Hope folks in Vancouver can make it out! this is a once in a lifetime opportunity to ask question of the sex workers who won it all in new zealand!! i hope people come out and support the movement for decrim!!:clap2:
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Sex Work in New Zealand: “Eleven Years of Decriminalisation: the Sky is Still Blue" // FIRST Keynote Forum
Public · Hosted by Katrina Elisse Caudle
Wednesday
at 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Wednesday, September 17, 2014, 7 to 9 pm
Rickshaw Theatre, 254 East Hastings St., Vancouver, BC
Catherine Healy of the New Zealand Prostitutes Collective will be speaking on how New Zealand law recognises sex work as a legitimate form of work. Brought to you by FIRST, a feminist advocacy group for the rights of sex workers and decriminalization of prostitution, in partnership with the BC Civil Liberties Association. The evening will opening with a performance by The Unstoppable Conni Smudge and an opening piece entitled “Government in our bedrooms: The parallels between prostitution laws and abortion laws" by Joyce Arthur from FIRST Decriminalize Sex Work.
A Q&A with the audience with follow Catherine Healy's presentation.
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Our Guests
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Catherine Healy is a founding member and now the National Coordinator of the New Zealand Prostitutes Collective (http://www.nzpc.org.nz/). She is also a former member of the government appointed Prostitution Law Review Committee, and co-editor of "Taking The Crime out of Sex Work". Catherine has played a key role in the design and implementation of the laws that decriminalised sex work in New Zealand in 2003, and is a former sex worker herself.
Opening Talk: Joyce is a founding member of FIRST. She is also founder and Executive Director of the Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada, a national pro-choice group.
Moderator: Kerry Porth, PIVOT Legal Society (and Senate Committee witness against Bill C-36.
Performer: Chris Bolton has yearned for the spotlight ever since he was a boy. He would often put on shows in the living room after the big Family Sunday Dinner. Belting out the Commercial “Wonderful, Wonderful Wonder Bra-aw-aww” was his Fave. Later he attended Gastown Actors Studio where he was inspired under the tootle age of the phenomenal Jessica Van Der Veen. Developing a character named Conni Smudge has been a twenty year journey and it has been his most rewarding to date. “She” has taken him all over the Globe. Conni’s wit, charm and approachable nature has afforded her the honour of performing in the most unlikely of places. From the Biker Bars of Nanaimo to the Grand Theatres of Europe, Mz Smudge has done them all. Chris/Conni adores being a reporter with Outlook TV. It gives “Her” the ability to show the World what an amazingly Inclusive, Loving, Entertaining city Vancouver is!
** The forum is sponsored by FIRST Decriminalize Sex Work, BC Civil Liberties Association, PACE Society, and Spaces (A Sex Industry Study, UBC). **
https://www.facebook.com/events/545036068960456/?source=1
Sex Work in New Zealand: “Eleven Years of Decriminalisation: the Sky is Still Blue" // FIRST Keynote Forum
Public · Hosted by Katrina Elisse Caudle
Wednesday
at 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Wednesday, September 17, 2014, 7 to 9 pm
Rickshaw Theatre, 254 East Hastings St., Vancouver, BC
Catherine Healy of the New Zealand Prostitutes Collective will be speaking on how New Zealand law recognises sex work as a legitimate form of work. Brought to you by FIRST, a feminist advocacy group for the rights of sex workers and decriminalization of prostitution, in partnership with the BC Civil Liberties Association. The evening will opening with a performance by The Unstoppable Conni Smudge and an opening piece entitled “Government in our bedrooms: The parallels between prostitution laws and abortion laws" by Joyce Arthur from FIRST Decriminalize Sex Work.
A Q&A with the audience with follow Catherine Healy's presentation.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Our Guests
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Catherine Healy is a founding member and now the National Coordinator of the New Zealand Prostitutes Collective (http://www.nzpc.org.nz/). She is also a former member of the government appointed Prostitution Law Review Committee, and co-editor of "Taking The Crime out of Sex Work". Catherine has played a key role in the design and implementation of the laws that decriminalised sex work in New Zealand in 2003, and is a former sex worker herself.
Opening Talk: Joyce is a founding member of FIRST. She is also founder and Executive Director of the Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada, a national pro-choice group.
Moderator: Kerry Porth, PIVOT Legal Society (and Senate Committee witness against Bill C-36.
Performer: Chris Bolton has yearned for the spotlight ever since he was a boy. He would often put on shows in the living room after the big Family Sunday Dinner. Belting out the Commercial “Wonderful, Wonderful Wonder Bra-aw-aww” was his Fave. Later he attended Gastown Actors Studio where he was inspired under the tootle age of the phenomenal Jessica Van Der Veen. Developing a character named Conni Smudge has been a twenty year journey and it has been his most rewarding to date. “She” has taken him all over the Globe. Conni’s wit, charm and approachable nature has afforded her the honour of performing in the most unlikely of places. From the Biker Bars of Nanaimo to the Grand Theatres of Europe, Mz Smudge has done them all. Chris/Conni adores being a reporter with Outlook TV. It gives “Her” the ability to show the World what an amazingly Inclusive, Loving, Entertaining city Vancouver is!
** The forum is sponsored by FIRST Decriminalize Sex Work, BC Civil Liberties Association, PACE Society, and Spaces (A Sex Industry Study, UBC). **
