Description: Learn quick, aesthetically pleasing ties that you can use in minutes! These kinbaku-based ties will make your partner helpless and vulnerable... fast! If possible, bring a single length of rope (7-10 m long, 6 mm thick)... and an enthusiastic partner!

Douglas Kent, award-winning author of "The Better Built Bondage Book" and the forthcoming Complete Shibari series...

Description: Fingers, toes, hands, feet, head and the face will never be safe again! Binding these areas can be a very powerful mental experience. Learn how to tie someone in a way that will delay their orgasm while you toy with them. Yarn, parachute cord, twine, string are all delights for this workshop.

Bring: Crochet hook (a limited amount of hooks will be available to borrow)

Morpheous is a Toronto based kink author, sex educator and photographer who has presented and taught bdsm related topics to various sexuality groups and organization across the U.S., Canada and Europe over the past decade. His new book “How to be kinky: a beginner’s guide to BDSM” is published by Green Candy Press, San Francisco. Morpheous holds a B.Ed with a specialization in adult education.

Morpheous online: www.lordmorpheous.com

Description: The act of tying someone up with rope is more than simply memorizing a bunch of pretty knots. It's an erotic exchange of energy, power, control...with taunting and provokation, and ultimate surrender and submission. The "dance" is not unlike the exchange between a Matador and feisty bull, and the nuances involved can be quite similar. In this introductory bondage workshop Sir Dart will illustrate this exchange between the rope and the bottom, giving tips on proper care and safety, and how to make a simple but effective rope bondage scene even if you have no knowledge of knot-tying.

Sir Dart is a leatherman from Toronto, where he has been an educator and presenter in various forms of kink and the leather/BDSM lifestyle. Dart's passion is erotic rope bondage, and he has been tying up men for over 20 years.

As Mr. Black Eagle Toronto 2007, he organized the "Leather Lab" class series, where participants actually got to have a mentored hands-on approach in subjects such as sounding, flogging, electro play, and scrotal inflation. He also serves on the educational board for Mr. Leatherman Toronto. Dart has presented all over North America, including Tribal Fire in OKC, Leather Camp in Wichita, Circus in Winnipeg, and Erotic City in Los Angeles. In 2007 he performed alongside Midori in a 3-person suspension for NorthBound's Switch event, and Lord Morpheous at Nuit Blanche. He also organized Toronto's first puppy mosh - FETCH! at the Church Street Fetish Fair.

Dart very much believes in accepting the "evolution" of the leather community, and fully embraces being new guard with "old guard" principles. He is the proud Sir to his collared boy Brad and his cub Dan, as well as his pup Argo. He runs a website called www.dartsdomain.com, featuring podcast interviews with various members of the community.

Description: A dominant / submissive dynamic can be a beautiful thing to experience and to watch. The flow of power between two or more people is a lot like a dance – in fact, specific physical motions and positions can lend D/s much of its flavour and beauty. This class will explore the use of body language to reinforce your dominant/submissive dynamic, focusing on grace, subtlety, confidence and attentiveness for both dominants and submissives. There will be lots of opportunities to try out physical exercises to get you started on developing your own smooth dance of power. Areas we’ll cover include opening doors / walking through, kneeling / receiving kneeling, handing something over to be taken / gracefully taking, assistance with dressing and undressing, walking, sitting, waiting, voice, touch, sex and play.

Andrea Zanin, a.k.a. Sex Geek, pretty much writes and talks about sex all the time unless she’s eating, sleeping or having it. She lives in Toronto and is an organizer, educator and writer within the queer, polyamory and BDSM communities, as well as being an active trans ally. She frequently speaks about alternative sexuality for universities, colleges, sex shops, community groups and conferences in Canada, the States and internationally.

Andrea also writes alternative-sexuality news and commentary for the Montreal Mirror, the Toronto Xtra! and Outlooks Magazine, as well as regularly blogging at http://sexgeek.wordpress.com. She has a background in women’s studies and sexuality studies from Concordia University, and is pursuing an MA in those same fields at York University. She co-organizes the Canadian leatherdyke weekend An Unholy Harvest, enjoys spending as much time as possible with her two partners, and occasionally writes erotic fiction on the side. She can be reached at veryqueer3 at yahoo dot ca.

Description: The use of the flogger (the whip with many tails) is used as an extension of your body to embrace, envelope and tantalize your partner. Enjoy an interactive demonstration beginning from a warm up to the physical interaction followed by a cool down with a touch of aftercare. The techniques and skills to wield a flogger are easily mastered by the adventurous and passionate at heart. Join us and learn to expand your form of play.

Viktoria Kalenteris, a passionate avant garde Sex Educator and Sex Toy Confidante for curious, knowledge seeking, open minded adults who seek to “enhance playful loving”. She presents and speaks at local organizational groups, community colleges and universities. Instructs, facilitates and organizes workshops and offers consultations on various related adult sexuality topics to small groups, couples and individuals.

Now residing in Toronto after spending a number of years in Montreal, where she was studying sexuality. She continues her teaching and philanthropist fundraising work with the newly anticipated annual Toronto 3 day event weekend; aptly named, Kinkalicious.com with empowering workshops, fun activities and sexy events extravaganza to help raise awareness for intimate partner abuse. Still curious about Viktoria? Surf to ladyviktoria.com

Description: Come learn about "all Things Fire". Topics such as basic safety precautions, why fire play is considered "edge play", and also delve into explaining how the "fire scene" has grown in leaps and bounds over the past 4-5 years. Basic fireplay will be covered, as will some more advanced techniques to take the experience to a new level, for both Top and bottom.

Included will be fire cupping, Lord Omy's creation - the fire cane, as well as Micro Branding (also know as devil's stick). Both temporary and permanent examples will be demonstrated. Attendees will also get to see first hand a variety of submissive's/bottom's responses ranging from "ohhh, that's relaxing and wonderful", to "Good Lord Man!.. I mean SIR!.. I mean THAT"S HOT!!", depending on the application technique and the receiver.

Lord Jeff is a dominant within the Southwestern Ontario BDSM community. He, along with his 24/7 girl Maddy {LJ}, organize CLUB 13, a pansexual, private play party held in Guelph Ontario 3 times a year accomodating up to 140 guests. More recently, he created the "Under One Roof Community Marketplace", also in Guelph twice yearly. Under One Roof is part vendor's market, part service central (ex: bootblacking, seamstresses, body care), part community unity event. He works along side other affliated events in SW Ontario to build a reputation of the area being one who welcomes both those new to the scene, as well as seasoned players. Practicing and teaching safe, consensual play technique as well as offering education on a wide variety of other BDSM related subjects, is a common goal within the community he's proud to be part of. Lord Jeff belongs to a Lifestyle Family, House of the Noble Heart, with roots across many of the United States. He was recently awarded his Lordship title within the House, and in such pledges to continue to grow and learn, while keeping his committment to share and teach.

Description: A demonstration and discussion of Duct Tape mummification. Also looking at other forms of mummification. Hands-on portion with time permitting.

Slave Dan - Don't let his kind eyes and friendly demeanor fool you! Dan, who is also known as Master C's slave Dan, is a wickedly funny sadistic/
masochistic switch who enjoys sharing his evil ways to tease and torment his friends and lovers. This has led him to teaching Kink, Leather and D/s workshops. He has presented for groups such as BDSM Sudbury, (Sudbury, ON), Breathless (Ottawa, ON) and the Leather 101's youth group (Toronto, ON.) He has also held workshops at the Northern Ontario Conference on Kink (N.O.C.K), the Mr. Leatherman Ottawa Competition (MLO) and the Mr. Leatherman Toronto Competition (MLT).

Internationally he has taught for L.I.F.E. Detroit’s D.A.R.K. event and at Tribal Fire in OKC. Slave Dan is an active member of Toronto's gay and pansexual Leather Communities and is the Alpha boy for the submissive's social group, Toronto boys of Leather. He believes in and promotes fun and responsible play between consenting adults. Born and raised in Toronto, Ontario, slave Dan has been collared to Master C of Sudbury for 5 years. He has also been in service to Sir Dart of Toronto for the last 3 years and is a mentor to other submissives in Canada and the U.S. Slave Dan has also been involved with MLT as a Judges boy and Eastern Canada LeatherSir/leather boy Contest as tallymaster. In February 2009 Dan was awarded the ECLS/lb Community Builder award.

Description:
An interactive exploration of the many scintillating possibilities of medical play; bracing, bandaging, casting, needles, urethral catheter play, mouth/dental play, medical breath play, medical bondage, medical roleplay, electro (TENS unit), Chinese cupping, acupuncture needles, saline injection, specula, and more. Discussion only of blood, enema, and blade play (due to obvious limitations). A big juicy workshop with demonstration, participation, and a tempting tease toward just about every medical kink out there. Something for everyone from the nearly-vanilla to the profoundly pervy.

Pierre Black is best known as owner of Montreal's Black Sun Studio, one of the world's foremost body piercing and extreme body modification studios (1990-2006, see www.blacksunstudio.com). Pierre has participated in hundreds of kinky performances and events in Montreal, Tokyo, New York, Ottawa, Toronto, and Boston. Pierre was the first to bring fetish, SM, and radical body art to Montreal's public eye in legendary club events like his own Mondo Bizarre (1992) and co-productions like Fetish Night at The Royale, Flesh, Squeeze, and Orgasmagoria, among many others. With a reputation for performances on the cutting edge, Pierre recently participated in Montreal's CENSORED Festival 2007 as creator of "CRASH - Medical Fetish and beyond", billed as the festival's most extreme event. Crash was then re-created in Tokyo's eclectic Roppongi district in 2008 in collaboration with Tokyo Perve productions. (see; http://www.tokyoperve.or.tv ) Pierre now studies and practices Natural Medicine (http://www.pierreblack.com), while still providing kink community workshops and the occasional provocative, scandalous, or simply terrifying artful act of performance perversion. CRASH is now scheduled to hit Toronto on October 16, 2009.

Description:
A Sensual Kink workshop description: Learn how to care for your latex, things to avoid, where to shop and how to meet other latex and rubber fetishists. Latex can be more than just a fashion; it can be used for sensual play, bondage, etc. Hands-on demonstrations for all. This workshop will also feature a portion on gas masks.

Observer is a latex fetishist who has been active in the local scene for nine years, and he introduced Phoenix to his passion in early 2008. Together they have traveled to rubber fetish balls in Berlin, Germany (German Fetish Ball, 2009) and Montreal (Montreal Fetish Weekend, 2008 and 2009). Observer's main areas of specialty are total enclosure (TE), sensory deprivation, bondage, and sensual play. Phoenix enjoys the sensuality of wearing latex, as well as the fashion and design aspects of this unconventional material.

Added Bonus - some of the lovely models will be wrapped in Latex by Polymorphe.