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The Play Party - Weekend Retreat

⏰Friday 6 april 2018 — sunday 8 april 2018, at 18:00
📍Väddö, Väddö (Stockholms län)
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There are many images that can come to mind when thinking about a BDSM play party… images from pop culture, like Eyes Wide Shut, ritualistic gatherings, like the cult of Dionysus festivals, and our own wildest fantasies, inspired by the desires that move us. But how do these images become reality? How do we go about creating the set and setting for the play party we want to actually happen? And how do we get those attending to come together, to move the space forward, into a satisfying collective experience?

In this workshop, we will use techniques from BDSM, theater, dance, and ritual play to come together as a group to form two play parties of our collective desire.

On Friday, we will focus on group cohesion, spending time becoming familiar with each other, understanding each other's boundaries and how we can relate to one another as a community with the common goal of making play parties where everybody in the room can feel safe, vulnerable, and explorative.

On Saturday, we will spend the day building up to our first play party. We will explore rituals, costumes, alter-egos, and masks to see how they can be used to relate to others in the group and be used for play. We will also explore exhibitionism and voyeurism, consent culture in a play party context, and how to use conversation and words to promote the space created.

On Sunday, we will dive into nonverbal communication in a play party context, in preparation for a silent play party at the end of the day. How to use slowness and stillness to seek and allow interactions to unfold will be a big theme of the day. We will also discuss performance and how performance can be used to effect a space, and the people in it.

Overall, the intention of this workshop is for all those participating to come out of it with the tools they need to go home and confidently participate in the play party of their dreams. We also hope to plant the seeds of the play party culture we know and love, and have so deeply been influenced by, of Berlin’s Schwelle7.

Space and Format
The event starts at Friday 19:00 and ends Sunday 18:00. During the event all participants will be living together in a big countryside house on beautiful Väddö. Accommodations are simple and dormitory style, and all vegetarian meals are included. This event is alcohol and drug free.

Price and Participation
You can participate in two ways.
(1) As an assistant - you pay only for the food and accomodation (around 1000-1500kr) and assist with cooking, cleaning, and any other way required.
(2) As an participant - you pay a full price ticket (2500kr) including everything.

Prerequisite and Sign-up
You must have attended a event with Andy or Saara before, or have a friend that can vouch for you. We will create a group that we believe brings the balance and diversity we want to the weekend. We aim to have twenty people in total.

Sign-up here!
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