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Thursday, October 4, 2001
Oakland

CENTRAL SPACE: East Gay Cafe

12 noon - til the evening.
East Gay Cafe Warehouse settling-in. Games and other spontaneous activities. East-Gay Cafe Warehouse, 1137 32nd St @ Adeline, Oakland, about a fifteen miute walk southwest of Macarthur BART.

8:00 PM
Non-amplified open mic night, introductions and dinner. Donations greatly appreciated. Please bring utensils to eat with and plates ot eat on.
East-Gay Cafe Warehouse, 1137 32nd St @ Adeline, Oakland, about a fifteen miute walk southwest of Macarthur BART.

Friday, October 5, 2001
San Francisco

CENTRAL SPACE: New College, 741 Valencia St. (betw. 18th & 19th streets), San Francisco.

Workshops:  San Francisco

12-2 PM
Sexwork 2
Led By Martin Inane @ The New College Theater, 741 Valencia St., between 18th & 19th St., San Francisco
info share focusing on legal, social, and local climate of sex work (a second part to London Queeruption's Sexwork).

2-4 PM
S&M Workshop-Led By Sharon @ New College Theater, (Room TBA), 741 Valencia St. (betw. 18th & 19th streets), San Francisco.
Theater-workshop and infoshare focusing on safe play and education.

2-4 PM and 4-6 PM
History Repeating - A preview of the Queeruption videos from London and NYC, plus discussion w/ Kate Huh @ Media Alliance, 814 Mission St., San Francisco.

3-4 PM
Mac Computer Skillshare - Cheap and Easy Computer Autonomy w/ Chris W. @ New College, Room 4, 741 Valencia St. (betw. 18th & 19th streets) , San Francisco.

4-5 PM
Out of the Ashes - Queer Mythology and Spitituality. Discussion with Raine & Wing...@ New College, 741 Valencia St. (betw. 18th & 19th streets), San Francisco.

4-6 PM
Lipstick Traces. A discussion of contemporary Femme Identity. Even in queer culture masculinity is often given higher social status. This will take the starch out of that shirt. Led by Joey, Milo & Zee? @ Media Alliance, 814 Mission St., San Francisco.

4:30-6 PM
SCHOOL SCHMOOL: FREESKOOLING DISCUSSION / NETWORKING SESSION. Education should not be a commodity. Let's talk about the possibilities and implications of sharing our knowledge and studying new things together. Networking / hands-on planning is encouraged. Facilitated by Jaime @ New College, Media Room, 741 Valencia St. (betw. 18th & 19th streets), San Francisco.

(Floating Workshop) - Sharona's Quick tips on concensus group facilitation (Plugging The Emotional Meeting Drain) - 15 minute talk on facilitating and being involved in concensus oriented groups.

Lunch

3ish PM - Lunch served in Dolores Park, Dolores St @ 20th, San Francisco (weather permitting!) - Donations will be greatly appreciated - please bring utensils to eat with and eat on.

Evening events:

Film screening, drag performance, live bands and dj.
7:30 - 9 PM
Third Antenna, A Documentary Film on the Radical Nature Of Drag
9 - 10 PM
Drag performance
10 - 11:30 PM
Live music with the band Broken Spaces (rock en español) and dj Jamez Smith @ Brava Theater, 2781 24th St. between York and Hampshire, San Francisco. 24th St/Mission BART then walk or bus # 48 heading east.

Sex Party is going through major changes. Please stay tuned to the Queeruption Yahoo eGroup for updates.

Saturday, October 6, 2001
San Francisco - Daytime
Berkeley - Nighttime

CENTRAL SPACE: New College, 741 Valencia St. (betw. 18th & 19th streets), San Francisco.

Lunch

1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Food served at New College, 741 Valencia St. (betw. 18th & 19th streets), San Francisco. Donations will be greatly appreciated - please bring utensils to eat with and eat on.

Workshops:  San Francisco

1-3 PM
The Idea of Women's Space And the Future Of Camp Trans: the Trans Presence At Michigan Women's Festival-dicussion led by Martin Inane @ Media Alliance, 814 Mission St., San Francisco.

2-4 PM
Intersecting Communities: The Challenges of Being a LGBTIQQ...and a Person Of Color. Forum led by Checkers @ Jon Sims Center For The Performing Arts, 1519 Mission St., San Francisco.

2-3 PM
BOLD!: The Lost Language of Polari - Kevin Weaver - a primer to gay slang codewords of 1960's Britain @ New College Media Room, 741 Valencia St. (betw. 18th & 19th streets), San Francisco.

3-4PM
Trans 101-Non-Op, Post-Op, I Didn't Go to School. Led By Martin Inane @ Media Alliance, 814 Mission St., San Francisco.

3-4 PM
911:Resisting War And Racism - QUIT (Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism) plus others @ New College Media Room, 741 Valencia St. (betw. 18th & 19th streets), San Francisco.

4-6 PM
Housing, Homelessness, and Hunger as Queer Issues led by Tommi Avicolli Mecca, Penny Nixon, and John Tunui @ Media Alliance, 814 Mission St., San Francisco.

Evening events:

7 PM - Dinner
8 PM - Performances
SPAZ Warehouse, 705 Bancroft, (near 6th and University and Highway 80), Berkeley
Drugula, Deep Dickollective, Best Revenge, I@mlov3d, Alan Wiley, Queeruption Hip Hop, Electronic Dance Party and dinner. Donations will be greatly appreciated - please bring utensils to eat with and eat on.

Sunday, October 7, 2001
Oakland

CENTRAL SPACE: East-Gay Cafe Warehouse, 1137 32nd St @ Adeline, Oakland, about a fifteen miute walk southwest of Macarthur BART.

Workshops: East Bay

12 to 2ish PM
Self Defense 4 Girls & Homos. Led By Sharon Bass and Others @ The Dojo, 1051 5th Ave, Studio C (entrance is on 5th Ave @ E. 11th St), Oakland 6 blocks from Lake Merritt BART. Telephone: (510)452-3941.

12-1 PM.
There will be a People of Color caucus group meeting up (People of Color only, please). It's being organized by Jesse H. -- recognize him by his purple "Manhattan to Queens" shirt. Meet up outside 40th St. Warehouse, 379 40th, Oakland.

1-3 PM Queering the Revolutionary movement.
The dichotomy between the revolutionary movement and the queer world has become increasingly clear and disheartening as of late. As revolutionary queers we see the need for queer culture and analysis in revolutionary thought. We'd like to open a discussion on queerness and queer culture as a necessity within existing revolutionary movements.
With Jason Banister, Jess Socket, Bo Rita Brown and Others @ 40th St. Warehouse, 379 40th in Oakland. Five blocks east of MacArthur BART, located between Schaefter and Opal, near Broadway.

1-3 PM
Born Queer: INTERSEX: Fucking with the Sex and Gender Program - Led by Thea Hillman, Hida Vilora, and Sharonase Mbessakwini @ AK Press Warehouse, 674 23rd St # A, Oakland, CA 94612 (510) 208-1700

2-3 PM
Queer and Positive in Prison led by Kevin Weaver, Judy Greenspan, Antoine Mayhan, Kendell Kelle and others @ AK Press Warehouse, 674 23rd St # A, Oakland. .

3-5 PM
Stilt making - How to stand tall (literally) with Jakey Riotlama @ AK Press Warehouse, 674 23rd St # A, Oakland. (510) 208-1700
(power tool lending needed).

3:15-4:15 PM - Lifelong Activism - Kevin Weaver, Judi Greenspan, Howard Wallace, Merle Woo, Bongone Nyathi, plus others @ AK Press Warehouse, 674 23rd St # A, Oakland.

4:30-6 PM - Beyond Genre: New Music, Queer Context - Larry-bob, Bill Hsu, Dax Pierson. Listening and Discussion @ AK Press Warehouse, 674 23rd St # A, Oakland.

3:30 to 5:30 PM
Polyamory/Non-Monogamy - Open discussion of pros and cons of polyamorous/non-monogamous relationships and their relation to gender identity, sexuality and sexual preference within the frameworks of class, color and culture. Facilitated by Raine and others @ 40th St. Warehouse, 379 40th in Oakland. Five blocks east of MacArthur BART, located between Schaefter and Opal, near Broadway.

6:30-7:30 PM
Body Liberation: Size, Looksism and Queerness with Checkers & Chris W. at Cafe Eritrea, 4069 Telegraph Ave @ W. Macarthur, Oakland. (near the 40th St. Warehouse)

Lunch

12 noon til 4 PM
East-Gay Cafe...Just that, the world famous queer networking cafe serves up the best in cheap-ass vegan cuisine. Donations will be greatly appreciated - please bring utensils to eat with and eat on. In the glamorous heart of Oakland. East-Gay Cafe Warehouse, 1137 32nd St @ Adeline, Oakland, about a fifteen miute walk southwest of Macarthur BART.

Other events.

8 - 10 PM
A Night of Amplified Music and Loudly Spoken Words plus Art Show @ The 40th St. Warehouse, 379 40th St. Oakland. (Five blocks east of MacArthur BART, located between Schaefter and Opal, near Broadway).

Spoken Words Of Daphne Gotlieb and Thea Hillman, and performances by bands Running Ragged, Nick Name And The Normals, and Mutilated Manikins. Also, please help spread the word to any visual artists coming to Queeruption that there will be an art show as part of this event. So bring your art with you to Queeruption!

A Dyke On Dyke Public Sex Cruising Adventure.

Monday, October 8, 2001
Oakland

CENTRAL SPACE: East-Gay Cafe Warehouse

Day-long open discussion and Outro @ East-Gay Cafe Warehouse, 1137 32nd St @ Adeline, Oakland, about a fifteen miute walk southwest of Macarthur BART.

Note: Dates, times, locations, and events subject to change.

Past Queeruption gatherings have been in the autumn of 1998 in London, UK and in the autumn of 1999 in New York City.

Queeruption on the web: www.queeruption.org
Queeruption by email: queeruption2001@yahoo.com
Queeruption by phone: (510) 704-8323
Queeruption by mail: at PO Box 412, Berkeley, CA 94701.