What are the Forms of Masculinity to Come?
Join a Two Day Festival Exploring Queer Masculinities
21-22 November 2026 | Rushcutters Bay, Sydney
Many people today cling to old stereotypes, thinking in this way they can escape what is so rapidly changing in our culture in terms of gender, sexuality and power.
In this festival, we seek to follow different paths.
We are curious about what will be the forms of masculinity to come, that are not simply reactive to feminism, but are responsive and can enter into dialogue.
The Festival of Queer Masculinities features two days of workshops, performances and play spaces, exploring psychological, embodied and erotic facets of these questions. In addition to talks and discussions, you will have experiences, which do justice to the full spectrum of what is at stake today in what is called masculinity.
We welcome all genders and orientations to our playground!
We’ll explore
➤ How to be strong and at the same time as being vulnerable.
➤ How to grow your capacities to trust.
➤ How to think and feel beyond traditional masculine role models and ways of feeling and being attractive.
➤ What are the forms of masculinity to come.
This festival is for you if you are
➤ Curious about how to think and feel beyond traditional masculine role models and ways of feeling and being attractive.
➤ Feeling curiosity, ambivalence and/or shame about masculinity.
➤ Bringing up young men (cis, non-binary or trans).
➤ Seeking to connect with like-minded people and feel more regulated, compassionate and happy in your own skin.
Program
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Animal/God: A Journey into Trance
with Tony Yap
In this workshop, Tony will direct you into specific stages and modes of trance with an attention to ‘becoming animal/God.’
Tony adopts specific inductions into deep-trance, exploring some of the ways in which the term "emptiness" is understood in Daoism.
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Melting and Dissolving
with Peter Banki
Using slow touch, blindfolds, oils, and breathwork to help participants quiet the mind, we release ego defences, and experience a fluid, connected sense of shared presence and body high.
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Grieving the Unborn
with Jessica Aszodi
Join a musical exploration of grieving the un-lived, un-realised aspects of ourselves and others that we have been waiting to meet.
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The Receptivity of the Artist
with Luke Fischer
The creative process also involves a receptive dimension, rather than a brute act of will; the artist cultivates a gentle openness to the spark or inspiration that ignites the process of art-making. This workshop will explore ways in which poetry and art bring us into touch with the receptive, affective and empathetic sides of ourselves. -
Understanding the Manosphere & Online Misogyny
with Simon Copland
Join Australian sociologist, Dr. Simon Copland, discussing community and alienation, neoliberalism and injured subjects as they relate to the contemporary phenomenon of the manosphere and online misogyny.
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Intellectual Bondage
with Peter Banki
What limits us erotically is above all the way we think, and not how good looking or young, sexy or well-dressed we are.
If bondage with the ropes is a highly visible, transitory and conscious action, what I am calling “intellectual bondage” is most often unconscious.
What is the role of intellectual bondage in our erotic relations? Can we make it more visible to ourselves and others? And can such an experience give birth to a more profound eroticism?
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Mother's Love
with Alessandra Massi
Did we receive the nurturing we needed as a child? Or on the contrary were we smothered? Do you yearn to hold and be held? In this interactive workshop, we will explore giving and receiving mother’s love and what impact it has on our psyches and on our abilities to hold ourselves as adults.
Investment
$199 (Super Early Bird to 1 August) $249 (Early Bird until 1 October) $299 (thereafter)
