With the last days of summer waning now I can’t help thinking of the future by which I mean my current Fall events calender. Everything from old favorites to the shiny and new; we have an amazing line up of events this Fall to keep your fetish, BDSM and social calendar’s humming. We’ll skip over the monthly parties and events for now and instead focus on the one of the kind or annul events.
This year we have a newcomer to season in the TORONTO FETISH BALL. Starting on Saturday, September 24 at the Great Hall this is going to something newbies and old hats won’t want to miss. Organized and hosted by SUBSPACE_Craiger, the man behind Torture Garden Toronto in May and the various Subspace Parties throughout the city. From 12 noon to 7pm Toronto’s and Southern Ontario’s community is getting one massive open house. It’s going to have community organizers, organizations, vendors to satisfy all those kinky itches, specialty groups, workshops for those knowledge junkies, demos to entertain and the wonderful people that make up an amazing community. TNG will certainly have a presence here and of course I’ll be there doing rope workshops and demos throughout the day. Now the question you must be asking yourself is “but how much is it?” and the answer is nothing, zilch, nada, free. That’s right the Toronto Fetish Market part of the event won’t cost you a dime to get in which is amazing considering the demos and workshops alone. Now if you want to pop in for the Toronto FETISH BALL which runs afterward from 10:00 PM to 3:00 AM in the same space it’s only $10. The FETISH BALL will be a massive fetish and play party that will feature local designers and performers. It’ll have a play space stocked with all sorts of equipment for you to play on and Dungeon Monitoring staff on hand to ensure a safe space for your play–which is where I’ll be hanging around most of the night. There is also a dance floor if that’s your thing. Just keep in mind standard fetish wear dress code is in effect so break out the corsets, pvc, latex, leather and if all else fails a black shirt, dress pants and dress shoe will serve you well.
Next up we have a personal highlight of the season MORPHEOUS’ BONDAGE EXTRAVAGANZA AT NUIT BLANCHE. A grand name for a grand event that takes place from 7pm Saturday, September 24 to 7am in the morning at a yet to be revealed location on Queen Street West. Come see some of Toronto’s best along side some of North America’s most well known rope artists preforming live bondage art. This will be the fifth annual bondage art night hosted by internatinal renowed athour, photographer and rope artist Morpheous. This is billed as the largest annual rope art exhibit in the world and this year is bigger than ever with over 60 riggers and rope bunnies taking part. Those that come out will see floor work, suspensions, shibari, kinbaku, the odd and wonderful, sexy girls and boys in leather, latex and various states of undress. Now keep in mind that this is an open exhibit and thousands of people will stream through, but it’s pretty easy to blend into the crowd if you’re shy like that. As another note this will be my second year taking part in the EXTRAVAGANZA so I’m super excited as well as honored to be tying next to so many talented people. Also this is entirely funded out of pocket as Scotiabank who fund the official art installations wouldn’t fund us with a ten foot pole. So come out to the fundraiser event or make a donation the night of to support the alternative arts. This event never makes a profit and is done out of a passion for rope and art.
Finally we come to the Toronto Everythingtodowithsex Show or the ETDWSS. This year we have a change of venue to the Metro Toronto Convention Center from Friday, October 21 to the 23. The ETDWSS is an annual convention held in a few major cities in North America. There are stage shows, representatives of the adult industry, vendors and workshop that promote sex-positive culture. Every year the show donates a space to the local community as a community dungeon which serves as a out reach point for our lifestyle. A good chunk of the TNG should be familiar with the community dungeon as it’s always served as a first point of contact for a lot of people to the community. Every year we seem to get a influx of new people to the TNG after the show. TNG’s Itami is this years co-host of the community dungeon along with MasterJohnF so expect most of the TNG organizers to take part in the show again this year. I’ll be doing demo rope work and chatting people up as per usual so come say hi.
Some people ask me how I can possible stay so busy with fetish and BDSM events. Which makes me wonder how couldn’t you stay busy with so many amazing events happening in the city? There’s always something going in the city every week. Events filled with amazing people from all walks of life. It’s a city and subculture filled with wonder and majesty just begging to be explored.
So what are you guys most excited about?
