BalkanBound

BalkanBound, 2025-, is a Serbian event in the bakushi / kinbaku ecosystem.

Era: 2020s

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.

People associated with BalkanBound: Vlada Vedmovskaya, Vsevolod Moreuton, Nikita Ropekit, RopeMarks, Karol Soulrope, Andrea Ropes, Angie Ziv, Goldie Sunshine, WisDomme, NyxRope, Sarca Martello, Mikhail Karlson, Ludvig Rigger, Frostslavee, RomKnots, NatNata, Ksenia / Koshka Ropes, Inna Krauze, Feuertänzer, Arseniy Nazaruk, Anna Lysee, Saara Rei, Nick Freerider.