The Sauce is HERE, and tonight we get an entire museum to ourselves! 🎩🔥

A few important details so you arrive at the right place, at the right time, with your snacks in hand, and ready for a fantastic night.

🍽️ 6PM: DINNER IN THE COURTYARD BEHIND THE MAH

Come early for our first Sauce pre-party! Grab dinner from Abbott Square and bring it to our private courtyard BEHIND the museum. We’ll have tables, chairs, and fun conversation starters. Come hang out and meet other partygoers before we head inside.

🚪 7PM: MUSEUM DOORS OPEN AT THE FRONT ENTRANCE

Museum entry is through the FRONT entrance on Front Street, not through the back courtyard! If you join us for dinner, head around to the front when it’s time to enter.

New to the Sauce? Our Newbie Welcome happens just after doors open, so come early or right at seven.

⚠️ DOORS CLOSE AT 7:25PM SHARP. THERE IS NO LATE ENTRY.

If you can be on time to a movie, you can be on time to the Sauce!! 😜 Please leave time to park, walk over, and check in.

🎩 WHAT ARE YOU WEARING?

Tonight’s theme is Victorian / Steampunk. Velvet, lace, corsets, waistcoats, top hats, goggles, gears… YES, people will be dressing up! You will not be overdressed.

Pro tip: Wear something you can strip down to if you get hot on the dance floor.

📸 PHOTO BOOTH + PHOTOGRAPHY

The photo booth will be up and running, with dress-up costumes! We’ll also have a photographer/videographer. I’ll share more about that at opening circle.

🍓 WHAT TO BRING

• An easy finger-food contribution for our snack-luck table
• Dinner if you’re joining the courtyard pre-party – Abbott’s Square is right there for tons of options!
• Your curiosity, your boundaries, and a consent and agency mindset

⏰ THE EVENING AT A GLANCE

• 6pm: Courtyard dinner hangout behind the MAH
• 7pm: Museum doors open at the front entrance; Newbie Welcome shortly afterward
• 7:25pm: Doors close
• 7:30pm: Opening circle downstairs with Bez
• 8pm: DJ LVRCH gets the dance floor going; rooftop Elixir Bar & Lounge opens; Spicy Social Hour with Chris Taylor in the Garden Room; Queer Kaleidoscope Mixer with Mo in the Gallery
• 9pm: PG-13 dungeon, kink and rope space opens in the third-floor lobby; divination, squish and cuddle spaces open in the Gallery
• 9:30pm: Five Elements of Touch with Shezza Sheryl in the Garden Room; Hug Healing with SunRay Bates in the Gallery
• 10pm: Miss Money 2’s DJ set downstairs
• 10:45pm: Upper floors close
• 11pm: Closing sound healing with Léli Tonantzin downstairs
• 11:20pm: Party ends

For Five Elements of Touch, come with a partner, either someone you arrive with or someone you meet tonight.

🙏 OUR GROUP AGREEMENTS

The Sauce is a sexy party, NOT a sex party.

• This is a sober event: no alcohol, drugs, or intoxication.
• Topless optional; bottoms of some kind must stay on.
• No hands or mouths on genitals, even through clothing.
• Practice explicit consent and agency, especially with people you’re meeting for the first time.

We’ll go over our agreements together at opening circle.

💛 A LITTLE HELP AT THE END

Our timing for getting out of the museum is tight. If you can stay after the party ends at 11:20 and help clean up, I would GREATLY appreciate it, and so would our strike team! Extra hands make a big difference.

📍 LOCATION

Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH)
705 Front Street, Santa Cruz

Dinner at 6: courtyard BEHIND the museum
Museum entry at 7: FRONT entrance on Front Street

I cannot wait to see you tonight!

With love,
Your Pleasure Captain, Bez 💋