Just Play 2007 - A Weekend of Play for Women & Transfolk Nov 23 - 25 in Baltimore
Just Play 2007 - A Entire Weekend of Play for Women and Transfolk
November 23rd - 25th at Play House Studios in Baltimore, MD.
Please Join Us In Our Newly Renovated and Redecorated 4500 Square Foot Play Space for an Awesome Weekend of Fun and Frolic.
Friday, November 23rd from 9pm - 2am includes a workshop on Lap Dancing 101 taught by the oh so SEXY Peggy Sue. (details below)
Saturday, November 24th from 9pm - 3am includes a workshop on Bootblacking and Leather care presented by Levi AND our not to be missed annual Strip Tease & Lap Dance Extravaganza and Contest at Midnight, which will be a fundraiser for NCSF (www.ncsfreedom.org) so please bring lots of cash to encourage the dancers. (details below)
Sunday, November 25th from 1pm - 7pm includes brunch AND a workshop on Play Piercing led by Lolita Wolf. (details below)
We will also always have open play stations available for folks who aren't interested in attending our workshops.
$30 per day or $75 for the entire weekend - limited work exchange is available by writing to GlendaCPFA@aol.com ASAP. RSVPs for Just Play 2007 are very strictly REQUIRED as this is a PRIVATE PARTY - please RSVP to GlendaCPFA@aol.com and the address of the venue will be provided to you. Prepayment is also highly encouraged - details will be provided with your RSVP.
Parking will be available in our attached parking garage for $5 per car per day.
Beverages will be available for purchase at the venue and we ask everyone to please bring something yummy to share for the food table.
We will also be organizing two field trips on Saturday - one to our local fetish clothing store, PowerXchange by nina (www.powerxchangebynina.com) and one to the discount book warehouse. There also several wonderful museums in the area for anyone who wants some culture with their kink.
Our host hotel for the weekend is The Inn at Government House which is only three blocks away. This Inn is run by a wonderful woman who is scene friendly but we do try not to totally scare the other guests. Rooms are $89 per night (ask for the Play House rate) for up to two people and can be reserved by calling 410-539-0566 - they can be a bit difficult to reach so keep trying - it's a beautiful property and well worth the effort. Rooms for four people and king bed rooms are possible but are very limited in availability and cost a little more so please call ASAP if you desire those type of accommodations. However, please be advised that the Inn at Government House is a totally non-smoking property so if you must have a smoking room you will need alternate arrangements - Play House is located in the Mt Vernon area of Baltimore about 12 blocks north of the Inner Harbor for hotel searching purposes - our exact address will be sent to you when you RSVP.
This event is open for leather women of all persuasions who enjoy woman to woman S/M.
All S/M dykes, straight, bisexual and trans-sexual/gender women are welcome.
FTM transgender bois/boys/men who feel they have a place in the S/M women's community are also welcome.
Please help us spread the word about Just Play by inviting your friends
and forwarding/posting this notice to lists and groups where it would be
appropriate and welcome. THANKS!
********************************************************************************************
Presenter Bios and Workshop Descriptions:
FRIDAY: Lap Dancing 101
If you have ever wanted to learn how to dance for your lover.
If you have ever wanted to receive a lapdance. Or give one. Or both.
If you have ever been fascinated and wondered, exactly, how on earth they *do* that.
If you have ever wondered exactly how, when, where or why to give a lapdance.
If you have ever fantasized about learning how to move that feels sexy *to you.*
If you have ever thought that *only* femmes, or thin women, or (insert stereotype here) can give lapdances.
If you want to learn all of that and soooo much more, come to LAPDANCING 101 with Peggy Sue. Oh yes.
There will be live demonstrations, replete with lots of fancy music.
All (reasonable) questions about lapdancing and stripping will answered.
We will have different opportunities for everyone to participate.
This is your chance to learn the basics of lapdance movement, music, whether or not to use costumes or props, and most of all, attitude. So please come learn all the ins and outs, and ups and downs and definitely don't forget that circular motion, um, wait, where was I again?
(Please note: this is a safe workshop space. This means that nobody will be required to participate, limits will be respected, and every effort will be made to respect individual comfort levels.)
About your presenter:
Peggy Sue is an alpha femme troublemaker who loves to dance. A leatherdyke for way, way too many years, she's presented different dirty things at Women of Amsterdam Leather Pride, Mr. Leather Toronto, Play House Studios and Sunday School. A transplanted San Franciscan living in DC, happy promoter of Dyke Night and co-founder with Schelli Dittmann of Sunday School at the DC Eagle, Peggy Sue dances for all the boys, girls, butches, femmes and others that think, somehow, they can't.
SATURDAY: Get Down and Dirty on the Floor - Bootblacking and Leathercare 101
Ever see someone on their knees with a mouth full of boot and wonder what in the world they were doing? Well that’s just the cherry on top of the bootblacking experience, and it can be about SO MUCH MORE. Learn the basics of bootblacking, discuss the service, sexiness and spirituality of leathercare, contemplate the deep connection that you can create with just some saddle soap and a towel! This is a class for tops, bottoms, Dominants, submissives, switches and GDI’s alike. Come prepared to get filthy (well, just a little polish under the nails) or sit pretty (if you’d like to try having your boots or leathers done.)
About your presenter:
Levi Halberstadt is a wide-eyed, smartass boy from New York who currently resides in Baltimore, MD. He lives with and serves his partner, Glenda Rider, with whom he plans to take over the world! Together, they produce the International Ms Leather Weekend in San Francisco (May 1- 4, 2008, IMsL.org). Levi is a bootblack under the mentorship of his BootDaddy (and boyfriend) Jim Deuder and produces Baltimore's annual Community Bootblack Training not-quite-annually. Questions about bootblacking or leather-care needs? He’s happy to help.
Lap Dancing and Strip Tease Extravaganza and Contest at Midnight - EVERYONE is invited to dress up (or down), pick your music (on CD please) and strut your stuff.
Butches, Femmes, bois, girls, boys, grrrlz, and gender queers of all sorts have all won the contest in the past - it's based on audience appeal - so please join in the dancing madness. This is also FIST's (Females Investigating Sexual Terrain - our local women's BDSM social and educational membership organization) annual NCSF fundraiser so please bring lots of singles, fives, tens, twenties (or higher if you can) to encourage the dancers to do their BEST for YOU. This event is always the highlight of Just Play and just way toooooooo much FUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SUNDAY: How To Play With Needles
When thinking of needles, most people remember of going to the doctor and getting shots. Ick! The last thing that they want to do is play with needles. But once one gets over that fear, playing with needles can be a lot of fun. Play piercing can give you a big endorphin rush. Endorphins are those sensations that your body makes to give you a natural high. Long distance runners experience a runner's high that is very similar. Needles can leave you a different sort of breathless. In this class you will learn about tools, supplies, safety, technique, preparation and aftercare. Wanna try needles? We'll have a hands-on portion for bottoms, tops and switches. Bring a partner, or come alone and we will match people up. Let's enjoy the endorphins together!
About your presenter:
Lolita Wolf loves to play, play, play but is also an activist and an educator who has share her knowledge at groups and events around the country. She has authored two books: "Spanking" and "CBT in a Nutshell." She is an Emeritus Board Member of both TES and Leather Leadership Conference, former chair of LSM, Honorary Member of GMSMA, and active with NCSF and Leather Pride Night. Lolita has received numerous awards including two Pantheon of Leather Community Service Awards, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Leather Association, the Vaughn Keith National Education Award from Black Rose, the DefendersNY Founders Award and the 2000 Centurion Award from the Leather Archives & Museum. See her website at leatheryenta.com A six-year-old Princess who lies about her age, Lolita manages to stir up shit and get her own way (most of the time).
See You There!
November 23rd - 25th at Play House Studios in Baltimore, MD.
Please Join Us In Our Newly Renovated and Redecorated 4500 Square Foot Play Space for an Awesome Weekend of Fun and Frolic.
Friday, November 23rd from 9pm - 2am includes a workshop on Lap Dancing 101 taught by the oh so SEXY Peggy Sue. (details below)
Saturday, November 24th from 9pm - 3am includes a workshop on Bootblacking and Leather care presented by Levi AND our not to be missed annual Strip Tease & Lap Dance Extravaganza and Contest at Midnight, which will be a fundraiser for NCSF (www.ncsfreedom.org) so please bring lots of cash to encourage the dancers. (details below)
Sunday, November 25th from 1pm - 7pm includes brunch AND a workshop on Play Piercing led by Lolita Wolf. (details below)
We will also always have open play stations available for folks who aren't interested in attending our workshops.
$30 per day or $75 for the entire weekend - limited work exchange is available by writing to GlendaCPFA@aol.com ASAP. RSVPs for Just Play 2007 are very strictly REQUIRED as this is a PRIVATE PARTY - please RSVP to GlendaCPFA@aol.com and the address of the venue will be provided to you. Prepayment is also highly encouraged - details will be provided with your RSVP.
Parking will be available in our attached parking garage for $5 per car per day.
Beverages will be available for purchase at the venue and we ask everyone to please bring something yummy to share for the food table.
We will also be organizing two field trips on Saturday - one to our local fetish clothing store, PowerXchange by nina (www.powerxchangebynina.com) and one to the discount book warehouse. There also several wonderful museums in the area for anyone who wants some culture with their kink.
Our host hotel for the weekend is The Inn at Government House which is only three blocks away. This Inn is run by a wonderful woman who is scene friendly but we do try not to totally scare the other guests. Rooms are $89 per night (ask for the Play House rate) for up to two people and can be reserved by calling 410-539-0566 - they can be a bit difficult to reach so keep trying - it's a beautiful property and well worth the effort. Rooms for four people and king bed rooms are possible but are very limited in availability and cost a little more so please call ASAP if you desire those type of accommodations. However, please be advised that the Inn at Government House is a totally non-smoking property so if you must have a smoking room you will need alternate arrangements - Play House is located in the Mt Vernon area of Baltimore about 12 blocks north of the Inner Harbor for hotel searching purposes - our exact address will be sent to you when you RSVP.
This event is open for leather women of all persuasions who enjoy woman to woman S/M.
All S/M dykes, straight, bisexual and trans-sexual/gender women are welcome.
FTM transgender bois/boys/men who feel they have a place in the S/M women's community are also welcome.
Please help us spread the word about Just Play by inviting your friends
and forwarding/posting this notice to lists and groups where it would be
appropriate and welcome. THANKS!
********************************************************************************************
Presenter Bios and Workshop Descriptions:
FRIDAY: Lap Dancing 101
If you have ever wanted to learn how to dance for your lover.
If you have ever wanted to receive a lapdance. Or give one. Or both.
If you have ever been fascinated and wondered, exactly, how on earth they *do* that.
If you have ever wondered exactly how, when, where or why to give a lapdance.
If you have ever fantasized about learning how to move that feels sexy *to you.*
If you have ever thought that *only* femmes, or thin women, or (insert stereotype here) can give lapdances.
If you want to learn all of that and soooo much more, come to LAPDANCING 101 with Peggy Sue. Oh yes.
There will be live demonstrations, replete with lots of fancy music.
All (reasonable) questions about lapdancing and stripping will answered.
We will have different opportunities for everyone to participate.
This is your chance to learn the basics of lapdance movement, music, whether or not to use costumes or props, and most of all, attitude. So please come learn all the ins and outs, and ups and downs and definitely don't forget that circular motion, um, wait, where was I again?
(Please note: this is a safe workshop space. This means that nobody will be required to participate, limits will be respected, and every effort will be made to respect individual comfort levels.)
About your presenter:
Peggy Sue is an alpha femme troublemaker who loves to dance. A leatherdyke for way, way too many years, she's presented different dirty things at Women of Amsterdam Leather Pride, Mr. Leather Toronto, Play House Studios and Sunday School. A transplanted San Franciscan living in DC, happy promoter of Dyke Night and co-founder with Schelli Dittmann of Sunday School at the DC Eagle, Peggy Sue dances for all the boys, girls, butches, femmes and others that think, somehow, they can't.
SATURDAY: Get Down and Dirty on the Floor - Bootblacking and Leathercare 101
Ever see someone on their knees with a mouth full of boot and wonder what in the world they were doing? Well that’s just the cherry on top of the bootblacking experience, and it can be about SO MUCH MORE. Learn the basics of bootblacking, discuss the service, sexiness and spirituality of leathercare, contemplate the deep connection that you can create with just some saddle soap and a towel! This is a class for tops, bottoms, Dominants, submissives, switches and GDI’s alike. Come prepared to get filthy (well, just a little polish under the nails) or sit pretty (if you’d like to try having your boots or leathers done.)
About your presenter:
Levi Halberstadt is a wide-eyed, smartass boy from New York who currently resides in Baltimore, MD. He lives with and serves his partner, Glenda Rider, with whom he plans to take over the world! Together, they produce the International Ms Leather Weekend in San Francisco (May 1- 4, 2008, IMsL.org). Levi is a bootblack under the mentorship of his BootDaddy (and boyfriend) Jim Deuder and produces Baltimore's annual Community Bootblack Training not-quite-annually. Questions about bootblacking or leather-care needs? He’s happy to help.
Lap Dancing and Strip Tease Extravaganza and Contest at Midnight - EVERYONE is invited to dress up (or down), pick your music (on CD please) and strut your stuff.
Butches, Femmes, bois, girls, boys, grrrlz, and gender queers of all sorts have all won the contest in the past - it's based on audience appeal - so please join in the dancing madness. This is also FIST's (Females Investigating Sexual Terrain - our local women's BDSM social and educational membership organization) annual NCSF fundraiser so please bring lots of singles, fives, tens, twenties (or higher if you can) to encourage the dancers to do their BEST for YOU. This event is always the highlight of Just Play and just way toooooooo much FUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SUNDAY: How To Play With Needles
When thinking of needles, most people remember of going to the doctor and getting shots. Ick! The last thing that they want to do is play with needles. But once one gets over that fear, playing with needles can be a lot of fun. Play piercing can give you a big endorphin rush. Endorphins are those sensations that your body makes to give you a natural high. Long distance runners experience a runner's high that is very similar. Needles can leave you a different sort of breathless. In this class you will learn about tools, supplies, safety, technique, preparation and aftercare. Wanna try needles? We'll have a hands-on portion for bottoms, tops and switches. Bring a partner, or come alone and we will match people up. Let's enjoy the endorphins together!
About your presenter:
Lolita Wolf loves to play, play, play but is also an activist and an educator who has share her knowledge at groups and events around the country. She has authored two books: "Spanking" and "CBT in a Nutshell." She is an Emeritus Board Member of both TES and Leather Leadership Conference, former chair of LSM, Honorary Member of GMSMA, and active with NCSF and Leather Pride Night. Lolita has received numerous awards including two Pantheon of Leather Community Service Awards, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Leather Association, the Vaughn Keith National Education Award from Black Rose, the DefendersNY Founders Award and the 2000 Centurion Award from the Leather Archives & Museum. See her website at leatheryenta.com A six-year-old Princess who lies about her age, Lolita manages to stir up shit and get her own way (most of the time).
See You There!