Montreal Fetish Weekend
An annual multi-day kink festival held in early September whose programme includes rope content, such as a shibari demonstration and Q&A at Tension and a shibari presentation by Guignonette in the 2026 edition. Rope is one strand among many workshops, shows and markets.
Montreal Fetish Weekend is a multi-day kink and fetish festival held each year over the Labour Day weekend in early September, centered on Montreal’s Gay Village. Its website traces the organizers’ “fetish adventure” in the Village back to the Fetish Café in 1995, names Eric Paradis as producer, and describes the event as community based and open to all genders, body types and orientations. The site is in English and French.
Program
The 2026 edition ran from September 2 to 7 across bars, clubs, cabarets and other venues in and near the Village. Its schedule combined an early-bird cocktail and VIP dinners, daytime workshops and a kink expo on the Friday and Saturday, fashion shows and a runway, contests, a fetish photo walk, a craft fair and several nightly main events. Tickets were sold as an all-access VIP pass or for individual events.
Rope at the festival
Rope is one strand of the program rather than its focus. In 2026 the pre-festival cocktail on September 2 included a shibari presentation by Guignonette with a guest, as a preview of the Campus Kink show night that closed the Sunday at Bar Campus. The rope studio Tension was a partner venue: the festival schedule listed a casual social night there on the Friday and KNOcTAMBULE on the Saturday, a free open performance evening at which students, emerging performers and experienced practitioners showed their rope work. Tension’s workshop afternoon included a shibari demonstration and Q&A by Willcat, and its Kinky Craft Fair on the Sunday brought together local makers selling gear, art and rope.