BalkanBound Fall 2025
BalkanBound Fall 2025 runs 15–16 Nov in Belgrade, Serbia.
Belgrade-based international shibari festival presented as the first shibari festival in the Balkans. BalkanBound's public Telegram archive and Instagram profile frame the festival as founded by Vlada Vedmovskaya in Spring 2025 and list NekoNeko Studio as an organizer / Belgrade shibari-studio partner. The Spring 2025 programme lists March 20-24 FestiveWeek workshops and the March 23 KC Grad festival, while the public Fall 2025 archive preserves the November 12-16 festival week and November 15-16 SKC Baza edition. Edition III runs November 25-29, 2026, with its main festival day on November 28 at KC GRAD. The official site publishes workshops and seminars, international performances, open rope practice, the Rope Escape Challenge, volunteer tying, social programming and an afterparty. Its artist programme includes Teljes Szakall and TarraXinha, Vlada Vedmovskaya and Feuertänzer, Arseniy Nazaruk, Ariana Ruža and Rebis, Anna Lysee and Saara Rei, and Nikolai Freerider.
Line-up
Programme
Artists / presenters
- Netherlands / Italy RopeMarks & Keira
- Serbia / Russia Vlada Vedmovskaya & Katya
- Israel Goldie Sunshine & Nina
- Israel RomKnots / Ded Mazai & NatNata
- Italy / Serbia Andrea Ropes & Angie Ziv
- Russia Nikita Ropekit & LianaKnot
- Poland Karol Soulrope & Kwistis
- Germany CatsCradle, RopeRat & Feuertänzer
- Russia Jaeger & Orsa
- Greece WisDomme & NyxRope
Festival-week workshops
- 15:00-18:00 RomKnots / Ded Mazai: TK Deep Dive: Tying the Icon
- 19:00-22:00 Goldie Sunshine: Basket Case: Suspension Workshop
- 15:00-18:00 Karol Soulrope: Shibari: The Art of Feeling Your Partner
- 19:00-22:00 Andrea Ropes: Floating Bamboo
- 15:00-18:00 RomKnots / Ded Mazai: Ropes in Interaction: Building Connection
- 19:00-22:00 Nikita Ropekit: Predicament
- 11:00-14:00 Andrea Ropes: Suspension and Transition in Suspension
- 15:00-18:00 RopeMarks: Playful and Dirty Kinbaku Part 1: Filthy Foundations
- 19:00-22:00 RopeMarks: Playful and Dirty Kinbaku Part 2: Bound to Bamboo
- 15:00-18:00 LianaKnot: Electroplay
- 19:00-22:00 Goldie Sunshine: Quick Release Mastery: Floor Workshop
- 15:00-18:00 WisDomme & NyxRope: Ropes for Sex
- 19:00-22:00 WisDomme & NyxRope: Suspensions
Weekend workshops / performances
- 12:30 Andrea Ropes: Armbinder / Strappado
- 12:30 Karol Soulrope: How external practices help connection in bondage
- 13:30 WisDomme & NyxRope: Ropes for Sex
- 13:30 Jaeger: The artistic image in the modern world
- 15:30 Vlada Vedmovskaya: First Steps in Shibari
- 18:00 Vlada Vedmovskaya & Katya: performance
- 18:00 Karol Soulrope & Kwistis: performance
- 18:00 WisDomme & NyxRope: performance
- 18:00 Andrea Ropes & Angie Ziv: performance
- 18:00 Jaeger & Orsa: performance
- 12:30 Goldie Sunshine: One rope - many possibilities (Ipponawa)
- 12:30 RopeMarks: A Conversation with RopeMarks
- 13:30 CatsCradle & RopeRat: Small tips and tricks to improve flow and connection
- 13:30 Nikita Ropekit: One rope bondage but not ichinawa
- 14:30 RomKnots / Ded Mazai: Building Connection in Shibari
- 15:30 RopeMarks: Q&A session
- 18:00 Goldie Sunshine & Nina: performance
- 18:00 CatsCradle, RopeRat & Feuertänzer: performance
- 18:00 RomKnots & NatNata: performance
- 18:00 Nikita Ropekit & LianaKnot: performance
- 18:00 RopeMarks & Keira: performance