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2026 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.
Prague / Czech shibari performance event produced in the Hell Events orbit
Karada House's queer rope conference for LGBTQIA+ people and womên, focused mostly on shibari, kinbaku and Japanese-inspired bondage
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+7 more · full line-up (17 people)
Croatian shibari festival hosted by Knot Noir
Poland-based Shibari Haven residential retreat series documented in 2026 and 2027, combining shibari workshops, mindfulness, guided
European Rigger & Model Exchange in its 2020s phase, continuing as Felix Ruckert's Berlin-based exchange and research format for
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+10 more · full line-up (19 people)
Karlsruhe erotic BDSM and fetish fair staged by M&A Messemanagement
2020s slice of the RopeFest event family, now covering current Moscow / RFMSK23 traces, a 2022 Saint Petersburg / Skorokhod photo-archive
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+19 more · full line-up (26 people)
QuIRKS, the Queer International Rope & Kink Symposium, was a three-day Studio Allegory event in Vancouver on May 8-10, 2026
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+5 more · full line-up (11 people)
Seven-day shibari camp / kinky rope event at Hedonism II in Negril, Jamaica, May 9-16 2026, organized in the NYC Shibari orbit
Recurring themed party hosted by F-Простір in Kyiv
2020s slice of Prague Shibari Festival, continuing the twice-yearly Prague event after the pandemic-era break with English-language workshop
Bogotá shibari / BDSM event week organized by Shibari Night Bogotá and Berilio Art Shibari
US rope-focused kink convention with events in Austin, New Orleans, San Antonio, and Chicago
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+9 more · full line-up (14 people)
Recurring Danish rope / shibari camp hosted by MyShibari at its Central Jutland venue in Sønder Felding
Valencia shibari festival organized through Reisei Studio
Tokyo shibari performance event associated with Hajime Kinoko and Ichinawakai
Two-day 18+ shibari / Japanese-culture festival held in Yerevan, Armenia on May 23-24, 2026
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+9 more · full line-up (15 people)
Munich-based international bondage and fetish convention, running since 2004 and organized by Minuit Event GmbH / the BoundCon team, with
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+9 more · full line-up (22 people)
Recurring themed party hosted by F-Простір in Kyiv
Two-day Bangkok shibari performance, workshop and rope-jam event organized by Bangkok Kinbaku Lab around Hajime Kinoko's June 2026 return to
Multi-day Shibari Camp in Poland organized around workshops, performances, rope jams, photo shoots and a Shibari Ball
Istrian shibari workshop weekend organized through Shibari Croatia
Belgian film festival dedicated to shibari through cinema
Croatian shibari camp organized through Kokxxx rope
Recurring themed party hosted by F-Простір in Kyiv
Black-led BIPOC Adult Kink & BDSM conference in Chicago, with classes, demos, performances, play spaces, vendor markets, film screenings and
Recurring participant-shaped peer rope exchange and unconference hosted by Tension MTL in Montreal
Southeast United States rope bondage / shibari conference based at Deerfields Retreat in Horse Shoe, North Carolina, near Asheville
Moscow three-day Shibaru festival format scheduled for July 17-19, 2026
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+13 more · full line-up (29 people)
French / Brittany-region kinky rope camp organized by Association Le Manoir
Four-day outdoor rope and body-practice festival announced for July 23–26, 2026 in the Saint Petersburg area
Rope conference hosted by Karada House and centered on fat-identifying people and bodies in rope
Norwegian shibari / kinbaku event for rope enthusiasts from Norway and abroad to gather and share knowledge
Recurring themed party hosted by F-Простір in Kyiv
Recurring Ukrainian forest shibari festival and camp organized by Sunrise Shibari
Annual Danish shibari festival hosted by MyShibari at its private rope venue in Sønder Felding / Central Jutland
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+5 more · full line-up (15 people)
Karada House's queer rope conference for LGBTQIA+ people and womên, focused mostly on shibari, kinbaku and Japanese-inspired bondage
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+5 more · full line-up (13 people)
Prague rope festival organized through Alive Kinbaku Dojo and Alive Ropes
2020s slice of Prague Shibari Festival, continuing the twice-yearly Prague event after the pandemic-era break with English-language workshop
European edition of the Tokyo-based Onawa Asobi kinbaku festival, held at Shibari Lounge in Antwerp
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+11 more · full line-up (32 people)
Recurring German fetish / erotic trade fair in the Frankfurt/Main area
Tantra and shibari workshop series co-facilitated by Isa Devi and Nelly Germain in Martres-Tolosane
Recurring US rope conference focused on education and community-building for men, masc-leaning non-binary, trans and gender-nonconforming
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+12 more · full line-up (23 people)
European Rigger & Model Exchange in its 2020s phase, continuing as Felix Ruckert's Berlin-based exchange and research format for
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+8 more · full line-up (17 people)
Recurring BDSM and fetish expo at MesseHalle Hamburg-Schnelsen, combining stage shows, workshops, exhibitors and evening events
Curitiba / Brazil shibari performance, party and workshop event
Australian Kinbaku Dreams rope camp / performance-team and event umbrella hosted through Kinbaku Australia
Costa Rica shibari / kinbaku festival shell operated through the KnR / @knotsnroots_latamcr account
Belgrade-based international shibari festival presented as the first shibari festival in the Balkans