BalkanBound Spring 2025
BalkanBound Spring 2025 runs 23 Mar 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
FestiveWeek workshops
- 19:00-22:00 Sarca: Breath control
- 19:00-22:00 Sarca: Personal style
- 12:00-15:00 Mikhail Karlson: Trigger points
- 15:00-18:00 Sarca: Predicament
- 19:00-22:00 Ludvig Rigger: Free Forearm Suspension Shapes
Sunday festival
- 12:20-13:20 Sarca: A journey, from start to finish
- 12:20-13:20 Mikhail Karlson: No ropes bondage
- 13:30-14:30 RomKnots: Tactile Conversations: Navigating Communication and Consent in Shibari
- 13:30-14:30 Ludvig Rigger: Why Taijutsu Matters in Shibari
- 16:00-16:40 Vlada Vedmovskaya: First steps in shibari
- 18:00-18:30 Vlada Vedmovskaya & Ksenia: performance
- 18:40-19:20 Mikhail Karlson & Marina: performance
- 19:30-20:00 RomKnots & NatNata: performance
- 20:10-20:40 Ludvig Rigger & Frostslavee: performance
- 20:50-21:20 Sarca & Manul: final show