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Forte Femme returns to San Francisco!

Description
Find your authentic inner femme power! Through exploration of safe and effective techniques with emphasis on connections with your partner, fortified with individual attention and guidance, you’ll learn the full scope of creating a fulfilling experience for you and your partner.

Join Midori for this special women’s weekend intensive of instruction and fun!

Experience a most unique, in-depth program on how to bring the joys of sensual power play to your relationship. Expanding on Midori’s ever-popular class “The Art of Feminine Dominance,” you’ll be fully tutored through a series of personalized instruction, practice, discussions and demonstrations. Midori believes in a compassionate approach of education focusing on “Head-Heart-&-Hands”, to go beyond mere focus on technique or formulaic scripts. Step into a place of empowerment, confidence and pleasure.

During this immersion retreat, you’ll learn creative negotiation, scene setting, special equipment, play techniques including flogging, various bondage types and more. You will also explore emotional and psychological issues of loving SM in a healthy relationship.

If you have a partner, they are encouraged to join in the Lab segment on Sunday afternoon.

Included: Workbook, morning coffee & nosh, lunch, afternoon snacks, fun goodies, plus optional guided field trip into San Francisco.

Pre-requisite and Experience: No previous experience necessary

Where: Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport, CA

Regular Registration (within 4 weeks of the event):  $700/per woman

The class is limited to 10 women to ensure the highest quality tutelage.

Sponsored by 

Location: Roxie Theater, Center for Sex and Culture, PariSoMa, Noisebridge
City/Town: San Francisco, CA

Scottish SF author Iain Banks created a fictitious group-civilisation called “Culture” in his eponymous narrative. The vast majority of humanoid people in the “Culture” are born with greatly altered glands housed within their central nervous systems, who secrete – on command – mood- and sensory-appreciation-altering compounds into the person’s bloodstream. Additionally many inhabitants have subtly altered reproductive organs – and control over the associated nerves – to enhance sexual pleasure. Ovulation is at will in the female, and a fetus up to a certain stage may be re-absorbed, aborted, or held at a static point in its development; again, as willed. Also, a viral change from one sex into the other, is possible. And there is a convention that each person should give birth to one child in their lives. It may sound strange, but Banks states that a society in which it is so easy to change sex will rapidly find out if it is treating one gender better than the other. Pressure for change within society would presumably build up until some form of sexual equality and hence numerical parity will be established. Does this set-up sound too futuristic? Too utopian? Too bizarre?

We may not forget that mankind is a sexual and tool-using species. And that’s why our annual conference Arse Elektronika deals with sex, technology and the future. As bio-hacking, sexually enhanced bodies, genetic utopias and plethora of gender have long been the focus of literature, science fiction and, increasingly, pornography, this year will see us explore the possibilities that fictional and authentic bodies have to offer. Our world is already way more bizarre than our ancestors could have ever imagined. But it may not be bizarre enough. “Bizarre enough for what?” — you might ask. Bizarre enough to subvert the heterosexist matrix that is underlying our world and that we should hack and overcome for some quite pressing reasons within the next century. Don’t you think, replicants?

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Festival Schedule:

October 1: Film festival, opening ceremony and Prixxx Arse Elektronika Gala
October 2: Literature, fiction, reading
October 3: Talks and discourse
October 4: DIY workshops

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Arse Elektronika 2009 will take place in San Francisco, USA at Roxie Theater, Center for Sex and Culture, PariSoMa, Noisebridge.

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http://www.monochrom.at/arse-elektronika/
http://www.arse-elektronika.com

Bisexual Artists is seeking artists who identify as Bisexual (or with a label inclusive of bisexuality, such as Pansexual, Fluid, Omnisexual, Ambisexual or Queer), to submit paintings, drawings, photographs, prints, or sculptures relating to their experiences of living as a bisexual person. This project is an opportunity for artists to represent what being bisexual means to them and to help promote the wide variety of people who are bisexual.

Hangable works will be limited to 8′ in height and 6′ in length. Sculptures will be limited to a base of 2′ by 2′, with a height no greater than 8′. Works may be either pre-existing work or work created specifically for the event. There should also be a paragraph description of the content of the work and how it relates to issues of bisexuality, bisexual identities and/or bisexual visibility (no more than 500 words).

Deadline for submissions is August 1st 2009. Please click here for complete information, submission guidelines, etc.

Artists selected for the exhibition will have their work on display in the San Francisco art gallery of Good Vibrations on Polk Street from Thursday October 8th 2009 thru Thursday, November 26th 2009.

Location: The Center for Sex and Culture
1519 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94114 US
When: Friday, December 19, 6:00PM
Phone: 415 331-3613
Please join me in celebrating “Unspoken Bond”.

Unspoken Bond”, 8′x 8′, Oil on Canvas, 2008.

An original oil portrayal of two of the most talented Bondage personalities in the Country.
Madison Young & Lochai

This show is centered around The Fine Art of Bondage.

The Center for Sex and Culture is hosting this Art Show that is featuring my latest work. The 8′x8′ oil on canvas painting, “Unspoken Bond” represents Lochai and Madison Young as the creators in the beautiful Fine Art of Bondage. I have invited Lochai (Bondage Rigger and award winning Bondage Photographer) and Madison Young (Award winning Bondage Suspension Model) to present their performance art during the opening. The painting is a portrait that has captured their personalities and passion for rope. It is my largest painting to date for this series.

Please come and experience this wonderful night with us.

Admission is free. Wine, Cheese and Treats catered by Maude Bradley.

FP Edge represents my work as well as Danyol (we are presenting together at this venue) www.fpedge.com The show runs until March 11, 2009. If you can’t make it on the 19th, then try to get by to see this awesome piece of art.

I will also be exhibiting “Madison Young in Bondage”, Series 1,2,3,&4.

My website will fill you in on what I have been up to lately. www.nancypeacherotic.com I have not displayed any of this work, as I am wanting it to be seen in person. The experience of this large piece takes over. Promise to attend this special event and celebrate the Holidays as well!! See you there!

Lochai

homemidori14 10 Midoris Rope Dojo, January 17 19, 2009

Midori by Michele Serchuk (Photodiva.com)

Midori announced on her Livejournal that there’s a new Rope Dojo® scheduled for January:

Rope Bondage Dojo (R) will be coming up in San Francisco on January 17-18, 2009.
16+ hours of intensive and a party…
The registration will open the first week of December.
Space limited to 28 students.
You’ll find curriculum and other info at www.RopeDojo.com