Queerope Berlin 2026
QUEEROPE 2026 is a 5-day conference for mostly shibari/kinbaku/Japanese-inspired bondage that is exclusively for LGBTQIA+ people and womên.
Programme
Wed, Sep 2, 2026
The Mostest Importantest Session of Queerope Berlin 2026
Time: 10:00 am – 1:00 pm CEST
Room: main room
Facilitator(s):
Karada House
Format: warm-up session
No offense but this is of course the most importantest session of the entire conference! This is the session that will help you shape your Queerope Berlin 2026 experience. So...
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Movement and Body Manipulation on the Floor
Time: 3:00 pm – 5:30 pm CEST
Room: garden
Facilitator(s):
Nana Quinn, Ceci Ferox
Format: workshop
This workshop explores body movement in rope bondage taking advantage of kinetic chain, leverage and low suspension point. Tying will happen on the floor and start from sitting positions. Our...
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The Concept of Play
Time: 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm CEST
Room: main room
Facilitator(s):
Lief Bound and Icky
Format: workshop
Rope is hard. Rope makes our brains think so much. We focus so much on the tie that we forget how to be playful in rope. We get caught up...
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Slow Arrival
Time: 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm CEST
Room: blue room
Facilitator(s):
Caritia
Format: hangout
Big festivals can be overwhelming at first, especially for neuro-spicy brains and marginalized humans that carry a lot of stress and trauma. Not to worry! Caritia will guide you slowly...
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An Evening with Murasaki Haruan & Rokujo Kurei
Time: 8:00 pm – 11:00 pm CEST
Room: main room
Format: discussion
We are very happy to welcome Murasaki Haruan and Rokujo Kurei all the way from Japan at Queerope Berlin 2026. On this evening, we will be screening BOUND (Jean-Armand Bougrelle,...
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Thu, Sep 3, 2026
Good Morning Self-Ties
Time: 10:00 am – 11:30 am CEST
Room: blue room
Facilitator(s):
Caritia
Format: warm-up session
Not every morning needs to start with a full-blown workshop experience. You can join Caritia every morning for the rest of the festival for a slow and mindful start into...
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The Windmill Special
Time: 10:00 am – 1:00 pm CEST
Room: main room
Facilitator(s):
Lief Bound and Icky
Format: workshop
In this class Lief and icky will teach you a dynamic transition sequence that has been lovingly nicknamed the ‘windmill special’. Using a chest harness of your choice and two...
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Darkroom Shibari
Time: 10:30 am – 12:30 pm CEST
Room: garden
Facilitator(s):
Renée de Sans, Sophia Rose
Format: workshop
An explorative workshop where everyone is blindfolded from the start. No exceptions. Facilitators included. No peeking. When we remove sight, everything shifts. The way we read a body, the way...
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Lunch Talk: Hand Safety – Warm-Up, Drills and Prevention
Time: 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm CEST
Room: tent
Facilitator(s):
Juliette
Format: lecture
Although rope practice is not considered a sport, it can nonetheless be an intense — even extreme — physical activity for the body. In this talk, Juliette will focus specifically...
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Careful Bullying: Deliberate Disruption
Time: 3:00 pm – 5:30 pm CEST
Room: main room
Facilitator(s):
Bondagious & Thumper
Format: workshop
Our clothing choices are strongly tied to our identity, autonomy, and comfort. In this guided lab we set aside propriety to deliberately destabilize our sense of security, using tactics of...
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Almost the Same, Completely Different
Time: 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm CEST
Room: garden
Format: discussion & demonstration
Two Harnesses, One Logic: Arms-Front Chest Harnesses with Ceci Ferox and Lief Bound What makes a harness work? In this hands-on workshop, Ceci Ferox and Lief Bound put two arms-front...
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Intimate Session: Juliette & Olive
Time: 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm CEST
Room: blue room
Format: discussion & demonstration
This series allows rope facilitators to show participants how they approach intimate sessions, away from modes of teaching or performing. Come and witness an improvised intimate moment amongst people who...
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Rope Jam
Time: 8:30 pm – 11:00 pm CEST
Room: whole house
Facilitator(s):
Karada House
Format: rope jam
Hang out and tie, get tied, self-tie, all of the above or just watch other people be cute and ropey. Vibe: This jam is more on the chatty, peer-ropey side....
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Fri, Sep 4, 2026
Fleshy Toys: Squeeze It like You Mean It!
Time: 10:00 am – 12:30 pm CEST
Room: main room
Facilitator(s):
Bondagious & Thumper
Format: workshop
Look with your hands, not with your eyes: press, gauge, weigh, assess. There is a quiet predation in touch—it claims, it tests, it consumes. What happens when touch becomes exploratory,...
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Good Morning Self-Ties
Time: 10:00 am – 11:30 am CEST
Room: blue room
Facilitator(s):
Caritia
Format: warm-up session
Not every morning needs to start with a full-blown workshop experience. You can join Caritia every morning for the rest of the festival for a slow and mindful start into...
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No Point Predicaments
Time: 10:30 am – 12:30 pm CEST
Room: garden
Facilitator(s):
Sophia Rose, Renée de Sans
Format: workshop
Of course it’s easy to find a struggle between pain and more pain… or get into fancy predicaments with a suspension point. But what about pain and pleasure? Or exposure...
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Hot and Contextual : A Guide Through Inspirational Play
Time: 3:00 pm – 5:30 pm CEST
Room: main room
Format: workshop
If being a top can sometimes feel destabilizing (as it asks you to hold space, stay inspired, propose, and guide) this workshop explores how adaptability and a certain casualness can...
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Co-Topping – Double the Tops, Double the Fun
Time: 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm CEST
Room: garden
Format: play-shop
Three people, two tops, one bottom, and a lot going on. Co-topping is playful, complex, and requires a particular kind of attention to your partner top, to the bottom, to...
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Intimate Session: Lief & Icky
Time: 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm CEST
Room: blue room
Facilitator(s):
Lief Bound and Icky
Format: discussion & demonstration
This series allows rope facilitators to show participants how they approach intimate sessions, away from modes of teaching or performing. Come and witness an improvised intimate moment amongst people who...
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Kink & Sex Rope Jam
Time: 8:30 pm – 11:00 pm CEST
Room: whole house
Facilitator(s):
Karada House
Format: rope jam
This rope jam is decidedly more kinky and sexual than rope jams usually are. We will provide safe(r) sex items, toys, etc. The spaces will be divided into a space...
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Sat, Sep 5, 2026
Ode to Waist Rope – a Suspension Sequence
Time: 10:00 am – 1:00 pm CEST
Room: main room
Facilitator(s):
Lief Bound and Icky
Format: workshop
Waist rope, crotch rope, torsions… If any or all of these things excite or interest you, you might love Lief and Icky’s new suspension sequence! Taught on a bamboo hardpoint,...
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Good Morning Self-Ties
Time: 10:00 am – 11:30 am CEST
Room: blue room
Facilitator(s):
Caritia
Format: warm-up session
Not every morning needs to start with a full-blown workshop experience. You can join Caritia every morning for the rest of the festival for a slow and mindful start into...
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Total Immobilisation
Time: 10:30 am – 1:00 pm CEST
Room: garden
Facilitator(s):
Renée de Sans, Sophia Rose
Format: workshop
We’ll look at what it actually takes to immobilise a body. Hands, fingers, whatever still twitches. Let’s tie it up. How to do it in a way that’s sustainable enough...
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Lunch Talk: How to Be Gross without Being Gross a.k.a. How to Be a Better Pervert, with Practical Tips
Time: 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm CEST
Room: tent
Facilitator(s):
Bondagious & Thumper
Format: lecture
What does it mean to “fuck around” and what are we trying to “find out”? When I say: “I trust you,” how do I engage to accept a range of...
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Low Bamboo – Chaotic Yet Reassuring
Time: 3:00 pm – 5:30 pm CEST
Room: main room
Format: workshop
Suspension can sometimes feel intimidating: the body is lifted away from the ground, each harness must be built before lifting, suspension lines need to be managed, along with the potential...
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How to Intentionally Build a Power Exchange Dynamic
Time: 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm CEST
Room: garden
Facilitator(s):
Nana Quinn, Ceci Ferox
Format: workshop
Restricting someone’s body itself builds up a physical sense of power exchange, but the interaction between people sharing the experience can be more or less defined by other elements that...
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Intimate Session: Bondagious & Thumper
Time: 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm CEST
Room: blue room
Facilitator(s):
Bondagious & Thumper
Format: discussion & demonstration
This series allows rope facilitators to show participants how they approach intimate sessions, away from modes of teaching or performing. Come and witness an improvised intimate moment amongst people who...
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Rope Jam with Live Music
Time: 8:30 pm – 11:00 pm CEST
Room: whole house
Facilitator(s):
Karada House
Format: rope jam
Hang out and tie, get tied, self-tie, all of the above or just watch other people be cute and ropey. For this jam we will have some live music by...
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Sun, Sep 6, 2026
Good Morning Self-Ties
Time: 10:00 am – 11:30 am CEST
Room: blue room
Facilitator(s):
Caritia
Format: warm-up session
Not every morning needs to start with a full-blown workshop experience. You can join Caritia every morning for the rest of the festival for a slow and mindful start into...
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Bamboo Leverage : A Single Point Approach
Time: 10:00 am – 1:00 pm CEST
Room: main room
Format: workshop
During this class, Juliette and Olive will guide you in exploring how to tie using bamboo on a single point suspension. We will first tie the body to the bamboo...
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Silent Space
Time: 10:30 am – 12:30 pm CEST
Room: garden
Facilitator(s):
Sophia Rose, Renée de Sans
Format: open space
No teaching. No structure. Just rope and soft, quiet music. This is an open play space. And it is entirely silent. Come with a partner, come alone, come with a...
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Side-Suspension Interpretations
Time: 3:00 pm – 5:30 pm CEST
Room: main room
Facilitator(s):
Nana Quinn, Ceci Ferox
Format: workshop
We take a closer look into building a balanced side suspension. Participants are expected to attend with a tying partner/s they feel comfortable communicating and learning with. The tying skills...
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Of Fabric and Friction: Clothing and Culture Play
Time: 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm CEST
Room: garden
Facilitator(s):
Bondagious & Thumper
Format: workshop
A plaid shirt, off-the-shoulder blouse, button-fly jeans, sweet summer sundress, oversized sweatshirt, canvas workwear—clothing is deeply coded. More than simply fashion, our relationship to clothing is tactile, emotional, psychological. What...
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Integration Time
Time: 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm CEST
Room: blue room
Facilitator(s):
Caritia
Format: hangout
OMFG, what just happened? Do you feel like your nervous system is on fire from all the input you got these past 5 days? This is your session! Caritia will...
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Slow Goodbyes Rope Jam
Time: 7:30 pm – 10:30 pm CEST
Room: whole house
Facilitator(s):
Karada House
Format: rope jam
Hang out and tie, get tied, self-tie, all of the above or just watch other people be cute and ropey. But also, say goodbye to the amazing people you met,...
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Line-up
Caritia (Germany/UK)
Ceci Ferox (Germany/Finland)
Juliette & Olive (Belgium)
Lief Bound & Icky (USA)
Murasaki Haruan (Japan)
Nana Quinn (Finland)
Renée de Sans (Germany)
Rokujo Kurei (Japan)
Sophia Rose (UK)
Thumper & Bondagious (Canada)