FFF #25

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Summer Fetish Fair Fleamarket® 25

Saturday, August 6, 2005

General Information

• FAQ

It's hard to believe we've done it 25 times, but we really have. Our twenty fifth event will be at one of our favorite venues, the Boston Center for the Arts Cyclorama.




This fleamarket will feature about a dozen brand new vendors, plus many of the best crafters and purveyors of restraints, corsets, dungeon furniture, leather and rubber clothing, collars, whips, floggers, books, jewelry, sex toys, and more, from all over the country. We will also have boot blacks on site, a lounge and concession area, door prizes, and much more.




We at NELA have heard many, many questions (and complaints) about the recent FFF we held at the Boston Center for the Arts Cyclorama. We have compiled this FAQ to hopefully clarify many matters that concern the community and our event:




Frequently Asked Questions for FFF #25 - Summer, 2005




So, how many people came to FFF25?

We had just over 1700 attendees. This is about usual for our summer event.

Why did you go back to the Boston Center for the Arts, Cyclorama?

For many reasons: While the space is small, we have been there many times and the positive relationship we have built with the management and staff is in many ways priceless. Their management is fully supportive of NELA's mission and goals. Plus they are affordable and we would rather not have to raise the admission price.

Don't you know how hot it was? Don't you care how miserable we were?

Yes, of course we care. We care a great deal. Believe it or not, there have been times where the temperature in the Cyclorama has been cool and comfortable. For this last event we had been assured that the air conditioning had been upgraded (and perhaps it was, but it was clearly not enough).

Why did you leave the Park Plaza? And the Castle?

Because the majority stake holder of the property, Donald Saunders, did not want our business after the excoriating OpEd piece in the Boston Globe in January of 2004. We would have gladly continued to hold the winter event in the Park Plaza Hotel and the summer one at The Castle, but we were no longer welcome there.

Why did you leave the Sheraton?

Because the Sheraton only had availability for the FFF in December right before Christmas. Given the bad holiday timing, many folks were unable to attend and/or stay the weekend. As such we did not make our room block and the Sheraton elected to release us from the contract. To put it simply, they did not make enough money. The vendor space is paid for with the room block and it would be more profitable for the Sheraton to rent that space out for holiday parties. Renting the space alone (without guaranteeing a significant room night block) would be too cost prohibitive for NELA.

Isn't there anywhere else to go?

Finding an affordable, T-accessible venue in Boston is very difficult. We have looked into many places over the years: the Hynes Convention Center, Bayside Expo, the World Trade Center, Black Falcon Terminal, the old BU arena, night clubs, other hotels, even deserted warehouse buildings awaiting new tenants. With the winter FFF being held in the suburbs, we feel it is very important to have one FFF in the city.

What kind of space do you need?

The Fetish Fair Fleamarket needs at least 15,000 contiguous square feet, preferably 20,000 or more. Not many places in town have that and those that do are either too expensive (World Trade Center), are Union shops which will not allow us to use volunteers for load-in and load-out (Hynes), or simply do not want to deal with our community (Bayside).

So what now? Is NELA going back to that hothouse?

Truthfully, we don't know. We continue to look for new options. Faith, the Volunteer Coordinator from August's FFF, is being challenged with finding another location in Boston that meets our needs. Please keep your fingers crossed and wish her luck. If you have any ideas, let us know!

• Program Book

Time:

11am - 6pm

Price:

$5, free for NELA associates

 

Venue Information

Cyclorama Building

One Day Event: No overnight accommodations at event site

Address:

Boston Center for the Arts Cyclorama
539 Tremont Street, Boston, MA

Google Maps

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Where to Go

The Boston Center for the Arts is located at 539 Tremont Street in downtown Boston, between Berkeley and Clarendon Street. It is directly across the street from We Think The World of You bookstore and the Boston Eagle leather bar.

The nearest T stop is Back Bay on the Orange Line. If you come out the Clarendon Street exit from the station, turn right on Clarendon and walk with the traffic four blocks to Tremont, and the BCA will be to your left. If you come out the Dartmouth Street side, turn left and walk five blocks to Tremont Street, left on Tremont and go two blocks down.

The next closest stop is Copley on the Green Line. From Copley Square take Boylston Street (walk in the same direction as the traffic on Boylston) to Clarendon Street. Make a right on Clarendon and go about 6 blocks to Tremont Street (750 yards). Left on Tremont and the BCA will be on your left.

MBTA Bus #43 also passes right by the BCA. Ask the driver for the correct stop.

By car, there are numerous ways to get there, and please allow yourself ample time to park. (For parking sites see below.)

From Storrow Drive Eastbound
Take the Copley exit onto Clarendon Street. Continue along Clarendon; at Tremont Street, turn left. The BCA is on the first block on the left.

From Storrow Drive Westbound
Take the Copley exit and turn right onto Beacon Street. Take the first left onto Clarendon Street. Continue along Clarendon; at Tremont Street, turn left. The BCA is on the first block on the left.

From the Massachusetts Turnpike
Take the Copley Square exit. Turn right onto Dartmouth Street. Turn left onto Tremont Street. The BCA is on the third block on your left.

From the North

1. Take 93 S to the I-90 exit, exit number 20, towards Worcester/Albany Street.
2. Take the Albany Street exit on the left towards South Boston.
3. Turn a slight right onto Albany Street.
4. Turn right onto E. Berkeley Street.
5. Turn left onto Tremont Street.

From the South

1. From the Southeast Expressway, take exit number 20 towards I-90.
2. Take the Frontage Road exit on the left towards South Station.
3. Turn slight right onto New Frontage Road/Frontage Road.
4. Turn left onto E. Berkeley Street.
5. Turn left onto Tremont Street.
6. There is a map on the BCA web site: http://www.bcaonline.org/about_maps.htm

Where to Park

Atelier 505 Parking Garage:

Located under the Calderwood Pavilion, next to the BCA Cyclorama. Enter on Warren Ave, behind the BCA buildings.

Garage @ 100 Clarendon Street:

Enter on Clarendon Street between Stuart Street and Columbus Ave just before Back Bay Station.
Special BCA visitor parking rate: $9 All day Saturdays and Sundays
(Visit the Calderwood Pavilion Box Office to have your ticket validated.)

Other options:

There are also lots on the corner of Shawmut and East Berkeley Streets, and there are two open parking lots on Berkeley Street at Columbus Avenue. Open until 10pm.

Where to Stay at FFF #25

Since the summer fleamarket is a one-day event, and not being held in a hotel, we do not have an "official" hotel for this one.

If you are planning to stay overnight, the closest hotel to the BCA is the gay-owned Chandler Inn, one block away. In the summer they sometimes insist on a two night minimum stay. Call (617) 482-3450 to find out their rates, but right now on Hotels.com they have a sale for $114 per night. (Regular is usual around $149/night.)

Hotels.com shows me the following good deal: Shawmut Inn, 280 Friend Street in downtown Boston. Free breakfast. They have a $109 rate, but parking is an extra $24/day.

LaQuinta Inn (formerly Tage Inn) at 23 Cummings Street Somerville is actually very conveniently located, right off I-93 and convenient to the BCA. Free parking! Free breakfast. $115.

If you use Priceline to find your accommodations, the Copley area of the map is where the BCA is. The Downtown Boston-Charlestown area is the next closest.

 

Vendors

Vendor List

Achella
achella-toys@achella.com
www.achella.com
your kinky general store

Art By Pencildragon
pencildragon@comcast.net
www.pencildragon.net
art, prints, greeting cards

B.K.C.
www.b-k-c.com
private club

Big Head Studio
scott@bigheadstudio.com
antique violet wands, liquid latex

Erosphere (Boston Phoenix)
New England's largest kinky personal ads running in the Boston Phoenix, Worcester Phoenix, and Providence Phoenix
(617) 859-3383 to place your ad
FAX: (617) 425-2670
To respond to ads must be 18+, $2.50 per minute, call 976-7587

Brute Force Leather
bruteforce@bruteforceleather.com
FallenangelFashions.com
corsetshop.net

Bulls Creations
bull@Bullscreations.com
www.bullscreations.com
floggers, whips

Bunswitcher's Benches
bunswitcher@comcast.net
www.spankingbenches.com
spanking benches

Canes4Pain.com
WhypDancer@aol.com
www.Canes4Pain.com
canes and birch rods, classics to modern

Cassandra's Closet
Home party--adult lingerie

Circlet Press, Inc.
www.circlet.com
publishers of kinky and erotic science fiction, booksellers

Coyote Whips
whipmaker@coyotewhips.com
www.coyotewhips.com
Washable nylon singletails

Delicious Corsets
email@deliciouscorsets.com
www.deliciouscorsets.com
Beautiful hand-crafted corsets for women & men.

DeTails Toys
info@detailstoys.com
www.detailstoys.com
floggers, whips, vampire gloves, cuffs, paddles, etc.

Dominance Loving Leather
swtchr2@aol.com
www.swtchr2.com
Quality Leather Goods & The Original Evil Stick

Dungeon Outfitters
John@DungeonOutfitters.com
DungeonOutfitters.com
Furniture, restraints, whips, hemp only

Dungeonware
DNGNWare@aol.com
www.dungeonware.com
Bondage & discipline equipment and clothing.

Fetware Products
fetware@aol.com
www.fetware.com
Adult baby-diaper, bondage play, and plastic fetish gear

Flesh
a fetish club night
www.manrayclub.com
always the first Friday at Man Ray
strict dress code: fetish, rubber, leather, uniform, cyber_industrial, glam, kinky drag, vinyl, ultra_formal
$5 for twisted, extravagant, excessive wear
$12 for everyone else

Glamour Boutique
www.glamourboutique.com
corsets/shoes

GothShop.com
bev@gothshop.com
www.gothshop.com
Gothic and fetish clothing, jewelry, accessories, and toys

Grand Opening!
office@grandopening.com
www.grandopening.com
The Boston area's premiere sexuality boutique, especially but not exclusively for women. Vibrators, safe sex supplies, good books, videos and more. New location! Now round the back of the Arcade/Collidge Corner, in a bigger space!

Jer's Canes
rattan canes

Leather by Danny
LBD@leatherbydanny.com
www.leatherbydanny.com
makers of the "grip cuff," backbinders, and other unique restraints

Lifestyle Leather & Wood
sales@bobandmichelle.com
www.bobandmichelle.com
Floggers, slings, rods, assorted leather goods

Midnight Blue's/The Latex Store
www.midnight-blues.net
single tail whips, unique SM gear, latex clothes

Miko Exoticwear
www.mikoexoticwear.com
sex toys,lingerie, lots of anal

MT Leather
www.mtleather.com
floggers, leather slings, whips

NEDS-New England Dungeon Society
webmaster@ne-ds.org
www.ne-ds.org
Information, classes, opportunities to meet like minded people.

Needle Play Designs
NeedleplayDesign@aol.com
Custom embroidery

The Network/La Red
info@thenetworklared.org
www.thenetworklared.org
Free info about domestic violence and "SM vs. abuse"

New York Fetish Corp.
NYFetishco@verizon.net
NYFetishco.com
Leather/SM toys/Bondage gear

Northeast Fetish Group
operations@nefg.org
www.nefg.org
Northeast Fetish Games, Oct. 7-9, 2005

Perverse Gifts
succubus@succubusarts.com
succubusarts.com
goth/fetish/bdsm/art/toys/gifts

Pig Daddy Productions
www.pigdaddypro.com
Adult DVD productions (gay fetish)

Princess Kali
princess@princesskali.com
www.princesskali.com
www.princesskalidomme.com
Professional Dominatrix-Femme Domme DVD's

Purple Passion Boutique
PPassion1@aol.com
www.purplepassion.com
Leather/PVC/Latex, clothing and toys

Rubber Masters
randrdesigns@yahoo.com
www.rubbermasters.com
Handcrafted rubber floggers, singletails, gags, blindfolds, harnesses, CBT gear

Rachel's Pleasures
www.RachelsPleasures.com
manufacturer of adult novelties, specializing in restraints

Rainbow Rope & Kinky Medical
hello@rainbowrope.com
www.rainbowrope.com
www.kinkymedical.com
Soft, vibrant bondage rope in over 20 colors and combos, including our very own "gay pride" and "leather pride" pattern. Custom color combos available on special order. Plus fetish shoes and boots!

Rick Savage Videos
www.ricksavage.com
Fetish & adult videos

Shoe Guy, The
Orders: (732) 521-4476
www.theshoeguy.com
Fetish footwear, shoes and boots, plus home parties

Slave to Lust
info@slavetolust.com
www.slavetolust.com
Handcrafted bdsm items and erotic art

Station House Leathers and Gear
sales@stationhouse.com
www.stationhouse.com/outpost
police restraints, institutional restraints, uniforms, uniform accessories, B-D gear

Steel Dungeon
thesteeldungeon.com
steel collars and cages

Sunspot Designs
www.sunspotdesigns.com
hand-made gothic accoutrements, jewelry and gifts

Tandy Leather
hartford@tandyleather.com
www.tandyleather.com
Leather, tools, hardware, how-to knowledge

Tantramore Products
www.tantramore.com

Temptatia
sales@temptatia.com
www.temptatia.com
Floggers and leather products created from rich, sumptuous leather.
Custom, clothing, corsetry.

Toolworks Chicago
ToolworksChicago@hotmail.com
ToolworksChicago.com
metal gear

Utilikilts

www.utilikilts.com
Rugged kilts for work or play

Water Hole Custom Leather, The
mike@water-hole.com
www.water-hole.com
Leather restraints and pony gear.

 

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Rules

The New England Leather Alliance would like you to be aware of the following Rules of Conduct for the FFF:

Violation of any of these rules may be reason for ejection from event areas without refund.

Anyone breaking Massachusets' law or disrupting the event will be asked to leave the premises.

General Rules

1. Admission: $5. Free for members of SM/leather/fetish community organizations. Show your membership card at the door or wear your club colors! (Members of WMPE, BDS, TES, Black Rose, GMSMA, Female Trouble, Dreizhen, Riders M.C., and others need only show club ID or colors & pay this discounted fee at the door to enter.)
2. Only those 18 years of age and up admitted! No children or infants permitted. They will not be admitted and we cannot be responsible for supervising them.
3. No Smoking is allowed in any public area of the hotel per the Boston Public Health Commission's "Clean Air Works Workplace Smoking Restrictions" Regulation.
4. No food or drink in the vending area.
5. No Live Animals. (We mean it!) No non-human pets!
6. No photography, cell phone cameras, filming or videotaping allowed. Press photographers must register at the door and limit photographs to individuals who have given explicit permission to have their photographs taken. Unauthorized cameras will be confiscated!! Boston Police have empowered us to confiscate your film if you break this rule. Digital cameras media will be erased.
7. No nudity. Please wear your fetish wear but abide by the laws regarding public exposure! (For women: no exposed nipples. For everyone: no pubic hair, no genitalia, and in the back, at least a one-inch wide strip between your butt cheeks. That's the law.)
8. This is not a play event so if you are really, really inspired by the fun new toy you bought, although you can test-drive some things a little bit on the exhibit floor, please take more intimate and private activities HOME!