Carnival DNGN is a passion project that was co-founded by Michaela Winters and George Saber in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico.

After Michaela had been hosting conscious play parties and sex-positive education events for over 6 years, she noticed a huge need in bdsm, kink, and sacred sexuality communities that wasn’t being offered anywhere she could find; events that prioritized both open play + safety & consent + sobriety (no alcohol or drugs), AND were education-based. A place to not only play, but to both learn and practice skills LIVE in the moment - as you were learning it.

She aimed to create an event that was an equal part educational and immersive. She saw a huge need for spaces that were neutrally informative about the lifestyle of BDSM & Kink, that also integrated a more “conscious” intentional approach to sex-positive events. In December of 2022, the first Carnival DNGN was born. It was an intimate, invite-only group of 30 people and 2 facilitators. Over the year’s, it has grown into a quarterly event of 150 attendees and 40+ facilitators and staff!

In November 2023, Michaela returned to Boulder, Colorado, and decided to rebrand the quarterly main event to Carnival DNGN: The Experience, bringing it to the Boulder community for the first time. Since bringing Carnival DNGN to Boulder, Michaela has grown the brand to offer not just the community-based quarterly main event, butvarious 1-off specialized workshops, x3 3-Day educational weekend immersions (Awaken Your Dom, Awaken Your Sub, and Awaken Your Edge), as well as a 7-Day deep dive retreat.

Carnival DNGN: The Experience prides itself on being a community-based event that supports local sex-positive healers, practitioners, and facilitators in connecting with local community members seeking education and healing.

So what exactly IS this event?:

Carnival DNGN is an exclusive, private, invite-only, intimate, sober, consciousness-based, 6-hour immersive experience designed to take you on a journey through the recreational and therapeutic arts of BDSM & KINK.

This event is a cross between a party/social gathering, an educational workshop, an adult playground, a human laboratory, an interactive immersive experience, a BDSM/Kink Dungeon, and a performative show.

You will get to meet, play, and learn with other peers and communitiy members in the broader local (and global) sex-positive community, watch performances & demos, participate in interactive stations and hands-on experiences with expert practititioners, explore your deepest desires and darkest fantasies, enjoy aphrodisiac mocktails & elixirs, play with new friends and old, and learn more about your own pleasure, pain, fantasies, and desires!