Hello everyone,
this is Luca from SWOU and SCOT-PEP. Please find below info an programme for our upcoming 4-days Festival of Resistance in Glasgow. For any question contact us at:
luca@swou.org or contact@swou.org
Full programme http://arika.org.uk/
**A festival supporting the struggle for Sex Workers? Rights**
Sex Worker Open University, in partnership with SCOT-PEP, Umbrella Lane and Arika is inviting sex workers and allies to come together, share knowledge, discuss, debate, dance and strategise on how to protect and support sex workers' rights!
The 4 days of events will include workshops for sex workers only to develop skills to advocate more powerfully for our rights as well as public events open to all such as the seminar, film festival and party. All bringing awareness to the issues faced by sex workers and building alliances with other progressive movements.
All events will be free or by donation.
The Sex Workers Festival of Resistance will include sex workers-only workshops where sex workers of all genders can come together to share knowledge, build our capacities, develop our skills to better fight for our rights!
Please contact contact@swou.org for further info and how to register.
The Festival will also include events open to the public with a Seminar on Advancing the Rights of Sex Workers in the Age of Brexit; a Film Festival and party with amazing perfomances and DJ sets.
Please share info about the festival widely with friends, colleagues and activists!
Sex workers: if you are interested in joining us and are not already in touch with one of the sex worker-led organisations, please contact Luca at luca@swou.org. For safety and privacy reasons, the location of sex workers-only events will not be advertsied online.
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PROGRAMME OF EVENTS
Wednesday 19th and Friday 21st: Workshops open to sex workers only - contact luca@swou.org for more info
Thursday 20th of April
**Supporting sex workers: building alliances with the women's rights and migrants' rights movement**
University of Strathclyde, Room GH554,
Graham Hills, 50 George Street, G1 1QE
Public seminar
2-5.30pm
Free and public - please register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/supporting-sex-workers-building-alliances-with-the-womens-rights-and-migrants-rights-movement-tickets-33079609001
Come listen to and ask questions to activists from the sex workers? rights, migrants rights and reproductive justice movement. The two panels will offer an opportunity to discuss how to build stronger alliances between our movements and how to face, together, an increasingly punitive and reactionary system.
Panel 1 (2-3.30pm)
**Sex Worker Rights and Reproductive Justice: strategising together**
Beyond the fact that sex workers and abortion rights activists often share opponents, how can our two already-overlapping movements best work together and build collective power? Join our panellists to discuss how we can co-organise around sex worker safety and reproductive justice ? with an emphasis on reproductive justice as not only about access to safe abortion and contraception but also about the right to parent safely within the context of drug law reform, racial justice, migrancy status, and trans healthcare.
Panel 2 (4-5.30pm)
**Advancing the Rights of Migrant Sex Workers in the Age of Brexit**
Sex workers are so used to the idea of trafficking being used to shut down conversations about our safety that we are sometimes in danger of retreating from discussing topics that should be central to our analysis ? how do border regimes and immigration enforcement make people who are seeking to migrate more vulnerable to harm during travel, and exploitation on arrival? How can we resist these border regimes and work against the harms that they cause? Join our panel of sex worker activists and migrants' rights activists for this urgent conversation.
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**Community Discussion: LGBTQI People & Sex Worker?s Rights**
Hosted by LGBT Health and Wellbeing
Terrence Higgins Trust,
Breckenridge House, 274 Sauchiehall St, Glasgow G2 3EH
7-9.30pm
Free and public - Booking ESSENTIAL:
https://tinyurl.com/gp2yvbp
This event is suggested for folks aged 16+
Join Umbrella Lane and special guest migrant trans sex workers in a community discussion about the points of intersection in LGBT people?s rights and sex worker?s rights. Speakers will address points about access to health, poverty and criminalization.
Panelists will speak and there will be time for questions in a facilitated discussion. Tea, coffee & snacks will be available.
We welcome the entire diversity of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, non-binary, queer, intersex and asexual communities and allies. This includes those who are questioning their sexual orientation and/or gender identity and those who do not use labels for either.
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Friday 21st of April
**Party & Performances - Fundraiser for Umbrella Lane and Unity LGBT**
Kinning Park Complex, 43 Cornwall Street, Glasgow, G41 1BA
8pm-12am
Pay What You Can Donation - Fundraiser for Umbrella Lane and Unity LGBT
No one turned away for lack of funds
Bus pass money available for people struggling in the asylum system
This event is suggested for folks age 18+
A party to support Sex Workers? struggles and LGBT Unity with music and performances from the sex workers? community, plus DJ?s and dancing.
Performances by:
**Sex Workers? Opera**
Breaking through stigma and stereotypes, Sex Workers? Opera is an award winning, repeat sell-out show created and performed by sex workers and their friends.
With music spanning opera to ?hip-hopera?, incorporating sound art, projections and poetry, it offers an unflinchingly honest, upliftingly human insight into the lives of sex workers locally and around the world.
**Golden Flux a performance by Marianne Chargois**
Urophilia, Sex Work and Queer Digestion are the themes of this performance combining ethnographic observation and the recycling of abjection into power.
Marianne Chargois has pursued a career for 10 years blending set design in contemporary dance and various forms of sex work. Her written and performed projects link real personal experiences, artistic research and feminist and political analysis around sex work. She is the co-director of the two queer and post porn festivals Explicit (Montpellier) and WHAT THE FUCK? FEST***! (Paris) and a militant from the STRASS (french syndicate for sex workers).
**Plus**
DJ Chris
DJ D-Harsh
DJ Sarcastathon
With MC Ray St. Ray
Beer, cocktails and mocktails will be available for purchase
Cloakroom available
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Saturday 22nd of April
**Film Fest: Fighting the law. Changing our lives. Stories from the sex workers? rights movement around the world**
CCA Cinema, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD
3-6pm
Pay What You Can Donation - Fundraiser for Umbrella Lane and Unity LGBT
No one turned away for lack of funds
Please register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/film-fest-fighting-the-law-changing-our-lives-stories-from-the-sex-workers-rights-movement-around-tickets-33081286017
Three documentary films exploring diverse realities of sex workers around the world followed by a closing ceremony of the festival.
'Travel' (63 min) by Nicola Mai is a participative ethnographic documentary (ethnofiction) presenting the life history of Joy, a Nigerian migrant woman selling sex in the Bois de Vincennes in Paris. Joy left Nigeria in order to help her family after the death of her father. She knew that she was going to sell sex before leaving, but was unaware of the hard working conditions she would have had to face in France. Travel explores Joy's experiences of self-realisation and exploitation in the sex industry by representing the way she gradually reinterprets her experience of migration and freedom as also characterised by exploitation and trafficking.
'In the shadow of St Nizier' by Clare Havell, a short film funded by Sex Worker Open University and filmed during the 40th anniversary of the occupation of the church of St Nizier in June 1975, the catalyst for the birth of the sex workers' rights movement in Europe.
'Remember the Living: Monica Forrester on Sisters in Spirit and Indigenous Sex Workers' by Maggie's: Toronto Sex Workers Action Project, a short interview-documentary on the violence and mobilisation of Two Spirit sex workers.
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❤︎Access❤︎
If you?d like to come but something makes that difficult for you, we would love to hear from you. Please get in touch with Arika and we will try to help - info@arika.org.uk or 0131 556 0878.
CCA
The Main building and Cinema is wheelchair accessible with Gender Neutral and accessible toilet facilities
Strathclyde University
The Graham Hills building is easy to find and is signposted outside. Once inside go past reception and turn left to go left to the elevators. There is a wheelchair elevator to get to the level where the main elevators are. Room GH554 is on the 5th floor and has flexible seating.
Wheelchair accessible with Gender Neutral and accessible toilet facilities
Terrence Higgins Trust
The entrance to Breckenridge House is on Sauchiehall Street. Go past the reception to the elevator and take it up to the 3rd floor. Terrence Higgins Trust is on the left. There is a reception and the room we will be in has a capacity of sixty people with flexible seating.
The venue is Wheelchair accessible with Gender Neutral and accessible toilet facilities
Kinning Park Complex
To enter the venue go around the back of the large red sandstone old school building that is at the end of Cornwall Street near to the Underground station. There is a ramp up to two sets of doors at the main entrance. If you need a hand, please ring the buzzer.
The main hall where activities will take place is wheelchair accessible with Gender Neutral and accessible toilet facilities
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TRAVEL & VISITOR INFO
Full Visitor info about how to get to the various venues for the public events available on the Arika website - http://arika.org.uk/events/sex-workers-festival-resistance-2017/visitor-info
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Channels for information:
FB - Sex Worker Open University
TW - @SexWorkerOU
FB - SCOT-PEP
TW - SCOT-PEP
FB - Umbrella Lane
TW - @UmbrellaLane
FB - Arika
TW - @00arika00
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