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2023 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.
US rope-focused kink convention with events in Austin, New Orleans, San Antonio, and Chicago
Karada House's queer rope conference for LGBTQIA+ people and womên, focused mostly on shibari, kinbaku and Japanese-inspired bondage
US rope-focused kink convention with events in Austin, New Orleans, San Antonio, and Chicago
European edition of the Tokyo-based Onawa Asobi kinbaku festival, held at Shibari Lounge in Antwerp
Munich-based international bondage and fetish convention, running since 2004 and organized by Minuit Event GmbH / the BoundCon team, with
Recurring week-long summer camp on the west coast of Sweden focused on rope bondage, community, co-creation, classes, private tuition
Annual Danish shibari festival hosted by MyShibari at its private rope venue in Sønder Felding / Central Jutland
2020s slice of Prague Shibari Festival, continuing the twice-yearly Prague event after the pandemic-era break with English-language workshop
Karada House's queer rope conference for LGBTQIA+ people and womên, focused mostly on shibari, kinbaku and Japanese-inspired bondage
Four-day shibari camp hosted by Shibari Montenegro on Ada Bojana from September 14 to 17, 2023
Recurring Tokyo shibari + music / performance-art event from the Hidden Layer orbit
2020s slice of the RopeFest event family, now covering current Moscow / RFMSK23 traces, a 2022 Saint Petersburg / Skorokhod photo-archive
Recurring Maltese fetish and BDSM party series launched in 2022