There’s some good news and some bad. As I think I mentioned, Kalahari cannot make it this year and I just heard that Dragonrope/Umino is unable to extricate himself from his work commitments. I noticed that Bob Ropemarks, a veteran of shibari from the Netherlands, is coming over for the Naka Akira course so I …
Don’t hang about if you are thinking of coming to LFAJRB as tickets are selling fast. We have another fantastic line up including the legendary Naka Akira, Osaka mistress Saki Kamijoo, plus the cream of the west’s shibari artists. Japan’s top kinbaku photographer, Sugiura Norio, will be our guest of honour. This will be our fifth and …
After much deliberation, here, in alphabetical order to avoid expressing any favouritism, are the performers for LFAJRB 2013, barring any unexpected cancellations. It’s a lucky coincidence that our star performer’s name starts with an A or I might have had to formulate a different order 🙂 I can’t tell you how tough it has been …
Time is moving along so quickly that it won’t be long before the Festival is upon us again at the end of September. I’m still making the final negotiations with our top of the bill performer but I am aware that I need to start getting the rest of the line up organised. Obviously, we have some of the ‘usual suspects’ …
I have just loaded up a gallery of photos of our ‘Bob the Builder’ show by the very talented Izaskun Gonzalez. They galleries contain duplicates but these have been subjected to Izas’s uniquely distinctive post-production for a very different feel. Check back over the next couple of days as there will be more of Nina. …
Once the Festival was up and running, the stress started to fall away and I breathed a huge sigh of relief that we seemed to have risen to the challenge of following last year’s one. I have to admit that I was worried how we could ever compete with the amazing Japanese dominated line-up of …
The schedule can never be cast in stone and might be subject to change due to unforeseen circumstances. For example, last year, Zamil’s taxi was unfortunately involved in an accident on the way to the airport preventing his attendance. We might also be throwing in a few surprises, one of which will be Hedwig’s dissertation …
This year we have a truely international line up. Here is the list so far, it is by no means exhaustive. Forgive me if I have missed any names or haven’t added models yet. I’ll update it as information is passed on to me. Above, you can see Ropemarks and Dutch Dame at Ropefest, who …
Nawakiri Shin started learning shibari in 2004, under nawashi Kanna, a student of the great Akechi Denki. He is a founding member of BDSM.TW, the only BDSM group in Taiwan, and has performed at various various local events the group organised. In 2011, he performed at Toubaku 2011 in Tokyo. More recently, he and other …
We are now accepting pre-registrations for tickets for the London Festival of the Art of Japanese Bondage. We are doing it this way so we can decide on the number of one and two person tickets to allocate. Your application does not guaranteed tickets. If you are successful, you will be sent a link to …