Queerope Berlin 2023 Program

Programme

Wednesday

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Touch: Shibari and Movement Workshop for Beginners

Time: 2:30 pm – 5:00 pm CET

Facilitator: Gandalf

Togetherness is fundamental to human flourishing. Rope can be a powerful tactile medium for us to explore this truth. Gandalf invites you to join us in this workshop on...

Needs, Desires, Boundaries – Rope Negotiation

Time: 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm CET

Facilitator: Sophia Rose

We often don't get to practice or think about negotiation in rope until we are there, doing it. This session offers you practical space to connect to your feelings...

Wild Card: Shame, Vulnerability and Being Perceived – the Bottom Perspective

Time: 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm CET

Facilitator:

Wild Card Slots are peer-learning slots where participants of Queerope 2023 teach other participants. AGINE offers: In this slot, I want to start out by sharing my experience of...

The Single Greatest Rope Exercise Ever

Time: 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm CET

Facilitator: Addie

Not an exaggeration! If Addie could teach everyone, regardless of level, just one exercise it would be this one. If ropes were music this would be an etude, an...

Maximalist Harnesses

Time: 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm CET

Facilitator: Pauline Massimo

Maximalist Harnesses are a style of tying that Pauline has been developing in the past years. This style is characterized by prioritizing comfort but is also keeping it versatile...

Wild Card: Emotions in Rope

Time: 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm CET

Facilitator:

Wild Card Slots are peer-learning slots where participants of Queerope 2023 teach other participants. Ombre Anatkh offers: I'd like to propose a slot about emotions in ropes. I'll be...

Hangout & Open Tying

Time: 9:00 pm – 10:30 pm CET

Facilitator: Karada House

Hang out anywhere in the house and chill or chat with people. Tie in the big space or garden area if you cannot get enough. Or cuddle on one of...

Thursday

Rope for Sex

Time: 10:30 am – 1:00 pm CET

Facilitator: Sophia Rose

Practical and pleasurable – In this class, we will explore simple and effective ties for exposure, eroticism, and stimulation, find what works for you! You will also learn different...

Safety In Ropes & Community

Time: 10:30 am – 12:30 pm CET

Facilitator: Addie

This class will focus on the experiences of those who like to be tied, particularly on developing an understanding of what we like/need/want in ropes, how we can explore...

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Forest – Playing with Ropes and Objects – A co-topping Workshop with Shibari Technique

Time: 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm CET

Facilitator: Dasniya Sommer

The workshop focuses on creating a tying session for trios (co-topping). We begin with a demonstration using intermediate-level ties and upline technique. As there is no obligation to strictly...

Meditation for Self-Regulation

Time: 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm CET

Facilitator: Caritia

Caritia will guide participants in finding regulatory states to calm the nervous system and return to presence within their bodies and find clarity in their minds. Format: meditation...

Flat Suspension

Time: 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm CET

Facilitator: hua hua

In this workshop we will be exploring how to practice uplines and understand suspension positions without lifting off the ground. Instead, we will be building shapes lying on the...

Hangout & Open Tying

Time: 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm CET

Facilitator: Karada House

Hang out anywhere in the house and chill or chat with people. Tie in the big space or garden area if you cannot get enough. Or cuddle on one of...

Friday

Experimental Floating Hashira for Self-Tying

Time: 10:30 am – 1:00 pm CET

Facilitator: Pauline Massimo

This experimental class for self-tying enthusiasts will be focused on how we can use a floating hashira as a new element to play around and be creative. Pauline will...

Trauma-informed Rope

Time: 10:30 am – 12:30 pm CET

Facilitator: Sophia Rose

"Trauma-informed" is a buzzword we hear a lot these days, this session will give space to think about what it actually means and looks like to bring a trauma-aware...

Wild Card: Bringing the Hands behind the Back – Happy Shoulder Edition!

Time: 11:30 am – 12:30 pm CET

Facilitator:

Wild Card Slots are peer-learning slots where participants of Queerope 2023 teach other participants. ADDIE offers: Arms-behind-the-back harnesses (TKs etc) are a sticking point for many people; nerve and...

Teaching Shibari & Accessibility

Time: 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm CET

Facilitator: Pauline Massimo

This discussion will be focused on debating how we can make Shibari more accessible to different types of people. Listen to folks who need accessibility for their rope journey...

Dreaming

Time: 3:00 pm – 5:30 pm CET

Facilitator: Dasniya Sommer

This light intermediate technique class is for people who like to give their shoulders a rest from classical box harnesses. The hands front position allows for a longer, sexy...

Rope for Anxiety

Time: 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm CET

Facilitator: Caritia

This hands-on workshop will offer simple techniques using rope to calm, soothe, and bring yourself or another person back into their body, to ground and center. Caritia will invite...

Slow Jam & Live Music

Time: 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm CET

Facilitator: Karada House

This jam is dedicated to being slow. Slowing down and indulging in a calmer way of engaging with people and rope will calm your nervous system and allow you to...

Saturday

An Easy 360

Time: 10:30 am – 1:30 pm CET

Facilitator: Ceci Ferox

Join this class to learn an easy 360 transition sequence suitable for many bodies. The sequence starts with a face-down position, moving to a face-up back bend, and finishes...

Kinky Entanglements

Time: 11:00 am – 12:30 pm CET

Facilitator: Gandalf

There are infinite possibilities in the constellation of kinks. Some of them are more well-known and even have conferences dedicated to it, some are so unique that it is...

Bottoming Lab

Time: 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm CET

Facilitator: Ceci Ferox

Join the bottoming lab for different exercises for deepening your bottoming experiences and for finding more nuance in your relationship to yourself and your rigger. We will work with...

Torment of Lacing

Time: 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm CET

Facilitator: hua hua

In this workshop, we will be looking at the effect of tying tight lacing. We will explore the presence of Semenawa by applying high tension, immobilizing the whole body,...

Performance Night

Time: 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm CET

Facilitator:

hua hua & Ben: HANGMAN hua hua and Ben Mergelsberg will be performing a ritual inspired by the Hanged Man card of Tarot. It is a card that seems all...

Sunday

Modifying Harnesses

Time: 10:30 am – 12:30 pm CET

Facilitator: Ceci Ferox

Bring your different body shapes and the patterns that don't quite fit them. Ceci will help you figure out modifications that will result in tailor-made bespoke harness fits. ...

WTF Suspension

Time: 10:30 am – 1:00 pm CET

Facilitator: Addie

I wonder what would happen if I did......this? The progression from pre-determined suspension sequences to freeform/multi-transition airtime is tricky to navigate and usually involves some trial and error. This...

A Potpourri for Accessibility

Time: 2:30 pm – 5:30 pm CET

Facilitator: Addie

This class is a potpourri of fun and functional rope elements to increase accessibility and break barriers. Leg binders for people whose knees don’t bend well, tying techniques that...

A Web is a World: Web-Making Workshop

Time: 3:00 pm – 5:30 pm CET

Facilitator: Gandalf

A web lives. It comes into being through processes of growth and is held together with frictions that send sympathetic vibrations throughout the whole web whenever it is touched....

Integration

Time: 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm CET

Facilitator: Caritia

Caritia will guide participants in finding space to actually integrate the tons of new information, impressions and experiences of this conference. This session is specifically for those folks who...

Play Jam and Cuddles

Time: 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm CET

Facilitator: Karada House

One last time we meet. The play jam is dedicated to tying and playing (or both) as well as cuddling in case you are all roped out after 5 days...

Line-up

Addie Tahl

Caritia

Ceci Ferox

Dasniya Sommer

Gandalf

hua hua

Pauline Massimo

Sophia Rose

Yada Kaewburee

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