The Directors
After a very successful initial year heading up the Victoria Erotica Festival of Film & Art, we look forward to even more fun this year:
Carol Pharo. Carol built a career in book publishing with both McGraw-Hill and Pearson Publishing. Her past experience included planning and organizing major business events before focusing on cultural projects in the Victoria community.
Brent Ullerick. A frequent event coordinator on the Victoria cultural scene, Brent’s break-through art gallery—Freedom Erotica—became a rare and valuable showcase for both local and international artists for several years.
Richard Beck Peacock. Beck was a professor and chairperson of the cinema department at Palomar College in California where he taught film history, screenwriting, and documentary production until moving to British Columbia.
The 2007 Erotica Festival was a Blast!
So many highlights! So much information, titillation, and lush satisfaction. Simply put, it was fun.
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etty Dodson joined the Erotica Festival as our Keynote Speaker and a workshop leader
Betty is a revolutionary artist, author, and sex educator with a Ph.D -- an international authority on women's sexuality. Her talk was sensational and her workshop was a hit. So much so that in June fifty women in Victoria who attended reconvened to continue their newfound interests and friendships. A documentary of Betty’s time at the festival is now being put together.
Dodson achieved wide-spread recognition with three ground breaking erotic art exhibitions in the 60s and 70s before she left the art world to become a feminist activist and public advocate for women's sexual liberation. Betty Dodson wrote, illustrated, and self-published her first book, Liberating Masturbation: a Meditation on Selflove, which by the 80s had become a feminist classic. In a later edition it was renamed Sex for One; the Joy of Selfloving that became a best-selling trade paperback.
Movie Memories: The O Tapes and its director opened & closed our Film Festival; NYC's CineKink seduced Victoria
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he O Tapes, the controversial and highly acclaimed 90-minute documentary by an award-winning film maker, Chris Arnold. featured real women talking about their intimate personal experiences. CineKink NYC is an annual erotic festival of short films recognizes and encourages the positive depiction of alternative sexuality in film and television, and now they’re taking it on the road. The two film programs, "Twisted Knickers" and "The Best of CineKink" celebrated a wide diversity of alternative sexuality.
Spinnakers launched “Mon Cherie”, our own special beer and label.
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e were honoured! We can't think of another arts festival – here or anywhere in the world – that has been recognized by an outstanding brew in this way..
Spinnakers was a pioneer of the North American craft-brewing renaissance and is Canada’s oldest brewpub. Today, Spinnakers brewers craft benchmarks of classic styles of ales, lagers and seasonal specialty beers using only the finest ingredients, pure aquifer water and time-honoured old-world brewing techniques.
Workshops that Changed Brains.
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na Laughing Winds & Monte Mlekush presented a four-hour workshop of the "Eight Lover Masks." This experiential workshop invited us to keep our relationships alive and vibrant. The teachings come from the Chuluaqui Quodoushka Spiritual Sexuality teachings originated from the ancient Mayan and Toltec Traditions. Some of you already know Ina from her profound demonstration in the documentary movie Petals.
Nick Karras, an acclaimed professional erotic photographer, taught the art of photography with a live model, demonstrating basic and advanced techniques of lighting, camera settings, props, and communication skills necessary to make fantasies into provocative visual realities.
Dr. Sayaka Adachi gave two presentations: an interactive investigation of male/female gender issue with Dr. Nick Karras; and a Sunday afternoon salon at the downtown Moka House that encouraged an open discussion of all things sexual, entitled "Tea With Sayaka."
Atomic Vaudeville Did XXX on Friday's Cabaret Nite
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ou may be one of Atomic Vaudeville's fanatic groupies, They're put on a late show on Friday night that was dangerous fun. They are Victoria's answer to the great comedy tradition of Second City.
The Cheesecakes were totally sexy at Masquerotica
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o spice up things up, this Cheeesecake Burlesque Revue Co., voted the “Favourite Dance Company" by Monday Magazine, helped bring the night to feverish heights.
Erotica came to Cinecenta at UVIC
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n the last day of our festival, three film programs from the festival wereshown at the Cinecenta Theatre on the campus-- bringing Erotica to Cadboro Bay!
Ambrosia Event Centre
638 Fisgard
Victoria BC
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