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07-24-2006, 06:21 PM
Comfort & Joy is queer burning man day spa & afterparty space that hosts restorative, relaxing, and celebratory events + workshops. We build several art installations every year and rock the blacklight at night. For more information about us, visit one of our websites:
Web: http://www.klodhopper.com/joy
MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/playajoy
Tribe: http://tribes.tribe.net/comfortandjoy
http://klodhopper.com/joy/2005/media/siesta_domes.jpg
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2006 Comfort & Joy Event Schedule
Like meeting fun people? Volunteer at one or more of our events, regardless of where you're camping! If you're interested, email comfort (at) klodhopper (dot) com to get the full scoop.
We'll repost this when we discover our playa address.
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RECURRING EVENTS
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DISCO NAP
1-3pm, Tuesday-Saturday
Restore your body, recharge your batteries and get some glamour every afternoon at Comfort & Joy's relaxed disco day spa. Here you can immerse yourself in enchanting art installations or bask in glittery shade while gentle beats calm your senses. Go ahead, get comfortable, soothe your playa-foot & update your pedicure at our well stocked, self-service, pedicure salon. Or just relax and enjoy the scenery.
**
AFTERGLOW
Midnight to Dawn, Wednesday thru Sunday morning
Done with dancing and ready to relax? Come down gently at this nightly afterparty geared for queers and hosted in a plush, scarlet shoe-free space. Feel free to bring your playa honey.
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DAILY CALENDAR
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Tuesday
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DISCO NAP
1-3pm (see description above)
**
YOGA WITH FUZZY
3-4pm, Tuesday afternoon
Fuzzy hosts this gentle afternoon yoga class inspired by the Kundalini approach with a focus on spinal flexibility, digestion, and breathing. Expect a low to moderate impact class with special attention paid to relaxing and mobilizing your back and oxygenating your blood! No experience needed but please know your limits. Bring mat, towel or something to sit on.
**
AFTERGLOW
Midnight to Dawn
(see description above)
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Wednesday
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HEALING ENERGY & MASSAGE WORKSHOP
11:00am -12:30 pm
Learn new ways to experience and enhance energy healing with massage techniques at this touch-focused workshop. We'll cover targeting, focusing, and channeling through direct and indirect massage for muscle relaxation, pain relief and invigorated well-being.
**
DISCO NAP
1-3pm (see description above)
**
http://klodhopper.com/joy/2002/media/ped/pedicure_powder_blue.jpg
COMFORT & JOY'S PEDICURE PARTY
3-5pm, Wednesday afternoon
Prepare for the glorious week ahead by pampering yourself and others with a soothing foot massage and pedicure at this self-service salon. Find fellow foot aficionados to trade pedicures, gossip, and playa fashion tips. Your hosts will provide moisturizing cremes, colorful polishes, and tools; bring your creative self & touch up your look!
**
TRANNIE TRANSFER & DYKE DEPOT
5-8pm, Wednesday
Calling all trannies, genderqueers, dykes and queers! Come meet other trans and queer burners. socialize, flirt and have a great time at our dusk soire. All bis, gender freaks, lesbians, tranny fags, pangenders, pansexuals, andros and intersexed welcome!
**
SWAY
8-Midnight, Wednesday night
Enjoy a seductive slow dance to a beat close to your heart at this sublime event. We'll spin sweet tunes to sweep you off your feet and deep into your partner's arms on our enchanted dance floor.
Couples of all types are encouraged to come early for lessons (7:pm to 8:pm), take to the dance floor and enjoy body contact that warms, not grinds, away the evening desert chill.
**
KITTYBOY'S GROOVE LOUNGE
Midnight to 2am
Intimate House and Downtempo Beats with DJ Nekko D
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Thursday
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WATERCOLOR IN THE DESERT
1 - 3pm, Thursday afternoon
Come with us as we explore the landscape of Hope and Fear thru water color painting (make some art to burn?). Kick back with a brush in your hand and colors on the brain (and paper). Resident artist on hand will demonstrate various tips and techniques! Bring your beautiful ideas and we supply the rest.
* *
YOGA WITH FUZZY
3-4pm, Thursday afternoon
Fuzzy hosts this gentle afternoon yoga class inspired by the Kundalini approach with a focus on spinal flexibility, digestion, and breathing. Expect a low to moderate impact class with special attention paid to relaxing and mobilizing your back and oxygenating your blood! No experience needed but please know your limits. Bring mat, towel or something to sit on.
* *
FAGS OVER 4-TEA
4-6pm, Thursday afternoon
Comfort & Joy invites fags over 40 and their friends to join us for an afternoon tea social and teabagging tribute to men of experience. Enjoy cooling refreshments served by seductive and service-orientated youngsters eager to charm your pants off.
* *
DISCO AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE
10pm to 4am, DPT (Dilated Playa Time)
Calling all aliens, astronauts, robots, cyborgs, space travellers, moon miners, galactic marines, mad scientists, gods, goddesses, minor deities, and xenomorphs of every shape, size, color, race, sex, gender, and limb configuration! Comfort and Joy is pleased to present The Disco at the End of the Universe, a journey into interstellar dance space guaranteed to put you into orbit! Music by C&J's resident stellar explorers Lord Kook, Pup, and Nekko D, piloting our cosmic ship past the planets Electro, Trance, and House! Come and wave your tentacles in the air like you just don't care!
* *
AFTERGLOW
Midnight to Dawn
(see description above)
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Friday
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DISCO NAP
1-3pm (see description above)
* *
HOPE YER FEARCE MAKE UP WORKSHOP
3-5 pm, Friday
Always HOPE to be FIERCE but not sure you have what it takes? Well never FEAR, Erica Candy Cane is here!!! With the help of her beauty team, this interactive B.Y.O.M(akeup) workshop covers dramatic techniques, tricks, & glamour tips. Together we'll swap tips, learn new makeup applications, and take it to the next level. You'll out fierce even your most feared playa nemesis... Then at 5 pm, we take it to the streets as the class morphs into the always saucy 4th Annual "Romp of the Playa Hookers" rampage!
**
4th Annual ROMP OF THE PLAYA HOOKERS
5-7pm(ish), Friday
Original playa hookers, glamourpuss Erica Candy Cane and Auntie Depressant (in her return to the playa after a spell at the funny farm), reunite to lead a glittery gaggle of glama-trashy-sexy-tragi-fabulousness in search of the seedy underworld of BRC (and a disco). One of the most anticipated & feared events on the playa! Gigolos & pimps also warmly welcomed. Get gussied up @ 3 pm at the Hope Yer Fearce Makeup Workshop
DISCLAIMER: Although prostitution is legal in Nevada, the acceptance of money is strictly prohibited in BRC. Don't take the Playa Hookers too seriously...or they'll seriously take you!
**
SOFT LANDING
4-6am, early Saturday morning
Relax your mind and come down gently at this afterparty geared for queers featuring ethereal beats taking you into the early morning hours.
--------------------------------------
Saturday
--------------------------------------
DISCO NAP
1-3pm (see description above)
**
AFTERGLOW
Midnight to Dawn
(see description above)
Web: http://www.klodhopper.com/joy
MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/playajoy
Tribe: http://tribes.tribe.net/comfortandjoy
http://klodhopper.com/joy/2005/media/siesta_domes.jpg
--------------------------------------------------------------
2006 Comfort & Joy Event Schedule
Like meeting fun people? Volunteer at one or more of our events, regardless of where you're camping! If you're interested, email comfort (at) klodhopper (dot) com to get the full scoop.
We'll repost this when we discover our playa address.
* * * * * * * * * *
RECURRING EVENTS
* * * * * * * * *
DISCO NAP
1-3pm, Tuesday-Saturday
Restore your body, recharge your batteries and get some glamour every afternoon at Comfort & Joy's relaxed disco day spa. Here you can immerse yourself in enchanting art installations or bask in glittery shade while gentle beats calm your senses. Go ahead, get comfortable, soothe your playa-foot & update your pedicure at our well stocked, self-service, pedicure salon. Or just relax and enjoy the scenery.
**
AFTERGLOW
Midnight to Dawn, Wednesday thru Sunday morning
Done with dancing and ready to relax? Come down gently at this nightly afterparty geared for queers and hosted in a plush, scarlet shoe-free space. Feel free to bring your playa honey.
* * * * * * * * * *
DAILY CALENDAR
* * * * * * * * * *
--------------------------------------
Tuesday
--------------------------------------
DISCO NAP
1-3pm (see description above)
**
YOGA WITH FUZZY
3-4pm, Tuesday afternoon
Fuzzy hosts this gentle afternoon yoga class inspired by the Kundalini approach with a focus on spinal flexibility, digestion, and breathing. Expect a low to moderate impact class with special attention paid to relaxing and mobilizing your back and oxygenating your blood! No experience needed but please know your limits. Bring mat, towel or something to sit on.
**
AFTERGLOW
Midnight to Dawn
(see description above)
--------------------------------------
Wednesday
--------------------------------------
HEALING ENERGY & MASSAGE WORKSHOP
11:00am -12:30 pm
Learn new ways to experience and enhance energy healing with massage techniques at this touch-focused workshop. We'll cover targeting, focusing, and channeling through direct and indirect massage for muscle relaxation, pain relief and invigorated well-being.
**
DISCO NAP
1-3pm (see description above)
**
http://klodhopper.com/joy/2002/media/ped/pedicure_powder_blue.jpg
COMFORT & JOY'S PEDICURE PARTY
3-5pm, Wednesday afternoon
Prepare for the glorious week ahead by pampering yourself and others with a soothing foot massage and pedicure at this self-service salon. Find fellow foot aficionados to trade pedicures, gossip, and playa fashion tips. Your hosts will provide moisturizing cremes, colorful polishes, and tools; bring your creative self & touch up your look!
**
TRANNIE TRANSFER & DYKE DEPOT
5-8pm, Wednesday
Calling all trannies, genderqueers, dykes and queers! Come meet other trans and queer burners. socialize, flirt and have a great time at our dusk soire. All bis, gender freaks, lesbians, tranny fags, pangenders, pansexuals, andros and intersexed welcome!
**
SWAY
8-Midnight, Wednesday night
Enjoy a seductive slow dance to a beat close to your heart at this sublime event. We'll spin sweet tunes to sweep you off your feet and deep into your partner's arms on our enchanted dance floor.
Couples of all types are encouraged to come early for lessons (7:pm to 8:pm), take to the dance floor and enjoy body contact that warms, not grinds, away the evening desert chill.
**
KITTYBOY'S GROOVE LOUNGE
Midnight to 2am
Intimate House and Downtempo Beats with DJ Nekko D
--------------------------------------
Thursday
--------------------------------------
WATERCOLOR IN THE DESERT
1 - 3pm, Thursday afternoon
Come with us as we explore the landscape of Hope and Fear thru water color painting (make some art to burn?). Kick back with a brush in your hand and colors on the brain (and paper). Resident artist on hand will demonstrate various tips and techniques! Bring your beautiful ideas and we supply the rest.
* *
YOGA WITH FUZZY
3-4pm, Thursday afternoon
Fuzzy hosts this gentle afternoon yoga class inspired by the Kundalini approach with a focus on spinal flexibility, digestion, and breathing. Expect a low to moderate impact class with special attention paid to relaxing and mobilizing your back and oxygenating your blood! No experience needed but please know your limits. Bring mat, towel or something to sit on.
* *
FAGS OVER 4-TEA
4-6pm, Thursday afternoon
Comfort & Joy invites fags over 40 and their friends to join us for an afternoon tea social and teabagging tribute to men of experience. Enjoy cooling refreshments served by seductive and service-orientated youngsters eager to charm your pants off.
* *
DISCO AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE
10pm to 4am, DPT (Dilated Playa Time)
Calling all aliens, astronauts, robots, cyborgs, space travellers, moon miners, galactic marines, mad scientists, gods, goddesses, minor deities, and xenomorphs of every shape, size, color, race, sex, gender, and limb configuration! Comfort and Joy is pleased to present The Disco at the End of the Universe, a journey into interstellar dance space guaranteed to put you into orbit! Music by C&J's resident stellar explorers Lord Kook, Pup, and Nekko D, piloting our cosmic ship past the planets Electro, Trance, and House! Come and wave your tentacles in the air like you just don't care!
* *
AFTERGLOW
Midnight to Dawn
(see description above)
--------------------------------------
Friday
--------------------------------------
DISCO NAP
1-3pm (see description above)
* *
HOPE YER FEARCE MAKE UP WORKSHOP
3-5 pm, Friday
Always HOPE to be FIERCE but not sure you have what it takes? Well never FEAR, Erica Candy Cane is here!!! With the help of her beauty team, this interactive B.Y.O.M(akeup) workshop covers dramatic techniques, tricks, & glamour tips. Together we'll swap tips, learn new makeup applications, and take it to the next level. You'll out fierce even your most feared playa nemesis... Then at 5 pm, we take it to the streets as the class morphs into the always saucy 4th Annual "Romp of the Playa Hookers" rampage!
**
4th Annual ROMP OF THE PLAYA HOOKERS
5-7pm(ish), Friday
Original playa hookers, glamourpuss Erica Candy Cane and Auntie Depressant (in her return to the playa after a spell at the funny farm), reunite to lead a glittery gaggle of glama-trashy-sexy-tragi-fabulousness in search of the seedy underworld of BRC (and a disco). One of the most anticipated & feared events on the playa! Gigolos & pimps also warmly welcomed. Get gussied up @ 3 pm at the Hope Yer Fearce Makeup Workshop
DISCLAIMER: Although prostitution is legal in Nevada, the acceptance of money is strictly prohibited in BRC. Don't take the Playa Hookers too seriously...or they'll seriously take you!
**
SOFT LANDING
4-6am, early Saturday morning
Relax your mind and come down gently at this afterparty geared for queers featuring ethereal beats taking you into the early morning hours.
--------------------------------------
Saturday
--------------------------------------
DISCO NAP
1-3pm (see description above)
**
AFTERGLOW
Midnight to Dawn
(see description above)