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Femina Potens Seeks Fabulous Volunteers for Upcoming Events and Activities

2008-08-26T19:50:20Z

About us:
"Femina Potens is a non-profit arts gallery and performance space dedicated to the advancement of women and transgendered artists. First founded in 2001 by artistic director Tina Butcher and Madison Young. Butcher and Young recognized a need for greater visibility of women and transgendered artists and set out to create Femina Potens with no financial backing for the project, only a mission and a vision. Femina Potens has successfully brought the best women and transgendered artists to the community, coupling world-renowned visual and performing artists with talented new emerging artists. These multi-generational performances and exhibitions encourage newer artists to thrive while well-established artists and heroines stand on the same stage or placed on the same wall acting as mentors for fledglings." Check out our website feminapotens.com for more info about us.

About you:
Coming up at the gallery are some amazing events and activies that we would love to have you be a part of! People passionate about art, feminism, gender, and just general wonderfulness we would love to see your faces here with us. Email Mirae at fpvolunteer@gmail.com for more info or to sign up.
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MON. 9/1 (@LEAST 1 PERSON NEEDED): We need someone here to open the gallery
at 10AM for Artist Sue Latta, to deinstall her show as well as to pack up some work by Joni Herzog's work into the crate(s) she will be sending
according to her instructions and then call her (more details will be given). This is an amzing chance to see some great art before it leaves us for good.

TUES 9/2 & WED 9/3: Come join us for a day of fixin and lovin our gallery! We will be preping the gallery for our next installation, should not be too intense some patching and painting of the walls (and I promise cookies!).

THURS 9/4: (@ LEAST 1 PERSON NEEDED): This is an evening job, we need
someone to be here when some artists will be coming by to hang their work, as well as 2. to hang some pieces from an out of state artist. This means you will get to be one of the 1st in the bay to see these works AND meet some awesome artists.

FRI 9/5 (@ LEAST 2 PEOPLE NEEDED for each):
OPEN EYES EVENT: ART XX: Come to setup and be present to set up and
supervise for the OPEN EYES EVENT: ART XX, from 6-midnight, you get to
volunteer and check out an awesome event.

SAT 9/6 (@ LEAST 2 PEOPLE NEEDED): We need some folks to come at 6PM-midnight to setup and volunteer for 'OUT OF THE BUBBLE; ARTISTS ON QUEER TRAVEL Visual Arts Opening Reception'.
show description: "A photography exhibition exploring what it looks like when people venture from their comfort zones into new territory. The photos document each artists queer experience when traveling into other locations and cultures on the globe. The images articulate what they identified and contrasted with when leaving their personal bubble. Femina Potens proudly invites you to share the photography of Dusty Lombardo, Lenore Chinn, Lydia Daniller, Kristyn Russell, Pamela Peniston, and Yuri Manabe."

SAT 9/13 (@ LEAST 2 PEOPLE NEEDED): Come help out at SIZZLE, our infamous monthly event, always a good time and great artists (and hey, as
volunteers you will get to see the amazing ladies Jewelle Gomez, Thea Hillman,
and Katia Noyes for FREE!!) This event will be starting at 7:30PM, so we will need people here at 6:30 to setup and then supervise.

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Transcoded: FTM Disclosure, Sex, and the Internet

2008-04-27T23:50:32Z

Transcoded: FTM Disclosure, Sex, and the Internet

Upon hearing the word 'disclosure' when hooking up online for sex, most guys think of HIV. But Internet ads and profiles include sharing other aspects of who we are, including gender. Join us for a discussion about giving up the 'T' in a predominantly 'M4M' world of Manhunt-ing.

• Learn why non-disclosure is not the same as dishonesty.
• Discuss how trans guys choose to disclose information and in what contexts.
• Share tips for dealing with online harassment, abusive language, "chasers," and trans stigmatization in traditional M4M cyber-spaces.
• Think through the opportunities and benefits that accompany disclosure, as well as the risks.
• Find out about trans-welcoming web sites where you can pursue sex, love and friendship.
• Explore new ways to use the Internet for negotiating safer sex as it applies to trans bodies and desires.

Time: Tuesday, April 29 @ 7-9pm
Place: 2199 Market Street, San Francisco

Stop AIDS Project www.stopaids.org
Femina Potens
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Femina Potens Needs Your Help!

2007-07-10T02:40:45Z

Hello Friends,

Femina Potens has landed an amazing new space in the Castro, right at Market and Sanchez. We've got just about a month to get the new digs ready for opening and would love any help you can offer. We need assistance with everything from pulling nails out of the walls and preparing to paint, to more skilled construction work. If you are willing and able, we can use you...even for just a few hours!

Also, if you've got any special skillz and can wield a power tool, let me know about that:)

This week we'll be prepping the space for painting and construction, which will begin next week and continue until opening on August 17. We need help with all of it, so please let me know if you've got a little time to donate to making Femina Potens fabulous in her new home.

Many Thanks!!
Meilin

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FEMININE ENERGY

2006-05-16T21:15:26Z

It may be interesting to discuss the basic idea of energy, or the
principle
of energy. Basic energy is called sunyata, the energy of sunyata. And
from
this energy of sunyata, or of emptiness or voidness, rises the active
energy, which is called the dakini, or the feminine, principle of
energy.
The dakini energy is all pervading energy within our state of mind.
Often
this energy manifests as either destructive or positive. Thus, the
dakini
principle of energy also seems to describe the source of chaos in the
world, whether there may be war, or famine, or the confusion in
people's
minds. Everything is caused by this dakini principle of energy,
including
positive aspects of situations as well. That is say, there should be an
intuitive understanding of how this principle, as the symbolic aspect
of
mind, can be used in the world so that a person is able to use it and
live
with it as a kind of inspiration.

From "Challenge from a Wise Demoness," an unpublished talk by Chogyam
Trungpa, given in 1970 as part of a seminar on the 100,000 Songs of
Milarepa, at Karme-Choling, Vermont. Edited by Lisa Teitlebaum and
Robin
Kornman.

All material by Chogyam Trungpa is copyright Diana J. Mukpo and used by
permission.

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GenderEnders presents: Sizzle! 5/19

2006-05-05T22:48:00Z

Sizzle presents: GenderEnders!
Friday, May 19th, 2006
at Femina Potens Gallery
465 South Van Ness @ 16th St
Mission District, San Francisco, CA
8:00pm-10:00pm
$5 sliding scale, $3 if you sign up for the open mic.

Featuring:
Julia Serano
Meliza Banales
solidad decosta
Eli wise

May's Sizzle features GenderEnders: a night of trans- and gender-focused performance, featuring spoken word artists Meliza Bañales, solidad decosta and poet/songwriter Eli Wise. Plus, there will also be a feature set from GenderEnders host Julia Serano, who will be reading excerpts from her upcoming book Feminine Wiles. In addition to the featured performers, every GenderEnders show hosts an open mic, open to folks of all genders, sexualities and identities!

For more info:
http://genderenders.com
http://feminapotens.com

Femina Potens is a grassroots, DIY, non-profit art gallery and performance space dedicated to promoting and educating women and transfolk in the arts.

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Femina Potens in need of (Paid) Interns and Volunteers!

2006-03-28T04:22:33Z

Femina Potens is currently seeking interns who are committed to bringing gender diversity, feminism, and trans-positive consciousness to the arts community of San Francisco and beyond.

General intern responsibilities include drafting of flyers, flyer distribution, event and workshop coordination, gallery staffing one or more weekend days from Noon-6PM, event set-up, and promotions/marketing. Friday availability is highly desirable.

Recommended qualifications include non-profit experience, ability to work independently, and appreciation for the visual and performing arts.

Additional positions include:

1.Volunteer Coordinator and Workshop coordinator

2. Alternative Librarian and Archivist
Duties include archiving of postcards, fliers, posters, and notes; keeping track of tv, radio, newspaper, and magazine press, and maintaining archives on file, computer, and web site.

3. DIY Store Sales Coordinator and Fundraising Coordinator

4. Media Intern – videotape events and edit into 3 minute previews and 30 minute shows.

Femina Potens is a non-profit art gallery, performance space, alternative library, and diy boutique dedicated since 2000 to promoting women, queers, and transgendered men and women in the arts. We are located in the Mission District, close in proximity to Bart and Muni. Volunteers receive free access to events and are eligible for monthly paid stipends and/or school credit. For more information or to send qualifications please contact Tina Butcher, Executive Director at 415/217.9340 or at FeminaPotens@gmail.com.

Femina Potens is located at 465 S. Van Ness/16th St. San Francisco, CA 94110
Gallery hours are Thursday through Friday, 12 Noon—6PM

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feminist discussion group - anyone interested?

2006-03-28T00:00:47Z

hi!

we are a newly forming group of diverse radical feminists women looking to expand.

we are hoping to form something similar to drinking liberally, but focused on feminist issues. so far we’ve discussed everything from current issues to books, articles, blogs, personal experiences, and popular culture – and that was just our first meeting! we are open, honest, strong, and informed, with a desire to learn more. at the same time, we are looking to form meaningful friendships within this group.

our next meeting is planned for april 6th, location tbd.

if this sounds like something you are interested in, email me at: ihearticecream@yahoo.com

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03/24 - Queer Acoustic Rock Event at Femin Potens! All Ages!

2006-03-12T23:06:35Z

Queer Acoustic Rock Event at the Femina Potens art gallery! ALL AGES!!
March 24th - 8pm
465 South Van Ness (@16th St.)
$5-$10 (sliding scale)

Femina Potens presents:
Elizabeth Elmore
Thea Hillman
Jo Boyer
The Casual Lust
Butch Greenblatt

Elizabeth Elmore has been a force in indie rock since her shimmering pop/rock band Sarge garnered national press in 1998. The band's power pop music was loved by punk fans and rock critics alike. Since the break up of Sarge in 1999, Elizabeth has continued to pursue her voice, forming a new band called The Reputation, touring the country as a solo act, and finishing her law degree at Northwestern.
"There is no nostalgia in Elmore's voice for getting completely ruined. For sleeping with the wrong people. For sleeping with the same wrong people again. For getting drunk every night. For picking up scars that heal on the surface but never stop itching. But there's no older-but-wiser knowledge, either. You can't put your arms around a memory, as I heard Ronnie Spector sing so passionately on the radio the other day. Elmore's new songs seems to say You can't put your arms around a memory, but a memory can put its arms around you." - Greil Marcus, Interview Magazine, May 2002

Thea Hillman's writing has appeared in the San Francisco Bay Guardian, Berkeley Review of Fiction, On Our Backs, and Cometbus, among others. Thea performed a birdcall on The Tonight Show, was on the cover of the Oakland phone book, but she is most proud of her tag-team haiku championship title. Her first book, Depending on the Light , was published by Manic D Press in 2001. Her second book, For Lack of a Better Word , will be published in 2006 by Suspect Thoughts Press.

The Casual Lust is the long awaited musical collaboration between two of the Bay Area's finest looking people. This heartthrob duo holds no conclusions with their eclectic sound. Velvet vocals contrasted with rough undertones string you along with no intentions of letting go. They carry you to emotional revelations through lyrics that are the root of all relations. The Casual Lust is a lustful endeavor that no one can live without.

Butch Greenblatt rocks out with his acoustic guitar creating what
sounds like a mix of folk, pop, and of course, ROCK. He writes his own music, plays his own tunes and you don't want to miss him, especially now that he is back in the scene as a solo artist for the first time in over two years.

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Femina Potens is a nationally recognized art gallery and performance space dedicated to the advancement of women and trans-folk through art. Sponsored by the Queer Cultural Center, with support from the San Francisco Arts Commission and the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, Femina Potens is one of the leading queer organizations in San Francisco. Femina Potens has been featured on the Australian television show, Out and About, Q-Television, the documentary TranArchy, Japan's Foil Magazine, Bitch Magazine, and the San Francisco Guardian, which called Femina Potens a crucial bit of justice.

For more info call or email:
(415) 217-9340
feminapotens@gmail.com
feminapotens.com

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Down & Dirty w/ Shawna Virago - Mar 18 8PM

2006-03-12T01:14:04Z

465 South Van Ness
San Francisco, CA 94103
feminapotens@gmail.com
http://www.feminapotens.com
415/217-9340
March 18th, 2006 8PM
$5 – No One Turned Away for Lack of Funds

Femina Potens presents Down and Dirty: The Intimate World of Queer Filmmaking. Celebrate and promote local queer, trans, and women video artists as we feature intimate conversations with local filmmakers, a shot-by-shot analysis of the filmmaking process, stories from behind the scenes, and the inside scoop on San Francisco’s filmmaking community and scene followed up by Q & A from the audience.

A Night With Shawna Virago, the first in the series, showcases the black-and-white short films of the trans-fox rock star, activist, filmmaker, co-founder Of TrannyFest, and writer Shawna Virago. Reared in the diy tradition, Virago’s work harkens to that of Goddard and early Scorcese. “Almost Human” features a compilations of stills and political satiric while “Shut Up, Josephine!” is a punk-rock homage to Goddard’s early work.

Shawna Virago was dubbed "the sex symbol laureate of the burgeoning West Coast trans rock music scene" in Eros magazine. Her band, The Deadly Nightshades, are one of the hottest rising bands in the Bay Area. Ms. Virago is also co-director of TrannyFest, a film festival dedicated to supporting work made by and for transgender and genderqueer people. She is a founding member of TransAction, the police accountability group and she was the first trans woman to serve on the board of directors for San Francisco Woman Against Rape (SFWAR).

Guest curated by Shani Heckman

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Call for Film & Video Submissions -- Femina Potens 2006 Season

2006-02-25T23:21:42Z

CALL FOR FILM & VIDEO SUBMISSIONS
FEMINA POTENS GALLERY 2006 SEASON
Deadline: Open until filled

--*--Announcing Femina Potens 2006 Season--*--

Femina Potens announces an open call for submissions of short
video/film works for its 2006 season. We are seeking shorts of all
genres and interests to our community comprised of a diverse
cross-section of youth, queer, female, and transgendered individuals.

Specific categories we seek include:

-- Documentary pieces (less than 26 minutes (broadcast time)
-- Experimental porn & animation (less than 15 minutes)
-- Comic narratives (less than 15 minutes)
-- Horror flicks (less than 15 minutes)
-- Foreign language films (less than 15 minutes)
-- Music videos limited to a queer focus (less than 10 minutes)
-- Youth-made films (less than 10 minutes)

Femina Potens can screen in DVD or VHS NTSC format only. Assistance is
available to convert your work if in another format.

Please send either $10 submission/processing fee or proof of income
less than 20k per year with your submission to:
Revolving Deadline--submit early for inclusion!

www.feminapotens.com
www.shanestar.org

Femina Potens Gallery
attn: Shani Heckman guest curator
465 So. Van Ness Street
San Francisco, CA 94103

For additional information please contact ShaniHeckman@gmail.com

Femina Potens is a non-profit gallery and performance space, dedicated
to the advancement of women and transpeople through the arts since its
inception in 2000. The SF Bay Guardian recently dubbed Femina Potens
a "crucial bit of justice."

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Mark Yr Calendars for Sizzle - Mar 17 8PM

2006-02-25T23:15:58Z

Femina Potens Presents its monthly erotica, spoken word, and open mic performance. This month's features include ATHENS BOYS CHOIR, MARCI BLACKMAN, MARTIN INANE, and GINA DeVRIES, plus all the fab folks stepping up to the open mic.
Located @ Femina Potens
465 S. Van Ness btwn 15th and 16th St. (follow the alley)
March 17 8PM
$5/$3 for open mic performers

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Thursday Craft Circle (?s)

2006-02-25T23:08:09Z

I noticed that there is a Thursday craft circle at Femina Potens. I want to know a little more about it. What kinds of folks attend? What kind of craftiness goes on? Are there frequently new members or is it a stable core group of weekly crafters? I am in the process of relocating to SF and thought it sounded like something worth checking out, because I like crafts and need the impetus to finish the knitting project that I have been trying to get into for the past several weeks. And I want to get involved with some artistic happenings.

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"I'll Show You Mine if You'll Show Me Yours"

2006-02-19T16:30:35Z

RAY AIMS is the alter-ego of a Boston, MA USA based artist/designer/producer/performer who has been piercing in public and private for over two years. The fight between beauty and pain is what draws Ray to temporary piercing. Aims learned temporary piercing from Fetish Diva Midori and consultations with Aimee Ross/The Bearded Lady. Aims can be reached at rayaims@gmail.com. More info and Ray's work can be seen at www.truthserum.org/rayaims

CRYSTAL GOLDMIND loves progressive porn, feminist and queer politics, and the amazing feeling she gets while being pierced. She is a sexual explorer and takes pride in putting together well thought out performances that are sexy, exciting, beautiful and thought-provoking.

Thursday, March 16th 2006
$5-10 Sliding Scale
Femina Potens Gallery 465 S. Van Ness btwn 15th and 16th

tribes.tribe.net/installationart

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Femina Potens Seeks Volunteers / Interns!!

2006-02-18T23:03:05Z

Femina Potens is currently in need of new volunteers for our 2006 Season. FP can provide school credit, access to events, and much more.

We are particularly in need of volunteers who are available a minimum of 4 hours a week during gallery hours, Thursday -- Sunday Noon -- 6pm. Femina Potens is a non-profit arts organization. An internship at Femina Potens can be used for school credit. We can also provide lunch for interns and free admission to all events. Pleasecheck out www.feminapotens.com for more information.

Email inquiries and letters of interest to Tina Butcher at Femina_potens@yahoo.com. Please include availability, experience, and number of hours you are able to volunteer.

Available Positions:

Volunteer Coordinator

Press Coordinator

DIY Store Coordinator

Workshop Coordinator

Fundraising Coordinator

Video Documentarian

Fliering Assistant

Tech Assistant

We look forward to hearing from you!

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Opening Reception Celebrating Local Artists -- Friday, March 3rd 7-10PM at Femina Potens

2006-02-17T23:04:25Z

Femina Potens Gallery
465 South Van Ness
San Francisco, CA 94103
femina_potens@yahoo.com
http://www.feminapotens.com (yes, the website is now up!)
415/217-9340

Femina Potens Gallery presents in conjunction with Fresh Meat Productions New Work by Stacy Nathaniel Jackson and eddie gesso from March 3rd – 31st, 2006.

In Surfacing, Stacy Nathaniel Jackson’s series of mixed media paintings, underwater free diving is depicted as a metaphor for gender queer existence. Jackson uncovers the human ability to adapt to the unknown, paying homage to those who risk their lives in seeking existential fulfillment. Deconstructing cultural myths, eddie gesso’s paintings and drawings attempt to “situate the body as ambiguous and un-locatable within the gender binary.” Gesso uses the dichotomous distinction between urban and rural archetypes as a vehicle by which to “seek new ways of envisioning queer space.” Together, their works encourage the viewer to actively explore subjects unconstrained by binary schemas and prompts us to consider new gender possibilities.

The public is invited to a free reception with the artists on Friday March 3rd, 7-10pm at Femina Potens Gallery.

Stacy Nathaniel Jackson received a BA in Fine Arts, Magna Cum Laude from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, and did graduate work at the University of Arizona, Tucson in Sculpture. Several odd jobs later, and a severe case of missing the ocean, Stacy returned to California. He later received an MBA from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. After a successful career as a corporate financial planning and analysis director and a twenty year break, he has returned to making art with renewed energy and focus. Stacy is also a writer; he is an MFA Creative Writing candidate at San Francisco State University.

eddie gesso is currently pursuing his BFA at California College of Arts (and Crafts). A multi–disciplinary artist, gesso’s work incorporates time based media, sculpture and painting. Ze’s video “Binding” was exhibited at Genderqueer/Queergenders: A Conversation Among Artists, Activists, and Academics, a conference held at UC Santa Barbara in 2005, and the Seattle based conference FTM 2004: A Gender Odyssey. gesso’s book “Lengthen or Shorten Here” was included in the Fresh Meat in the Gallery group show in 2005 and most recently was part of the group show Unexpected Development at Playspace Gallery in San Francisco.

Femina Potens is a nationally recognized art gallery and performance space dedicated to the advancement of women and trans-folk through art. Sponsored by Sister Spit and the Queer Cultural Center, with support from the San Francisco Arts Commission and the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, Femina Potens is one of the leading queer organizations in San Francisco. Femina Potens has been featured on the Australian television show, Out and About, Q-Television, the documentary TranArchy, Japan's Foil Magazine, Bitch Magazine, and the San Francisco Guardian, which called Femina Potens a crucial bit of justice.

Femina Potens is located at 465 South Van Ness, San Francisco. Gallery hours are Thursday through Sunday 12:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

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trying to reach tina of femina potens...

2006-01-31T20:35:49Z

the official website is down and email there bounced. phone number listed is hooked up to a fax machine. tina, if you are out there, i'd love to talk to you about some collaboration possibilities. midori sent me your way and left you a message about my west coast tour in march.

or if anyone has ideas for me, please email back.

thanks.
aliza
http://www.truthserum.org

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Sizzle Presents Gender Enders!

2006-01-20T01:45:59Z

Friday, January 20th Femina Potens Gallery will present its spoken word series Sizzle, a monthly night of open-mic erotica, film screenings, burlesque, drag shows and musical performances. January's Sizzle will present GenderEnders: a night of trans- and gender-focused performance, featuring:>>

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Lisa Jervis, co-founder and publisher of Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture and editor at large of LiP: Informed Revolt. Max Wolf Valerio, trans man and author of the forthcoming Seal Press release, The Testosterone Files: My Hormonal and Social Transformation from Female to Male. Shawna Virago, trans-fox rock star, activist, filmmaker, co-founder of TrannyFest, and writer whose work will appear in the upcoming TransForming Community anthology. Nadyalec Hijazi is an omnisexual hellraising genderqueer gayrab whose work has appeared in Best Gay Erotica 2006, Desire in Transition, Lodestar Quarterly, Generation Q, Hot Off the Net, and Trikone.>>

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In addition to the featured performers, every GenderEnders show hosts a performance open mic, open to folks of all genders, sexualities and identities!>>

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As always, GenderEnders will be hosted by writer, spoken word artist, and all-round renaissance trans woman Julia Serano. Hope to see you there! >>

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Femina Potens Gallery>>

465 South Van lace>Nesslace> at 16th St>>

Mission District, lace>San Francisco, CAlace>>>

Friday, January 20th at 8pm>>

$5 sliding scale, $3 if you sign up for the open mic>>

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what happened to the site

2005-12-31T21:47:22Z

What happened to feminapotens.com??? Is there another website or calender that lists the events?

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Crafty Bitches 'n' Bros

2005-11-04T06:08:34Z

Crafty Bitches 'n' Bros is now on Sunday afternoons from 3-5 PM. Please come by and craft your little heart out.

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August Newsletter

2005-08-20T21:14:45Z

Femina Potens August Newsletter

August 5 7-10pm Free
Artist Reception for Billie Mandel.
Utilizing sculpting tools instead of brushes, Mandel creates sculpture onto canvas fostering the relationship between the body and the senses.

August 12 9pm Free
Burlesque at the Lex!
A fundraiser for Femina Potens, this show features Bomshell Betty and the Debut-taunts with DJ Dr Sleep.
The Lexington is located at 3464 19th Street Between Mission and Valencia.

August 19 8pm $5, $3(open mic performers) (no one turned away for lack of funds)
Sizzle, a night of erotic open mic and performances by:
Sherilyn Connelly
Annie Sprinkle
Kate Braverman
& bellydancer Dalila Jasmin

August 20 8pm $5
(no one turned away for lack of funds)
Sampler, the film series showcasing women and transgendered artists presents a film by Bill Basquin

August 26th 9pm $5
Rock Out w/o Yr Cock Out
Queer rock and noise event features:
Katastrophe
Bambi Lake
Gutter Ghouls
Surrogate Sound
Located at Edinburgh Castle 950 Geary.

Ongoing Events----------------->
August Exhibition Featuring Billie Mandel Running from August 5-26. Femina Potens Gallery Hours Thursday-Sunday 12-6.

DIY Store & Alternative Library
Now stocked with Journals by Ex Libris Anonymous, vegan harnesses, suspenders, belts, t shirts, zines, a Passin Pissin Packer (djknowsdicks.com), art work by Sara Seinberg, 10% off any item in the store if you mention the newsletter!

Our Alternative Library provides free internet, books, zines, audio & video by women & transgendered artists.

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Crafty Bitches, Too

2005-06-06T23:12:31Z

Tonite's Crafty Bitches, Too is going to be cancelled. I can't make it ladies, I've got family commitments. I'm super bummed, but I will FOR CERTAIN, COME HELL OR HIGH WATER, be there next week. Til then keep your knittin', crochetin', and Tina-chetin' going...

See you ladies next week!

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New Gallery Hours

2005-06-05T08:46:10Z

Femina Potens has changed our hours in order to better accomodate our audience. We hope the new hours prove to be more accessible and convenient. They are:

Thursday-Sunday Noon-6PM

So stop by when you have a chance and check out all our events. Especially for PRIDE 2005!!! We have so much going on this month!

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argh.....

2005-06-03T05:57:40Z

with fanciful dreams of needles flying across rolls of knots to connect and tighten my first attempts of a scarf... arghhhh.... you were shut down for the night :(

why oh why??

yet another week for my project to lay in the corner and at moments of idle hands i will tear apart and put back again where i left off/ was stopped by my lack of knowledge.

just looking forward to finding some people that would help me learn step two in this craft.

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June Newsletter

2005-06-02T23:47:40Z

FEMINA POTENS JUNE EVENTS
465 South Van Ness, SF, CA feminapotens.com

Femina Potens New Hours! Thursday - Sunday Noon - 6

June 1 st 8pm $5-7 3$ for open mic performers
A series of trans/intersex/genderqueer-focused performance shows that takes place primarily in the SF Bay area. Featuring Charlie Anders and Storm Florez and hosted by Julia Serano, Gender Enders also hosts a community bulletin board and a queer open mic?so come out, bring your announcements, music, spoken word, stand-up, performance art, or just enjoy the show!

June 3 rd exhibition reception 7pm - 10pm Free
Femina Potens? Exhibition Series presents Katie Gilmartin and Emma Ramstad. Join us for an art reception and opening for artists Katie Gilmartin and Emma Ramstad. Gilmartin devotes her work to the proliferation of art as play; her work aims to remind us of the redemptive power of pleasure. Exhibit runs from June 3rd ? 24th 2005. www.katiegilmartin.com

June 4 th QBall ?War On Labels? curated by Femina Potens?National Queer Arts Festival Performance & Visual Arts Gala @ LGBT Community Center 2 nd & 4 th floors 1800 Market at Octavia 6pm Free
The artworks of Tina Butcher, Heather Catalinich and Lauren Anderson wage War On Labels on the 2nd and 4th floors in which the three artists examine the societal wars and stigmas attached to sexual orientation, gender, intimacy, and sex work, using photo, video, and installation. exhibit up until august 13th.

June 17th Sizzle 8pm $5 3$(for open mic performers)
No one turned away for lack of funds
A monthly night of open mic erotica, erotic film screenings, burlesque, drag performances, spoken word and music; June?s installment features spoken word by Cindy Emch & Jenn Collins and music from Blair Hansen; not to mention all of the fabulous erotica writers who will be stepping up to the open mic. come read or just enjoy the smuttiest of the smut at Femina Potens.

June 18th 8pm Sampler 5$ no one turned away for lack of funds
A monthly film and video series showing samples from video festivals around the world which feature women and transgendered video artists and film makers. This month?s Sampler will be a fundraiser for the PMS Media Film Tour screening films such feminist declarations of film as Our Bodies Our Choice and Red Wings.

June 19th 2pm I Do I Don?t reading at Barnes & Noble 2550 Taylor on Fisherman?s Wharf free
Featuring Patrick Califia, Charlie Anders, Sherilyn Connelly, and Carol Queen. Our guest readers will be reading selections of the anthology on queer marriage I Do I Don?t. Following the reading will be a raffle and book signing to benefit Femina Potens Art Gallery and Performance Space. www.feminapotens.com

June 23 rd 1030pm Alix Olsen Documentary at the Roxie 3117
16 th at Valencia 8$
Femina Potens cosponsors Left Lane, a film by Samatha Farinella. A year in the making Left Lane chronicles life on the road with Alix Olsen and her road manager/filmmaker Samantha Farinella as they tour the country connecting the dots from a high school visit in Lincoln Nebraska to a cd release party in New York.

June 24th 9pm Rock Out w/o yr Cock Out at Edinburgh Castle 950 Geary $5
Queer and progressive rock and experimental noise event showcasing women and transgender musicians in the Bay Area and beyond the final friday of every month. Come support women and transgender musicians, eat some fish and chips, have a beer, and come see kick ass performances by Transition, Dyspecific, Band Practice and Chelsea Beauchamp.

June 25-26 th SF Pride Art Exhibit Taking Back Space
Femina Potens presents sfpride?s first outdoor visual art exhibition, for two days along the parade route at Fulton and 8 th dedicated and comprised of work from women, queer and transgendered artists.

ONGOING EVENTS

Exhibition Series Featuring Katie Gilmartin and Emma Ramstad.
Installation runs from June 3 rd - June 24 th. Gallery Hours Thursday-Sunday Noon - 6.

Crafty Bitches, Too Free
Join the group of ladies and transfolk for an evening of knitting, crocheting and needle pointing, crafting and chatting with yummy snacks, tea, and drinks. Come hang out, make a scarf, make a friend, or bring a friend. Bring some yarn and learn to knit, or just drop by and we?ll share.

Visit the DIY Store & Alternative Library
Stocked with vegan harnesses, suspenders, belts, t shirts, zines, a Passin Pissin Packer (djknowsdicks.com), art work by Sara Seinberg, Mari Naomi and a new line of clothing designed specifically for transmen and butches called ?studded?. 10% off any item in the store if you mention the newsletter! Our Alternative Library provides free internet, books, zines, audio & video by women & transgendered artists.

Femina Potens is also currently in need of Interns who are women or trans identified and interested in making a difference in the arts community of San Francisco and beyond.

Our alternative library is in need of book donations so please visit our amazon wish list and send us books for our library:
http://amazon.com/gp/registry/XB34J7MOPBQE

We are also looking for organizations and persons who are interested in throwing fundraisers for Femina Potens, so if your organization, club night, friend?s club night, bar, restaurant, is interested in donating a portion of a nights proceeds to Femina Potens or if your household is interested in throwing a house party and donating funds made to the gallery, please email Tina Butcher at femina_potens@yahoo.com with your idea and date of fundraiser and we will assist with promotion and set you up with a gift basket of awesome prizes from Femina Potens!

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May Newsletter

2005-05-07T20:12:51Z

MAY EVENTS!

May 5 730p Sex Workers Film & Arts Festival Webzine Launch Party
Join us for the launch party of BOA: New Whore Culture a web-based journal featuring sex worker artists, activists, and provocateurs. Featuring a performance by Gennifer M. Hirano, Asian Princess and readings by Mattilda (Matt Bernstein Sycamore), Kirk Read, Shauna Rogan, and Lady Monster, MC?d by boa?s publisher, Melissa Gira. The show kicks off with a Whore Open Mic--get there early, sign ups start at 7. 5-10$ sliding scale

May 13 9p Pop Quiz
Femina Potens presents an amazing lineup for all ages at Station 40 (3030 B @ 16th). Pop Quiz the all ages counterpart to Rock Out w/o yr Cock Out, the monthly queer and progressive rock and experimental noise event showcasing women and transgendered musicians. Pop Quiz features music from Scream Club, Gangway with Tami Hart, Esmerelda the Strange and Jo Boyer. $5-10 sliding scale.

May 20 8p Sizzle
A monthly night of open mic erotica, erotic film screenings, burlesque, drag performances, spoken word, music; May?s Sizzle features spoken work by Diana Cage, Aysha Cromeenes and Robin Akimbo. Not to mention all of the fabulous erotica writers who will be stepping up to the open mic. 5$ 3$(if you sign up for the open mic) no one turned away for lack of funds

May 21 8p Sampler
Our film and video series screening samples from video festivals around the world which feature women and transgendered video artists and film-makers, hosts the Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project (QWOCMAP) presenting ?Don?t Fence Me In?. QWOCMAP promotes the creation and exhibition of films and videos that reflect the experiences, stories and lives of queer women of color that address the social and political issues pertinent to our communities. 5$ sliding scale, no one turned away for lack of funds. Femina Potens Gallery is located at 465 South Van Ness. 5$ (no one turned away for lack of funds)

May 27 9p Rock Out w/o yr Cock Out
Femina Potens? monthly queer progressive rock and experimental noise event, Rock Out w/o yr Cock Out features Project Renovate, If Rebecca Horn Played Guitar and Violetta Beauregarde. Come support women and transgendered musicians, eat some fish and chips, have a beer, and see some kick ass performances. Rock Out the final Friday of every month at Edinburgh Castle (950 Geary) 5$.

ONGOING EVENTS

Exhibition Series Features Roxanne Zuniga
Zuniga?s compositions create invented characters inhabiting a dream-like narrative that presented via both traditional and digital Pictorial mediums, which create her idiosyncratic vision. Zuniga?s installation will run at Femina Potens from April 30- May 27; Gallery hours are MTWF 1-5. www.roxannezuniga.com

Every Monday 7 ? 9p Crafty Bitches, Too
Join the group of ladies and transfolk for Crafty Bitches, Too, an evening of knitting, crocheting and needle pointing, crafting and chatting with yummy snacks, tea, and drinks. Come hang out, make a scarf, make a friend, or bring a friend. Bring some yarn and learn to knit, or just drop by and we?ll share.

Visit the DIY Store & Alternative Library
Now stocked with vegan harnesses, suspenders, belts, t shirts, zines, a Passin Pissin Packer (djknowsdicks.com), art work by Sara Seinberg, Mari Naomi and a new line of clothing designed specifically for transmen and butches called ?studded?. 10% off any item in the store if you mention the newsletter! Our Alternative Library provides free internet, books, zines, audio & video by women & transgendered artists.

Femina Potens is also currently in need of Interns who are women or trans identified and interested in making a difference in the arts community of San Francisco and beyond.

Our alternative library is in need of book donations so please visit our amazon wish list and send us books for our library:
http://amazon.com/gp/registry/XB34J7MOPBQE

We are also looking for organizations and persons who are interested in throwing fundraisers for Femina Potens, so if your organization, club night, friend?s club night, bar, restaurant, is interested in donating a portion of a nights proceeds to Femina Potens or if your household is interested in throwing a house party and donating funds made to the gallery, please email Tina Butcher at femina_potens@yahoo.com with your idea and date of fundraiser and we will assist with promotion and set you up with a gift basket of awesome prizes from Femina Potens!

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Women in the art world (article in the NYTimes)

2005-05-06T23:14:06Z

May 1, 2005
The X Factor: Is the Art Market Rational or Biased?
By GREG ALLEN

N the early 1950's Lee Krasner, not yet famous but already a promising Abstract Expressionist painter, asked Hans Hofmann, her former teacher, to help her land a gallery show. He offered her the biggest compliment he could: "This is so good," he said of her work, "you would not believe it was done by a woman." Nonetheless, he declined. Female artists were a relative rarity at the top galleries, and the most famous painters of the day were all men. The disparity was even more extreme at museums, and when paintings came up for sale, those by male artists fetched by far the higher price. By 1989, the artist-activists known as the Guerrilla Girls, founded to call attention to these disparities, were postering SoHo with a list of 67 women and artists of color whose work could be purchased with the record $17.7 million one Jasper Johns painting brought at auction.

Flash forward to spring 2005. With the Guerrilla Girls preparing to exhibit in the first Venice Biennale overseen by two women, a casual observer might think the art world is at the vanguard of gender equality. But next week's contemporary art auctions, one of the most prestigious art markets in the world, tell a very different story indeed. Of the 861 works that Christie's, Sotheby's and Phillips de Pury, & Company are offering over three days starting May 10, a mere 13 percent, are by female artists. Sixty-one pieces have each been assigned an estimated price of $1 million or more; of those, only 6 are by women: a marble sculpture by Louise Bourgeois, 2 grid canvases by the late Minimalist Agnes Martin and 3 paintings by the South African artist Marlene Dumas.

The first two are venerated figures in the canon of contemporary art, whose work has been shown and taught for decades; Ms. Dumas is a relative newcomer whose recent price jumps have attracted considerable attention. The male ranks of the million-plus club, by comparison, include those of some lesser-known contemporary artists. "When you're talking about the market, there may be a glass ceiling," Irving Sandler, an art historian and expert on the New York school, said. "It's not as if women aren't recognized; they are. But look at your top auction people, and there is a vast discrepancy between what the men get and what the women get."

THOUGH Krasner and her fellow Abstract Expressionist Joan Mitchell were overlooked in their youth, curators and historians now recognize them as nearly as important as male contemporaries like Franz Kline, Philip Guston, or Willem de Kooning. Yet their paintings still sell for a small fraction of what the men's command.

At next week's auctions, "When They Were Gone," which Mitchell painted in 1977, is estimated to sell for $400,000 to $600,000. Works by Guston and Kline are estimated at $3 million to $4 million. The de Kooning on offer is expected to fetch $10 million to $12 million.

Nor is this disparity a lingering relic of less enlightened times. Take two contemporary artists, Damien Hirst and Rachel Whiteread, who both came to prominence in the 1990's as so-called Y.B.A.'s: Young British Artists. Both have won the Tate museum's Turner Prize: Ms. Whiteread in 1993 and Mr. Hirst in 1995. And both have made their way into high-profile collections. Next week Christie's is offering an important early sculpture by Ms. Whiteread, a fiberglass and rubber cast of two mattresses from 1991, which has been on extended loan to the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin. Christie's suggests a value of $400,000 to $600,000. Meanwhile, Mr. Hirst's most famous early sculpture, a tiger shark suspended in a glass tank of formaldehyde, from 1992, sold in January for $13.3 million.

According to conventional wisdom, the value of an artist's work increases when she has shows in prestigious museums. But as Mark Fletcher, a private art adviser who has dealt in work by both artists, said, "Whiteread has an extraordinary, esteemed museum exhibition and patronage history, but it's Hirst, which has little such institutional support, which does extremely well in the marketplace."

One more example. Since three emerging figurative painters - Luc Tuymans of Belgium and the Americans John Currin and Elizabeth Peyton - were exhibited together at the Museum of Modern Art in 1997, they, too, have come to seem almost like classmates, all heralded as leading figures in painting's contemporary resurgence. The two men's canvases have sold for more than $1 million. Meanwhile, Ms. Peyton's 1996 oil portrait of a languorous John Lennon is estimated by Christie's at $200,000 to $300,000. And even that is a lot more than the current record price for her work: $136,000, set in June 2002.

Art defies head-on comparison. Forget apples and oranges; how does one judge the value of Ms. Whiteread's cast fiberglass and rubber mattress relative to Mr. Hirst's deteriorating shark? Or of Maurizio Cattelan's sculpture of a taxidermied ostrich compared with Martin's canvas with the faintest of graphite grids on it? The contemporary art market has at least one frustratingly simple answer: price. And from that perspective, the comparison is unmistakable: art made by women is regarded less highly than art made by men.

The problem, of course, started long before the current boom in the art market, with its dizzying seven-figure prices. Through the middle of the last century, many galleries simply refused to show the work of female artists; others reportedly had quotas. There were exceptions, most notably, perhaps, Andre Emmerich, whose gallery represented Helen Frankenthaler, Dorothea Rockburne, Beverly Pepper and Anne Truitt, among others. But as Paula Cooper, the longtime dealer and SoHo pioneer, recalls, "Until about 25 years ago, women just weren't shown that much."

Even those who were found that success was dependent on networking in heavily male-dominated cliques. Some women chose to withdraw from the market, even as their reputations were rising. "Both Lee Bontecou and Jo Baer," Ms. Cooper said, "who were two of the best-known artists in the second half of the 60's, just split. They just left because they just didn't want to have that kind of life or be in that kind of situation."

Such obstacles slowed or prevented women from establishing a strong base of collectors. Agnes Gund, the former president of the Museum of Modern Art and a major collector of postwar art, said that over the last 15 years, at least half of the artists whose work she has collected are women. "But if you go back to 1968 when I started collecting seriously, I hardly have any. There weren't that many women doing artwork then, and I would say that it's very hard to collect women when there really weren't that many available." When she asked why they were so scarce, she recalls, "dealers would say to me, 'I just can't sell women artists as well as males,' or 'I can't sell them for enough.' And sometimes these would be women saying that."

In 1972, the feminist art historian Linda Nochlin published an influential essay that linked women's lack of parity in the art world with the biases women faced in the culture at large. Since then, each successive generation of female artists has found the playing field a bit more level. "I think some of the best painters in the country are women now, and that's a change," said Elizabeth Murray, whose large, intricately shaped paintings have been shown and collected widely since the 1970's.

Kiki Smith, whose sculptural investigations of the human body came to prominence in the 1980's, said, "For younger women artists, there've been tremendous inroads in economic compensation that's more equal to younger men."

Ms. Bourgeois, now 93, rejects the idea that her art has ever suffered from bias. "No, it hasn't," she said assuredly. "I don't see any difference in the art, whether men's or women's."

But such defiance is rare. In more cases, female artists who try to be optimistic find the exercise has its limits. "When you compare yourself, you really have to look within your own generation," Ms. Smith said. "And then you have to say there's a difference between the economic value and the cultural value of the women's work. It's a tremendous difference. You see that over and over again."

And you see it across generations. "It's true!" Ms. Peyton said when asked about the persistence of a male-female price gap. "One reason may be the way women can be marketed by their dealers. There's something about a great male painter; it's an ideal. Also, maybe women are concerned with different things, and so they're making different kinds of work. Maybe the market thinks that's less valuable."

The video artist and photographer Shirin Neshat said the distinction may be greater at auction than in galleries. Auction houses are often reselling early works, and only the seller, not the artist, sees the profit. A gallerist, on the other hand, often has a personal relationship with the artists he or she represents, and focuses on placing (the dealer's term for selling) work in collections that will enhance the artist's reputation as well as pay the bills.

Still, as the Minimalist painter Ms. Rockburne cautioned: "There's something with how this ricochets. Because women's work is often undervalued in the auction houses, that feeds down into the gallery market; it gets to be a bad cycle."

And that cycle can be hard for even the most determined artists to ignore. "Somebody told me once, when the auctions started to be a big deal," Ms. Murray said, " 'You're never going to be anywhere until one of your paintings goes for over $500K.' I'm beginning to think there's something to that at this point, it's so much about money."

WHEN asked if Sotheby's considers an artist's gender when setting the estimate for her work, Tobias Meyer, the director of the auction house's contemporary art department, replied: "Not at all. We base our estimates on the quality of the artist's work and on their importance."

His counterpart at Christie's, Amy Cappellazzo, concurs. "Estimates are based on the overall position of the artist's market," she said, "and the quality of that particular work of art relatively. Gender is never a factor."

For Mr. Meyer, the recent art boom has had a liberating effect. "The bourgeoisie now wants to buy contemporary art; they're not afraid of it any longer," he said. "Now you see something that's really only based on talent, and the market is based on that." When Eva Hesse's "Unfinished, Untitled, or Not Yet" (1966) was sold at auction in 1997, he said, its $2.2 million price held the record for a female artist for more than half a decade. But in just the last two years, the record has been toppled three times: by Martin ($2.6 million), Mitchell ($2.69 million) and most recently Ms. Dumas ($3 million.) "It's no longer about gender," he said, "it's about quality. This has finally broken."

As for this year's auctions, he said: "Are there more male artists in the catalog than female artists? Yes, but it doesn't reflect at all negatively on the quality of the work in the sale. And in my whole career, I've never heard anyone say they bought a work because it was by a man or a woman."

Ms. Cappellazzo paints a somewhat less rosy picture. Among artists in their early 30's, "There's definitely a parity in gallery representation now," she said. "But if you look at even a generation up from there, at artists in their 40's, it looks vastly different." As for the paucity of women whose work has broken the million-dollar mark at auction, she said, "it looks relatively extreme."

But noting the many challenges that every artist faces - having the right dealers, the support of the right curators, the right placement, the right reviews, the right pacing - Ms. Cappellazzo wondered if some female artists are, "by their very nature, less" - here she paused - "Machiavellian about their careers."

By any stretch, the factors at work here are complex. But are they really as complex as these theories suggest? Can they only be understood in terms of this precise moment in the history of the economy? Or only in the context of debates about the emotional differences between women and men?

Michael Plummer is the president and chief operating officer of Fernwood Art Investments, which is raising a fund of reportedly $100 million or more for long-term investments in art. Mr. Plummer employs a complex analytical methodology to explain how artistic reputation and value are created. But when he talks about male versus female artists, he raises a pretty basic question. "While women have taken positions of prominence in the art world," he said, "collecting remains a male-dominated activity, and it appears that's going to continue for some time. I would ask what might be the impact of having the large part of the customer base be men."

Of all the world's markets, the art market is perhaps the most intrinsically subjective. No one calculates the price of a painting by tallying the time it took and multiplying that by the artist's hourly rate. Nor do raw materials count for much: expensive paintings are, more or less, made of the same stuff as cheap paintings. For all the experts and connoisseurs and scholars and analysts, when it comes right down to it, the price of a work of art is based on what buyer and seller agree it's worth, and that's all. And as in almost every other field where money changes hands in society, women's production has been and continues to be valued below that of men, except in this field, the difference is sometimes tenfold or more.

Asking why women's art sells for less than men's elicits a long and complex answer, with endless caveats, entirely germane qualifiers and diverse, sometimes contradictory reasons. But there is also a short and simple, if unpopular, answer that none of those explanations can trump. Women's art sells for less because it is made by women.

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Femina Potens Monthly Newsletter

2005-04-09T23:59:15Z

Femina Potens April 2005 Newsletter
Femina Potens
465 South Van Ness
San Francisco, CA 94103
http://www.feminapotens.com

Check out our web site make over at
www.feminapotens.com complete with a community
forum,new links,new photos,a recomendation feature and
new store items.

Also Femina Potens is currently looking for new
volunteers and interns specifically a volunteer
coordinator,gallery assistant, and street team
coordinator. If you know anyone who might be
interested please fwd them our info.

Every Monday 7pm --Crafty Bitches Too
A free weekly knitting, crocheting, needle pointing,
crafting, chatting, circle for trans folk and ladies.
As always, there will be yummy snacks, tea and drinks.
Come hang out, make a scarf, make a friend, or bring
one. If you don?t know how to crochet or knit but want
to learn come on down and bring some yarn and needles.
We also have some extra yarn for those who don?t have
their own.

April 2nd 8pm -- Giantess - a benefit for Femina
Potens featuring Michelle Tea, Ali Liebegott, Ricky
Lee, Cindy Emch, Tina Butcher, Katia Noyes, Tracy
Vogel and muic by Paper Boats. Located at Varnish Fine
Art Gallery (Natoma and 2nd St)
$5- $10.

April 6th 8pm --Gender Enders
A Bay Area based series of
trans/intersex/genderqueer-focused performance. Gender
Enders will be featuring two hosts of local queer and
trans open mic events, Larry-bob Roberts and
Brooklynne Thomas. cover $5-7 (sliding scale) $3 for
open mic performers. All Ages!

April 8th 7 - 10pm --Exhibition Series presents
Nancy Elliott & Twiz Rimer
Join us for an art reception and opening for artists
Nancy Mizuno Elliott and Twiz Rimer. Featuring
Elliott?s most recent body of work, Old School: The
Memorialization of Freedom and Excess, a punk rock
soap opera presented on chalkboard slates that link
sullenness with subjugated sexuality, independence
with isolation, and freedom with excess. Elliott?s
work questions the notion of sustainable youth and the
relationship between gender stereotypes, marketed
rebellion, and pop culture. Rimer creates portraits of
the human figure, making a statement on the nature of
the current mainstream hetero voyeurism into the queer
culture. Elliott and Rimer?s work will run at Femina
Potens from April 8th - 22nd. Femina Potens gallery
hours are MTWF from 1 - 5pm located at 465 South Van
Ness, San Francisco, CA 94103.

April 15th 8pm --Femina Potens presents Sizzle
A monthly night of open mic erotica, erotic film
screenings, burlesque, drag performances, spoken word,
music and hip hop. Sizzle returns with ?Sluts and
Goddesses? an erotica film by Annie Sprinkle. April?s
installment also features spoken word by 'Sex
Aesthetician' Lady Monster, Thea Hillman, Rhiannon
Argo and music from Chelsea Beauchamp; not to mention
all of the fabulous erotica writers who will be
stepping up to the open mic. Come read or just enjoy
the smuttiest of the smut at Femina Potens. $5 at the
door - $3 if you sign up for the open mic. No one
turned away for lack of funds.

April 16th 8pm --Femina Potens?Sampler screens Sex
Workers Film Festival
A monthly film and video series showing samples from
video festivals around the world which feature women
and transgendered video artists and film makers. This
month?s Sampler is a fundraiser for the upcoming Sex
Worker?s Film & Arts Festival; featuring films by and
about sex workers focusing on sex workers rights,
working conditions and organizing efforts, sex work as
a labor issue on the international agenda, sex workers
as heroes and heroines, jerks and perverts, sex
education, porn and erotica and much more. Sampler
will be screening the films Apocalypse, Tales of the
Nite Faeries, Asian Princess, Angel Ladies and more.
$3 - $5 at the door. No one turned away for lack of
funds.

April 22nd 8pm - Gender Pirates - *a benefit for
United Genders of the Universe!
genderqueer/transgender support groups,the Gender
Education Speaker's Bureau. Featuring Urban Hermitt,
(hip hop), Anna Mills ( Genderqueer Prose),Jason
Phoenix(spoken word), and Sam Mireles(Trumpet) *$5-15
sliding scale,no one turned away for lack of
funds.freaks, punks, queers, trannies, genderqueers,
men, women, genderfuckers, multiples, femmes,
intersexies, rockstars, shyboys, skaterz, strippers,
activists, workers, artists, felons, and everyone
else. all genders welcome!

April 23rd 11am - 7pm Femina Potens? Craft Fair - Join
us for a day long celebration of yummy vegan
delights,music by Jo Boyer and Yes Alexander, spoken
word,cool harnesses,zines for sale, cd, home made
organic bath goodies, crocheted homemade items,
jewlery, screen printed t-shirts, and so much more
from women and trans craft persons in your community.

April 28th Write Off Tour(a spoken word show) 9:30 at
Femina Potens featuring Aysha Cromeenes, Robin
Akimbo,Len Plass,Tara Hardy,Lane Stroud,Katrina Kraft,
Amy Mahoney, and Soul Childe. These artists like to
speak like they live: out of bounds. $7 - $12

April 29th 9pm at Edinburgh Castle (950 Geary) get
ready to Rock Out w/o yr Cock Out w/ Space
Vaccuum,Beautiful Engines, and Yes Alexander. Rock Out
w/o yr Cock Out is a monthly queer and progressive
rock and experimental noise event showcasing women and
transgendered musicians in the bay area and beyond the
final friday of every month. Come support women and
transgendered musicians, eat some fish and chips, have
a beer, and come see some kick ass performances for
$5.

Our DIY Store is now stocked with vegan harnesses,
suspenders, belts, t shirts, zines, a Passin Pissin
Packer (djknowsdicks.com), art work by Sara Seinberg,
Mari Naomi and a new line of clothing designed
specifically for transmen and butches called
?studded?. 10% off any item in the store if you
mention the newsletter.

Femina Potens is also currently in need of Interns who
are women or trans identified and interested in making
a difference in the arts community of San
Francisco and beyond.

Our alternative library is in need of book donations
so please visit our amazon wish list and send us books
for our library: http://amazon.com/gp/registry/XB34J7MOPBQE

We are also looking for organizations and persons who
are interested in throwing fundraisers for Femina
Potens, so if your organization, club night, friend?s
club night, bar, restaurant, is interested in donating
a portion of a nights proceeds to Femina Potens or if
your household is interested in throwing a house party
and donating funds made to the gallery, please email
Tina Butcher at femina_potens@yahoo.com with your idea
and date of fundraiser and we will assist with
promotion and set you up with a gift basket of awesome
prizes from Femina Potens.

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Crafty Bitches...

2005-03-24T19:25:07Z

Is there anyone else who would be interested in helping to run crafty bitches too. I don't think I can do it every week... Especially now because I have been offered a job petsitting on Thursday nights and I need the moola! Any takers?

PEACE

Jessy

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[San Francisco] Femina Potens Craft Fair: Call for Submissions

2005-02-27T22:42:37Z

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS...CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS..CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Femina Potens Art Space is holding a craft fair on Saturday, April 23rd from 11AM-7PM.

We are offering tables for $10 for all day. This is a fundraiser for Femina Potens, however, you will recieve full profit from whatever you sell here. We are raising money simply by renting out tables. We will also be having acoustic performances as back drop during the fair to liven things up and draw in a larger crowd. If you are interested please contact Jesse_at_Femina@comcast.net.

For more information on Femina Potens Art Space visit www.feminapotens.com.

This event is in San Francisco, CA.

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