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March, 2011

Essence: Feast of Fools

Posted by Gravity On March - 28 - 2011
 

New in April, ESSENCE is having monthly themes to inspire you and ignite you.

ESSENCE is the newest, juiciest, conscious Eros play space

April’s Theme:
Feast of Fools; Mystic Wonder

  
 
 
 

FEAST OF FOOLS is based on ancient traditions inviting us to break free of our norms, like the Roman Saturnalia and the Medieval fête des fous. This evening is your opportunity to be Topsy Turvy and to revel in a possible new you.

Guided by our Ladies of Misrule; VENUS & FRANCESCA,
you are invited to DRESS in toga, Medieval Mayhem OR to DRESS AS YOUR OPPOSITE (however you define it).

 
 
 
 

Essence

Saturday, April 2 | 10 pm – 3 am

Essence is an ecstatic adventure into conscious sexuality. Each area of our playground is attuned to a different frequency of Ecstasis with:

~Interactive Altars~

~Gorgeously Adorned Shamans, Priest/esses, and Temple Keepers Guiding the Journeys~

~Tuning your erotic engine through sensual transmissions, activations, and recalibration~

Dance, flirt and play in our Temple of Innocence

Have your senses ignited & your body adored in Aphrodite’s Harem

Immerse yourself in rich intimacy in the Temple of Deep Eros
Explore the realm of power, surrender, and intensity in the Chamber of the Dark Arts

This is your invitation to the heart, soul, and spirit of eros. An invitation to come to a temple that is in support of the authentic flow of the life-force energy that is eros. Where in a non woo-woo, fun and juicy way, you can learn some new things and be in a field of sensual energetics with a community that is dedicated to sex-positive exploration on all levels of experience.

We welcome all sexual orientations (Queer, Straight, Bi, Poly etc) and frequencies (Dark Tantra/ BDSM, Sacred Innocence, irreverent playfulness etc)

Add your energy, desire, and presence to this bourgeoning community of intentional-pleasure players!

  
 

Mission Control events are for members only. Become a member, it’s free and instant.

Cost for members: $35 at the door | $30 prepay | Cost for Allies: $25

  
 

Arrival: Arrival time is between 10pm and 12:30pm. At that time, we will close the door. Strictly no arrivals after 12:30pm

Dresscode:
Erotic, Sensual, Inspiring, Embodied, Priest/ess Robes, Silk Pajamas,
Exotic, Kinky, NO plain clothes, street clothes, jeans, hoodies, t-shirts,
sneakers.

  
 

Private event. 21 and over only. We check I.D. We don’t serve alcohol but you are welcomed to bring some with you.

  
 
Note: To attend this event, you must arrive and leave with a responsible partner, your P.A.L. for the eventing. You don’t have to be a couple, but you and your pal are responsible for each other during the party. Check HERE for more about P.A.L.s

  
 
Sponsored by Hidden Mysteries, Club Mystique, The Temple of Ishtar, The Sacred Courtesan School, and the Temple of Sword and Flame

  


Essence

Kinky Salon Prohibition

Posted by Gravity On March - 21 - 2011

Kinky Salon presents:

Prohibition

Saturday, April 16 | 10pm ’til Late

Mission Control events are for members only | Become a member, it’s free and instant

Cost for Members: $30 Advance | $35 at the door | Cost for Allies: $25

C’mon all you bootleggers, bank robbers, criminals, and real cool cats – come hide out and get loose in our little Gin Joint Speakeasy!
~Featured Amusement at the Midnight Cabaret~

ElectriKat

A high voltage Glitter Kitten who loves nouveau-burlesque, bumping & grinding, and shimmying & shakin’

Five Cent Coffee

An eclectic trio dedicated to organic old fashioned sound; an amalgamation of a by-gone nation Ukulele driven original material with stand up bass and melodeon – throw in a washboard, a kazoo – some junk!

Wesley Morgan

A soundtrack for your sins. Broken-down blues rolling out of a Saturday night juke joint, and stumbling drunk into Sunday morning redemption.

DJ Fact 5.0

Spinning danceable Old World tunes…from Electro-Swing to Balkan Beats, Rustic Blues, to Chamber Pop. Vintage styles with modern beats!

Strip Poker

No Speakeasy would be complete without illicit gambling!
Lose your shirt (and more) at our strip poker table

DRESS: 20?s and early 30?s wear, Vintage suits and beaded/ fringe dresses, GANGSTERS & GUNMOLLS, PINSTRIPES, Fedoras, pearl necklaces, Depression era hobos, bootleggers & rum-runners, Prohibition Cops and authorites, speakeasy honeys, jazz musicians, PENNIES FROM HEAVEN, Josephine baker, Louise Brooks, Charlie Chaplin, Duke Ellington, The Great Gatsby…

Fetish, latex, leather, formal wear, sexy costumes, lingerie, uniforms, Steampunk are always welcomed!

No Plain clothes, street clothes, jeans, hoodies, t-shirts, sneakers. Puh-lease!

Private event. 21 and over with i.d. We don’t serve alchohol.

A PAL is required. Click HERE to read more about PALs…


Kinky Salon

PrePink: Rope Art

Posted by Gravity On March - 14 - 2011

Friday, April 8, 2011 -
Rope Art Workshop: 9pm to 2 am
Pink Party: 10:00pm to 3am

Rope Art with Madame Butterfly

Cost: Free with paid Pink admission

This is part 1 of a 2 part series – both happening pre-Pink each month. You may attend one or both – they make a great pair!

April 8 = Rope Art
May 13 = Rope Restraint

The Playshop:
Allow Madame Butterfly to introduce you to the art of rope. She will teach us how to adorn with rope, to decorate and to be decorated and the fun to be had in the process. This class will focus on the artistic elements of rope harnesses with an emphasis on body-rope blends (ie different techniques for the male vs female physique) and the use of colored rope to great effect.

Please bring your rope. There will be a limited supply to share. Madame Butterfly will also have some for sale that night.

About Madame Butterfly:
Madame Butterfly is a bar area rigger of the first order as well as the creator of some of the most exquisitely colored rope on the planet. You can read more about her rope at butterflyrope.com

Madame butterfly is a former MC Love of the Month and you can learn more about her HERE.

Mission Control events are for members only | Become a member, it’s free and instant

Pink is a private event. 21 and over only (we check ID!) No alcohol will be served at Pink.

PAL required for Pink. See our PAL page for details.

Rope Art: 9pm to 10 pm
Pink Party: 10:00pm to 3am

Pink, Workshops

FP Fist Full of Films

Posted by Gravity On March - 12 - 2011

Scenes from "The Craving"
Femina Potens Presents:

Fist Full of Films: Blood, Gore, & Girls

Thursday, March 31, 2011

Film & Performances
8pm – 10pm | After Party 10pm – Midnight

Events at Mission Control are for members only | Become a member, it’s free and instant

Cost for Film: $10 Advance | $10 at the door

Cost for After Party: Must be a Femina Potens VIP Member

Val Killmore

Blood, Gore, & Girls: A tribute to the Scream Queen featuring Lesbian cannibalistic horror film, THE CRAVING, directed by Val Killmore & presented by Hellfire Cinema. Also enjoy a Q&A with the director and performers

~ Enjoy Special Performances By~

Lady Monster

Queen of the Fire Tassles

Revealing her ample talents in a burlesque tease, showing you how hot a big girl can be, she will enchant you with her fire.

Cherry Galette

Born into a famil of music makers, Ms. Cherry is a Chicana & Moroccan movement artist fusing dance, burlesque, text, theater, and more to create fairy tales of modern resistance that celebrate queer desires, histories, survivals, migrations, and revolutions.

Keva i Lee

Keva is a professional dominatrix, fetish model & performance artist. Previously, she worked as a counselor and advocate for sex workers in the criminal justice system, until she decided to become a sex worker herself & never looked back.

~ Celebrate at the After Party ~

Femina Potens VIP Members-Only kinky play-party begins immediately following the films. (For VIP Play Party attendance sign up for FP membership)

Private event. 21 and over with i.d. We don’t serve alchohol.

Scenes from "The Craving"
Uncategorized

FP Erotic Memoir Workshop

Posted by Gravity On March - 11 - 2011

Femina Potens Presents:

The Erotic Memoir

A Writing Workshop with Susie Bright

Thursday, April 7, 2011 | 7:00pm – 8:00pm

Events at Mission Control are for members only | Become a member, it’s free and instant

Cost: $15 Advance | Free for FP Members & MC Allies

A sex journal is like any diary— it simply doesn’t hide or lie about the sexual part of life. It’s a place to preserve your private adventures, remind yourself of close calls, and think about your fantasies, as well contemplate things you’ve never put to words before.

Susie will get you writing, on the spot, to bring candor and articulation to your sexual history, and your sexual philosophy. She’ll give you the prompts and chops to say what needs to be said, the words you’ll remember forever!

Called the “avatar of American erotica” by the NYTimes, Susie founded and edited the Herotica and Best American Erotica series, publishing and breaking out hundreds of bestselling and beloved erotica authors. She is the author of the memoir Big Sex Little Death, and editor of the The Sex Journal.

~ Featuring~

Susie Bright

Susie Bright is the author of the national bestsellers Full Exposure and The Sexual State of the Union, as well as The Best American Erotica and Herotica series, which ushered in women’s erotic publishing.

She the host of Audible’s In Bed With Susie Bright, the longest-running sex-ed show in the history of broadcasting.

She was co-founder and editor of On Our Backs magazine, and was the first journalist to cover erotic cinema and the porn business in the mainstream press. A progenitor of the sex-positive movement, Bright taught the first university course on pornography, and brought lasting sexual influence to her role in films like Bound and The Celluloid Closet, as well as playing herself, “the famous feminist sex writer,” on Six Feet Under.

Private event. 21 and over with i.d. We don’t serve alcohol.


Uncategorized

FP Sizzle: Kinky Mamas

Posted by Gravity On March - 11 - 2011

Femina Potens Presents:

Sizzle: Kinky Mamas

Thursday, April 7, 2011 | 8:30pm – 11:30pm

Events at Mission Control are for members only | Become a member, it’s free and instant

Cost: $10 Advance | $10 at the door

Sizzle is an award winning open mic, literary,and performance series. This edition will feature Kinky Mamas – writings from kinky and sex positive moms on kink and sexuality featuring a star studded line up of Susie Bright & Shar Rednour, also featuring Madison Young, Thea Hillman, and Penny Barber.

~ Enjoy Performances By~

Shar Rednour

Shar is a creative, strong, and funny mother to three in a transracial, 2-mom family created through domestic adoption. It would seem the miracle of Shar is not all her years of memorable work in the sex ed and entertainment field but the fact that she and her wife of 17 years, Jackie, still actually have SEX!

Susie Bright

Susie is an writer, speaker, teacher, audio-show host, and performer, all on the subject of sexuality.

She is one of the first writers/activists referred to as a sex-positive feminist.

She has a weekly program entitled In Bed with Susie Bright distributed through audible.com, where she discusses a variety of social, freedom of speech and sex-related topics.

Madison Young

Madison is an erotic-film actress, director, published writer, sexual educator and founder of Femina Potens Art Gallery, a nonprofit art gallery and performance space that serves the LGBTQ and Kink communities.

Madison has been featured for her work in feminist pornography as well as a queer activist.
 

Thea Hillman

According to a report by the Traditional Values Coalition Thea is a radical who “conducts erotic readings for homosexual groups” as part of the “homosexual revolution.” According to herself, that’s pretty much correct, but she would add that she is also the author of several books.

Penny Barber

Ms. Penny Barber has been active in the adult entertainment industry since she turned eighteen in 2003. She greatly enjoys all aspects of domination and submission and continues to augment her already impressive skill list, practicing the sadistic arts in her hometown, the San Francisco Bay Area.

  

Private event. 21 and over with i.d. We don’t serve alcohol.


Unique Events

Velvet Tonight!

Posted by Gravity On March - 9 - 2011

Mission Control presents:

Velvet

Friday, April 1, 2011 |9pm to 2 am

Mission Control events are for members only | Become a member, it’s free and instant
Cost: $20 for Members | Free for Allies

Welcome to the world of VELVET – Mission Control’s only all female and trans play party!

This month we welcome Miss Maggie Mayhem as our special guest performer!

Maggie Mayhem is a Bay Area writer, performer, and sex radical. She enjoys giving condom demonstrations in Swahili and creating erotic art with her body. Inspired by the infinite diversity of experience in her sex positive community she loves getting up on stage and showing people how much fun sexual freedom can be. Check out her website at MissMaggieMayhem.com.

This will be a VELVET you don’t want to miss!

Brought to you by one of the founders of the legendary Girl Pile and located in the same venue as the infamous Kinky Salon, VELVET is a sensuous, intimate, private party for queer and bi women and trans – and those who are just curious.

Whether you are shy, exhibitionist, experienced or have never been to a party like this before, we want YOU!  Bring your toys, bring your friends!

VELVET features music, games and cookie dough!

DANCE in our mirrored booty room – with sexy pole action!
QUIVER as you submit yourself to the masterful hands of our spanking mistresses!
LUXURIATE in our glamorous, sexual playspaces!
THRILL to the visual delights of our special dvd collection and live performances!

VELVET is a party like no other!

Music by DJ Justin Credible

Private event.  21 and over only (we check ID!).  We don’t serve alcohol, so BYOB.

You’ve got questions?  We’ve got answers.  Don’t be shy – send an email to booking@missioncontrolsf.org



Velvet

Public Relations Workshop

Posted by Gravity On March - 9 - 2011

Wednesday April 6th | 7:30pm – 9:30pm

Public Relations Workshop

What Rock Stars & Porn Stars Know About Online Promotion that you don’t…But Need To!

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Events at Mission Control are for members only | Become a member, it’s free and instant

Cost for Members & Allies: $20 | Advanced Tickets

 

Brought to you by Michael Brandvold and Christopher Buttner, these two marketing experts have designed online promotions, marketing and publicity programs for leading recording artists such as Kiss, U2, Motley Crüe, Rod Stewart, Madonna, Ozzy Osbourne, Dream Theater, Orgy, Kid Rock, and Britney Spears, to iconic and AVN and XBiz Award-nominated adult entertainment companies such as Gamelink, Private, Vivid, Kink.com, Playboy, Good Vibrations, The Exotic Erotic Ball, and others.

What you’ll learn:

• How do I demystify the ways and means to get abundant press coverage?
• How do I write an effective press release fast?
• How do I identify media outlets and opportunities?
• How does one develop newsworthy hooks?
• Where do I find, and how do I effectively communicate with, editors, journalists and reporters?
• How do I overcome fear of pitching myself and deal with rejection?
• How to write for best search engine returns.
• Your Website – Why you need one, how to build one and how to use it with Facebook and Twitter.
• Why you need a website and not just a profile.
• What you need to know when building a website.
• How to use your website with social networks.
• Real tips and tactics for your website and promoting yourself online.

~Presented By~

Christopher Buttner

Founded in 1994 by Christopher Buttner, PRThatRocks.com is a SF Bay Area-based PR agency specializing in entertainment, technology, events and creative talent. PRThatRocks.com represents many of the very best Indie to internationally-recognized and award-winning entertainers, composers and recording artists, national and regional concert tours and events, legendary recording studios and production companies, and some of the best-known consumer and commercial entertainment technology manufacturers and musical instrument brands in the world.

Michael Brandvold

Michael Brandvold is a freelance music industry consultant based in Northern California. Having launched Michael Brandvold Marketing to leverage his years of experience to provide direction to large and small clients in the areas of online & social marketing as well as e-commerce and customer acquisition and retention.

Gene Simmons of KISS first tapped Michael’s skills as a pioneering online marketing strategist to launch and manage all aspects of Kissonline.com’s multi-million dollar enterprise, including their ground-breaking VIP ticket program.

Michael has also managed the online efforts for Motley Crüe, Rod Stewart, Madonna, Ozzy Osbourne, Madonna and Britney Spears to name only a few.

Stay classy, Kids… this seminar is completely safe for work (okay, maybe NC-17-ish). It promises to be a lot of fun and will have you performing like a Porn Star and revered like a Rock Star by your peers in no time.

21+ with I.D. No alchohol will be served, but you’re welcomed to B.Y.O.B.


Unique Events

SanFranSexy ‘Zine #6

Posted by Gravity On March - 6 - 2011

Get it while it’s hot…. Issue #6!

In this Issue:
Dr. Melanie Rose – Find Your Voice
Jessi Fischer – How to Tell if Someone Wants to F**k You
Barron Scott Levkoff – Professor Dandy’s Dressing the Part, Part 2
Charlie Glickman PhD – The Buzz About Vibrators

Plus – art, comics, photos, upcoming events, and more! Enjoy!

Brought to you by Polly Superstar, SanFranSexy has a glorious roster of local experts and luminaries contributing their awesomeness to this orgy of good times. Round it all out with a calendar of upcoming events and you’ll be so satisfied you’ll be reaching for a cigarette when you’re done.

CLICK HERE to go to the SanFranSexy site and download the latest issue!

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