Call for Workshop submissions – Deadline Saturday, November 1st 2025
Dear kinky community,
Community has always been at the heart of FILTh, and now more than ever, we need each other to thrive. As the days get shorter, the countdown for FILTh’s return to Amsterdam is on! What better way to prepare for winter than by plotting Spring plans surrounded by like-minded kinksters? 😇🌸🍒
Do you have a skill you’d like to share or a topic you’d love to discuss? Is there an experience you want to bond over with others?
If so, we invite you to submit your idea! Our goal is to create a balanced program that includes a little bit of everything – from discussions and hands-on activities to fun and lighthearted moments, fundamentals and niche topics, as well as deep and serious conversations. We want to ensure that everyone can enjoy this amazing event, and we’re counting on your help to make it happen.
Don’t hold back! We’re all ears and can’t wait to see what you have in store for us!
To submit a proposal, fill in the form in this link.
FRAMEWORK
Anyone from the WLINT* community (Women, Lesbian, Inter, Non-binary and Trans people) is welcome to submit a proposal. FILTh weekend takes place on May 14 – 17, 2026, in Amsterdam (links to fetlife event).
We are looking for workshop proposals for 90 or 120-minute time slots, to be facilitated by 1 or 2 people. For the evening program, we are looking for a variety of activities or facilitated spaces, such as: movie nights, reading sessions, toys/clothes swap, creative, connective and sweet calming activities or workshops.
Experience and feedback have shown that there is a strong interest in longer workshops, so we are experimenting with the 120-minute (2 hours) format. We hope this opens up more possibilities to include exercises for experimenting and practicing together in the workshop!
Before submitting your proposal, please read our inclusion policy and space rules. By submitting a proposal, you are agreeing to abide by the inclusion policy and space rules.
We want to create a community space and keep the overall price for all participants as economically accessible as possible. This means that, unfortunately, we cannot pay you for the workshop itself, travel and accommodation. In case your workshop requires materials, contact us at filth-weekend(at)riseup.net, so that we can see what’s possible to arrange.
Workshop facilitators get:
- 50 % regular ticket price
- Priority for the accommodation
- Discounted accommodation rate
What we are looking for:
We want to focus on community building and how to be together: fundamental skills for safer play, topics surrounding managing conflict (either on a personal or collective level); fluidity in relationships in the scene (friendships, romantic and non-romantic relationships); creating/organizing events, developing workshops; meet-ups for groups within the community (separatist spaces for example BIPoC, sex workers, neurospicy, parents); creating networks are ESPECIALLY welcome.
Below there’s some of the topics we’d love to include, but do not let this limit your creativity! We welcome other topics and proposals for beginners, intermediate, advanced and all levels.
• Age play
• Body fluids and safer sex
• Bondage (ropes, chains, cuffs, wrap film, etc.)
• Bootblacking
• Breath play
• Caning
• Community (building community; dealing with abuse; creating/organizing events, creating networks, navigating conflict)
• Consent (including non-verbal consent and negotiation; cultures of consent)
• Consensual non-consent
• Co-topping and/or co-bottoming
• Creative ways of connecting
• Crip* & kink (* a reclaimed word used by some disabled people to embrace a politicised idea of disability)
• Daddy, Mommy / girl, gurrrl, boi, … Dynamic – what the fuck is it, and why is it hot?
• D/s, power dynamics
• DIY/household toys, kinky on a budget
• Discipline
• Dommes / Doms / Tops bodies in play (focus on different practices, or different / new approaches)
• First aid
• Food play (sensation play/exploring taste and texture, D/s like food served on someone, and/or food restrictions, feeding, cooking for someone as service, sploshing, etc.)
• Fundamentals of Safer Play: Understanding the Essentials of Bodies and Minds in Kink
• Group play
• Hypno
• Impact (basics; techniques; tools)
• Interrogation play
• Kink first aid
• Knife play
• Long distance play (video, voice, text; aftercare)
• Media in play (making video, hot pics, voice messages, body positioning etc)
• Meet-ups (space for sub-groups withing the community)
• Mouth play
• Navigating language & communication (international kink)
• Negotiation
• Playfight
• Playing with emotion(s) (fear, anger, humiliation, etc)
• Primalplay
• Psychological play (conditioning, mindfucks, confusion)
• Race, racism, kink and race
• Relationships: breaking up in the scene; navigating different relationships
• Self care
• Sensory deprivation and/or sensory overwhelm
• Skills share (developing workshops, learning how to hone your skills)
• Kink & Trauma/ designing trauma play
• Your creativity/ scientific spirit/ sadism/ kinkiness! Surprise us with your proposal(s)!
NOT allowed are workshops that include:
- Nudity
- Genitals (touch, contact, view, exposure)
- Piss/scat play
- Fire (this includes candles, torches, soaked cotton wool sticks, and any kind of open flames)
- Suspension (there is no suspension point)
This is the info you need to provide us with:
- Workshop title
- Workshop description (up to 350 words)
- Facilitator(s) bio (up to 150 words)
- List of any required materials or equipment
- Workshop duration: 90 minutes or 2 hours
- Expected noise level of the workshop
- Anything else we should know?
DEADLINE: November 1st
The last day you can submit your workshop proposal(s) is Saturday, November 1st. The selection process will be completed by mid November, and you will receive an email notifying you whether your proposal has been accepted or rejected.
AFTERWARDS
If your proposal is accepted, you will need to register in December and pay in January. Please note that if you do not register or pay on time, and we do not hear back from you, we will invite a different facilitator.
If your proposal is not accepted, you can register for the event during the general participants registration (December).
If life happens and you are unable to participate in the event and need to drop out, please inform us as soon as possible so we can look for a replacement for your workshop(s). If you cancel before March 31st, we will refund you at 100 percent; from April 1st onwards, 50 percent (unless otherwise agreed due to access needs, health or other: send us an email in advance).