Start Date: August 1, 2024
From 18:00 to 22:00
Address
The Playhouse Cinema (Thursday, August 1st, 6 - 9 PM); The Westdale Theatre (Friday, August 2nd, 5 - 10 PM), Hamilton
Details
Organized by Jelena Vermilion of SWAP Hamilton. Thank you to our first sponsor The AIDS Network!
The Playhouse Cinema – Thursday, August 1st, 6 – 9 PM – We’re showing Lizzie Borden’s “Working Girls” (1986) – The Criterion Collection /Janus Films 4K Restoration! We’ll have four panelist speakers afterwards and hopefully also a Q/A with the filmmaker, herself!
The Westdale Theatre – Friday, August 2nd, 5 – 10 PM. We will be showing Women Make Movies’ “Georgie Girl” (2001), about Georgina Beyer – a former sex worker, transgender, Māori Polynesian woman – earlier made an impassioned and moving speech about being raped at knife-point while working, and being unable to turn to the police for help. Georgina Beyer was the first openly transgender woman elected as mayor of Carterton in 1995, and to Parliament in 1999, in NZ history. She helped pass the decriminalization oif sex work in New Zealand with Labour MP Timothy Barnett in 2003. She passed in March of 2023 from complications related to renal failure. Notably, Barnett is openly gay and, emigrated from Austrailia. hashtag#Solidarity
Next at the Westdale, we will also have four panelists discuss the films and answer related audience questions. We will solicit (pun intended) on-theme art and display them in person and on the screen – including two of the original marquee signs from the Lusty Lady – the world’s first once-worker-owned and operated strip club, in San Francisco.
