Source: Annie Sprinkle
By: Company Press Release
An Ecosexual Engagement Party with Artists Annie Sprinkle & Elizabeth Stephens
Dear Select Friends,
We told you to save the date of Feb 14 for something special at Jancar Gallery in LA. Well, we changed the day to Feb 16. Please save that date instead. Hope to see you there. See below for the details.
XXX Annie & Beth
An Ecosexual Engagement Party with Artists Annie Sprinkle & Elizabeth Stephens
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Saturday, February 16 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Artists Annie Sprinkle and Elizabeth Stephens will host a public “engagement party.” Who – or what – they will marry is a secret, but will be announced at the event. In the past eight years they have married the Earth, sky, sea, rocks, a lake, the moon, as well as other people, places and things, in fifteen large scale weddings in eight different countries. These performance art weddings have been attended by thousands of people, many who made vows along with them.
What began as a protest in 2004, when their appointment to get legally married at San Francisco’s City Hall was canceled due to a California Supreme Court decision stopping same-sex marriage, has become what the Huffington Post described as “The mother of all queer weddings.” Their weddings have not been without controversy. An LAPD S.W.A.T. team was deployed to their 2010 Purple Wedding to the Moon when the LA Parks and Recreation tried to stop it from happening due to “public safety concerns.”
This is the couple’s first “engagement party.” It will be held at Jancar Gallery in Chinatown, where the pair has an important survey of their artwork spanning thirty plus years… titled “The Collaboration.” On display are some of their wedding photographs and the soon to be brides admit that it’s likely their engagement party photos will one day end up in an art gallery too. Cake and bubbly will be served, and toasts performed. The festivities will climax with guests waving goodbye to the couple as they drive off in a decorated 16-foot U-haul truck headed to San Francisco. Everyone is invited to attend.
Jancar Gallery
961 Chung King Road
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Tel 213 625-2522
Hours: Wednesday – Saturday 12 – 5 PM (and by appointment)
Jancar Gallery is pleased to exhibit an important survey of the work of Annie Sprinkle & Elizabeth Stephens – “The Collaboration”
Showing now until February 16, 2013
