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Sydney Rope Festival


Satomi Zpira at Really Good Sex Festival 2016

Satomi Zpira at Really Good Sex Festival 2016

The Sydney Rope Festival will be a showcase of the best talent in Japanese rope bondage from Australia and around the world. The intrinsic beauty, feel and structure of Japanese rope bondage evolved from its original roots of Martial arts and has become an expressive art form today. 

SORGS will be collaborating with Sydney Rope Dojo (founders of the Sydney Rope Festival), Intimate Horizons and Ozkink Fest in Melbourne to produce this festival.

Location: Leela Centre, 2nd Floor, 113-115 Oxford Street, (Corner of Crown Street), Darlinghurst NSW 2010

Dates: October 4-6, 2019

All-Inclusive Tickets ($299 per couple) and One Day tickets ($175 per couple on Saturday; $145 per couple on Sunday) are available. Tickets are also available for Friday night only ($35 per person) and two workshops plus Friday and Saturday night ($102.50 per person). Please contact us if you wish to purchase an all-inclusive or one day ticket for one person only.

There will be workshops and performances with Vlada and Falco from Russia, Hebari, Ira Zev, Peter Banki and Natalia Je, and Elisa Ricordi. There will also be a rope performance night on Friday night and a play party on the Saturday night.

Friday Evening Workshops (4th October)

Featured
Opening Ceremony (7-8:30pm)
Opening Ceremony (7-8:30pm)

Meet the festival presenters, learn about verbal and body consent, and how best to navigate through the festival. To ensure that everyone who comes to the festival takes part in an atmosphere of informed consent, we strongly recommend that all participants attend the Opening Ceremony. If participants cannot attend the Opening Ceremony, they must attend the inductions on Saturday or Sunday morning at 9am to gain entry to the festival.

Performance Night with Vlada & Falco, Hebari and others (9-11pm)
Performance Night with Vlada & Falco, Hebari and others (9-11pm)

The performance night will welcome you into a diverse world of bondage art and rope play. Witness a variety of styles from a selection of seasoned performers and experience something new. We promote an interactive environment for the sharing of artistic and erotic ideas and experiences, meaning that you will also have the opportunity to interact with the performers and have a go with ropes yourself if you like.

Saturday Workshops (5th October)

Featured
Rope and Surrender: Holding Space with Ira Zev (9:30-11am)
Rope and Surrender: Holding Space with Ira Zev (9:30-11am)

We will explore restraint as an opportunity for deep nurturing and holding and begin to navigate the responsibilities of the dominant and the submissive role, as well as the methods for caring and holding space for surrender.

Yoga For Ropes with Chris Johns (9:30-11am)
Yoga For Ropes with Chris Johns (9:30-11am)

If you wish to get a little deeper into stretches and preparation/conditioning of your body before ropes,  this yoga inspire session is exactly what you need!  This yoga sequence is designed to cover the basics for shoulders, back and hips. It is a start to get into your body and bring space and awareness to the areas you need and use during rope sessions.

Another Way of Tying the Takate Kote with Lucky2bind (11:30-1pm)
Another Way of Tying the Takate Kote with Lucky2bind (11:30-1pm)

The rigger will be able to tie a restrictive chest harness with the model’s hands high behind the back. The focus will be on a kinbaku style TK with a safe, tight and quick chest harness. No rope joining allowed, no need for upper kannuki and few strategic frictions: this is not a hammok but rather a preparation for a challanging, intense tie.

Unusual Variations for Suspension and Floorwork with Vlada and Falco (11:30-1pm)
Unusual Variations for Suspension and Floorwork with Vlada and Falco (11:30-1pm)

In this worshop, Vlada and Falco will show artistic poses for semi-suspension and suspension, as well as creative rope patterns for the frogtie.

Yukimura Ryo with Hebari (2:30-4pm)
Yukimura Ryo with Hebari (2:30-4pm)

The Yukimura-Ryu workshop will be an opportunity to get a solid grounding in the skills and concepts of this style. Much less focused on suspension and engineering, Yukimura-Ryu is all about feel, flow, and tying for connection with your partner.

Rope and Resistance: Playfighting with Ira Zev (2:30-4pm)
Rope and Resistance: Playfighting with Ira Zev (2:30-4pm)

In this workshop we will engage in active body work and competitive play to understand the depth of resistance and how this changes the dynamic of playing with rope. Here we will explore restraint through resistance rather than surrender and see how vastly different this style of rope play can be.

Extreme Ties with Vlada and Falco (4:30-6pm)
Extreme Ties with Vlada and Falco (4:30-6pm)

In this workshop Vlada and Falco will show elbow suspensions with different variants, reverse prayer in suspension as well as high muscle strain suspensions.

Rope with Massage with Peter Banki, Ph.D. and Natalia Je (4:30-6pm)
Rope with Massage with Peter Banki, Ph.D. and Natalia Je (4:30-6pm)

In this workshop, we will teach some basic principles of both Kinbaku and massage, leading a suggested sequence of touch and ties - with ample time for play. We will build our sense of connection, trust, confidence and surrender. We will explore how we touch with our hands, our bodies and through our rope. We will explore how the rope can be an extension of our own bodies through connecting physical touch and binding with rope. All experience levels in bondage are welcome. Experience with attentive touch, breathwork and tantra is advantageous.

The Magical Space - Curated Play Party (8pm-1am)
The Magical Space - Curated Play Party (8pm-1am)

The Magical Space is a curated play party which explores theatricality, ceremony and poetry in the context of erotic play. There will be the possibility to explore different roles and games. Costumes will be available, although it is strongly encouraged to think of a character you would like to play and bring your own costume.

Sunday Workshops (6th October)

Featured
Sensual Ropes with Elisa (1:00-2:30pm)
Sensual Ropes with Elisa (1:00-2:30pm)

Kinbaku is not only knots and techniques but it is connection, sensuality, beauty. Ropes can be used to communicate and create fear, pleasure, suspense and much more. We will learn how to connect with our partner in a non-verbal communication, and will play with distance, speed, sight, touch.

Teppou Shibari with Hebari (1:00-2:30pm)
Teppou Shibari with Hebari (1:00-2:30pm)

This teppou shibari can be used for floor work or suspension. It is particularly good for partial suspension scenes were a strenuous position adds to the tension.

Yukimura Ryo with Hebari (3:00-4:30pm)
Yukimura Ryo with Hebari (3:00-4:30pm)

The Yukimura-Ryu workshop will be an opportunity to get a solid grounding in the skills and concepts of this style. Much less focused on suspension and engineering, Yukimura-Ryu is all about feel, flow, and tying for connection with your partner.

Hip Harness and Hishi for the Whole Body with Vlada and Falco (3:00-4:40pm)
Hip Harness and Hishi for the Whole Body with Vlada and Falco (3:00-4:40pm)

In this workshop you will learn the full body harness including hands, body and hip bondage. It is suitable for any body orientation suspension. A multi pose show could be done with this single harness. It is also good for sex in bondage.

Using Bamboo for Suspensions with Vlada and Falco (5:00-6:30pm)
Using Bamboo for Suspensions with Vlada and Falco (5:00-6:30pm)

In this workshop Vlada and Falco will teach you to tie on bamboo.

Anarchic Rope Play (Unshibari) with Peter Banki and Natalia Je (5:00-6:30pm)
Anarchic Rope Play (Unshibari) with Peter Banki and Natalia Je (5:00-6:30pm)

We invite you to tie with the seriousness of a child at play with the ropes and other materials, to get into the space of childlike curiosity and imagination, which is probably the origin of all creativity. Messy bondage brings up emotions quite different from that of normal bondage. It calls and responds to different thoughts in our psyche. It is not an anti-aesthetic, but a different aesthetic to conventional bondage. It combines structure and unpredictability. It is also a chance to learn new unshibari techniques, performance skills, as well as body and spacial awareness.

Closing Ceremony (7:00-8:00pm)
Closing Ceremony (7:00-8:00pm)

The Closing Ceremony with be an opportunity to come together and process as a whole group what we've experienced. We will be providing tea and snacks. This will also be opportunity for you to get some nurturing aftercare and storytelling.

Our Presenters

Earlier Event: September 21
Canberra Really Good Sex Festival
Later Event: November 15
A Week-end of Sex and Philosophy

What We Believe In

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EMBODIMENT

Partner with your body and your breath every day!

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RESPECT

Make requests, never demands! Resist all forms of coercion - especially self-coercion.

DIVERSITY

Vive la différence! Celebrate the differences in people and their tastes.

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COURAGE

Partner with your fears! Let them teach you courage and strength.

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AESTHETICS & PHILOSOPHY

Cultivate the erotic artist in you! And dare to reflect on what you are doing and why!

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PLAY AND MISCHIEF

Add some spice to it! Stay true to who and what turns you on! And be free!