BalkanBound III 2026
BalkanBound III runs 25–29 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
Edition III published programme
- Festival week opens with workshops and seminars
- KC GRAD Main festival day: workshops, international performances, rope jam and open practice, Rope Escape Challenge, volunteer tying and social programme
- Opposites — Teljes Szakall & TarraXinha
- Simple Ties to a Confident Semi-Suspension — Arseniy Nazaruk
- Introductory theory and practice of safe, sensual tying — Vlada Vedmovskaya
- Additional seminars and afterparty