Whorehouse Cabaret!

Location: Grote Zaal | Times: 22:00-01:00 | Tickets: €7,5 – €20 (tiered)

"We roll out the red carpet for ourselves... whores on the move crack the old established world... a love letter to the sex worker community"

Sex workers from the Netherlands, Belgium, and France perform feats of splendour for our delight!

Sex Workers Who Changed History Fashion Show

By SAVE and Trans Sisters

We roll out the red carpet for ourselves, start the music and our historical fashion show begins! In the media, sex workers are usually depicted as victims, we tell the stories of heroes and heroines. Sex workers who rebelled, who fought for women and queer rights, who fought against slavery. Sex workers who made history!

Based on work by Dutch sex worker, historian and philosopher, Sietske Altink. Read more.

The Sex Workers History Fashion Show is an ongoing collaboration between SAVE and Trans Sisters. See their other scheduled performances here.

The Sewers of Heterosexuality

by Marianne Chargois

In the underground of the triumphant heterosexual world, dissidents develop autonomous economic systems, where toxic masculinities are expressed through alternative sexual practices. The sewers of heterosexuality are overflowing as armies of whores on the move crack the old established world.

[Organisers’ note: the performance takes place in front of a screen depicting images of Marianne’s work in medical BDSM)

Marianne Chargois is a sex worker since 20 years, an activist for sex workers rights through the collective STRASS in France until 2019 and since then through UTSOPI, Belgium. She is the creator of SNAP!, a sex worker festival, and co-organiser of the Brussels Porn Film Festival. She creates performances with materials from BDSM sessions with her clients, in a language that mixes political purpose, humor and obscene images.

Le Bal des Putes (The Hookers Ball)

by Kata Loba with Djombo Goddess, Olivia Verner, Malena and La Baphomette

This show is a 𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝗹𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘅 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗲𝗿 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆. Through 𝗱𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲, 𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗱𝘆, we explore the 𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗼𝗱𝘆, the 𝗽𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿 𝗱𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀 in human relationships and honor the fights for our rights. Le bal des putes is queer and feminist. It is a living art form halfway between play, documentary and cabaret.

Le bal des putes is first and foremost a series of personal accounts. These stories open the door to our worlds, our experiences and our intimacy. Through these stories, we can reappropriate a reality that concerns us all, and in so doing make up for opinions that are all too often stigmatising and uninformed. They are windows into our daily lives, where authenticity is our mainstay. Because we know how difficult it is to talk about sex work without being tempted to either glorify or condemn it.

We put ourselves on stage through a series of stories and real acts. We share our visions, our obsessions, our questions: What does a salary depend on? Why do we want to justify ourselves when we talk about it?  What do we do with our bodies? How do we look at it and accept each other? What will happen when everyone knows that we are whores?

Our testimonies evoke the dynamics of power within sex work. How it is exercised over the body and sexuality, and how it can be the mouthpiece of our feminism. They also evoke the solidarity that exists in this milieu, the way we communicate, train and protect each other. They also evoke the moments that are dear to us, our victories and our joys, our passion and our dedication to this work, our suffering and our personal struggles.

We whores take care of people and we deserve to be treated with the same care and respect as everyone else.

Allies – please consider your position relative to the sex worker community when selecting your ticket amount. We have set a sliding scale to include sex workers, migrants, trans and gender expansive people, and BIPOC community members. If you are a sex worker among these communities and cannot afford €7,5 please contact info@queer.red. A limited number of tickets will be reserved.