CARNIVALENTINES
Friday 14 Feb - 10pm-6am // Studio 338, London
Fox&Badge warmly welcome you to emerge with joy & passion from the doldrums of Winter to embrace the first glimmers of Spring, communion, connection & CARNIVAL - that universal seasonal post-harvest, pre-Lent moment (exemplified by Rio) where we all explode with festivity and abandon, so that we can then endure a last month of winter.
We also celebrate that other great carnal feast - VALENTINES, worshipping love in all its forms - most of all the collective, communal ones of non-divisive love, and those sweet ties that bond us all, no matter what our relationship status (we deeply welcome singles).
“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
Carnival is so many things; such a juicy, wild, sprawling mass of emotions and meanings that cross cultures and seasons. A huge part of it is sheer, sassy spectacle, and the ecstatic joy of existence, the collective bathed in gratitude for the glory of our bodies, and the pleasures they give us.
Our great reversal ritual of release summons back the sun with a Dionysian rite of passage and rebirth, rebelling against our confinement, celebrating our collective creativity and eros, our energetic alignment, and our passion for connection and transcendence.
"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
OUR SONIC GUIDES
We are delighted to welcome a luscious international DJ line-up of geniuses from across the globe:
Room 1 - The Technodrome
10-12 Ann LoV (UK)
12-2 Dayane Leanddro (UK/Brazil)
2-4 Caroles (Brazil)
4-6 Yazz Min (UAE/ES/Brazil/NL)
Room 2 - The Jungle
10-1230 Sophie Joe (FR/Singapore)
1230-3 Don Son (Switzerland/Romania)
3-530+ Poizon Ivy (NL/South Africa)
YOUR JOURNEY
Come explore all our joyful, festival spaces of abandon & joy:
Our TechnoDrome dancefloor, exploding with Carnivalesqee Spectacle
Our Pantheon of female techno priestesses, playing driving melodic techno and deep house
Our Jungle dancefloor, throbbing with ancient and primal beats & psychedelic dreams
Our Parade of performers, aerialists and immersives, emerging everywhere
Our Sanctuary of Sensuality, Chamber of Chastisement, and Katholic Kink
Our Reverent Shrines + Sanctuary of Welfare Angels, loving & welcoming
Our intricate decor + stunning sound and lighting, immersing you in fantasy
Our warm, creative, connective community, beautifully attired & vibing
& soooo much more…
Rio’s Tantra Temple
Book your free space at our intimate tantra space to learn the arts of connection, sensuality, and pleasure. 45 minute sessions run from 20 past the hour, every hour until 4am. Couples, pairs and thruples welcome. You must have a ticket to the main event to attend. Book here.
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! 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, expansive shoulders and wings and feathered rigs. Bring bare midriffs and bikinis; kinky cups, miniscule shorts and non-existent thongs; skimpy straps & flashy harnesses; hints & wisps, beads & tassels, sequins & sparkles, (whatever your gender); if it’s not way too much, it’s not remotely enough.
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 ;)
*(Studio 338’s licensing restrictions mean full nudity is not permitted, so all genitals and nipples need to be decoratively covered on entry)
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
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.
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....
BUY TICKETS FOR CARNIVALENTINES
We also offer a low-income ticket option of 75% off any single ticket type to those who struggle to afford a full-price ticket. Eligibility is simply based on your economic reality, and we wish to support all unemployed humans, students, low-income workers, carers, teachers, etc
Please simply email us at foxandbadge@gmail.com with a brief note about your situation. This helps us distribute tickets where they're most needed whilst respecting your privacy. No proof needed - we trust our beautiful community to be fair. We'll send you a unique booking code in return.
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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