Educational Programs and the Citadel Calendar of Events
We understand that education of both the public and to cultivate one's own skills are an important part of growth. Therefore we provide a number of classes in a variety of topics that are open to the public for a small fee. PLease see below a list of some of our regular presenters. For a full listing of all our programs and classes, please check out our Calendar.
Stefanos and Chey have been involved in the fetish, kink and BDSM scenes in Anchorage, Minneapolis and San Francisco both as participants and promoters. They are current or former officers of the SF Citadel, Society of Janus, Dungeon Monitors Association, and Slap & Tickle, as well as being involved in the production of events at Bondage-a-Go-Go, SF Citadel, Kink.com, Mission Control, and formerly at Power Exchange. Chey and Stefanos host the youth fetish event Bent, which is held bi-monthly at the SF Citadel. They also host the original and exclusively male dominant and female submissive event Master’s Den, and produce an annual fetish Valentine's event, Valentino's. Stefanos is the lusty and controlling mind behind Bondage-a-Go-Go's dungeon space every Wednesday night and the Fetish Stage at the Exotic Erotic Ball annually. He is also Mr. SF Citadel 2010 and 1st Runner Up for Mr. SF Leather 2010.
As Purveyors of Perversion, they have taught classes for individuals, couples, and groups at many venues, including SF Citadel, Minnesota Bondage, Pleasures of the Heart, Society of Janus, SF Swinger’s Convention, Fantasy Makers, Playboy TV and Magic Theatre. They perform at Kink.com, San Francisco's Supper Club, and in a number of documentaries across the world.
They have taught subjects ranging from beginning bondage to resistance play to playful and predicament BDSM, and are always developing new classes!
Visit their website www.stefanosandchey.com for more information.
Cleo Dubois Academy of SM-Arts
Cleo Dubois' Academy of SM Arts holds powerful, hands-on weekend workshops for Dominant Players and those who Switch at the Citadel several times a year for the last eight years. Assisted by Eve Minax, Selina Raven and the Academy's talented volunteer bottoms, these hands-on courses are limited to 9 students. Make your scenes soar! Cleo also teaches a number of other educational classes at the SF Citadel.
Still to come in 2010:
- Women: May 1-2 & Sept. 11-12
- Men: June 12-13 & Nov 20-21
- Professionals: July 30-August 1
- Couples: October 9-10
(only for those who have previously taken an Intensive)
For more information visit: www.sm-arts.com
Funny, charming and down to earth, Midori is an acclaimed writer and lecturer on a wide range of sexual topics with a degree in Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley, and vast experience slumming it in her favorite San Francisco sexual underground niches. A regular advice columnist for Men's Health UK, Bondage.com and others, Midori has appeared on HBO and BBC, featured in Vogue, Playboy, Der Spiegel, Cosmo and more. Multifaceted, she is a skilled photographer, artist in Japanese rope, presenting to art institutions such as Tanzquartier, Vienna and Das Arts in Amsterdam.
She's the author of bestselling books "The Seductive Art of Japanese Bondage" and "Wild Side Sex"
Learn more about her projects at www.PlanetMidori.com
EduKink provides BDSM / leather/ fetish / kinky, sexuality and relationship classes and special events.
Angela and Iain, the founders of Edukink, are officers in the Society of Janus, and teach in the SF Bay area and nationally at all levels. Their teaching style combines humor and approachability with clarity and thorough research. They regularly teach at Dog and Pony conference, Folsom Fringe conference, Good Vibrations, the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality (IASHS), LLW conference, SF Citadel, SF Mensa RG conference, smOdyssey, Society of Janus, The Scenery, House Weirdness, and elsewhere. Several of their topics are not offered by anyone else.
Their regular events include Newcomers Series, Paideia, Beginners' Dungeon, Sampler Night, the Dog and Pony Show, Kinky Dance party, RenFaire party, Victorian Christmas party, Back to School party, and the Kinky Holiday Fantasia. Their classes include Beginners’ Dungeon, the Newcomers’ series, Paideia playshops, Sexplay in the Dungeon, BD/SM for Health Care Professionals, Kink in the Bedroom series, Spice Play, Mentoring, NGGW, and many topics in sensation play.
