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Sydney Kink Festival


How we can live out our darkest fantasies and yet remain loving and respectful of one another?

The Sydney Kink Festival is 20 workshops and performances over 2 days and 2 nights, exploring the fabulous diversity of kink with an emphasis on informed consent, body research, experiential learning, theatrical improvisation, ceremony and performance.

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

Dates: July 12-14, 2019

It is possible to come for Friday night only $29; Saturday or Sunday only ($179) or for the whole festival ($299) . If you book now, you have nothing to fear if it turns out later that you cannot come. We will help you to exchange or re-sell your ticket, when ticket prices have risen. No-one has ever been caught out.

Our Kinky Workshops, Ceremonies and Party

Friday 12th July

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 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.

Kinky Story Telling (9:00-10:00pm)
Kinky Story Telling (9:00-10:00pm)

An evening of anecdotal and performative erotic tales, sharing real-life experience from people of diverse sexual orientations, genders, cultural backgrounds and functional diversities. Celebrating the nurturing and transformative power of kink without shame.

Saturday 13th July

Featured
The Beauty of Subtlety with Jacqueline Hellyer (9:30-11:00am)
The Beauty of Subtlety with Jacqueline Hellyer (9:30-11:00am)

It can be in in the smallest, most subdued, barely there moments that the greatest ecstasy can be felt. In a world where bigger, louder, faster reigns surpreme, where if something is good more must be better, we can miss the beauty of the subtle.

In this experiential workshop we’ll be exploring what’s teetering on the edge,  what hides in the muted, what lies in the spaces in-between…

Embodied Consent with Ira Zev (9:30-11am)
Embodied Consent with Ira Zev (9:30-11am)

Deepen your understanding of consent with Ira Zev. Learn how to feel in your body whether it is a yes or a no, and how to read the body of the other. Learn the different possibilities and dynamics of consent. And how to give feedback when things don’t work, as you may wish.

The Kissing Whip with Ira Zev (11:30-1pm)
The Kissing Whip with Ira Zev (11:30-1pm)

This Workshop focuses on "impact play" as a medium for sensory pleasure. We will navigate intimacy within a power dynamic and explore the nuances of both giving and receiving impact, with a focus on the responsibility and intention in both roles.

The Allure of the Forbidden with Peter Banki, Ph.D and Sarah Roffey (11:30-1pm)
The Allure of the Forbidden with Peter Banki, Ph.D and Sarah Roffey (11:30-1pm)

With rules comes also the temptation to transgress. In this workshop we will talk about that, share it, look at the forbidden thoughts that get us off and the trouble you can get into if you act on them. We will talk about our forbidden fantasies and what happens when we play them out?

Female Dominance with Goddess Diana (2:30-4pm)
Female Dominance with Goddess Diana (2:30-4pm)

Come learn the fundamentals of female dominance in a safe and relaxed environment. Goddess D. will host a workshop on the basics of female-led relationships and female dominance. In this workshop, you will learn how to create the proper headspace, dressing the part, avoiding pitfalls and essential techniques for playtime.

Loving D/s with Peter Banki, Ph.D and Natalia Je (4:30-6pm)
Loving D/s with Peter Banki, Ph.D and Natalia Je (4:30-6pm)

D/s—an acronym for Domination and Submission—involves power exchange, the eroticisation of hierarchical roles, fantasies of control, ownership, infantilisation, and the expression of emotions such as anger, fear, shame, surrender and devotion. D/s need not be physical at all to be effective. Just thinking and talking about it can make us hard and wet.

Drooling with Sarah Roffey (4:30-6pm)
Drooling with Sarah Roffey (4:30-6pm)

A frame to explore drooling. Maybe you will find it erotic, or shameful. Perhaps empowering, or disgusting. Either way there is only one way to find out. Let it pour.

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 14th July

Featured
Kinky Massage with Natalia Je (9:30-11am)
Kinky Massage with Natalia Je (9:30-11am)

In traditional bodywork erotic arousal is generally not permitted or acknowledged. Kinky Massage is an invitation to release these inhibitions by allowing (mutual) pleasure, pain, muscular and emotional release to come together in a playful dance of giving and receiving.

Acts of Service as Acts of Love with Gideon Payten-Griffiths (9:30-11am)
Acts of Service as Acts of Love with Gideon Payten-Griffiths (9:30-11am)

Through acts of service, we can find our own deep pleasure and mutual gratitude. Allowing yourself to purely receive these acts can also involve crossing some personal thresholds and that surrender allows the deep pleasure of having your needs satisfied and being touched by another, physically and emotionally.

Bite Me with Ira Zev (9:30-11am)
Bite Me with Ira Zev (9:30-11am)

This workshop will explore the art of biting. We will look at the primal dynamics of playing with biting as well as discovering the sensual qualities of the bite. 

Rope for Kinky Play with Hebari (11:30-1pm)
Rope for Kinky Play with Hebari (11:30-1pm)

We have invited one of the best riggers in Australia to host the Shibari workshop and installation at the festival. There will be the opportunity to experience lustful and/or painful bondage. Whether in the air or on the ground.

Kinky Disability with Don Turton (2:30-4pm)
Kinky Disability with Don Turton (2:30-4pm)

Kink can be seen as a natural ally of disability, for both rely on experimentation, adventure, and exploration of roles and dynamics that encourage us to get out of the box. Donald enjoys showing people that disabled people are sexual beings like everyone else on earth, and through participating in group exercises, throughout the workshop, people can experience what it is like to be disabled and sexual/sensual. NB: During this workshop Donald will do a full striptease. 

Kink in the Age of #metoo with Bernadette Gea Gea (4:30-6pm)
Kink in the Age of #metoo with Bernadette Gea Gea (4:30-6pm)

The so-called #metoo moment has had a strong impact on many sex-positive and kink communities around the world. It has caused major reassessments as well as painful fractures following accusations of consent violation, sexual abuse and even rape. The Sydney and Melbourne sex-positive and kink communities have not been spared these effects. For this reason, rather than avoid the elephant in the room, we have decided to propose a open discussion where everyone will have the right to say how they feel about this and to recount their own stories without shame and without blame. We will attempt to create a space of listening and compassion, where people can tell their stories and where new approaches to justice and intimacy may be glimpsed.

Tantric Dominance and Submission with Jacqueline Hellyer (4:30-6pm)
Tantric Dominance and Submission with Jacqueline Hellyer (4:30-6pm)

Sensual, tantric play heightens pleasure and so can kinky play. Put the two together and you go places - to Sub-Space and Dom-Space. Playing with dominance and submission is about playing with the yin and yang of sexuality. When done with extreme connection and respect it is a beautiful experience.

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

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 Kinky Presenters and Performers

Earlier Event: May 26
A Week-end of Sex and Philosophy (Frankfurt, Germany)
Later Event: July 19
Into the Wild 2019 | Winter Retreat

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!