Workshops
Into the Wild is a unique opportunity to experience what it is like to live erotically for an extended period of time in a natural bush setting. It is a chance to explore the full potential of your capacity to connect with others and to gain new perspectives on sexuality, creativity, intimacy and friendship.
The theme for the 2020 Autumn Edition is Reconnecting with ourselves, with others and with place. How can this reconnecting bring us a greater sense of belonging? How can it bring us more into alignment with where we come from and what we need to do in this life? How can it help to build in us a deeper sense of trust and confidence? Indigenous Tasmanian cultural practitioner and mentor, Michelle Maynard, will be joining us, as well as Chris Johns, Georgia Munro, Ceclia Barker & Peter Banki, Ph.D.
The Sydney Festival of Erotic Living is a new two day festival to explore these questions in the diversity and richness of sex-positive relationships. The festival will take at the Leela Centre on March 6-8, 2020, 2nd Floor, 113-115 Oxford Street, (Corner of Crown Street), Darlinghurst NSW 2010. There will be a program of 20 workshops, installations, ceremonies and play party. Early Bird tickets available until March 1
Singaporean based Sexologist Dr. Martha Tara Lee will be again in Sydney on Feb. 16 & 17 teaching classes for us (Sex and Sexuality 101, Snuggle Party and the Art o Penis Pleasuring). Come along and meet her. She's very well informed, intelligent and extremely funny.
In this workshop we will experience what it is to slide over, around and on top of each other with massage oil. Liquid Love is a collective experience exploring the sensuality of flowing skin to skin contact. We will begin with dry massage in small groups with your chosen partner or partners. And then once the warm, fine, neutral oil is on your skin, you will have the option of moving in a sea together with others. This workshop is a sensual, but not sexual experience. Genital touch is not encouraged. Everyone is invited to respect their own rhythm and limits to touch and nudity.
SORGS is having a Christmas party next Sunday 15th December from 2-6pm at our place in North Bondi. It’s a way to reconnect and thank you for supporting us. It’s open to anyone who has come to any of our events in 2019. It’s a free event. Bring yourselves and a bottle of wine or something to eat. We’ll play, experiment, explore!
Explicit is an interactive sculptural installation that explores exhibitionism and voyeurism.
Participants are invited to use a live feed set as either a play or performance space, while the live feed is projected in another space for passers by to watch. This installation is strictly live feed to be seen only by whomever may be watching in that moment. No footage is recorded (unless you explicitly ask for a recording). Participants have creative freedom for how they choose to interact with this installation. You have permission to be sexual and permission to be non sexual. How one uses the live feed room is up to them.
You are invited to use the postal service to play and interact with other participants. This is a platform for you to share thought, stories, poems, make invitations or play dates, connect with people, offer feedback, flirt, share fantasies, share vulnerabilities, send commands or tease. You have creative freedom for how you use the service. Simply write or draw your message, then fold the paper and place the recipients name on the front along with any *delivery instructions for the Post Masters, then place it in the mail box. The Post Masters will deliver these messages in the evenings.
In this workshop we will bring together erotic practices with the reading and discussion of literary and philosophical texts. What might it mean to welcome literature and philosophy into erotic spaces? How can the practice of reading inform our erotic relations.
People should be prepared both for reading and discussion as well as light erotic play. In terms of erotic play, what we do will be dependent on the group, but will involve yoga, relaxation, trauma-release, touch, dance, kink, role play and so on.
Into the Wild is our most important event of the year. It is a unique opportunity to experience what it is like to live in a sex-positive space for an extended period of time in a natural bush setting. It combines 6 days and 6 nights of workshops, play and artistic installations, parties and performances. You can come either for the whole festival (Tuesday to Monday) (highly recommended) or for the last three days corresponding to the long week-end (Friday to Monday).
In this workshop, we will deepen our understanding of consent by using spatial principles from movement and dance. Consent is most often taught in terms of practicing verbal expressions of ‘yes’ and ‘no’ or otherwise the traffic light system of ‘red’, ‘yellow’ and ‘green’. While verbal expression can be useful and sometimes necessary, it misses an enormous dimension of our intimate communication, which passes non-verbally.