Elysian Temple | Saints Edition : GIFT
✨ Elysian Temple | Saints Edition: GIFT ✨
Welcome to our guided relational lab: A night of workshops, performances, concept rooms and sauna infusions. Themed on Saint Nicholas - what we know as the gift market, where every guest is also a giver.
This edition of our Elysian Temple series enters another mythology. Saint Nicholas of Myra, of Greek descent, threw gold through the window of three sisters at night, unseen, to pay their dowries and save them. But by making them into gifts.
❓ The question of the night:
Can anything be given without becoming owed, or owned?
Let us take you on a journey through gifting, owing, owning, punishment and pleasure.
🎁 What awaits you
• Experiences with transformative characters from the Playhouse Collective & guest artists: workshops, role-plays, and rituals
• An intricate game that feels as good as your shoes full of sweets
. An alternative Christmas Market
• The open space that activates your creative powers and openly receives them. From purge to pleasure.
🎀 Your offering
Everyone brings an offering. Name it in your application, and we curate the market from what arrives. Small or large: an idea, a poem of knowledge, five minutes of listening, a performance, a workshop.
👗 Dress code:
Your dream Saint Nicholas as a market in stockings, lingerie, ribbon and wrapping paper. Saint, servant, elf or present: whichever character suits you comfortably tonight.
💬 Why This?
Because holiness isn’t about purity; it’s about wholeness, and because a gift is never only a gift. This is a space to give, owe, punish, and surrender, and to embrace the divine mess of being human.
✨ Essential information about the Elysian Temple series ✨
The Elysian Temple Night is a relational laboratory workshop space and adult playground. Through embodiment practices and kinaesthetic techniques, we explore questions around enlightenment, social justice, friendship, presence, joy, and environmental symbiosis.
The night offers distinct spaces for different ways of being and connecting. Nobody will ever pressure you into any interaction, and every Elysian Temple is an experiment.
We facilitate the evening through prompts, explorations, and exercises. Whether through polite obedience or a lustful resistance to act, we encourage you to move beyond familiar patterns and explore ethical touch.
An awareness team that knows our consent protocols stays present throughout the event.
✨ What to bring ✨ 🎀 Your offering, named in your application. 🧺 Towels: at least one per person, and more if you plan to use the sauna. 🛏️ Bedsheet: a fitted bedsheet, 140 x 200 cm or a saron. 🥗 Snacks/Drinks: a vegan or vegetarian snack, dish, or alcohol free drink to nourish and share.
Apply by requesting a ticket using this application form. Choose Pilgrim (reduced), Penitent (standard) or Patron (solidarity; helps us offer free places).
We curate the group to balance out abilities and to ensure a diverse space. If your application remains in process, it is because we are waiting for those from other criteria, or people’s identities, to diversify the group as a whole.
Our principles: Be warm, welcoming, and loving but bold in stating your boundaries and desires; respect each other’s space and journey.
We celebrate both the passion of strong energies and the delicacy of soft energy. We encourage the subversion of conventional gender stereotypes and resistance to social expectations.
Intimacy means being emotionally and intellectually connected, creating a safe space to share vulnerabilities, feelings, and experiences while feeling respected and comfortable.
🔥 Unleash yourself through creation, passion, and play.
From the makers of the Elysian Temple series, the direction of Cabaret Cravache and The Dream Playground.
With love, The Playhouse Berlin Collective
Website: https://www.theplayhouseberlin.com/the-playhouse-gallery
Telegram group: https://t.me/theplayhousecollective
Instagram: @the_playhouse_berlin
Play. Art. Sensuality.