New Conservatory Theatre Center
25 Van Ness Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94102

BOX OFFICE: (415) 861 - 8972
http://www.nctcsf.org

CSC community is offered 2 for 1 tickets during the first week of the show! Call the theatre and mention CSC when you reserve.

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Thursday, August 31, 6:30-9:30 -- ADULT SEXUALITY EDUCATION: Principles and Practices with Charlie Glickman, Ph.D.

$25. MOVED to Good Vibrations at 1610 Polk Street between Sacramento and Clay

When it comes to teaching workshops on sexuality topics for adults, most educators have had to build their repertoires from personal experience and observation. But there’s a huge field of adult education that you can use to make your teaching more effective and fun for you and your learners. Charlie Glickman will help you understand the essentials of this far-reaching body of research and apply the core principles to your topics and audiences. You’ll learn tips to help you create learning objectives that shape your entire curriculum, skills to inspire and support motivation in your learners, how to adapt your teaching to your audience and ways to constructively use exercises to both reinforce and assess learning. Whether you teach one-night sessions or semester-long classes, this introductory workshop will give you a strong yet flexible framework to build your lessons on, give you more confidence in your teaching and free you to focus on what you enjoy talking about--sex!

Please email Charlie at workshops@charlieglickman.com to register. In your email, please briefly describe your experience teaching workshops on sexuality topics and two things you'd like to learn from this workshop. Charlie will email you to confirm your registration.