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

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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.

Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Wednesday's Faetopia | Faetopia: Pop-Up Week-Long Queer Arts Festival | 2013

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.

9 am–11 pm: Sisters in Solidarity (for Spiritual Revolution)
The Sisters will hold space at Faetopia. The morning features meditations and conversation on spiritual roots of the sisterhood; followed by an afternoon dialogue on the revolution that’s started and the paths we pursue for social and cultural change and spiritual uplift; ending with evening ritual work.

11:00 am–1 pm: Queer Are You Going, Queer Have You Been
Greg Youmans will discuss his research into important, but lesser-known figures from the Bay Area’s queer past, including his recent projects around radical writer and activist Tede Matthews and pioneering poetess Elsa Gidlow.

1–2:30 pm: Wild Living Skills & Native Plant Uses
After hitch hiking the U.S. for over 10 years studying wilderness living skills, Distance Everheart shares what she has learned including using wild plants and trees for food, mouthwash, toothpaste, rope, soap, tampons, diapers, traditional medicines, and more.

2:30–4 pm: Sound Healing
An introduction to sound healing and sound therapy focusing primarily on the ways we can use our own voices and breathing to heal ourselves. The hour will include a guided meditation, vocal warm up exercises, and a group chanting and singing session.

2:30–4 pm: Cosmic Sex Skill Share
Allow Ariel to guide you on a journey of sex skills longing to be shared. Come prepared with questions, your wisdom, an open mind, and heart.

4–5:30 pm: Erotic Hypnosis
Learn more about Erotic Hypnosis, which can be used for enhancing the magic in erotic play, making fantasies more real, and exploring new aspects of oneself.

5:30–7 pm: Hands-On Orgy Tips & Tricks
Learn how to maximize your success and optimize your playspace fun in a relaxed, hands on sharing session hosted by Doctor Manifesto, an experienced bodyworker, wellness coach, and educator.

5:30–6:30 pm: Who Picked the Berries You Just Bought at the Farmer’s Market?
A reading from Seth Holmes’ new book, Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farm Workers in the United States, followed by a discussion about the workers behind our food.

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.