CARNIVALENTINES
Friday 14 Feb - 10pm-6am // Studio 338, London
Fox&Badge welcome you to emerge with joy & passion from the doldrums of Winter to embrace the first glimmers of Spring, communion, connection - & Carnival! Our pageant merges the old pagan/Christian festival of love, Valentines, with the seasonal post-harvest, pre-Lent spirit of Carnival, where we explode with festivity and abandon.
Traditionally food stocks, energy and morale were all running low before Spring shoots arrive in time to nourish us; our reconvergence warms the cold vaults of the slumbering city, and the chambers of our hearts. We warmly welcome you to our reversal ritual of release, summoning back the sun; a Dionysian rite of passage where we are all reborn; a rebellion against our confinement, and a celebration of our collective creativity and eros; our energetic alignment; our passion for connection and transcendence.
“We came in the wind of the carnival. A wind of change, or promises. The merry wind, the magical wind, making March hares of everyone... rushing towards summer in a frenzy of exuberance.” — Joanne Harris
Our Carnival learns from the best, seeking inspiration from across the world, with a special focus on Brazil - the great Land of Carnival - and the extraordinary Rio Carnival - which even began with sploshing!
Crowds ran amok amidst the entrudos, throwing flour and milk on each other. Our concurrent Valentines celebrations emerged from Lupercalia, where the Luperci (brothers of the wolf; almost fox) priests would whip women with animal hides to promote health and fertility.
Our event celebrates all this, and most of all the collective, communal forms of non-divisive love, and those sweet ties that bond us all, no matter what our relationship status.
"Love is the whole thing. We are only pieces." —Rumi
In these celebrations, we find a truth our ancestors knew well: that sexuality and spirituality flow from the same sacred source. That under the mask, we can be our truest selves (as the Venetians know so well). That the mask and costume, no matter how thin, enable entirely new adventure; and in that temporary chaos, we discover lasting communion.
Carnival meant goodbye to meat (carne-vale) - but here let’s say hello to the flesh of new friends, and the vast rich cultural history of pleasure and excess.
For one night, we invite you to descend deep into this tradition of transcendent excess, where fetish meets festival, kink meets carnival, the profound mingles with the profane, and we explore that liminal space where pleasure becomes prayer; surrender becomes strength; and we discover delight and divinity in the deepest collective pleasure.
"If it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts." —Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
YOUR JOURNEY
Come explore all our joyful, festival spaces of abandon & joy:
Our TechnoDrome dancefloor, exploding with Carnivalesqee Spectacle
Our Live Tribal dancefloor, infused with ancient and primal beats
Our Pantheon of female techno priestesses, playing driving & melodic
Our Parade of performers, promenading through the caverns
Our Armies of aerialists and immersives, spinning through the arches
Our Carnival King and Queen - lords of misrule and rebellion!
Our Sanctuary of Sensuality, where we focus on the flesh
Our Silent Shrines and Temple of the Spirit, and rituals of ecstasy
Our Chamber of Chastisement, where we restrain & atone
Our Isle of Welfare Angels, always on hand to lovingly welcome you
(get in touch if it’s your or your friend’s birthday & you’ll get even more loving!)Our Carnival of Culture, threading meaningful narratives throughout all our spaces
Our loving Lupercalian labyrinth of spaces, woven with mystery and intrigue
Our warm, creative, connective community - the best we know!
& so much more…
We are delighted to be working with WAX (after our joyous collaboration at Mad MaXXX in November) as our official partner and exclusive sponsor.
DRESS CODE: festival-fetish
CARNAL CARNIVAL
Flaunt your Flesh! Share your Skin; your carnal carnival essence! Give up clothes for Lent! After a long cold winter, we welcome your warmth and glory.
Sport feathers galore; be a beautiful (love)bird, alighting from afar.
Dare to wear enormous, glorious headdresses & crowns, shoulders and wings, and feathered rigs so large they puncture the skies!
Bring bare midriffs and bikinis; kinky cups and non-existent thongs & miniscule shorts; skimpy straps & flashy harnesses; beads & tassels, sequins & sparkles, (whatever your gender); if it’s not way too much, it’s not remotely enough. And top it all off with wild, joyful, colourful makeup and bodypaint!
And as always - FETISH; sas made even sexier, with lashings of latex, corsets and unrestrained use of restraints ;)
COLOURS: we gently ask if people can focus and choose single or dual colours on the spectrum - rather than them ALL…. If you had to pick just 1 colour- make it YELLOW - the colour of the returning sun
SIZE: your choice is very much between ALL or NOTHING - micro nothingness, where you flaunt all your glory amidst a skimpy scatter of just a few beads - or massive room-sizes wings and rigs that almost seem to offer your fellow revellers loving refuge ;)
GENDER is all your to play for and with; all birds have feathers; all sexes are gems, and deserve to flaunt them.
CHARACTER: carnival queen; kinky catholic; voodoo priest; passionate passista; dungeon dancer - which form or reverence and belief will you adopt?
INSPIRATION: Our prime inspiration comes from the world's largest Carnival - Rio, which assembles an astonishing 2 million revellers from all around the world. We are inspired by them because they do it best; we seek to learn from them. They embody the greatest joy and panache.
"Where there is love there is life." –Mahatma Gandhi
The Rio Carnival is a deep syncretic fusion of all kinds of countries, cultures and histories, with a common thread that runs through all our lives. Please dress to impress - and also to respect; investigate and learn as you create. Be inspired by an extraordinary range of living cultures with enormous depths and dignity.
For inspiration, please visit our growing Pinterest page for this event:
https://uk.pinterest.com/foxandbadge/fb-202502-mardi-gras/
This is a high-production, co-created arts & fetish event. We love sexy, wild creativity. We love intricate, elegant, crafted costumes. We especially love stuff you carefully and lovingly made; look out for our Costume Workshop, which we’ll hold a fortnight before the event.
Absolutely NO daywear, streetwear, businesswear, officewear, banal-wear, or anything off-theme will be allowed. NO T-shirts, shirts, slacks, sneakers - or anything ordinary you’d just wear down the street. If you are trying to figure out how to make this as easy and basic as possible, this is not the event for you.
“Through eyelet holes I watched the crowd / Rain of confetti fling;
Their joy is lush, their laughter loud, / For Carnival is King.”
— Robert William Service
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To ensure the best experience for all guests, we ask that you and your guest(s) read and agree to our Code & Culture (in particular, the centrality of consent) before buying your ticket.
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We celebrate expression over restriction, and take and share photographs of our nights. We always have several amazing professional photographers and videographers at our events to capture some of the magical moments we can’t possibly all experience at once. It is not practical or implementable for our crew to ask every guest in our many vast rooms for their explicit consent; please feel entitled to tell any photographers if you do not want to be filmed or photographed. Images of the night will be shared discreetly on our channels. We will of course instantly honour the request for removal or blurring of any photos you are not comfortable with; your privacy is paramount.
We kindly request our guests to leave their phones to the side as much as possible, not film the night, and simply be fully present; we will share all our beautiful professional photos & videos with our community immediately after the event. There are strictly no photos allowed in dungeons or of any intimate acts. If in doubt, ask. Please only photograph with the utmost consideration, awareness and respect.
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We want to make our events as accessible as possible; to help us do this please email any questions and access requirements to foxandbadge@gmail.com or contact Studio 338 at (0)333 444 4338. We will be as accommodating as possible. If you purchase a ticket to one of our events and it is not possible for you to queue, please email us to arrange faster access in advance.
If you notify the venue prior to your arrival, disabled parking spots can be arranged in the building’s car park. North Greenwich tube station offers step-free access from train to street and just over half a mile away from the club.
The club entrance is wheel-chair accessible.
The ground floor area of the club — which includes the main dance floor, main bar, garden and terrace bar — is fully accessible. The balcony area, however, which is up a flight of stairs, is not able to accommodate wheelchair-users.
There are disabled toilets on the ground floor.
*Please note this event was originally planned for daytime on Sunday 16th Feb but was forced to change venues by a Westminster Council licensing issue -
While you won’t find playrooms at our events, we have many other opportunities for kink and sensual exploration - including our BDSM dungeon, tantra space, guest shibari zone - and may other senusal delights....
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AFTERMOVIE FROM OUR RECENT EVENT
VERSAILLES, November 2024
WORDS FROM OUR LAST EVENT
MAD MAXXX, November 2024
“This was probably one of the best events I’ve ever been to. 100%. So much going on, and the people were just incredible. Outfits and production were just 10/10.” - Claudia
“I had 30 friends there & they were literally losing their minds, saying it was one of the best parties they had ever been to. I did not stop dancing from 10 through til 6am. It was just fire. I absolutely loved it. All the performers, the way the rooms were set up. What an insane, magical night.” - Katie Breen
“Incredible event. Hats off to all of the performers. We were completely wowed by the performances and the level of detail that went to setting the scene - nothing but amazing memories!“ - Christine N
“Fox&Badge was beyond spectacular - what a community! Incredible performances - I was truly blown away. It was amazing. Extraordinary.” - Alexandra P
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