The Porny Days

Dear visitors to the Gessnerallee, dear culture enthusiasts, dear artists

Anyone who cried with happiness in ‘This resting, patience’ and danced into the early hours at the Backslash Festival last week can now start thinking about their outfits for the next few days. Because the hottest festival in town has made the Gessnerallee its festival centre: the Porny Days film and art festival is moving in. This year's programme revolves around love, and to make it easier to find your way around, here are a few tips for the programme at Gessnerallee.

On Thursday, 28 November, there will be a concert by Tami T and a literary prelude by Sascha Rijkeboer at Stall6. Tami plays new songs and Sascha reads from a new volume of poetry. Pining welcome.

Fancy an erotic-performative playground? Then on 29 November you've come to the right place at ‘Porny Play’, the sex-positive format with clear rules. The beginning is created together and it ends at 1am. Without alcohol or other drugs. Instead, there will be a boxing ring for play fights, a bondage corner, a slightly different beauty contest and an interactive film set by Lausanne collective Oil Productions.

And on Saturday, 30 November, it's ‘sweat, sweat, sweat’ at the ‘Sweat & Glitter’ performance and party night. For the first time, the Porny Days are setting up their fabulous, fluffy, revealing, wet room at the Gessnerallee. This means more space for various kinky playgrounds and cosy corners, for stunning performances and queer strip shows as the opening, before turning into a rave that lasts until the early hours of the morning.

With performances by Jenna Marvin / Tata Bikbau, Sara & Her Boy, Sexy & Depressed, Jamal Phoenix, missactiv & delivrygirl and DJ sets by Belia Winnewisser, Nive, Meg10, Yung Porno Büsi and more.

If you want to find out more about the Porny Days, you can find more information and events on the festival website.

And if you're in the mood for even more exploration of intimacy and tenderness, take a look at the Gessnerallee programme the following week with ‘Exposure’ by Alexandra Bachzetsis / Cullberg and ‘untamed.night’ by untamed.love or read the article ‘Der Lesbian Gaze und der Blick als Einladung’ by Gessnerallee dramaturge Isabel Gatzke in our newspaper.

Now for the weekly overview of programme items, newspaper articles, news and everything we want to share with you:

Programme recommendations for this and the coming week

28 to 30 November

Porny Days Festival

This year, the hottest festival in town will not only be showing lots of sex on the big screen, but also some real love stories. Alongside are all kinds of performances, including hands-on ones. And the Gessnerallee is the centre of its events. More information

5 to 7 December

‘Exposure’ by Alexandra Bachzetsis / Cullberg

Together with the renowned Swedish dance company, the Swiss performance artist explores the relationships between nudity and clothing, tenderness and violence, intimacy and alienation. More information

7 December

‘untamed.night’ by untamed.love

The queer-feminist sex shop untamed.love celebrates its fifth birthday at Stall6 - with lots of glitter and surprises. More information

Newspaper

‘The lesbian gaze and the gaze as an invitation’

Sometimes the focus is very close to the body, sometimes on the big picture that makes up the person: In theatre, the gaze becomes a field for negotiating relationships and desires between the performers and the audience. Dramaturge Isabel Gatzke categorises the gaze for us. To the article

Have you already bought the first printed edition of the new Gessnerallee newspaper? Write to Rahel Bains and order it now for CHF 5 (plus CHF 2 postage) direct to your home. Mail to: zeitung@gessnerallee.ch

The second issue will be published the day after tomorrow. We are looking forward to the publication date of 29 November.

We wish you the love you desire.

The Gessnerallee team

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