After Hours Programming

DarkCon doesn’t go to sleep when the sun goes down… we revel in the night.

DarkCon 2012 has a variety of fun and interesting things to to After Hours. Here are some of those events, classes/panels & parties for you to consider. (A few, BUT NOT ALL,  of these you will note, are for 18 years old and over.)

Descriptions can be found at the bottom of this page.  Also keep in mind that our Gaming Area is open 24 hours a day from 2 pm Thursday until Sunday evening as well.

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Hysterical Paroxysm
A tongue in cheek look at turn of the century medical phenomenon of Hysteria and its various treatments and cures.

ROLE PLAYING: Actualizing Your Wildest SM Fantasies    [18 years+ Only Event]
Have you ever wanted to play out your wildest SM fantasies, but didn’t know quite where to start? Come join Miss Chris as she presents “Role Playing: Actualizing Your Wildest SM Fantasies”. Learn basic to advanced tips and techniques on how to leverage attire, speech, body language, props, and the five senses to evoke different scene stages. Learn how to assume a character, improvise, create a backstory, and to suspend reality for a scene. Role Play examples will be presented throughout the class, and an interactive exercise at the end allows everyone to get their hands dirty with a basic role play you can play with and eventually incorporate into your own bag of tricks!

Sacred and Profane    [18 years+ Only Event]
We are going to discuss how things non-religious can be both sacred and profane. How they can co-exist in the same space. Example: the sacredness of humiliation, the veneration of a slave to its Master, how we can consider the profane with a sacred regard. Remember what is sacred to one is profane to another and vice a versa.

VICTORIAN DISCIPLINE: Proper in Public, Perverted in Private    [18 years+ Only Event]
Most everyone has heard of the repressed, highly moralistic, prim and proper ways they did things back in Victorian England. But do you think they were all that way? Hell no! Come join Miss Chris/Cap as she discusses how kinky and perverted those Victorians really were! This class will go through a brief history and accounting of the prevailing attitudes of the day. Historic roles and expectations, attire, implements and punishments will be discussed next. And finally we’ll get to laugh at the language and wording those pervy Vics used to talk about the things they weren’t supposed to talk about. Wear your Victorian, Edwardian or Steampunk best, if you have it, and expect to feel a new kinky kinship with your forefathers after this workshop!

A Lifestyle Dynamic Roundtable    [18 years+ Only Event]
Roundtable discussions open to all, to help better understand why we do what we do. This will also clarify by discussion just what are those terms and titles really mean to us. Why do we insist on boxes and labels to put things into even when some of those names and actions inherently shun or rebel being confined. We use an inexact language called English, and we use verbiage that not all understand because of regional or historical discontinuity. Let us explore some historical reasons for some of the words/terms we use and to better demystify the titles, monikers that we use.

“Kushiel’s Dart: The Longest Night“ [Live Art Demo] [Saturday 11:00 PM]   [18 years+ Only Event]
This performance art piece is a brand new piece created and customized in honor of DarkCon Author Guest of Honor, Jacqueline Carey.  This performance art piece recreates and interprets the pivotal Longest Night scene in Kushiel’s Dart between Phadre and Melisande.

Whips and Floggers    [18 years+ Only Event]
Master Dennis will give a brief history, talk about the care and maintenance of, and demonstrate on real “victims” the uses and techniques of various whips and floggers.

DarkCon Pajama Party
Sometimes the end comes with a vision of new horizons, So it is at the DarkCon Pajama Party. We will meet in our night ware (pajamas and such) one more time to see an end(s) as glimpses of  unseen horizons come nearer.  [18+ after 9:00 pm]

1.) We have confirmed an appearance by the ‘Blender Children’
2.) Prizes for both best and most memorable outfits.
a.) two (2) main prizes will be 1/5th scale models from the Anime “Queens blade” of the characters Claudette (Thundercloud) and Leina
3.) Eight (8) other pillow party vote pillow prizes.
4.) The blanket fort (how can you have a Pajama Party and NOT build a fort out of blankets etc)
5.) Aliens Sex Toys game. [10:00  pm] Alien archeologists (you) from a far away galaxy have discovered a variety of artifacts that they believe to be sex toys for humans. Come and guess the uses of the sex toy for the humans.
6.) Queens blade 2 “The Evil Eye” playing later in the evening.
7.) Warming treats, perhaps also “Hot Toddies?”, **”Dr Leho’s warm Toddies”

Dr. Leho

**A hot toddy is a mixed drink, (usually including alcohol), that is served hot.
Hot toddies (such as mulled cider) are traditionally drunk before going to bed, or in wet or cold weather.

Barry Bard’s At the Movies [Thursday 8:30 PM & Sunday 10:00 AM]

This is a favorite Darkcon event where you will get a sneak peak at trailers for some exciting new upcoming movies.  After the trailer presentation we will hold a lottery for FREE movie promotional material (T-shirts, baseball caps, special posters and whatever else the studios have sent us).
Sponsored by CASFS.org (Central Arizona Speculative Fiction Society).  CASFS’ purpose is to promote interest in science fiction, fantasy and science. Please check their website for more info.   Participants: Len Berger, Richard Bolinski, Mark Boniece