Get SWEATY over NYE!
COLLECTIVE SWEAT (the kids who gave you Camp Betty and Sweaty Betty) bring you another sweaty party - Blood Sweat New Years - to make you cream your pants and dance all night...
main room: ARTIFICIAL VS MS DJ TOUPEE::RED LIGHT DISCO :: DJ KITI :: PLUS MORE
upstairs: A DEN OF TRASHCORE, featuring 80s, booty and hip hop
front room: LADY LIMONATA’S CASUAL LOUNGETTE (Dress: terry towelling, hawaiian mishap, coral sunset. Playsuits welcome)
and of course, slutty wrongness on the platform from JAIGUR PLUSHBOX, LADY CAVITY... and MORE!!
Collective Sweat is all about making space for beautiful freaks and foxy queers to kick up their heels and get sweaty together. We’ve kept our door charge as low as we can while still covering costs. Any accidental profits we make will be donated to support radical political causes. People who dress up will be rewarded with sweaty love and the admiration of their peers. Dress the fuck up!
Check us out www.collectivesweat.com
Thanks and POCABEZI
Thanks so much to everyone who came and was involved in the Camp Betty weekend. We thought it was a really really excellent weekend and we couldn't have done it without you.
If you wanna write, draw, collage, potato print, cartoon or photo about what happened at Camp Betty you can send your stuff in for the post camp betty zine to pocabezi@hushmail.com.
Stay tuned to the website and myspace page for photos, videos, possible mailorder t-shirts, zine distribution, memorial services and any number of other possible flowers that might bloom from betty's buried body.
from all your camp friends
[13 june 2007]
Camp Betty events...
Camp Betty - Queen's Birthday Weekend - 7-11 June, 2007, Melbourne
Oi folk. It's Betty's Birthday!
The Queen's been giving head service to Australia for a long time and now it's a chance to return the favour. Let's show her what this great nation was built on - criminals, perverts and stolen land. So poofters, sheilas, reffos, squatters, deviants and outsiders - your time is now. Get your arses to Melbourne for a long weekend turned on by radical sex and politics.
WHAT From juicy talks and a picnic in the park to sexy gigs and parties after dark, Camp Betty is a series of bottoms up Camp events to get people together with sex and gender as the common ground. It is 5 days of theory, workshops, talking, partying, action, recruiting, and making up and out.
WHY We want to make gender and sex radicalism central to our politics and our understanding of the world today. We want a politics of gender and sex that goes beyond liberal acceptance or assimilation, beyond state protection and tolerance for difference. We want to create experiences of struggle, sex and fun where we don't just talk about the lives we want, but live them.
HOW DIY - Do it yourself. This weekend will be as open, decentralised, and as diy as possible but we don't mean that in a no-responsibility taken kinda way.
WHEN Queen's Birthday Weekend, 7-11 June 2007
WHERE A bunch of hot spots in Melbourne's inner north
WHO You + a bunch of folk who want to fuck shit up and fuck up shit. We've been around things like: Bite; Genderschmender; State of Emergency; Gingham Menace; Vixen; Civil Rights Defence; Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives; Q.U.E.E.R.; Queeruption; A Space Outside. We think you get the gist now. And if you don't, come along on the weekend and we'll explain.
WE would love you to:
* join us at our meetings at Irene Community Warehouse, 5 Pitt St, Brunswick, to help out with basic logistical tasks for Camp Betty. Stuff to get done includes publicity, infoshop, food and billeting, child care if needed, and a big party. Meetings are weekly on Wednesdays at 7:30pm.
* organise your own event or workshop. Betty's diary is filling fast but there is still time to arrange a show and tell. Maybe, you can demonstrate how you've learned to tie shoelaces with your tongue. Or something more practical. Or something more theoretical. But seriously - workshops and events that help facilitate radical politics and action are really what we're gagging for.
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