I’m looking for a couple of props for me and T’s performance at the OddBall on the 31st.

One would be a portable massage table, or some similar strong portable table-like thing that can be sat upon by a small person, but which is light enough to be easily carried.

The other would be an IV stand. Any shape, colour, size, condition, as long as it’s freestanding….

Got anything like that that you’d be willing to lend? Props could be picked up and returned to you in a timely fashion, and there will be no breakage or gore splashes.

With hopeful thanks…

- Elaine

ps
some stuff about the performance (we’re on first, cos we’ve got a crowded stage!)
http://elainemiller.com/blog/performances/2008/were-performing-at-the-oddball-oct-31/
http://theoddballcouver.blogspot.com/2008/10/taiko-with-dangerous-twist.html
http://theoddballcouver.blogspot.com/

The OddBall is always the best dance party in town! Last one ever — better come make memories! Also, I’m on stage with T doing some spooky thing. We’re on at 8:45, so come early!

From:
http://theoddballcouver.blogspot.com/

Die, Odd Ball! Die!!! After four fun-tastic years we’re throwing our final party on Halloween night. Featuring… ghoulish go-go dancers, eye-popping performances and our ever-popular costume contest!

Dance to the sounds of Odd Ball faves, including DJ Titz McGee, and special guest Buzy B.

Performances by VaVa Vunderbust, Isolde N. Barron, DKUnited, Elaine Miller and taiko drummer Ronin T.
Come party with us and celebrate Odd Ball’s final “scream” at the WISE Hall (1882 Adanac St @ Victoria Drive)

Friday October 31, 2008
8pm-1am
10 bucks flat rate. No advance tickets - tix ONLY at the door so come early. Treats for folks waiting in the line-up.
Sorry, no minors.
Limited wheel-chair access through the rear doors: please contact organizers in advance if you have accessibility needs. oddball@michaelvsmith.com

Thanks to XtraWest for being the Odd Ball’s media sponsor. And to our community partners; YouthCo, Rhizome Cafe, The Kiss Store and Spartacus Gym.

http://theoddballcouver.blogspot.com/2008/10/taiko-with-dangerous-twist.html

I’m reading here… something wee and new. Really new. So new I’m still blowing eraser dust off the paper. That new. Coming?

- Elaine

(facebookiness)

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This Thursday, don’t miss the most OBSCENE cabaret-style literary event in Vancouver — Memewar Magazine’s Dirty Little Release Party!

We’re celebrating our Obscenity/Censorship Issue with a choc-a-bloc and totally packed show for your enjoyment! The show STARTS EARLY and ENDS LATE to suit bedtimes and night owls, and will include some of Vancouver’s finest burlesquers, writers, slammers and musicians!

The clothes start coming off at 8:45pm, so bring your sexy selves and support your favourite free literary magazine!

$10
8:30pm
Railway Club

See you there!
Memewar Magazine
www.memewaronline.com
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High School Confidential
A fundraising event for Out on Screen’s Out in Schools program

SAT, SEPT 27, 7:00 PM
The WISE Hall 1882 Adanac St
Show at 8:00PM (followed by a dance party!)
$12 advance / $15 at the door
Buy tickets now!
Also available at Little Sister’s
Sorry, no minors

Go back to school with High School Confidential! This saucy school-themed cabaret puts a queer twist on the high school talent show. It features performances by some of Vancouver’s best burlesque and drag performers. Buy treats at the bake sale! Do a stint in detention! Stick around for the school dance!

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Scuttlebutt has it that the school ma’ams supervising the Detention Centre include … well, me. Plus a host of other pervy lovelies.

School desks, saucy lines to write, and an optional dunce cap (for those who like ‘em).

See y’all there?

- Elaine

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Hooray! It’s now!
A few cool things:
- Doors open at 11am for the art showing, and we start at 7:31 sharp, so come early and check out Pride In Art!
- We’re thinking of an after party somewheres — and will announce it at the readings.
- The Little Sisters folks will have a book table, as well as be reading luscious porn to you… so if you wanna buy erotic queerness in print, this’ll be the place!
- For those women/transfolk who are planning to come to Bride of Pride, I’ll have tickets to sell at the advance price, before the show, during the intermission, and after the show.
- Geez, I hope no-one’s allergic to grapes.

- Elaine

Linkages:
http://elainemiller.com/queerotica/
http://elainemiller.com/blog/
http://vancouverleather.com/brideofpride/

I’ve got the final list of our amazing talent!
Here are the writers. I mean readers. You know.

(in no particular order!)

- Anna Camilleri
- Michael V Smith
- Amber Dawn
- Elaine Miller
- River Light
- Mette Bach
- Afuwa Granger
- Douglas Bacon
- Billeh Nickerson
- Tony Correia
- Terrie Hamazaki
- Claire Campbell-Williams
- Kat Babcock

and on the little sister’s reading team:
Jim Deva
Janine Fuller
Stuart Blackley
Ken Boesem
Jürgen von Steffens
Aerlyn Weissman

We’ve got our dang star-studded lineup, for the most part, and are doing a kind of “last call” before we finalize the new poster. Have a piece you were sitting on until the last dang second? Get it to us, quick!

Deadline: June 29th

http://elainemiller.com/queerotica/

http://elainemiller.com/queerotica/call.php

Ryan and I (with help from cute “schoolboys”, T and MA) are performing at Diva’s Den this Sunday evening — I do hope you can make it out to laugh at… I mean, cheer us on!

Penthouse at 1019 Seymour St
doors 7, 8pm show start
$15 adv (little sisters) or $18 at the door

Note that the damn venue is only partially accessible — they’ve got a dedicated accessible area with a view, reachable by the back door, but bathrooms are reportedly impassible.

VIDEO
If any of y’all are both planning to come *and* in possession of a videocamera, if you’d consider taping our wee show, I’d be mighty pleased. This must be done by prearrangement only, so lemme know before Sunday morning, please, and I’ll make it okay with the bouncers.

And…

DESK PROP
We have the generous offer of a sweet li’l schooldesk, but now realize that we’d be better off with a separate table-and-chair kind of desk, so the desk part and the chair part can be used separately onstage.
Anyone got a wee table/desk kind of thing? the kind that isn’t attached to its own chair?
Please let me know — I can travel to pick up, and drop it off again to you.

See you there?

-Elaine

This post is pure meaningless frippery. Don’t even read it.

I stumbled across this image, and had to share.

I once (about 5 years ago?) did a reading on the smallest stage I have ever encountered. It’s smaller, I think, than my kitchen table. Smaller than my loveseat. Much, much smaller than my bed. Here it is…

(Points for those Vancouver queers who comment with the name of the venue.)

Call for Readers/Submissions: QUEEROTICA 2008

This is a call for writers/readers/performers of queer erotic literature (and written filthy smut and porn) to read at Queerotica, a “collective fundraiser” (to pay you, the local queer writers who read porn at this event) on July 30th, 2008 during Pride week in Vancouver.

What I’m Looking For:
Writers who are willing — nay, eager — to read or recite their own pieces of queer erotica/porn/smut.
Erotica must be queer-themed, which includes gay, lesbian, bi, and all flavours of queer transgender.
I’d love to see raunchy, transgressive, smokin’ hot porn. I’d love erotica featuring queers of all different races, sizes, ages and abilities. I’d like to see intelligent, contemporary, mind-bending porn that leaves the listener hot, wet, hard, or dizzy. I’d like to see clever erotica that makes us laugh and sigh and smile knowingly at our lover. I’ll even look at poetry!
Restrictions (the usual suspects): no children, animals, former food, or former people.

Interested?
Drop me a line at queerotica (at) elainemiller (dot)com and introduce yourself.
I’d love a copy of the piece you’re interested in reading. I’m almost universally computer-compatible. Send it in the body of an email, or attached as a text file, or as an RTF, or a doc file, or as an HTML file, or a link to your performance on YouTube, or… whatever else you can think of.

What’s In This For You?
Since this event is “admission by donation”, I can offer a only a promise of an equal share after costs for lending your talents and hotness. Amount TBA, on the night. Besides that, there’s effusive thanks, your name in lights, a cred on your pr0n-writing resume, and the warm knowledge that you’re setting fire to the pants of Queer Vancouver.

What Else?
Here’s the nifty thing: A bunch of the Little Sister’s crew are going to come read some of the varied erotic material that got books halted at the border! More details as I have ‘em.

Details, and the freshest news:
http://elainemiller.com/queerotica/

Event Info:

Queerotica
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008, 7:30pm
(note correction: it starts at 7:30pm!)
@ The Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre
(http://www.roundhouse.ca/)
Vancouver, BC, Canada

As part of the Pride in Art Festival 2008
(http://prideinart.ca/)

Organized by Elaine Miller with huge assistance from Afuwa Granger
(http://elainemiller.com, http://afuwa.com)

I’m producing this thing, with help from the lovely and talented Afuwa. Please mark it on your calendars! I’ve already got some smoking hot readers lined up…

Details here:
(note correction: it starts at 7:30pm!)
http://elainemiller.com/queerotica/

Call for Subs here:
http://elainemiller.com/queerotica/call.php

Please feel free to pass notice of this sucker around. In fact, I’d consider it a big favour — I’m up to my earballs with to-do lists, and could use the help in promotion!

Queerotica
http://www.elainemiller.com/queerotica/

An evening of LIVE readings of
queer erotic fiction and poetry
from some of Vancouver’s hottest writers!

August 8th, 2007 7:30

@ The Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre
Vancouver, BC, Canada
As part of the Pride in Art Festival 2007
A fundraiser for Little Sister’s Bookstore (Legal Defense Fund)
Produced by Elaine Miller and Afuwa Granger
http://www.elainemiller.com/queerotica/

Call for Readers/Submissions: QUEEROTICA

This is a call for writers/readers/performers of queer erotic literature (and written filthy smut and porn) to read at Queerotica, a fundraiser for Little Sister’s Bookstore, on August 8th, 2007 during Pride week in Vancouver.

What I’m Looking For:
Writers who are willing — nay, eager — to read or recite their own pieces of queer erotica/porn/smut.
Erotica must be queer-themed, which includes gay, lesbian, bi, and all flavours of queer transgender.
I’d love to see raunchy, transgressive, smokin’ hot porn. I’d like to see intelligent, contemporary, mind-bending porn that leaves the listener hot, wet, hard, or dizzy. I’d like to see clever erotica that makes us laugh and sigh and smile knowingly at our lover. I’ll even look at poetry!
Restrictions (the usual suspects): no children, animals, former food, or former people.

Interested?
Drop me a line at queerotica (at) elainemiller (dot)com and introduce yourself.
I’d love a copy of the piece you’re interested in reading. I’m almost universally computer-compatible. Send it in the body of an email, or attached as a text file, or as an RTF, or a doc file, or as an HTML file, or a link to your performance on YouTube, or… whatever else you can think of.

What’s In This For You?
Since this is a fundraiser (with admission by donation), I can offer a only a slight cash honorarium for lending your talents and hotness to this worthy cause. Amount TBA. Besides that, there’s effusive thanks, your name in lights, a cred on your pr0n-writing resume, and the warm knowledge that you’re doing your part to help Canada’s best li’l independent queer bookstore fight censorship.

Details, and the freshest news:
http://elainemiller.com/queerotica/

Event Info:

Queerotica
Evening, August 8th, 2007 (time TBA, probably 7:30ish)
@ The Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre
(http://www.roundhouse.ca/)
Vancouver, BC, Canada

As part of the Pride in Art Festival 2007
(http://prideinart.ca/)

A fundraiser for Little Sister’s Bookstore (Legal Defense Fund)
(http://littlesistersbookstore.com)

Organized by Elaine Miller
(http://elainemiller.com)

September 22nd!

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A performance in 2002