More fetish event updates: the Covid crisis continues to bite.
Despite some countries lifting some Covid restrictions, there is no sign that fetish gatherings will be permitted anytime soon. Realisation of this has now resulted in some promoters abandoning 2020 altogether in favour of reconvening next year (after, in some cases, already postponing once). Others are replacing ‘in-person’ parties with live-streamed versions on the same nights. Here are the new updates we’ve heard about. Banner pix, clockwise from top left: Unleashed, Amsterdam; Florida Fetish Weekend; London Tattoo Convention; ManiFest fans, Copenhagen
BOUNDCON 2020, Munich
Postponed to May 21-23, 2021
BoundCon has finally been able to confirm that its 2020 edition scheduled for this coming weekend will not now take place — even though 2020’s original May 22-24 dates still show on Facebook as ‘on’.
One-day and three-day tickets bought for the 2020 event will automatically be valid for the 2021 dates, and various options are available for those who won’t be able to use their tickets next year.
BoundCon is also collaborating with SubRosaDictum on an online event to replace the weekend’s Kesselhaus party which has also been cancelled — see separate SubRosaDictum info below.
boundcon.com/current-coronavirus-situation
FETISHGUERILLA/GFB LIVESTREAM,
Facebook Replacing KitKat May 22, 2020
This Facebook-streamed live event has been created to provide a sense of the FetishGuerilla experience many people would have enjoyed in the flesh this coming Friday at KitKat in Berlin — if German Fetish Ball Weekend had not been postponed until September.
Hosted by PsyCatt and featuring FetishGuerilla DJ sets with accompanying visuals provided by LatexFashionTV, the show will also feature premières of some Fetishistas video interviews from last year’s GFB.
The Fetishistas’ Facebook page will be among FB sites sharing the livestream from 8pm Berlin time (7pm UK) till late. More details coming soon in separate preview! See also German Fetish Ball Weekend item below.
facebook.com/thefetishistas
FLORIDA FETISH WEEKEND 2020, Fort
Lauderdale Postponed to May 26-30 2021
Having already moved to September 2020, Fetish Factory has now been forced by the Covid situation in the US to postpone its 25th anniversary celebrations and 15th fetish weekend until May 2021.
“We planned the 25-year event to be our most epic ever,” says the company, “and now we will refer to 2020 as ‘the lost fetish weekend’: the biggest fetish weekend in the world that never happened.”
FF plans to continue selling tickets for May 2021 online and will resume booking for 2021 on July 1 this year. All-Access Pass-holders should have received an
e-mail about cancellations and refunds.
fetishfactory.com/florida-fetish-weekend
GERMAN FETISH BALL WEEKEND 2020, Berlin programme for September 10-13
Postponed from May 20-24, the GFB is the last of the three big May fetish weekends still taking place this year. The other two — BoundCon and Florida Fetish Weekend — have now postponed until 2021 (see separate fetish event updates, this page).
The GFB website is now showing the expected four-day programme starting with Sonic Boom at Matrix on September 10, with the other main GFB events following on their usual days.
Will a weekend of this size and type actually be able to go ahead in Berlin as soon as September? Or will it end up having to abandon 2020, as the other two big May festivals already have? Watch this space.
german-fetish-ball.com
LONDON FETISH FILM FESTIVAL 2020
Postponed to Autumn 2020 (dates tba)
Second edition of the critically acclaimed London Fetish Film Festival launched last year by Venus Raven was due to take place this June.
Our understanding is that she is still aiming to stage the second event this year — but later, probably in October if circumstances permit. We should know more soon!
facebook.com/londonfetishfilmfestival
LONDON FETISH WEEKEND 2020
Postponed until 2021 (dates tba)
The 2020 LFW’s ‘upcoming’ listing status for October 1–4 on Facebook has now been updated, confirming that the event has definitely been cancelled.
“After careful consideration,” says a brief statement from hosts Max Absolute & co, “the London Fetish Weekend team have decided to cancel all events in 2020. We will be back in 2021.”
londonfetishweekend.com
LONDON TATTOO CONVENTION 2020
Postponed until July 30 – August 1, 2021
This year’s earlier date for the London Tattoo Convention has fallen foul of coronavirus restrictions, and LTC has been “forced to postpone” this year’s event.
All advance tickets purchased for 2020 will be honoured for the 2021 event on July 30 – August 1, it says.
Refunds are not mentioned, but under UK law, the face value of tickets that can’t be used for cancelled or postponed events is normally refundable.
londontattooconvention.com
MANIFEST HEDONISM, Copenhagen
May 2020 ‘put on standby’
ManiFest has announced that all its parties, including Hedonism on May 31, have been ‘put on standby’ — which means they’re not happening until further notice.
Very decently, the club, which requires membership for all its events except the annual Fetish Fashion Party, has paused all memberships from March 1 until whenever the next ManiFest event is able to take place.
So members will not lose out by having paid for a period when no events could happen. Meanwhile, you can keep up to date with ManiFest fetish event updates by subscribing to its newsletter via the website.
manifest.eu
SUBROSADICTUM KESSELHAUS LIVE, YouTube Replacing BoundCon Kesselhaus party, May 23, 2020
This open-ended online event starting at 20:00 replaces the traditional BoundCon Weekend party hosted by Munich’s premier pervy party people.
The Facebook blurb about tickets and dresscode suggests that possibly some info about the original live Kesselhaus event that should have been deleted has been left in place.
SubRosaDictum’s SubRosa.Underground@Drella, its preparty for BoundCon Weekend at Call Me Drella, Munich on May 22, has been cancelled (although it’s still shown on its Facebook events page as ‘on’).
SubRosaDictum has been replacing other recent live parties with online versions, and this looks likely to continue for the time being.
subrosadictum.de
TORTURE GARDEN ITALY 2020, Rome
Postponed until May 29, 2021
After hanging on to its 2020 dates until the bitter end, Ritual — which hosts the annual TG Italy party — was finally forced a few days ago to admit that Covid19 restrictions had beaten it and, in the briefest announcement, to postpone its May 30, 2020 event until May 2021.
However, a week after cancellation, the 2020 event is still shown as ‘on’, on its Facebook event page, on Ritual’s Torture Garden Italy website, and on Torture Garden’s own website.
Also, the Italian online ticket agency’s page for the event, which is linked from the main TG website, is still apparently selling tickets. Otherwise, they’ve done a really great job publicising their fetish event updates.
facebook.com/ritualtheclub
UNLEASHED SPRING PARTY 2020, Amsterdam Postponed until July 17, 2021
Having already rescheduled its Spring Party once from March 20 to June 6, 2020, the postponed Unleashed has been caught by the Netherlands’ banning of all events this summer, and has vowed to return in July next year.
Unleashed’s plan is to continue its relationship with the legendary Paradiso venue, and is promising a “magnificent summer event” there on July 17, with doors opening early evening.
In the meantime, e-mails are being sent to people still holding an Eventix ticket for the original party to inform them of their options.
unleashedparty.com
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