A Holiday Bazaar
Friday, November 27th – 11AM until 7PM

Last year’s after Thanksgiving Holiday Bazaar was so much fun, we decided that we would include other Seattle artists in on our fun this time around. The Little Red Studio is pleased to be able to offer you a beautiful venue to browse the work of more than 20 local artists and crafters. Painters, photographers, sculptors, jewelry makers, herbalists, knitters and glass artists are just a few of the artisans signed up, to give you an idea of the variety in store for you. The Little Red Day Spa will have an assortment of their custom spa products available for purchase. Services such as custom blending of massage oils and fragrances and tarot card readings will be offered throughout the day.

Of special note is the availability of the first printing of “The Little Red Anthology” which is a collection of classic Little Red Studio poetry by Eileen Fix, David Jones and all the other poets’ voices you have enjoyed over the years at shows. Many of the published poets will be on hand to sign your copy of the book and perhaps even give an impromptu reading.

The Little Red Bistro will of course be open all day to satisfy your hunger and thirst, as well as selling gift certificates.

So if you love to shop for the holidays but want to avoid the corporate marketing and retail craziness, then consider coming around and seeing the fine art, crafts, jewelry and other handmade gifts on display.


Hours: 11AM until 7PM
Location: 400 Dexter Ave N. Seattle, WA 98109
Admission is free

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Winter Vendor Fair
What: Vendor Fair
Schedule: Saturday December 5, 2009
When: Noon to 6:00 PM
Where: In the main space
Who: 18+.
Cost: Free


Description:

Winter Vendor Fair!

This year's winter vendor fair will be a two in one treat! The Center for Sex Positive Culture will be hosting the Steampunk and Kink Vendor Fairs. One building will be devoted to fetish gear, clothes, and assorted play things while the other building will be filled to the brim with Steampunk attire, accessories, and gadgets galore. Doors are open from 12pm-6pm.

Admission is FREE and open to the public, 18+.

Want more information? [link]
Interested in being a vendor? Please contact steampunkvendors@gmail.com.
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Winter Vendor Fair!

CSPC
1602 15th Ave. W.
Seattle, WA 98119

Action Alert
National Coalition for Sexual Freedom


Kinky is NOT a Diagnosis

Help make history by signing the DSM Revision Petition now! The diagnoses in the DSM-IV-TR still subject
people who practice BDSM, fetishes and cross-dressing to bias, discrimination and social sanctions
without any scientific basis.

We need 3,000 signatures, but we only have 2,200 now. If you don't speak up and call on the American
Psychiatric Association to adhere to empirical research when revising the diagnoses in the Diagnostic
and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM V), then the Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders Work
Group won't make a meaningful change.

To sign, go to: [link]

You can make your signature anonymous on this secure petition site so it doesn't appear on the Internet
or when the petition is delivered to the APA.

Petition:
"We, the undersigned, support the American Psychiatric Association's (APA) own goal of making
its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) a scientific document, based on empirical research and
devoid of cultural bias. A diagnosis of a mental disorder can have a severe adverse impact on employment
opportunities, child custody determinations, an individual's well-being, and other areas of functioning.
Therefore we urge the APA to remove all diagnoses that are not based upon peer-reviewed, empirical
research, demonstrating distress or dysfunction, from the DSM. The APA specifically should not promote
current social norms or values as a basis for clinical judgments."


To find out more about the DSM and the Paraphilias section, read the NCSF & ITCR: The Foundation for
NCSF's "White Paper on the DSM Revision" at [link]

For more information, email: susanw@ncsfreedom.org

Help spread the word - please distribute this call for signatures!

I hate writing them. I was working on this during poetry night at my work. The poets were reading all around me and it came out a bit more flowery than usual.

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When my art works, it draws you in and lets your curiosity shut off your inner voice of doubt and insecurity. That voice that stops you from feeling what you really feel or think. Stopping you with incrimination that you will somehow get it wrong.

When my art works, you will stop stroking your beard. Stop using the three syllable words you learned in art history 104 class. Stop worrying about what your date thinks or that person you look up to across the room.

When my art works, you will feel, think and live for a moment in your heart. Purely with your heart. Not necessarily even with words but with that animal part of you that is more human than the rational part of you.

Some day I hope my art will work.

Over the last few years I have been accepted or invited to many erotic art festivals. At first I submitted art to all of them flattered at the chance to get my work seen. Grateful for the exposure. But now that I have done this for a while I have noticed a difference in the festivals. Some are all about having artists decorate a party to sell tickets and others are about selling art. And the worst are just there to make money of submission or jury fees.

This difference in priority has a large effect on how much art I sell. In some I spend a jury or hanging fee and then print and frame pieces lastly crating and shipping them in hopes of a sale only to pay for the return shipping later on. I usually get a nice note thanking me and reminding me how many people saw my work and how grateful I should be for the exposure.

With others I send my work with the full expectation that it will sell or at least 2 of 3 pieces. The purveyors really work hard at selling the art. And even if mine does not sell well I know that was their focus and they tried.

The range is incredible. One erotic art festival returned all of my work except 1 $20.00 print. I called to ask why I sold so poorly at such a large event 1500 through the doors according to their PR and they reported I was the second highest selling artist. A friend that attended told me "I did not know the work was for sale". Basically they asked me to spend about $1200.00 after printing framing and shipping to decorate a party.

Then there are the ones where I sell well over $2000.00 worth of work in a weekend. They have people trained to talk about the art in place all day and evening. The sale of art is a focus and they are ready to close a deal when the buyer is ready They orient their marketing not towards ticket sales but towards art buyers.

I guess the punchline is that 10,000 people who do not buy art is not exposure. 100 people who do is. I think we artist need to be more choosy in who we trust our work to and when.

So the SEAF committee sent me my acceptance email I got three pieces in.

Pinup for Mr. Hengst nee Rosy Bottom Nymph

2008-3959

and 2008-7563

I am really please with the owrk I did this year and hope you come to the show and see it. I am working right now on a solo show at the same time and hope to be able to announce it also.