Last Updated: 06/15/09

Welcome to NELA's Website!

We are delighted to offer you a way to visit NELA, and hope this inspires you to:
The Summer FFF will be held on Saturday July 11, 2009 from noon-6pm, at the BCA/Cyclorama, 539 Tremont street, Boston MA.

Please Volunteer for the Summer FFF (Click here for info and benefits).

Save some more dates! The next Winter FFF will be February 12-14 at the Westin in Providence, Rhode Island. Another kinky Valentines Day!

What's New:

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06/10/2009: Check out the Fetish Beauty Pageant the night before the Summer FFF (July 10)!
06/09/2009: We have updated the information about the tickling class on Sunday June 21: there is a change of location and an updated description.
06/08/2009: Some hotel information was added for the Summer FFF. Some more demos have been listed for the Summer FFF.
06/05/2009: The Vendor List is up for the Summer FFF!
05/15/2009: Class update: On Sunday June 21, P.E.T.E. will present a tickle class before the Hathor's Garden event. There will be an SM101 class in August. More details and more classes will be posted soon.
05/08/2009: Rigger Jay will be presenting a rope safety and basic rope-work class on the 17th of May in Rhode Island from 2pm-7pm, before the Hathor's Garden event, which will run 9pm-1am.
03/11/2009: Fashion Show Pics from the Winter FFF!
03/02/2009: A new class: SM101, will be held on 03/21/2009 at Sin-O-matic from 8-10pm.
02/27/2009: The open board meeting schedule for 2009 is now up on the Calendar. Please note the change of the day of the week from Wednesday to Thursday.
02/22/2009: If you took classes at the FFF, and did not fill out a feedback form, please click here if you would like to give us input on the classes.

11/30/2008: On Dec 6, several NELA board members will be presenting at Alt.sex education day at UMass Boston. More info on this event is on our Google Calendar.

11/18/2008: Added a General Service Skills class in CT on Dec 7th, and, the Annual Associates Meeting on Dec 10th to the Calendar.

11/11/2008: Saturday: (11/15/08) Whips 101 with with Domino and dee 1-3 at the Ramrod and again 8-10 before Sin O Matic.

10/26/2008: Check out the FFF MySpace!

10/01/2008: A new class was added: Temporary Piercing Workshop 102 (intermediate level), with Ray Aims which will be held on 10/05/2008 at Waterhole Leather from 1-3pm.

09/18/2008: Additional info was added for the Winter FFF on Feb 13-15, 2009 in Providence.

08/28/2008: A new class was added: Bondage 101 with Lord Percival, which will be held on 10/18/2008 at Sin-O-matic from 8-10pm.

08/23/2008: A new class was added: Flogging/Scourging with Mel, which will be held on 09/06/2008 at the Ramrod from 1-3pm.

08/18/2008: More info added on the class: Daddy/boy relationships which will be held on 08/23/08 at the Ramrod from 1-3pm.

07/26/2008: Information on the New Designers' Fetish Fashion Show was added to the FFF page and new class information was added including several sessions of SM 101.

07/24/2008: Check out coverage of the summer FFF in Bay Windows!

07/10/2008: Hotel information was added for the Winter FFF on Feb 13-15, 2009 in Providence.

07/03/2008: Details on the class: "Tickling & Bondage & Torture too" on July 9th at Club Hell were added to the NELA Calendar.

04/20/2008: A Tickling & BDSM class (May 10, 1-3pm) was added to the Calendar.

03/17/2008: To simplify joining NELA or renewing NELA membership, we have added an online option which accepts payment via credit card. This new feature may be accessed from the How to Join page.

03/03/2008: The Summer 2008 FFF will be held on July 19th at the BCA.

02/22/2008: The Kaleidoscope Munch has a new location at the Au Bon Pain @ Copley.

08/20/2007: The Summer Flea was great, with nice weather!

06/11/2007: At the request of some of our associates, New England Leather Alliance (NELA) has started up a discussion group on Yahoo called NELA-Talk. This group is open to anyone (over the age of 18), and is to talk about a range of topics, including NELA's upcoming events, BDSM in general, etc.... we have a number of moderators signed up, to keep the spam down, and the conversations on-topic.... what we need is *you* !!

Join NELA-Talk (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NELA_Talk/join)

04/25/2007: A link to our grant application was added to Charitable Giving.

04/24/2007: Charitable Giving now displays our 2007 donations so far, including our Master sponsorship of LLC XI.

Are you on LiveJournal?

NELA has two Livejournal communities you can read, watch, or join:

nela-on-lj (http://community.livejournal.com/nela_on_lj/) is where we'll have announcements of classes and events, ask for comments about recent topics of interest to the community, and other such stuff.

nela-fff-news (http://community.livejournal.com/nela_fff_news/) is where we'll have all kinds of news and announcements about the Fetish Fair Fleamarket (tm), including ride share boards, places where you can comment with program suggestions, and more.