Faetopia Final Day: Pop-Up Queer Arts Festival | SF

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Faetopia: Pop-Up Week-Long Queer Arts Festival | 2013

Faetopia is a pop-up queer arts, ecology, theater and community center that runs June 21-28, 2013.

For the week before San Francisco Pride, over a hundred artists and collaborators will create a visionary space for the queer community in the long vacant Tower Records, next to Cafe Flore at Market St & Noe St (2286 Market St, to be exact).

• During the day, Faetopia will host workshops, meditation, teach-ins, heart circles, erotic playshops, and more.
  Most daytime events are free.
• At night, the arts reign supreme with theater, burlesque, live music, queer cinema, and, of course, plenty of drag.
  Most nighttime events have a $10 suggested donation, but no one will be turned away due to lack of funds.

Friday, June 28, 2013
Friday's Faetopia | Faetopia: Pop-Up Week-Long Queer Arts Festival | 2013

9–10 am: Come Home & Rest: Silent Meditation
What would it feel like to leave your mind to it’s natural functioning and rest in the silence and stillness of your being? Join in to sit and find out.

10–11:30 am: Morning Yoga
Take it easy, but never lazy with an integral style Hatha Yoga class. The class is a gift to yourself and to all those who you’ll share your radiant, divine self with this queer high holiday season. Bring a mat or towel.

12–2 pm: Rocks of Pain and Joy
Explore the trials and tribulations of being queer through this interactive crafting session.

1–4 pm: Puppy Pile PLUS
In SF, it is easy to find lots of sex. What other kinds of touch and intimacy can you explore? Explore your sensuality in a safe and playful snuggle space.

2–4 pm: Growing Up Charlie
Readings from Miles O’Bryan’s draft autobiography, told from the child’s inner perspective. The time of these reflections go from two years old to sixteen years old and share the sometimes intense experiences of growing up queer.

2:30–4 pm: The Quiet Revolution
How do introverts among us contribute to the community and bring about change despite being seen as awkward misfits? This will be a book club style discussion of Susan Cain’s NYT best seller, “Quiet: the Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking.”

4–5:30 pm: Legalize Fae Pot
A know-your-rights workshop for medical cannabis users and potential cultivators.

4–5:30 pm: Saratoga Springs: A fantastic resource for Northern CA Queers
Learn about the vision of creating a space for the whole extended Queer Community and opportunities for Radical Transformation at Saratoga Springs.

5:30–7 pm: Conversations with Cleve
Longtime LGBT, HIV/AIDS and Labor activist Cleve Jones reads from his work-in-progress memoir, “When We Rise.” Following this, Cleve will hold a conversation about queer activism with those present.

5:30–7 pm: Truvada Whore? PEP, PrEP and the Brave New World of Sexual Health
Have you PEP’d, PrEP’d, Sero-Sorted or Strategically Positioned yourself? This forum is a space that intentionally welcomes and honors all efforts to the reduce risk of HIV and STDs in our individual lives and in our community.

5:30–7 pm: Tantric Foreplay
They’ll use some tantric techniques to connect with sexual energy that can then be used as foreplay or as an experience in itself, without explicit sexual manifestation. It is all about connecting.

Disclaimer: Please double check event information with the event organizer as events can be canceled, details can change after they are added to our calendar, and errors do occur.