How to Organize Your First Event

with Mel and Memi

a live and recorded online three-hour class from Wicked Grounds

11/14 2pm Pacific

If you want to host, organize and hold space for others to explore their sexuality, we made a workshop for you.

Mel has 6 years of experience holding space and hosting events for the queer, kinky and neurodivergent, disabled community.

Come with us to explore how to arrange the evening, where to put the condoms, and how to navigate conflict.

This workshop is for:

• Community organizers
• Hosts
• Monitors
• People wanting to organize their first play party and/or orgy

What this workshop will offer:

• Different approaches to play parties, orgies and sexuality events
• Practicalities: what to bring, how to do it and how to close it
• What is a “monitor” and how to be one without being the police
• How to establish a guideline or etiquette without being exclusionary
• Accessibility for everyone
• How to care for people in the space (medical emergencies, emotional first aid, crisis, etc)
• How to navigate conflict within the community
• Our takes and recommendations
• Space for questions

PRESENTERS:

Mel (he/him) is an Argentinian trans masc aligned gender fluid sex and BDSM educator. He is the co-founder of Kinky Vibe Argentina, a collective based in Buenos Aires that hosts events, support groups and workshops for the kinky, queer and neurodivergent community both online and offline. Lifestyle kinkster, he has been doing kink for the last ten years, identifies as sub-leaning switch, and is a sex worker (ProDomme).

One of his greatest passions is thinking about power, risk, and self-consent in the context of kink, and spending most of his time accompanying people on their kinky journey. He has been teaching about kink, pleasure, risk, and depathologization for the last nine years.

Memi (he/him) is an Argentinian trans masc person, who is a lifestyle kinkster, a history teacher, and an early-career researcher in the history of sexualities. He has been doing kink for almost a decade in a wide variety of kinks, relationships, dynamics, and sides of the slash. He is very curious about power, oppression, and the complex history behind kink, the space where didactics and kink meet, and loves to be a kink enabler to everyone around.

ACCESS:

This will be a live, online class offered through Zoom. To participate, you may need to download the free, basic version of the Zoom app before the class!

This class will be recorded and distributed after, available for 7 days after sent out.

Zoom now provides closed captioning, which will be available for this event.