2025 Schedule

Offsite Event: Peachy Keen Munch & Mingle

Kick start your Sex Show weekend! This is the night for you Peachy Keeners to mix, munch, and mingle to the groovy tunes of Century Samuel and DJ Douvet at the Derby Show Bar (2037 Gottingen Street). Optional activities will ease you into an exciting, connecting weekend! Food and drinks available for purchase from the Local.

Tickets are $5. Admission is free for those who have purchased a BIG BANG Weekend Pass to Atlantic Sex Show 2025!

Doors Open

Trade Show & Vendors open in the Main Hall until 9:00 pm.

Fat Sex

Fat Sex explores not only how we got to where we are now in the societal pressure cooker, but how we can make it fun while we are here. Starting with looking at historical influences on how fatness has evolved and then moving into some real life practical tips that could really spice things up and have you feeling fufilled in a new way!

Kink Demo: ZAP ZAP!

One of the types of play with the widest of ranges, electro-play can be soft, sensual, and tingly, or it can provide a broad spectrum of pain sensations. From burning to zapping to cutting sensations, a good electrical kit can provide it all. Come watch and learn the differences in the various tools and implements we have in our kits.

Liberation – presented by inesS® Circus

inesS Circus presents an awe-inspiring Aerial Circus feature showcasing the extraordinary talents of Kristi White, Sara Van Derende, Jett Wolfe, Betty Leonardi, and Kaitlyn Blatt-Janmaat.
These remarkable artists will defy gravity and captivate your imagination with their breathtaking performances across a mesmerizing mix of aerial chains, hoop and heels, flying pole, and silks. Each act is a stunning display of strength and artistry, showcasing the beauty of aerial dance while telling unique stories through movement. Don’t miss your chance to experience the magic first-hand!

Take a peak into Boudoir for everyBODY.

A workshop to help educate others on being more confident and comfortable in front of the camera. Everybody is worth being captured in all their moments, and I would love to be able to help ease people’s minds to the idea of being in EVERY photo.

Kink Demo: Make an Impact!

For those curious about what lies beyond a quick slap on the ass during sex, you may leave this impact demo with an expanded point of view. Prepare to hear squeals of delight, surprise, and pain as we show you how a variety of implements can be used to beat a bottom (consensually, of course).

Beginner Bachata Lesson with Haliente Dance Studio

Join Sumith and Anna from Haliente Dance Studio for a beginner Bachata dance lesson! Bachata is an exciting, sensual partner dance originating from the Dominican Republic. Come learn some basics and get moving! No partner or experience required.

Intro to Bootblacking

Bootblacking, for some, is a practical part of leather upkeep; for others, it may be an integral piece to worshipping the wearer or the boots themself. No matter the reason, this hands-on beginner workshop will cover the basics of bootblacking: essentials to carry in your kit, how to do a simple clean and polish, and a discussion around different ways to incorporate bootblacking into your play!

BYOB (Bring Your Own Boots) and partner if you’d like! Participation is completely optional. Polish gear is provided although bring your own if you already have some! Black boots only due to limited polish supplies

Adapting Sex Toys

Disabled sex can be tricky when we run into barriers, but disabled sex is also creative, restorative, exploratory, and vast in how it looks from person to person. This creates the perfect opportunity for person-centred hacks and adaptations to make our sex lives a little bit easier. Join me (Rachele – they/she) for a workshop focused on hacking our sex toys and adapting them to fit our needs. Bring your favourite sex toy that you wish worked for you just a little better, and I’ll supply a few options for adaptation materials. We’ll also discuss how we can address non-physical barriers, and other adaptations you can make outside of the workshop.
This workshop will prioritize the experiences of those who identify personally with disability, but is open to anyone who feels they would benefit from some adaptations or is wishing to learn more about little tricks for making sex more accessible.

Classic Burlesque Bump & Grind

Explore burlesque with Kay Licious. Learn how to shimmy, shake and of course bump & grind! Tantalizing moves and sassy attitude will be covered, so that you can get un-covered. No experience or dance background necessary. All genders and sizes welcome.

Sexual Wellness Panel

Does sexuality lie in our loins? Is there a bigger picture? Our brains are some of the most powerful pleasure centres we possess! Join pleasure and sexuality professionals and enthusiats as we talk about how sexuality is a whole body experience as we prepare ourselves for a fun filled weekend!

Kink Demo: Sin-Sational!

Sensation play is all about bringing the body and senses to life. From soft, sensual materials dragged over the body to fingernails or other pointy tools dragged along the skin, watch as we make our bottoms squirm and squeal.

Your Sex is On Fire – presented by Lumen Lux

Swooping in from your sweetest nightmare don’t miss the vampiress Lumen Lux as they set the stage with sin and flame- with special guest Madam Selenzi

Kink Demo: All Tied Up!

Rope bondage is one of the most known and least understood art forms in kink. From expressing connection and emotion to bedroom bondage to suspension and torture rope, there are a thousand ways to explore rope!

Flirting with YES: A Playshop on Boundaries and Desire

Boundaries don’t have to be rigid—this workshop is a playful exploration of consent, intuitive decision-making, attraction, and the magic of owning your desires. Through dance, movement, proximity, and touch, you’ll embody and express your inner YES and NO in a way that feels both lighthearted and powerful. Using gentle somatic coaching techniques, this interactive session includes both partner and solo components and delivers real takeaways on self-authorship and confidence, leaving participants feeling lit-up and connected.

Fashion Show

Sexual Confidence In and Out of the Bedroom

Want to feel less shame and more pleasure? Sexual confidence isn’t a look – it’s a feeling and a practice. Luna Matatas, Sex and Pleasure Educator, will share tips and techniques for feeling more confident in your sexiness. From body confidence, to navigating insecurities and advice on using sexy communication to discover desires, this class will build your confidence for a new approach to sex with your existing or new partners.

Kink Demo: Flog the Day Away!

From rhythmic, soft, and sensual, to stingy and sharp, flogging is an art form. The way a flogger is wielded will provide a myriad of sensations and reactions from a willing bottom. Come watch as these beautiful implements dance and sing over a human canvas, and learn more.

Doors Open for Evening Rendezvous

Trade Show & Vendors open in the Main Hall until 9:00 pm.

Atlantic Burlesque Festival Showcase

The Atlantic Burlesque Festival is an annual event featuring Canadian Burlesque performances, workshops, panels, and social events. Be dazzled and delighted at their Mainstage showcase featuring some of the local talents of the community.

Dirty Talk, Clean Agreements: Scene Planning + Consent for 1:1 and Group Play

Hot scenes don’t happen by accident—they start with clear, honest conversations. This workshop is all about turning your desires into badass, consensual play. We’ll cover how to plan scenes, negotiate boundaries, and communicate clearly—whether you’re playing with one partner or a whole crew.

Learn how to talk dirty and make clean agreements so everyone feels safe, seen, and ready to play hard. No awkward vibes, no guesswork—just solid skills for sexy, empowered kink.

All About Anal

Join Sex & Intimacy Coach Serena Haines for a deep dive into the anatomy, pleasure, and somatic benefits of anal exploration. This seminar goes beyond the basics, offering a shame-free, educational space to understand the body’s natural capacity for pleasure. We’ll cover anatomy, techniques for comfort and safety, and the nervous system’s role in relaxation and deeper sensation. Whether you’re curious or experienced, this workshop will help you explore anal play with confidence, intention, and embodied awareness

Core Desires: Unlock Your Arousal

Tap into your erotic energy as a powerful force for healing and transformation. In this immersive workshop, you’ll uncover the unique erotic emotion spectrum that resonates most with you—an insight that can forever shift the way you experience pleasure and intimacy.

Learn how your core desires hold the key to both ecstatic pleasure and profound healing. Erotic energy is Mother Nature’s sacred gift, designed not just for enjoyment but as a catalyst for integration, self-discovery, and emotional liberation.

Come ready to dive in, explore, and reconnect with the wisdom within you.

Kink + Mental Health Panel

Join kink enthusiasts and mental health professionals as we discuss and uncover how your mental health and relationship to kink are intimately intertwined. Learn how kink can be healing, open new horizons and help people live their most authentic lives.

Kink Demo: Fire Play

Looking to heat things up? Gather around and watch our lovely bottoms as they are lit on fire! Both relaxing and visually stunning, our dazzling demos of incandescence are sure to warm up even the coldest winter day.

Kink 101

A workshop tailored to teaching those interested in Kink more. Giving an introductory overview of some of the dungeons offerings and more! Come learn about your new favourite thing.

Kink Demo: Poked Pretty

The art of decorative piercing is a demonstration of trust and collaboration between artist and model, using the body as a canvas to bring an idea to life. This demo will involve real needles on a live person, so please be mindful of this if you plan to attend.

Play involving needles is high risk and should not be attempted without proper training and experience.

The Saturday Big Show

Let your jaw drop as you gaze at the burlesque performances! Sit in awe of the incredible drag performers! Laugh out loud with some of Halifax’s best comedians! The Big Show promises to be a sexy, entertaining, hilarious evening of fun!

Offsite Event: Sweet & Juicy Dance Party

Take a bite into some sweet and juicy jams! We’re taking the party down the street to The Toothy Moose (1661 Argyle Street) for sexy Afro-house, dancehall, and funky techno vibes by local DJs DOL-B and ShellOutTunez! Slurp up dripping hot pole, flow, and gogo performances! This is the night to show off your hottest looks and get down & dirty and sweet & juicy.

Tickets are $10 in advance, $15 at the door. Admission is free for those who have purchased a BIG BANG Weekend Pass!

Doors Open

Trade Show & Vendors open in the Main Hall until 9:00 pm.

Red, Med, Head, Bed – The Sexual Health Big Picture

Positive sexual health does not develop in isolation. When we look at how to improve our sexual health and explore our desires, we often forget to take into account our physical, mental and financial health. This workshop will look at how our sexual health is both impacted by and impacts the other facets of our health. We’ll look at how to become more aware of when and how these factors are impacting each other and strategies for improving our sexual health with this improved awareness. We will have a particular focus on recognizing the impacts of body changes as we age, stress, community vs isolation, and the importance of communication to build a support system for self-care.

Kink Demo: Sin-Sational!

Sensation play is all about bringing the body and senses to life. From soft, sensual materials dragged over the body to fingernails or other pointy tools dragged along the skin, watch as we make our bottoms squirm and squeal.

Beginner Salsa Lesson with Haliente Dance Studio

Ready to learn one of the most popular partner dance styles in the world? Sumith and Anna from Haliente Dance Studio for a beginner Salsa dance lesson! Come get moving with this sexy, energizing dance. No partner or experience required.

INTIMACY 101: Guided Connections

Through guided activities, participants will spark connections, deepen chemistry, and explore intimacy in a fun, low-pressure way (either with a partner, friend or someone new in the room). Intimacy 101: Guided Connections is a playful, interactive experience designed to help folks break the ice, build trust, and explore different layers of connection—whether solo or partnered. Through guided exercises, lighthearted games, and mindful touch (with consent at the core), people get to experience what true presence, curiosity, and attunement feel like. This is all about safe exploration, laughter, and expanding self-awareness!

Kink Demo: Fire Play

Looking to heat things up? Gather around and watch our lovely bottoms as they are lit on fire! Both relaxing and visually stunning, our dazzling demos of incandescence are sure to warm up even the coldest winter day.

At First Blush – Attending your first play/sex party 101

In this interactive workshop, Hex will introduce some basic information about what to expect at your first play/sex party, including definitions, baseline expectations, and how to participate well in a new experience. Participants will have the opportunity to participate with other workshop attendees to chat about topics raised as well as ask questions to a 10+yr participant of the kink scene.

Sex & Disabilites Panel

Join us for an intimate discussion around sex and disabilities. Our host and their guests will have the floor, discussing how pleasure and disabilies interact. From visible to invisible, the relationship with our bodies and brains of course overlap with our sex lives, so what do those relationships look like when your body or mind may not fit the typical mould.

Burlesque Tassel Twirling

Tassel Twirling is a classic show-stopper in a burlesque performer, plus it’s just plain fun! In this workshop, you’ll learn how to make tasselled pasties twirl on your chest, butt, and maybe even some other parts of your body! Open to all sizes and genders, toplessness not required. Bring your own tasselled pasties, or purchase some at the workshop.

Time to close the GAP: Creating space for equal pleasure in all bodies

This seminar explores the barriers to pleasure and how to cultivate a more fulfilling, embodied experience of pleasure and orgasm. Through guided discussions and practical exercises, we’ll delve into the science of pleasure, the impact of societal conditioning, and techniques for expanding orgasmic potential in all bodies. Whether solo or partnered, this workshop invites you to redefine intimacy, embrace deeper connection, and unlock new pathways to pleasure

Kink Demo: Make an Impact!

For those curious about what lies beyond a quick spank on the ass during sex, you may leave this impact demo with an expanded point of view. Prepare to hear squeals of delight, surprise, and pain as we show you how a variety of implements can be used to beat a bottom (consensually, of course).

Pole Community Showcase

Get ready to be mesmerized by the sultry allure of the pole dance feature at the Atlantic Show! Join us as we showcase the talents of Bequi White, Andrea Rasmussen, Olivia Sobey, Robyn Morris, and Jacob Spencer, incredible performers from inesS Circus, as well as HilaryKate, award-winning pole performer for over 15-years.
With their stunning choreography, magnetic presence and hypnotic pulse, each artist will take you on a thrilling journey that celebrates strength, grace, and sensuality.

Kink Demo: Electro-play

One of the types of play with the widest of ranges, electro-play can be soft, sensual, and tingly, or it can provide a broad spectrum of pain sensations. From burning to zapping to cutting sensations, a good electrical kit can provide it all. Come watch and learn the differences in the various tools and implements we have in our kits.

Trans Joy Panel

Sex and kink can be powerful tools for exploring and celebrating gender and connecting with your body – especially for trans people. Our panelists and host will discuss some of the infinite ways sex and intimacy can be vehicles for gender euphoria, and deepening our connections to ourselves and others.

Kink Demo: Flog the Day Away!

From rhythmic, soft, and sensual, to stingy and sharp, flogging is an art form. The way a flogger is wielded will provide a myriad of sensations and reactions from a willing bottom. Come watch as these beautiful implements dance and sing over a human canvas, and learn more.

Sweet Talks: Communication and Consent

Connecting with consent means acknowledging that what we do and say impacts others. Join the Consent Kitties to learn and practice consent-focused communication skills for engaging in both sexual and non-sexual connections to better take care of ourselves and each other.

Pleasure Unbound: The Somatic Path to Your Erotic Potential

In this immersive session, you’ll explore how your nervous system shapes your capacity for pleasure and how to unlock its expansion. Through embodied exercises and insights into the connection between body, emotions, and sensations, you’ll learn how to release your blocks and raise the ceiling on what you thought pleasure could be. This presentation offers a fresh perspective on pleasure, empowering you to step onto the path of your full erotic potential.

Safety & Scene Planning for Rope Enthusiasts

Discovering rope bondage can be like exploring a whole new world of possibilities: it can be as exhilarating as it can be overwhelming. With so much to understand and experience on the horizon, very real risks can hide in plain sight if one doesn’t know what to look out for.

Nephira & BabyBear will be discussing the different contexts and considerations that exist in the world of rope bondage as they relate to different bodies, genders, and histories; as well as questions to consider when negotiating different kinds of rope-related experiences.

Doors Open for Evening Rendezvous

Trade Show & Vendors open in the Main Hall until 9:00 pm.

Serpentine Fire Show

Specializing in Fire Arts, Burlesque, Bellydance and Heels, Laura Selenzi and Slinky Clare join forces to bring you a sensual, serpentine fire show that will leave you hypnotized!
Both of these dancers teach classes and perform regularly, visit serpentinestudios.com to learn more.

Just the Tip – Live Podcast Recording

Join us for Just the Tip with intimacy expert and certified sexologist Serena Haines and co-host, comedian Sarah MacLellan — a bold 45 minutes of shame-free Q&A, spicy games, and juicy prizes. Expect laughter, learning, and a whole lot of real talk about what it means to connect with others and yourself. This will also be a live podcast recording of Intimacy Unlocked, Halifax’s juiciest podcast that has been topping the Apple Podcast Charts in Sexuality.

Wait, THAT’S Perimenopause?!?

Although research is improving on perimenopause and menopause, the impacts on our lives frequently go undiscussed. Often unaware of the facts, the options, and where to get help, women can suffer incredibly during this period of life . It can seriously impact our mental, emotional, physical and sexual health. We feel frustrated and sometimes down right insane. The effects on the relationships we have with others, both romantic and platonic, can make us feel very isolated. But it doesn’t have to!!! This presentation looks at the huge variety of symptoms that are connected to perimenopause, ways that these symptoms can impact us, and a variety of options to help us navigate the changes happening. Let’s start to demystify this very common milestone so we can feel better, live better, and love better.

Kink Demo: All Tied Up!

Rope bondage is one of the most known and least understood art forms in kink. From expressing connection and emotion to bedroom bondage to suspension and torture rope, there are a thousand ways to explore rope!

4 Flavours of Fantasy & 3 Dimensions of Sex: an Exploration of Eros

What makes sex truly delicious? Eroticism starts in the mind. In this interactive workshop, we’ll dive into the rich world of Eros, exploring the four essential flavours of fantasy—spiritual, romantic, passionate, and power play—and how they shape our deepest desires. Through guided exercises and playful exploration, you’ll discover the key elements that elevate intimacy, deepen connection, and expand pleasure in ways you may have never imagined. Whether you’re looking to unlock new fantasies or enhance your erotic experiences, this session will leave you feeling inspired, empowered, and deliciously turned on.

Kink Demo: Open Rope LAB!

Have you heard about Loops And Bights (LAB)? We’re bringing you a remote version just for the Atlantic Sex Show!

Come on into the dungeon for a chill, fun, easygoing rope social that’s great for newcomers and for seasoned riggers. Join us to tie, be tied, ask questions, watch others tie, or just to share space with some super cool humans.

We’re here to provide an inclusive, welcoming, safer space to share our love of rope bondage

The Sunday Big Show

Let your jaw drop as you gaze at the burlesque performances! Sit in awe of the incredible drag performers! Laugh out loud with some of Halifax’s best comedians! The Big Show promises to be a sexy, entertaining, hilarious evening of fun!

Offsite Event: Peachflix & Chill

Gotta prioritize after-care <3 Unwind at this intimate, cozy movie night at Cafe Cempoal (2374 Agricola St) to close out the weekend. Snacks and drinks will be available for purchase.

Tickets are $10.