4th annual Kinky VENDOR MARKET / GEAR SWAP munch!

Hey kinksters! Join us for the 4th annual Kinky Vendor Market/Gear Swap munch for a day of shopping, trading, and mingling with like-minded

FetLife event: https://fetlife.com/events/1684514

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND- It’s our 4th annual pre-holiday VENDOR MARKET/ GEAR SWAP munch!🍻🕎 🎄

The Bay Ridge Munch invites you to join us and come ready to shop on Sunday Nov 9th from 5-8pm at our new location inside the private back room of L'wren Bar! They have an amazing menu for both food & drink!

Looking for a gift for yourself or your partner? 🛍️ We’ll have some amazing vendors from our kink /poly/ s*x positive community selling their handmade items & services so you can get your holiday shopping kicked off. Our aim is to promote and support makers inside the kink community. Have a kinky vendor to recommend? Let us know! ⛓🕯🗡🧰🧸

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✨FEATURING the following VENDORS:

1. Custom impact gear, toys, accessories, & art from Zodiac at Fluer De Lis Just 4 U 🦑🏓 (returning vendor, fluer-de-lis.j4u on insta)
2. Beautiful wood paddles, impact implements, & other kinky woodwork by Broken Lance After Dark (new vendor) 🏏🪵
3. Chainmail design by Meister Niklaus (returning vendor) ⛓️⛓️⛓️
4. Wearable leather and metal work by FitzGriffith (returning vendor) https://fitz.griffith.bigcartel.com ⛓️‍💥
5. Rope, electro-stuff!, & impact gear by The Colosseum NY (new vendor) 🪢⚡🏟️
6. Ironwork by BrandRForge / NYC Blacksmith (returning vendor) 🔥⚒️
7. Handmade character art & ceramic sculptures by JB (new vendor) JackSquatJB on insta 🎨🖼️ https://linktr.ee/JackSquatJB
8. Handmade Monster maquettes & Grumpkins & Zombie Grumpkins & picky-pads/ sensory toys by Spooky Jer of Monster in My Closet (returning vendor) 👹 🎃 🧟‍♂️ ✨
9. Crocheted pals/ amigurumi & diamond art by HypnoGal (new vendor) 🧸💎🪡 🪢
10. Books: Coney Island, hiking, art! by Greg/ X Frux (returning vendor) 📚🧜‍♀️🎢🗺️
11. Vintage & bespoke jewelry by Lady X (returning vendor) 📿💎👛
12. Select clothing and handmade jewelry from “Bossy’s Closet” 📿🗝️🎀 👠(returning vendor, co-host)
13. and more!

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We’ll also have a FREE/ SWAP item area. Leave an item, take an item! On a tight budget? Or have an item you don’t use much anymore? Would you like to trade it for something new? Bring something to the Free/ Swap table! Everything must find a home by night’s end! 🤝 Reminder: NOOOO personal s*x toys! 🚫🍆 🥚 Don’t get us kicked out of the bar :p

NEW location= L'wren Bar 4004 5 Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11232

lwrenbar.com

insta= instagram.com/lwrenbar

How to get here: closest to the 45 Street R line and the B70 bus. Street parking is available, but not gonna lie, can be challenging.

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Please know that your co-hosts have been completely upfront & transparent with the venue about the nature of our kinky lil community market. Staff here have been welcoming and are looking forward to their first event with us, and we are as well!

Sign in/ contact tracing is still be conducted for our group! If you don’t feel comfortable signing in with the co-hosts for this reason, then this may not be the time for you to attend this munch. 🤷🏻

As hosts, it’s our responsibility to keep each other safe, accountable, and build and maintain good relationships with each other and with the bar, so please understand our need to collect or ask for updated contact info from time to time.

We’re so excited to have seen maintained interest in our in-person munches! We're planning on keeping them as pop-ups for the time being on the 2nd Sunday evening of the month, though days & times may adjust from munch to munch as needed. Our annual vendor market/ gear swaps will be the 2nd Sunday in November. 🗓️

Please note: This is NOT a BDSM play party, it's NOT a pick up scene... it's a pre-holiday vendor market to help support the kinkster-makers in our community and a casual social gathering to meet other kinksters & engage in friendly, pressure-free conversation. DO NOT CRUISE... this is NOT a hookup opportunity.

Munch Rules/ Info:

1. This event is open to the PUBLIC and is NOT for hitting on people/ pick up artists/ cruising/ nor making people uncomfortable. Please attend only if you intend to come to shop, socialize, and perhaps make new friends.
2. ALL ATTENDEES MUST BE AGE 21+ for this munch as it’s held in a bar! 🍻
3. Be respectful at all times (no rudeness, no pushiness, no kink-shaming, no harassment, etc.).
4. If you have a kink-related or kink-adjacent business, group, or service and want to self promote during the munch, please contact hostess in advance (bossy.taillor@gmail.com) to get approval first.
5. The munch cohosts reserve the right to un-invite, remove, or ban ANYONE from the munch and future munches who doesn't adhere to the rules/ is being inappropriate/ rude/ doesn’t feel safe to give access to other attendees, as well as block them from related groups and refuse them entry at future group events (both online & in-person).
6. The bar reserves the right to remove anyone problematic from their premises at their discretion.
7. By attending the event, you are agreeing that you have read & understood ALL rules and details of this event. NO EXCUSES, no “I didn’t know”s.