SNAP! Festival

FROM 14H_ INSTALLATION & STANDS/INFOKIOSKS - Free Entry / BAR

• SEX WORK INFOKIOSK A chill-out space with fanzines, brochures and other publications about sex work, to spend some time, alone or with others, reading, discussing, listening 

• INSTALLATION VR / 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. 

• INSTALLATION DIGITAL GAME/ ONLYBANS / Lena Chen & Maggie Oates OnlyBans is a game critically examining digital surveillance, censorship, and discrimination faced by sex workers. 

14H30 _ WHORE STUDIES / WITH LEGS WIDE OPEN: A WHORE’S RIDE THROUGH BERLIN HISTORY / Rori Dior & Valentin Rion - 45 min - English - Free Entry - POOL ROOM

How can we research, own and tell our history as sex workers? 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. 

15H30 _ WHORE STUDIES / SEX WORK PLACES AND SELF-MANAGED BROTHELS : ISSUES AND EXPERIMENTATIONS / Utsopi // HXSSY // Laura Miotti & Melike Hocaoglu - 1H - Free Entry / POOL ROOM

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?

16H30_SEX WORK PROJECTS / OUT LOUD: A PROCESS TO PODCAST WHORES VOICES/ Nour Beetch & Cilu - 1H - Free Entry - BAR

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!

17H30_THEMATIC FOCUS: COMING OUT & FAMILY BUSINESS / 1H30 - French with english subtitles - Free Entry / POOL ROOM

• FILM/ 4 SEASONS BROTHEL/ BORDEL 4 SAISONS / Kiddo Leone -  26 min In this vlog-documentary, 4 sex workers 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. 

• PERFORMANCE/ MAMAN, JE SUIS ACTEUR PORNO /  Doryann Marguet & Thibaut Galis - 30 minutes 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.

• PERFORMANCE / INSALUBRE / Javal Lacroix - 10 min 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.

• PERFORMANCE/ YOU HAD A JOB BUT COULDN'T TELL THEM WHAT IT WAS / Ili et Lupa - 15 min Cousins by blood, sisters at heart, one stripper, the other dominatrix. 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?

19H30_OPEN MIC / Hosted by Violente Violette - 1H - Free Entry - POOL ROOM

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 

21H_WHORE PERFORMANCE NIGHT / Pay what you can: 8€ / 12€ / 16€ / GREAT HALL

• KUPALUA / 25 min 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 - 12 min . A mise en abîme of the daily life of two sex workers who perform codified lesbianism to excite male audiences. Off-stage and out of sight, the reality is quite different...

• THE PORN FAIRY / Hot Bodies (aka Gérald Arev Kurdian). Collab with Clap Collectif - 20 min In this performance, Hot Bodies (aka Gérald Arev Kurdian) and Le Clap Collectif invite us 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 - 45 minutes - Français et Anglais 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.

23H30-5H_DJ SET 

• LOLA ONDIKWA Young Franco-Ivorian artist, philosopher, feminist and queer. Lola OndiKwa takes to the dancefloor! A space where she advocates inclusivity by energetically navigating between Afrohouse, Amapiano, Gqom, Afrotrap, Baile Funk, Kuduro, Batida, Coupé décalé. Soundcloud 

• MONA MIOCA mona mioca is a french-swiss-tunisian choreographic artist, sound composer and transfem DJ. Their 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 <3. Soundcloud

• LINDA DE MORRIR 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