Rope festival
A multi-day rope bondage event that gathers teachers and practitioners for workshops, performances and open practice, often with invited international educators.
A rope festival brings a rope community together for several days around shibari and kinbaku. Programs combine teaching, stage work and open practice. Shibari Valencia Fest, for example, lists workshops for beginners and experienced practitioners, performances by its invited educators and informal jams where participants practice and socialize. Archer Magazine described the 2014 Sydney Rope Festival as a three-day program of workshops, presentations and performances for every level, with internationally known rope artists.
Festivals also serve as stages for visiting teachers. Nuno Ferreira Monteiro recalls the second London Festival of the Art of Japanese Bondage in April 2010 as a weekend of workshops and performances, including Hajime Kinoko’s first appearance in the UK.