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2018 shibari and kinbaku events
A year-by-year register of festivals, conventions, camps, retreats and other documented rope gatherings. Studio-hosted classes and intensives are listed separately in the studio workshop schedule.
Tokyo shibari performance event associated with Hajime Kinoko and Ichinawakai
US rope-focused kink convention with events in Austin, New Orleans, San Antonio, and Chicago
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+14 more · full line-up (22 people)
European Rigger & Model Exchange — Berlin's bi-annual gathering for international rope artists, founded by Felix Ruckert in 2012
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+6 more · full line-up (15 people)
New England / Boston-area rope-bondage convention and workshop series centered on Shibari / Kinbaku-style rope education
Helsinki rope community founded in 2015
Dallas educational bondage event, active since 2013
Long-running Seattle erotic-art and performance festival with a durable rope-relevant scene connection
2010s slice of Russia's first and largest shibari festival, first held in Saint Petersburg in 2012 and developed through the ArtCo /
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+4 more · full line-up (9 people)
2010s slice of BoundCon Munich, separated from the convention's founding 2000s editions and current 2020s programme
US rope-focused kink convention with events in Austin, New Orleans, San Antonio, and Chicago
2010s slice of Russia's first and largest shibari festival, first held in Saint Petersburg in 2012 and developed through the ArtCo /
Kyiv international shibari festival organized in the Ukrainian Soul Shibari / Tati Limati orbit
Italian bondage festival / event series in Rome
2010s slice of Prague Shibari Festival, a three-day rope event held twice a year in Prague since 2016
European Rigger & Model Exchange — Berlin's bi-annual gathering for international rope artists, founded by Felix Ruckert in 2012
US rope-focused kink convention with events in Austin, New Orleans, San Antonio, and Chicago
Tokyo-based annual female bakushi festival / high-skilled amateur and professional kinbaku stage founded and produced by Yoi Yoshida since