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A Decade of Decadence with Winnipeg’s Black & Blue Ball

For Immediate Release

September 21, 2005

October 22, Winnipeg’s Black & Blue Ball will begin its tenth year of Canadian kink. Winnipeg’s Black & Blue Ball is the longest running pansexual event on the Canadian Prairies. The Ball is a uniquely Manitoba style of event where all the kinks come out to play. The Ball includes all sorts of leather folk, swingers, cross dressers, gay/lesbian/bisexual/transsexual/transgendered, and Goths from 18 to 80 years old and from all races, genders and orientations. This Halloween there will be two floors of action with two bars, two dance floors, trade tables (where vendors sell sexually oriented wares) and two public dungeons. There’s always entertainment around midnight.

The Black & Blue Ball is all about local people having fun. The focus is strictly bio-regional – which is to say that the Ball is concerned mainly with people and events within a day’s drive of Winnipeg. When the Black & Blue Ball was founded, there simply were no other fetish events running in Winnipeg, but they changed all that. The Ball has been instrumental in helping many of the local fetish oriented groups form, and it shows in the incredible diversity of people who attend the ball. Over the past decade the Black & Blue Ball has transformed Winnipeg into quite the little hot bed of perversity.

Master Bryan, one of the Ball organizers, muses “We do it to have fun with our friends. We make it our business to reach into the closets of Manitoba, find the lost and isolated, and introduce them to their own culture. It’s quite a lot of fun seeing someone who thought they were the only one like that‚ discover all the other like minded people. Or as they say, reason #142 for loving Winnipeg is the city that plays together stays together.”

On October 22, the fun will take place on both floors of the Osborne Village Inn, 160 Osborne Street. The doors open at 9PM. Tickets are a very affordable $10 advance and $15 at the door. Everyone’s welcome to celebrate a decade of decadence. Check out the Ball’s web site at http://www.blackandblueball.ca or write info@blackandblueball.ca for more information.