Howdy kinksters –
It’s a big week for everyone in the greater Bay Area kink community, and we’re no exception. We’ve been spiffing up for Folsom week, and we’re excited to see some of your faces this weekend. If you are at Folsom, please swing by Wicked Grounds Booth at Folsom Street Fair — we will be between 10th and 11th on Folsom, at lucky space 77. Rough Cut Leather will have new goodies for you!
This is also our big fundraising time for our scholarship fund. Wicked Grounds offers scholarships to every class to help our community have fun and play safe. We are only able to do this with the generosity of kinksters like YOU. We will contribute proceeds from this weekend’s booth sales to the fund, so get some great deals and help future kinksters get classes!!! Can’t join us in person? We welcome your small, sustainable gift through Venmo or regular contribution on Patreon. We are just starting to turn a corner on our sustainability plans, and every contribution will make an enormous difference to keeping our accessibility open and our instructors paid for their amazing contributions!
Now is also the time to the fall cohort of our six-week intensive Diving Deep: Discovering and Voicing Your Erotic Desires.
Read on for this week’s events, and plan ahead by checking out all our ticketed events.
This week!
Thursday 9/26
Breaking up is hard to do. While it’s difficult, it doesn’t need to be harmful or hurtful. It can be done with compassion and grace. Learn more tonight about some strategies and frameworks that might work for you and your relationships in The Breakup Blueprint: Compassionate Polyam Breakups with Lilith Foxx. This online class meets at 6pm Pacific, and you can get tickets through Forbidden Tickets or Plura.
Friday 9/27
No live classes today, but check out our brand new digital downloads! We now have both our BDSM Negotiation Basics and our Advanced Negotiations class available for digital download:
Sunday 9/29
We hope to see you at Folsom Street Fair this Sunday! RSVP for our FetLife event to spread the word! We will be in Booth 77, between 10th and 11th on Folsom (near Sextant Coffee). Come peruse the new gear from Rough Cut Leather, talk with us about classes, and get incredible discounts on what’s left of our retail books and gear.
Monday, 9/30
Nope! Absolutely not! Nope! Get some sleep. Maybe take the day off. 😉
Tuesday, 10/1
Join us online at 6pm Pacific for a live session of Kink 201: Advanced Negotiations for Relationships & Dynamics with Miriam Green. Advance ticketing available through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. We will record this session for later watching if you can’t make it live.
Wednesday 10/2
If you’re in the SF Bay Area, join us for the most fun you can have on a Wednesday night. It’s SpankLab with host impossiblepain. This hands-on playshop is a chance to meet new friends, learn basic impact play techniques, and spend a night of practice. If you’re having too much fun to go home, head up to PlayXLand after to dance and play the night away! This post-Folsom date is likely to sell out, so get your advance tickets on Forbidden Tickets or Plura now!
Thursday 10/3
Polyam folks are often advised to cultivate compersion in relationships. But what is it, and how does it work, anyway? Join us only at 6pm Pacific for The Art & Science of Compersion with Marie Thouin. Marie will discuss her “compersion roadmap”, which will help every attendee understand what promotes and hinders compersion for them. She will also demystify some of the main myths you might have heard around compersion, and tackle some controversial questions regarding the topic. Get advance ticketing through Forbidden Tickets or Plura.
Saturday 10/5
It’s first Saturday! This month, we’ll be live in San Francisco at Noon for our Welcome to the SF Scene class live at our space in Trellis! If you just got curious about the SF kink scene at Folsom, now is the time to learn about all the spaces, organizations, events, and culture that make San Francisco extraordinary! This is a live class with Miriam Green. Get your advanced tickets through Forbidden Tickets or Plura. Door ticketing is available, but please arrive by 11:55am to ticket on site.
Then stick around for Negotiation Improv with Wiley Elote at 2:30pm to learn the basics of Negotiation and how to find your voice in different realistic negotiation scenarios. This live workshop is the best way to develop confidence in negotiations — fast. Get advance tickets through Forbidden Tickets or Plura.
Sunday 10/6
Our Diving Deep: Discovering and Voicing Your Erotic Desires six-week workshop officially goes live today! If you’d like to go really, really deep in your kink journey, please commit to yourself and sign up for our fall cohort.
If you’ve ever felt like you’re the only one experiencing what you feel in submission, we assure you — you are NOT alone. Often it’s helpful to talk with other folks on the same side of the slash to share experiences and ideas. Join us live in San Francisco at 11:30am for Submissives in Solidarity, a discussion group facilitated by Miriam Green. We’ll meet in the cozy Mukunda Studios in SOMA. Advance ticketing recommended. Get yours on Forbidden Tickets or Plura.
Then join us at 2pm in San Francisco for Erotic Movement with Alexandria from Click Your Heels. ALL bodies, ALL genders, all orientations, all ages, all ethnicities! YOU are welcome as you are for this dance and movement class to express your own erotic identity. Advance ticketing strongly recommended, as space is limited. Get your tickets on Forbidden Tickets or Plura.
Support. Follow. Share.
- Join our Patreon for personal benefits and to stabilize our long-term trajectory. Annual memberships now available!
- Use our Venmo for one-time donations toward our sustainability, and to help specifically with scholarship tickets.
- Book with us for coaching and consulting time with Mir.
Warmly,
Mir & The Wicked Grounds Team
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