Sanctuary Club
A 21+ adult social club with an elevator and wheelchair access, and the main venue for community rope events in Portland. Its calendar includes a monthly rope class-and-practice afternoon, beginner and suspension intensives from visiting and local teachers, and periodic rope performance nights.
Sanctuary Club is a 21+ event space and nightclub of about 3,000 square feet on the second floor of a building in Portland’s Pearl District, reached by elevator or stairs. It describes itself as an LGBTQ+ venue and a gathering space for a large, diverse sex-positive community, with a bar, a small dance floor and three dedicated play rooms. Guests agree to its guiding principles of kindness, respect and consent; its house rules exclude a list of higher-risk activities as well as hook suspensions, and photography is never allowed. The club does not supply rope or other equipment.
Rope programming
Rope is a recurring part of a much wider calendar. In 2026 the Boundless Rope Experience, presented by MxBliss, meets on the second Saturday afternoon of each month: a one-hour class followed by tying and lab time and a closing circle. Its themes have built up from month to month, from negotiation, frictions and rope handling to upper- and lower-body harnesses, pain management for both sides of the rope and body care; the session on November 14, 2026 is an introduction to suspension focused on risk management. Before that, Rope Arts Group PDX held its monthly jam on a second-Saturday afternoon at the club through October 2025. Sanctuary has also hosted a suspension fundamentals intensive (June 2026), a rope bondage fundamentals class (July 2026), a class on crafting a rope scene, a monthly newcomers’ series that included a beginners’ rope class hosted by onebrattysub in 2025, and Knotty Acts rope performance nights. Bound to Draw, a figure-drawing evening with a rope model run by Gallery Girls and also streamed online, is scheduled there for November 23, 2026.