Line up: Mitsuki, Beau Velvet, Kami Million, Nightsky, M Alberto, Mercy st. J, Adanya Dunn, Anna Torres
Open: 19:00 - 23:00 hrs
Tickets: € Free
Book launch of Whoring Art: A Red Light Anthology, with pole dancing performances, readings, music, drinks and books!
Doors open at 19:00
Program starts 19:30.
About the book:
What happens when sex workers are in charge of their own image, labor laws, work places, and community spaces?
Sex work everywhere is facing erasure from public life. In Amsterdam’s Red Light District, the combined forces of gentrification, repression, hetero-cis sexism, and stigma are threatening its future. But sex workers have risen up, reclaiming the unconstrained genius and militancy of whores as the key to social transformation.
This book brings together the voices of sex workers, queer and trans cultural workers, and Amsterdam’s squatting movement, to offer a radical vision of whoring liberated. Whoring Art: A Red Light Anthology is an abundant reimagination of sex work in the city.
With a kinky vinyl cover, and containing over 30 contributions and dozens of pictures, the book is edited by Mercy St. J, Adanya Dunn and Anna Torres – the former HXSSY collective – and published by Spookstad. Part of the proceeds will go to sex work related projects in Amsterdam and abroad!
Book launch of W _horing Art: A Red Light Anthology_ , with pole dancing performances, readings, music, drinks and books!
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Performances and readings by Mitsuki, Beau Velvet, Kami Million, Nightsky, and M Alberto.
Talks by the editors Mercy st. J, Adanya Dunn and Anna Torres.
Mitsuki is an Ecuadorian-Japanese multidisciplinary adult entertainment artist based in Amsterdam. To her, performing is both a form of self-expression and a way to break taboos.
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Beau is a stripper and an erotic performer. She is also an activist who fights for the rights, freedom and dignity of sex workers and other groups in the margins of society.
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Kami Million is an artist, stripper and community organizer, working to destigmatize sex work through performance, community gatherings, ceramics, paintings and writing.
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Nightsky is an Amsterdam based pole performer and activist. Alongside being a spicy dancer she is a climate justice activist, squatter and organizer.
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M. Alberto is a Euro-Caribbean sound+word artist, working as a musical dramaturgist, poet and artist-researcher on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Practical info:
If you are traveling by bike, please park away from the OT301 building