The opening ceremony for the conference will be held Friday. Friday through Sunday there will be a vendor area and workshops and seminars on a wide variety of topics, including dungeon etiquette, SM on a budget, fire and ice, head bondage, and getting published. Play parties will be held each evening, hosted by San Francisco's own Daddy Irwin Kane. The host hotel is the Comfort Inn Convention Center at 431 NE Multnomah. Portland, P.O. Box 5161, Portland, OR 97208.
Rubber lovers have both a local and a national event in store for the fall.
On October 4, San Francisco Rubber Corps hosts another of their rubber fetish parties. Also check out the Rubber Corps web page. On November 8-10, Chicago's newly formed Men of Rubber will host a Rubber Blowout Weekend in conjunction with the Leather Knights of Boston. The weekend will include a Friday welcoming reception, a Saturday evening dungeon party, and a Sunday brunch. Mr. Vulcan Rubber 1997 will be selected at a contest at the Cell Block.