Les Halles de Schaerbeek
— Brussels —

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18.10.24 | 20:30

SNAP! Festival

Sex workers Narratives Arts & Politics

Dates & Tickets

Friday 18 October 2024 20:30 Tickets

Full program on https://snapfest.org/

FROM 18H_ 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. 

18H15_SEX WORK PROJECTS / SEX WORK STYLES / Sâal Couture // Espace P // DASPU - French & English - Free entry / BAR 

Sex workers are stylish and beautiful. They create meaningful shapes, sewed with stories of dignities and made from proudness. Sâal Couture, Daspu and Espace P will present their clothing projects, from their process to the final object.

19H / WHORE STUDIES / K_SLUT / Sabrina Calvo - 40 min - French - Free entry / POOL ROOM  

“As a sex worker in Second Life for 17 years, I went from street prostitution to brothel, then to misery - and finally into the light.”. Sabrina Calvo is a writer and visual artist and share her story of a post-contemporary whore

19H45 / WHORE STUDIES / POLITICS IS NOT A DIRTY WORLD! / DogBoiBailey - 40 min - English - Free entry / POOL ROOM

In his presentation, Paris-based HIV activist, queer porn actor, fetish community representative and journalist, DogBoiBailey confronts the taboo link between fetish and anti-fascism.

20H30_ SNAP SHOW & CONCERT PARTY / Pay what you can: 8€ / 12€ / 16€ / GREAT HALL

  • PERFORMANCE / SEX WORKERS WHO CHANGED HISTORY FASHION SHOW 45 min - English with french subtitles

SAVE, Trans Sisters and Daspu present the sex work history fashion shows. They tell the stories of heroes and heroines through their clothing and music

  • 21H30 / PERFORMANCE / SHOWCASE BALLROOM - Nina Mermaid & Guests - 45 min

Accompanied by various performers from the Belgian Ballroom Scene and the Kiki House of Mermaids, Nina Mermaid will be introducing several categories of the ballroom scene, originally founded by trans women sex workers.

  • 22H30 / CONCERT / Tribade - 1H10 

Tribade is a young three-piece rap band from Barcelona leaded by the MCs Bittah and Masiva Lulla. Lyrically, Tribade brings the XXIst century universe of two young women fighting against precariousness on a male privileged society and amplifies with its poetry usually silenced realities such as LGBT, sex work, local and neighbourhood struggles, antifa activism.

  • 23H45 / DJ SET / Choupetik 

Choupetik is a Venezuelan DJ based in Paris, cofounder of Misantropical. Her eclectic “melancholatino” sets take a decolonial and feminist stance to the dance floor and revises Latincore soundscapes with a curation that incorporates old school reggaeton and merengue electronico entwined with neoperreo and Latin tek. Soundcloud