The Frolic 2024 - April 4 Teaser

The Frolic 2024

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August 6–11, 2024

All humans 18+ are welcome. Tickets available for members and nonmembers!

Tickets must be purchased online; there are no door sales. Please note: ticket sales for The Frolic are final; they are not refundable or transferable to other events.

The Frolic Team has worked our fingers to exhaustion to create an incredible experience! We can't wait to release bios of the incredible presenters showcasing a diverse range of topics. We are even buying our camp swag on Redbubble already!

Even though The Frolic is a six-day, five-night experience, it’ll feel like a place without time as you immerse yourself in kinky classes, fun social activities, and break bread with your community. 

Visit our website for detailed information and keep an eye out on future articles for our presenter bios! We’ll have more information on our classes, activities, and menu as we get closer to the event.

Want to have a sneak peek at the venue? The Frolic Team is collaborating with the venue owners on two stewardship days! Click here to sign up and join us on May 4 and/or June 16 from 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. where we’ll have various levels of volunteering as we help the owners work on their property. Lunch will be provided, and for those joining on May 4, you’re welcome to stay for the Beltane celebration. Accommodations will be provided for those who would like to clean up and change before the celebration. Note: Venue address will be sent out three days before each stewardship day via text message. 

If you have any questions, concerns, or run into any issues signing up for stewardship, please email froliccommservice@thecspc.org. Any other questions/concerns can be sent to frolic@thecspc.org. 

TICKETS

Tickets are on sale NOW!

The next tier goes on sale immediately after the previous one sells out. 

Get your tickets here!

$275 per person Early Bird tickets for the first 25 people

$300 per person Second Tier tickets for the next 25 people

$325 per person Third Tier tickets until we are sold out at 150 attendees including volunteers

*There is limited free ticketing for volunteers working the entire event. If you are interested, please complete this questionnaire to notify us of your interest, and a Frolic Lead will contact you!

PARKING AND TRANSPORTATION

(Per vehicle):

• ADA [upper] - limited spaces, by request (Disability parking permits are required)

• Secondary parking [in/out privileges]: $40

• Tertiary parking [parking shuttle provided]: $30 

• Car camping: $50 (in camping area, not parking lot)

• Additional for an RV (hook-ups are not available): $75

• Additional for tent trailer (includes a parking pass for vehicle towing trailer): $60

• Round trip ride from the Sumner Sounder Station $10

ENTERTAINMENT AND EDUCATION - COMING SOON!

Two presenter bios will appear in every newsletter! See all the classes when you buy your ticket!

VIP ROOMS

We have five yurts to auction! Imagine spending The Frolic nights toasty and cozy inside a beautifully decorated Mongolian yurt with a queen-size bed. Please keep in mind that your ticket to The Frolic is not included and must be purchased separately. Bidding is for the add-on VIP room only.

Yurts: Auction Dates

1. Gaia Yurt: Auction is LIVE! Ends April 22

2. Soul Yurt: Auction starts April 23, ends May 13

3. Heart Yurt: Auction starts May 14, ends June 3

4. Prism Yurt: Auction starts June 4, ends June 24

5. Celestial Yurt: Auction starts June 25, ends July 15 (16' Dome Yurt with electricity)

April (Non)Event Reminder

Hi sexy CSPC members!

As a reminder, every April the event listings can look a bit…empty toward the end of the month. This is because our wonderful sister organization, the Pan Eros Foundation, hosts the Seattle Erotic Art Festival, a three-day event that celebrates the freedom of expression and sex positivity through various forms of art, including painting, photography, sculpture, film, literature, performance, and more! We highly encourage you to spend the last weekend of April at SEAF, and soak in the sexy, kinky, artsy atmosphere. 

P.S. See also our alert for SEAF volunteers!

Sense and Sensuality [in-person] - Masking Requirements

Starting in April 2024, Sense and Sensuality will be requiring masking during their quarterly events for all attendees, including volunteers.

Wearing an N95/KN95 or equivalent mask will be required at the party at all times other than when actively eating/drinking, or when engaged in a scene. If you leave the scene you're in temporarily (e.g. to take a restroom break), please mask up first.

SaS and Femmes on Top are currently the only two in-person CSPC events that require masking. All other events are masking optional. 

If you have any questions or concerns regarding the SaS event, you can contact the event champions at sas@thecspc.org.

[REVISED] The Frolic: 2024 Teaser & Presenters

SAVE THE DATE: August 6-11, 2024

In just a few short months, we will be hidden away with more than a hundred of our closest friends. Soaking up the sunshine, absorbing new skills, cuddling and laughing by firelight among the trees…It’s The Frolic 2024! Bigger, better, and so bougie! The theme is Questing for Paradise. You cannot predict how your quest for your inner/outer compass may change the direction of your journey.

A limited number of Early Bird tickets go on sale March 28, so watch for the flares to light up your media. VIP yurts will be auctioned off as well and they are so WOW! There will be a hot tub, indoor dungeon, outdoor play space, and six days of fantastical community on our own private field of dreams! 

Stay tuned! 

The Frolic Team

Need assistance to attend? Volunteer 10-20 hours during the event! Email frolic@thecspc.org

Call For Frolic Presenters!

The Frolic 2024 is accepting applications for presenters through April 3!

Anyone 18+ can attend! Tickets go on sale March 28. Keep an eye out on our website!

We encourage all levels of classes. We are planning to offer not only 101 classes but a variety of unusual advanced topics as well. Get your application in early, click here to apply! Up to eight class submissions allowed. 

• Teach 1 class: pay $275 [First Tier pricing]

• Teach 2 classes: pay $162.50 [Half off Third Tier pricing]

• Teach 3 classes: FREE ticket upon approval

• Non-member presenters will receive a gratuitous month of CSPC membership

Closing Date: Wednesday, April 3

Selection Date: Wednesday, April 10

Notification Date: Monday, April 15

Once we notify you that your submission(s) has/have been selected, you have one week to accept. And even if your idea isn't selected this round, we’ll keep a record of it for future opportunities. 

Questions? Email our Education Co-Leads at froliceducation@thecspc.org 

PPMT Reminiscing

By Turtle and Teeebone 

Teeebone and I are sitting here by Zoom reminiscing about the “good ol’ days” like we all promise not to do when we are young. “I’ll never do that…sit around thinking about ‘Remember when’…I’ll be too busy living!” Well, guess what? We are doing both! Double the pleasure, double the fun, with… oooo! Sorry for the earworm!

The good ol’ days circa 2012-2016 at the CSPC Interbay location included third Saturdays at the PPMT party (Power Play Mixed-Tape.) In fact, I asked someone to volunteer at the upcoming party and they said they weren’t available on the third Saturday. I said, “Great! Because it isn’t on the third Saturday anymore!” It’s a whole new world! Oops! Second earworm!

The party re-upped in 2021 on the “heels” of reopening post-Covid with some of the Interbay crew coming back out of nostalgia. We were thinking about what’s changed and what stayed the same.

I asked some of the previous Power Players what stuck out most to them. “Boobie dancing, feeling surrounded by scenes everywhere, high energy, intense scenes, dancing in my underwear, dancing free, the feeling of camaraderie on the team, great music, good friends, great conversations, warm hosts, fucktastic music, heavy players, possible blood scenes, amazing mix of laughter and screams, getting stuffed at TK’s Buffet, pogo dancing so hard I hit my head on the heater, everyone dressed up, everybody naked. You’re sexy and you know it!”

The music still pounds the sound but downstairs is quieter so people have a choice in sound immersion. The great conversations, friendly attendees, and awesome hosts stay engaged with great outfits, fun scenes, and random people dancing on the stage. Plus, we have the Pick-up Play board for the impromptu in you!

Teeebone - “That feel you get when you experience compersion while watching your former primary partner having their first DP scene some 12 feet away while you’re being the DJ at PPMT. Everybody’s workin’ for the weekend!”

Turtle - “That feeling of being surrounded by friends even if you don’t know them! I miss that so much! We openly welcome everyone and we will be talking, a certain song will come on and we will all rush to the dance floor together! Everyone included!”

Teeebone - “That feeling you get when you have had an intense scene and then realize you are the closing DJ. Whoomp there it is!”

Turtle - “I had a few anthems the team would all dance to, but before everyone got there, we’d have a pep rally that always ended with us singing ‘C is for Cookie!’”

Teeebone - “I loved those cookies. They were the best.”

Turtle - “We were a family. A family that exists to this day. When we wanted to set up a general, heavy play party again…we realized just how far our existing volunteers were stretched. Hell, 50% of the volunteers are board members. So, it’s been five years since the last PPMT, and I started texting. Amazing PPMT members answer with just ‘I’m in’ then go and renew their membership. It’s that kind of dedication, love, and camaraderie we at PPMT live for. I’m so grateful for them re-igniting their fires to bring PPMT back to life!”

And now we have a new crew of die-hards who swear by the party!

Teeebone - *yells* “I got it! That feel you get when somebody says straight to three DJs’ faces ‘do you have any music I can dance to?’ and you’ve been playing dance music all night long. The only right answer to this question: I’M SORRY. WE HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO DANCE MUSIC WHATSOEVER!” 

Turtle - “And the look on Sir Nikolia’s face that suggested the heat of a 1,000 suns… Well, we’ll leave it at that! Actually, she came back later to thank us for playing the Rolling Stones. Who knew?”

Every summer, when Paradise (our annual camping trip) would roll around, PPMT would follow it. We’d have a sarong night called, “Sarong, it’s So Right!” One year, the Paradise theme was to “Keep the Fires Burning.” I could have never imagined, at the time, something like a modern day plague would take humanity out at the knees. That we’d let our fires burn low into coals. That fire is still there though. PPMT and all of the CSPC programming plan to help breathe those fires back to life…to reignite them into a conflagration of passion for ourselves and our community. Come out. Become whole again! Volunteer and make space for others to become whole too!

Turtle - “I loved that the staff, no matter the name tag, all worked together to make great things happen. They could have happened at any party. But PPMT just refuses to notice that there is a box at all, much less lines to color in.”

Teeebone - “The concept of the crew as ‘Fam’ was very strong with PPMT.”

Turtle - “You keep hearing hints about TK’s Buffet. Trust me. There wasn’t food, but if you had a vagina, you could get stuffed! 

Teeebone - “We like to think of it as an immersive experience.” *laughs* “Three of my partners have been to the Buffet Table and rate it five thumbs up!”

Turtle - “We are both DJs. We love music! We play it loud! It is important to us. So bring your earplugs or headphones if you need them. Also, if the music fits the theme and you contact us beforehand, we’ve been known to play certain songs for a scene. Be nice or we might Rickroll you! We Are Never Gonna Give You Up!”

Teeebone - “Get yourself ready for a hot night with a five-finger sex punch!”

By the way, come join us on March 9 and dress to the “Ls” in leather and latex! While not a requirement to attend the party, we highly encourage our attendees to adorn themselves in said fetish wear. At PPMT, we whip sensuality and BDSM all under the same roof!

ppmt@thecspc.org

Come to Power Play Mixed-Tape and let your body talk!

PPMT is celebrating Leather and Latex in March!

By Teeebone

Come join us on March 9th and dress to the “L”s in Leather and Latex! While not a requirement to attend the party, we highly encourage our attendees to adorn themselves in said fetish wear. At PPMT, we whip sensuality and BDSM all under the same roof!

Power Play Mixed-Tape makes having a fantastic fucking time easy. Dress to impress and surround yourself with sensual sex and bass-pounding BDSM. Best yet—the music will be HOT. Throbbing beats from 8-10 pm with DJ ObliqueBanter and sizzling sexiness by DJ Boneman from 10 pm-midnight! Surge and doof with us! (The basement will ride a noticeably lower decibel level for your pleasure! Earplugs are available at the registration desk.)

FOMO is a thing, but we have time to sling! Take your time to play hard at PPMT! (Know all levels and types of play are welcome!) Let the music groove your body or be suspended from one of our hard points. Make someone dance on the rack or turn them over a spanking bench. Any play sanctioned by the CSPC is allowed at PPMT so review the CSPC's Essential House Rules. Expect sex anywhere and everywhere (except the bathroom, aftercare room, or stairs)! If it's going to be bloody, please bring your own plastic/tarp and linens.

PPMT ran from 2012 up until the closure of Interbay in 9/2016. PPMT was selected as 2012 Party of the Year as well as March 2014 Party of the Month. It is the first of the 2.0 parties to return to the CSPC to “Reignite Our Fires!”

Parties from the Past: The Grind

By Teeebone

Back in the Interbay days, one of the first parties I went to was called the Grind. It was held weekly on Thursday nights. The Grind was a dark-themed, BDSM-focused party with dancing that featured Goth, Industrial, and EBM music primarily from the 90s and 00s, and it was very popular. I had fun on the dance floor and in the back room and so did many others. Certain music tracks remain “Grind Classics” in my library. “Non-Stop Violence” by Apoptygma Berzerk, “Military Fashion Show” by And One, “Megalomaniac” by KMFDM, and “The Ubiquitous Mr. Lovegrove” by Dead Can Dance to name a few. Any time I had a free Thursday evening was an opportunity to dance the night away to cool music, watch or participate in a scene, or just simply hang out with folx, all of us dressed in black and getting into the Grind state of mind.

The Grind had its origins in the industrial club scene of the late 1990s, being inspired by Seattle nightclubs like the Catwalk, the Vogue, and Machinewerks. While the music, dancing, and fetish themes were present, BDSM play was limited. Shortly after the Center was opened, the folx who would become the founders of the Grind were approached to create a club night. Keep in mind that they were building this party from the ground up, raising funds, drafting the floor plan, forming a team, and installing the sound and lighting systems in the building. The founders selected Thursday night to hold this party as a weekly event in order to allow for dedicated men’s and women’s parties to be on Fridays. On May 18, 2000 the Grind debuted at the CSPC with an attendance of 48. Such humble beginnings, eh?

After the first year though, the attendance had doubled. By the time of my first attendance to the Grind, (2004-05) the head count was typically breaking 150. The Center was full of energetic dancers and players and the loud music was in a class all its own. As somebody who DJs, I was struck by how unique and one of a kind it was, and it was perfectly fine to dance by yourself! It was an amazing thing to behold. The Grind had cemented its reputation as one of the Center’s go-to parties, especially because orientation was held right before it started, resulting in some new members attending it afterward. 

The days of “peak Grind” would continue until the summer of 2007, when the Center had to raise admission costs, though three months later there would be an early-bird discount implemented. Also in late 2007, the Center acquired the Annex and a new party, the Chill was scheduled opposite the Grind to act as a space to allow attendees to step away from the loud music and have easier conversation. This diluted the party’s crowd even though you only needed one admission to have access to both parties. In early 2008, the Center’s yearly membership rate was increased, which peeled away some more attendees. Staff attrition also took its toll, though the Grind team held together quite well considering its long run. By 2013, the music played by the DJs began to branch out into more contemporary and dance-pop-oriented stuff. At this point, the Grind was more than ten years old and a large chunk of the original audience of members who attended week after week had left because of various “life in general” reasons. Many of the new members were not into Goth, Industrial, or EBM music as much as the older members were.

In May of 2015, the Grind stopped being a weekly party and switched to an irregular schedule, eventually settling on fifth Fridays of the month in January of 2016 and then to fourth Fridays in June. The last Grind at the Interbay location was held on August 26, 2016 and had a packed house. The Grind was the Center’s longest running party, lasting more than eighteen years. Considering that this was a weekly party for most of its existence, that’s a lot a hardcore dedication in volunteer work. I will always be grateful for the Grind team’s effort because I always had fun at that party. There were four more Grinds held at the Gallery, with the last one taking place in March of 2019. At that point, the team decided to shut things down and step away.

Which brings us to the present. This year, the Center will be celebrating its 25th Anniversary and part of that celebration will include bringing back some of the classic parties from the past, like the Grind! A new team is being formed to reboot this party and volunteers will be needed! If this sort of thing fascinates you, then click on this link and join us!

https://thecspc.org/volunteering