SF Bay Area Rope Organizations & Resources
The SF Bay Area has an incredible rope scene, with an unparalleled mix of events and educational opportunities. General event types include:
Rope Jam / Rope Lab: Rope-focused events without structured instruction – think of them like “open swim” at a pool. Generally, a venue or organization provides the facilities; attendees bring rope. Some rope jams may be structured more as mixers, with activities for folks who arrive single to connect with potential partners; some are frequented by folks who arrive in pairs and with tying plans already set.
Classes: Structured instruction – be sure to check class pre-reqs! Some classes require folks to come with a tying partner. We recommend taking classes with a variety of instructors, as no one appoach will be a fit with everyone!
Play Party: General kink-focused events without structured instruciton
Performance: Shows, usually with a mix of rope and other performance types.
Bay Area Rope Organizations
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San Francisco
Twisted Windows – Monthly rope labs at Little Boxes Theatre in San Francisco. These events are best for folks who want to arrive with a partner or with tying plans. The venue features almost 20 hardpoints, a spacious tying floor, and an elevated seating area for folks to watch. Twisted Windows also produces performance events and bondage stages, most notably during Folsom Street Fair weekend.
Rope Burn SF – Monthly rope jam/workshop/mixer events open to all male-identified, non-binary, and gender non-conforming persons regardless of skill level.
Wrapt – Rope jam for people of all skill levels to meet other rope enthusiasts and explore, learn, practice, and play. Wrapt features an optional beginner-friendly skill-share/demonstration and open tying time in a beautiful dungeon space. There is ample space and mats for floor ties and at least 20 hardpoints for those ready to practice suspension bondage. Wrapt is co-hosted by After Dark Events and local rope enthusiasts and meets fourth Mondays at Stopgap in San Francisco. Stopgap also hosts a varity of other play parties, classes, and events!
Oakland and East Bay
Voxbody Studio – A rope-dedicated studio in Oakland, since 2017! Sex-positive, body-positive safe(r) space for education, art, and community. Vox holds events, including classes and rope jams, several days a week at their studio in Oakland and occasionally online.
Kinky People of Color – Created to provide a fun, safe, social space for people of color (POC) and their allies. They host House of Braids Rope Jam, KPOC Mixer, Impact Jam, and Kinky Comunidad (KCOM) Mixer. Find them on fetlife: KinkyPOC and Instagram: @Kinkypocbayarea.
Tangle – A relaxed and inclusive rope jam at Mission Control in Oakland, designed to nurture the rope-curious and the rope-devoted alike. Want to tie? Be tied? Self-tie? Watch and learn? All are welcome. Come connect, stretch your skills, perform, or play around. Find their events (and all of Mission Control’s offerings, which include a variety of play parties) on Plura.
Hitchin’ Bitches Bay Area – A rope bondage education group led by and for women and gender expansive folks. This is a LGBTQIA and POC safer space geared towards marginalized genders, including but not limited to cis-women, transgender, bigender, agender, non-conforming, non-binary, two spirit, and genderqueer identified humans. Meets on the fourth Sunday in Alameda. Find them on Instagram: @hitchinbitchesba
Bay Area Rope Club – A group of dedicated rope enthusiasts, inclusive of all genders, sizes, skill, orientations, and ethnicities. Our gatherings combine skillshare, presentations, playtime, & social goodness. Follow them on Fetlife @BARC & Instagram @bayarearopeclub.
South Bay
Dual Demons – Santa Cruz-based organization focused on creating queer community with classes, socials and rope jams, primarily at The 418 Project. Dual Demons also throw variety shows that highlight local queer performers to showcase their skills.
Nocturnal Events – San Jose-based organization hosting social events, workshops, rope jams, and play parties. Find them on FetLife.
Photo by The Silence, taken at a Twisted Windows Rope Lab
