Friday, October 18

Halles de Schaerbeek

18:00

Installation & stands/infokiosks

Free

Bar

Sex work infokiosk

A chill-out space with fanzines, brochures and other resources on sex work, where you can meet up, alone or with others, to read, discuss and listen.

VR Installation / A Raft To Romancy

Lubna Behey x Manoah Camporini

An immersive sculptural device in the form of a seat connected to a VR headset, this original creation is a sensitive and physical breach in the psyche of lubna, a French white SW from genZ. Several 3D “scenes” allow us to grasp fragments of her bodily and psychic relationship to the practice of sex work, in a process of re-enactment that enables her to bear witness to a previously unpronounceable experience.

Digital Game Installation / OnlyBans

Lena Chen & Maggie Oates

Made in collaboration with a team of sex workers, OnlyBans is a game critically examining digital surveillance, censorship, and discrimination faced by sex workers. It offers a speculative vision of how marginalized communities can protest unjust policies to create a free Internet.

18:15

SEX WORK STYLES

Sex Work Projects

Free

French and English

Bar

Sâal Couture // Espace P // DASPU

Sex workers are stylish and beautiful. They create meaningful shapes, sewed with stories of dignities and made from proudness. Sâal Couture and Espace P will present their clothing projects, from their process to the final object.

Sâal Couture: “I use clothing as a space for gender expression and struggle. My approach is to recycle old clothes to make new ones. I play with their shapes, materials and brands. In this way, I impose my own on them: a more disguised, militant and ecological look”.

Filles de joie et Fils de soie is an underwear design project initiated by Espace P and developed with a group of committed sex workers.

DASPU was created in 2005 by Gabriela Leite, a pioneer of the sex workers movement in Brazil. Daspu is short for « Das Putas », meaning (designed) by the whores. It is the name of a clothing brand created to raise funds for the sex worker NGO Davida, that will be presented by Flavio and Friederike.

19:00

K_SLUT

Whore Studies

Free – 40min

French

Pool Room

Sabrina Calvo

As a sex worker in Second Life for 17 years, I went from street prostitution to brothel, then to misery – and finally into the light. Through a technological, sensory and metaphysical lens, here before you, brothers and sisters, is the story of a post-contemporary whore: to question the somatic consequences of virtual sex, towards a possible reconciliation. Sabrina Calvo is a writer and visual artist.

19:45

Politics is not a dirty word!

Whore Studies

Free – 40min

English

Pool Room

DogBoiBailey

In his presentation, Paris-based HIV activist, queer porn actor, fetish community representative and journalist, DogBoiBailey confronts the taboo link between fetish and anti-fascism, identity manipulation and how intercommunal solidarity can be harnessed to fight political pacification. It’s time that politics was firmly placed back on our agendas.

20:30

SNAP Show & Concert Party

Performances / Music

Pay what you can: 10€ / 14€ / 18€

Great Hall

SEX WORKERS WHO CHANGED HISTORY FASHION SHOW

SAVE, Trans Sisters & Daspu

20:30

SAVE, Trans Sisters and Daspu present the sex work history fashion shows. Sex workers are in the media often portrayed as victims. We tell the stories of heroes and heroines through their clothing and music.

Showcase Ballroom

Nina Mermaid & Guests

21:30

As part of the Snap festival, a Ballroom showcase will be presented by Nina Mermaid, a sex worker herself, accompanied by various performers from the Belgian Ballroom Scene and the Kiki House of Mermaids. They will be introducing several categories of the ballroom scene, originally founded by trans women sex workers.

Tribade

22:30

Tribade is a young three-piece rap band from Barcelona leaded by the MCs Bittah and Masiva Lulla. Lyrically, Tribade brings the XXIst century universe of two young women fighting against precariousness on a male privileged society and amplifies with its poetry usually silenced realities such as LGBT, sex work, local and neighbourhood struggles, antifa activism… Musically, Barcelona is not only 90s mestizo, rumba and fiesta beats: Tribade blends a fresh and original mix of rap with flamenco, soul, afrotrap and reggaeton.

Spotify / Instagram

Choupetik

DJ Set

23:45

Choupetik is a Venezuelan DJ based in Paris, cofounder of Misantropical. Her eclectic “melancholatino” sets take a decolonial and feminist stance to the dance floor and revises Latincore soundscapes with a curation that incorporates old school reggaeton and merengue electronico entwined with neoperreo and Latin tek.

Soundcloud / Instagram

Workshops

Free participation

Registration mandatory at workshopforsnap@gmail.com

Garage 29

RECOGNIZE RISKY CLIENTS + TOOLS FOR ONLINE SELF DEFENSE

JÎ & Yana Killa

French

13h00 – 15h00

Sex workers only.

Ji is a Swiss sexworker and member of Projet Evasions, with whom they have created a digital self-defense guide for sex workers, inspired by the work of the Cyphersex collective. The guide includes tools applicable in all countries, regardless of its jurisdiction. They are delighted to present them to you in the form of a workshop!

https://projet-evasions.org/presentation/
https://www.inventati.org/cyphersex/

How to recognize different types of customers? Tips and exchange of tools with Yana Killa, created from the speaker’s personal experience and exchanges with colleagues.

Sw PARTNERS

Law & Nicky

French

16h00 – 18h00

Sex workers’ partners and lovers only.

Do you have affective-sexual relationships with sex worker people? Do you want to be a good ally for your whore lovers but don’t always know how ? Would you like to talk about what does it represent and affect you in your daily life?

In this workshop, Nicki and Law will offer you a non-judgmental setting in which to discuss our respective realities, in an attempt to build ever more beautiful, serene and powerful stories.