Two new London fetish nights — Femina and Queer London — are due to take place at Camberwell’s Flying Dutchman venue in the next couple of weeks.

On Saturday April 27 the venue hosts Femina, a one-off femdom event staged in aid of a premature baby charity by a scenester who has been fund-raising for the charity for the past year.

Attractions include a slave auction, butlers serving homemade cake and bubbly, a massage area and use of the Dutchman’s extensive basement play space.

The organiser promises that the event will be attended by “a selection of the most beautiful goddesses in London”, and says Goddess Cleo, Kitty Bliss and Madame Asha have all confirmed as house dommes.

Dresscode is “strict fetish for the boys”, while goddesses may “wear whatever they please”. More details from the event’s Facebook page below.

Saturday May 4 sees the launch at the Flying Dutchman of Queer London, an “alternative fetish and techno club” offering “clubbing with a very kinky twist, but without the attitude”.

It’s run by “explicitly LGBTQ-friendly, pansexual and bisexual” BiZarre Events, which specialises in private members-only parties that are “open to anyone regardless of their sex, sexuality, gender or gender identity” as long as they become a member. Annual membership costs £10.

The evening will feature live DJ sets by Petra Fleur (Berlin), Franko B (London), Meerak Meinohg (Berlin), Whatduck (London) and Ariela (London).

There is no enforced dresscode, but fetishwear is encouraged. A safe, sane, consensual, clean and sexy environment is promised for full-on play in the dungeon, boudoir and wet-room downstairs.

More information from the Queer London website below.

The news that London venue Shillibeers had gone into administration meant that two regular fetish events suddenly found themselves at the start of this week without venues for their next dates.

London Fetish Fair decided to cancel the fair scheduled for this weekend (Sunday April 14), organiser Heather Lennox vowing to return with the next fair on May 12 at an as-yet-unspecified location.

And Rubber Cult co-host Kim Rub had to start looking for a new home for Rubber Cult III, which has resulted in a move to City of London venue Mary Janes, at 124-127 Minories, London EC3N 1NT, for its Saturday May 4 date.

New RCIII venue Mary Janes is a boudoir-styled cocktail and Champagne bar adjacent to Tower Hill Gateway DLR station. Set over three interlinking floors, it has a capacity of 400, which should suit the third outing of Rubber Cult well, as the last one saw 300 people filling Shillibeers to near-capacity, leaving little space at that venue for further growth.

Performances on May 4 by Red Sarah and Luna Eve and a fashion show by Ectomorph will hopefully benefit from better staging arrangements than those at Shillibeers, while the evening will also boast a fully equipped dungeon with specialist rubber equipment (vacbed and sleepsack) and a rubber hospital with gynobench staffed by RC’s resident “mean rubber nurse”.

In addition there’ll be an exhibition of the latex artwork of Michelle Mildenhall, which was showcased recently in a Talent feature here on The Fetishistas.

Other features promised for the evening include a champagne reception from RC’s rubber maids, a bigger cloakroom and dedicated dressing space, and prizes from SlinkySkin for the best total enclosure outfit.

Coverage rather than uncoverage being the name of the game at Rubber Cult, it should not be too great a surprise that even partial nudity is not permissible on this particular evening — that means not even bare breasts are allowed.

The venue’s later closing time means RCIII will run for an hour more than previously — from 8pm to 3am — and for those who want to extend the partying further, there’ll be an afterparty at the same Fitzrovia dungeon as previously.

Fetish Evolution, which takes place this weekend in Essen, has now revealed the names of this year’s participants in its Expo and Art Bizarre exhibition.  

For its tenth anniversary event, FE will be hosting just under 50 fetish companies in the Hotel Bredeney’s first and second floor conference rooms, and seven artists in the basement gallery space.
Sadly one exhibitor listed on the FE website who won’t be there is Velda Lauder, who died on March 16. After several German Fetish Fair appearances in recent years, this would have been her first time at FE.

The Expo exhibitor list is as follows:
AL-Moden, AMF Korsetts, Anderson Studios, Angi Delrey, Bertoldini Giuliana, Black Surprise, Bondinage, Cologne Photoart, Cyberesque, Dark Spy, Elite Heels, Engineers of Desire, Erlkoenig, Falanga Rubber, Fantastic Rubber, Favor, Feitico, Heveas-Heaven, Innersanctum, Jasmin Dué, Kami Zero, Katharina Woitschetzki, L + F Design, Lackina, Latex 101, Masters In Steel, med-vital, Mens Shop 24, Mi Camino, Peter Domenie, Prestige Event Management, RubberLuv, Rubbermagic, Savage-Wear, Sensation, Sinweaver, Slick Chic, Slightly Scarlet, SMJG, Style Fetish, Sündige Mode, SZ, Très Bonjour, Vengeance Designs, Your Shape, and Zanetti-Schmuck.

In addition, the Art Bizarre exhibitors are:
blende666 & Sarathustra, Carina Meyer-Broicher, Coco Noire, Justine Davina Simon, Me-Chiel, Bykonijnart — Pedro Konijn, and Schmerzmöbel.

Full details of parties, other events and accommodation during the tenth Fetish Evolution Weekend, which runs from Easter Friday March 29 to Tuesday April 2, can be found in our FE preview, and on the event’s own website — links below.