Mz Mallice Editorial

MZ MALLICE

After 3 years away, it’s with huge excitement, much anticipation, and massive relief that we welcome you back with wide, open arms to OZ KINK FEST. This is the fifteenth festival we’ve run, and it continues to evolve and grow – along with the events you know and love, we also have a number of ‘firsts’ on this year’s program. Oz Kink Fest always aims to create an engaging event for people into kink and sexual exploration. We want it to be daring, inclusive, and provide the freedom to embrace who you are. Across the festival we provide a variety of fun social and educational opportunities in safe, inclusive spaces for players of all levels and persuasions, including the newly curious. This year we feel we’ve found an excellent balance between social, educational, and entertaining experiences. Over the course of the 10 days we will present 48 weekend workshops, several mid-week workshops, a Consent Forum facilitated by Mistress Tokyo, four epic parties and an official munch, not to mention our unforgettable Fetish Expo, which will feature something new. Famous for the array of stallholders, performances, and Grand Fashion Show, this 2022 expo is shaping up to be huge. This year we can boast close to 60 stalls with an amazing array of fashion, toys, accessories, kink paraphernalia, and educational opportunities. Every year there are new stalls which makes the event something different each time, and this year is no exception as we welcome quite a number of first-time stallholders. Likewise, our Fetish Expo performers are a mix of past favourites and brand new talent we can’t wait to showcase. And as always we will be winding down our staged entertainment with our jaw-droppin, eye-stoppin Grand Fashion Show. And this year we have a new addition to our stage. We’re also thrilled to announce that Oz Kink Fest is proud to be a major sponsor of the Ms Melbourne Rubber competition, hosted by Melbourne Rubber. Melbourne Rubber is a not-for-profit social group for rubber enthusiasts and people who wish to learn. The Ms Melbourne Rubber competition is a fun and engaging event to celebrate your enthusiasm for rubber. The competition also provides an opportunity for potential community leaders to come forward. As a group who welcomes, affirms and celebrates diversity in all its forms we are enthusiastic supporters, and welcome their participation in the Oz Kink Fest program. Entries for the competition open on September 1st, 2022 via the Melbourne Rubber website. (www.MelbourneRubber.com). The finalists will be competing on the Fetish Expo stage, and the winner announced on the day! This is going to be huge, and we can’t wait to celebrate the rubber Ms’s amongst you. Oz Kink fest is never an easy undertaking, and even though the lockdowns and drama are over, producing a festival of this size in these unique times is definitely a challenge. Without our major sponsors and supporters this event would not get off the ground, so we send a resounding thanks to the teams at Aphrodite’s Pleasure, Lucrezia and de Sade, Adult Match Maker, and Eagle Leather. They always have our back and provide an incredible foundation for us to build this experience. Sometimes we don’t know what we’ve got til it’s gone. The lack of OKF definitely left a huge gap in our lives, and we recognise many of you felt the same. So thank you all for your passion and support, and consistent engagement throughout the difficult times. All of you have helped Oz Kink Fest grow into a much-loved staple of the Australian kink calendar. We need to celebrate that.

Let the countdown begin!