JANUARY '07 EVENTS
 CSC
Welcomes Oregon genderqueer writer Tobi Hill-Myer to Polk St this Thursday!
Please spread the word.
Thursday, January 4th -- Erotica as Activism
$5-20, NO ONE turned away for lack of funds.
 Reading
and talk with author Tobi Hill-Meyer. Reading from her latest erotic fiction, "Escaping
the Gender Police," and "Transcending Virginity," Tobi will discuss
the inclusion of trans, genderqueer, and gender variant characters as well as
the exploration of difficult trans issues within her work. She will also talk
about the utilization of erotica as a medium for education and empowerment.
Tobi Hill-Meyer
is a genderqueer transdyke trying to squeak out a living while making
time to write about sexuality, gender identity, and all things queer.
Good Vibrations
is at 1620 Polk St between Sacramento and Clay. Tobi's talk starts
at 7:30 -- GV will be open beforehand if you want to shop (ask for
CSC's Friends Discount)!
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Thursday,
January 11, 7:30 pm -- VICE AND CONSENT
Frameline at The Center: Free Screenings for the Community presents Vice & Consent.
Directed by Howard Scott Warshaw
San Francisco LGBT Community Center
1800 Market Street @ Octavia
Please arrive early as seating is limited!
Screening followed by discussion with filmmaker.
Co-presented
by The Center for Sex & Culture, The Exiles and Folsom Street Events
Are there popular mythologies and stereotypes left to shatter in the queer
community? You betcha! Prominent, long-standing members of San Francisco’s
BDSM community tell the uncensored truth about a fascinating yet misunderstood
lifestyle described by director Howard Scott Warshaw as “intimacy wrapped
in very scary paper.” It’s an intimate look at individual journeys
and lessons learned, offering eye-opening revelations for the uninitiated and,
for those shamed by their own unconventional behavior, perhaps some validation.
Vice & Consent is sure to stimulate conversation about trust, sex, play
and relationships.
Don’t miss this special FREE screening of this provocative film!
With generous
support from Folsom Street Events, Frameline proudly presents admission-free
screenings at the San Francisco Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender
Community Center at 7:30pm on the second Thursday of every month throughout
2007. Please join us for the third season of Frameline at The Center,
a provocative series of films and discussions focusing on social issues
of particular relevance to the LGBT community. For more info please
visit: www.frameline.org/events
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Saturday,
1/20, 8 pm -- PERVERTS PUT OUT!
 With
Meliza Bañales, Daphne Gottleib, Thea Hillman, Mattilda, Steven
Schwartz, horehound stillpoint, Lori Selke, Simon Sheppard, and Carol
Queen.
$10-15 at the door. At CounterPulse, 13310 Mission at 9th St., SF
http://www.simonsheppard.com/pervertsputout.html
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January
18-20 - CineKink Brings Kinky Film Showcase to San Francisco [this
is not CSC-sponsored, but we think our friends will want to know
about it]
The Yerba
Buena Center for the Arts will present CineKink: San Francisco, a touring
version of "the really alternative film festival," to be
held January 18-20, 2007 at the YCBA screening room (701 Mission Street).
Cutting
across orientations to celebrate and explore a wide diversity of sexuality,
offerings in this kink-friendly, traveling showcase range from documentary
to drama, camp comedy to hot porn, mildy spicy to quite explicit -
and everything in between.
Tickets
are $8 per screening, $6 seniors/students/teachers. More information,
advance tickets, and full schedule are available at http://www.cinekink.com/tour/sf.
We haven't included the schedule in the interest of space, but it is
well worth checking out!
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Sunday,
1/21 -- Become an Extraordinary Lover, Level 1 - For Men who Love Women
 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, Danielle and Celeste will teach you everything
from the arts of romance and seduction to advanced pleasure techniques.
They will teach you 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 how to give pleasure during a sexual encounter and explore special
oral techniques.
The next workshop will take place on Sunday, January 21st, 9:30am to 5:30pm
in San Francisco. Tuition is $325. Special promotional price: sign up by
December 21st and pay only $300! or bring a friend and get $50 off of the
original price! To Sign Up - email us at info@celesteanddanielle.com or
call us at (415) 336-3258 or (408) 469-1989.
The facilitators, Celeste and Danielle, are sex and intimacy coaches who believe
in the transformative power of pleasure because they have experienced the transformation
in their own lives. Danielle Harel is a clinical sexologist and a pleasure
activist who has devoted the last thirteen years to counseling and empowering
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 received an
MA in Human Sexuality Studies from San Francisco State University and works
as a coach and researcher. Danielle and Celeste invite you to find out what
is erotically possible for you, and deepen your experiences of pleasure and
embodiment.
Find out
more about Celeste & Danielle at www.celesteanddanielle.com!
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Tuesday evenings, 1/23 through 3/20 -- DECLARING OUR EROTIC Writers'
group with Jen Cross -- POSTPONED ONE WEEK! There's still time to
register!
Announcing
an erotic writing workshop designed for anyone who's ever thought about
writing erotic stories, but unsure how to start. In this workshop,
you will
• Get more comfortable exploring and talking about sexual desires,
• Celebrate and struggle with various and complex aspects of your sexual
self, and
• Practice explicit erotic writing!
Each week, we will write in response to exercises designed to tap into
different aspects of our erotic experience: memory, fantasy, fetish,
desire, relationship with the body, and so on. Open to folks of all
writing abilities: whether you write regularly, are an infrequent journaler,
or used to write and would like to again, this workshop is for you!
The workshop will run 8 weeks, January 23-March 20 (no class Feb 20),
at the Center for Sex and Culture in San Francisco. The cost is $200.
If you’d like to participate, or have any questions, please contact
Jen at jennifer@writingourselveswhole.org.
For more information, visit www.writingourselveswhole.org.
Jen Cross is a freelance writer and educator who’s published
in such anthologies as Best Women's Erotica 2007, Best Fetish Erotica,
Naughty Spanking Stories A-Z 2. She’s a queer incest survivor
who used erotic writing to transform her relationship with her erotic
self. She received her MA in Transformative Language Arts from Goddard
College, and facilitates writing workshops (both erotic and not) using
the Amherst Writers & Artists method (http://www.amherstwriters.com/).
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1/24,
7:30 pm -- EROTIC READING CIRCLE
Come join readers as they share their work! 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!
Non-judgemental listening guaranteed, all orientations welcome. With Carol Queen
and Jennifer Cross (if she's back in town in time...)
$5-up sliding
scale, but no one turned away for lack of funds. Location: Center for
Sex & Culture, 290 Division at 10th Street
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Thursday,
1/25, 7:30 -- S. BEAR BERGMAN reads from "Butch is a Noun" at
Good Vibrations Polk St - Presented by the Center for Sex & Culture.
 An
irreverent, tender, funny, difficult, sexy narrative, Butch is a
Noun tackles growing up butch and coming out butch, wrestling with
it and embracing it and then wrestling with it some more. Butch
is a Noun is a story of butch in its best moments and its worst,
about butch in the context of femme and butch in the orbit of another
butch and butch trying to stand alone - sometimes bravely and sometimes
foolishly, sometimes successfully and sometimes fatally. In this book
that began its life as a popular lecture by the same title, butch is
revealed as a rich, complex, and highly nuanced gender in its own right.
Written by award-winning playwright and inveterate storyteller S. Bear Bergman, Butch
is a Noun picks up where gender theory leaves off. It makes butchness accessible
to those who are new to the concept, and its finely observed detail makes gender
outlaws of all stripes feel as though they have come home -- if home is
a place where everyone understands you and approves of your haircut.
Stark stories of life on the margins and stories of being embraced by community;
rough moments and tender moments and delicious occasions of both; from girls'
clothes to men's underwear and what lies beyond, Butch is a Noun chronicles
the pleasures and dangers of living life outside the gender binary.
Look here to read chapter 1: http://www.sbearbergman.com/writing/BiaN.php
1620 Polk
between Sacramento and Clay. $5-20 sliding scale, but absolutely no
one turned away for lack of funds!
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Friday,
1/26 and Saturday, 1/27 -- S. BEAR BERGMAN returns with a new show, MONDAY
NIGHT IN WESTERBORK!
 With Monday
Night In Westerbork, award-winning writer and performer S. Bear
Bergman makes a bold leap into a location never before explored in
theater. Weaving in threads of hir childhood experiences at Jew Camp,
the AIDS Quilt, Jewish cemeteries, visits to Westerbork and other
concentration camps, storytelling, tribe behavior, resistance and
the experiences of being queer-as-in-homo and also queer-as-in-different,
Bergman creates a moving, optimistic, piece of theater. The artistic
mélange cooks up a piece that's unique on the theater landscape
-- a performance that sings, dances, tells jokes, engages and challenges
viewers about the Holocaust, and manages to be funny, touching, brutal
and deeply inspiring by the end of an hour.
A difficult,
surprisingly funny, often complex and ultimately joyous piece set along
the plotlines of the theater group at concentration camp Westerbork.
Monday Night In Westerbork finds Bergman solidly in hir storytelling
element, investigating points of intersection and impact among identity,
art, persecution and resistance. Not your traditional Holocaust narrative,
but an educating, interrogating, celebrating piece of theater including
everything from a song-and-dance number to a prayer for the dead.
This performance is suitable for persons ages 13 and older.
• Award winner, Most Promising New Work. National Gay and Lesbian Theater
Festival, 2006
Two Nights Only!
Monday Night In Westerbork
written and performed by S. Bear Bergman (author of Butch Is a Noun)
26 and 27 January, 8pm
All tickets $20.
At Theatre
Rhinoceros, 2926 16th Street (at South Van Ness), SF.
Advance tickets available at box office and by phone: 415-861-5079
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Saturday,
1/27, 2-5 pm -- HANDS-ON HANDJOBS!
Tracy Bartlett
presents one of her popular Erotic Enhancement classes: Hands-On Handjobs!
Bring a partner (or more than one) and try new skills right in class.
2--5 pm, $45 per couple, additional partners $20. (Sorry, partners
and threesomes only!) Any gender combo welcome. Pre-register at (415)
255-1155 or mail@sexandculture.org.
290 Division at 10th St.
Learn advanced
handjob skills, including coordination with oral play. Bring a partner
to practice with pillows, towels, gloves, lube, and water to drink.
Learn new moves and tell us about your own favorites.
Tracy's
classes are popular and informative, fun and lively. She's taught experientially
for 20 years, including sex classes for 10, and she has a master's
in counseling plus a degree in women's studies. Her non-explicit sex
classes are among the most perennially popular at Good Vibrations and
other venues around the country.
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Sunday,
1/28 -- Become an Irresistable Sex Goddess
In
this workshop, Danielle and Celeste have blended all the ingredients
needed for you to become a confident and erotically empowered goddess.
Irresistible women 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.
Erotic empowerment is the most powerful tool you can have to connect with your
true self, find your voice, speak your truth and live your life to its fullest
potential.
Join us and transform into an irresistible, magnetic sex goddess! Come learn
how to open yourself to all of your desires. Celebrate your body and your erotic
self. Know and communicate your dreams and fantasies. Express yourself with
confidence and clarity. Open yourself to love and intimacy. Magnetize your
ideal partner or re-ignite passion in your relationship. Feel the life force
coming through you…
Women of
all sexual identities are welcome.
The next workshop will take place on Sunday, January 28th, 9:30am to 5:30pm
in San Francisco. Tuition is $225. Special promotional price: sign up by December
28th and pay only $195! or bring a friend and get $50 off of the original price!
To Sign Up - email us at info@celesteanddanielle.com or
call us at (415) 336-3258 or (408) 469-1989.
The facilitators,
Celeste and Danielle, are sex and intimacy coaches who believe in the
transformative power of pleasure because they have experienced the
transformation in their own lives. Danielle Harel is a clinical sexologist
and a pleasure activist who has devoted the last thirteen years to
counseling and empowering 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 received an MA in Human
Sexuality Studies from San Francisco State University and works as
a coach and researcher. Danielle and Celeste invite you to find out
what is erotically possible for you, and deepen your experiences of
pleasure and embodiment.
Find out
more about Celeste & Danielle at www.celesteanddanielle.com!
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