Other Community Events to Enjoy!
The CSPC throws amazing parties and hosts many important discussions on various topics. But luckily, we live in a place where there are many more options to dive into sex- and body-positive culture. The list below is just a sampling of some great events coming up in the next month.
We include non-CSPC events in every issue. If you have an event suggestion or feedback from a past event you’ve attended, please email Marissa at newsletter@thecspc.org and it might make it into our next issue!
Editor’s note for all events*
As a reminder, these are non-CSPC events. We include them as a way to open your mind to other experiences, but we have no control over them, their content, or their missions. We encourage you to vet other organizations to see if they are places you would feel comfortable, and we appreciate feedback if we have listed an organization/event that does not appear to share CSPC values.
March 11 and 19
Papaya Project | Sex Trivia ($10–$20 | in person)
Note that in March, we will have two identical trivia nights: March 11 @ Stoup cap hill and March 19 @ Reuben's in Ballard. You can only attend one of the two! This monthly event is the best way to learn about and celebrate pleasure, queerness, and the science of sex! We kick off the evening with a brief introduction, then dive right into sex trivia. All identities and backgrounds are welcome. Trivia questions cover a wide variety of sex and sexuality-related topics, so get ready to challenge yourself, learn something new, and have a good time. There will be PRIZES for the winning teams! This month, we are fundraising for Rat City Roller Derby.
March 14 (and monthly)
Pan Eros Foundation | Witchy Rope Enthusiast Group ($10 suggested | in person)
Witchy Rope Enthusiast Group is for people who are female identified, genderqueer, gender non-binary, and trans to talk about rope. WREG is a peer learning space to empower femme and non-male identifying rope tops. Male and masc identifying people are welcome to attend as bottoms and to self-tie. Only femme and non-male identifying people are allowed to tie and to teach. Please respect the mission of the space.
April 3 and 7
Beacon Cinema | A Dirty Shame ($15 | in person)
After taking on the suburban melodrama, the message picture, and the rock ’n’ roll film, John Waters tried his hand at making an old-fashioned sexploitation movie (the kind, he recalled, that “all the nuns told him he would go to hell” for watching). A DIRTY SHAME is an encyclopedic bacchanalia of sexual experimentation covering everything from adult babies to Roman showers. Tracey Ullman plays a frigid housewife who suffers a concussion that fills her with a sudden, extreme sexual appetite. The rest of her newly discovered sex-postive commuity—including her messianic sex-cult leader (Johnny Knoxville) and her go-go dancer daughter with breasts the size of life rafts (Selma Blair)—follows suit, each celebrating the liberation of their own special fetishes. But will the prudes and the “neuters” repressing this small town put a stop to the debauchery before the world's greatest orgasm is achieved?
April 4
The Asylum Collective | The Original Sapphic Soiree ($13 | in person)
Our night for the femmes, WLW, T4T, GIRLS [butches & transmasc welcome]! Step into the SAPPHIC SOIREE, a femme-powered nocturne for the queer and the bewitching, set in the Seattle Underground! This 18+ gathering invites you to revel in an evening of spooky delights and dancing. Lose yourself in beats from house to techno and beyond, setting the scene for a night of otherworldly connection. Capture the night’s magic with free film portraits. Indulge in dark delights, sip on mulled beverages, and let fate guide you with tarot and fortune-telling. Commemorate the night forever with flash tattoos. Pink, red, black, frills, and lace fall under the dress code.
April 5
Theatre Off Jackson | Rhythm & Rhyme: The Romantics ($5–$25 | in person)
Rhythm & Rhyme is Noveltease Theatre’s cabaret series pairing burlesque, poetry, and live music. Each salon focuses on a different poetic movement or theme, with a rotating cast of burlesque performers, bands, and featured poets to bring salacious sonnets, ribald rhymes, and comely cantos to life in an atmosphere of frivolity and intellectual curiosity. In April, we celebrate National Poetry Month by looking back at the Romantic era, when poets were treated like rockstars.