Get This Party Started! - Event Hosting & Community Organizing w/ Lady V
Schedule
Thu, 30 Jan, 2025 at 07:30 pm
UTC-08:00Location
Sanctuary Club | Portland, OR
Includes access to Creature Feature (ft. BITE CLUB) after!BE THE CHANGE YOU WANT TO SEE IN YOUR COMMUNITY.
Community building is a vital part of keeping our various sex-positive, kink, and queer communities connected and help them to heal and stay hopeful! Your voice and actions can create a unique, moving experience.
Tickets: https://members.pdxsanctuary.com/events/71499
YOU can create the space you want in your community. Holding space for others is a joy and a gift like no other.
Learn the ins & outs of event organizing!
Identify your target demographic and how to serve them best
Manage personal and community conflict pragmatically
Promotion, advertising, & cross-collaboration
Ticketing systems & event pricing
Outlining expectations between you, the venue, volunteers, and performers
Plan for accessibility and how to handle inaccessible spaces
Establish your boundaries around personal life and power imbalances
Identifying IF organizing is your cup of tea or how you can better support organizers
Harm reduction & mitigation
Burnout and how to recover & find grace in making mistakes
Whether you're an experienced munch organizer or a fresh face wanting to throw their first kinky house party, this workshop will be helpful for YOU!
Why get into organizing?!
THOUSANDS OF REASONS, including creating long-lasting communal bonds, mutual aid, or wanting to have a fun, sexy party (your way)! Organizing is a fun way to bring people together, create fun events, and occasionally pay your bills doing it!
Why learn from Lady V?!
Lady V has been directly coordinating or been involved with almost 200+ days of in-person & remote event & workshop programming from the sunny shores of the Pacific Ocean to the humid heat of the South China Sea.
Lady V has organized workshops, demos, intensives, play parties, munches, community health events, skill shares, and more!
Her experience as an organizer and educator makes this class easy to engage with and utilize the tips & tools given to you!
About Lady V
Lady V (she/her) is a spiritually & socioculturally driven sex-positive educator, community organizer & dominatrix.
Using her background in film, Lady V is able to use the power of improv to switch on a dime. Prior, she served as the Program Manager for one of the few agencies in the world specializing in navigating sexuality & gender for people navigating intellectual/developmental disabilities.
Lady V has taught for conferences & sex positive venues across the US & virtually internationally. Lady V also tours nationally with the pet & primal themed wrestling night, Bite Club. She currently serves as an Advocacy Board Member for Sex Positive World & proudly helps facilitate their education as the Remote Education Coordinator. Lady V has also served the community by facilitating public health events.
She is an out, proud, & fierce-as-fire transwoman with a passion for empowering others. While hailing from Detroit, Michigan, she has settled in Salem, Oregon, with her Mistress in a 24/7 TPE where she serves as the majordomo for her leather family, the Atomic Army. Lady V considers herself both a lifestyle & professional switch. Any way the wind blows, it doesn’t really matter to her.
She hopes to inspire others to enjoy sex positivity from an authentic place, as well as embrace their spiritual place within sex positivity & find healing within it.
Sanctuary is a 21+, LGBTQ+, ADA, anti-racist establishment that celebrates diversity. Leave any bigotry at the door.
Where is it happening?
Sanctuary Club, 31 NW 9th Ave, Portland, OR 97209-3301, United States,Portland, Oregon
