FRIDAY
15:00-17:00 Leather Museum
Visit Walsall Leather Museum with us and learn more about the material focus of our fetishes, leather. Appropriately for the setting of Boundless, Walsall was once a thriving center for the leather industry and there are still many leather manufacturers based in and around the town. Explore the museum, watch a demonstration and make your own key ring for flagging. This is an unashamedly geeky start to the weekend and a gentle way to meet other attendees.
19:00-23:00 Cigar & Boots Social
Courtyard of The Facility. Come enjoy a chilled start to the weekend. Wear your leathers, socialise, cruise, smoke, and get your boots blacked. A selection of cigars will be available for purchase. Smoking will be outside and dependent on the British weather. Cigar play welcome but no nudity or sexual acts outside!
Pimms, a non-alcoholic punch, and snacks will be provided. You are welcome to bring your own drink. Please note that anyone intoxicated will be asked to leave and we ask that if you have had a drink that you disclose this to play partners.
19:00-23:00 Queer Wrestling
Wrestling Ring at The Facility. What better way to flirt or make friends than wrestling someone into submission or for dominance? Enjoy the MMA style ring and wrestle for pure pleasure and exuberance or enter the Boundless tournament. You can find more information and guidance here.
19:00-23:00 Queer Pleasures Dungeon
Ground floor dungeon at The Facility. Start the weekend as you mean to go on by taking advantage of the ground floor dungeon ‘with the feel of an abandoned warehouse used by the undesirables…for unspeakable things.’
19:00-23:00 Leather Sensual - A POC Play Munch
Top dungeon at The Facility. The KinkyPOCUK crew takes over the top dungeon, bringing you a sensual space where you can explore leather, sadomasochism and radical sexuality. In a way which aims to center your sensual experience of kink with leather. Bring an open mind, your good vybes and leather wear. Non-POC welcome only as the guests of POC.
SATURDAY
10:00-10:30 Welcome
10:30-12:00 Workshop Stream 1
Humiliation! What!? How!? WHY!? with BEST_IN_SHOW & HATHOR
Often incredibly personal and subjective, considered as edge-play by many: Humiliation play is rather the slippery fish of BDSM. Thankfully, someone well versed in bringing questionable seafood into the dungeon is Best_in_show. This talk/demo visits such hot topics as… What is humiliation play, + why one should/n’t do it. Developing humiliation scenes + top tips on making them super effective. Creating/utilizing audiences ethically + how to minimize risk when invited into scenes …hopefully aiding others in their own understanding and journey into what is an often misunderstood fetish.
Living Leather – Loving Protocols with DK LEATHER
For some the world of Leather is simply a mysterious, otherworldly seeming place, for others it’s our bedroom playground, our choice for daily living, our dreams and our realities. Come along, listen and learn, and ask your questions on Leather as a life choice. What is protocol, what types, and what might that look like in a life with a job, mortgage and even kids? What protocols might you enjoy, and what can and might we choose for ourselves as individuals?
Decorative Sharps with RADICALLY DARK
Like to add a touch of beauty to your sadism or just want to make pretty needles for photography? Then this class is for you!
We will be covering a wide range of topics in relation to pretty & sadistic needle & staple play: a recap on types and gauges of hypodermic needles; medical asepsis (clean technique) and how to apply it to decorative elements; scene prep, risk profiles & negotiation; techniques to make different types of pretty needles & staples and how to make them sadistic or painful (Needle stacks like pain & adrenaline buttons, dermal slides, cilices, corsets ect…); other pretty needle play techniques (Flowers, Corsets Wings, other designs ect); demo and Q&A.
12:00-13:30 LUNCH
Buffet lunch is included. Vegan, vegetarian and gluten free catered for.
12:30-13:30 BOOTBLACK CHALLENGE
There are two bootblacking challenges that will happen at lunchtime on Saturday. Bootblacks can choose which they want to participate in. Neither challenge will be judged! This is an opportunity for you to evaluate your own skill level against others and to earn a participation <SOMETHING> for publicly bootblacking at Boundless!
(1) Timed high-shine challenge
We will select Boundless attendees with similar boots in similar states of care to sit for the challenge participants. You will have 20mins to do your very best bar shine! Afterwards, sit back and see what others did, share tips and learn.
(2) Timed tech booth challenge
Challenge participants will be presented with ONE leather boot that is severely scuffed, scraped, possibly even cut. You will have 45mins to repair that boot (as well as clean, condition and polish it). Afterwards, you can see what others did, share tips and learn, and – if you wish – come to the workshop ‘Levelling up your bootblack game’ to get feedback from Pine – Bootblack Europe 24 and Bootblack UK 23 – and Parker, a very skilled and experienced bootblack and leather artisan to learn some easy, effective techniques.
Bootblacks must sign up by Sunday 21st July to participate.
Non-bootblacks are warmly encouraged to come watch the challenges and to volunteer if interested to sit for the bootblacks doing the timed high-shine challenge. You are encouraged to tip your bootblack if you are pleased with their work.
13:30-15:00 Workshop Stream 2
Beyond Brute Force: Techniques for Physical Control and Body Manipulation with DELTA & THELIONSMOUTH
Coming from a rope background but offering techniques that work with and without bondage, we will teach a number of ways to physically move a bottom/be moved by a top in a scene. We focus on tips and tricks for non-verbally moving a bottom, with variations that allow for size differences, dis/abilities and differing play dynamics. This is a hands-on class with exercises that will require a workshop partner.
Thriving not surviving in long-term D/s relationships with JACK
What makes for thriving long term D/s relationships? In this workshop, we’ll get together and share our tips, tricks and strategies for keeping D/s and power exchange healthy and hot over time, after the new relationship energy has changed into something else. We will focus on getting in touch with what we really long for, imagining that future, and sharing what WORKS to help get us there.
Levelling up your bootblack game with PINE & PARKER
So you’re a bootblack who knows how to give a bar shine, work on oil tans and garments, but want to take it to the next level? This is the workshop for you! We will teach you quick and easy techniques for repairing holes, gouges and scuffs. Whether you just want to do simple repairs and restorations or you’re thinking about taking on a competition ‘tech boot’, we’ll help you gain advanced bootblacking skills that will amaze and impress anyone. Come learn and try using things like burnishers, sandpaper, cobblers wax, leather dust and dye!
15:00-15:30 BREAK
Free tea, coffee and some snacks will be available
15:30-17:00 Workshop Stream 3
Rituals in Play with RISSEN
A ritual can be as mundane as a morning paper, or as intense as a baptism of fire. A ritual can be personal, like how you get in and out of a scene, mark an important event between loved ones, or foster unity in a wider community. The uses of ritual in play, D/s relationships and your private kink journey are endless. In this workshop, participants will have the opportunity to share ideas and try some hands-on ritual crafting. Participants are encouraged, but not required to to bring an object or toy that could be part of a ritual.
Sexual and Alternative Freedoms with FAYE & BEASTIE
Taboo – what is it to you? What limits your sexual freedom? “Emancipate yourself from mental slavery” This quote by Bob Marley has always resonated and inspired both O/our own journey and this workshop. This workshop is for anyone wanting to be more open and honest with themselves and have greater freedom within their current or future relationships about their desires.
W/we will explore subjects such as barriers and limits to sexual freedom, open communication, power exchange, perceptions of what’s taboo, getting to know your/your partner’s body, and how to love the adult and nurture the child within.
Fire Play with TARA RED (15:15-17:15)
We will cover a lot of SAFETY first, then move onto tuition: the practice of playing with a fire torch on both yourself and your play partner safely and effectively. This two hour class (NO breaks) with loads of safety advice on how to choose fuel and torches, then use them safely and effectively for differing effects. Packed full of useful tips whether you want to top others, play with fire on yourself, or just have it done to you.
N.B. this workshop is 2 hours and will run 15:15-17:15.
19:00-00:00 PLAY PARTY
The second evening of Boundless brings a bigger play party. Enjoy three floors of play spaces and equioment including two fully furnished dungeons, two private rooms, a medical room, and prison cell.
SUNDAY
9:30-11:00 Brunch
Connect with friends and playpartners, old and new, before either saying goodbye or perhaps going on to independently organised Queer Space.
14:00-20:00 Queer Space (independent event)
Round off the weekend by going to Queer Space 2-8pm at The Facility (the same venue as Boundless). This is an independent party aimed at providing a safe party/play space for those who identify as queer, for which the wonderful organiser Kali_Ma has made more spaces available to Boundless attendees: https://fetlife.com/events/1389349. Tickets are £20. Message Kali if you want to attend ASAP!