Saturday, October 19

Halles de Schaerbeek

14:00

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.

14:30

WITH LEGS WIDE OPEN: A WHORE’S RIDE THROUGH BERLIN HISTORY

WHORE STUDIES

Free

English

Pool Room

Rori Dior & Valentin Rion

How can we research, own and tell our history as sex workers? What are the structural challenges at stake, what is the collaborative potential for our communities and what can a dick in a bird’s nest tell about our ancestors in medieval Germany? As co-curators of the sex work history exhibition at the Schwule Museum Berlin, Rori and Valentin will give an overview on the processes, the methods and the findings of this community based whore history project.

15:30

SEX WORK PLACES AND SELF-MANAGED BROTHELS : ISSUES AND EXPERIMENTATIONS

WHORE STUDIES

Free – 1h

Pool Room

Utsopi // HXSSY // Laura Miotti & Melike Hocaoglu

One of the main problems faced by sex workers is the difficulty of accessing safe spaces in which to work, and under suitable conditions. As a result, running their own little whorehouse is a common dream in the sex worker community. Concretely, what are the researches and experimentations on this topic?

Two of HXSSY’s co-founders, sex worker Mercy St. J and architect Anna Torres, will come together to discuss and highlight the historical and current struggle in De Wallen (Amsterdam) and the importance of sex worker self-made spaces in Red Light Districts. Laura Miotti & Melike Hocaoglu from the ZHAW Social Work department will present their research project that aims at investigating and improving the living and working conditions of sex workers in the city of Zurich. The conversation will be hosted by UTSOPI, that will present the in process participatory research about self managed sex work places.

16:30

OUT LOUD: A PROCESS TO PODCAST WHORES VOICES

Sex Work Projects

Free – 1h

Bar

Nour Beetch & Cilu

For more than a decade, podcasts have been widely used by minorities to voice their realities independently. How are the SW appropriating this medium? What would a community podcast be? Nour and Cilu will host a listening and discussion session on these exciting and moving questions!

17:30

Thematic focus / COMING OUT & FAMILY BUSINESS

Performances / movies

Free – 1h30

French with English Subtitles

Pool Room

4 SEASONS BROTHEL/ BORDEL 4 SAISONS

Kiddo Leone

This documentary-vlog will make you the witnesses of four sex workers journey from their prep rituals to their after work rituals, passing through their way to work and a trick. They will testify about their different experiences of coming in, coming out, outing and professional retraining throughout the four seasons and the eponym music by Vivaldi.

MAMAN, JE SUIS ACTEUR PORNO

Doryann Marguet & Thibaut Galis

Maman, je suis acteur porno is an auto-fictional one-man play about the various coming-outs that have punctuated the lives of Doryann and other sex workers. “Today, I want to share my story on stage. What are my relationships with my family? With those closest to me? What were the doubts? The fears? The blocks? How did the revelations unfold? What impact has it had on my work? And what does it mean to be a SW activist?”

INSALUBRE

Javal Lacroix

Making fun of onself, caustic humor and emotion are all part of this journey of initiation into the world of sex work, which has never been told to you in this way, through an anthology of situations, each crazier than the other. How does one go from “I’m worthless” to “I’m a real star”? Finding one’s worth can take some very strange forms. A public coming-out, on stage? Let’s go ! Unsanitary? Yes, but not only that.

YOU HAD A JOB BUT COULDN’T TELL THEM WHAT IT WAS

Ili et Lupa

Cousins by blood, sisters at heart, our paths never really diverged despite the years. One stripped, the other dominated. We both have family in common. The question arises every time we have to see our mothers/aunts: “What’s your fake job now?” Waitress, baby sitter, exhibition setter… anything to avoid confronting family putophobia. What place would we have in the family if the truth came out?

19:30

Open Mic

Performances

Free – 1h

Pool Room

Hosted by Violente Violette

You want to share a story about sex work? Take the stage, this space is dedicated to you! Whether you write in a porn or poetic style, whether you slam, sing, whisper or rap; whether you’re a whore, an ally or a person who love a sex worker: we’re interested in your words! Hosted by the co-creator of the parisian Music’Whore Cabaret Violente Violette, who will share some of their surprising songs all along this open mic.

Length per proposition: 3’30 min approximatively.

On-site registration or by email at: snapsexworkerfest@gmail.com

21:00

WHORE PERFORMANCE NIGHT + DJ SET

Performances / Music

Pay what you can: 10€ / 14€ / 18€

Great Hall

Kupalua

Kupalua live is a concert/performance. Manipulating sounds that come from the deepest places, such as the cervics or the abysses of the ocean, Kupalua creates immersions that transcend sound, the dramaturgy of her shows invites us to get closer, Kupalua is a physical experience, sound waves trespass your body and voices whisper to your bones other notions of darkness, womanhood, alien and terrain possibilities.

LESBIAN PORN MASTERCLASS

La Morrigasme & Poppy the Wild

A self-reflective narrative of the daily life of two sex workers who perform a codified lesbianism to excite the male audience.

Offstage and away from prying eyes, the reality is quite different…

The Porn Fairy

Hot Bodies (aka Gérald Arev Kurdian). Collab with Clap Collectif

The audience is invited into a space where the intimate power of folk music merges with the visceral immediacy of live porn. Folk, often associated with tales of love and the wanderings of the human condition, here becomes the unexpected soundtrack to the creation of a live erotic film, offering new perspectives on intimacy, vulnerability and energy.

Le Bal des Putes

Kata Loba, Djombo Goddess, Olivia Verner, Malena & La Baphomette

French & English

A love letter to the sex worker community. Through danse, singing, handling fire and stand up, it explores body politics and power dynamics in human relationships.

Lola Ondikwa

DJ Set

Young Franco-Ivorian artist, philosopher, feminist and queer Lola OndiKwa takes to the dancefloor! A space where she advocates inclusivity, energetically navigating between Afrohouse, Amapiano, Gqom, Afrotrap, Baile Funk, Kuduro, Batida, Coupé décalé, Rap’Ivoir’, Trap et Rap de Bad Bitch, Jersey Club, VogueBeat, House, Bouyon, Shatta, Electronic…

Soundcloud

Mona Mioca

DJ Set

mona mioca is a french-swiss-tunisian transfem choreographic artist, sound composer and DJ. Her invitation: from hips-break to ankle-core through gems offerings and emotional edits encounters, we’ll gather and listen to each other. Take space, give space, drink water ❤

Soundcloud

Linda DeMorrir

DJ Set

Linda DeMorrir’s sets take you into her world. Sail between the beats of Abya Yala, skirt the shores of groove, cross the low frequencies, meet on the other side.

Soundcloud

Workshops

Free participation

Registration mandatory at workshopforsnap@gmail.com

Garage 29

PHOTOSHOOT FOR YOUR AD + NAILS

Noé & Klou

French & English

13h00 – 16h00

Priority given to sex workers without access to photo equipment (Nord & Yser neighbourhoods).

You want new hot and cool pics for your work ad? Come see us! We offer 3 hours of photoshoot with lingerie accessories, sexy outfits available and a pose catalog to get ideas. Each participant will leave with sexy, powerful and selling photos for their ad. You can bring your own clothes and accessories. Small manicure workshop available on the side! <3

SHARING SPACE FOR SEX WORKERS CLIENTS

Avril Nyx

French & English

16h30 – 18h30

Chosen mixity without cis men.

Have you already thought about seeing a sex worker but didn’t dare to? Or you already did and would like to share your experience with other clients? This is a place for sex worker clients hosted by Avril Nyx who is a client herself, to talk about being a sex worker client, wanting to be one, the fears and joys of becoming one. Exchange tips to build strength and pride together.