Do you know a thing or two about dungeon safety? Have you had a less than perfect experience with a Dungeon Monitor at a party and thought, “I can do better”? Maybe you just have a fetish for neon-yellow traffic vests? If you answered yes to any of these questions . . . TES' DM Committee Wants YOU!!!   Please join us for our next Dungeon Monitor training workshop on Saturday, April 29th, from 7:00 to 10:00 pm at The Players Theatre, 115 MacDougal St, 3rd floor (after the Mindfulness in Rope Intensive with Zamil). This Workshop is FREE to all recent TES DMs and those volunteering to DM at TES Fest 2017. It is open to all others for $5 per person. This workshop is designed as a comprehensive introduction to DMing, and will cover everything you need to know to get started DMing at TES events and TES Fest. Experienced DMs are invited to attend as a refresher and to share their wisdom. Our DM Training Workshop will run in three parts:   Part I: Introduction to DMing - Philosophy & Responsibilities 7:00 - 8:00 pm Come learn the basics of DMing, including the TES DM core philosophy of facilitation. We’ll discuss how best to monitor and facilitate scenes, interact with event guests, de-escalate potentially tense situations, and report incidents to ensure they are properly addressed.   Part II: Play Safety & Scene Vetting Forum 8:00 - 9:00 pm In this knowledge share session, we will discuss safety considerations for various types of play you are likely to encounter as a DM. Attendees are invited to bring their personal experience and expertise as we analyze what to look for in different types of scenes, what to prioritize, and how best to ensure scenes are in harmony with event rules.   Part III: Scenario Roleplay and Discussion Lab 9:00 - 10:00 pm In this section, we will roleplay various situations you may encounter as a DM, many derived for real-life incidents. Attendees will take turns acting out different scenarios, each followed by a brief discussion and constructive critique to determine the best course of action for similar situations in the future.   Please note that the venue is only accessible by two flights of stairs.

PURCHASE YOUR TICKET HERE 3-DAY WEEKEND PACKAGE: TES Member Participating Couple $395 Non-Member Participating Couple $485 TES Member Observer, per person $90 Non Member Observer, per person $110 To confirm TES Member pricing, bring your membership card or show your emailed confirmation of membership at the door. Individual day tickets on sale Tuesday, April 18th. TES Members always get the lowest prices! To become a member, CLICK HERE. Doors open at 9:30 am for check-in. Class begins promptly at 10:00 am.  Doors will close to latecomers who must wait for a break in order to enter. This class is for the advanced student, observers welcome at all levels.   That’s a program! First you get into suspensions. It is necessary that you know how to tie a box tie and have some light suspension experience as we are going into the more advanced stuff. So, up we go: We do suspensions. Belly down, face up, sideways, just on the angles depending what we like the best. Learning how to tie suspensions safely, suspension gear, line management and how to tie suspensions quickly.  Now we are in the air. Now what? We go into a different suspension, without touch down and back and then we do a different transition. But wait, what happens if something happens? There are suspensions and there are emergencies. Hopefully more suspensions than emergencies! But what if? Now we train for the rare case where you need to get your partner from a full-fledged suspension down to earth and out of the ropes quickly. WHAT YOU WILL LEARN (at least): What counts as an emergency How to handle the different types of emergencies Why it is not advisable to use scissors or a knife What to do and what not to do in case of emergency How to get your partner quickly and safe back to the ground without cutting rope How to add some safety into your suspension from the very beginning WHAT YOU WILL NEED: Lots of rope (some of which you will have to cut, no tears please!) A sporty partner (we’ll go up and down and flip them and up and down and up and… you get the picture) Your set of scissors, knifes or whatever releasing tools you prefer   BIO: Zamil was born and raised in Berlin. He has been performing on stage since before he turned twenty and has always enjoyed the lights of the stage. Becoming active in the lifestyle in 1999, he began doing BDSM shows since 2003 and became the founder of ArtSensual project (ArtSensual.com) with his former partner maliZ. ArtSensual has become world renown as an established name for high class bondage performances, and has had their work shown in fetish magazines, the daily press and radio stations as well as TV, magazines and podcasts. They have been voted “Best Performer” in 2008 by the international audience at BoundCon. A teacher by heart, Zamil has spent years as an educator at the college level. In 2004 he traveled to Japan to study traditional kinbaku techniques at its source, he became student to Osada Steve. His patience, focus and fun delivering those traditions and new styles of rope art from Japan has become well known. Zamil became teacher of the Osada Ryu in 2007, teaching contemporary Kinbaku techniques to the interested student. He finished his study of the Osada Ryu in 2009. In the same year he became editor-in-chief of the German Bondage Magazine. Zamil sees himself first as a live bondage performance artist, bondage trainer and author. He’s very traditional in terms of bondage. This means for him that he takes Shibari and the Japanese tying tradition seriously. Shibari for him is not only a tie, but a special bondage, following certain aesthetic rules in visual and application.   Limited number of Private Lessons with Zamil Available May 1st. For more information, please write Gigi@TES.org with subject heading : Zamil Private Sessions

Join Ramon for a beginners intensive workshop on single-tail whips.

Join Desmond Ravenstone – director of NCSF’s Sex Work Project – in a timely discussion of organized efforts to abolish sex work, and how individuals and groups can help sex workers advocate for their rights.

Join Jaden and Jinx for an enlightening conversation on masochism and kink.

TES MEMBERS ONLY. Free. Must show valid membership card.

PURCHASE YOUR TICKET HERE ADMISSION: $15 per person We will meet first at Bibble & Sip at noon for coffee, sweets, and socializing before heading over to the screening. MEETUP LOCATION (12:00 pm): Bibble & Sip 253 West 51st Street New York, NY 10019 SCREENING LOCATION (1:00 pm - 2:30 pm) Broadway Comedy Club 318 West 53rd Street New York, NY 10019 Join Zero and RelevantUsername for this limited screening of Words: A Documentary. Produced and directed by our very own AJ Mattioli, Words is an exploration of how people navigate identity in the open and evolving landscape of New York City. Using some of NYC's most fluid scenes as a backdrop, Words investigates the dissonance between self-constructed identity and identities that are projected onto us by society, and how they are contextualized in a range of environments, from the art world to the NYPD. Featuring exclusive interviews from a variety of artists, activists, icons, and innovators, Words promises to be a poignant and powerful tribute to the language we use to shape the many facets of our identities: as men, women, artists, New Yorkers,  ... humans. A Percentage of the profits from the film will be donated to the Ali Forney Center, a New York City based non-profit that is “the largest agency dedicated to LGBTQ homeless youth in the country.” For more information about this organization, please visit: www.aliforneycenter.org. CLICK HERE to RSVP on Fetlife

Are you new to fetish work, looking to up your game, share your success with others, or just looking to network with other professionals? Come join us and collaborate on making our community even better.

Bring rope to tie with, and/or a willingness to be tied, and join us for an open evening of learning, sharing and practicing!

Come hang out with some fun and kinky people on a Saturday night!