Come learn the basics of flogging!

Let’s face it, as much as we might wish it so, one day we will no longer be in our 20’s, but hopefully we’ll still be inhabiting our body. Come learn how our play today could impact the long term health of our body, and how to mitigate it.

Are you a rope bondage enthusiast with a wild hair for natural fibers? Do you prefer impact play to ecological impact? Perhaps you just enjoy running around Au Naturel? Then join TES on Earth Day for our Black, Blue, and Green Party!

TES Members Only. Please bring your TES Membership card.

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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.   This class is for the experienced to advanced student, observers welcome at all levels. What to bring: Yourself, your partner, rope and your bondage gear Duration: 3 hours, some breaks in between   For many of us, rope performance art is the ultimate skill-set you can master. There is a huge difference between a scene, a demo and a performance. Each of those have different aspects to think about, a different intensity in preparations and a different skill set that rigger and partner should have to make it a huge success and wonderful experience. Mastering rope performance art means mastering scenes and demos as well. Nobody likes to see the one trick pony over and over again. If you are or if you want to be on stage and if you want to master scenes and shows as well this class is for you: This class will focus purely on the important aspects of bondage performance art, how to put a show on stage that rocks the audience and boosting your theatrical and show abilities to a new high. Performances can be looked at from the angles of three main actors: There is the audience you cater for, there is your partner you need to take care of and there is you. Each one has a different role, different needs and different goals. Together we will do a guided tour through the main stages of any performance you like to put on stages worldwide. We will be very hands on, practical and look at performance from the viewpoint of the tree main actors. We will look at the key concepts of performance art and apply them to rope performances, we will learn about the interactions between audience and performance, the interactions between the rigger and the model, the phases of any performance art, main concepts on how people perceive performances so you can cater for mostly all of them, plan and design a performance, learn rope techniques suitable for performances, utilize drama techniques from theater, learn how to fight stage fright and leave the class with a catalog of experiences that will boost your understanding, handling and abilities of and in bondage performances.   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

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 experienced to advanced student, observers welcome at all levels.   I just love those moments when two souls melt together, the moments in which time just stops and goes some place else, the moments of rope touching skin, guiding my partner into places and spaces maybe unknown or not experienced before, the moments when I fully take care of her, knowing that she's giving in completely, knowing that no harm will come towards her because I take care of her. Rope is a wonderful tool. But it is a tool, not an end in itself. What you put in, you get out and sometimes, if everything falls into place at the right time, you get even more out of it than you ever expected. In this class, we will walk the way together to get there and to achieve those moments. WHAT YOU WILL LEARN (at least): How your mindset and emotions reflect on your rope work and how to use that Ways to feel the current state of mind of you partner How to guide your partner’s state of mind and how to synchronize How to reach “the moment” and how to stay in it And while you are learning all that, you will learn various TK, Futomomo, Organic-Shibari-Pattern and rope-handling WHAT YOU WILL NEED: Lots of rope (min 8 length of 8m jute or hemp (jute’s better!, MFP will be burned!) A partner (washed, hugged and freshly squeezed. Important: choose someone you will enjoy to touch a lot, because you will touch them a lot!) A Tengui (or any other soft fabric to use as a blindfold but please NO blindfolds) A metronome* (just one, or a professional drummer with his kit will do too) *don’t worry, I have one… that will be enough for the whole class   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

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

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