The EroticART Studio will be a place to explore eroticism through creativity. You will have the opportunity to draw, write, read and perform in a curated artistic space that celebrates sexuality and acknowledges the body’s sexual power.
You have permission to both see and be seen as an object of art, as well as the opportunity to express yourself creatively as an artist in our body positive and sex positive environment.
This kinky dance workshop incorporates contact improvisation with elements of kink. We will play with domination and submission in dance duos, manipulating another person’s body or acquiescing to someone’s lead. Applying both sensual and forceful touch, there is a world of discovery in committing to a role and allowing our innate creativity to flourish within our boundaries. Expanding our awareness both psychologically and bodily, participants can ride the edges of their experience and find new ways of relating and expressing themselves erotically.
The asylum is a space where you can rest, re-charge and where you have permission even to fall apart, if that's where you're at. The environment will be designed to calm your senses. The asylum will be open throughout the festival. Twice a day skilled and experienced volunteers will be available to listen or simply accompany you through whatever you might be experiencing. Please inquire at the box office if you’re interested to access it.
The journey to paradise begins through the darkest and most taboo part of the body: so teaches one of the greatest literary works of European culture. In the The Divine Comedy Dante famously exits the circles of hell through the anus of the devil. From a practical point of view, when exploring the anus Jack Morin encourages everyone to make a "no pain ever commitment". This workshop is for those who want to learn skills in giving and/or receiving anal pleasure. We will spend time relaxing with a slow touch around the outside of the anus - 'rosebud' massage. We will teach some techniques of touch to this area of extraordinary sensitivity.
Often things these days are too speedy that we bypass the possibility of full arousal by going for intense sensation. The state of your nervous system, more specifically your vagal nerve, determines how much you can or cannot feel when it comes to sexual arousal. It's an exciting journey to slow it right down and truly feel 'your nerves' as they start to tingle your excitement.
Using several tools, such as Chinese acupressure points, for opening the arousal channels as well as conscious touch, this workshop will help you to explore your edge of arousal and maybe venture into unknown terrain.
By breaking down we mean being emotionally unable to cope, feeling overwhelmed, vulnerable, unable to function as one normally does, finding oneself experiencing extreme and unpredictable emotions such as anger, sadness, terror, loathing or fear..."being triggered", as they say. The truth is breaking-down seems to be an inevitable part of the journey towards emotional maturity in the 'sex-positive' milieu.
In this workshop and in the festival more generally, you will have permission to break down without fear and without shame. We will explore how each of us acts when we break down, how we respond when we witness others breaking down and how we would like others to be with us when this happens, when the infans, the one who can't speak or the wounded child arrives.
This workshop has been inspired by the Orgasm Ceremony of Scandinavian sex educator Pia Struck. It will be an incredible journey into self-pleasure in a sacred ceremonial space with others.
