Community Meeting for Vancouver Dungeon

VANCOUVER S/M GROUP LAUNCHES COMMUNITY NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

BIO Event Production, Vancouver’s largest alternative lifestyle event production company, announced on Saturday night its intention to launch Vancouver Dungeon as a separate, non-profit community organization in September, 2007. BIO will continue to operate independently as a commercial venture.

The first community-run play party will be in September 2007. Although BIO will remain at arm’s length to allow the community to run itself however it sees fit, co-directors Paul McEwan and Yvonne Tink suggest a proper board of directors be put in place with non-profit papers drawn to become a legal entity. BIO also strongly suggests involvement on the board only remain open to those not already in ownership of other adult oriented businesses to deter any issue of conflict of interest. McEwan and Tink look forward to offering any assistance in helping the community to set up and put things in place. The vancouverdungeon.com website has begun to reflect these changes and a new forum has just been added to the site.

McEwan and Tink stated that, “It is our belief that, as Vancouver grows into a World Class City, the Kink community becomes increasingly susceptible to the commercialization of sex spaces calling themselves communities.

“Even as small commercial spaces take hold, it is almost certain a larger entity from out of town will set up shop here in our fine city destroying ALL smaller operations entirely with its Walmart-ization wake, in response to the lack of quality spaces and as the changing kink-friendly legal landscape becomes known world wide?

McEwan says, “If Vancouver doesn?t have a strong, vibrant and real community in place then our only options will be those establishments that must remain loyal to paying customers and shareholders before the comfort and sometimes safety of others.

“We looked at how BIO operated Vancouver Dungeon as a community service and could see that we were doing what so many are already critical of others for doing – calling themselves a community while being a for-profit entity. Although we have always operated as a community-focused group donating time, equipment and money to non-profits within our community, we have been legally incorporated since 2004?

“The Vancouver Dungeon Play Parties have never lost money so we know it works,” says Tink.

This is why BIO will lend the ?Vancouver Dungeon? name to the community to run as a non-profit. Tink and McEwan can finally make this decision because of recent changes in the structure of BIO.

Vancouver Dungeon’s usual monthly parties will be canceled in July and August, 2007.

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BACKGROUND:

BIO (By Invitation Only) Event Production is a pansexual organization devoted to creating safe spaces for expanding sexual exploration. It is the premiere destination for safe, sane and consensual BDSM, Kink, Fetish and Sex events in Vancouver. Founded in 2000, it presents social and educational events for kinky people, including monthly play parties, workshops, weekend conferences and presentations by alternative lifestyle figures like Fakir Musafar and Fetish Diva Midori. BIO?s name derives from practice of requiring people to phone or email in advance so they can enter play parties; BIO does not screen people for admission. BIO no longer does this due to the change in the legal landscape for sexual oriented events

BDSM is an acronym that combines Bondage and Discipline, Dominance and Submission and Sado-Masochism.
Pansexual means accepting and inclusive of heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual and transgender people.