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VIRTUAL EVENT
February 4th, 6pm-8pm
Power, Fantasy, and Persona: Advanced Role Play with Tina Horn
Come learn how to get what you want by being someone you’re not! Your favorite theater queer Tina Horn is back with a classic camp workshop: Advanced Role Play! In this online class, Tina goes deeper on negotiation, collaboration, and aftercare. We will discuss the blurring of lines between scenes and 24/7 identity, and guide you through some inspirational close readings of taboo fantasy scenarios. Supernatural ethics, dirty talk techniques, fetish understanding, consent comprehension, authority figure dynamics, primal play, and special occasion party ideas are all in the script of this fun and dynamic workshop!
This class is for folks looking to deepen their fantasy lives in relationships, playing with friends at parties, or wowing their clients. Bring your favorite role plays and personas to expand upon, and be ready to start 2025 with a head full of thrilling new scene ideas! Tina’s classes are always queer inclusive, sex work positive, slut-centric, and anti-racist.
Tina Horn is a writer, educatrix, and intimacy consultant for individuals and media. She is the author of Why Are People Into That?: A Cultural Investigation of Kink, a book based on her long-running indie fetish podcast of the same name. Find her on IG @TinaHornsAss and at her website TinaHorn.net
IN PERSON EVENT
February 6th, 7pm-10pm
FemDom Bootcamp
Hosted by Natasha Strange & Viola Parker, FemDom Bootcamp is an evening with coached play, demos, and opportunities for hands-on practice for femmes and themmes. We begin with a discussion on consent and safety, and model negotiations with the help of experienced volunteers. Then we turn up the music and use the gorgeous space and gear at Sub Rosa for experiential practice and play with our demo bottoms. Natasha and Viola and the support dommes circulate throughout the space to provide guidance.
FemDom Bootcamp is geared to women, femmes and nonbinary folks at the beginning stages of exploring, seeking increased confidence, community, hands-on experience, and to develop their dominant power. We welcome femme and non-binary dominants/tops/switches, with or without their partners. This is not for single men, submissive or dominant, and men coming to this event in a couple should understand that this event is geared toward the women/femmes in the room. We encourage questions and active participation in demos, however, learning by watching/voyeurism is always welcome.
IN PERSON EVENT
February 12th, 7pm-9pm
Kink for the Curious – Valentines Day Edition!
Curious about adding BDSM to your life? Kink and BDSM can seem so daunting when you are new. So many words, activities, and outfits that inspire feelings of arousal, shame, and burning curiosity. It can be difficult to know where to begin. How do you communicate your interests when you aren’t quite sure what they are? Do I have to like pain? How will I know if I’m doing it right ( or wrong!)? Let’s make 2025 the year you embarked on your kinky journey!
Princessa Natasha Strange answers some of the most common questions and guides attendees through some useful communication tools, with ample time for Q&A. This class will be loosely modeled after Kink for the Curious, a kinky education and activity book written by Natasha, and copies will be available for purchase after class.
This class is open to all genders and inclinations, and makes a great date night, even if you only bring yourself your date! Couples, throuples, and those taking themselves out for Valentine’s day are welcome. There won’t be any coupled up activities. We will enjoy chocolates, cookies, and bubbles during the break. There will also be a kinky giveaway sponsored by SheBop, Portland’s Favorite sex toy store.
IN PERSON EVENT
February 14th, 5:30pm-7:30pm
Partners in Crime
Spend V-Day with your sweetie and Mistress Viola in the sexiest private playroom in Portland for a unique group coaching experience. Come learn with your partner and gain confidence with hands-on exposure to impact toys, bondage, and BDSM gear. Each ticket is for two people to share a V-Day date night, for those eager to bring more kink, sexual empowerment, and exploration into their relationship. In honor of Valentine’s Day, Viola’s sexy submissives will be serving chocolate, strawberries, snacks, champagne, kombucha, seltzers, and tea.
The class includes live demonstrations, and opportunities to put it all into practice. Viola will be demonstrating various toys, equipment, and ways to play on her submissive Scarlett Vixen. We believe the best way to learn is by doing, so be prepared to practice what’s be demonstrated with your partner (with consent of course!).
This workshop is for duos only – come with your spouse, your play partner, a friend, or whoever else would like to share this evening with you. All genders and presentations welcome. We always welcome folks that are queer, straight, bisexual, or platonic. All dynamics welcome: femdoms, male doms, themdoms, switches, and curious explorers.
IN PERSON EVENT
February 19th, 6pm-9pm
Sub Rosa Social
The Sub Rosa Social at Wayfinder Beer in SE Portland expands the opportunity for people to connect with the community created around our space and classes. It’s a munch! But we don’t like that word and think “social” sounds so much more fancy. So come join us at this purely social event (no kink play). This event is open to all, but our space is femme & femdom-led.
This is a free event! Wayfinder has a great food menu as well as lots of NA beverages, beer, wine, and cocktails (you pay for your drinks and food). Portland-style vanilla (or vanilla adjacent) attire is required – this is a public venue with children and strangers nearby. Please be respectful of the environment and the space. The parking lot across the street from Wayfinder becomes conditional parking for the restaurant at 6pm so there should hopefully be plenty of parking. Wayfinder does have accessible access with a ramp going up to the restaurant and inside to access lower seating levels as well. We meet in the back room to the left when you enter.
Wayfinder Beer, 304 SE 2nd Ave
IN PERSON EVENT
February 20th, 7pm-9pm
The BDSM and Fetish Pony with Mx Wilcox and Pony Sugar
Mx Wilcox, author of The Human Pony, and Pony Sugar, Head Wrangler of the PDX H.E.R.D. Munch adventure into the shadow side of pony play utilizing pony play as an expression of BDSM and/or Fetish.
This course presents a variety of expressions within this well loved archetype of human and beast including Phyllis’ famed humiliation of Aristotle, Anne Rice’s control themes and modern applications of bondage, disciple, D/s and sadomasochism. Even if you have never seen pony play before, this will give you a taste of an ancient kink.
Attendees will learn historical references and applications of pony play, identify BDSM and Fetish understanding as applied to pony play, and have the opportunity to ask questions.
IN PERSON EVENT
February 27th, 8pm-close
Fifty Shades of Shut the Fuck Up
Mistress Viola Parker presents the monthly kinky play party celebrating all things FemDom! Don’t miss this epic social event for femdoms, femme tops, and the individuals who serve and worship them.
This month, the theme is SUMMER DOWN UNDER! Let’s keep it HOT to combat the gloomy long winter blues. Strip down to your neon hot pants, hot pink bikinis, speedos, summer dresses, maybe don some scuba gear or wetsuits (you rubber fetishists, I am talking to you!), Crocodile Dundee cosplay, wear some pool floaties, dress like a jellyfish, give us some WET looks! As usual the themes are not mandatory but the dress code is.
Read full description and RSVP on Fetlife.
Sanctuary, 33 NW 9th Ave
COVID Safety
Masks are optional for events at Sub Rosa (this is subject to change depending on COVID rates).
We are moving away from requiring vaccination card checks at our events at Sub Rosa. Some visiting educators ask vaccination checks, so this will depend on the class. This policy is subject to change.
Accessibility
Unfortunately, our space is located in an old industrial building that poses a challenge to accessibility. There is no passenger elevator. The steps to the exterior door do not have a handrail; the stairs to the second floor do have a handrail, with 12 steps to the landing and 11 more to floor 2. Please request assistance if you would like someone to meet you at the door. We apologize for this issue and recognize that the impact on people with disabilities is felt deeply in our community. If you would like assistance getting into the building and up to our space for a class, please ask and we will make sure someone is there to meet you. We are making considered efforts to improve this issue, offer virtual classes, and ensure that events outside of our space are always planned in accessible venues. If there are other accommodations we can make please reach out. Events & classes can be ASL interpreted upon request. Please request interpretation at least 48 hours in advance in the notes section of your order and email us at info@subrosapdx.com.
Sub Rosa offers reduced-rate tickets to each of our classes for black, indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) first and foremost and those experiencing financial hardship or limited income as well. Please reach out to info@subrosapdx.com to request these ticket order codes.
Recorded Classes
Come Correct: How to Approach, Serve & Dazzle Dominant Femmes
Natasha Strange and Viola Parker present a mini charm school for those with submissive inclinations, who desire to meet and serve dominant femmes. We coach eager newbies on the fine art of kinky networking, both in-person and online (with a stronger focus on how to better connect online during social distancing). Purchase on Gum Road.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Kink
Marla Renee Stewart, MA (she/her) is a professional sexologist, intimacy/relationship/sex coach, speaker, and author. She is the owner of Velvet Lips, a sexuality education company, as well as Contract Liberation, a company focused on research for non-profit groups.
In this workshop, she helps bring the values of diversity, equity, and inclusion to the kink and bdsm communities. This workshop and pdf combo is useful for bdsm educators, dungeon moderators, adult performers, and anyone in the scene. Purchase on Gum Road.
Erotica Botanica: Kinky Plants for Pleasure, Pain, and Passion
Maeve McBride (she/they) is a clinical herbalist, green witch, and educator who has been exploring the intersections of kink, sacred sex, plants, and magick for nearly 20 years.
Green witches do it better. This class introduces you using plants for kinky play. Topics covered include the use of herbal aphrodisiacs to assist with relaxation and dropping in, sensation and impact play toys using natural materials, natural first aid and aftercare, botanical sexual health support, and herbs to help prevent or mitigate the symptoms of drop. Purchase on Gum Road.
Lock It Up! A conversation about chastity and orgasm control
Princessa Natasha Strange has used chastity and orgasm control as a fun way to increase desire and devotion in willing bottoms, for most of her nearly 30 year career. This 2-hour class covers short term chastity, long term chastity, as well as fun stroke games to to play during genital wellness checks. Purchase on Gum Road.
