February 3-15, 2006 -- Couples Photography in Portland, Oregon. I will be in Portland during this time and am scheduling photo sessions with interested couples. For more information on being photographed, contact me at eronat@aol.com.
February 11, 2006 -- Celebration of Eros. Performance with Theresa Reed (Darklady), Portland, Oregon. Sponsored by Darklady Productions. A dramatic reading of erotic poetry and prose, with music and four exceptional slide shows, celebrating the best of our erotic natures, life, love, and our wonderful bodies. Information: darklady@darklady.com.
March 11, 2006 -- The New Sexual Photography. Workshop presentation and slide show, Sexuality and Sexual Health in Our Political Climate conference, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio. Sponsored by Oberlin College Sexual Information Center. A talk and slide show giving an overview of contemporary fine art sexual photography, the issues involved in photographing sex in an honest and meaningful way, and a look at some of the controversies that fine art sexual photography has provoked. Information: Sexual.Information.Center@oberlin.edu.
March 16-29, 2006 -- Couples Photography in Seattle, Washington, and Vancouver, British Columbia. I will be in Seattle and Vancouver during this time and am scheduling photo sessions with interested couples. For more information on being photographed, contact me at eronat@aol.com.
March 23-26, 2006 -- Fourth Annual Seattle Erotic Arts Festival, Seattle Washington. SEAF is the most extensive exhibition of erotic and sexual art in the country. This year there will be over 200 works of erotic photography, painting, drawing, sculpture, and performance art. Four of my photographs are in the show. The big opening night reception is Friday night, March 24. Information: www.seattleerotic.org; eroticart@wetspot.org.
March 24, 2006, 9:00-10:00 pm -- Real Sex in Front of a Camera? Workshop presentation and slide show, Fourth Seattle Erotic Arts Festival, Seattle, Washington. A talk and slide show about of my work photographing couples being sexual in the comfort and familiarity of their own homes. What are the emotional, sexual, and artistic dynamics involved in trying to capture something honest and evocative about sex on film? How does a photographer help people feel free to reveal the emotional subtleties of their sexual connection to him and, through him, to the outside world? Is it possible for a couple to engage in honest sex during a photo session? What can a photograph show about the intimate aspects of sex to people who don't witness that sex in person? Information: www.seattleerotic.org; eroticart@wetspot.org.
March 25, 2006 -- Erotic Photography in These Times. Panel discussion with other photographers, Fourth Seattle Erotic Arts Festival, Seattle, Washington. Information: www.seattleerotic.org; eroticart@wetspot.org.
March 27, 2006 -- Real Sex in Front of a Camera? Workshop presentation and slide show, Vancouver, British Columbia. Sponsored by Libido Events. A talk and slide show about of my work photographing couples being sexual in the comfort and familiarity of their own homes. What are the emotional, sexual, and artistic dynamics involved in trying to capture something honest and evocative about sex on film? How does a photographer help people feel free to reveal the emotional subtleties of their sexual connection to him and, through him, to the outside world? Is it possible for a couple to engage in honest sex during a photo session? What can a photograph show about the intimate aspects of sex to people who don't witness that sex in person? Information: www.LibidoEvents.com; jenniferskurkwa@shaw.ca.
April 6-9, 2006 -- Divas of San Francisco, Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, Redondo Beach, California. An exhibit of forty color and black-and-white portraits of transgender women associated with Divas Nightclub and Bar in San Francisco. Information: www.sssswr.org.
April 8, 2004 -- New Forms, New Venues: Sexual Fine Art Outside the Porn Paradigm, Western Regional Conference, Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, Redondo Beach, California. I will be moderating a plenary panel and speaking, together with Jim Duvall of the Seattle Erotic Arts Festival, and Barbara Nitke, acclaimed fine art sexual photographer and plaintiff in Nitke v. Gonzalez, a suit challenging the constitutionality of the obscenity provisions of the Communications Decency Act. The panel will discuss the resistance contemporary sexual fine art confronts from erotophobic art institutions, and the venues that are emerging outside those institutions for the exhibition of sexual art. Information: www.sssswr.org.
May 31-July 2, 2006 -- Divas of San Francisco, Center for Sex and Culture, 398 - 11th Street, San Francisco, California. An exhibit of forty color and black-and-white portraits of transgender women associated with Divas Nightclub and Bar in San Francisco. Information: www.sexandculture.org.
Ongoing -- Don Crane Sex Salons. Monthly presentations and discussions of a broad range of sexual issues and controversies. Open to anyone wanting to talk about sexual issues with a group of eclectic sex explorers, enthusiasts, writers, thinkers, and general free spirits. Moderated by yours truly. First Wednesday of every month, 7:00-9:00 p.m., Divas Nightclub and Bar, 1081 Post Street, San Francisco, 3rd floor. Information: eronat@aol.com.
