Porn Film Festival Amsterdam stands for plurality, art, pleasure and community. Our overarching objective is to create an exciting and accessible space for very different bodies and sexualities to come together. We explore desire in all its diversity, addressing urgent questions with a positive and creative attitude.

From February 6 to 9, we celebrate sex with films, workshops, talks, performances, art installations and two parties.

CRUISING QUEERS: the art of the personal ad

Cruising queers comes in two parts. We kick off with a creative personal ad-crafting workshop on Friday at PIC. The second part is an intimate collective reading session during the film block CRUISING THE CITY (Saturday 8th, 15:00, Theater De Richel).

On Friday we invite participants to get creative with filth, scissors and stationery to craft their own smutty personal-ads on paper cards. Guided by Sára and Katinka and Eddie, we will read together, write together, share fantasies, markers and glue sticks. Each person can bring something that they want to use in their personal ad – a talisman that speaks to their sexuality or desire. The aim is to create a ‘cruising wall’; or message board that will display the finished cards on site at PFFA where visitors can read/respond to them.

maximum participants: 12

Sára Iványi, Katinka van Gorkum and Eddie Azulay are three queer writer~artists  who became acquainted via the same queer dating app. Our collaboration for this  workshop stems from our shared interest in language, and how reading between the  lines and expressing oneself and one’s fantasies freely to strangers can become an  interpersonal site for desire and sexuality - a site for cruising.

Location: Prostitution Information Center, Enge Kerksteeg 3, Amsterdam