COLOMBIAN KINK: Party couple at last year’s Festival in Bogotá (photo: Colectivo Caja de Luz). Banner: Quartet of Colombian pervs at 2016 Festival BDSM/Fetish Colombia (photo: Kinky Glam)
Colombia hosts sixth BDSM/Fetish festival in Bogotá until this Sunday.
Colombia, the northernmost country of the South American continent, is no stranger to making international headlines for, unfortunately, not always the most positive reasons.
In fact Bogotá is now in its sixth year of hosting the Colombia BDSM/Fetish Festival.
This makes the event the oldest of its kind in all Latin America, according to festival publicist Oscar David.
He tells us the festival was born as an excuse to celebrate the first year of discussion group BDSM/fetish Colombia on FetLife.
“It is also,” he says, “the great birthday party for the whole Colombian fetish and BDSM family.
“This scene has managed to gain a small space in the national context,” he explains, “playing around in the shade of these four large capital letters B, D, S, M and its multiform cousin, fetishism.
It is characterised, he adds, by “sexual and erotic diversity in this public and private, playful, academic and artistic event” and “a spirit of cordiality, exchange and no discrimination of practices, gender, sexual orientation or identity”.
With the theme BDSM a la colombiana: del cuero a la cuerina (Colombian BDSM: from leather to PU*), this year’s events began on Tuesday (May 16) with an art exhibition followed by the opening festival and birthday party for the BDSMColombia website.
Wednesday 17 was Cine Fetish day, with a selection of films drawn from the German Fetisch Film Festival held annually in Kiel, as well as local work.
Friday 19 sees a free symposium devoted to this year’s festival theme at Corporación BDSM Colombia (Calle 66bis #68b-09, barrio Bellavista Occidental).
It is followed by a play party at the same venue, in honour of El Vergajo, the tradition Colombian riding crop that also gives its name to a BDSM fanzine whose third edition has just been published.
Saturday 20’s Festival BDSM/Fetish Colombia at Klan 31 (Calle 31 #6-59) is “the big celebration in which all the motifs of the festival converge”.
The event promises personalities from the Colombia scene, artistic visions, a fashion show, performances, bondage, exhibitor stands, contests and lots of socialising “in one afternoon full of alternative sexualities and good vibes”.
Online registration is required in order to attend this headline event.
The six-day festival ends on Sunday 21 with the “now customary” free-admission Bondage Picnic in National Park (carrera 6, calle 37).
(*For the uninitiated, PU — the common abbreviation for polyurethane-coated fabric — is the correct term for what is frequently called PVC.)
bdsmcolombia.info/festival
facebook.com/festival-bdsmfetish-colombia
facebook.com/events/1814873032113533
fetlife.com/events/519165
BELOW: More partygoers captured at last year’s event in Bogotá (all photos: Colectivo Caja de Luz)
Published May 18, 2017
Tags: BDSM play, Community, Exhibitions, Fetish Fairs, Fetish Weekends, Leather, Parties, Play Parties
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