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Regional power exchange title contest and community weekend for the Southeastern US—contestant guidelines, judges, sponsors, and 2026 regional info on the official GoDaddy-built site. Dates and venue were not posted publicly at scrape time; use the contact email on the site for production questions.
Southeastern Power Exchange
MAUL’s 20th Anniversary Weekend celebrates two decades of Mid-Atlantic Uniform League legacy, pride, and community in Providence, RI. Mr. Providence Eagle Contest, Welcome Reception, Anniversary Dinner, Uniform Inspection, Street Fair & Cigar Social, and Kink Demos.
Mid-Atlantic Uniform League (MAUL)
Rehoboth Beach Leather Weekend is a multi-day leather celebration at Aqua Bar & Grill with socials, a harness dance, and the Rehoboth Leather contest. The 2025 weekend has passed; the organizer had not published 2026 dates on the public site as of our review—check rehobothbeachleather.com.
Rehoboth Beach Leather Weekend
NEPAH 2027 is the Northeast Pet & Handler Weekend in Philadelphia, PA (Oct 16-18, 2026). Community events, Northeast Pet & Handler Contest (feeder to IPTC), and pet/handler programming.
NEPAH
Join us for an intense weekend at Dark Odyssey Fusion, where kinksters, queers, swingers, spiritualists, the adventurous, and the perverted come together to fuse Sex, Kink, and Spirit. Experience the magic with a thousand fellow erotic explorers as we achieve ecstatic states of passion, desire, and transformation.
Dark Odyssey
TESFest offers an impressive lineup of local, national, and international presenters providing a wide variety of classes, demonstrations, and hands-on workshops. Delve deeper into your kinky skills and interests in a supportive and enriching educational setting.
TES (The Eulenspiegel Society)
Naughty Events
Chicago’s fetish weekend Jul 10-12, 2026 with Midwest Rubber & Leather contests, vendor fair, education, welcome party, and Bunker victory party across Chicago venues.
Chicago Fetish Weekend
Elevation Rope is a premier rope bondage conference held annually in the Southeast United States, offering an immersive educational experience set against the scenic backdrop of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Western North Carolina. The event is hosted at Deerfields Retreat in Horse Shoe, NC, and spans five nights and four days, combining intensive rope education with themed evenings, performances, and play parties.
Elevation Rope
Midwest hypnokink convention—Beguiled’s 2026 “Odyssey of Trance” with sliding-scale tickets, scholarships, and community-focused programming. Tickets via TicketSpice; verify exact venue block on the official site.
Beguiled LLC
Four-day OKC kink weekend at The District Hotel with Route 66 Leather contest track, pool parties, vendor market, optional education at The Diversity Center, and tiered 2026 pricing on www.okckinkweekend.com.
OKC Kink Weekend
ElegantlyKinky & Dreamgirl4girl
KinkyCon Community Co-op is a one-day vending and community event on the KinkyCon calendar (Jul 18, 2026, Nashua, NH). For full multi-day KinkyCon conferences, see KinkyCon Wicked Weekend on the organizer site.
Dark Odyssey
Final edition of World Bear Weekend in Lexington, KY (Jul 30-Aug 2, 2026)—Renaissance Faire theme; pool gatherings, workshops, merchants, parties, and World Bear Contest. Tickets via Eventbrite.
World Bear Weekend
Pacific Northwest Leathermen's Campout
Fetish Con XXIV is a four-day fetish trade show and convention in St. Petersburg, FL featuring workshops on consent and kink safety, a massive vendor marketplace, live demos, networking, and signature events.
XIX Events, LLC
Studio 58 Events
Kink Down South Weekend is the South's large-scale kink festival in Atlanta: Aug 14–16, 2026. Classes, demos, live performances, DJ sets, and socials in a massive industrial venue—see kinkdownsouth.com/weekend/ for details.
The Summer Michigan Rope Conference (SMIRC) is Troy, MI’s weekend of intensive rope education with top presenters. The public site last highlighted SMIRC 2025; check smirc.net for the next announced dates and venue.
Second immersive weekend-long vetted educational camp from goBOUNDLESS—presentations, workshops, classes, performers, and camping on a private central MA site near I-90. Full Access members only; 200 paid spots. Cabin add-on available.
goBOUNDLESS
Des Moines leather weekend (Aug 28–30, 2026) at The Blazing Saddle: Mr./Ms. Iowa Leather, Mr. Iowa Bear, Iowa Pet, vendor mart, and socials. Dates and details are published on the Mid America Conference of Clubs calendar.
Iowa Leather Weekend (hosted at The Blazing Saddle)
Dark Odyssey Summer Camp — Labor Day week in Northern Maryland (Sep 1-7, 2026 placeholder). Seven-day Sex+Kink+Spirit festival with workshops, massive play spaces, and community. Confirm 2026 dates on darkodyssey.com/summerfest (site still showed 2025 during June 2026 audit).
Join us for an unforgettable kink and BDSM event at the Master slave Conference! Dive into 120 educational opportunities, including classes, panels, and intensives. Enjoy plenary events like the Meet & Greet Reception, Keynote Speaker, and Master/slave Contest. Explore exhibits from the Leather Library and Archives, shop at the Fetish Marketplace, and enjoy entertainment from cigar parties to dance shows. Connect in the Reconnecting Lounge or seek spiritual support in the Sanctuary. Secure your tickets now for this enriching experience!
MTTA Inc. (501(c)(3) educational nonprofit)
Chicago-area weekend produced by Elgin Munchers Inc.—education tracks, vendor fair, dungeon experience, demos, and socials. Not the same event as Texas “Annual Kink Expo” branding you may see elsewhere; confirm dates on elginmunchers.org.
Elgin Munchers Inc.
Women of Drummer 2026 is a four-day leather community gathering for women, non-binary folx, and friends at Camp Ramblewood in Darlington, MD. Features title contest, three dungeons, hospitality parties, art space, meals included, and vending.
Women of Drummer
DomCon New Orleans 2026 is a BDSM and fetish convention at Astor Crowne Plaza with classes, workshops, social events, NOLA Parade, exhibitors, and community programming in New Orleans, LA.
DomCon
Fornucopia returns Oct 1-4, 2026 for a beloved East Coast campground weekend in Darlington, MD. Organized by The Gritty Group. Confirm on fornucopiaevent.com or email FornucopiaEvent@gmail.com (site returned auth errors during June 2026 audit).
The Gritty Group
Metro Underground
DFW’s long-running annual kink education weekend—open presenter/vendor applications and Cognito-based registration framed as community building (Beyond Vanilla 35, Oct 1-4, 2026 per beyondvanilla.org).
Beyond Vanilla
Leather SINS
OhioSMART
Dark Odyssey’s Bay Area hotel convention—workshops, massive dungeons, Sex-O-Rama, Halloween-season energy, and omnisexual programming. **2026** dates were not yet published on the live Surrender page at inventory time; ECKE uses a **late-October placeholder**—replace with official registration dates from **darkodyssey.com/surrender**.
Dark Odyssey (Odyssey Events, LLC)
ECKE recommends Coastal Carolina Fetish Fair for Myrtle Beach–bound kinksters who want to shop top toymakers, meet BDSM vendors, and attend workshops in one weekend. Confirm 2026 dates with organizers—coastalcarolinafetishfair.com was unreachable in June 2026.
Hotel takeover weekend in the St Louis metro area Nov 6–8, 2026 featuring 30+ educational classes, vendor bazaar, BeBe's cigar social (benefits NCSF), Exploration Emporium, clothing-optional indoor pool, 3 dungeons, play parties, and midnight buffets.
Papa Bear Exploration
Kinky Con is New Hampshire’s long-running annual conference for BDSM education, poly and gender-diverse community, vendors, demos, silent auctions, raffles, and socials—typically anchored by the November “Wicked Weekend” in the Manchester area.
Kinky Con
20th-anniversary Puget Sound leather/BDSM conference for experienced attendees—education focused on why we do what we do (201+ framing), hotel-format weekend with public presenter applications and community RSVP links.
Evergreen Leather Events / Leather Reign
Naughty Noel is a winter kink conference featuring a private two-hotel takeover in Gettysburg, PA with education, playspaces, festive parties, and holiday shopping.
Studio 58 Events
Annual Tampa Bay power-exchange conference (education, community, inclusion). Jan 2027 dates are placeholders—do not use floridapowerexchange.com (domain hijacked as of June 2026). Confirm via FPE social channels before booking.
Florida Power Exchange
Rio Grande Valley four-day fetish & kink weekend Feb 18-21, 2027 in McAllen—Mr. RGV Leather contest, themed dance parties, FKU workshops, and vendor market. Produced by RGV Bears.
RGV Bears / RGV Leather Weekend
Four-day Dallas leatherfest Mar 18-21, 2027 with hotel packages, education, vendors, ballroom contests, and hospitality parties. Registration on southplainsleatherfest.com.
South Plains Leatherfest / South Plains, LLC
Tethered Together is a rope-focused event with circus arts, kink, relationships, and movement programming in Stamford, CT. The next in-person weekend advertised on the official site is Mar 19–22, 2027.
Beyond Leather 2027 (Apr 22-25, South Florida)—4-day educational BDSM weekend with 55+ workshops, International Power Exchange® Contest, theaters, and dungeon play. Early registration on beyondleather.net.
Beyond Leather
Four-day Sacramento leather weekend Apr 29-May 2, 2027 with Northwest Master/slave, Bootblack, and Person of Leather contests. Registration on northwestleathercelebration.com.
Northwest Leather Celebration
Oklahoma LeatherFest
Studio 58 Events
Easton Mountain Retreat
Ropecraft
International Mr. Leather, Inc.
Fetish Factory
GWNN (Group With No Name) / GWNNAustin
Excelsior MC
HerdingCats, LLC
