Following the difficulties that have seemingly scuppered Fetish Evolution in Essen this Easter comes news that an alternative Easter Fetish Weekend is being staged at the Bredeney, FE’s traditional event hotel. 

Running from Good Friday to Easter Monday (April 19-22), Easter Fetish Weekend (aka Easter Fetish Meeting) is a non-profit get-together created with the aim of maintaining the enjoyable social and fetish-play traditions of earlier Easters at the Bredeney.

The hotel has declared April 19-22 will be “exclusively for kinks only”, and is making its rooms available to fetishists to book directly.

And with no Fetish Evolution involvement, FE’s recent rule that would-be hotel guests must buy FE party tickets to qualify for a room obviously does not apply. 

Easter Fetish Weekend 2019 attendees can book up to three nights at the Bredeney (using booking code Treffpunkt Essen or Meeting point Essen), and those who want to participate without a room will also be welcome.

Popular public areas of the hotel including the bar and restaurant will be free to access both for hotel guests and visitors — as they traditionally were when FE was at its peak. 

Those wishing to participate without staying at the Bredeney will, however, be encouraged to at least spend something in the bar or restaurant to help the hotel cover its costs. And visitors who wish to use the pool or sauna will be asked to purchase a €20 day pass for that purpose.

Originally there were no firm plans to organise any associated events such as parties or formal dinners either in the hotel or at outside venues.

The basic idea was to enjoy the ‘kinky social’ vibe of the hotel environment and explore whatever opportunities might arise to ‘make your own entertainment’ during the exclusive fetish occupancy.

Unleashed comes…and goes

However, that was before Zaki Silverman, organiser of Unleashed fetish dance parties in Amsterdam and various international locations, heard that the Bredeney would be accommodating a bunch of kinksters over Easter! 

Zaki proposed to investigate running an Unleashed Easter event in a part of Essen’s Delta venue (previously mudiaART) where the FE Balls have traditionally been held on Easter Sundays.

As a result, Silverman and his team were all set to host Unleashed Boutique Essen at Delta Musik Park, Essen on Sunday April 21, using Delta’s spacious Hall 2, the dark and mysterious Gruft and an outdoor area too if weather permitted.

However, on March 27, the group behind the weekend were informed that Unleashed had been forced to cancel all parties in April owing to Zaki’s father being taken ill.

Obviously everyone understands and wishes him well, but this now leaves the Bredeney weekend without a Sunday party at Delta.

Fortunately Easter Fetish Weekend was conceived as primarily a social/play event at the Bredeney based around sharing the hotel exclusively with a bunch of other pervs.

The Unleashed party arrived later in the event’s development as an unexpected bonus.

So while the cancellation is a shame, it probably won’t be a deal breaker for the majority of the weekend’s participants, whose prime motivation for involvement won’t have been the chance to attend a party at Delta.

What about Fetish Evolution?

So what exactly happened with the Fetish Evolution Weekend, you might wonder? 

The news that FE would not have the Bredeney as its partner hotel and FE Expo location in 2019 first came in an email sent to regular Expo exhibitors by organiser Miguel Infante back in February.

The e-mail cited shrinking vendor numbers and rising exhibition costs as problems that came to a head after the 2018 FE Weekend. 

This, it said, led to the promoter and hotel parting company, with insufficient time to find a replacement hotel to accommodate the Expo and other hotel elements of the FE Weekend to make an Easter 2019 Expo feasible.