[SWAF-Potluck] TOMORROW NIGHT! Sex Work in New Zealand: “Eleven Years of Decriminalisation: the Sky is Still Blue"

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Sex Work in New Zealand: “Eleven Years of Decriminalisation: the Sky is
Still Blue"
FIRST Keynote Forum

http://ow.ly/ByO60

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/
<http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nzpc.org.nz%2F&h=gAQFl3B0J&enc=AZPvyOWvdHcKUdXqEvERcr48pGQooSTUPIavUlYVfHPiHvW76VLDJTi8dbWO_zcxqHk&s=1>).
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 Arthur 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). **
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