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Celebrating the Arts of Love

  • East Sydney Community Arts Centre 34 Burton Street Darlinghurst, NSW, 2010 Australia (map)

"There is nothing more truly artistic

than to love people."

Vincent van Gogh

How do you cultivate love in your life? How do you see the love that is already there? What makes you feel that you are loved?

How can we give freedom to ourselves and others, without losing the support that makes us feel grounded and able to flourish?

Celebrating the Arts of Love is a one-day festival to explore these questions in the diversity and richness of sex-positive relationships. The festival will take at the East Sydney Community Arts Centre, 34 Burton Street, Darlinghurst NSW 2010. There will be a program of workshops, installations, ceremonies and play party.

Tickets $185 including b/fee.

The Festival is a unique opportunity to:

  • Let go more and find the courage to discover new things;

  • Invigorate your existing relationships;

  • Meet a compatible partner or partners who accept you for who you are;

  • Have and maintain healthy boundaries with others;

  • Discover and connect with others who are asking themselves similar questions;

  • Integrate your sexuality in healthy and reflective ways with the rest of your life;

  • Feel the joy of being alive.

Our Workshops and Party

Featured
Sensual Play with Rope with Peter & Natalia
Sensual Play with Rope with Peter & Natalia

This workshop will not be about complicated knots or mastery. You will learn a few of the technical basics of Japanese bondage, and discover rope as a conscious touch and a loving encounter. Bondage need not be beautiful and perfect for it to feel alive and to give pleasure. For it to go deep, it is not necessary that the rope turn you on.

Love Dancing with Peter and Georgia
Love Dancing with Peter and Georgia

There is no celebration of the arts of love without dance, because dance is the royal road of eroticism and seduction. The workshop is a journey of body awakening and desire through dance.

Erotic Talk with Kim McBurnie
Erotic Talk with Kim McBurnie

Talk about how you feel. One of the best ways to ease into a little erotic talk is to just think about how you're feeling in the moment, and describe the effect they're having on you. It will make them feel amazing be much more organic for you.

Screw Body Shame: A Self-Love Workshop with Shivani Ma
Screw Body Shame: A Self-Love Workshop with Shivani Ma

Being hard on yourself keeps you stuck and small. Berating and hiding your body keeps your energy levels low. It's time to screw this and get courageous, because finding ways to adore your body, creates more pleasure, passion, and purpose than you could ever imagine.

Opening Ceremony (Everyone Must Attend)
Opening Ceremony (Everyone Must Attend)

Meet the festival presenters, learn about verbal and body consent, and how best to navigate through the festival. To ensure that everyone who comes to the festival takes part in an atmosphere of informed consent, we strongly recommend that all participants attend the Opening Ceremony. If participants cannot attend the Opening Ceremony, they must attend the inductions on Sunday morning at 9am to gain entry to the festival.

Holding and Being Held with Georgia Munro
Holding and Being Held with Georgia Munro

While holding forms an integral part of many physical interactions, and while it can, by itself, generate intense emotions and sensations, it is rarely investigated on its own merit. Often we do not actually feel safely held, even though that is what we long for (we can only truly let go when we know that someone will be there to hold us). Once we understand what it is that makes being held a less than satisfying experience, we can be clearer about what it is that we wish to feel in an embrace and where to place our attention.

Navigating a Play Party
Navigating a Play Party

Do you experience anxiety before going to a play party? Do you worry about what to wear and how to behave?

Well you're not alone. Nearly everybody does.

Do you fear your partner might be attracted to someone else? Or that you might go home feeling frustrated and lonely? That people will cross your boundaries or that no-one will find you attractive?

Don't worry. Nearly everyone does.

The Magical Space - Curated Play Party
The Magical Space - Curated Play Party

The Magical Space is a curated play party which explores theatricality, ceremony and poetry in the context of erotic play. There will be the possibility to explore different roles and games. Costumes will be available, although it is strongly encouraged to think of a character you would like to play and bring your own costume.

Our Presenters

Earlier Event: November 15
A Week-end of Sex and Philosophy
Later Event: December 10
Erotic Reading Group

What We Believe In

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EMBODIMENT

Partner with your body and your breath every day!

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RESPECT

Make requests, never demands! Resist all forms of coercion - especially self-coercion.

DIVERSITY

Vive la différence! Celebrate the differences in people and their tastes.

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COURAGE

Partner with your fears! Let them teach you courage and strength.

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AESTHETICS & PHILOSOPHY

Cultivate the erotic artist in you! And dare to reflect on what you are doing and why!

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PLAY AND MISCHIEF

Add some spice to it! Stay true to who and what turns you on! And be free!