SMS EVENTS- 2011

SUSPENDC - SuspenDC is a bi-annual event providing a place for modern body piercing enthusiasts to explore ancient tribal spirituality. Emulate tribal shamans and warriors, using a painful ordeal to achieve an altered state of consciousness or spiritual experience. Participants are pierced in the chest, back, or arms with large stainless steel hooks, which are then attached by rope to a rigging or other pierced participants.

PRIMAL ARTS Village at FETFEST 2011 - Where the Sacred and the Profane COLLIDE... We have created a new, unique and different type of festival village where your primal desires can be explored... Community gathers round while drummers and dancers accompany the magic you and your artist are weaving into your Spirit... Profanity honored, alternatives respected... Expressions of body and mind create art and transformations come to life... Fire spinning, flogging, breathing under the starry sky... Sounds of pleasure and pain echo through the night...

The Primal Arts Village will be just as the name describes- A community melding the various types of primal art forms. These forms range from art using primal materials including the body, wood, leather, metals and more, tattooing, scarification, piercing & suspensions to fire/musical/burlesque performances, as well as body painting and many others. All mediums welcome- be it flesh, wood, leather or feather, imaginable and unimaginable alike. Expressions of art will be intermingled into sexually and sacredly charged environments with equipped play spaces and workshops geared toward all of these primal art forms.

FIRES OF VENUS IV - To dance and drum under the stars; to gaze deeply into another’s eyes; to find the fullness of self-expression through your body; to open your heart to new possibilities; to assist others in finding peace and knowing their worth—to know love in all these forms is to worship the goddess Venus.

With all-night fire circles centered on Love and Sacred Sexuality—and learning opportunities for drumming, tantra, fire spinning, energy healing, and more—Fires of Venus is a place we can touch Spirit, expand our capacity to Love, and create real change in our hearts and our lives.

SACRED MARK SANCTUARY also plays a key role in these events as staff, ritual facilitators, workshop presenters and/or ritual tattoo artists and piercers:

Dark Odyssey Winter Fire
February 17-20, 2012 Washington, DC
http://darkodyssey.com/winterfire

Feast of Red Dragon 2011
February 12, Washington, DC
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=180788688609974

Free Spirit’s Sacred Sexuality Beltane
April 29-May 2, Darlington, MD
http://freespiritgathering.org/beltane/

Rites of Spring
May 26-31, Southwestern MA
http://www.earthspirit.org/ros/index.html/ 

Free Spirit Gathering
June 15-20, Darlington, MD
http://freespiritgathering.org/fsg/

Dark Odyssey FUSION!!
June 24-27, Darlington, MD
http://darkodyssey.com/leatherretreat/

Starwood
July 6-12, Sherman, NY
http://www.rosencomet.com/starwood/

SpiritFire Festival
July 7-11, New Lebanon, NY
http://spiritfirefestival.org/

Dark Odyssey Summer Camp
September 15-19, Darlington, MD
http://darkodyssey.com/summercamp/

Other past and possibly future events

Fires Rising
Artemas, PA
http://www.4qf.org/_FiresRising/

Drum and Splash
Artemas, PA
http://www.4qf.org/_DrumSplash/

Sirius Rising
Sherman, NY
http://www.brushwood.com/sirius.htm/

Fetish Con
Tampa, FL
http://www.fetishcon.com/

Stones Rising
Artemas, PA
http://www.4qf.org/_StonesRising/

Forest Dance Festival
Petersham, MA
http://www.forestdancefestival.org/

COSM Fire
Various locations; COSM is based in NYC
http://cosm.org/

Body Tribal
Artemas, PA
http://www.4qf.org/_BodyTribal/

Black Rose Annual Convention
Washington, DC
http://www.brevent.org/