Play Piercing Performance

Wed, Mar 15
Doors 8 pm, show 9 pm
$8-20 sliding scale

This performance and a piercing workshop on Monday, 3/13 are part of
the "I'll Show You Mine if You Show Me Yours: East Coast Performers
Cruise the West Coast" Tour: Aliza Shapiro, Drag King Heywood
Wakefield, temporary piercing artist Ray Aims, experimental movement
artist J Dellecave, The Cuntessa crotch puppetress, Pasta Girl super
heroine, temporary piercing artist Crystal Goldmind, Micol Alex, Mz.
Luna Devine, Stud Muffin, and Polly travel from afar to dare West
coast performers and audiences to a creative challenge. These sexy,
sarcastic, well-seasoned and immensely talented performers bring
together their skills and create a lavish mix of high art and trashy
glitz. It will be a gorgeous mess of humorous, fancy, dorky,
politicized queerness mingling with stars from each host city.
Featuring a unique show each night of this amazing tour. Some cities
will witness a cabaret/drag/burlesque show featuring Drag King
Heywood Wakefield, The Cuntessa with her crotch puppets, Mz. Luna
Divine's genderfucking melons, and Stud Muffin along with local
dragsters, musicians and freaks. Other cities will bear witness to
multi-media temporary piercing productions of fantastical tales
featuring Ray Aims, Crystal Goldmind, Micol Alex, flesh and many
sharp pointy things. Each event will feature unique content! Their
website is www.truthserum.org/tour -- schedule includes other
bay area events.

Wednesday March 15 -- Piercing performance
The Center for Sex and Culture
398 11th Street at Harrison
415.255.1155
doors: 8pm event: 9pm $8-20 sliding
(piercing performance with Ray Aims, Crystal Goldmind and Micol Alex)
www.truthserum.org/tour for more information

also:

Monday March 13 -- Temporary Piercing Workshop
The Center for Sex and Culture
398 11th Street at Harrison
415.255.1155
doors: 7pm workshop: 7:30pm $10-20 sliding
Piercing Artist, Ray Aims, will lead a temporary piercing workshop.
"Piercing flesh can be any combination of incredibly erotic,
intimate, painful, beautiful and brutal. Have you been curious about
temporary piercing but didn't know where to start? Playing with
needles is fun but getting started can be daunting. This workshop
will launch you, safely, into new exploration with needles."

*Ray Aims* has been piercing and performing since mid 2003. He's
taught many people about piercing. He is drawn to the beauty in the
art of working with flesh and metal and the tension between the pain
and the euphoria piercing creates. Together with Crystal Goldmind,
Aims has created several multi-media performances. These include The
Sailor and the Mermaid first performed in the reflecting pool at
Galapagos and The Tale of the Tale first performed at MixFest NYC in
front of over 200 people. During these performance events both Aims
and Goldmind take on characters and create a narrative thread that
goes throughout the performance. Beauty and pain are part of the
performances, but a power dynamic is not. Both performers
consensually put this art into the world.

*Crystal Goldmind* loves progressive porn, neo-feminist antics,
queerbo politics, and rows of needles puncturing her skin. She was
first incarnated in Philadelphia's DIY dyke go-go night, Pousse Cafe,
tossing cheap gold chocolate coins and gyrating her hips to a vintage
T Rex tune. She is a sexual tourist and takes pride in engineering
spectacles that delight the senses, rattle the paradigms, and haunt
the mind.

*Micol Alex* is a Jewish Buddhist genderqueer Witch, who in 1993
cofounded the Minneapolis based performance group, the Psycick Slutz,
whose original work incorporates a capella singing and percussion,
campy spoken word theatrics, martial arts based movement, bloody
urban elemental sex magick, and the occasional puppet. Alex has
performed in the Midwest, on both U.S coasts, and in London. Since
1992, Alex has been training in martial arts. A recent firespinning
transplant in Oakland, CA, she teaches martial arts, self defense,
theatre arts, body mindfulness, workshops on polyamory, and sex
magick for survivors of sexual trauma. Alex pays the rent by tending
perennial flower gardens, modeling for visual artists, and working
her intuitive Reiki bodywork magick on receptive individuals.
contact:

*Aliza Shapiro* has been producing events in Boston since the
mid-90's and before that in Providence, RI while attending RISD.
Truth Serum, her company, produces many kinds of events such as, but
not limited to, film screenings, book release parties/readings,
concerts, drag/cabaret/burlesque shows, performance art happenings.
Aliza values art, truth, clear communication, community building,
hard work and a good time.

Venue:

Center for Sex & Culture
398 11th at Harrison
San Francisco
415-255-1155
http://www.sexandculture.org

Additional Info:

415-255-1155
http://www.truthserum.org/tour