Black & Blue Ball
The Black & Blue Ball is Canada’s longest running pan-[...] [...] event. The Black & Blue Ball began as the public events committee of the Prairie Caller Magazine. The Ball was founded in Winnipeg during August of 1996, by Bryan Johnson, Richard Payne, Sir B&D, Naughty Nymph, Gram, and Bunny Love. The Prairie Caller Magazine stopped publishing in March 2000, but the Black & Blue Ball has continued. The Black & Blue Ball is now produced 6 times per year. The Ball features full bar service, dancing, a professional DJ, live entertainment, sexually oriented trade tables, a monitored public dungeon, and a printed program containing local alternative lifestyle resources.
The Black & Blue Ball’s pan-[...] focus has made it Winnipeg’s meeting place where all the fetishes come together. The Ball has taken an active role in helping local [...] organizations and events form and grow. As such the Ball has been involved, either directly or indirectly, with the formation of many of the key [...] organizations in Winnipeg. To these ends the Black & Blue Ball compiles, prints and circulates hard copy as well as maintains online versions the Kinky Manitoba Resource Guide. The Ball maintains a web site which includes educational materials, an email discussion group, a discussion forum, a calendar of [...] community events, as well as lighter reading such as a fashion column, book reviews, and a poster gallery. Every June, the Black & Blue Ball raises funds for a local AIDS organization Nine Circles Community Health Clinic.